That explanation sounded baffling.
No matter how big the trouble in Icevale City became—whether it was a strike, a riot, or even a civil war—it was still the Alliance's internal affair. What did the Blue Star Commonwealth have to do with it?
"Could it be that the Alliance's intelligence service discovered that the Commonwealth embassy had actually planned the unrest in Icevale City?" Yu Lian asked.
...That sounded wildly implausible—more so than there being a hidden master aboard the Fuxi that he hadn't noticed. The people at the Alliance embassy had neither that kind of capability nor that kind of motive, let alone the nerve.
And if we were being reasonable, just going by common sense: if anyone wanted the Alliance to remain stable and prosperous more than its own leaders did, it had to be the Blue Star Commonwealth, which relied on the Alliance as its backer.
However, Chief of Staff Mukawa and Colonel Singh exchanged a look, their expressions seeming to betray some hesitation and unease.
"Oh? So that really is the case?" Yu Lian immediately grew interested. "I knew Ambassador Lina Wilbert was a... er, gentle and dignified woman, and General Oswood was a... uh, conscientious man who took his duties seriously. I had no idea they were such radicals at heart."
The corner of Chief of Staff Mukawa's mouth twitched. He couldn't help feeling that Yu Lian was mocking the ambassador and the chief military attaché: one a phony figurehead, the other a useless deadweight.
Though that was, in fact, the truth.
"You really are hilarious! Ahahaha..." Colonel Singh, however, seemed to have caught only the most superficial meaning and laughed heartily. He probably thought that failing to laugh at the boss's joke was much worse than turning the table when the boss was reaching for