He couldn’t eat properly, looked skinny, and had bloodshot eyes from lack of sleep. A young man who deliberately smeared himself with mud and didn’t wash, unsure of what he might face in the crazy army. With eyes full of venom, he could only think of surviving, swinging the sword that wasn’t properly sheathed.

“How did we meet?”

She couldn’t remember the first meeting. She remembered the anger. Why on earth was there a boy soldier? She burst into anger, questioning why there were boy soldiers.

The academy students were already people destined to become knights, and some even practiced magic. If they were essential forces that couldn’t be missed in battle, boy soldiers were never supposed to be present in battles.

“How can this happen! Are we lacking in strength? How can you send a child we should properly take care of into battle! Of course, we must stop this! Boy soldiers should never exist in battles!”

She shouted at the complex-looking vice commander, and the knights who beat the boy followed suit. She used her ‘genius’ reputation to protect the boy repeatedly.

The boy had intact limbs and was an experienced knight, but he was a boy soldier, wasn’t it insane? Perhaps Ru thought that from that time on, she began to doubt the Kalleta Empire itself.

“Did you finish eating? Well done.”

Even after wolfing down the bread due to hunger, the boy was very wary of her.

She could only provide him with meals from a distance, change his sword to a new one, and secretly take out time to let him sleep separately. By then, Ru had vaguely known. It was impossible to completely remove this guy from the battlefield.

There was something going on if the vice commander couldn’t say anything. Something that even an ordinary academy student couldn’t touch.

Meanwhile, the boy came out wiping his hands with a towel. A lot of bruises had faded while Ru was busy. Huh, he’s really handsome.

“Did you wash your hands? Well done.”

“…Aren’t you afraid?”

And the boy soldier slapped Ru. When a loud noise rang out, the birds flew away.

“Where do you get off speaking informally? Call me ‘Nunim’! Call me ‘Nunim,’ you scoundrel!”

Although he was avoiding well because he was hit so much, this knight’s fist couldn’t be avoided. It was an unbelievable speed. Moreover, it hurt terribly, as if the bone was ringing. His hand was very swollen.

“…Even though the age difference isn’t that big, why ‘Nunim’…”

Even though tears were welling up from the pain, while constantly rubbing her forehead, the boy glared at her with his gray eyes full of anger.

Since his determination was outstanding, she thought he would be useful if taught well. On the battlefield, ‘being useful’ meant at least doing his part and not dying.

“What’s your name?”

“Kkabun-da.”

As Ru’s green eyes flickered, the boy muttered with a grumbling voice.

“If you teach me your name.”

“What’s your name?”

“You teach me first.”
She stubbornly spoke. One shouldn’t reveal the name of the aristocracy lightly. She intended to find out the other person’s name first.

“…Lustica Genesis. Call me Ru if you don’t like ‘Nunim’.”

The boy nodded slowly.

“Yeah, Ru.”

He became so stubbornly arrogant. Despite already gaining a lot, he never let go of his pride.

The passing memories were so vivid.

A white cheek stained with sword marks, gray eyes full of distrust from witnessing terrible things several times already lost their light.

Knowing the surroundings were changing, Ru extended her left hand, which had been freed instead of her caught right hand, and grabbed the neck of the one who had kidnapped her.

“You audacious brat…!”

How dare he show up again. Ru glared at him with emerald eyes as she sharpened her knives. She would kill him. She already knew that everything would end the moment she handed herself over to Carlos Arthur Ingram again.

How she was kidnapped and where ‘here’ was didn’t matter. It was already done. What mattered was properly making the last resistance. Even if she died, she would never die alone.

Heat like a hot iron rose from the tips of her left hand. If he had good eyes, he would have known that it was the signal that the self-destructing spell was starting.

However, the intensity was too weak. Her cursed body couldn’t even pull off a proper spell. Ru tried to twist her caught right hand to pull it away, but Carlos didn’t let go.

“Let go, or not?”

She would kill him. Her green eyes filled with anger and hatred pierced him.

He clearly tried to catch her, but he didn’t miss the moment. While he was holding Ru’s hand, he processed the imposter Imperiales who mimicked the glory of the former Imperiales and took them all down. After that, he grabbed Ru’s hand and brought her here.

But then, a brilliant woman poured down as it was.

Pouring down brightly, filling the field of view, filling the nose with a fragrant scent, and numbing the senses with warm body temperature. It was completely different from her usual appearance, with tightly tied hair and stiff uniform buttons up to the neck.