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The rodent's audacious bravado washed over him like an inconsequential breeze, failing to ruffle the iron-clad composure that enveloped him. "Oh, my dear adversary," he retorted, his voice an icy whisper that sent shivers down the rodent's spine, "I beg to differ."
"You see, we have meticulously dismantled your entire operation, each of your brethren captured and contained, like chess pieces in our grasp. Nathaniel's influence over Delacare has been severed, his machinations reduced to ash."
"And as for you," Leader Lee's lips curled into a cold, triumphant smile, "we possess an arsenal of damning evidence that will condemn your ilk to a fate behind iron bars, a sentence stretching decades before you glimpse the warmth of the sun again!"
As the weight of Leader Lee's words sank into the rodent leader's consciousness, a macabre reflection of the rodent leader's anguish as he finally comprehended the depths of the peril he had willingly plunged himself into.
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