Chapter 186 – Youth

000

“Cain!”

A rough male voice called the young man’s name.

When Cain quietly looked back, the corner of her mouth was raised to see a group of aristocratic youngsters of a similar age gathered and looking at Cain.

A mean smile, a wooden club in hand.

It was obvious to everyone around them that they had never summoned Cain for a good purpose.

The military academy of the empire, originally a place where children of the imperial aristocrats gain experience and knowledge to become officers of the imperial army, was not a place for Cain, an orphan without parents, let alone a nobleman’s status.

The reason Cain was able to enter the military academy was because he had a sponsor.

Cain, who lost his teacher and became a real ‘orphan’once again, has a vengeance and is the commander of the Imperial Army’s local garrison enlisted to feed his family his right away.

She came to the military academy because she was supported by her favor her, which to Cain was her boss her.

Cain’s age her is 17. It has been two years since she enlisted in the Imperial Army, and it has been half a year since she entered the military academy.

She enlisted in the Imperial Army not only herself, but also Yuni, Tiara, and Lisa, but she was the only one who came to the military academy.

In a solitary place with no one she knew, Cain wasn’t having a very comfortable day.

Cain looked at her male students who called her out for a moment with pitiful eyes, but she answered soon.

“Yes. Senior.”

“What’s with those eyes… You’re not forgetting your situation, are you?”

Among the male students, the boy who was closer to the leader… ‘Pettis’ approached with a touchy attitude and lifted Cain’s chin with a stick.

“You came in at the very end of this Pettis-sama’s platoon. Then shouldn’t you consider that position an honor and do all the chores in the platoon?”

Pettis is the eldest son of the Duke of Sterier, the most influential family in the Empire, and his father, the head of the Sterier family, has been the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army for generations.

Of course, there was no one who could shout at him at the military academy, and even the teachers condone his atrocities.

True to his word her, Cain was accepted into Pettis’s platoon in platoon assignment after completing her half-year basic training course.

The trainees were assigned in a form that the platoon commander chose and accepted, but there was no great reason for accepting Cain, who was from a commoner.

It’s just that this person named ‘Pettis’ is a person drunk with power and status, and Cain, a commoner, was a perfect punching bag with no one to say anything about.

Cain, who had three ideals for isolation: a black horse clan, a commoner, and an orphan, was a perfect prey.

“Pettis~ Let’s go to the room quickly~ Huh~?”

And, a woman with colorful hair clinging to Pettis’ back her.

Blond hair that was clearly dyed, red eyes with raised eyebrows.

Gorgeous ornaments adorning the whole body with beautifully balanced features.

She is in a revealing military academy uniform that has been modified to narrowly exceed her acceptable range, and she is equipped with a plain clothes sword at her waist.

“Sorry Hutty. After giving this guy a little guidance as a senior.”

Pettis’ fiancée, Hutina Flareless, was also a daughter of an imperial duke.

She is the bright spot in Pettis’ platoon, and she herself was a powerful witch and swordsman called a first-class mage.

In terms of pure skill alone, it is probably higher than Pettis.

“Whoops, Cain. You’d better listen to Pettis’ words from her. No matter how much you are favored by her sister from her.”

“…I’ll keep that in mind.”

The person she refers to is the commander of the regional garrison that supports Cain.

Hugh Tina seemed to be a little reluctant about her her, who hated the conflict within her family her and handed over the position of the next head of the family to her younger brother her and went down to her province her.

“Well. It’s like that, Cain. You know that there’s an inspection of the platoon garrison tomorrow, right? I can’t remember when the last time I cleaned it, but… Clean it so there’s no problem.”

“…”

After hearing his words of her, Cain looked into Pettis’ eyes for a moment, then closed her eyes.

“I understand. Senior.”

“Okay. It’s nice to understand quickly.”

Pettis said, patting Cain on the head, and she walked slowly to her room her, taking his mate and her fiancée her.

