Uprising

The Crown Prince had disappeared.

Without telling anyone, at that.

Only then did the nobles realize that something had gone wrong. They had wondered why the lazy Crown Prince had suddenly decided to meditate, but they had believed him because they never imagined that the Crown Prince himself would actually run away...

"Such an incompetent, stupid bugger...!"

Eventually, one noble exploded in outrage.

Under normal circumstances, it was a remark severe enough that he might well have been beheaded on the spot, but no one stopped him.

If the Crown Prince had abandoned his own country and run away, there was no noble who could possibly remain in his right mind.

"How could this happen?!"

"The Crown Prince escaped through a rat hole? Where did he throw away the dignity befitting a member of the imperial family?!"

"We should have known from the moment he started claiming strange things like 'peace in our time'!"...