He remembered. It was from that time at the Ceres Manor—he recalled Marco saying that the Vasquez People were destroyed because a pirate posing as a bard delivered a prophecy.
"That business with the Vasquez?" Marco also remembered. "They found it? The Shetland Royal Family has had a bounty out for so long..."
"What if I told you the Ernst Clan was the one behind that prophecy?"
Lisi countered, then continued as if answering her own question, "Or, to be more precise, what if they had someone else deliver that prophecy for them?"
"They..." Marco's eyes widened, finding the possibility hard to accept.
The others reacted similarly. Only Old Jack wore an expression that said he'd known all along.
Wei'en, on the other hand, heard this and inwardly praised the Ernst Clan's maneuver. 'Very slick.'
'If I'm not mistaken, they must have fabricated that prophecy back then to earn merit through war, right?'
'Something must have gone wrong later on, causing their scheme to fall through.'
