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The search team finds the bodies of fallen members and learns that the leaders were captured alive but their whereabouts are unknown; the rescue mission is abandoned, all intelligence from Team 3-2 is disregarded, and the leader of the Beta Mercenary Corps is ordered killed within 5 days. Meanwhile, as the train nears Viesse, the previous Marquis's statue in the square and the palace come into view, while the king, enraged by the Reichenheart praise in the newspapers, scolds Count Jerome and swears to kill Oscar and seize the steel company.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 12 depicts tension on two fronts: a commander issuing orders after losses, and Oscar von Reichenart approaching the capital. The search team finds the bodies of fallen members and learns that the leaders were captured alive but their whereabouts are unknown; the rescue mission is abandoned, all intelligence from Team 3-2 is disregarded, and the leader of the Beta Mercenary Corps is ordered killed within 5 days. Meanwhile, as the train nears Viesse, the previous Marquis's statue in the square and the palace come into view, while the king, enraged by the Reichenheart praise in the newspapers, scolds Count Jerome and swears to kill Oscar and seize the steel company.","key_events":["King learns Marquis met King of Felpe and returns by train with mysterious strange young woman.","Wolf leader orders Beta Mercenary Corps leader's head brought within 5 days to cut off scheming hands.","Travelers by carriage discuss square statue depicts previous Marquis, father of His Lordship.","King of Luxen rages at Count Jerome over failed assassination of Reichenheart with no men returning alive.","King demands Oscar's death to seize steel company and orders captured Wolves tortured for information.","Wolf leader orders Team 3-2 intelligence disregarded and halts search for two captives, treating mission as body recovery.","King reflects leaving lone wolf cub to grow was fatal mistake shaking throne power, lacking news from Felpe Bank.","Wolf leader learns fallen members' bodies were found and two leaders were captured alive with unknown whereabouts."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"SO, THEY WERE ALL CAUGHT?\n\nYES, MY LORD.\nTHE SEARCH PARTY RECOVERED THE BODIES OF OUR FALLEN TEAM MEMBERS.\n\nWE BELIEVE THE LEADERS WERE CAPTURED ALIVE,\nBUT THEIR LOCATION IS STILL UNKNOWN.\n\nAND THEIR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL?\nWE'RE NOW OPERATING UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT'S A BODY RECOVERY MISSION.\n\nEVERY SINGLE MEMBER WE SENT IN\nWAS DISCOVERED LIKE THAT. NOT JUST A FEW.\n\nIT MEANS I'M JUST A PAWN,\nDANCING ON A BOARD SOME BASTARD SET UP FOR ME.\n\nWHAT ARE YOUR ORDERS?\n\nDISCARD ALL INTELLIGENCE THAT CAME FROM TEAM 3-2.\n\nAND CALL OFF THE SEARCH FOR THE TWO CAPTIVES.\n\nEVEN IF THEY'RE STARING DEATH IN THE FACE,\nTHE WOLVES ONLY EXIST TO CARRY OUT THEIR ORDERS.\nSEARCHING FOR THEM NOW WOULD BE POINTLESS.\n\nTEARING UP A WOLF TO FEED TO THE HUNTING DOGS, EH?\nIF I CAN'T FIGURE OUT\nWHAT THE KING IS PLOTTING\n\nEVEN AFTER TEARING THEM TO SHREDS LIKE THAT...\nI'LL JUST HAVE TO CUT OFF THE HANDS HE'S USING TO PLOT WITH.\n\n5 DAYS.\n\nBRING ME THE HEAD OF THE BETA MERCENARY CORPS' LEADER WITHIN 5 DAYS.\n\nSINCE THAT HAND HAS ALREADY BEEN DIPPED IN FILTH,\nHE WON'T BE ABLE TO REATTACH IT.\n\nYES, MY LORD!\n\nTHIS IS VIESSE, THE CAPITAL OF LUXEN.\nWE SHOULD ARRIVE IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES.\n\nSORRY FOR THE HASSLE OF HAVING TO SWITCH TO A CARRIAGE.\nNO, NOT AT ALL.\nOH, THAT'S A RELIEF.\n\nWHAT A MAGNIFICENT PLAZA.\n\nIS THAT THE KING OF THIS COUNTRY?\n\nOR... A GREAT HERO?\nTHE STATUE IN THE CENTER\nIS OF THE PREVIOUS MARQUIS.\nTHE PREVIOUS ONE...?\n\nYES, HIS LORDSHIP'S FATHER.\nTHEY DO LOOK ALIKE, DON'T THEY?\n\nESPECIALLY THAT DARK, INTENSE GAZE.\nSO IS THAT BUILDING IN THE BACK IS THE REICHENHART ESTATE?\n\nNO.\nTHAT'S THE ROYAL PALACE.\n\nTHE ROYAL PALACE OF LUXEN STANDS JUST BEYOND THAT GATE,\nAS IF TO PROVE THAT REICHENHART IS THE HERO WHO SAVED THE NATION.