Before heading to the Judicial offices, I first stopped by the duchy hospital.
There was business I needed to wrap up.
"How is Simon?"
"Thankfully, he seems to have made it through the worst."
The treatment Simon had received from the stuttering executioner couple in Hünrich must have been effective. But not a single person mentioned anything about that village. That's how powerful a taboo it was.
Personally, it felt like such a waste of Stock's talent. Hmm. Should I clean up his identity and have him settle in my fief? But his clan wouldn't just let him go. It was a tough call.
"I'm planning to take down Berten's hideout. Are you willing to join the order?"
"After all the kindness you have shown me, how could I refuse?"
"I'm delighted to have a veteran of the Great War as a commander."