If Cain followed her with her eyes her-

[Are you not cutting?]

A voice flowed into his ears.

“Don’t say stupid things. He’s the eldest son of a duke. He’s got that kind of personality, but he’s a man whose skills are certain… Above all, if I, a commoner, hurt him, he’ll die one after another in a crime by association.”

[Huh…Then. Thinking of faking it as if it was an ‘again’ accident?]

A voice like a demon’s whisper.

It was the voice of Cain’s demonic sword, Pandora.

“…”

Cain ignores those words as if he doesn’t feel the value of answering them, and she heads for the platoon’s garrison room as instructed.

The horse is the platoon’s garrison, and I’ve never seen a strategy meeting here before.

A multi-purpose room. Among them, it is mostly used as a place where Pettis and his subordinates his drag in a female student they like and demand physical intercourse.

Of course, each time Cain was given a role to lookout outside the garrison.

“Damn… The smell.”

As soon as Cain opens the door, he frowns at the pungent, rotating smell coming up his nose.

Until just now, I could see that they used this place.

Desks and chairs cluttered with mess, dusty windows.

And in the trash can, there are various filth such as used and discarded tissues and contraceptives.

“…”

Cain begins to organize those things one by one.

He puts the objects back in their original places, arranges the clutter, opens the windows, sweeps the floor, and doesn’t even skip mopping.

After confirming that the platoon’s garrison was clean, the last thing Cain tried to clean up was the trash that came out while cleaning and the leftovers of the Pettis that seemed like their noses would rot.

[Are you not going to throw it away?]

“I have a place to write it. I don’t want to bring something like this.”

Cain said that, and in order to somehow block the smell and prevent the contents from being discovered, he used the cloak as a spare cloth and put the contraceptives used in it, and used ice magic to freeze the inside.

“…I guess this is it…”

[Please don’t let it touch my body, even by mistake. Because it seems to rot from there.]

“I know.”

After saying that, Cain left the garrison behind.

001

When Cain returned to her own dorm room, Lilim, who was sitting quietly on her bed with her docile knees on her knees, opened her closed eyes.

It’s been five years since she met her, but her body has n’t grown at all since the first time she met her.

Around her, she tricked her into thinking that she was her one and only sister her and managed to come along.

No, to be precise, her Cain her intended to leave her her, along with the rest of her family her, in a local garrison with Yuni and her other children her.

After losing her Abel, even Cain, whose personality had become a little chilled, radiated her spine-chilling tenacity and would never let go.

“Lilim. What were you doing?”

“I was thinking about how… If Lord Cain… Would hug me…”

She shouldn’t have asked.

Cain thinks so and lets go of her Pandora, and Pandora also changes into a human form and looks at Lilim.

“It’s that simple. Block it out.”

She looked at Pandora, who spoke as if it were natural, and Lilim tilted her head for a moment.

“Enchantment… It means enchanting.”

“Yes, for example…”

As Pandora said that, she pulled back the fabric of her chest part of the dress she was wearing, and Cain turned her head away, blushing.

“Look. Is it easy?”

“… Cain.”

And, Lilim also slightly tilted the chest of the clothes she was wearing, but Cain saw it and let out a sigh.

“…How come. This is the first time I’ve felt such anger towards Cain-sama…”

“It seems impossible for your child-like body. I wonder if you’re overflowing with sexiness like a succubus.”

Pandora giggles and makes fun of such Lilim, and Cain puts her black bundle in a small box enchanted with freezing, saying not to say anything stupid.

“More than that. Lilim. If you’re tired of being in this room all day, you can always go back to where the kids are. If you stay here, you won’t hear anything good about it.”

Cain knew that Lilim received the same attention she received from her.

It was her own will her not to leave her room her, but even occasionally, when she goes out with Cain, she hears whispers around her.

Cain always felt sorry for Lilim. If she had n’t applied to something like the military academy to get a higher rank in her empire, she would n’t have insisted that she follow her.

However, she had a good reason for Cain.

