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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knight Otu" data-source="post: 3306646" data-attributes="member: 192">Well, I'm pretty sure that when Miko next calls Windstriker, he won't heed that call.True, Shojo was exposed as a liar and manipulator, but the charge of treason is pretty much a fabrication of hers. She may not realize that she fabricated it, because she connected the dots the wrong way and got a twisted mockery of the true image, but it remains a fabrication, fueled by her need to be right. She has no interest in the truth, only in her satisfaction to be right. Otherwise, she should have listened to Hinjo, who, in that moment, would most likely be the supreme authority of Azure City and who expressed that Shojo would be dealt with after the more pressing matter of an approaching army. If bad comes to worse, her actions may lead to the Azure City defenses being essentially headless, unprepared, and thus overwhelmed. Even without that, it appears that any possible planning was at least delayed.Shojo, I'm pretty sure that he is dead. In fact, to me it looks as if he willingly accepted the deadly blow after realizing what Miko is up to (third to last panel, "Everything I did, I did for my people."). Whether that is a final manipulation, or a self-sacrifice (or entirely my imagination, for that matter) remains to be seen.</blockquote>