His words clearly shocked the other two, as they were already in an extremely tense and fired situation, so those words seemed like some kind of death mandate.
The First brother had always kept his neutrality until now, so both the Second and Third were unable to gain an advantage upon their enemy.
But with those words, the neutrality of the First Brother was gone, and now the balance had been tipped off in the favor of the Second brother, who couldn't help but get startled for a moment.
After all, even though he had been calling his Third brother a traitor until now, the truth was that he himself didn't want that to be true.
If his conjecture was true then it meant that the brotherhood the three of them had, wasn't real. He would rather unjustly accuse his brother and seek forgiveness rather than being right.
