Prince Green felt the presence of every attendee questioning him, though not putting it into words, "You made him go, didn't you?" "Weren't you tacitly permitting it?" As if he was not trusted. If this continued, it seemed he himself might be said to be colluding with the Empire.
"If I had known I would never have let him leave the country! All the more, letting him go to the Empire is out of the question! If by any chance I were to commit the folly of letting that one go to the Empire, there is no way I would let Division Head Hütter go under his real name. I would surely make him go under a false name! That one went arbitrarily!"
When Prince Green said it as if shouting, those who said that was indeed so also appeared. When told, it became an atmosphere of indeed that was so.
