1. Hmm...
  2. What's wrong, Leonie? Bad day of hunting [cdb]got you down?
  3. Come on, Claude. You and I both know bad days [cdb]don't happen to me.
  4. I was just thinking about the situation Leicester [cdb]finds itself in right now.
  5. That's an unusual topic coming from you. Go on.
  6. You know how both Riegan and Gloucester [cdb]territories have been the site of some pretty [cdb]serious battles during this war?
  7. Well, I had the chance to talk to some people who [cdb]live there, and it turns out their crops for the year [cdb]are suffering because of it.
  8. Some villages even had their fields completely [cdb]trampled in the struggle. Which, yeah. If that doesn't [cdb]delay your fieldwork, I don't know what will.
  9. Turns out that a lot of them are blaming the leader [cdb]of the Alliance for what happened, though.
  10. Turns out a lot of them are blaming the king of the Federation for what happened though.
  11. No surprise there. It was my decision to go to war [cdb]with the Empire, after all.
  12. Were it up to me, Leicester would never see the [cdb]flames of battle on its lands again...but things don't [cdb]always work in absolutes.
  13. Now that you mention it, how's Sauin doing? The area managed to stay pretty safe, right?
  14. Thankfully, yeah.
  15. Good. I know you'd be worried to death if [cdb]something happened to your home.
  16. Hey, Claude?
  17. If I'm being honest, I don't really care much about [cdb]this war. Or what kind of relationships the different [cdb]regions end up having with each other.
  18. But I can get behind the future you're fighting for.
  19. It's a good one, I can feel it in my gut. Though, [cdb]that's kinda all I have to go on since I didn't get [cdb]the education some of the others did.
  20. I appreciate that, Leonie. And I get that you don't [cdb]really "care" about a lot of this stuff.
  21. The one thing that matters most in the life of [cdb]a commoner is what tomorrow's harvest is going to [cdb]look like. I know that.
  22. But those people will get caught in the web I'm [cdb]spinning for the future all the same. They won't [cdb]have a choice but to fight.
  23. But...
  24. I know. If we don't fight, more and more innocent [cdb]people will get struck down as collateral.
  25. Even so...there'll be sacrifices no matter how much [cdb]or how little we struggle. And most of those will end [cdb]up being commoners.
  26. ...
  27. I hope you stay on my side all the same, Leonie.
  28. And not just for your raw strength as a mercenary. I could use your perspective, too.
  29. My perspective?
  30. Think about it. You met the farmers in our land [cdb]eye to eye, and found out they were upset with me.
  31. I could never do that. Not in the position I'm in now.
  32. I guess you're right.
  33. That's why these kinds of things don't get addressed. They never even reach my ears.
  34. So I want you to help amplify their voices. Help me hear what the people have to say.
  35. As the ruler of Leicester, this is my number one [cdb]priority. It's even more important to me than [cdb]winning the war.
  36. And I'm more than glad to help you accomplish it.
  37. You know, you're really not like your run-of-the-mill [cdb]noble. With a guy like you leading the Alliance...
  38. You know, you're really not like your run-of-the-mill [cdb]noble. With a guy like you leading the Federation...
  39. Leicester will be a better place. I just know it.