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Reinhard:  At the foot of a broad mountain range, located some handful of miles north of the Crystal Palace, several fugitives were looking one another over inside a guardhouse bereft of its usual occupants. Reinhard and Ferris shared a glance while Julius explained his hypothesis on what had really happened in the palace earlier that day.
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Julius:  “What if Master Balleroy faked his own death…? Could he be in league with the conspirators?”
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Julius:  “If the death of one of the Divine Generals was the best way to put things in motion, then the simplest solution would be to enlist one of the Nine as an ally. Backstabbings and ambushes by one’s friends are akin to daily bread among those of the empire. It is unwise to turn your back without proper caution. Striking the spark of rebellion is no small feat, either.”
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Julius:  “So then the best move is to make the general who’s supposed to ‘die’ your ally from the start? But that…”
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Julius:  “It is an eminently plausible tactic. If the crime could be pinned on you all, then so much the better. The rest of the generals would take it upon themselves to wipe you out. All the more so if you happened to kill me somewhere in the process.”
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Julius:  If it turned out that knights from Lugunica had killed both a Divine General and Emperor Vincent, they’d set the entirety of the empire against the apparent criminals. Even now, they teetered on the brink of just such a development. Should their enemies create the right conditions, then the conspirators themselves had no need to do anything more. They could count on the pursuing generals to silence the interlopers. However…
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Julius:  “There were two things they didn’t count on. One was that His Majesty wasn’t killed back at the palace…”
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Julius:  “And the other, that your Sword Saint would be a match even for Cecils.”
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Ferris:  “…You mean to say that Reinhard really threw a wrench in their plans?” Ferris asked.
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Julius:  Julius nodded with no small degree of pride. If Reinhard hadn’t been there, Vincent might very well have lost his head to an assassin. Julius and Ferris would have certainly been destroyed by the pursuing generals, too. It was thanks to Reinhard that those events had not come to pass, and that there was still a ray of hope for peace between the kingdom and the empire.
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Julius:  “We’ve got a lot of the pieces now.