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“Lady Peneloti, how did you know?” Kim Hyun-Sung asked.
“Pardon?” I asked.
“That Jin Cheong wasn’t the one who brought the undead here,” he clarified.
“…”
“…”
“When I heard from the commander of the guards that he valued honor, I felt like he wasn't the type of person to do something like that. And the Count’s comment that this incident won't end like this also helped me reach that conclusion,” I answered.
“You mean…”
“I felt that the scale was too large for this to be carried out by forces that don’t want an alliance between the Union of Kingdoms and the Empire. What they wanted was the assassination of the figures leading the alliance, not to bring chaos here. Bringing back the dead would actually strengthen the alliance between the Empire and the Union of Kingdoms.
"If something like that happened, even the anti-alliance factions would no longer be able to oppose the alliance. And from the standpoint of the Republic, which receives information from those anti-alliance factions, there’s no reason to raise the dead and unite the two groups,” I explained.
“…”
‘It’s simple. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand?’
“I thought that the Republic’s goal at this point was to assassinate the pro-alliance forces,...
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