link Edelgard volume_up
Well, we managed to slog our way to the encampment. Now we just have to finalize our plan.
link Shez volume_up
Why is it so important to hold part of the Airmid riverbank again?
link Shez volume_up
Why is it so important to hold part of the Airmid riverbank again?
link Shez volume_up
I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to cross over into Alliance territory before it's too late?
link Shez volume_up
I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to cross over into Alliance territory before it's too late?
link Hubert volume_up
If we do, we risk the enemy cutting off our retreat. We are here to break their siege, not fall prey to one.
link Edelgard volume_up
If we don't conduct this rescue carefully, we'll be worse off than we started. We must be smart.
link Edelgard volume_up
And that means establishing at least one bridgehead in addition to the Great Bridge of Myrddin.
link Shez volume_up
Yeah, OK. That makes sense.
link Shez volume_up
Yeah, OK. That makes sense.
link Petra volume_up
The minister is a general of much endurance. He will be holding out until we arrive.
link Petra volume_up
He is more than a warrior and a maker of strategies. It would lack wisdom to be making an enemy of him.
link Caspar volume_up
Yep, that's my father! No one can beat him!
link Caspar volume_up
I just hope I can be half the warrior he is one day.
link Linhardt volume_up
I think even one and a half Bergliezes would be more than enough. Not that it's any of my business.
link Ferdinand volume_up
So what are we to do about House Gloucester? They have indicated a willingness to swear fealty, for whatever that pittance of a promise is worth.
link Ferdinand volume_up
That leaves only Phlegethon and Ordelia, and I doubt very much that anyone would take us to task for dismantling them.
link Hubert volume_up
The head of House Ordelia is one of the Five Great Lords. Dismantling them, as you say, would hamper Her Majesty's ability to rule effectively in the future.
link Hubert volume_up
Consider, for example, why we chose not to dismantle House Aegir.
link Ferdinand volume_up
Because I belong to House Aegir and you did not have to!
link Ferdinand volume_up
Ah, of course. You are happy so long as they install successors who are willing to toe the line.
link Hubert volume_up
That is the plan, yes. House Phlegethon, however, must be disposed of.
link Hubert volume_up
Their lord, Acheron, has leveraged his control of the Great Bridge to do whatever he well pleases.
link Hubert volume_up
I have a suspicion the Alliance desires him gone as badly as we do.
link Monica volume_up
Lorenz Gloucester and Lysithea von Ordelia were Her Majesty's schoolmates, yes?
link Monica volume_up
They may be more willing to listen to reason than the others.
link Dorothea volume_up
Sure, but Claude went to the Officers Academy too.
link Dorothea volume_up
And he's taken a firm stance against the Empire. Do you really think this can be handled via diplomacy?
link Hubert volume_up
That will depend on precisely what their demands are.
link Hubert volume_up
But first, we must retake the Great Bridge and extricate Count Bergliez and his troops.
link Hubert volume_up
Let us focus our energies on that for the time being.
link Edelgard volume_up
Agreed. And it would behoove us all not to overlook how devious Claude can be just because we went to the academy together.
link Edelgard volume_up
If he's not willing to come to the table, I won't hesitate to meet him on the battlefield instead.
link Shez volume_up
I won't hold back either.
link Shez volume_up
I won't hold back either.
link Shez volume_up
Sometimes you have to kill old friends in this line of work. That's just how it is.
link Shez volume_up
Sometimes you have to kill old friends in this line of work. That's just how it is.
link Shez volume_up
As a mercenary, I've had to fight friends more than once. It's...never easy.
link Shez volume_up
As a mercenary, I've had to fight friends more than once. It's...never easy.
link Shez volume_up
Of course it's your job, so you do it. But when you close your eyes at night, you can't help but wonder why it had to happen that way.
link Shez volume_up
Of course it's your job, so you do it. But when you close your eyes at night, you can't help but wonder why it had to happen that way.