Chương 303: Dreadful realization

"Do you think she will agree?"

Madam asked while looking across the small table that the cream of the top of our group gathered at. 

"After he threatened her so much?" Makary's lips twisted in quite the irritated, ironic smile. "I bet she's ready to storm our positions herself if that's what it takes to slow us down."

Between the battle and the forest and the great showdown necessary for me to claim the right to be the one negotiating with the princess, I couldn't really tell which was the harder one.

"Either way, it works for us, right?" I rolled my eyes. "On that note, how's the progress on what the thing I asked for?"

The mere mention of the matter discussed just before I went ahead and made the call was enough to put everyone at the table in a sour mood. 

Sure, it was fine to help the underdog in a battle against the conqueror. But to go out of our way and brutally slaughter nearly the entirety of the imperial army…