Milton shared the information he had gotten from Kerber with Princess Leila.

“So you’re telling me that… Strabus Kingdom sent a large number of troops only to capture one man?”

Princess Leila couldn’t believe this. But Duke Palan, who had been next to Princess Leila, spoke up with a serious expression. 

“This may all be true, Your Highness.”

“Now that I think about it, didn’t you say you confronted this man, Siegfried, yourself, Duke Palan?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Duke Palan took a moment to reorganize his thoughts before continuing.

“After confronting him, Your Highness, I felt that Siegfried wasn’t a normal commander.”

“In what way wasn’t he normal?”

“Your Highness, your orders for that battle was for me to stop the enemy’s invasion.”

“That’s right. And didn’t you faithfully carry out that order, Duke Palan?”

“… To be honest, I was a bit greedy, Your Highness.”

“You were greedy?”

“Yes, Your Highness. When the enemy was right in front of my eyes, I couldn’t help but want to soundly defeat them.”

Duke Palan thought that if he could overwhelmingly defeat the invaders in the battle, he would continue to move north and drive out the Republican army from Lester Kingdom’s Northern region. But, he wasn’t able to do so because...