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The four chieftains who had spoken as members of the peace faction, along with those aligned with the war faction and even the neutral clans, all stared wide-eyed. The leader of an opposing faction had not only withdrawn her own words but overturned them outright. Several chieftains, unable to process the sudden reversal, wore absurdly twisted expressions.
Was it a joke? No. Hati’s expression was far too serious.
Unable to restrain himself, Bulls, the war faction chieftain of the Taurus, cautiously spoke.
“Lady Hati?”
“Yes?” Hati responded casually, as if she hadn’t just dropped a bomb.
“Had you not always argued for peace with the nomads? Why suddenly reverse yourself?”
The audience in the gallery nodded along, waiting for her answer. With everyone’s eyes upon her, Hati clenched her fists.
“Because Chieftain Totuga is not wrong.”
It was an undeniable truth that the nomads had breached their territory more than once. Had such incursions come from another beastkin tribe, it would already have been washed away in blood.
Only because it was an outside power, only because the desert was too harsh to launch reprisals, had there been restraint. However, the grounds for retaliation—casus belli—were undeniable.
Hati continued, “Chieftain Alice was right—this war will gain us nothing.”
Suppose the twelve tribes marched as one into the desert, slew...
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