How To Move Forward

While Leonardo expected to kickstart a massive war campaign by subtly leaking information to the elves and beastkin, there was no chance in a blue moon for him to anticipate the timely arrival of a counterforce dispatched by House Hestia's enemies to ransack the planet of its resources.

Surely, if he knew, he would have abandoned all his plans and rushed back west into the depths of the forbidden domain, fighting tooth and nail, motivated by a feeling foreign to himself and his widespread reputation as a composed and rational devil in a business suit.

Luckily, he was already half the way across the planet on his way to the capital as he had washed his hands clean from the matters concerning the forbidden domain. Furthermore, because Jeffery didn't know what sort of relationship these people had with Leonardo, who similarly invaded their lives out of thin air, he advised Queen Adeline to keep Leonardo in the dark about these developments.