Ethan figured there had to be something fishy about this.
Even before the expeditionary force had assembled and set out, the old butler seemed to have gotten inside information from somewhere. He knew that the boy named Lance was destined to die on the Empire's border. He just couldn't tell whether the family had bribed one of the expedition's knights to kill Lance if necessary, or whether the mission itself was a suicide mission.
If it was the latter, many of the questions he'd had while sorting through the documents finally made sense.
There was no detailed intelligence, no specific battle plan, and they'd made a big show of revealing the unit's whereabouts before the fighting had even begun...
At least as far as Ethan knew, that was an absolute taboo when fighting high-ranking supernatural beings.
So here was the question: if even an E-Class Investigator from a border town could see the problem, how could the strategists and decision-makers in the Imperial Capital not see it?
Unless those people were deliberately withholding important information, with the aim of making sure every one of these elite Kingdom Army soldiers died here.
The thought immediately broke Ethan out in a cold sweat.
Miss Other Shore was a Knight Commander of the Kingdom, appointed personally by the king. The "higher-up" who could issue such an order had to be someone with absolute power in the Imperial Capital.
As people often said, some things were better left unexamined. Whoever looked too closely would die!
Ethan watched Other Shore laughing and chatting with Ivy, and wondered if she had any idea how serious the situation was.
He cleared his throat and asked, "Miss Other Shore, I read the brief message sent over by the branch office carefully. Its description of the Dream Erosion members