In a sense, while she was dramatically opposed to the Merger Faction that Colonel Geringan was a part of, their end goals had somemonalities. The Merger Faction wanted to merge existing institutions of the government with that of the Martial Union to create a hybrid singr ruling structure with a division of power that cated all of its constituents so that the constraints and restraints on and from the government, and on and from the Martial Union would go away, strengthening the nation as it became more unified.


    Martialmissioner Derun, on the other hand, also wished to retain the constraints that the two groups ced on each other, however, she believed that only one of the two groups possessed the ability to truly unify a country and draw out its full power. She even extended this philosophy to the entirety of human civilization.


    "Your propositions make sense," Rui admitted. "When the biggest stakeholder interest group with unshakeable hold over military do not possess legitive power, then they do end up hampering those in seats of legitive power with conflicting interests. The most straightforward solution to prevent this conflict of interest is to ce such said Martial Artist stakeholders in positions of power themselves."


    She nodded. "But…?"


    Rui smiled wryly. "While it is true thatck of political opposition from stakeholder interest groups leads to a less fragmented political power dynamic, that is not necessarily a good thing."


    "Oh?" She raised an eyebrow at his words. "And why do you say that?"


    "Such a power systemcks too many checks and bnces. Conflict of interest groups may slow down a country, but it also prevents any one stakeholder from extreme exploitation of others. This is a bit of a guess since I''ve never studied political philosophy all that much, but the nations that are Martial Kraterocracies most likely also have greater urrences of human rights vitions and economic exploitation of the lowest sses of society, am I wrong?"


    When legitors were constrained by conflicting interest groups withparable influence and the ability topete for political power, it became much harder for the former to exploit the citizens of the nation.


    She simply stared at him for a bit, before finally replying. "Perhaps, but I do not believe that it is inevitable. And even if it were… I believe that the pay-off is worth the benefits."


    Rui furrowed his eyebrow in confusion.


    Why did he, a Martial Artist, seem to care more about the average person in a tyrannical system than her, a normal human being?


    It was rather odd.


    "I might have to disagree with you there,missioner Derun," Rui shrugged. "I can''t dismiss the costs so easily I am afraid."


    "There''s no need to be apologetic," She shook her head. "We are all entitled to our own opinions, after all."


    Well, she was at least open-minded. She didn''t try to spend too much time trying to persuade Rui. She epted that he disagreed with her, and moved on.


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    "I''m surprised that you are willing to be within a system run by people who would die from a single attack from you. Would it not feel better to be in a system where people at the top have the power to crush you effortlessly? Martial power proportional to their political power?" She seemed genuinely intrigued.


    "I''m just worried that they''ll screw things up if I''m being honest," Rui shook his head. "We Martial Artists are not entirely normal in the head. And that bes increasingly true the higher we go up the Realms."


    Martial Artists were driven to pursue power for whatever core reason it was that any Martial Artist pursued power. This meant that they would be willing to go to insane lengths to obtain what they wanted to obtain. Who knows if some Martial Sage would be willing to let a country go to ruin just to be stronger or something like that?


    They could very well destroy a country without batting an eye. Furthermore, with how strong Martial Seniors were, it was not entirely inconceivable that Martial Sages may be able to destroy a country if they let loose and fought within the borders of the country.


    They were two Realms of power above that of Martial Seniors, after all. Rui could not even possibly imagine that he did not have any clue as to what degree their power would exceed.


    With these considerations in mind, how could he possibly feelfortable letting these beings take rule over the country, he would be unable to sleep at night with just paranoia alone.


    Of course, he was cognizant that this was paranoia, rather than a well-justified fear. There were countries ruled by Martial Artists, and they did not befall cmities and catastrophes caused by Martial Artists. Regardless, it just wasn''t a good idea, and certainly one he wasn''t willing to entertain at the momentMaterial ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    The conversation proceeded a bit more before it ended.


    Rui sighed as he put hismunication device away.


    (''The average person sure has a lot to fear with people of her mindset,'') Rui couldn''t help but sigh as he thought of the tumultuous world that his family back at the Quarrier Orphanage lived in.


    Frankly, if not for them, he would not be too opposed to the Martial Union taking over the Kandrian Empire and establishing Martialw.


    He was not a saint. He helped people immediately within his capacity to help, but he did not go out of his way.


    He shook his head, he was never interested in political lobbying in the first ce. Multiple Martial Sects and factions had already approached him, hoping for support for their cause or goal or whatever.


    (''Don''t care,'') Rui shrugged.


    He immediately got back to work. Given that his training and teaching would both begin tomorrow, he had a lot to sort through. He needed to n and flesh out Senior K''M''s crash course to ensure that she had learned the necessary and relevant theory.


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