“You are a very smart opponent,” Zero said. “Cornelia. You were intelligent enough to account for our intelligence. You analysed our movements. You predicted our interception of this Refrain shipment and set your plans accordingly. But Cornelia, what if you were not the only person observing our movements? What if…”

Her comms blared into life and she could hardly believe her ears. “We’re under attack!”

Black Knights? No. Checking the position of the incoming call negated that possibility. The only Black Knight still on the battlefield unaccounted for was on the other side of the port fighting Guilford. She would not make that big a diversion when they were closer at this point. So who -

“It’s the Japan Liberation Front!”

Cornelia felt her blood run cold. A trap within her deepest trap. Under these conditions reinforcements for the Black Knights would normally be concerned with trying to keep their leader(s) alive to fight effectively. They would be a split force, easy pickings for someone of her skill. But the Japan Liberation Front had no love for the Black Knights and even less love for Britannia. By several magnitudes of order, but that hardly meant they would be going out of their way to keep the Black Knights safe if it meant getting at her!

“They… They’re using the JLF’s animosity towards them as a weapon against us!” Absurd! Impossible! She had to reorganise her troops to accommodate the new threat immediately! But as she gave out those orders, another image flashed by her mind. She could see a King, flanked on all sides with a second board set up beside the first.

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 23