Don't Be Kind Rashly (Completed Main Story) - Side Story 192

Katat. For 430 years, it had been the capital of the Calleta Empire, founded by a traitor who dared to proclaim himself emperor.

Lu knew this ancient city well—so rigidly structured, yet unnaturally overflowing with artificial beauty.

She had lived here from the day she entered the academy until her retirement as a knight; there was nothing unfamiliar about it.

The street of tailors, where knights once relieved the pressure and burdens of knighthood by sweeping up newly released dresses and jewels; next to it, the shoemakers’ lane; and a little further in, opulent noble clubs lined the streets, where gambling was merely a pretense to exchange money for gold ingots.

But now, not a trace remained of the city’s former upright, hierarchical, and haughty atmosphere. The city, once ruled by the defeated, was utterly broken and desolate.

“Hmm…”

It wasn’t unpleasant to see familiar places lose their former glory—shops closing down, lights going out. She knew these places, these stores, and sometimes even the faces.

“Well, whatever.”

But there was no point in chasing after familiar faces who fled the moment they saw her.

Lu shook her head. The knights, who had been tensed and ready to bolt at the slightest command, relaxed their bodies slightly. What was the point of grabbing them? They simply weren’t worth the effort.

‘Where have I seen them before…? Ah, right. Of course I’ve seen them—they’re all connected to the Imperial Knights.’

The Imperial Knights had suffered a crushing defeat right before Katat’s walls and were completely disbanded.

Hayden was a merciful emperor, but that didn’t mean he was soft.

Everything Carlos had left behind had to vanish without a trace. Thus, the people of the Calleta Empire—who had practically worshipped Carlos—especially the extremists, would never even find his corpse.

“When that man dies someday, I’ll grind his body into dust.”

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