The sky grew dark.
Filippo still sat on the hillside opposite the village of Nonza, a torn newspaper lay at his feet as he stared blankly at the distant village, his heart plunging into painful turmoil.
He knew that the Restoration movement faced enormous difficulties, and that setting the village alight was the only way to resolve all the problems and to continue the struggle against the French...
However, that would also allow a man guilty of rape and embezzlement to continue leading the Restoration organization—Filippo had always believed the embezzlement allegations against Paul to be false, but after the rape incident in London, he had come to believe they were true.
But if he didn't set the fire, the Restoration organization, which he had fought for since childhood, would fracture, lose control of Congress, and ultimately fail.
And currently, the only person capable of uniting the Restoration organization was Paul…
Yet he was a dirty, shameless beast, a criminal!