"Cohen, the situation has completely spiraled out of control. The fact that these resistance fighters dare to attack and kill us means they see us as mortal enemies. You have seen the look in the enemy soldiers' eyes, perhaps they view us deserters as a cancer to the Kingdom that must be eliminated. If we had entered the mountains and resisted at that time, perhaps the situation would be very different now. The Kingdom was already declining to its extremity, and now it remains incessantly embroiled in internal strife. Our road to restoring the Kingdom, I'm afraid, is no longer passable. I have a premonition that there is a force behind these people orchestrating it all; otherwise, they absolutely wouldn't have the guts to do this! No, the enemy's conspiracy had already begun. Perhaps from the moment we entered the Moxi Duchy, we fell into a grand conspiracy. It is my fault for being careless, alertness should have been triggered when His Majesty drowned!"