Chapter 322: An Unstable Wind

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"Frankly speaking, I also found it very troublesome at that time, so many soldiers searched everywhere, even I couldn't leave. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but fortunately, they seemed to have received some orders from behind, so they left, and fortunately this royal city was big enough that I was able to escape. I don't know where they went, I thought they were going to do some kind of machination, but now it looks like they're leaving. I didn't see that kind of thing in the city, probably they had already fled, after all, when we entered the city, we only saw soldiers here, huh? What are we doing here, I originally planned to investigate the military arrangements of the Sith Empire, but I didn't expect that people are not as good as heaven, and they accidentally discovered it........."

Looking at Yulian who was standing there and talking rhetorically, General Shawar had no temper at all, according to Yulian, he took the twin sisters to scout the Sith Empire's war-ready military banner so he sneaked into the city, and wanted to investigate the other party's garrison arrangement, but unexpectedly was unexpectedly discovered, and after being discovered, he and the twin sisters fled separately, Yulian attracted most of the attention and easily helped the twin sisters leave the royal city, and he used the complex terrain of the royal city to deal with the other party, but the Sith Empire did have a lot of manpower, and then the two of them also suffered a small loss in the battle, and when they were circling, The soldiers of the Sith Empire seemed to have received some order and quickly retreated, and after that, Yulian hid for a long time and never saw any trace of the Sith Empire, so he walked out, and at this time there was no one in the entire royal city. As for what happened to the Sith Empire and why he left, Yu Lian naturally didn't know at all, and he said very sincerely that he didn't know anything about it, but for now, the Sith Empire has obviously undergone great changes......... General Shawa naturally didn't believe Yulian's nonsense, but what could he do? Suspect that Yuren was lying? With his identity and strength, where did he get this qualification? Moreover, he couldn't find a reason to refute Yulian's words, after all, the facts are here, 120,000 people, no one alive or dead, no corpse, if you want to say that they were all killed by Youlian, General Shawar doesn't quite believe this judgment. After all, that's 120,000 living lives, even if you kill 120,000 pigs, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

But where did those Sith soldiers go? Yulian was silent, and General Shawa couldn't guess why, so he had no choice but to accept this reality. But fortunately, General Shava's subordinates obviously did not have as many troubles as their commanders, although many of them wondered why they couldn't see the shadow of the enemy in the city, but then it was quickly explained that this was probably because the Sith Empire saw the Knights of the End and was afraid to retreat, which was not without basis, after all, after the appearance of the Knights of the End, the Sith Empire immediately retreated thousands of miles, and even withdrew directly to the royal city. It's also hard not to think about it. Of course, although strictly speaking, these inferences do not stand up to scrutiny, but where do those who are soldiers care about this. In their opinion, it was a good thing for them to win the battle and retake the royal city, and that was enough, but as for the weird things, they didn't need to think about it.

In any case, the rebels finally recaptured the royal city, they lowered the banner of the Sith Empire, and finally raised a banner that was originally invisible to the entire continent - the royal flag of Orrut.

And by noon the next day, almost everyone knew the news.

The rebels have stormed the royal city and seized control.

In the dark, warm room, muffled moans and gasps were slowly echoing, and on the soft large bed under the curtain, two bodies were fiercely intertwined.

Kahlan roared violently, slamming into the snow-white and delicate body beneath him, pulling at the other's long hair with one hand, and venting his anger wantonly, completely ignoring the screams and struggles of the girl beneath him.

It has to be said that Karan is really tragic at this moment, he has always been a marginal character in the Sith Empire, for many reasons, he is a half-elf, his inappropriate private life, and his unknowingly generous show of love to the silver king -- this makes him not only unpopular among the people and the army, but also has a lot of complaints against him in the nobles and royal family. However, Kahlan has never taken these little things to heart, after all, he is one of the gifted knights of the Sith Empire, with his strength, even if others complain, they don't dare to do anything to him. If he didn't dare to do anything to him, then why should he care about the group of things that had no effect on him?

But this life is over.

