Chapter 444: The Predecessor of Penacony — A Place of Exile, and the Seven Great Houses That Turned on Each Other!

Stelle: "Huh?"

Stelle: "The three Nameless seniors tried to spread the spirit of pioneering, but it was all for nothing?"

Stelle: "You mean, the victors shackled themselves?"

Stelle: "What kind of move is that?"

March 7th: "Could it be... the prisoners had been locked up for too long."

March 7th: "So they no longer knew how to live freely?"

Furina: "Suddenly gaining freedom actually made these prisoners feel out of place."

Furina: "That really is quite ironic..."

Hu Tao: "No way..."

Hu Tao: "Then wouldn't that victory have been for nothing?"

Lumine: "It shouldn't be the case for everyone."

Lumine: "Otherwise the Penacony of today wouldn't exist."

The video continued.

【Asdena was once again swept up in the flames of war — this time, the enemy came from within.】

【A prisoner remains a prisoner unto death — knowing only how to fight for freedom, never how to live as free.】

After Sunday finished his narration,

words began to appear on the puppet.

【We should build another cage.】

【Not one in this world, but one within the human heart.】

【So long as we do not set them free...】

【... they will never be displaced.】

Miss Qingque: "Good grief."

Miss Qingque: "The moment they're free, they start fighting among themselves?"

Miss Qingque: "That's just too on the nose."

Miss Qingque: "Really feels like they've got nothing better to do..."

Welt: "Once the external threat was resolved, the internal contradictions began to surface."

Welt: "Human nature is such... I'm not surprised at all."

Welt: "And compared to the earlier fighting for freedom,"

Welt: "this kind of internal strife is actually the hardest to resolve."

Himeko: "Human nature is complex and ever-changing."

Himeko: "After driving the Company away, some of those prisoners even began to harbor the thought of becoming masters over the other prisoners..."

Hu Tao: "So this is what sparked the civil war?"

Hu Tao: "Some of those who once fought side by side now want to imitate the Company's ways and dominate these people's freedom once more?"

Hu Tao: "Sigh... truly insatiable..."

Stelle: "I actually think these people came up with something cleverer than the Company."

Stelle: "What they wanted was to build a cage inside these prisoners' hearts."

Stelle: "To imprison their freedom at the root."

Stelle: "Not just physically."

March 7th: "Tsk tsk tsk, this is far more vicious than the Company."

March 7th: "Sure enough, the cruelest ones are always your own people."