In my room I was meeting with Chancellor Galt to prepare for the coming talk with the three heroes.
Both of us wore hard faces because of a report that one of the heroes, Bern Rolol, was doing something unsavory in the capital.
As if to hint at that, the three heroes had asked for an audience. Galt and I had received the report together from the hidden unit we had set to watch them.
Bringing royal guards was fine. They are heroes. Being careful is better than not.
But bringing extra soldiers into the capital without reporting it to the castle, and slipping them in as if hiding them, was another matter.
Unlike the Ryudo couple, Bern had many unsavory stories. Why he even sat as the Ryudo couple's close friend had been a mystery for years.
No. I do understand.
Bern is smooth-tongued, sly, and deep with schemes. I had also noticed he was aiming at the throne.
But the evidence vanished every time, and all I could do was keep him confined to his territory.
