"Well, look at that. They've started fighting. That makes things easier."
On the roof opposite the church, Li Wei held his Cane Gun and watched his target, unable to help marveling.
Of course, Li Wei knew the main purpose of this operation: to force the Holy Lord Church in Fog City to show its hand. The advantage was that if they didn't resist, the authorities could investigate the entire church from top to bottom.
If they resisted, well, even better. Whether there had been a problem or not, there was one now.
But Li Wei couldn't do something like that. Only the queen could, or the old butler. Either way, he couldn't, and he wouldn't.
That was another reason Li Wei hadn't attacked Bishop Raphael directly.
As a cog in the organization, he only needed to do his own job. There was no need to overstep. As the sacred wisdom of civil servants went: do more, make more mistakes; do less, make fewer mistakes; do nothing, make no mistakes.
Attacking a bishop of the Holy Lord Church could certainly be called a demonstration of loyalty. Since Her Majesty wanted to deal with the Holy Lord Church, he could anticipate his superior's concerns and act on her wishes.
But his superior hadn't told him to do it.
Besides, it wasn't his place to decide what his superior wanted. If his superior had to do whatever he thought she should, then who was leading whom?
So Li Wei had decisively chosen to return, report, and leave the decision to the higher-ups.
He was just a scout. He had revealed the map and sent the intelligence. How to fight was the commander-in-chief's responsibility. It wasn't his place to decide when this battle would start or how it would be fought.
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