On Your Shoulders

Days later, Commander Zo made good on his promise to the nobles and sent out letters to each family, notifying them of the enlistment and who qualifies.

This drove the nobles to protest at the palace gates everyday asking to speak with the City Lord and demanding Commander Zo to be removed from his position.

Of course no one entertained their demands but as time worn on, the nobles got increasingly more agitated by their silence.

To the point that a few wives have supposedly fallen ill due to protesting outside the gates everyday in the cold.

Of course, Lyra didn't bat an eye at this information, but the nobles were obviously using it to spread lies about how cruel she and Mano is to the rest of the citizens.

Although most of the citizens wouldn't believe such lies, there are a few that wanted to use the discord between the two parties to seek advantages.

This was mostly from the Steppe Lords that Mika screw over.