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"Ultimately, the revolution in the kingdom erupted because the old production relations and social system were no longer adapted to the current productive forces. To put it bluntly, the people had realized they no longer needed nobles or kings. The only way for the royal family to maintain the country's existence and development was to return power to the people."

"So... Miss Carlisle... my ideal all along... is actually... not correct?" Charlotte, who had been thinking with her head down, suddenly raised her head and asked Carlisle.

"I can't say it's incorrect. In fact, you're quite idealistic. Unfortunately, what Albion needs right now isn't a top-down reform led by a monarch or ruler, but a thoroughgoing, bottom-up transformation. Unfortunately, there won't be a need for a monarch in the future."

"The monarchical aristocracy, built on the foundation of feudalism, cannot adapt to the productivity of the capitalist era after the Industrial Revolution. The only way for this old system to survive in the new era is to voluntarily surrender its power and interests. Otherwise, all that awaits the old system will be the revolutionaries' guns and Louis XVI's guillotine."

"Princess Charlotte, now that you have learned so much new knowledge, you don't need to be obsessed with the old system. The world is changing, and only a society that keeps innovating can make progress. Future humans don't need a king. Only humans themselves, not any king or ruler, can decide the fate of the masses. I hope you can think carefully about this, Princess Charlotte," Carisi said to Charlotte with a serious expression.

"Hey... are you done talking over there?" Looking at Calisi who had returned to the combat center, Aze gently stroked the head of Mary who had fallen asleep in his arms and greeted Calisi.

"Well, but...it will probably take them some time to understand what I'm saying."

"That's right... These seemingly simple laws of development...we only realized them after paying a considerable price..."

"Don't go to the battlefield for the so-called royal nobles who don't care about you at all and are just using you as cannon fodder. And don't take war and revolution too lightly."

"After all, in our region, these feudal rulers lost almost all their power in the true sense only after a war in which no one was truly just."

"After the war, Qi Er and Jiu Qi San divided the spoils unevenly, which eventually triggered an even more brutal war 20 years later." Carisi, who was very familiar with that period of history, knew very well what a terrible price was paid in the process.

"Now, we can help the people of this world understand such a simple and clear truth without having to pay such a tragic price."

"It's really not worth it to sacrifice tens of millions of innocent lives just to learn such a small lesson. What's more, our people fell into this pit and fell in the same place again just 20 years later, and the fall was even worse."

"We now have the ability to avoid all of this. History doesn't always repeat itself. It's not a bad idea to let them understand, at the lowest possible cost, that if they continue down this path, there's a huge pit waiting for them."

"Preventing a world war? That might be interesting, but how do you plan to do it?"

"Let's start with a guy who's planning a military coup. His men will probably launch a military coup in a few days."

"If we don't use this kind of thing that comes to our doorstep to test our skills, we should use it."

"Looks like someone and his men are in trouble... It should be easy to get rid of this guy. By the way, what are you going to do after that?"

"Well... come to think of it... have you ever seen the Gundam series?"

"Uh... which one specifically are you referring to?"

"Gundam 00."

"Hiss...wait...wait a minute..." At this point, Aze seemed to understand something, and she reached out and scratched her cheek.

"You mean... let's go and be gods for once?" Aze asked uncertainly.

"Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with your point of view. We are currently capable of doing so. However... you know, human society in this world is still far from perfect. While violently stopping a war can indeed prevent many innocent casualties, whether it can accelerate the integration and unification of this world is uncertain."

"If we did this in the 21st century, it would indeed accelerate global integration to a great extent, but that would be based on the premise that the national and ethnic narratives and concepts of the 21st century are already very well-developed. But right now, the national identity within Albion and other European colonial powers is a mess."

"If we can't pressure these countries to divert conflicts and consume their surplus population by launching foreign wars, then they will most likely resort to internal self-revolution. The violent internal turmoil could even lead to the independence of their overseas colonies."

"Then by that time, all countries will be troubled by domestic political crises and the huge gap between the rich and the poor in society, and the economy will fall into a cyclical recession. Although we can indeed suppress it and let each country tend to internal self-revolution, this process will be a bit troublesome." Aze counted on his fingers and analyzed them one by one.

