"Samantha Ann Speyer. Her parents died eighteen years ago. According to official Brown Kingdom records, she also had a younger brother, John Speyer, who was sent to the Kingdom Education Bureau for training at age six."
"According to our latest intelligence, however, her brother may still be alive, and he may be involved in her defection."
"Your mission is to lead the Special Operations Division in pursuit of her and help the Loran Kingdom's Steel Warband capture or kill her!"
"The latest intelligence places her last known location in the Dark Forest in southeastern Brown. She's moving east and may be trying to reach a port and flee by sea."
"This division may intercept her at sea or stop her before she reaches her destination."
A day later, aboard the rapidly moving warship Pursuer, Anna sat in its lounge.
Before her lay the latest intelligence, including a photograph of Oak Town. It looked as though it had suffered a massive Magic Cannon strike; now, little remained but dust.
Anna recalled Orco issuing the mission orders in his office several days earlier. Her face showed nothing, but doubts filled her mind.
To her, the former vanguard lieutenant general of the Steel Warband's defection raised too many questions.
Most striking of all, Shattered Fist was not even a citizen of the Loran Kingdom. She came from the Brown Kingdom?
A foreigner with no noble blood had become a lieutenant general in the kingdom in just nineteen years.
Granted, it was a rank without real authority, and she was always first to charge into battle.
Even so, that career was a little too extraordinary.
After a moment's hesitation, Anna took Samantha's complete file from her suitcase, opened it, and began reading it word by word.
She soon spotted several points that did not