Speed Up

"Perhaps it doesn't seem like a big deal for you," Tressa said, her lips in a downward arch, "Because it's not you that has to go through it."

Akira gave a soft smile and patted the back of her hand, "I say that it's not as bad as it seems because we won't let that happen."

He tilted his head a bit, "So long as you don't want it to happen, of course."

"Naturally," agreed Edward as he looked at all of them, "What we gave you is simply the information and the suggested means to face them. Whether or not you want to do it, is entirely up to you. If you do, we'll be here to help. If not, well, we have other ways to get Zero out as Crown Prince."

"Really?" Tressa said, "You didn't do all of this spying on us just to get us to help you?"

"Oh please," Akira said with a slight snort, "To be brutally honest, we'd get things done much faster if we didn't have to get you guys involved. Zero's the one that asked us for this option."