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(T/N: sorry for the delay. Itâs been a hectic day for me. Bad news: there wonât be any update next week. Good news: a total of 5 bonus chapters on Valentineâs Day to make up for the lack of updates in January. Oh, and pls do check my comment below.)\n
âI heard that this guy who doesnât look like a decent man have got himself a woman, so I came here to watch. Sheâs too skinny but sheâs pretty.â\n\nHe said it while sizing me up from top to bottom. Uhm, somehow Iâm getting frustrated. The Holy Knights and Imperial Knights are prohibited from having any duel, but right now Iâm not a holy knight. The problem itself right now is Iâm also not a knight either. Is it possible for me to ask a duel with a knight when Iâm not a knight myself? If itâs possible, then I would like to borrow Callitus to beat him up.\n\nâIf thatâs the case, then youâre done. Itâs already late, so please go back.â\n
The Luth guy had a grimace look on his face, indicating that heâs got angry again by Ortzenâs âcourteousâ remarks. To begin with, his looks is already just average, not handsome at all, and now his face became crumpled like that that it seemed like it might got cracked.\n\nâI also belong to this shitty squad! Where do you think you ask me to leave to?!â\n\nâThe last time I saw you was two months ago. I thought youâve already resigned from the squad.â\n\nThat was already enough reason to be fired for negligence in duty. The noisy Luth casted a ferocious gaze on Ortzen, -who always kept a consistent smile on his face-, then shifted his gaze on me. Oh, our eyes met. What should I do? Should I ask him for a duel?\n\nâShe is Count Epheriaâs daughter, isnât she? From what I know, this woman is the only legitimate descendant of Count Epheriaâs family, that means he could be a Count when they get married.â\n\nLooks like he didnât know the details situation of my family. But seriously, can I hit him or not? Previously Iâve seen some noble ladies slapped the other party on the cheek because they took offense due to the other partyâs rude behavior, then can I also give him a slap for his bold dirty looks that was directed at me? If I put a lot of holy power into my slap, at least one of his tooth might have fallen out.\n\nWhile I was tightly clenching my fist, suddenly that guy reached out his hand to me. Ugh, what is this? If I caught his hand, then can I hit him? Should I hit? Can IâŠ? As soon as that hand of his touched my body, I have already prepared to give him a blow with my fist, but Captain Jullius beat me into it.\n\nâAaaahh!â\n\nCaptain Jullius grabbed that bastard Luthâs wrist and twisted it. On the surface, it appeared as if Captain Jullius had just grabbed it lightly, but that arrogant Luth grimaced and screamed. While looking at that bastard, Captain Jullius opened his mouth.\n\nâTouch her and youâre dead.â\n\nAt the same time, a strong killing intent that made oneâs skin crawled, spread out from Captain Jullius. It has been a long time since the last time I was thrilled over this creepy feeling. Feeling this kind of emotion, arose my desire to grab anyone and engaged in a duel, but seemed like itâs not the case for that bastard Luth. He drew back his wrist and held it with a pale face then quickly hurled back.\n\nâThat, I âŠâ\n\nDonât know what heâs mumbling about, but then he ran away from the dining hall. Tsk, if it wasnât because of Captain Julliusâ decided to meddle in, I would have hit him. I could have just hit his face while screaming, âKyaaa, where are you touching?!â Noble women wonât be found guilty by committing such assaults in these cases. Well, too bad that I missed the chance.\n\nâUhm, Miss EpheriaâŠâ\n\nI stared at the dining hallâs door where Luth disappeared to with much regret when suddenly Ortzen spoke to me carefully for some reason.\n\nâHuh?â\n\nAfter being called suddenly, I turned around to see that Ortzen has a somewhat difficult look on his face while Captain Jullius looked like a puppy who was getting scolded. Erm, could it be there was still something else I didnât know about? Why were you guys looking like that?\n\nâIs it okay to chase him out just like that?â\n\nCould it be that bastard has a strong backup so he might caused some problems later on? In response to my words, Ortzen looked carefully at me and opened his mouth.\n\nâAre you alright?â\n\nâHe didnât even get to touch me, so of course Iâm fine. If he really touch me, then I would have beat him up. But unfortunately Captain Jullius step in before I could do anything.â\n\nItâs a pity that my âpreyâ was gone just like that. I glanced up to look at Captain Jullius who was grumbling a bit but he flinched and avoided my eyes. Well, did he feel sorry for taking away my âpreyâ? Hmm, you didnât have to think that far. I grabbed his hand and patted the back of his hand.\n\nâItâs okay. Donât mind it. But instead, the next time that guy comes again to look for trouble, Captain Jullius must leave him be for me to handle, okay?â\n\nââŠ, leave it to Miss?â\n
