Chapter 2272: Perspective

Chapter 2272: Perspective



"Did you experience any difficulty or troubles during the evacuation?" Rui found himself sitting before Alice, Julian and others of his generation in the Quarrier Orphanage.

Although he sought to treat everybody the same, he naturally was more attached to those members of the orphanage he had grown up with. The Quarrier Orphanage had grown so much in the past decade that he didn't know most of the new kids and the young adolescents personally.

Regardless, he treated them with love and affection.

It was his way of respecting his mother, who had done the same for him.

She was no longer here. Thus, he felt a sense of duty in ensuring that he did for others what she had done for him.

"No, we did not experience too many difficulties," Alice explained, drawing his attention. "The evacuation into the bunkers was executed quite smoothly, and we were safe and without any worries."

Rui heaved a soft sigh of relief. "Sounds like it was planned well enough."

He wasn't surprised, considering that it was his father who headed the project as a failsafe in case the war was lost and the enemies went too crazy in Kandrian territory.

"I heard we achieved an overwhelming victory." Julian smiled knowingly. "And that you played an outsized role in achieving this result."

The others looked at Rui in surprise, not having had access to the same intelligence sources that Julian did.

"Hahaha, as expected of our Rui, they never stood a chance."

The others snorted in agreement, remarking about the bastards that the Sekigahara Confederate was.

"Those assholes don't even need any reason; they just attack without just cause!"

"Still, we beat them black and blue. The Royal announcements said that we killed almost all the Masters. That must mean that our Martial Artists are ten times stronger than theirs." "Tsk tsk, imagine being so weak and still attacking us. Little assholes need to know their place."

Rui listened on with amusement as the armchair politicians that the men began offering their expert insights into the war. It also gave him perspective on how little awareness the average person had of politics.

The attack did not just come out of nowhere as it seemed to them; it was a result of them learning of the extent of the Kandrian Empire's treasures that served as the trigger into sparking a conflict that had been brewing in the Kandrian Empire for seven years ever since the Silas Clan, the first treasure, joined the Kandrian Empire.

The Silas Clan's prophecy was so precious that the entire world had hunted them for their power. So much so that even after gaining a Sage in the form of Matriarch Nephi, they still weren't strong enough to protect themselves.

Them joining Kandria and settling there had sent a shock across East Panama, marking the beginning of the beginning.

In other words, this had been coming for a long time.

However, unless one had this geopolitical context, one would only conclude that the attack came out of nowhere.

"Not only did it come from nowhere, it isn't just those savages from the Sekigahara Confederate. Didn't Gorteau declare war on us as well? Why us? What did we do?"

Rui suddenly found his tea to be quite interesting as he averted any eye contact.

Of course, Julian saw right through him, giving him a knowing smile.