Abel. Albert Chaldearis. A being who was his brother and friend his.

The one who killed him was ‘Lucius Chaldearis’.

He was the current crown prince of the kingdom and the man who would become the next king.

To be precise, Lucius hired assassins to kill his own brother, but it was no different.

No matter what, at any cost, I will complete Abel’s revenge.

For him, he had to climb higher and higher.

“… I will not leave Cain-nim’s side. We have been apart for 5000 years.”

“…The scale is too big.”

Cain scratched her head and answered her words.

I couldn’t tell if the 5,000 years that Lilim always talked about was real, or if it was some kind of exaggeration.

However, somewhere, there is a person who feels relieved about Lilim who remains by her side of her.

Cain quietly acknowledged it and went to bed early for the next day.

002

Since then, several days have passed.

On this day, the platoon commanders of each platoon and the teachers of the military academy gather for regular meetings.

Pettis had no choice but to sit in her seat her, blushing.

“Why didn’t you report the trolls were out in the woods like this, Pettis?”

Most teachers could n’t say anything bitter about him, but he was different when it came to his family.

When Pettis’ uncle, a teacher at the military academy, questioned him, Pettis couldn’t even make an excuse.

“That, that’s…”

“The troll forest must have been in your charge. They will soon enter the breeding season and become ferocious. If you go out to the outside of the forest, you may harm the nearby residents. If a situation arises that could result in casualties, Pettis, platoon leader. I have no choice but to hold you accountable.”

“Ugh, ugh…”

In the end, Pettis made a painful face as if he had swallowed bitter pills, and then clenched his fists as if they were about to bleed.

“Reorganize your platoon, and go out immediately to resolve the situation.”

Looking at him with pitiful eyes, the teacher gave Pettis an order.

Shortly after the meeting, Pettis gets up from his seat and walks down the aisle at near-running speed.

The students and teachers around them saw such a face of Pettis, and turned their heads away from him without meeting his eyes his, as if to run away from his anger his.

Soon after, he headed towards the garrison of his platoon. And as soon as he saw Cain, who was still standing in front of him, he ran and grabbed him by the collar.

“Hey, you!!! What happened!”

“…What do you mean?”

Compared to Pettis, who raises his voice in anger, Cain speaks while remaining calm.

“Why didn’t you report it! That’s what the troll forest is like!”

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about, but…”

Hearing Cain’s reply, Pettis pushed him against the wall and brought his face close enough that their noses could touch him.

“Don’t be shy! Scouting the troll forest must have been your mission!!”

“Leave it. That’s right. Originally, I had to do the reconnaissance in a group of four…”

“Shut up! Commoners, you bastard!! Even if that’s the case, it’s your fault for not reporting it!”

The people around them gather to watch Pettis, who raises his voice while interrupting Cain, but-

Cain sees Pettis and sighs.

“This bastard!”

“I reported. Obviously I am.”

Just as her fist her was finally about to rise, Cain answered and Pettis stopped as if he had been given a petrifying gaze.

“…What?”

“When I tried to give a verbal report, he always had women around, so I posted it as a report. Obviously, he even stamped the platoon commander’s stamp.”

“…”

At that, Pettis closed his mouth and began to roll his eyes. It was only after hearing Cain’s words that something seemed to come to mind.

Come to think of it, this guy annoyed me by posting documents saying it was a report every day, so I roughly stamped it.

“I thought there was a countermeasure, but…Could it be that it was unplanned?”

“Shut up!”

At Cain’s sneering words her, her frozen fist her swung and slapped Cain in the face.

The shock caused Cain to fall from Pettis and collapse, and several students around her screamed.

“Damn… Damn!”

“…You were thinking of doing it on my own responsibility? The son of a nobleman said that he couldn’t even run a platoon without the help of a commoner… I guess he was thinking of reporting that to the top .”

As Cain tried to stand up, Pettis raised her fist once again as she stumbled and wiped the blood from her lips with the back of her hand.

