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Vol 02 Chapter 53: Border Conflict V

「What have you done now…」

I listened to Ron’s report, holding my head in my hands.

Why did it come to this…

「I’m sorry…」

「It’s fine. Helping refugees is… well, problematic, but you did a good thing as a human being. Yeah, that part is okay. But why did you have to counterattack?!」

If we had just apologized there, maybe we could have still fixed things… Now we’re completely at odds with them!!

It hasn’t even been a week since the last refugee incident!!

「Well, well, Almus. Calm down. The enemy’s objective was clearly the salt mines. For now, we’ve managed to defend them… so it’s not a complete disaster. The fact that we won despite the huge difference in military strength is significant.」

Tetra said this to defend Ron.

Well, I guess that’s one way to look at it. However, in the end, we will have to give up part of the salt mines as compensation.

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