‘Damn… this bastard is seriously irritating.’0

It was far too long to be called a simple interview. It seemed he hadn’t even sat down with an ordinary reporter. Instead, he gathered the Republic’s leading intellectuals and conducted the interview in the form of a discussion. He went on at length about the state of the Republic and the continent.0

He acknowledged that both the citizens of the Democratic Country and the Republic desired peace, but he argued that the two nations had already established a relationship different from the past. In other words, there was no need to reaffirm their friendliness through something like a peace treaty.0

‘A pointless contract written on paper has no meaning, and any special organization or institution created through such an agreement would be unnecessary?’0

It even looked like he had a rough grasp of what I was planning. He had already figured out the idea of creating a peace zone at the border, declaring a jointly-operated free city between the Republic and the Democratic Country, and encouraging harmony through active exchange between adventurers and merchants from both sides. 1

Naturally, he moved first and expressed...0