"With all the painstaking effort your Shieki Eight Families spent hiding the ancient city for thousands upon thousands of years—that entire expanse of Dragon Race civilization ruins, that entire city's Dragon Race alchemy technology—he just destroys it like that?" Doubt was plastered all across Caesar's face. "Is this really something a Clan Leader should do?"
"Since you claim Tachibana Masamune did all this because he was terrified of the 'God' resurrecting from 'Takamagahara', why didn't he just be more decisive? Why didn't he order the Ganryu Research Institute to build a nuclear bomb much earlier and toss it into the Japan Trench, blowing the 'God' and that city to hell and gone once and for all? Why wait until the three of us came all the way from Cassel College thousands of miles away just to launch the plan? And why make the redundant, unnecessary move of converting the Trieste into a nuke?" Caesar launched a rapid-fire cross-examination of Minamoto Wakasei's defense of Tachibana Masamune. "Stopping the resurrection of the 'God' should be done as early as possible, shouldn't it? Since you want to defend Tachibana Masamune, search your hearts: did you actually see any genuine resolve from Tachibana Masamune to kill the 'God'?"
Faced with Caesar's tightly locked, interlocking chain of questions, Minamoto Wakasei lowered his head, unable to refute a single word.
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