"Why should I serve your lady?" Ignis asked with a frown on his face, "When I could just storm the church and destroy them, releasing the King?"
Adrian looked at the Grand Duke for a while without a single thought, 'perhaps this man was too simple after all.'
Then again, he was Darius's father, so he wasn't too surprised.
It was already good enough that he was willing to have a calm conversation on this topic.
"It's not that simple," Adrian finally answered, "besides, with the king still under their control, you'd just be executed for treason if you tried."
It was the situation Grand Duke Boreas found himself in, in the previous timeline, after the incident with the second ice lotus.
Speaking of which, that one hadn't been found in this timeline yet...perhaps Cedric would make good use of it?
Well, that was for later; right now, he needed to bring another Grand Duke to their side.
