"So it turns out, Major General Fu Xing had planned this so early."
"Are you even listening to me?"
"I don't know," Xia Huangyu struggled to say, "Each Military Academy operates independently. We didn't act together with Elbert."
"How could you not have joined forces?" Horace said incredulously.
A shadow flickered through Xia Huangyu's eyes, "There is no longer a foundation of trust between us, for fear of being calculated and stabbed in the back." As he spoke, he touched the broken ribs on his body. "As it turns out, everyone's concerns were justified. I was the one who got stabbed, and by the closest of classmates at that."
"The Royal Starship Academy is Joseph V's stronghold, and this incident clearly originated from him. It's quite normal for the Royal Starship Academy to act this way." Horace now seemed to take pleasure in Xia's misfortune.
