"At least Gaormos truly did not betray me."
Nisheriel set down the report in her hand, and Menggeli, standing beside her, offered a cold assessment.
"But in the royal guard, excessive stupidity is also a sin, and a weak will is even less tolerable."
Glando was still reading her copy of the report and could not help narrowing her eyes.
"Jonester's interpretation does clear up a few things. He believes Gaormos's loyalty to Your Majesty is beyond question, but he lacks ambition and is hardly steadfast. He has a fairly clear understanding of his own limitations."
"A man like that would hardly dare to step out of line. Yet his power is quite unusual and requires him to be more active, so he encounters more strange phenomena. Rather than growing stronger under that stimulation, his will has weakened day by day."
Menggeli nodded and picked up where she left off.
"Then he encountered that fellow. During the disturbances in Digo, that fellow devoured some of Gaormos's familiars. Gaormos was terrified at the time and vaguely sensed that he was being targeted. That may not have been the other party's primary objective, but Gaormos's intuition as a supernatural being does carry some weight."
"Yes, that is the magic power Gaormos kept shouting had been stolen from him. But practically no one believed him."
Nisheriel spoke up at that moment.
"Except Mulan."
Menggeli nodded in agreement.
"I have to say, Jonester's powers of perception are exceptionally keen. During the Digo riots, he was still an inspector at the Police Station and took part in the investigation. Although Your Majesty ordered him to stop investigating for his own safety, he clearly continued keeping an eye on things in secret. That was why he could immediately connect those events to what happened today."
Menggeli