62 Leon The Scoundrel

"You can't be serious, Reed. If we were to help you and this is a big if, we'd all be risking much more than our lives. Do you really understand? A bona fide prince of the North, the great-grandson of the King's Hand, and the granddaughter of the High General, Marquis Redcliff!" said Astor.

"I've got one them fancy titles too, and I'm not afraid doing the right thing," said Reed as lazily fiddled with an old, expensive-looking guitar he had borrowed from a glass case beneath the Evergreen Estate.

"How. Do. You. Not. UNDERSTAND?! If word EVER got out that we attacked another noble family from another empire, much less the goddamned Holy Church, it create the biggest shitstorm in the last millennium! Do you want a second Unification War, you fucking imbecile?!!"