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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3525984" data-attributes="member: 32536">Certainly, regardless of how Mr. Burlew is portraying the paladins and soldiers, the nobles don't come off favorably. They refuse to use their personal forces to help their own city, they take most of the boats to save themselves, they continue to try to assassinate the only person capable of leading the whole city, etc. If the nobles had sided with the Sapphire Guard and the regular forces, Azure City might have stood a chance, and they could have had an evacuation plan in place, but as things stand the city is going to fall. Not to mention all the problems caused by Shojo having to evade so many assassination attempts.It isn't a stretch to say that Azure City is going to fall simply because of the corruption within its nobility. This strip just continues to reinforce that point.By the way, I am also of the opinion that author's intention plays a very strong role in a text, and that it is highly problematic trying to add in too much subjective opinion that can't be supported by the text. Various attempts by my professors to say otherwise always strike me as either ridiculous or politically motivated.</blockquote>