Since the beginning of the battle with the Knights of the End, Kahlan has found that his fate seems to have fallen into the abyss, and the first time he makes contact with the other party, he is broken by the other party, and finally has to flee in a hurry. And instead of arousing sympathy from others, his experience brought a lot of ridicule, and even the people who were gifted knights did not have any good feelings for him, Sidwig almost blatantly mocked himself as an idiot, and Nahias, although not so extreme, but he also privately expressed his hope that Kahlan would calm down and not be so impulsive. Only Lintillot had visited him and wanted him to recover well, but this was not a good inclination for Kahlan either, not because Lintilott's kindness displeased him, but simply because he knew very well that Her Royal Highness was like this to everyone...... This made him even more dissatisfied.

And he didn't have time to express this displeasure, because he was defeated again.

by the same person.

Since his debut, Kahlan has never been so aggrieved, he has never imagined that he would suffer such a fiasco, he has always thought that his ability is very outstanding, if it is about charging, then no one is his opponent, even if it is a battle of the same level, he is not afraid of anyone.

But the appearance of Judy completely changed this fact.

In all fairness, Judy's abilities can be seen with the eyes, which is typical elemental control, but the difference is that the element she controls is fire, and what about Karan......? When these two elements meet, it's hard to say.

On the one hand, the wind fuels the fire, and the fire will be more vigorous. But on the other hand, if the wind is strong enough, it is not difficult to blow out the flames.

That being said, it's a different story entirely.

The two are both gifted knights, but Judy and Karan are in a completely different era, as born in an era of talented knights, Judy's combat skills have reached a very high level, after all, at that time it was not like now, talented knights can be counted with two palms, there were more talented knights at that time, and varied, not to mention what kind of flames, storms, and even powerful existences that can directly carry out the space and warp time of their subordinates to teleport instantly, there are many strong people among the talented knights at that time, and Judy is a gifted knight who has a relatively low elemental rule, but can fight a firm foothold in this group of strong people, and its strength is naturally not to be underestimated.

But what about Kalan? He was born in an era of relative lack of opponents, which greatly limited his strength, and he had no experience in fighting people stronger than himself, because after his talent was discovered, the Sith Empire co-opted him. And also in the Sith Empire, the other three talented knights have their own things, and since they are colleagues, it is naturally impossible to fight to the death with real swords and guns, so Kahlan's level has not improved.

But now, Kahlan has finally kicked the iron plate.

He has lost to Judy twice in a row, both of them are elemental abilities, and they just restrain each other, and then it depends on who has better control and mastery of abilities, and in this regard, Judy obviously threw Kahlan a few streets.

Of course, Kahlan is not convinced, he also knows what the problem is, but helplessly, he has no way to solve this problem, he also feels that his ability has reached a bottleneck, but there is no way to break through. Kahlan didn't know why, he had also tried hard to master his strength, but after many trainings, Kahlan was disappointed to find that he didn't seem to have any special growth, which made Karan quite disappointed.

In fact, Kahlan is not alone now, in the past he was always ridiculed as the only one of the four gifted knights to be defeated, but when Sidwi and Nahias were also defeated and injured, no one mentioned this sentence. After all, although Kahlan has a bad reputation, Sidwig and Nahias are not.

But unlike Kahlan, these two people did not become depressed, and Lintillot could feel that after Sidwig was defeated by Yuren before, the whole person became much calmer than before, and she no longer got angry at every turn like before, and it seemed that she was not holding back her anger, but really understood and experienced something. As for Nahias, not to mention, as the oldest gifted knight, there is nothing to say about stable psychological quality, even if he is defeated, he will not be so depressed, after all, he is still alive, not dead, and the strength of the enemy is indeed strong, which is enough.

Because of this, Lintillot did not despise these two people, but for Kahan, she had begun to use him very little, because the Silver King had already seen Karan's impatience, and he did not have the same remorse and change as Sidwig, so she was unwilling to risk letting him fight, which is why this time the Sith Empire retreated, Lintillot pressed Sidwig in the border area, and did not give any orders to Karan.

"Damn!!Damn!!"

Kahran's movements were getting faster and faster, and he was getting more and more intense, staring at the woman in front of him, as if he remembered the damn woman who had dressed himself again, if not the woman, if not the damn slut!!

"Smack!"

The mask on Kahan's face also fell off at this moment, revealing the other half of his face that was burned by the flames, which was unbearable to see, and the woman's eyes widened in surprise at the sight of this face, and then let out an exclamation!

"Yikes.........!"

