The meal between Itami and Asha continued. However, there was a brief intermittence where Itami took a quick restroom break. After taking care of business, she took the opportunity to meet with one of her guards and gave him orders to investigate the claims that the Bengal Emperor had made about Berengar von Kufstein. Though she was frightened by the news she had heard, she would not wholly believe it until her own intelligence network could confirm the information she had received.
While the Bengal Emperor had spoken ill of Berengar, and greatly exaggerated the man's more sinister characteristics, most of what he spoke had some truth to it. Especially from the perspective of Germany's neighbors. Of course, Itami did not know that by dispatching her men to gain information from the locals about their trade with the strange Empire to the West that she would catch the eye of Linde's agents who were embedded in the region.
