The Martial Unity

The time had arrived.

Rui had spent the remaining quarter of the day in contemplation of what Fushin Hunfer and his lackeys were hiding, but eventually, he stopped. He had already inferred a lot of information through deductive and inductive reasoning, but there was a limit to how much he could learn through that route. The more he tried to deduce further, the less reliable and baseless his conjectures would become. It was ultimately a wasteful mental exercise. He could not conjure up new information out of thin air.

('I need to be careful though.') Rui sighed.

He had already concluded that whatever they were hiding was not malicious against him, it was at most convenient exploitation that would aid in their goal. Rui was quite certain that their conviction to reclaim their hometown that had been colonized by the Britannian Empire was very real. He could feel it in most of them to a strong degree, and it made sense.

These were all former soldiers that defended their fort and hometown, they all had some family or the other that was currently being ruled by the Britannian Battalion and exploited to provide value to the Britannian Empire.

One reason he wasn't too alarmed and paranoid was that he had relatively high assurance regarding the magnitude of the matter. For example, it certainly couldn't be something that would definitively get Rui killed or defeated but would spare them all, that was inconceivable even if Rui entertained wild possibilities.

Anything that was guaranteed to kill Rui would absolutely be guaranteed to annihilate all of them, it would be foolish to put him and themselves in that situation. Perhaps if it were done by the average person, Rui wouldn't put it past then, but Fushin Hunfer was too shrewd to do something that foolish. At most this was a calculated risk.

"Besides, this might actually turn out to be good, ironically," Rui chuckled. There were certain possibilities that he had come up with that was actually favorable to him. He wouldn't mind those possibilities coming true.

He whiled away his time considering these thoughts, even while he was in his room, having dinner; food pills. Hours passed until the time was nigh.

"Squire Falken." A person called out to him from the outside. "It's soon time. Please be on standby."

do," Rui replied

as he made his way to the core of the main camp. He could feel the air growing tenser the closer he

was taut as everybody

way to

we will dispatch in about half an hour once the very final step is undertaken. You recall your position and all the details of the plan, correct?" The old man asked with a respectful

Rui shortly

stationed at the vanguard of the army as they approached the

another idea." Rui

at him nervously, last-minute changes were rarely

out. It gives me an eagle-eyed view of the entire fort and allows me to know exactly when it is brought out. I could even relay information to you

agreed with that course

that is what you want, then that works too." He

If he objected hard to the plan even though the end result of the plan would be the same, then Rui could be certain that whatever he was hiding had something to do with the position he had

from the army and going his own way showed that it wasn't particularly important to him where Rui was prior to the actual commencement of the assault.

there was a possibility that he figured out Rui trying to gauge more information from him,