Before she could finish her shout, she was immediately stopped. Kahlan suddenly reached out and grabbed the woman's neck tightly.

Because in this woman's eyes, Kahlan saw the light he didn't like the most and didn't want to see, it was a memory that he couldn't erase since he was a child!!This kind of gaze has been there since Kahlan was a child, at that time, no one liked him, he was a half-elf, a half-blood mongrel, a character who shouldn't appear, and he appeared here. It's not human, it's not an elf, it's not accepted by humans, it's not protected by it. He was nothing, not even his mother, who looked at his child with resentment, and every time this happened, Kahlan felt extremely angry. Obviously, it was she, the woman who was called her mother who was stupid enough to be tricked into bed by an elven poet, and then gave birth to herself. Why does she still think she is a victim now? What kind of victim is she?! What right does she have to hate me so much.! you don't want me, why do you want to have sex with an elf! Women are not all like this in the end, as long as they are handsome and dashing men, they don't care who they are! They don't care about love, as long as they can get into bed comfortably, aren't they? Since they are such creatures, what kind of victims are they now? I actually looked at myself with this kind of aggrieved and resentful gaze, what did I do wrong? What did I do wrong? No, I didn't do anything wrong, it was you people who were wrong, it was you lowly bitches who were wrong, not me! Isn't this a woman? You always avoid me for fear that I will infect me with some disease, but what about when I become a gifted knight and become a noble? Those women who used to hide from me from far away did not take the initiative to come to the door one by one and shake their butts in my bed! Make no mistake, you yourself came to me like a bunch of bitches in heat to mate, but I didn't come to you! What kind of playing with feelings, even those inferior sluts who survive by instinct, are also worthy of me to play with their feelings? Who do they think they are!!

"Don't scream, slut!!You bitch, shut up!!Shut up!!!"

He shouted angrily, pinching the woman's slender neck with all his might, while his body was still moving.

"It's all you, you women, you bitches, born to be only ridden by men!!What qualifications do you have to look at me like this!!Say!!You bitch, you are not allowed to scream!You are not allowed to shout!You are not allowed to look!!Shut up!!!Shut up!!!

The woman's movements also suddenly became intense, she struggled hard, opened her mouth to shout, for help, but Karan choked her neck and didn't give her any chance. Finally, the woman couldn't stand it anymore, she stretched out her arms indiscriminately, waving them vigorously in the sky, her slender legs began to kick, and her slender and slender waist began to twist desperately. The bright eyes widened, and the pink tongue stuck out of its mouth, painfully trying to suck even a little bit of air.

However, in the end, she was not able to get it.

The woman's body writhed violently and frantically again, and she shook violently, as if for a moment it really wanted to shake Kahlan off -- but in the blink of an eye, her body fell back to the bed like a puppet with a broken string, and there was no more breath. At this moment, Kahlan finally let out a roar, and then gritted his teeth vigorously, venting all his anger into the dead body in front of him.

After satisfying his desires, Kahlan came to his senses, and he stood up coldly, and looked at the body of the girl lying on his bed, with her eyes wide open, her tongue sticking out, her face twisted and painful -- between her legs, even the foul-smelling liquid leaking from incontinence.

"Trash!"

Kahlan snorted, then grabbed the woman by the neck and threw the body on the ground.

Ugly, ugly, that's what women are, no, these women are like that. They are not worthy of their feelings for them at all, only one woman, only one woman is qualified for this.

Thinking of this, Kahlan couldn't help but be distracted, and he thought of the woman who shone in his life like a white light.

Lynn Tillott.

Only she is so perfect, so gentle, and he also believes that only she can accept herself completely, he will get her love, and he will love her. He was convinced of this, only Her Royal Highness would not behave like these bitches, nor would she be as lewd and shameless as them, she was a real woman, a gentle, considerate, and tolerant woman. And he knows very well that only this woman is worthy of being with him, and only this perfect woman is the treasure he should have the most.

Just as Kahlan was in a daze and remembering the person in his mind, a knock on the door suddenly interrupted his memories. This made Kahlan frown very unpleasantly, but he still glared coldly, and then spoke.

