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    will attack. She has no other choice because I was prepared this time. Her allies are gone. Cedar is more upset with her than ever before. Everyone else is turning their backs on her. If things continue without her intervening, she will lose her place in noble society. That she kept asking for a postponement of the trial about the assassination attempts on me wrapped a noose around her neck. That is one thing that she is doing again. Running away and refusing to give up on her pride. I wonder how far she got with that before. Even if everything is different now, I hope that she will stay the same. If she does the same thing that she did back then, she has put herself into checkmate.”


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