The Youth Reserve Army's unauthorized withdrawal from the battlefield was made to seem increasingly serious as time went on. After receiving General Baird's encrypted message, in which he expressed his "profound grief," King Auston was stunned. Then, overcome with sorrow, he issued a proclamation across the kingdom, ordering the arrest of the army that had fled in the face of battle.
When Kane learned of the outcome, he immediately stormed the Command Camp with Devis. In front of more than a dozen regiment commanders and dukes, he lambasted Baird for being headstrong and distorting the facts.
In a fit of rage, Baird stripped Kane and Devis of their military authority and nearly had them imprisoned.
General Baird had once assisted the former King George in defeating the Silver Sparrow Empire, and had always been renowned throughout the army for his bravery. No one dared to object to his decision. Even Roger's father, the Celtic Duke, remained silent.
On the third day after Donald and Mino led the army away from the battlefield, Richard and Kelly, far away in Tris Province, also heard that the king had ordered the arrest of the Youth Army, including Donald.
Knowing Donald, they instinctively felt that something had to be wrong with the news. But when Richard went out that day, someone recognized him as Donald's younger brother, and the furious crowd attacked him, leaving him lightly injured.
After that, the two of them stayed hidden in the Dwarf Laboratory and stopped going out.
At the same time, the families of the other Youth Army members suffered the same treatment.
Under the immense pressure of war, the people had nowhere to vent their emotions, so they immediately took them out on these "deserters' families."
By day, even tightly shut doors and windows couldn't block out