'Is there any possibility of compromise between us?'
He asked himself, and he asked Roosevelt, searching for an answer.
'He doesn't look... like an enemy.'
'But he's in the way.'
Roosevelt's voice echoed in his mind.
"Anyone who stands in your way is an enemy, regardless of whether they're a good person or a bad one."
"You can't stop the wheels just because you feel sorry for a stone."
Leo nodded.
Just then, the phone in his pocket vibrated.
He took it out and saw it was a text from Ethan.
It was just a short line of text:
"It passed in Washington."
Leo's pupils contracted sharply.
That was the signal he had been waiting for.
The "Critical Infrastructure and Medical Personnel Safety Protection Act," designed to protect insurance company executives, had finally passed after endless wrangling between the Senate and the House of Representatives.
This meant that actions similar to Luigi's would, in the future, be legally and officially classified as terrorism.
