Early War.

  Due to the overwhelming demand for ander-level talent, the Imperial gover decided that the officer training system operated iime alone would not be able to maintain the front lines.

  The institutioablished was thus the Officer Training School.

  It ecial educational institution that gathered didates from noble or semi-noble families scripted from all over the Empire and traihem to bee anders who could be deployed in real battles in a short period of time.

  Numerous nobles naturally objected to having to enroll one or more of their precious children in this unfamiliar institution that was simir to a 'school' attended by oners.

  In the end, when His Majesty the Emperor personally issued a mobilization order, they had to send their 'least precious' children to the capital with tears in their eyes.

  Even nobles who had no children other than their successors were no exception, so some noble families who were about to lose their lineage must have been going crazy.

  But what I do?

  The alliance of fn peoples who had achieved great unification in the north was daring to ihe territory of the empire with their dark hands.

  In the end, war was iable.

  And I was one of the first graduates of that officer training school.

  'Damn, damn, damn!'

  "Ahem."

  The vice-captain, standing stiffly in front of me, turned his head away, coughing slightly and shaking his chest.

  Unlike usual, I couldn't bring myself to greet him warmly.

  In the end, the vice-captain asked me with a worried expression.

  "ander? Did I make a mistake…?"

  "Oh, the vice-captain? No, you didn't do anything wrong."

  To the point of showiion on my fa front of the vice-captain who had e to report on his work.

  I guess I was really upset because bad memories were starting to e bae.

  But this 't tinue.

  I opened my mouth with aremely miserable heart.

  "Collect all the anders, including the captains of the hundred men, no… the captains of the ten men. I have to rey important information."

  Instead of receivis as usual, I gave a sudden order to assemble, and the vice-captain looked quite surprised, but thankfully he followed along without asking any questions.

  "Yes! I uand."

  I immediately went to the feren and sat at the round table, waiting for the ao gather one by one.

  If there really weren't any vice-captains, it would have been twice as difficult to run the unit as it was now.

  The turions who were supposed to be the bae of the Bck Lion Knights knew how to use a sword. They all worked together, which was not very satisfying.

  Well, sihey were all people who had risen to the level of captain, it's not that they were inpetent per se, but rather that they had developed bad habits from w uheir predecessors for a long time.

  That's why the leader is important. Because all the people under him are bound to be affected.

  'Ha, really... '

  I usually try to refrain from having idle thoughts during work hours, but because I'm upset, all sorts of useless thoughts keep lingering in my head.

  I kept my head down for a while and pressed my eyebrows together.

  —What the heck, what is it? What the hell, what the hell happened? —Shh, watch your words. The captain might be listening.

  —Damn, that face alone is scary. I don't want to see that guy angry again.

  —I agree. But he's much better than the previous captain.

  —Don't you think it's rude to pare him to that pig?

  When I heard a otion nearby and the sound of people rushing in one by one from afar, I immediately straightened my posture.

  Then, all the people gathered, with the st of the ten-man captains closing the door and ing in.

  Me and the vice-captain sitting around a round table. And the white captains.

  And the ten captains who stood up in line acc to their respective affiliations all took a passionate resting pose, pleting the meeting preparations.

  "Vice-captain, is everyone here?"

  "Yes! Everyone is here, except for the personnel dispatched from outside and the ten captain Raoul who is probably ireatmeer right now."

  Yes, everyone is here, except for the personnel who are not in the unit right now and the guy with the hole in his shoulder.

  "I'm sorry to call you here when everyone is busy, but let me get straight to the point."

  As I opened my mouth, the eyes of nearly a hundred different types of water mirrors all started looking at one pce.

  Their faces were very diverse, from puzzled expressions to tense expressions to annoyed expressions.

  After gng at the faces of the anders, I finally made a public decration.

  "The princess will soon visit our Bck Lion Knights."

  A cold silence.

  For a while, only a suffog silenihe entire space.

  "Hip!"

  The silehat had sted for a dozen seds was broken by the hiccup of a certain female knight.

  As a result, everyone's eyes were focused on one person for a moment, and she looked as if she was about to cry, uo bear the pressure.

  "Hip... I'm, I'm sorry!"

  It was a sight that felt very obvious to me.

  In the midst of the plicated atmosphere that I couldn't describe, I quietly closed my eyes for a moment.

  'Yes, it was definitely like that back then.'

  Right befraduating from the officer training academy. That is, when they were about to be deployed to the battlefield.

  The cadets had heard that His Majesty the Emperor had personally e to boost the morale of the new officers.

  We were all in a panic when we heard the hat a symbol of absolute authority and a being close to a wise god was ing before our eyes.

