The next morning.
"Did they manage to evacuate successfully?"
After seeing in the Imperial Real-Time Report that several houses in Ereno had been looted overnight and emptied, while their original owners had mysteriously disappeared,
by comparing the intelligence Mark had provided after defecting regarding the Allied Forces' various contact stations in Ereno, John immediately understood that the Special Operations Division, along with the exposed Allied Forces agents, had officially withdrawn from Ereno.
They might even have already reached a nearby ferry crossing through some channel, preparing to secretly cross back to Victoria.
And that was precisely what John wanted to see.
Because only then could he follow his previous plan and use the testimony of Mark and the others to slander the currently captured Meyer as an agent the Empire had planted within the Allied Forces.
Once this accusation was accepted, with nine witnesses testifying in front of her and an Imperial lieutenant general personally making the matter public, even if Meyer truly was an innocent Allied Forces soldier, the Allied Forces would regard the truth as nothing more than a deception and completely resolve themselves to kill her.
That way, no matter how aggrieved Meyer, the Beastfolk grand sage, felt, once things reached this point, she would have no choice but to obediently serve the Empire.
"Although, after framing her so despicably, someone with Foxfolk girl's personality will definitely hate me to death, but as long as I can keep her, a grand sage, in the Empire instead of returning her to the Allied Forces, I'll have the leverage—and even the qualifications—to reclaim the Saga Kingdom."
After all, compared to the Beastfolk Emperor, the Beastfolk were more inclined to follow the Beastfolk sages.
Therefore, even if they had to oppose the current Beastfolk Emperor, nearly two-thirds of the Beastfolk