"What's the matter, come in. ”

Hearing Karan's order, his adjutant immediately bowed his head and walked in, and the first thing he saw was the corpse lying in front of him, with a distorted face, which startled the adjutant, and he hurriedly turned his head away, unable to bear to look at it again. In fact, it wasn't the first time he'd seen such a scene, and Kahlan had been doing such things lately. If he used to only play with women, now it is clear that this half-elf has risen to an incomprehensible level.

"Say!

Karan was obviously in a very bad mood, and the adjutant naturally knew this, so he didn't hesitate and quickly replied respectfully.

"That's right, General, just now there was news from Her Royal Highness asking you to go to the ...... meeting."

"Deliberations?"

Hearing this, Kahlan's face distorted, he grabbed the robe beside him and draped it over his body, and then nodded coldly.

"Okay, I'll go, by the way, clean up this pile of garbage for me, it's an eyesore when you see it. ”

β€œ...... Yes, Shogun. ”

By the time Kahlan had changed his clothes and arrived at his destination, the other three gifted generals had already arrived.

Nahias's face was as usual, and although he had lost an arm, and frankly he had not been able to recover until now, he insisted on attending the military meeting. And Sidwig followed behind Lintillot as always, as always as her "little heel", and on the surface it didn't seem to change much.

Only Lintilott's unusual face was a little unsightly, in fact, as the head of the four generals of Damnation and the royal daughter of the Sith Empire, Lintillot certainly had many ways to control the actions of her subordinates. Karan's current actions have gone too far, and have already caused a very bad influence among the people of the Sith. Although he was still a playboy at the beginning, Lintillot didn't warn too much, because in the eyes of the Silver King, love is the result of the love between the two of them, so she has no way to interfere in this kind of private matter. What's more, she also has to respect her identity, if she entangles with Kahlan for this kind of thing, I wonder if this half-elf will think that she is jealous or something...... When the time comes, the more dark it gets, in order to protect Mingzhe, he simply went with him.

But now it's different, although Kahlan was playing before, at least it didn't cause a particularly bad impact, but now it's all playing with people's lives, and it's not once or twice, which makes Lintillot quite angry. In fact, she did want to remove Kahlan from this position completely, because what he did was not only criticized inside and outside the military department, but even the people were a little angry by now It was quite excessive, even if he was a gifted knight, for the sake of domestic stability, Lintillot should also be replaced.

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. You must know that now that the Knights of the End of Yan are pressing, their strength is already much stronger than that of the Sith Empire, and now if you expel Kalan, you will undoubtedly cut off your arm, although Kahlan is very weak, but at least he is also a talented knight, and his level is more than one level higher than that of other officers, this kind of person is not used now, then he will not have a chance to use it in the future.

However, Calan is not called now to warn him about problems in his private life.

"Now, everybody's here. ”

Seeing Kahlan arrive, Lintillot nodded as a greeting, and then quickly got to the point, she looked at the three people in front of her with a serious face, and then spoke.

"I think some of you know, and some of you may not know, that just last night, the rebels and the Knights of the Last Rite had taken over the royal city. ”

The expressions of the three talented knights did not change at all, which is not surprising, after all, this is not the point, they did not appear, the other party has the Knights of the End, and it is only a matter of minutes if they want to occupy the royal city. Didn't they do the same before?

"But there's one thing we need to be aware of. ”

Lintillot frowned, and continued.

"In fact, on the day the Knights of the Last Knights arrived, I gave an order to General Wood, hoping that he would lead the legion to break through and join us in the City of Night, but ............"

At this, Lintillot paused.

"However, there is no way to do this now, and there is another very strange thing, according to the intelligence, the rebels did not fight with our army in the city, they only entered the city after fighting the 10,000 troops stationed outside the city, and then occupied the city, and the 110,000 soldiers who were supposed to be stationed in the royal city according to my orders are all missing!!"

Saying this, Lintillot slapped her palm on the table, and the news made the other three all look surprised.

"Sister, did they retreat ahead of time, and it's not strange that those cowards are afraid of the Knights of the End after we've lost........."

"It's not a retreat, I've got information from the eyeline, and after repeated confirmation, not a single soldier from the Sith Empire appeared in the surrounding towns, a full 110,000 people, completely disappeared into the royal city, and according to the information from within the rebels, those soldiers didn't see a single figure in the city, not even the residents who were supposed to live there. ”

"It's weird. ”

Nahias frowned.