“Pettis!”

Then, a voice calls him to stop.

When Pettis looked back, there was Hutina looking at Pettis and Cain with an angry face.

“…Even if I take my anger out on him, nothing will change. For now, think about what to do first.”

“Damn it!”

Hugh Tina, who is also greater in skill than Pettis, stops Pettis, and Pettis kicks the door of her garrison room as if unable to control her anger her and goes inside her.

“You bastards! Do you think you’re going to have fun in the current situation!? Get ready to go out immediately!”

At the sound of a voice inside her, Hugh Tina sighed as she approached Cain and tossed her handkerchief.

“…”

“This one is 100% bad for Pettis. As my fiancé, I apologize.”

Cain, who took her handkerchief without a word from her, gave it back to Hugh Tina without using it.

“It’s not 100%. Originally, wasn’t it your role to control him? His little father seems to have put you in the same platoon hoping for that too.”

“…”

You are also responsible for not doing it.

Hugh Tina looked at Cain for a moment, then lowered her head.

“You. Did you have that kind of attitude toward your sister?”

“Your sister basically makes no mistakes. She’s not even shirking.”

“…Yes. I’m sorry. As you said, I’m also responsible.”

Hugh Tina says so, then she wipes Cain’s mouth with her handkerchief her she returned, then uses her healing magic to heal her wounds her.

After that, she went inside her garrison room without saying anything to Cain.

[That woman seems to have the ability to judge the situation more than I thought.]

“Anyway, she’s a woman who’s drunk because Pettis and the thugs are praising her. There’s no room for sympathy.”

Cain says the same, and she goes inside the garrison room.

Seeing the rampaging Pettis beating their men was an ugly sight to watch.

003

If you ride a horse for an hour from the Imperial Military Academy, you will find a dark forest where the power of nature dominates the land.

‘Troll’s Forest’.

In this place where cannibal demons, trolls, have been established since ancient times, the queen of trolls reigns at the top of her ecosystem.

Trolls, two to three times the size of humans, are monster-like, strong humanoid monsters with agility and strength several times that of humans.

Also, since their intelligence was close to that of humans, although they were forming a barbaric society, they hunted humans who entered the forest unknowingly, and occasionally appeared in nearby villages.

Its origin was similar to that of humans, to the extent that there is a story that it was a changed form of humans who followed demons in the past. Their body structure was similar to humans, but they differed from humans in terms of fertility and speed of evolution.

Within the Empire, if there was such a dangerous place, it would be natural to burn the forest to drive out the trolls.

Trolls were growing rare plants that humans could not cultivate all over the forest, and those plants became ingredients for making ‘elixir’, an advanced recovery medicine in the Empire, which is a relatively barren environment compared to the kingdom.

So, in the forest of trolls designated as a kind of nature reserve, imperial cadets regularly visit to find out how wide the trolls’ territory is, and when it expands more than necessary, a barrier stone is installed to temporarily defeat the trolls.

With that alone, it was possible to reduce the scope of the trolls’ activities again, so they maintained the balance that could be called coexistence with the trolls.

With the forest of trolls in front of him, Pettis wears.

The concentration of magical power he felt was unusual. The range of troll activity was already close to the border of the forest.

“I came with the barrier stone… But I don’t know where the trolls are hiding.”

The troll in the forest made an extraordinary move, almost flying.

If it was Pettis or Hutina, the elite of the Imperial Academy, there would be no problem with one on one.

The other two idiots lacked the skills to do so, and there was no guarantee that the opponent would attack them 1:1.

“… Uh, what shall we do, chief?”

When one of the cohorts says so, Pettis stares into the woods for a moment, then turns to Cain, who has quietly pulled the loaded horse behind her.

“Hey. You lead the way. A little further away.”

“Wait, Pettis…”

Cain looks at Pettis with a cold expression, and Hugh Tina, who heard Pettis’ story of her, tries to tell her something of her.

