Chapter 116 - Thirteenth Episode: Chapter 7

Politicians are accustomed to treating negotiations as a factor that can hold back invasions. However, sometimes the basis of such a belief is completely unrealistic. This is because the politicians of Westland serve the monarch and the major goal of politics is to perfectly abide to the monarch's will. So... When an Emperor believes that war is unavoidable, politics would become a kind of battle strategy. It maintained its foothold through flawless logic and used quibbles as an excuse for war. Politicians are all adept at this sort of things and when they get down to it, they appear as if they are born to do it. However... Here we should emphasize that the true significance of the wars initiated by politicians is not the brutal killing, but rather it is one that is unseen, a massacre that could nevertheless result in rivers of blood!