If Magru Teller had not wanted to investigate Menilman behind the scenes, if he had not forced Charlotte to betray his upperclassman, no one could have shaken his position. He could have remained in the lucrative post of prison warden forever.
Charlotte could not understand it either. Why were there always people in this world willing to stop at nothing just to climb higher? That alone would have been one thing, but they only ever saw the possible benefits and never considered how miserable things would become once the backlash came.
Magru Teller had not come from a particularly good background. If the former warden had possessed even a little influence, no one would have left him without help after he fell from power, nor would several Prison Guard Corps soldiers have been able to torment him so badly. Who knew how much he had paid and suffered to climb to the position of warden at Kilmainham Prison? Now his family had been destroyed and he had lost everything. Beyond being hateful, he was also rather tragic and pitiful.
Charlotte had once known feudal nobility only through books, but after meeting Anne's cousin Kreil Brittany and Abner Sumay, he thoroughly understood that "what comes from books always feels shallow; true understanding comes only through personal experience" was indeed a profound truth. In this world, nobles and commoners were entirely different.
He truly did not believe that these two young officers had become seventeenth-rank Great Knights entirely through their own abilities. One had become a twenty-fourth-rank First-Rank Ensign at such a young age, while the other was only slightly inferior, already a twenty-fifth-rank Fifth-Rank Military Commander.
Though they were enemies, Charlotte knew full well that Aubrey Teuton Atwood, president of the Fiery Steed Detective Agency, and Warden Magru Teller represented the