As intelligence swirled like snowflakes, Charles also learned the reason behind the Duchess Mesu's rebellion.
— For the legendary warship!
The vampires of Byron had played a very dirty trick.
They had promised the Duchess Mesu a legendary warship.
No, not Byron's Bismarck!
It was the vessel of His Majesty Julius Axler of the Fars Empire—Fontainebleau!
The process of the Duchess Mesu's betrayal had actually been quite prolonged, and it was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.
The Empire's military had always been divided into the Royal Knights Order, the nobles' private knighthoods, and local forces. Any country on the Old Continent recognized the private armies of nobles as legitimate. The Northern Fleet had always been a private fleet; although it obeyed the Fars Royal Family's orders and fought for the Empire, it did not belong to the royal family or the nation; it belonged only to the Mesu Family.
