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Fritz's expression darkened. "What do you mean by that? Are you choosing the hard way over the easy one!?"
At this point, he had lost the last of his patience. He stopped wasting words with Lynch and, with a sharp wave of his hand, commanded, "Seize him! If he resists, kill him without hesitation!"
"Yes, sir!"
Receiving the order, the few guards from the House of Hohenzollern, who had been eager for a fight, immediately lunged forward with menacing auras.
The two Holy Knight Inquisitors also began to channel Holy Light.
Even the few members of the North Wind Legion's law enforcement squad, seeing the situation, circulated their Battle Aura, preparing to join an easy fight.
The townspeople watching from outside the courtyard gasped in alarm, deeply worried for Lynch inside.
For them, who had once been displaced refugees, being able to settle down safely in Lakefront Town with steady jobs and enough to eat was already a life akin to heaven.
But now, Lord Lynch was...
