Uzumaki Gamu looked at Oka with a cold expression. "My loyal subject... no, Oka. Explain yourself."
Hearing even his form of address change, Oka's heart sank. I'm done for. One moment I was his darling, and now I'm yesterday's news. Isn't that a sign I'm finished?
Oka now understood what had happened. Night Raid's trick had been vicious!
They knew he was in a desperate position and needed to capture their members to save his own life, so they had used... presumably a Teigu capable of making doubles to create two fakes and fool him! And he had stupidly fallen for it, bringing the fakes here to claim credit!
Then the fakes had vanished right in front of the emperor, turning him into a clown trying to claim credit with counterfeits... This was deceiving the sovereign! He could lose his head for this!
Why was I so impulsive? Why did I send someone straight to the palace to report it? If I'd discussed it with the minister first, we'd still have room to maneuver even if they were fakes! Damn it, what's wrong with me? Oka couldn't understand the change in himself. He normally wasn't this rash!
But there was no time to regret that idiotic decision now. He had to provide a reasonable explanation, or the emperor would take his miserable life!
Oka immediately dropped to his knees. "Your Majesty, it wasn't my fault! Night Raid's people were too cunning! Those women deceived me!"
"Enough! I can accept your failure, but not your stupidity!" Uzumaki Gamu waved away Oka's excuses. "As captain of the Imperial Capital's guard, you were fooled by a bunch of petty crooks. Have you no shame?" This was the equivalent of Beijing's police chief getting played by terrorists!
If you could still make mistakes like