Celebratory Banquet 

"Is that so?" Harold sighed. "It's a shame I didn't get the chance to kill the traitor... Did you guys know I was only forcibly taken to the Flowers Kingdom because of the worm?"

"Is that true?" Oswald frowned, not expecting that Mortimer had been responsible for all that.

All this time, he had imagined that Harold's situation had just been this man's mistake in acting in the Black Plain without being careful. But in finding out about Mortimer's involvement, this man saw the reason for all their problems in recent years.

Minos was not surprised, considering that Mortimer's goal of dominating the Flaming Empire was clear, and he would not have failed to try to remove Harold from his position somehow.

If the imperial family had their leader, then Mortimer would never have been able to advance to the 9th stage, as Harold would likely hunt him down and find him. In that situation, Mortimer would have died at the hands of Emperor Edwardstone!