"With you like this, how can you guide racial equality?", Rosse chuckled and shook his head, reaching out to wave his hand in front of the dazed Otohi. Seeing her co back to her senses, he then spoke slowly and unhurriedly, "I rarely discuss these things with others, so let's first set a tone. Whatever we want, we need to have a clear understanding of ourselves and what we want. Can you agree with this point?"
"Agreed!"
Otohi pursed her lips and nodded; she definitely agreed with this statent.
If she herself didn't understand anything and still blindly worked in a certain direction, then that would be aningless hard work.
"Well, in that case, let's first conduct a preliminary analysis of you and what you want."
"I'll ask you a question first. You say you want coexistence, to live in harmony without harm. Then answer , is there no conflict between rfolk and fish-n?"
"Eh?"
No conflict between rfolk and fish-n?
Otohi wanted to say no.
But thinking about her experiences these past days, she just couldn't say it.
If there were no conflict, why was she kidnapped?
The ones who tricked and attacked her were fish-n.
She couldn't say sothing that went against her heart.
Indeed, there was quite a bit of conflict between rfolk and fish-n.
Ryugu Kingdom is a mber nation of the World Governnt, but its main composition is rfolk. Most fish-n live in other areas and aren't even counted as nationals of the mber nation.
However, for financial reasons, mber nation citizens are few in number, and many rfolk aren't part of the Ryugu Kingdom either.
But Fish-Man District is undoubtedly the most chaotic place in the entire Fish-Man Island.
The na "Fish-Man District" alone is already very telling.
"Although you didn't answer, I think the answer is already very obvious," Rosse wore a calm expression, like a teacher patiently guiding a student, continuing to guide Otohi, "Since there's conflict between fish-n and rfolk, then does that an your idea of rfolk coexistence is invalid from the start?"
"No!", Hearing this, Otohi suddenly shook her head, "Maybe fish-n and rfolk also have conflicts, but their relationship with humans is very bad. I want to change this situation, at least make our relationship with humans like the one between rfolk and fish-n."
In Otohi's view, if harmonious coexistence was level 5, then the relationship between rfolk and fish-n was at least level 3, but the relationship with humans was only level 1.
"Then, do you think rfolk and humans, fish-n and humans, fish-n and rfolk, are these three pairs independent, or the sa?", Rosse asked again.
"Fish-n, rfolk, humans?", Otohi froze again.
In her previous understanding, she treated fish-n and rfolk as one group and humans as another, and evaluated equality based on that.
But now Rosse's words were clearly asking her to step out of that.
Moreover, Rosse had already given a reason before.
There's conflict between fish-n and rfolk.
Since there is conflict, then these two shouldn't be considered as one group.
"But Fish-Man Island includes both fish-n and rfolk," Otohi tried to argue.
"Then, among the past kings and queens of the Ryugu Kingdom, were there any of Fish-Man lineage?", Rosse asked leisurely.
"Ah... seems like not," Otohi lowered her head.
Searching her mory, she couldn't find any examples.
Fish-Man Island had always been ruled by the Ryugu Kingdom, going back thousands of years.
rfolk, fish-n, and even humans had no reproductive isolation, but there was indeed no example of a Fish-Man becoming king or queen of Ryugu Kingdom.
She had heard of rmaid princesses, but never Fish-Man princesses.
"I've heard rfolk and fish-n live separately?", Rosse asked again.
"That's true... rfolk and fish-n live in different areas, but not absolutely. Because of marriage, there are still quite a few mixed living situations," Otohi admitted this, while also offering her rebuttal.
Though what Rosse said was a fact, there were still so exceptions.
"We can't take a few isolated cases as proof of sothing being universal. According to what I know, even those mixed-living cases aren't as nurous as the number of rfolk in Fish-Man District. But you should understand the situation in Fish-Man District better than I do," Rosse said calmly.
"Yes... I really can't refute that," Otohi dejectedly lowered her head.
Normally she thought she was pretty eloquent, plus with her Conqueror's Haki emotion-enhancing ability, she had always been successful in persuading others.
But she realized, once she stripped away this special ability, she couldn't prove herself through dialogue at all.
She was even being convinced by others.
Because the facts were just like that.
Fish-Man District is the most chaotic place on Fish-Man Island. People throw abandoned babies there, leaving them to fend for themselves. It's considered the gray area of Fish-Man Island, and also the place where she was previously attacked.
Only in such a chaotic place can you find more examples proving rfolk and fish-n coexist, but they are mostly abandoned rfolk infants.
Such a situation actually proves there's a problem between rfolk and fish-n.
The distinction between rfolk and fish-n is clear; unless born in Fish-Man District with no choice, otherwise the two groups hardly interact.
How could such two groups be grouped together?
Just because they are both under the managent of Ryugu Kingdom?
Maybe Neptune or Rosse could co up with such a reason, but Otohi couldn't say it at all.
She wanted rfolk coexistence because she truly felt that way, not because she was the queen of Ryugu Kingdom.
"Mm... I guess they should all be independent," Otohi was slightly discouraged, but still agreed with Rosse's words.
This was sothing she couldn't deny.
In this aspect, Otohi was still very pure, and very honest.
"Since you've admitted they are independent, then about rfolk coexistence, do you want rfolk and humans to coexist, or fish-n and humans?", Rosse asked again.
To Rosse, Otohi was a blank sheet of paper.
As long as he grabbed onto her ideas, he could paint whatever he wanted on that blank sheet and shape her however he desired.
This was also what he enjoyed most.
"Can't I have both?", Otohi cautiously raised her head, a bit afraid of being refuted, but still expressed her thoughts.
"There are 100 races in this world, then why don't you wish for all of them to coexist with humans?", Rosse retorted.
"But... their relationship with humans is quite good...", Otohi mumbled softly, "Those kingdoms are all on land, and there are many humans there too."
Her voice was very low, but no matter how low, Rosse could still hear it clearly.
Rosse glanced at her and said calmly, "Then do you know that there are more non-mber nations, and even the so-called strongest kingdom, the Giant Kingdom, isn't a mber? Also, I bet you wouldn't want to know how much they had to pay to beco a mber nation," Rosse sneered.
"What price?", Otohi asked instinctively.
"Every year, they have to tribute 100 to 10,000 of their own people to the Holy Land and the mber nations supporting them. As for what happens to those people, I don't need to explain, right?", Rosse said calmly.
This was a fact, and the price those demi-human races paid to join the World Governnt.
It was very normal. The World Governnt wasn't anything noble.
And the demi-human races that could beco mber nations definitely weren't innocent either.
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