"Something's not right, how come the city guard and the police are all listening to the Second Prince now? What are the civil officials doing? It's not their place to handle this, it's like the entire city's military and police forces are the Second Prince's private army..."
"I heard, just heard... over in the eastern district, the Second Prince has already started having the Royal Mages arrest people, and they're all those who oppose him!"
"If you ask me... this assassination attempt on the Emperor, it might just be the work of the Second Prince..."
"Hey, you might actually be onto something. This situation really resembles what happened forty years ago, think about how Emperor Charlton ascended to the throne when he was young..."
"Shush! Stop talking about that, do you have a death wish?"
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