"Although many people fled the royal city due to the war, there are still many residents living in it. And if our army does withdraw, then the citizens who originally belonged to Orrut should not disappear, shouldn't they welcome the arrival of the rebels? ”

"I don't know, but according to the intelligence, the soldiers didn't see anyone when they entered the city, and even after that, they searched the whole city and found nothing out of the ordinaryβ€”perhaps the most unusual thing was that there was no one there. ”

Lintillot also shook her head helplessly, in fact, she didn't believe it when she received this information at the beginning, if the Knights of the Final Yan defeated those soldiers with absolute force, then it was a matter of course, but what kind of trick is this inexplicable disappearance?

"Could it be that the two archmages unleashed their magic? We all know that King West did this when he led his army to attack the Twilight Forest............"

"There are no fluctuations in magic, and according to the information I have received, the sisters did not leave the rebel camp that night, and since the royal city is not the source location, if you want to unleash magic there that can make 120,000 people disappear, it will definitely cause irreparable damage and destruction to this area, but so far, I have not received any reports of the depletion of Mana in the surrounding area. ”

Although she said so, Lintillot also had an idea in her heart, although she didn't know the reason for the resonance of her long sword, but there was only one person who could resonate with this long sword. She was sure that it was Yulian who infiltrated the royal city that day, but even her grandfather should not have the ability to kill 110,000 garrisons. Even if he had the ability, shouldn't the corpses be kept? how could he not even be able to see the corpses?

"So, what are we going to do next?

The advantage of Sidwig is that she doesn't think about it anymore if she can't figure it out, and the original plan was for her to lead her army and Kahlan to join General Wood, who had retired from the royal city, and then rely on the natural position of the Night City to defend after replenishing the numbers. But now, the 120,000 troops are gone, and these are all soldiers of the Sith Empire, not their local conscripted soldiers, which is definitely a big loss for the Sith Empire. So what to do now is really a difficult question.

The reason why Lintillot made the decision to stabilize the rear defense was to replenish the number of people back to the border line of the Sith Empire to stabilize the rear, and now to withdraw from the rear is simply putting the cart before the horse. However, in the case of the front-line army, although the number is not a problem, it is very problematic in terms of time -- no one knows when the Knights of the End will attack the Night Capital, and if General Wood can withdraw before, then time is still guaranteed, and now without these 120,000 reinforcements, it will take time to deploy from the front, and it is not known what will become by then.

As for the abandonment of the Night Capital, it is certainly not in Lintilott's plan, you must know that the Night City is a city with a source, and if the Night Capital is recaptured by the Rebels and the Knights of the End, then the Sith Empire is no different from being beaten out of Orrut - so they must keep the City of Night and fight the Knights of the End.

So what exactly should be done now?

Lintillot actually didn't have a very good way, she didn't have any ideas, and she didn't have a good decision, after all, this time was too unexpected, if Yulian's victory before was barely within the acceptable range, then this time it couldn't be within this range anyway, who knows how he turned the more than 100,000 troops into nothing?

I think so, but there is still a lot to do.

"I don't know. ”

Lintillot sighed helplessly and admitted her failure, she really didn't know how to do it, the current situation was too much of a dilemma, so she couldn't come up with any good ideas.

"If we have a way to delay the pace of the other party now, then there may be a turnaround, but the problem is that I can't do anything now, the solid defense of the Night City must not be less, we can only increase the troops but not withdraw the troops, Sidwig, I hope you can suppress the entire corps, but I am afraid that before you can press, the Final Knights will launch a surprise attack on the Night Capital, so that we will become very passive........."

Speaking of this, Lintillot was also extremely distressed, and at this moment, suddenly a voice sounded.

"Your Royal Highness, I think I might have a way to help you with this?"

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Lintillot raised her head in surprise and looked at the half-masked man in front of her, and for his words, Nahias was silent, and Sidwi raised her eyebrows, obviously, although the two of them did not express their opinions obviously, but from these two actions, it can also be seen that they each have their own opinions and attitudes towards this.

"Do you have any good ideas? General Karan. ”

"Of course. ”

Hearing Lintilott's inquiry, Kahlan nodded proudly, and then he smiled grimly.

