The Devil's Snot (4)

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The Imperial Military Headquarters in the Capital.

The main conference room.

From early morning, the Empire's top military officials gathered around the round table.

Among them were Chief of Personnel and Staff Edmund, the Quartermaster General, the Comptroller, and the Judge Advocate General.

And I sat alone in the seat reserved for special outside attendees.

‘I should know all these faces……but there are still so many people I don't recognize.’

I thought as I looked at the faces of the military's most important officials.

It wasn't as though this were my first meeting with the military's top brass.

And yet, every time I came, unfamiliar faces and titles seemed to crop up...