"Aze, I think you've misunderstood one thing. I'm not that kindhearted. I'll help them avoid a world war that killed and injured tens of millions, but that doesn't mean I'll help them resolve all their internal social conflicts. If they can't rely on internal self-reform to solve their problems, then expect the angry grassroots to use violence to forcibly redistribute the means of production and wealth."

"After all, every large-scale violent revolution represents the redistribution of the means of production and the establishment of new production relations, right?"

As the female secretary of the Duke of Normandy, the secretary was now very confused. First, all her subordinates were easily defeated by a force that she could not understand, and then she was forcibly taken onto the plane and brought to this flying air fortress. Just now, she and Charlotte and others were indoctrinated with a lot of new knowledge that had shaken their existing worldview by the purple-haired girl who claimed to be an alien. The unfortunate secretary felt numb now.

She sat in the restaurant like an unconscious puppet, mechanically raising the teacup in her hand and drinking the tea in the cup, listening to the chatter of Charlotte and others at another table not far away. Coupled with what she just heard from Carissa and her conclusion that the kingdom was inevitably heading for extinction, the secretary was numb. After realizing that she was actually powerless to do anything about this matter, the numb secretary decided to lie down completely and no longer care about the future of the kingdom and the continuation of the royal family. Anyway, the kingdom ship was going to sink sooner or later, and if she jumped off the ship early, maybe she could get hold of Charlotte or the group of unknown aliens in front of her.

Just as the secretary slumped in her chair with a look of despair on her face, a figure walked up behind her.

"I remember... you are the secretary of the Duke of Normandy, right?" Yuki asked, walking silently behind the secretary.

"Uh…I am. What can I do for you?"

Turning her head and looking at the alien girl who looked like a witch, the secretary asked nervously with a tense face.

"Don't be nervous, it's nothing special, I just want to ask you for a favor."

"Help? You guys are so powerful... How could you possibly need a nobody like me to help you with something?"

"To be precise, it's most appropriate for you to do this, although it's not impossible without you."

“???” The secretary looked confused and puzzled.

"Anyway, you should be able to use the radio, right?"

"Yes, but with such advanced technology, do you still need something like radio to communicate?"

"It doesn't really matter how we communicate. What I want you to do is contact the Duke of Normandy."

"Oh... wait... what did you say???" The female secretary had just agreed to Sister Yu when she immediately realized the meaning of what the person in front of her said and was stunned.

"I mean, I want you to contact the Duke of Normandy directly by radio."

"And on the other side... Miss Ange!!!" Yuki shouted to Ange who was sitting next to Charlotte.

"What's wrong?" Anjie asked, standing up from her chair.

"Ms. Anjie, as a spy, you should be familiar with radio, right?"

"Well...I'm certainly quite skilled at operating the radio."

"Then the next step is easy. Ms. Anjie, I need you to contact the Republic via radio."

"I won't restrict the content of your communication with the Republic and the Duke of Normandy. You can report what you saw here to your superiors." Yuki said in a rather casual tone in the two people's puzzled gazes.

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"What do you mean?" asked the female secretary in confusion.

"It's nothing special. You both have been out of contact with your superiors for such a long time, so I just want you both to report to your superiors that you are safe."

"Besides, I don't care if you report what you see and hear here to your superiors."

"Rather, I hope you will report everything you see and hear here to your superiors word for word." Yuki answered the secretary's question with a smile.

"Don't you care if the Kingdom and the Republic know about your existence?" the secretary asked.

"Of course I don't care. If we had just arrived in this world, we might have needed to worry about it, but for us now, it doesn't matter whether other people know of our existence." Yuki waved his hand nonchalantly.

"Rather... what we hope for is for the kingdoms and republics behind you two to truly realize the extent of our power and make wise choices."

"What's more... we have more means of force than what you see. What you see is just the tip of the iceberg of our actual strength."

"By the way, Miss Secretary, I want you to pass a message to the Duke of Normandy, informing him that we will be making a public visit in the near future."

"Visiting? Why?" asked the female secretary in confusion.

