The Execution of Siegfried

With Siegfried captured, nearly all the turmoil on the Northern Front had subsided as well.

Siegfried's execution was scheduled for about a week later. But I had no time to spare.

With this, the unification of the Empire was practically complete... but unifying the Empire was not the only task I had left.

First, negotiations with the Marezia Republic were still unfinished. It had been years, so why were the negotiations still dragging on...? Because I was deliberately dragging them out.

The Marezia Republic was one of the most dangerous challengers to the Empire. They needed to be held down a little longer.

And the International League was another problem.

The Bressen Pact with the International League should have taken care of that, shouldn't it? Hadn't we agreed not to interfere with each other's spheres of influence?

Unfortunately, it was only a secret pact.

A secret pact whose contents had never been disclosed and were never meant to be. The Bressen Pact had no witness to vouch for it, either.

Since it would be troublesome if its contents were revealed later, we had left no record of the Bressen Pact at all...