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On that day, the blue sky stretched endlessly.
"Commander, do you have any plans for retirement?" asked a voice.
"Yeah, I'm going to buy a house in the southern kingdom and do absolutely nothing," Cain Latorre, the commander, replied.
"Seriously? That sounds like the least idyllic plan I've ever heard," Kerra said.
"Kerra, I've always had this in mind, but you say too many useless things," Cain commented.
The two men exchanged words as they stood in the quiet palace garden. Cain, the commander of the Imperial Guards, was clearly annoyed at Kerra's clinginess.
"Kerra, I'm not some noble like you. I don't know a thing about 'idyllic.' Who the hell talks about things like that with a slave?" Cain replied, his tone sharp.
"Why would your background matter, Commander? You're still you," Kerra responded.
"The nobles seem to think it matters," Cain muttered.
"That's why I left my family and joined the Imperial Guards in the first place, didn't I? Those nobles are like trash. Slave or noble, we all die the same when a blade strikes us," Kerra grumbled as he watered the flowers.
Cain chuckled at Kerra. This guy was truly funny. He still had the gall to joke as the Lestons' forces marched toward the capital. In just three days, Halo Leston would arrive, leading his army toward the capital.
Cain had already ordered the Imperial Guards to leave, as there was no pride or honor left worth protecting in this palace. Most of the knights had fled. After all, there weren't a lot of knights who wanted to go down with an emperor who had...
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