Crown Prince's Fury (Third Update)

Crown Prince Karl and the other members of the Austro-Hungarian delegation watched helplessly as Wachth and Paul Borselli signed their names on the treaty with smiles on their faces.

Everyone knew exactly what this meant. The peace negotiations between the Germans and the Italians had reached an agreement. Once they had signed the peace treaty, it meant their peace talks were over.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire had been cast aside, betrayed by the Germans once again.

Crown Prince Karl was furious. The Germans had cast them aside during the peace talks with France, and now, during the negotiations with Italy, they had abandoned them yet again. Crown Prince Karl felt that fulfilling the demands he had put forward would likely be extraordinarily difficult. The betrayal of an ally was undoubtedly a knife driven viciously into their backs.

"Mr. Wachth! Why? Why has the German Empire once again betrayed the alliance treaty? The treaty clearly stated that no country was permitted to make peace with the enemy separately. During your negotiations with France last time, you used the Empire's failure to participate in the war against France as an excuse. But what about this time? The Empire dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops to fight the Italians!" Crown Prince Karl demanded angrily.

"Crown Prince, the Empire said long ago that we could not allow the negotiations between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy to drag on indefinitely. We needed to conclude the peace talks as soon as possible so that we could concentrate on other matters. Therefore, when the conditions proposed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire were excessively harsh and its differences with the Kingdom of Italy were too great, the Empire was unwilling to waste any more time." Wachth spoke coldly. He did not care in the slightest about Crown