How did Vesperia manage to stand out during the Industrial Age? Wasn't it by sucking the blood of Veridia?
The endless wealth they plundered decades ago, all those traditional antiques, who knows where in history they're now scattered to dust.
Climbing to the heavens on the backs of others, Vesperia's industrial boom was swift. Add in the neighboring island country providing human specimens through slaughter—such cutting-edge medical science, which of it wasn't built by stepping on others?
Moreover, even putting aside history, before Vesperia grew into the giant it is today, it suffered all kinds of industrial pollution itself. How can they have the gall to mock a developing country for draining the pond to catch fish?
Sure, that phenomenon does exist, but coming at it as someone who's "been there, done that," isn't that a bit too subtle—and unrealistic?
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Hearing Cecilia's words, Mr. Adams frowned, clearly in disagreement.
