Chapter 254: The Tin Knight and The Imperial Banquet (4)
In fact, Algind had no intention of making the Tin Knight’s party clash with the Lennart family from the very beginning.
The Lion Duke’s bloodline was a huge group, and besides those directly bearing the Lennart name, there were many associated with them, such as disciples of their dojo or military personnel.
Even within the bloodline, the human relationships were truly complex and diverse, including pro-head of family faction, pro-elder faction, neutral faction, those who were pro-head of family but acted radically, and fools who were pro-elder but just went along with the surrounding atmosphere without knowing what consequences their actions would bring.
No matter how capable Algind was and even with the support of the Empress’ faction, it was impossible to grasp all these detailed elements and convey them to the Tin Knight’s party.
So Algind’s proposal was to just pass the first test, which could be considered preliminaries, smoothly, and start hunting lions from the second test when the number of people would decrease, but…
[The ‘Tin Knight’ says there’s no need to think complicatedly, and that if they just beat up all the blondes with violet eyes, they’ll at least be halfway there!]
[The ‘Tin Knight’ argues that it’s standard practice to work your way up from the bottom in these things!]
…With such assertions from the Tin Knight, her sensible and rational proposal was lightly ignored.
Algind looked at the other companions with a glimmer of hope, but this, too, was in vain.
The scarecrow, far from trying to stop him, even suggested specific tactics, saying it would be good to disguise themselves at first since they’d be found out eventually anyway, but it would be effective at the beginning.
The lion, muttering something that was unclear whether it was considerate or brutal, saying that while indiscriminately killing those not directly involved wouldn’t be okay, beating them up within the scope of the test shouldn’t be a problem.
The witch, who at first seemed to be restraining the other members somewhat, but when the Tin Knight quipped beside her—although Algind didn’t hear his voice directly, she could tell from the atmosphere—she eventually just shouted to let things be as they may.