During the latter part of Anning's speech, Robespierre did not absorb a word.
Complex emotions swirled within him.
Talleyrand had long been categorized by him as a speculator, an ambitious figure attempting to snatch the fruits of the revolution, a villain, someone who should be purged.
When Frost accepted Gold Bars from Paul Balas, Robespierre believed Frost's explanation: it was to stabilize financial order using the blood sucked from speculators.
Back then, Robespierre even joked that Frost, describing his plan, looked like a Jew.
The Incorruptible fondly believed that his closest comrades could never betray him.
But now, Talleyrand's appearance made his believing heart waver.
Robespierre, watching Frost's nonstop profile, suddenly felt this familiar figure become as strange as Dan Dong.
Changed, everything has changed.
Only I, the Incorruptible, am still holding on to those initial visions.