Pettis laughs and continues.

“Trolls are cunning. They prefer lone enemies. Don’t worry. We’ll make sure we don’t get killed in the back. If you die, we’re in danger too.”

In other words, it was to become a bait.

“…”

“What, do you hate it? You think it’s a role that suits you, the lowest person here?”

At his words her, Cain shuts her mouth for a moment, then raises her head to answer.

“Now, the breeding season for trolls is close. Male trolls are afraid of females and are running away. Females of trolls absorb all of the male’s spirit after mating, kill, and eat it. But by doing so, the next generation will be more They say it can breed many, stronger trolls.”

“…Are you suddenly mimicking the creature time?”

Pettis seemed to be talking nonsense, but Cain continued.

“Trolls locate each other by their sense of smell. Males smell males and females smell females. And surprisingly, the scents are said to be very similar to those of humans of either sex.”

“…All of this is what I heard in class at school. So?”

When Hyutina and Cain talk as if they don’t know what they are talking about, Cain looks at Hyutina as he talks.

“With Miss Hutina’s help, we can all move through the forest avoiding the trolls.”

“Sleep… What are you talking about!?”

Hutina was shocked, but Pettis was also surprised.

“You bastard… What are you talking about to my fiancé!”

“We haven’t talked about the specific method yet… But it means to release pheromones. Sweat, or something mixed with bodily fluids. Of course, just shedding sweat is useless. As far as being sexually aroused-“

The next moment, Petos approached Cain and drew his sword.

“If you say any more, I will cut your tongue out.”

“If there’s another way, let’s talk about it. By the way, the decoy strategy the captain mentioned earlier has little meaning with a troll’s excellent sense of smell.”

When Cain refuses to back down, Pettis tries to swing her sword.

But the next moment, a blade like a chain flies in and blocks Pettis’s sword.

It was Hutina’s plain clothes sword.

“Hutina!?”

“…Okay. That’s the only way, right? But… Not perverted enough to get excited in a situation like this.”

“…This.”

What Cain passed on while saying that was a stimulant – a kind of aphrodisiac.

That in itself was well known to Pettis and others.

It was an item prepared so that when other female students were brought into the garrison, they would forcefully act if they tried to reject it.

“…Was this the plan from the beginning?”

Hugh Tina asks, looking at Cain, but Cain only shrugs her shoulders.

“I prepared it because I needed it. That’s all.”

“Uh, hey Houtina. That, you don’t need to drink. Once you go back to school and bring a suitable girl back-“

The next second, Hugh Tina inhales her aphrodisiac without even listening to Pettis.

“…Cuu…”

The aphrodisiac of her improvisation her seemed to work, Hugh Tina crouched down on her body her, immediately causing her blushing.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

Pettis runs over and catches her as she stumbles as if she is struggling to control her body while taking a low breath.

“Oh, hey! Hyutina! Are you okay!?”

“It’s okay… It’s okay… I didn’t know how to count this…”

Pettis gulps at the sight of her fiancé her, but she soon realizes that she’s not looking at Hugh Tina, and she yells at them to turn their heads.

“…You… Made my fiancé do this. Let’s see when we get back…!”

Then he looks at Cain with angry eyes and threatens him.

The fact that she doesn’t deal with it right now is that Hugh Tina, who can be said to be the strongest human in this world, has taken her medicine and is in a state where she can’t fight, so she’ll need at least one more strength.

If she ever has anything to do with it.

“Quickly install the barrier stone and go back! Before Hyutina’s medicinal effect wears off!”

Saying that, Pettis lost her temper and led Hutina into the forest.

[Huh. So far, it’s as planned.]

“…I told you. I prepared it because I needed it.”

Facing Pandora’s words lightly, Cain followed Pettis into the forest.

Now, we’re almost there.

004

With Pettis carrying Hutina, who can’t walk properly, she sets up barrier stones around the outskirts of the forest.

As expected, troll fields were visible even around the outskirts, and rare plants were being cultivated.