\n\nYOUR MAJESTY.\n\nCOUNT JEROME.\nHAVE YOU SEEN TODAY'S PAPER?\n\n\"REICHENHART STEEL, THE PILLAR OF LUXEN.\"\nALL OF LUXEN'S MAJOR PAPERS TALK OF NOTHING BUT REICHENHART,\nSINGING HIS PRAISES ENDLESSLY.\n\nAT THIS RATE, WE MIGHT AS WELL RENAME THE COUNTRY REICHENHART!\n\nEXPLAIN THIS TO ME RIGHT NOW!!!\n\nI APOLOGIZE. I HAVE NO EXCUSE.\n\nYOU SWORE UP AND DOWN THAT YOU COULD KILL HIM THIS TIME.\nBUT FAR FROM KILLING HIM, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOUR MEN CAME BACK ALIVE!!\n\nAH, OR COULD IT BE...?\nARE YOU THINKING OF THE MARCHIONESS?\nTHAT'S IT, ISN'T IT? HE IS HER SON, AFTER ALL,\n\nAND YOU ALWAYS KEEP THESE THINGS FROM THE MARCHIONESS, DON'T YOU?\nYOUR MAJESTY.\n\nTHIS CANNOT BE LET TO HAPPEN AGIAN!\n\nIF I'M EVER GOING TO GET MY HANDS ON THAT STEEL COMPANY,\nTHAT BASTARD NEEDS TO DIE, AND SOON!!\n\nWHAT HAPPENED TO THE TWO WOLVES YOU CAPTURED?\nHAVE YOU GOTTEN ANYTHING OUT OF THEM?\n\nAS I'VE SAID, IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY.\nTHEY WILL NOT SAY A WORD ABOUT THEIR MASTER,\nEVEN IF YOU CUT OFF ALL THEIR LIMBS.\nTHEN GOUGE OUT THEIR EYES.\n\nIF THEY WON'T TALK AFTER YOU'VE CUT OFF THEIR LIMBS,\nDON'T JUST CUT THEM — THROW THEM IN BOILING OIL.\nIF THAT DOESN'T WORK, SKIN THEM ALIVE.\n\nTORTURING THEM IS POINTLESS.\nIT WILL ONLY PROVOKE OSCAR.\nHOWEVER, APPEASING THE KING'S ANGER COMES FIRST.\nAS YOU WISH, YOUR MAJESTY.\n\nMY FATHER, THE LATE KING, ALWAYS USED TO SAY...\n\nNEVER LET A LONE WOLF CUB GROW TO MATURITY.\nAND YET, I SIMPLY LET HIM BE.\nHIS FAMILY WAS RUINED, AND HIS OWN MOTHER HAD ABANDONED HIM,\nSO I THOUGHT HE WOULD JUST FADE AWAY ON HIS OWN.\nBUT THAT WAS A FATAL MISTAKE.\n\nI NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY THAT HE MIGHT ONE DAY SEIZE POWER.\nTHE POWER OF THE THRONE IS CRUMBLING...\n\nNOW THAT IT'S COME TO THIS, I MUST MAKE THAT STEEL COMPANY MY OWN.\nTO REVERSE THIS MISTAKE, I MUST KILL REICHENHART.\n\nAND YET, LOOK AT THE PATHETIC STATE OF THINGS.\nTHE ASSASSINATION FAILED,\nTHERE'S STILL NO WORD FROM THE FELPE BANK,\nAND I TRIED TO GET INFORMATION BY APPROACHING GRAND DUKE BADEN.\nBUT EVEN AS ROYALTY, A MAGGOT IS STILL JUST A MAGGOT.\n\nWHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON AT THE FELPE BANK?\nSuzaku Budo Wine\nHOW CAN HE POSSIBLY KNOW NOTHING AT ALL?\n\nSPEAKING OF WHICH... I BELIEVE THE MARQUIS MET WITH THE KING OF FELPE.\nIT APPEARS GRAND DUKE BADEN WILL SOON BE DISMISSED FROM HIS POSITION AS PRESIDENT.\n\nUSELESS FOOL!\nSO, WHERE IS THE MARQUIS NOW?\nIS HE STILL IN FELPE?\nNO. HIS TRAIN IS REPORTEDLY ON ITS WAY TO THE CAPITAL.\n\nHOWEVER...\nHE'S SAID TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN.\nSHE'S DEFINITELY NOT A MAID,\n\nAND SOMETHING ABOUT HER IS REPORTEDLY... STRANGE.\nA WOMAN?\n\nTHE OSCAR VON REICHENHART\nIS BRINGING A WOMAN WITH HIM?","bubble_count":109,"pages_count":51,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 12 depicts tension on two fronts: a commander issuing orders after losses, and Oscar von Reichenart approaching the capital.","spoiler_summary":"Atonement, For Your Cruelty Chapter 12 depicts tension on two fronts: a commander issuing orders after losses, and Oscar von Reichenart approaching the capital. The search team finds the bodies of fallen members and learns that the leaders were captured alive but their whereabouts are unknown; the rescue mission is abandoned, all intelligence from Team 3-2 is disregarded, and the leader of the Beta Mercenary Corps is ordered killed within 5 days. Meanwhile, as the train nears Viesse, the previous Marquis's statue in the square and the palace come into view, while the king, enraged by the Reichenheart praise in the newspapers, scolds Count Jerome and swears to kill Oscar and seize the steel company."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/atonement-for-your-cruelty-3u5rla9z/chapter-13-rdw5ty","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Atonement, For Your Cruelty #13: Chapter 12","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T16:23:05.124Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/atonement-for-your-cruelty-3u5rla9z"}}