âYup. He looks weaker than me. If youâre worried, then lend me Callitus.â\n\nThe pale grey eyes that have been avoiding me, slowly turned their gaze on me. You didnât have to be that nervous, Iâm not that kind of narrow-minded woman.\n\nâMiss Epheria⊠are you really okayâŠ?â\n\nâIâm really okay. Itâs a pity, but Iâm not angry.â\n\nItâs just that I felt a bit frustated. In the past, Iâve always had mock battles or duels everyday so it has been a while since then. My dear stepmother didnât seem to have any intention to send any assassins to come after me either. I was still patting the seemingly depressed Captain Julliusâ hand then turned my head to look at Ortzen.\n
âThat guy earlier is the vice-captain of Special Task Squad? He looks weak.â\n\nCaptain Jullius has only let out a bit of his murderous aura but heâs already scared witless and ran away. Ortzen cleared his throat once before repliying to my question.\n\nâThe characteristics of Special Task Squad are quite different in comparison to the other Imperial Knight Squads. Even though the Imperial Knights pledge their allegiances to the Imperial Family, there are still some noble-born knights who put their own respective households in the utmost interest. While there are indeed some who are earnestly loyal to the Imperial Family, there are also some who only think about the benefits for their respective households. And ironically in the reality, the later are greater in numbers.â\n\nWell, thatâs true. Itâs common for most people to care more about their own flesh and blood than the Emperor.\n\nâOn the contrary, with the exception of Captain and Vice-Captain, the rights to live of all members of Special Task Squad are in His Majestyâs hand. And because His Majesty owns our life, thus he can give us any orders for any of his objectives without worrying about outsideâs intervention. In other words, the whole Special Task Squad is owned by the Emperor.â\n\nAnd based on that fact, it means that the Special Task Squad is purely a squad whose absolute authority is owned by the Emperor himself without any intervention from other noble factions.\n\nâObviously, there are many nobles who are against the existence of Special Task Squad. Because they wonât know when the Special Task Squadâs sword is going to be directed at them, and when that time comes, thereâs no way they could stop it. To prevent that, in every generation, the high ranking nobles with great influences will push someone they can control to be the vice-captain of Special Task Squad. And for the current generation, itâs Sir Luth.â\n\nSo it means that he acted as a spy for those nobles who feared that the Emperor is going after their heads?\n\nâEven so, it doesnât look like he did his job though? You said that he comes here after two months.â\n\nOrtzen made a bitter smile in response to my words.\n\nâFrom Sir Luthâs perspective, for him to come here makes him feels like he has lowered himself to a certain degree and he considered it as disgraceful.â\n\nâBut still, heâs just being lazy.â\n\nâWell, we very much prefer that he doesnât appear much before us. Whenever he came to look for troubles, I always told Captain to just ignore him.â\n\nSo thatâs why he shouted and yelled like that to Captain Jullius. When you canât hit him, then itâs better to just ignore him.\n\nâIf that bastard dares to make troubles out of the accident a while ago, just say that he was slapped by a weak noble lady. Donât worry, Iâll testify.â\n\nâThank you.â\n\nActually, I really almost slap him back then. Anyway, it must have been hard for my Captain Jullius from being disturbed by a clinging bug like that. Now itâs time to sleep. I was still holding Captain Julliusâ hand and looked up to him.\n\nâDo you want to sleep together?â\n\nItâs troublesome to return home now. Although Sofia has warned me from staying overnight, but if I stayed at my fianceeâs house then it shouldnât cause any problems, right? I just need to send someone to inform my house that I will stay overnight here. In response to my words, Captain Jullius had a difficult look on his face.\n\nâClauen said we shouldnât do thatâŠâ\n\nâJust ignore that silly bratâs nagging.â\n\nClauen isnât scary. But Ortzen is a little scary⊠I swept a quick glance at Ortzen and he just waved his hand slowly and said.\n\nâI donât care, so you can do whatever you want. I wonât even care whether you guys want to sleep together or do something even more troublesome than that.â\n\nWhat did he mean by saying that? Did he mean we can sneak out in the middle of the night to cause some troubles? Whoa, it turns out heâs much more tolerant than my deputy. But, today I donât have any intentions to stir up troubles because right now I really want to sleep more than anything else.