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- You are incapable of fulfilling your duties and ensuring the safety of your own subjects, as well as representatives of other states within your domain. I am attacked by local criminals, and then I hear threats directed at me from the authorities themselves? - Nicks said loudly and angrily, making sure everyone could hear him.
Looks like the old man has lost it.
- Listen, old man, - he hissed through his teeth like a real tavern scoundrel, making sure only the other person could hear him. - You don't joke about things like this. It's not often that someone comes to you with good intentions, only for some narrow-minded, wealthy son, who occupies this position because his parents bribed someone ten years ago, to dictate the fate of the empire and its satellites, unable to comprehend the importance of matters that, by unfortunate chance, have reached him once in his life, instead of more competent people. If information about a conspiracy against your crown, which will unleash conflicts on several fronts; a pact offered to your empire to avoid the devastation and looting of cities and villages; the placement of heads on stakes does not seem significant enough for you to behave appropriately, then you might want to think about several members of the ducal family, who were fortunate enough to encounter our reconnaissance unit on a hunt a few months ago and were escorted to our territory with due honors, which you portrayed as "falling ill." And I don't think I need to explain that my absence from my homeland for longer than the allotted time is equivalent to the murder of an ambassador and will provoke many of those very unpleasant things. And when your important people start digging into this, guess whose wise, gray head will be the first to roll. The head that lacked the intelligence to think properly even once before doing anything, and all because of a broken chair. Well, that's just between us.
Stepping back and returning to a polite, friendly tone, Siegfried smiled and said loudly:
- Oh, come now, no need to worry, no need to worry!
Having finished this threatening and, for the most part, truthful tirade, he turned away and thanked the monk for taking care of his wounds:
- It seems I was wrong about you. On behalf of my people, I apologize.