"All right, everyone. Just watch quietly!"
"In truth, with this plan of mine, if Kandel had truly been rational, and had held enough goodwill toward the civilians in the city, then something like this definitely would not have happened."
"Because I, Nalant, have always been a man who does what he says. If I said I would give the civilians in the city one day to withdraw, then I absolutely would."
"And now I did indeed give him the chance, but Kandel failed to seize it."
"Not only did he fail to seize it, he even killed Priest Rem because of this matter, and once again stopped the civilians in the city from fleeing. That is the reason internal conflict broke out in Machile City!"
Nalant waved a hand at the priests and commanders, signaling that they did not need to be so surprised.
"Lord Nalant, did you already feel before this that Kandel would make such a choice?"
Although everyone understood what Nalant meant, they truly could not guess how Nalant had judged that Kandel definitely would not care about whether the civilians lived or died.
"As for that, I did indeed have some guesses. Judging from the depth to which the torrential rain had flooded the city before, it had already reached Machile City's limit."
"If I had given the order to stop the rain even half a day later, then at least half of all the civilians in Machile City would have drowned."
"And facing such a situation, that Kandel still did not choose to send people to negotiate with me, or simply surrender outright."
"That proves that, in Kandel's heart, the civilians in the city were already gone."
Nalant nodded to everyone in response.
"This Kandel truly is unworthy of being the commander of Machile City.