Anakin Skywalker had no idea when or how he left the Parliament building. He was walking like a zombie in the square in front of the Parliament building.
What just happened in the parliament meeting shocked his mind and almost caused him to collapse.
He felt that everything around him was changing, it seemed that everyone was deceiving him, everyone was betraying him! This feeling made him suffocate, no one could believe him, loneliness... uneasiness... fear...
Anakin feels that his lover Padmé Amidala does not understand him. She seems to have been paying attention to her political ideas, but has always ignored him who is constantly fighting on the front lines...
He felt that the death angel, Darth Malsayir, had deceived him and turned his mother into a walking corpse, but said that he was resurrecting his mother!
He felt that the Jedi Order had betrayed him. Why was the Clone Army established by the Jedi Order? What on earth were they planning?
He felt that Master Yoda had betrayed him because he went to assassinate Palpatine without even considering the disaster that would be caused to the Galactic Republic if there was a problem with the Speaker!
He felt that Master Windu had betrayed him, that he had betrayed the creed of the Jedi Order and went on a killing spree!
The creed of the Jedi Order? How much of the creed of the Jedi Order remains unbroken to this day?
In the meeting just now, the evidence presented by Speaker Palpatine shattered almost all his illusions and all his persistence for more than ten years!
Anakin Skywalker leaned against a statue. He wanted to find a place to go, but found that he couldn't go anywhere.
Jedi Temple? What are you going back to do? Go back to face Shaak-Ti and the others' questioning? They will definitely ask why they didn't get rid of Palpatine, and whether there is any special information between themselves and Palpatine.
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But how should you answer them? Answer them because you started to form an army without the knowledge of the Galactic Republic 13 years ago, and then you joined it yourself?
Anakin just feels like he can't breathe as soon as he returns to the Jedi Temple. The heavy and desperate atmosphere makes people despair.
So, to Padme's side?
No, Padme may not have forgiven herself yet, and he himself has not figured out how to resolve the differences in ideas between the two. If he goes to her with such differences, it may still end in a quarrel in the end.
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Then what? The barracks area?
The Kamino clones have been disbanded or sent to the extremely cruel northern battlefield, and none of his former comrades are left. Including Rex and the others, they had infiltrated the planet during the battle on Onderon.
He came to fight alongside him in the army, but then when the battle ended, everything was in chaos, and he was separated from them.
Where else to go? To the planet Naboo to be with his mother?
But... she is already a walking corpse... turned into this by Darth Malsayir...
When he thought of this, Anakin Skywalker's eyes were filled with a terrifying murderous intent.
At this moment, a deep voice suddenly came from behind, "General Skywalker, the Speaker, please go to his office to discuss matters."
Deputy Speaker Mas Ameda, Anakin heard the voice of this person instantly. It was indeed a big deal to have the Deputy Speaker come to invite people in person, but now Anakin was irritated, just not salty.
He replied blankly, "You still call me General? Now the Jedi Order should have been revoked from all positions in the Republic."
"You are different, General Skywalker. The only person the Speaker trusts in the Jedi Order is you. He always believes that with your upright character, it is absolutely impossible to participate in those things." Mas-
Ameda's attitude at the moment was even a bit flattering, which was completely different from his firm and mighty appearance in the parliament hall.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand. Although he looks tall and majestic, Mas-Ameda is essentially a person who immediately licked his face and hugged Palpatine's lap after losing the political struggle.
His true nature is to follow the crowd and flatter others.
"Okay...I'll be right over." Anakin Skywalker stood up from the statue and walked toward the Capitol.
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"I'm sorry, Anakin." After seeing Anakin, Sheev Palpatine, who was sitting in the center of the Speaker's office, apologized straight to the point, "I have been hiding these things about the Jedi Order.
you."
"What happened to the Jedi Order? Was it really the clone army established by Master Sever Dias 13 years ago?!" Anakin Skywalker asked the question he had been confused about, "Now
Why does the Jedi Order feel so strange to me?"
"The Jedi Order has never changed. What has changed is how much you can see." Palpatine said with a smile. "Because of their persistence, the Jedi Order has gone through tens of thousands of years and defeated
They fought countless enemies. But it was precisely because of their stubbornness that the Jedi Order finally came to an end."
Palpatine said, taking out a document from the drawer and pushing it in front of Anakin, "This was after the war broke out, and I suddenly got news that the Republic had a clone army, and then I sent a special envoy to Kamino
Planet, the authorization documents obtained from them..."
He pointed to the long series of numbers on the document and the signature below, "The person who signed the document was Master Seve Dias, a member of the Supreme Council of the Jedi Order at the time. And this plan involved an extremely large amount of money.
And military industrial orders are also the support that Master Seve Dias received when he was running between the Quat Power Shipyard and the Interstellar Banking Association. And the redemption of the mortgage of these funds is the credit of our Galactic Republic."
"In other words, they are sure that the Republic will pay for this huge sum of billions?" Anakin Skywalker frowned.
"If war does break out, there is no doubt that the Galactic Republic will foot the bill." Palpatine said.
"What did they say about the Jedi Order?" Anakin asked.
"Just now, Master Shakti gave me a formal reply - the Jedi Order only learned of the existence of the clone army after the war broke out, and Master Seve Dias has never made any comment on this matter.
Report. And according to the time when the document was signed, Master Seve Dias had just been expelled from the Supreme Council a few days before the document was signed. Does it sound familiar?" Palpatine was still smiling.
said.
"familiar?"
"That's right, before this assassination attempt on me was launched, Master Yoda had just quit the Jedi Order..."