Book 17: Chapter 2: Part 2
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“Looks like they’re all ready to go.”
The church forces were performing a final check of their provisions: once it was done, they could depart at any time.
Shin’s party headed to their assigned position, ahead of the group.
There they found Reiner, leader of the church forces, talking to someone. Judging from his attire, Shin guessed he was a scout.
“Did something happen?”
“The information about the high-level monsters has been updated. The 2nd royal guard’s division has defeated the Stoluz, but the presence of previously undetected monsters has been confirmed.”
Reiner used a fairly polite tone of speech with Shin, probably because of his affiliation with Schnee and Shibaid.
Shin had told him there was no need to speak so formally: as Schnee had previously taught him, he might be mistaken for a noble if he spoke or was spoken to very politely, so Shin used a casual kind of speech as well.