"Have a good talk with him about the future of Albion and where Charlotte and Mary will go next."

"What do you want to do to Charlotte?" Anjie, who had been quite silent, suddenly became nervous when she heard her lover's name.

"Don't worry, Miss Anjie. We won't do anything to harm Miss Charlotte. However, from now on, the royal family will become dispensable to Albion. Then Charlotte and Mary will naturally not be bound by their royal status. They can live the life they want, more freely."

"And we can provide you with a place to stay."

"Well? What do you think, Miss Anjie?"

"I... need to think about it." Although Ange did not immediately accept the other party's invitation, Yuuki bet that Ange would not refuse his invitation. Whether it was for Charlotte, Ange herself, or the other people in the spy team, she would definitely not refuse.

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A moment later, Anjie and the female secretary sat in front of two radio transmitters respectively, using the encrypted messages they usually used to send confidential information to convey information to the forces behind both parties.

Inside the meeting room of the Republic Intelligence Organization's control room within the Kingdom, the atmosphere was extremely tense.

"Our people who were responsible for meeting the fleeing Princess Mary on the other side of the London Wall reported that they did not wait for Princess Mary." L's assistant 7 reported with a serious expression.

"To make matters worse, not only did we fail to contact Princess Mary, but we also lost contact with the Principal Team. According to our informant inside the palace, Charlotte also disappeared that night and her whereabouts are unknown."

"Tsk... It's okay that Princess Mary didn't receive the call, but how come the entire team is missing? And Princess Charlotte is the most important part of our entire plan. If the news of her cooperation with us is exposed, all the plans we have made so far will be ruined!!" The hot-tempered colonel slammed the table impatiently and said loudly to L.

"According to information provided by several informants who were in charge of the handover that night, the Principal unexpectedly changed his original plan and planned to use the C-ball to take Princess Mary over the London Wall directly from the rooftop of an ancient castle near the London Wall."

"But the problem is... we haven't heard from them since then." 7 said anxiously.

"Even if they were captured by the Kingdom, there's no way there wouldn't be a single piece of information, right?"

"I may have some clues that can help..." Dolly Shope, who was sitting next to L, said slowly after taking a puff of his cigar.

"If you have any clues, tell us now! Don't dilly-dally!" the colonel beside him urged impatiently.

"Our informant in the Kingdom's Military Police reported that the Royal Military Police and Guards were deployed on a large scale that night. However, almost all of the guards and military police who were sent out returned injured. Some were even so seriously injured that they were carried back on stretchers."

"The informant reported that according to what the soldiers were discussing privately, they were ordered to capture a group of Republic spies that night. However, during the execution of the mission, they were attacked by an unknown individual. Hundreds of military police and guards involved in the mission were all injured, and the whereabouts of the Republic spies they were trying to capture are unknown."

"Republic spies? Could it be the Principal Team? Is there any follow-up news?" The colonel asked Dollyshop impatiently.

"According to our informant in the gendarmerie, the gendarmes that night were indeed headed to the rooftop of an ancient castle to capture a Republic spy. However, they were reportedly attacked by an unknown individual there. Hundreds of heavily armed gendarmes and guards were almost instantly taken down by that unknown individual. According to the gendarmes who were still conscious while lying on the ground, the unknown individual who attacked them later took away the Principal Team and the female secretary of the Duke of Normandy, who had accompanied the gendarmes on their mission to the scene that night."

"According to our subsequent investigation, the castle that the military police went to that night was the one that the Principal used as a temporary transit point to cross the London Wall."

"It sounds like... those military police didn't catch Principal and Princess Charlotte?" Hearing this, the colonel breathed a sigh of relief.

"But...what about that unknown person? Who can take down hundreds of fully armed soldiers by himself?" said the colonel in an incredulous tone.

"It's unclear. The soldiers who participated in the operation that night all claimed that they were attacked by a guy who practiced witchcraft."

"Witchcraft? Shouldn't that kind of thing only exist in religious legends and fantasy novels? Are those soldiers lying collectively?" The colonel was confused when he heard this.