However, thanks to Hutina, which scatters female pheromones around the area as an aphrodisiac, male trolls did not approach to protect themselves and female trolls did not approach to prevent overlapping hunting areas.

If we finish installing the barrier stone to the last place like this, we can safely return to the military academy.

When Pettis went back to the military academy, his mind was full of thoughts of reporting what had happened and punishing Cain with something like harassing an aristocrat.

“…For a moment.”

During the installation of the last barrier stone, when Cain, who was watching the surroundings, said so, the party looked back at him.

“…Something is strange.”

“…What else?”

After Cain said that, he looked back at the party and spoke.

“For a moment, I’ll look ahead.”

“Uh, hey! That bastard…!”

“Leave it. If you get caught by a troll, you’ll die alone.”

“…”

Only Hyutina looked at Cain worriedly for a moment, but soon she lowered her head again because her body was itching from the medicinal effect.

Your underwear is already damp.

Go back quickly and take a shower. I want to go to bed.

Because the judgment was clouded with only that thought left.

He could not point out Cain’s sudden departure.

And that was Cain’s ultimate goal his.

The next moment, something sticky liquid dripped from the top of the men’s heads.

The white, stinky thing wet the heads and shoulders of Pettis and the others with a pattering sound.

“What, what is this!?”

“Uh-wook…!”

Pettis, who can’t stand the smell and can’t control his expression in displeasure.

“Dae, Captain… Is this… Semen, is it?”

“Semen? Who…”

The next moment, a vibration echoed through the ground.

“What…”

The sound of vibrations getting closer and closer. The moment they realized it was footsteps, the group’s faces turned pale.

“Troll, troll! Female troll! I smelled this!”

The thugs noticed it and turned around to run away in a panic.

“Mmm, idiots! Don’t scatter!”

But, as if it was too late, a huge woman appeared through the forest, reached out from the darkness and picked up a male student who was trying to escape.

“Ah, aaagh! Quaaaaagh!!”

I saw the screaming boy’s body being mashed up by his teeth and being torn apart like jerky.

“Hee, hee!”

And then, the other male student who watched the scene collapsed in his seat and excused himself.

“Fuck…! Fuck!”

Pettis puts his foot down to draw his sword and lunge at the troll.

The next moment, another female troll appeared from the forest and picked up the boy who had collapsed on his seat his, so he completely lost his fighting spirit.

Dropping the sword, backing away, I turned around in unbearable fear.

“Now, wait… Pettis!”

Then, a voice called him.

I saw Hugh Tina, leaning against a tree, unable to control her body properly due to the effects of the aphrodisiac.

If she were to take her with her, she would surely be captured as she had little chance of escaping in her forest.

Her pupils of Pettis shake violently, and Pettis, who looked back at her once, turned her head away again.

“Pettis…?”

“Mi-sorry. Hutina. Sorry… I’m really sorry… I, I have to live… I’m the eldest son of a ducal family…”

Hutina’s face was once again stained with despair.

I became like this for you guys.

Are you leaving me like that?

“This, it’s all because of him. The filthy black horse clan commoner… Is away…!”

Hearing Pettis say that, Hutina staggered and tried to follow him, but the medicinal effect prevented even that.

“So, blame him! Okay!”

“Hey, wait, Pettis!”

The next moment when Pettis was about to turn and run towards the exit, even letting go of his earnest voice her-

Half of his body her. Gone from above.

A huge mouth protruded from the darkness and swallowed him head first.

“──”

Hugh Tina felt her head her go blank as her fiancé her turned into a hunk of meat before her eyes her.

It was a relationship her parents had arranged for her, but she didn’t think it was bad to get this or that respect from him.

That’s what aristocratic marriages are anyway. Thinking of him-

“AA AA AA!!!”

Hutina’s thinking, thinking that far, collapsed.

It was impossible no matter how hard I tried to think.

Her body was not normal, and all around her were three deaths devouring their prey.

