"What crime have you committed?"
Upon hearing Colonel Skul's interrogation, Kai Morland was momentarily taken aback, and the assembled freemen were equally perplexed.
What crime had Kai Morland committed?
It was both an obvious and difficult question to answer.
Inside the grand assembly hall, even the least perceptive could see the signs— the "new masters" of the Newly Reclaimed Lands Province were clearly preparing to establish their own faction, even at the cost of opposing both the Red and Blue Roses.
The reason for their elaborate efforts, convening a province-wide meeting of freemen and holding a public trial for their fellow alumni from the "government office" and "military office," was nothing more than to cloak their actions in the guise of legality and forcibly bind all freemen of the Newly Reclaimed Lands Province to their cause.
