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Julius:  "Balleroy Temeglyph." One of the Nine Divine Generals, and the highest-ranking military officer to join the rebellion against the emperor. It was he, Julius thought, who had been the poison pill the emperor had slipped into the coup.
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Julius:  ""
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Ferris:  Ferris and Reinhard were left speechless when they heard the name Julius offered.
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Reinhard:  Reinhard was left speechless when they heard the name Julius offered.
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Julius:  They thought about it: the shot that had taken off Vincent’s arm. Why the arm? A man of Balleroy’s skill targeting a defenseless opponent should easily have been able to take off his head. "Ferris, I believe your healing abilities were already part of the emperor’s calculations… But that last gasp of Balleroy’s—that was for real."
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Julius:  The traitorous general had claimed that his motive was revenge against Reinhard. There had been no lie in those last words of his. Julius was convinced Balleroy had set up the situation the way he did in order to kill Reinhard. Perhaps Vincent had even known of this lust for vengeance and used it to bring Balleroy around to the game he himself wished to play. "The emperor of Volakia has firm faith in what he has seen, what he has thought, and the belief that Heaven has chosen him. I reiterate: He is a man of consummate rationality, as well as unflinching opportunistic judgment."
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Miklotov:  Miklotov seemed to be indirectly affirming the conclusion Julius had come to. In truth, it was a verdict that shook him to his core.
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Julius:  Julius was confident of it after his time with the emperor, brief though it was. Vincent Volakia was a peerless strategist and a superlative ruler, whose ability to calculate and scheme was to be feared. It was he who embodied more than anyone else the way of life of the Holy Volakian Empire. "The kingdom itself should be so. Have you young men had this thought?" Miklotov asked quietly.
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Miklotov:  His question was directed at the three royal guards sitting across from the two elders. He wanted to know what they thought of the Volakian Empire, having observed it firsthand.
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Miklotov:  ""
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Julius:  The three responded only with silence. But it was not silence lacking an answer. When Julius glanced to either side of him, at Ferris and Reinhard, he saw no doubt in their eyes. Both of them were already convinced of the answer to that question. There was a core within each of them that would never be shaken. An awareness of their own destinies that they had carried since they were young, an absolute loyalty to the royal line, though extinguished. Unshaking will to follow the person to whom they owed everything, though that person was gone. Did Julius himself, he wondered, have any such thing in his own life?
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Miklotov:  "Mmm. I see, I see. Excellent answers, all." The elder across from them smiled, seeming to take the collective silence of the three young men for a response.
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Bordeaux:  They were taken aback, but Bordeaux shook his head, a knowing look on his face. "You never change, Sir Miklotov."