"We still have a lot of strategic space from the Intracity to the Night Capital, so my idea is to completely disrupt the area so that the damn ones don't have time to worry about the Night City. It is not difficult for me that I can lead my special forces to launch an attack on the perimeter and rear areas of the royal city and cause enough panic. And in this way, those damn guys don't have the energy to care about the Night City, since they are rebelling against us and saving their own people, then their people will definitely not stand idly by when they encounter such a danger. ”

"This ...... It's a way to do it, but ............"

Hearing Karan's suggestion, Lintillot fell silent, and at this moment, Sidwig snorted coldly.

"It's very light, do you think you can handle the regimental commander and those two imps? Don't forget, you lost badly before. ”

"Of course I do, Miss Sidway. ”

Although Sidwig ruthlessly uncovered the scar, Karan's smile was still gentle, and there was no change at all.

"But at that time, we took the initiative, and the other side waited for work, so naturally we couldn't win. But this time, we didn't go for victory, as soon as they appeared, I just ran away, although in a head-on confrontation, I may not have much ability, but in the escape, I still have a lot of confidence that I will not be caught. And as long as I don't get caught, the Knights of the Final Yan and the rebels will inevitably pay attention to me first in order to stabilize the rear, and during this time, Her Royal Highness can seize the time to carry out the defense of the Night Capital, isn't it great?"

"This ...... That's true. ”

Hearing Karan's answer, Lintillot nodded slightly, but she didn't agree immediately, after all, she knew very well what Karan's so-called desire to spread panic among those people meant, this was a method that Lintillot had never used, and she didn't want to use it if she could, but now, is there a better way than this?

Without.

After thinking about it, Lintillot had to admit that this might be the best way at the moment, as long as Kahlan was not caught, then the rebels and the Knights of the End would not be able to ignore him, in fact, if she could, she actually hoped that Kahlan could go to the rear of the Knights of the End, the Twilight Forest to wreak havoc, because in this way, the Knights of the End would be very likely to withdraw as a whole, and at that time, if the Sith Empire attacked decisively and completely eliminated this rebel army, then the next actions of the Knights of the End would have no foundation, and they would be able to return to a city。 But now it was clear that this was impossible, because the Red Fortress on the border between the two countries was defended by Judy, and Karan had failed twice in front of her, and this time, Lintillot did not think that Kahlan would succeed.

On the other hand, it would have been much better to let Karan go out and harm Orrut than to harm the Sith's own people, and if it had been before, Lintillot might have feared that doing so might provoke the resentment of the inhabitants of Orrut and make the integration less smooth. But now she didn't worry about this problem, because now that the Knights of the Last Majesty were there, she couldn't completely occupy the entire territory of the Orlut Kingdom like last year, and since this was already a matter of foregoing, then their likes and dislikes were not in the scope of consideration for Lintilot.

"Okay. ”

Thinking of this, Lintillot finally nodded and agreed to Karan's request.

"I agree with you, General Karan, that you can prepare to go right now. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

"Sidwig. ”

With that, Lintillot looked at the girl behind her again.

"I want you to gather all your troops and march towards the City of Night in the shortest possible time, and set up a defensive line, and General Nahias will accompany you...... General Nahias, what do you think?"

Finally, Lintillot turned to the old general on her other side, although emotionally speaking, Lintillot did not want Nahias to play, but she had no choice but to make such a decision. Fortunately, Nahias himself is full of fighting spirit, in fact, he took the initiative to participate in the meeting, and Lintillot did not want him to participate at first, but for the old general, it does not seem to be a difficult situation.

"I'm not able to fight straight up yet. ”

In response to Lintilott's concerned questioning, Nahias let out a long laugh, then reached out and touched his short arm, and then spoke. Although his body has not completely improved, but in the body of this old general, the shadow of defeat can no longer be seen at all, although he was injured and lost an arm, but now the old man standing here, his waist is still straight, without the slightest bending, as always, bearing the burden of the empire.

"But I believe that as long as I develop my abilities, I can still cause a little trouble for the Knights of the End. Please rest assured, Your Highness the Princess, I will definitely live up to your expectations, although the Knights of the Last Yan are powerful, but our Sith Empire is definitely not those who let him be humiliated, this time, I will definitely let the Knights of the Last Yan know this. ”

"Okay, then I'll trouble you, General Nahias, and I'll be there later......... We must not lose this battle. ”

In the end, Lintillot made a decision with a serious face.

(To be continued)