She wouldn’t know if it was out of sight, but in this visible situation, she couldn’t even fake that she was a female troll.

Finished. Everything.

Where and what went wrong?

The moment when a voice crying like a child echoes in the forest without making such a judgment.

“Eat it! Pandora!”

From the sky, a torrent of black magic like a black beast fell like lightning.

She cut down the troll closest to her.

The troll, with her body split in half, spurted blood and died instantly, and fell on the spot with chunks of meat shed from her stomach her.

[RKEEIEE!!]

When the trolls, who let out strange screams at the murder of their own kind, try to capture the person who exudes dark magic at the same time.

He spins his body her, creating a storm of black blades that literally crushes both trolls at the same time.

This time the trolls became flesh.

“Ka, in…”

What appeared in the black whirlwind was a person suspected of creating this situation.

Cain approached Hugh Tina with her greatsword resting on her back and lifted her body her onto her shoulder her.

And, it was to run through the forest at high speed and get out of the spot.

“You… From the beginning, with this thought…”

“I did what was necessary. I’ve been talking like that since before.”

“Necessary… Work… Why, did you save me…”

In her slowly fading consciousness, she asked Cain a question.

“Because it’s useful.”

005

“… I understand. You have suffered greatly. And, I have read the report on Pettis’ atrocities so far… He, while a nobleman, repeatedly committed acts unbefitting for the position of a nobleman. His death, You could say it’s your responsibility.”

The next day, after returning to the military academy and submitting his report to his, Cain was almost court-martialed, but Pettis’s uncle took into account Cain’s situation and was able to escape it.

Of course, the head of the family – Pettis’s parents could have rebelled against it, but if the same duchy stopped it, the story would be different.

“Hutina-san. What you said must be true, right?”

“Yes. Pettis… Died while trying to escape after abandoning me from being attacked by trolls. It was Cain who saved it. He has skills, the ability to judge situations, and the power to create strategies. Much more than Pettis, I think he’s the right person for a platoon commander.”

“… It must have been a disappointment to the guy who was her fiancé her… I see. I’ll have to talk to some of the other teachers.”

After talking like that, Cain and Hutina left his office.

“…This must have been it. Cain.”

“Of course. I’m just grateful. Hyutina-sama.”

“…Hutina is fine. Anyway, with this imprint, I belong to you.”

Cain sees Hugh Tina showing her her near her neck her.

There, the highest-level magical seal of obedience, called the ‘Seal of Domination’, was engraved.

It was unexpected even for Cain that the effect of the aphrodisiac did not fade over time on the night he left the troll forest.

As if neutralizing the medicine was the original method of use, Cain decided that it would be dangerous to continue as it was, as his body temperature did not drop and he was sweating profusely.

To remove the medicinal effect from her body his … Even her actions are different.

It was her second time carving this of hers.

“… Through the imprint, her sister’s presence is felt. You-“

“It was a mutual agreement.”

“… Heh. With this, both of the Flairless daughters are under your control. What is the purpose?”

At her words her, Cain sees the Empire-Emperor’s coat of arms hanging on the wall of the military academy.

“…”

“No way-“

“Haha, no way.”

After saying that, Cain parted ways with Hugh Tina and went back to her own room.

[Does it feel good to rule? Cain. Because you can chew on the feeling of your strength increasing.]

“…Yes. But, it’s not enough. A little more. I need a lot of power. The kingdom’s throne. In order to reach there with my sword, this is not enough.”

Cain’s eyes burned with black darkness.

The flames in the pitch-black eyes of his were burning, devouring revenge and ambition.

Sooner or later, it will even burn itself.

Now, there is no Pettis Platoon. Cain’s platoon is just being newly created.

It was the first platoon in which a commoner served as a platoon commander, and later, the platoon commander with the highest grades at the Imperial Academy graduated at the top of his class.

It was the first and last in the history of the Empire.

The end of the Empire was slowly approaching.