Brand coldly watched the nobles bicker amongst themselves, while their private soldiers bickered and panicked, unable to calm down. The nobles wanted to head east out of the city, but as for their subjects in Ridenburg, who cared about them? No one mentioned them.
No one cared about political struggles now. Their arguments focused on what to do with their family property—some insisted on saving their lives, others on taking as much as they could. Some even preferred to die rather than abandon their wealth, as if Madara would spare them because they were nobles. Their loud quarreling and mutual accusations grated on Brand's nerves, so he lowered his head and wiped his sword—it had just brought him 220 points of experience, the richest gain he'd had apart from killing the Golden Tree boss.
