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"The situation in Newland City-State is now too complicated; we don't know from which dark corner a few residual monsters might emerge, so I suggest, just like the Rodan Kingdom, that Newland City-State should be governed jointly by the three of us."
Rudel leaned back in his office chair and looked at the other two people in front of the conference table.
"Rudel! What do you mean by that!"
The man sitting directly opposite Rudel was a middle-aged man with short brown-gold hair and a majestic face. He slammed the table, "Newland City-State is a dependency of the Empire, and has always been the territory of Moonlight; what right has your World Tree to meddle?"
"Norsen,"