Chapter 2491

2491 - The Clear Choice

"This gift is from Raiden. Kind of him to remember me." Robin nodded. "It's his memoirs as the oldest field general in our system. In them, he put all the plans he was ordered to execute that failed, the reasons for their failure, how he overcame them on the ground away from headquarters' planning, methods for breaking through fronts, shattering morale, and so on."

Then he smiled strangely. "This kind of experience specifically, even Peon and Caesar don't have it." Then he raised an eyebrow slightly. "But again… what's with the memoirs today?"

"Robin Peter Burton!" Billy muttered from the side. He had gone back to forgetting he was broadcasting again. "You didn't answer. Do you see everyone as dead? Is that why you don't bother clearing your name? Do you think like the rest of the universe's elites and want to save yourself?" Then he shouted and pointed east. "Why are we busying ourselves with the war in Sector 90 then!!"

"…I don't know." Robin replied calmly, then began searching among the rest of the gifts. "Actually, there's currently a truce between me and Helmor, and it seems Intiras and Qarun entered it temporarily, which is why their forces aren't moving."

"What does the truce have to do with our conversation?!" Billy was baffled. He knew about the truce like the rest of the senior officials, but he didn't know the reason.

Robin laughed, "Of course it does." Then he continued, "The Truce for ten years began three years ago, and it is to give me a chance to decide whether I intend to survive on my own like them, or continue and be an obstacle in the path of their plans and the plans of their masters." Then he shrugged, "And frankly, I haven't decided yet."

"You haven't decided?!" Billy shouted as he jumped to his feet, "You haven't decided whether you should sell us out or not?!"

"Be reasonable, Billy," Robin shook his head as he pulled out the next tablet, "How could I let go of you? Let go of my sons, my loved ones, and my followers who followed me under every hell and above every sky?" Then he continued calmly, "If I chose neutrality and survival, all my thinking would be about how to save as many of you as possible with me."

"...." Billy looked down, "What about the rest?"

"The rest of our citizens?" Robin let out a long exhale, "...I will try." Then he cast a glance at Billy, "The rest of the universe's elites are planning to survive on their own. Even their children and brothers of their blood, they will leave behind. Their utmost ambition is to come out alive on the Day of Separation and transform into an Executioner, or what you know as an Ancestor Space Beast..."

Then he raised his shoulder, "I can't promise you that I can save everyone, Billy, but I will try… They trusted me as a leader, and in return I will do everything I can to save them, or perhaps I should say… save their lineage."

"When I said the rest, I was talking about the entire universe!" Billy raised his voice slightly, "You will try to save your own citizens, what about the rest?"

"What about them?" Robin went back to examining the tablet, "…Ahaa, Jabba has finally finished analyzing the First Level of the Master Law of Identity, there is one explanation about it and its patterns here, haha, this tablet is truly priceless!"

"What do you mean what about them, Robin?!" Billy waved, "Will you really leave everyone to their fate? No one cares about their fate, and you want to be like them, watching everyone die?"

"They are watching me being besieged right now." Robin stared into Billy's eyes, raising his voice slightly, "All the great ones turned against me because I became an obstacle, because they see that I am trying to strengthen the universe that they are demolishing. What did everyone do to help me? Everyone stood to watch, everyone calls me a devil!"

Then he struck the table, "Let them deal with the real Devils then!"

"Tsk~" Then he calmed himself a little, "The Cosmic Elder found that I can use Spacetime to breach the Wall of the End of the World and begged me to use my knowledge and the power of my armies to kill as many Space Beasts — the Reapers — as possible, because he believes that the calamity of 100 million years is connected to them. And indeed, I myself have been staying here since then. My forces besiege the place to prevent any beast from escaping. My Imperial Guard was dying day and night to protect the universe… Yet I did not announce this to anyone so that panic would not break out. I remained protecting the universe in secret. In the end, I am a devil!"

Then he raised his voice a little, "When I decided to prevent the death of my forces, I did not bring armies of another race. I did not go to the Syndicate as all the Stellar Academies do without exception and gather armies of slaves. I brought the Crimson Plague and trained it and strengthened it and made the Plague and the Space Beasts kill each other, while I am present here watching everything, leaving behind my research and my loved ones, for fear that a single Space Beast might escape and harm people."

Then he shouted, "And in the end, I am the devil!!"

"...an irrational request from the Cosmic Elder made me pour all my wealth and knowledge into creating new Cosmic Academies, because he knew of the corruption of the Stellar Academies and that their leader cared only for himself. So I built central armies and respectable study halls that everyone bears witness to. I stopped the slave armies and made the knowledge and power that had gathered them and my followers throughout their lives available to everyone. In the end, they left them abandoned and went to grovel before their executioners!!"

Then he pointed eastward, "The Hand of Concealment Syndicate has been raping the entire universe for tens of millions of years and no one opens their mouth. The crimes they committed on any random planet are enough to execute every single one of them, one by one. And when they decided that what I was doing would harm their interests and decided to kill me, I found myself fighting alone on behalf of the universe, on behalf of the Cosmic Elder Zolan who went beyond the Wall of the End of the World to kill the Ancestor space beasts and rid the universe of them. And I found all the peoples laughing at me, waiting for my death — they even insulted me and stopped selling to me and buying from me!"

Bam!

Robin struck the table, making everything on it jump upward, "For hundreds of years I fought alone, stood alone, in a rotten universe where they look only beneath their feet and adore their stranglers. Why should I do anything for them?!"

Then he let out a breath and cracked his neck, then rested his back again and went back to pulling out a book, "...They should be grateful that I do not intend to burn the universe and everyone in it... and if I did, it would be my right."