"The soldiers who went out that night were privately talking about how they saw the bullets they fired at the unknown person who attacked them suddenly stop in mid-air. The guy just waved his hand at them, and a dozen people seemed to be grabbed by an invisible force and thrown into the air."

"This kind of thing is impossible no matter how you think about it? Wizards? I would rather believe that things like God and angels really exist than believe that there is such a thing as witchcraft in this world!" The colonel listened to the outrageous news conveyed by Dolly Shope from the gendarmerie's insider, with his hands folded on his chest, obviously not believing that such a thing that goes against common sense could exist.

"Alright! Stop arguing for now, the most urgent thing is to confirm who the unknown person is who took Princess Charlotte and the Principal away? And make sure that the news that Princess Charlotte is cooperating with us is not leaked to the kingdom." 7 stopped the two people who were arguing and continued.

"No matter what means that mysterious man used to knock down hundreds of military police, that's not the point. The point is why he took away the Principal team?"

"The only people who know the identity of the Principal Team and the mission they are carrying out are the Republic's top brass and those within our control room. In other words, that mysterious person is very likely to know information about the Principal Team, but where did he get this information from?"

"Wait... Are you trying to say that there are spies leaking information inside our control room?" The colonel took a puff of his cigar and looked at 7 with a serious expression.

Just as the atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly tense, there was a knock on the door. Then, a telegraph operator walked into the conference room with a piece of letter paper covered with words and handed the letter paper to L, the leader of the control room.

L wrinkled his forehead and read the entire letter in silence. He then turned his head and looked at the operator who had delivered the decoded telegram with a questioning expression.

"Sir, I have confirmed that the content sent is indeed encrypted using our encryption method." The operator replied calmly.

After confirming the authenticity of the telegram, L lit a cigar and took a deep drag. He then announced to the others in the conference room, "Good news! All members of the Principal team are now safe."

L saw the always irritable headmaster breathe a sigh of relief, but 7, who was very familiar with his style, was still looking at his face. 7 was keenly aware that L had not finished speaking.

"But the bad news is that they are now on an aerial battleship of a third-party organization that is not under the control of the Kingdom or the Republic."

"This organization called itself Atlas. It was they who knocked out hundreds of armed gendarmes that night and forcibly took away the Principal Squad and the Duke of Normandy's female secretary."

"Now the female secretary is also on that air battleship, and she already knows about Princess Charlotte's cooperation with us."

As soon as L finished speaking, the hot-tempered colonel immediately exploded.

"What! Charlotte's identity as a collaborator of the Republic has been exposed?!!" Before the colonel could continue to lose his temper, L, who still looked calm, raised his hand to signal the colonel to stay calm.

"Don't worry. As our most professional spy, Miss Anjie also said something even more unbelievable in the telegram."

"What's the matter?" The impatient major suppressed his anger and asked L.

"That Miss Anjie said that the actual person in charge of the Atlas organization isn't human... but... uh... alien?"

“Ah???” The colonel was stunned when he heard this.

"According to the information reported by Miss Angel, based on my observations, the various technologies used by that aerial battleship are almost unheard of. Even more outrageous is the size of the aerial battleship she reported..."

"If our Miss Anjie didn't lie, then according to her, the long axis of that aerial battleship is over 963 meters, and its height is over 102 meters."

"What? How is this possible? How can there be such a large aerial battleship?" said the colonel with a stern face.

"Even the most advanced and largest aerial battleships built by the Republic and the Kingdom only have a long axis of about 300 meters. Our technicians and engineers have determined that this size is the limit for aerial battleships. How could there be an aerial battleship with a long axis exceeding 900 meters? Are you sure our spy is not kidding?"

The colonel stood up excitedly and said.

"And... aliens? Is this some kind of prank?

How could something like that exist only in fantasy novels in reality?"

"I think... judging from the tone between the lines of our spy's words, it doesn't sound like a joke." L frowned, rubbing his right temple as he looked at the letter in his hand.

The colonel, who still didn't believe it, looked at L's serious expression and felt a little confused about the current situation.

"And then, our Miss Anjie also said that several of Atlas' founders plan to visit Albion in person and publicly in the near future."

"Huh?" The other three people at the table asked in confusion.

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