A tense atmosphere circled around the Flaud Residence. Rumors that the Flaud family would help—no, use the excuse of helping the Pinne family to fight Steelwall had already spread across the entire estate. Count Flaud purposefully didn’t hide this fact. To make it more difficult for the Steelwall family to gain collaborators, they needed to spread the word that they were helping the Pinne family far and wide.

Although the Flaud family had frequently clashed and warred with the Steelwall family, they rarely gained much from their fights; instead, they were often crushed by the Steelwall’s military might. After all, they had even used their own daughter to try to gain the upper hand on the Steelwalls. Thus, whenever they clashed against the Steelwall family, the Flaud soldiers’ morale plummeted since they lost whenever they fought against the Steelwalls.

However, it was different this time. The Steelwalls were suffering from suspicions that accused them of being Bellid followers. While they had many allies, Steelwalls couldn’t request help from anyone. Rumors that...