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After the funeral, the duchess conversed with her relatives. We were afraid that Riana might catch a cold, so we brought her to the annex so that she could bathe and warm up.
We didn’t say anything. We didn’t know what to say. It wasn’t the right time or place to discuss the motives behind the Demon King’s actions.
Since I knew the truth, I felt a heavy burden.
The Revolutionary Forces hadn’t been eradicated. They had fallen into Owen’s hands, and he was an imperial double agent. I was witnessing the absurdity of the Revolutionary Forces becoming a puppet for the empire.
A force whose aim was the overthrow of the imperial regime was now under its control. It was an unbelievable situation. Despite the mess it left, I had to agree that Vertus had planned this exceptionally well.
If the Revolutionary Forces had been mishandled at the wrong time, the worst case scenario could have been chaos throughout the entire empire as the Revolutionary Forces ran rampant in retaliation for the elimination of their leaders.
Vertus had not only disguised the massacre of the revolutionary leaders as a demon attack, but also arranged for Owen to become the next leader of the Revolutionary Forces in anticipation of the chaos that would follow.
Owen would report internally to the Revolutionary Forces that the incident had arisen due to a problem at the negotiation table with the demons, which would quell any internal unrest. In the long term, he would gradually weaken the Revolutionary Forces, either by dissolving them, or creating internal strife to dismantle them. He could handle things to his liking. It was a perfect exploitation.
There did not seem to be any better way to dismantle the...
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