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I looked back at Kane, and he was staring at me with wide eyes, the implications of what we’d just learned hitting him just as hard.
“This is worse than we imagined,” he said quietly.
I nodded, my mind racing through everything we now knew. Lania wasn’t just some court hanger-on trying to seduce the king. She was a war criminal who’d been using Aerith Kingdom as her personal laboratory to create weapons designed specifically to kill my people.
I quickly typed a message to the group chat, letting them know I was signing off for the night to avoid any signals being traced, and that I’d report back in the morning if there was anything urgent they needed to know. Then I set the phone down and sighed.
“I’ve been the worst king Aerith has ever had,” Kane mumbled, running his hands th
