Faced with the Long-haired Woman's words of "judgment," Richard could not help thinking of several things.
Come to think of it, he had always harbored doubts about why he had joined the Alliance and Xika's national war, and why he had become the Alliance army's second-in-command—the Command Consultant. He had been searching for answers all along.
Now, he had obtained some information from the Long-haired Woman's words.
According to her, the Truth Society had long suspected that he was cooperating with the Alliance in an attempt to eliminate the Truth Society.
Logically speaking, that was quite reasonable.
Setting aside what he had done on the East Coast, which the Truth Society might not know about, they definitely knew about his destruction of Pompey. The fall of numerous Southern Free Federation branches and the death of the Colored Ring Supervisor would most likely be blamed on him as well.
Come to think of it, he had now drawn the Truth Society's hatred to the maximum. He was the Truth Society's number one enemy.
For someone like him to suddenly become the Alliance's Command Consultant, gain control over the military, and launch a decisive battle against the Sika Kingdom while continually advancing deep into Xika—it looked no matter how one viewed it like he was there to deal with the Truth Society. After all, the Truth Society headquarters was somewhere within the Sika Kingdom.
So... the Alliance's objective was not Xika, but the Truth Society? No, no.
As he pondered, Richard quickly shook his head inwardly.
There was a flaw in that line of reasoning.
Yes, there was a flaw.
If the Alliance truly intended to target the Truth Society, then they should not have placed him in such a high position, at least not so conspicuously that everyone knew about it.