  Half-jokingly, we even talked about how it would be better to just ght to the battlefield.

  One of the didates, who was the son of a wealthy mert who had been givele of honorary noble, hiccupped like that.

  Is he alive?

  I miss his face, but there is no way to know where he is.

  Everyone dispersed as soon as they graduated, saying they had to fill the gap in personnel on the front lines.

  As I slowly opened my eyes from my deep thoughts, the captain of the 100th troop sittio me cautiously spoke to me.

  "If it's the princess... Are you talking about that princess Alicia? Why oh would she be here..."

  I don't know, you punk.

  At that moment, I almost blurted out the harsh expression that came to mind as soon as I heard the truly meaningless question, but I barely mao hold back with the faint self-trol that remained.

  A hundred-year-old captain. If a first-year-old captain could ask such a question so openly, the embarrassment that the other subordinates must have felt goes without saying.

  "Who oh is ing? The royal family? Why the royal family?!"

  "This isn't real…"

  "Why would someone as high as a princess be ied in a mere knight order…"

  All the knights, and even the anders, were showiions that were almost like throwing away their dignity and ag like they were ignorant. I didn't even think about reprimanding them.

  There was no way that a princess who had grown up like a greenhouse flower would suddenly bee ied in the military.

  The reason why they came all the way here robably because of me.

  The events that happehat night began to fsh through my mind one by one.

  The naked body of the princess without a sihread. The sight of her trembling in fear at the sight of my face. And the physical tact without my sent.

  'What happeoday. Don't ever fet it.'

  There were too many things that would prick my sce to ask why I was doing this.

  My eyes closed tightly when I saw my subordinates showing signs of pani groups regardless of their status.

  'I'm really sorry, everyone.'

  My sin is great.

  Princess of the Empire, Alicia von Diana Soris.

  Uher royals who adhered to mysticism as much as possible in order to maintain the dignity of the imperial family, she was unusually active in public activities.

  Alicia would approach even the lowest of the low without hesitation and do generous good deeds, and she would visit the churd pray in person whenever she had the ce.

  Her benevolent nature and siy were already famous to an excessive degree.

  That is why, when she said she would visit the Bck Lion Knights, one of the knight orders that protected the empire, for the purpose of sotion, no one doubted her iion.

  In the first pce, it was not unon fh-ranking officials, including the royal family, to occasionally i military units or knight orders.

  However, since Alicia had never shown any i in the empire's military sector, some people suspected that she might have begun to take an i in the petition for the right of succession.

  Sihe princess's reputation had been so solid, such impure opinions quickly died down.

  Of course, Princess Alicia herself had a pletely different thought.

  "Yhness. The carriage and escort for the visit to the Bck Lion Knights have been prepared."

  "Yes. Could you tell them that I have something to prepare for them, so please wait a moment?"

  "Yes, Yhness."

  Alicia, who had sent all the maids outside, checked her appearance more in the full-length mirror.

  A pure white dress remi of a bride's attire, a rge navy ribbon that atuated her mysterious silver hair, and a neckce made of pure gold with a rge sapphire in the ter.

  She was truly dazzlingly beautiful.

  However, her expression was sullen. Was there something she was dissatisfied with?

  "Huh! That man, he did such a shameless thing that night and didn't even dare tact me once."

  Alicia began mumbling to herself in the mirror.

  Alicia was now telling herself a secret that she couldn't evehe maids of the vil who had been supp her since she was a baby.

  "You dared to shake my heart like this, so you should take responsibility."

  The hobby she had enjoyed periodically to relieve the stress of ag like an ideal princess in front of others was no longer enjoyable.

  Also, the memory of that night was still vivid even now, a week ter, and it was stantly b Alicia.

  It was all that man's fault.

  "He even made me go there myself. I guess I 't just let it go."

  —Ssulk

  Alicia muttered a meaningful word and suddenly began to take off all the clothes c her lower body.

  Shoes, stogs, garter belts, and…

  "Haa…"

  Even the pure white cloth that should have covered the most secret part of her body.

  "Wolfgang von Schwarz. You must be prepared."

  —Swish, swish…

  Alicia quietly whispered a warning to a man who was not here, and put on all the clothes she had left on the carpet.

  Only ohing. Except the most important thing.

  "I'm sorry, did I make you wait a little too long?"

  "Please don't say that. We are always ready to assist you, Your Majesty."

  "Hehe, thank you. Now, shall we go?"

  "Yes, Yhness."

  After Alicia left.

  Uhe magnifit full-length mirror in the princess's bedroom.

  Only the pure white underwear that had lost its owner was lying alone.