"By the way, I heard that the hunting regiment under your command is very good at guerrilla warfare, inventing a special combat method of small-scale rapid strike. Why not let your men become synths? ”

Bradley was persecuting Estes, and he didn't need his daughter to have weakness in her heart, which was the stuff of weak and inferior creatures.

"If you ask, I'll have the Third Research Institute work overtime to make your unit the first in our army to be made up entirely of synthetic beasts, with you as the commander."

It's a very tempting tie, and for Estes, who loves to kill, it's a tempting ti that she can barely refuse.

As long as Estes nods for her own desires, as long as she and Estes agree to follow the instinctive desires and impulses in her heart, all the boring morals and constraints in Estes's heart will be torn apart by her own desires.

Estes will once again transform back into that Estes, a terrible beast, a determined witch of slaughter who cares about human life without doubt or confusion.

Just nod your head now.

"I'm sorry, Father."

But now Estes has experienced something that is a little different from before.

"I don't want my soldiers to be beasts."

Only this, Estes could not agree.

"Your daughter is not a beast that only knows how to kill. Your daughter's name is Estes Bradley. It's your daughter, the general of Amestolis. ”

The confusion and uncertainty in his eyes suddenly disappeared in an instant, and although it was different from the way the president expected, it did disappear.

For the first time, under the pressure of her father, Estes did not follow her father's expectations and ideas, and chose her own path and her eyes were ......

‘…… Good eyes......'

Seeing the gaze in his daughter's eyes, seeing the persistent and determined eyes, even the president couldn't help but be moved.

"So, did you choose to keep your soldiers weak, giving up the opportunity to make them stronger, and the opportunity to make your pawns stronger?"

But the president did not let go, and his eyes were sharper than just now.

He unleashed his momentum and pressed towards Estes.

"Have you given up the path of the strong and chosen to be with the weak?!"

The great president's momentum, monstrous anger and murderous intent, which have been tempered by decades of bloody rain, are much stronger than Estes.

Being stared at by his father, who made himself admired, serious, and strict like this, and at the same time released his royal momentum, even Estes would feel a lot of pressure in his heart because no matter what......

In front of him are the idol of Estes, his admired father, the President of the Honourable Kim Bradley.

But......

"But I didn't give up the path of becoming stronger, let alone the weak!"

For his persistence and belief, Estes will not give up.

Because Estes has been through a lot, she understands a lot of things.

In Ishbal, during these years

The weak being can burst out with great power through his own efforts with strong will and faith.

The Rockbells witnessed this fact.

Weak and naïve children can grow up through efforts and become powerful beings.

Estes himself has witnessed this growth.

"There are many paths to strength! There are all kinds of paths, why does my father think that if I don't let my soldiers become synths, I will give up the path to becoming stronger?! Can't you trust the path your daughter has chosen?! ”

"The path you chose ......"

Hearing this word, the obvious emotion of the 'choice' of the great president was deeply moved.

"Yes, Father!"

Looking directly at his father, Estes's eyes shone with determination.

It was like the light of Sarah Rockbell, it was like the light of hope for the future.

Steadfast light.

"I firmly believe in the path I have chosen! The way to become stronger without letting the soldiers become synths! The path to the strong! ”

After all these years of study, Estes really understood a truth

Everyone's path to becoming strong is different, and the path of each strong person becoming a strong man has its own differences.

In that case, who's to say which is the only way to become stronger?

"Your Own Path......"

Hearing this word, this sentence, the great president was moved by Estes.

Think about yourself, the self who kept trying to become the president, a member of the presidential candidacy program, when he gave so much, what did he get?

A philosopher's stone, a rage, a life that has been planned for a long time.

There are no changes and no choices.

There is hardly any change and freedom, and there is no time for even your own choice and your own will......

…… Make your own choices......

"That should be pretty good."

Suddenly, the president felt a little envious of his daughter.

Because she has the right to choose, the right to choose her own life.

Because her father was able to give her such opportunities and powers, unlike his own father.

"Since you have such thoughts, so be it."

Unlike myself, I succeeded in my life and achieved my original goal, but it was completely prescribed, without any novelty and surprise.

"You just go your own way."

It seems to have become kind all of a sudden, President, the man who is like a volcano.

Suddenly it was mild.

"Father?"

Feeling that his father seemed to have changed somewhat, Estes was a little surprised.

The father's touched face was the first time Estes had seen him.

For the first time in my life.

“…………”

Looking at his daughter again, Bradley's right eye narrowed slightly.

No, it's not exactly planned.

"Are you saying you think you can find your own path to becoming stronger?"

Isn't there a surprise outside the plan, an unexpected surprise?

A sapphire-like accident about the size of his own.

"In that case, then you can follow your own path and show me."

Seeing that her daughter had become stronger, Bradley decided not to say anything anymore, as long as her daughter became stronger. So he was content and content.

"Thank you, Father, ...... then."

Seeing that his father's was no longer angry, Estes decided to continue with his plan.

"Please abolish the Third Research Institute!"

If you get cheap, you will sell well, and climb up the pole, which Estes learned from a certain silver-haired little fox adjutant.

Taking advantage of the fact that my father was in a good mood now, he hurriedly made a request.

After this village, there will be no such shop.

"Why? This is the path on which our country will become stronger, haven't I already said it? ”

Now that he knows that his daughter is not weakened in heart because she is bound by the weak, then the big president is no longer angry.

"Because I need you to give me all the funds of the Third Institute...... No, it's not just the Third Institute, I need more funding and technical support from you. ”

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Estes decided to put the research on synths to a halt once and for all, and at the same time submitted another plan of his own to the Great President.

"What's the plan?"

Bradley saw that her daughter was so confident, obviously she had a draft before she came to her, so she decided to find an opportunity to bring it up today, right?

"Renovation plan! A plan to make our army completely renovated, rapidly increase its combat effectiveness and crush neighboring countries! ”

After the Battle of Saibei, the Battle of Ishbar, and the Border War on the Southern Front, this idea of Estes began to gradually mature. She felt like she was almost ready to take it out.

"Tell me about your plans. Be in more detail. ”

As a result, a father's criticism meeting with his daughter became a report meeting for Estes to expound his combat theory.