3. Even if Heaven Falls (Part Three)_1

"Sick?"

The tapping fingers on the table paused as the highest Governor of Alfheim pondered over the phrase in the report.

On the third day of the Flower Moon, the much-noticed Governor of Salbadut District, Roland, suddenly fell ill and could not tend to affairs, causing not a minor disturbance.

The bureaucrats and nobles of Charlemagne merely expressed concern over Roland's sudden illness, whereas the nobles and commoners of the occupied Castile territory felt concrete unease and tension.