Arknights: Iron-Blooded Savior

In the face of Rankopel's words, Kosice just closed his eyes and took a sip of the red wine on the table again, and said:

"Actually, this is just a piece of dust in the history of Usas, you don't know anything about Usas, Rankopel."

"In order for a child to reveal the location of a gold bar in their family's possession, our pickets dragged his grandfather alive behind a trailer."

"In order to stimulate the knights who ambushed in the plain of Casimir in the shadows, we threw ten Kuranta babies one by one in the cracked beast cage and let them fall apart in their crying."

"In order to... Well, just to give our fighters a vent and satisfaction after the battle, we grabbed all the sakotas in a floating plot in Rutland and shaved them off with machetes..." Before

Kosice could finish, Rankopel interrupted him:

"So this makes you proud? Satisfy your tyrannical and vicious heart? This is the so-called will of Usas? "

Why are you... On what basis can you say such cruelty so lightly?! Rankopel

snapped.

"Ah, I can't see that the so-called 'sense of justice' in your subconscious is quite sufficient."

"I just thought you were Tallula's chivalrous sister."

Kosice shrugged, looked at Rankopel with a half-smile, and said, "

I don't want to say too rude, actually,

Rankopel."

"[You can always believe in the mastery of human beings in killing their fellow human beings]."

Rankopel leaned forward slightly, stared at Kosice, and replied

, "Yes, I know that I have witnessed the evil of human nature several times,

and I have no expectations for its lower limit."

"But I'll still fuck you!!"

Rankopel picked up the western food knife on the side and threw it towards Kosice, but this time, the knife that flew over stopped about a centimeter away from Kosice's eyebrows, and could not advance an inch.

“......！！"

But Rankopel suddenly found that he could not move, he could only speak, but he could not control his body, as if firmly bound by an invisible rope fixed to the chair.

"It seems that although you were once a nobleman, your table manners were not respectful."

Kosice even gracefully removed the dinner knife that stopped at the center of his eyebrow, cut a piece of steak that was dripping blood, put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully and tasted it before swallowing.

"I don't care what you want to say to me, or 'educate' me like you 'educated' Talula."

Although Rankopel could no longer move, he still stared at Kosice and said,

"But I'm not the next Talula, you want to manipulate me and do anything disgusting!"

"I will find a way to build a real place where everyone can coexist peacefully..."

Kosice gently picked up the napkin on his left hand side and wiped the remaining gravy from the corner of his mouth, and said to Rankopel:

"Listen, I didn't want to say the following to you, because I used to say these things to Tallula, but since you mentioned Usas again, now I will repeat it to you again, Rankopel."

"[Peaceful coexistence of everyone is just an illusion

]" "[Those with different ideas can only let both sides destroy]" "

You can't make different people identify with the same behavior, the fault line of interests, the gulf of faith, the barrier of race, the abyss of human nature, chaos, conflict, it is inevitable."

"How does a Sakaz face a Sarkota?"

"How does a Casimir face an Usasian?"

"How can a strong but toiling bear face an arrogant but incompetent eagle?"

"There is a lot of hatred and more strife in this land, and Usas is just a small microcosm, even if we don't choose war, war has never spared Usas."

"So we choose to become war itself, and since it is inevitable, it will merge and survive in the torrent of the times."

Rankopel looked at Kosice and said,

"Maybe you did lead Usas in the most vicious and cruel way, and this was the only path Usas had at the time, but after that, I will lead Usas on another path."

Kosice shook his head lightly and said

, "Well, I looked through the history in my brain, and out of ten sentences, three were from infidels who were hanged the next day, six from incompetent politicians who added glory to themselves,

and one from the angry youths of Fort Saint, many of whom would have been found that night with pen sticks in their throats to write insults that did not know what to say."

"I don't know where your confidence comes from, the power you use against me is indeed strong, but to make a country continue, force is indeed indispensable, but with force, Usas will also go to the end of prosperity and the broken and destroyed grave."

Rankopel replied

, "Don't worry about it, now,

get me out of my body!"

Kosice shrugged his shoulders and said to Rankopel:

"This is not okay, now that I am one with you, I can't break away from your body unless you kill yourself."

"It's just, Rankopel, I want to tell you that after the fight, I thought about it for a while, and it turned out that I have no hostility towards you at the moment, but it's just... Just for now.

"Wouldn't it be better if I didn't have to come to you right now and continue to lie dormant inside you without your knowledge, waiting for an opportunity later?"

Rankopel looked directly at Kosice and said,

"Ha, you expect me to believe an old snake with a mouth full of lies?"

"What is your purpose?"

Rankopel still did not let down his guard, after all, standing in front of him was the god who had flowed in Usas for an unknown long time.

"I'm just here to see how you'll face Usas next, that's all."

Kosice replied

, "Besides, it really saddens me that you say that, and if your forgiver friend were here,

I could let him find out if my soul was lying."

