None of the royal family have handled Kamui's betrayal well. Ryoma trains day and night, both to hide his grief from his siblings and enable himself to bring Kamui home to us all. Hinoka and Sakura have spent most of each day crying, either by themselves or together. Most of Shirasagi only sees them when they come out to eat, though each of them have slowly returned to their own duties. As for Takumi...The younger prince has taken to violent fits of rage, shouting at anyone within earshot about betrayal and how he's going to personally kill everyone who has ever set foot in Nohr. Or something like that; nobody's been listening to him after the first few times.
In addition, Takumi's bursts of rage have become more frequent, and a rumour has begun circling which claims that he fell into the Bottomless Canyon shortly before his madness began. I believe he is assembling a small force with which to lead an initial charge into Nohrian territory, and that after consultation with Yukimura his target is the port town of Dia. Hinoka has also begun resuming her own training, her aim being to fortify Nestra's Sevenfold Sanctuary with her own troops so that Kamui cannot receive the Rainbow Sage's power. She tells me she is doing this in an attempt to prevent Kamui from ever reaching Ryoma's levels of skill and might, so that the latter can more easily take the former home by force.
Ryoma himself plans to raid Nohr's medicine store in Palace Macarath, and withhold access to the medicine until any Nohrians who attempt to retrieve it will surrender Kamui to him. Sakura is studying the late Queen Mikoto's barrier spell, which makes any Nohrian soldiers lose the will to fight upon crossing it; in the hope of recreating it herself. I, for myself, am planning to lead an advance force to Fort Dragonfall, where I will attempt to exchange Azura for Kamui.
Garon likely knows my name and likeness, so in order to prevent the entire Nohrian army from attacking us at once, we will put an alternative soldier in a figurehead command position; while I disguise myself and take the role of a common soldier, under the fake name of Shinonome. The figurehead commander himself, whose real name is Yuri, will also go by a fake name: Haitaka. He spent some time protecting our interests in Cyrkensia, during which time he learnt some techniques from watching Nohr's soldiers there; which allow him to bolster the will to live of any soldier near him just by calling out in a certain manner, in addition to allowing him to counter an opponent's blows with much more force than one would otherwise expect.
Yukimura has been performing admirably in co-ordinating all these different efforts, justifying many times over Mikoto's decision to appoint him strategist. He also tells me that his spies last traced Kamui as having just set out towards the Ice Tribe's territory, in order to quell a rebellion there. If he survives, we shall soon after see if our efforts to regain our lost prince are futile.
