GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



Battle sage monkeys like to battle. But they like to win battles more. Most of all is that they like to fight for a worthy cause. 

Sure, victory is good, but it doesn't matter if you lose. As long as your cause is worthy, your loss will be remembered, and your sacrifice will be honored. That is why there are heroic spirits. So the most important thing is the cause. She is crying out for their dead comrades. What cause is greater than that?

Someone else called out. "Fight for justice."

Another person joined in to cry out, "Fight for justice." 

Many more people took up the cry of a worthy cause, "Fight for justice."

It started with only her. Then some of her people picked it up. They are the ones with pure hatred for Soverick in their heart. Nothing he will say can soothe them or change their minds. They began shouting it, and more joined them. The ones that joined in were convinced by the cause. They truly believe that they are fighting for a worthy cause and that they are fighting for justice. 

Soverick is insurmountable. He is a behemoth of power. But so was the Viper race. It was supposed to be a losing war, but the battle sage monkeys rallied for a worthy cause. And they won. It is highly likely that fighting Soverick will end in a loss, but if they don't try at all, then they can never win. 

You lose all the shots that you don't take. It is until they rally and give it their all that they can have any hope of victory. So they joined the cry to fight for justice. 

But Salvini started her own chant before the opposition could pick up too much momentum. She yelled enthusiastically, "Fight for victory. Fight for victory. Fight for victory."

The group of 100,000 that she brought with her took up her chant quickly, and they raised their voice above others. They have a larger number on their side because the call for justice has not really picked up a lot of supporters yet, but despite their best efforts to overwhelm the call for justice, they failed to do so. The call for justice couldn't be put out. 

There are some who decided to pick up the call just because of the overwhelming opposition not to. They picked the side of justice to feel heroic. Fighting for the losing side takes a lot of bravery, which they want to show.

The two different phrases were picked up and announced by different people with different aims. The entire multitude of people used these chants to pick a side. Then the crowd split up. Those that wanted to fight for victory stood behind Soverick's back and formed up. In contrast, those that wanted to fight for justice stood in front of him and against him. 

He didn't speak throughout the separation. He was silent as a rock. He has achieved what he wants to achieve. A divide has been created, and the topic has been shifted. But he made his opinion known by increasing the weight of his divine sense on those that stood against him. It was like they were burdened with a rock. 

The opposition was struggling to stand straight without faltering by the time the division was completed. The pressure discouraged people from standing against him, so it is not a wonder that 60% of the population sided with the child of the plane. 

Lady Amari remained silent too. She has said her piece. Even if he didn't pressure them, the final tally would have been 50/50. It wasn't supposed to be like that. But that's the best she is going to get after Soverick muddled the water. It made her wonder what would have happened had she not prepared extensively for this encounter.

She had been swaying public opinion in the background before coming here. She used emotions and the promise of power to turn people to her side. Powerful people who didn't care about the deaths that occurred at the calamity of the child of the plane became enticed by the prospect of snatching the title from Soverick. She came with the cards stacked in her favor, but that all changed after Soverick spoke.

She planned to surround him and attack him from all sides. She planned to overwhelm him with numbers. Somehow, he knew her plans. And he successfully created a divide with his speech. The ones that wanted to take his title took one good look at him and gave up. Only the die-hard haters and the thrill seekers stayed with her. But they are too few to stand any chance of victory whatsoever. Fortunately, her cry for justice brought in enough supporters so that her side would not look like a joke.

Anyone can tell at first glance that the opposition that she created will be massacred. They don't look like a joke, but they don't look like an army that has any hope of victory either. It is a sorrowful thing to see your schemes laid bare and demolished. It certainly doesn't help that her target, the child of the plane, is looking at her with evident mockery. 

She has failed, and she knows it. He knows it, so everyone knows it. But she still has to go through the motions, or it would have all been for naught. She cannot give up now. She will at least make a statement. This very act has sown the seed of descent. It has created a precedent, and it has certainly created conflict. That is already enough for her to go through with it.

This event is the first of its kind in this generation. But it won't be the last. More conflict with the child of the plane will arise. His relationship with the people will be soured, and public opinion will be divided against him. Even her defeat can be used in the future. It is making the best of a bad situation.

She just has to suck up to it and be trounced in front of the audience of the entire plane. It was what she was hoping would happen to Soverick, but it has been turned against her.