[Current location: City of Iron Wood - Lord mansion]
"What do you mean the Royal faction is already fighting back!?" – shouted Duke Ash.
"What is the meaning of this Margrave Wondan?!"
"I don't know sir." – said the beast-human nobleman.
"The messengers started flooding in, all saying the exact same thing."
"The locations that we had taken over were attacks by the Royal faction's armies."
"We confirmed that these were indeed our agents and we also noticed the weird activities within the Royal faction forces."
"There is no mistaking it."
"But how!?" – said Duke Ash.
"The delay was way too short!"
"They shouldn't had been able to react so quickly with all the chaos that is going on around!"
"Did somebody betrayed us?! Did somebody leaked informations to the Royal faction?!"
"…"
"No… Nobody did."
"If they had, then we wouldn't had succeed in attacking half of the locations that they were defending."
"If they really knew, then they would have avoided loses."
