There was no particular reason. Lorenzo Kingdom had recently defeated Asgar Kingdom and taken vast tracts of land and a hefty indemnity.
At a time like this, the people of Asgar Kingdom did not care who had started the war. They remembered only that hundreds of thousands of their own had died, several provinces had been lost, and they still had a huge indemnity to pay.
The government had even raised taxes, using the opportunity to squeeze its own people. Public opinion, however, laid the blame for that at Lorenzo Kingdom's door.
So when an assassination this bloody and vicious took place, the people of Asgar Kingdom thought of Lorenzo Kingdom first.
Logically, Lorenzo Kingdom had no motive to do such a thing. But when it came to a hated enemy, logic did not matter.
The Lorenzo were no good anyway. If something bad happened, they must have done it.
That was public opinion, of course. Asgar Kingdom's government, by rights, could not openly take that position.
Yet this time it did exactly that. Its Foreign Ministry sent Lorenzo Kingdom a formal protest over the incident!
Queen Cyrabelle was baffled when the protest arrived. She had no idea what had happened.
Asgar Kingdom's Foreign Ministry had acted so quickly that Lorenzo Kingdom's intelligence officers had not even submitted their investigation report. The diplomatic protest had arrived first.
Frowning, Cyrabelle summoned Kebayifu from the Anomalies Bureau and finally learned what had happened.
"Investigate this. Something is strange on Asgar Kingdom's side. There may be a plot behind it. Even if it isn't aimed at us, we cannot afford to be kept in the dark," Cyrabelle ordered gravely.
"Yes, Your Majesty! I'll have our people in Asgar investigate at once." Kebayifu snapped to attention. Since Cyrabelle had won him over, his admiration