The smile at the corners of Sean's mouth soon faded, but his brow furrowed again.
"Gino, what are you doing?!"
The knight commander strode in with a low, sharp rebuke and closed the door behind him.
Although the two deacons outside were trustworthy, the fewer people who knew what came next, the better.
After all, dealing with the Lower Seventh Ring Shantytown, where so many heretics had gathered, was not as simple as activating a single "sleeper agent." The Tribunal needed a more targeted plan.
For example, those two well-known sisters.
And...
Xiwalka, that traitor!
The traitor had to die!
That was the Tribunal's decision!
But sacrificing a sleeper agent for it was out of the question.
Even if the War God's dignity was at stake.
Yet as certain reports arrived, the Tribunal's leadership changed its mind.
The original order to "observe" became an order to "assassinate"!
The Tribunal's abrupt change of orders, coupled with Aituolin's unexpected death, left the knight commander vaguely uneasy.
He kept feeling that something important lay hidden beneath it all.
But he could not grasp it.
So he pulled up every recent incident in Aitandinburg.
Then he listed several key figures.
Koripo, Rudes, Gelsak.
Kuhl Walton, his father, and His Majesty Aetandin VI.
Edson, Simon, Colin.
Three groups. Nine people.
Everything that had happened recently was closely connected to those nine.
Of course, the last name the knight commander had originally written was Eileen Sika, the new lord of Sika Territory. Only after receiving the latest news from the palace had he replaced her with Colin.
Likewise, the Tribunal's target was now this "prince."
A useless wastrel of an heir was entirely different from an heir raised by the Demon Hunters.
The knight commander understood the Tribunal's change of target perfectly.
He, too, had never