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I was sure I had tied my horse around here... but it's gone.

Whether I return or pursue the human soldiers, it's inconvenient without a horse...

As Coai thought this, the sound of horses... the hoofbeats of many cavalry, reached her ears. When Coai turned in that direction, the riders were charging toward her.
Coai stood stock-still, waiting for them to approach.

"Is that the rebel, Coai?"
"Yes, Your Highness the Grand Duke."
The cavalrymen stopped, keeping some distance from Coai. Then, a man in lavish attire, positioned at the center of the front rank as if leading them, spoke Coai's name.

"Hmm, just as I'd heard... no, even more beautiful."
"...What of it?"
"So much so that I'd like to have you attend to me in my bedchamber, and... Fufu."
The man with a dignified face, addressed as 'Your Highness the Grand Duke,' uttered words that were hard to tell if they were a joke or serious.

"This beautiful mage is the rebel, Coai..."
"Do you all wish to fight me?"
"Wh-How rude!?"
The Grand Duke silenced the man who had shouted angrily beside him and began to speak.

"That is the problem, that's what it is."
"If your strength was merely on par with the Frontier Knights, I intended to subjugate you, no matter the cost in coin and lives."
"It would have been a good opportunity to demonstrate my power and acquire the former Almaric territory."
As the Grand Duke spoke, he stared at Coai with an appraising gaze, looking her up and down.

"We have our own circumstances, befitting our station."
"Is it wise to chatter on about such things in a place like this?"
"Of course, I am only speaking of matters that are not problematic, in a place where it is not a problem."