His rage was not without reason, for aside from Sin Knight, who was new to the Empire's upper echelon, everyone else was well aware that the reason Conda became known as the 'useless prince' was to alleviate William's concerns about the security of his position. If anyone still thought William might send someone to kill Conda under these circumstances, it would be no different from pointing directly at His Majesty's nose and calling him a heartless beast.
Moreover, William was not the kind of ruler who lacked tolerance for others, a fact everyone was acutely aware of. Many who had attempted to overthrow William during the turbulent years of Savon were later re-employed by him without bearing old grudges. In the current era, when the Empire was flourishing and the imperial power was increasingly stable, the idea of killing Conda to eliminate a threat to the throne was nothing but a joke—a terribly bad one at that.
But someone disagreed with Duke Fossai...
