The displeased tone of the person in the room made the knight tense up involuntarily. He turned around to look at Brand.
"Tell him, it's because the stable's porter swapped the black beans with regular forage on their own accord," Brand responded simply with a mouth shape. He was well aware that purebred Binod horses are incredibly delicate, their feed is specially made, and the beans in the forage must be the black beans unique to the Sulun Plateau, otherwise issues arise.
The knight quickly parroted this explanation, and this time, the person in the room believed it about eighty percent. In fact, he hadn't really suspected anything from the start—after all, this was Ambeser, and he couldn't imagine anyone daring to cause trouble under the Holy Temple's watchful eyes. He pondered for a moment, then replied, "This is truly troublesome; wait for me outside."
