"Hm? What's happening over there?"
Watching the martial arts field in the distance, General Hong Gu, standing atop the city wall, frowned.
"This isn't training time. Who's occupying the martial arts field?!"
"Reporting to the General, it's the Grand Eunuch!"
"That bunch..."
Hearing this, General Hong Gu's expression immediately darkened.
"Interfering with state affairs isn't enough for them? Now they want to meddle in military affairs too? What exactly are they trying to do?"
"General!!"
Just then, a soldier came running over, panting heavily.
"The Grand Eunuch borrowed the training ground to conduct a test!"
"A test? What kind of test requires the Imperial Guard's training ground? And... they're even using the latest White Tiger MS?"
As commander of the Imperial Guard, Hong Gu was intimately familiar with the MS under his command. After the previous battle against the Reapers, they had suffered devastating losses. To strengthen their combat capabilities, they had begun developing the next generation of MS. The White Tiger was the newest mass-production model, and its performance specifications far surpassed those of the Gang Gu they had once used. As standard equipment, it had already begun to be deployed throughout the army.
But what did that have to do with the Grand Eunuch?
"Actually, I heard that His Highness returned today..."
"His Highness? You mean that His Highness?"
Hong Gu was taken aback, then immediately understood.
It was not his fault that the wording sounded so awkward. Although he was stationed in the imperial city and naturally knew that Fang Zheng had returned, Fang Zheng's identity was rather awkward. By rights, Fang Zheng should have been a Prince. But as Fang Zheng himself had said, now that the Son of Heaven had ascended the throne, he obviously could not still be called a Prince. Normally, princes would