Chapter 265: The Tin Knight and The Banquet of Madness (5)
“Damn it, how, how could things get so tangled up!?”
“That’s why I said we should move to another place first! At this rate, we can’t even escape and we’ll all be cornered and killed!!”
“That’s right! If we had moved to the Duke’s territory or Nemea Castle before raising the army, it would have been fine!”
“Stop talking nonsense, you idiots! If we had shown such obvious movements, that cunning Empress wouldn’t have stayed still! This was the best way to catch them off guard! You all agreed, and now you’re blaming others!?”
The Council of Elders was cornered.
The attempt to subdue the Imperial Family had failed, and reports coming from all directions were uniformly bleak.
No, even those “bleak reports” stopped coming in altogether at some point.
There was a saying that no news was good news, but applying that adage to this situation was overly optimistic.
Watching the Council of Elders shouting at each other and arguing over who was to blame, the head of the Council wore a sardonic smile.
In their appearance, spitting saliva with bloodshot eyes, not a trace of the dignity of the Empire’s most prestigious family could be felt.
In the end, things like grace and nobility stem from composure, and it was unreasonable to expect such aspects from those driven to the utmost corner.
It was a theory that lacked some credibility given that the Duke they had confined didn’t show an unsightly appearance until the end, but the head of the Council completed his self-rationalization by neatly ignoring that part.