"Lies are a weapon, and sincerity is the same, I choose the latter now, that's all."

Rankopel took a deep breath and said

, "Listen, maybe this future is far away,

but I will never give up easily."

"Someone has to dare to think like that first, and then do it first."

"I may not succeed, but someone will pick up my experience later, and he may do better!"

Kosice let out a sneer and said, "

If you don't succeed, don't say experience, Rankopel."

"You will not even be left with ashes, your traces will be swept away, dare to speak of your deeds as treason and treason, and you will be annihilated by the victor in flesh and mind."

Rankopel looked directly at him and said,

"Then I will succeed, only success, no failure."

"I will do my best to build a real one for Usas, where everyone can convince people with reason and solve problems with reason, rather than pure violence and malice."

"They can talk normally, communicate with reason, without fear of knives and guns in the shadows."

Kosice shook his head and said to Rankopel, "Rankopel,

you'll find out later."

"Reason this kind of thing cannot convince anyone, more precisely, this kind of thing exists because it is needed, and it is after the thing that happens, not after the reason there is a reason."

"I once passed through the Yan Country, which is a country rich in truth."

"I'll give you a few examples."

Kosice tilted his half slightly, and the snake tail behind him swayed slightly, looking at Rankopel.

"For example, if an old man and a teenager compete and the old man wins, everyone will say 'ginger is still old and spicy', which is true, and if the teenager wins, everyone will change their words and say 'from ancient heroes to youth', which is also true."

"If a person has achieved something, if it is later exposed as false, then people will say that 'it is difficult to match under the name', this is true, and if it is true after the later revelation, people will change their words and say, 'There is no false man under the name', which is also true."

"It makes sense that a man who betrays something so that something can loudly scold him, 'You are a traitor who eats inside and out,' and that person can also pay tribute to 'good birds choose trees to live.'"

"Even the same ingenious strategy, if used by our tacticians, is a trick, and when used by enemy tacticians, it is a trick, and behold, the truth always changes according to different positions and standards."

"When you read countless truths, you will find that this kind of thing is just to make people have something to say and justify at any moment."

"No matter what abyss people fall into, they can always step on the truth they have invented, step by step to a certain commanding height."

Kosice said to Rankopel, his tone not mocking, frivolous, or just plain narration.

Rankopel was momentarily speechless.

"You're a little speechless, that's normal, Rankopel."

"I don't blame you, because your insight and level are limited after all, and this is not something that can be easily solved by yourself."

Kosice said to

Rankopel:

"Rankopel, you are practically the same as Tallula."

"You will all be crushed by everything you believe in in the future."

Rankopel's gaze suddenly firmed, and he said:

"I will do it anyway, you don't want to shake me half a point with your tongue again!" Black Snake!

Kosice shrugged his shoulders and said

, "I have no intention of touching you, your age and thought do not match mine at all, and words have no effect,

just as I gave up my words and let Tallulah pierce my chest with a long sword."

"It is not me who will destroy you in the future, but the weight of reality."

Rankopel didn't speak again.

"Well, it looks like this is the end of our conversation."

Kosice drained the red wine from his glass, looked at Rankopel, and said to him:

"You don't have to worry too much, the last blow between you and the forgiver is really strong, I can't do anything now, and I'm even about to fall into a deep sleep, maybe never wake up."

"Since you chose to destroy the gods of Usas, then the next pressure of Usas will pierce your shoulders, crush your spine, and finally you will be so painful that you cannot breathe until your soul is also destroyed."

Then, Kosice turned to Rankopel and waved his hand sharply.

"Rankopel..." Suddenly

, with the wave of Kosice's hand, his consciousness immediately became blurred, and light began to appear in the gap gap.

"See you and me again."

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Rankopel....

You should understand.

Man is a fragile, complex, and selfish creature.

Even the Rock Crabs are more noble than people, foraging and walking in the toughest cracks of the earth, day after day, and this population never gives up halfway.

People don't.

People will assassinate their own kind for profit, and people will infringe on their own kind for the sake of venting their desires.

Therefore, human beings need fellow citizens to help themselves realize value, play value, suppress value, crush value... And you, with such qualifications, Rankopel.

The history of mankind is the history of struggle.

Perhaps the law of the jungle does not apply to humans, but humans have never escaped this quagmire.

Because they need the law of the jungle.

Even if one day, human beings can survive without food, they will wantonly kill any creature on this land that can be called delicious because of their own appetite.

Even if one day, human beings do not need power to stabilize order, they will still invent masters and slaves to make themselves arrogant and malicious.

When humans reach the top of the law of the jungle, they will again differentiate the law of the jungle within their own populations.

Because they need the word law of the jungle as the soil for the root of original sin in their bodies, in order to cover up their own flaws and baseness, because being strong is justified.

Rankopelle... Oh, Rankopel.

Your end is also with me.

I will wait for you at the end.

The land of Usas... New life because of you.