Summer vacation was creeping closer with each passing day, and you could almost feel it in the air with the restless energy of the cadets and the way their voices carried further with it filled with anticipation. The whole place seemed brighter and livelier, as if the world itself was preparing for a break. And along with that came the unforgiving heat of the sun, pouring down relentlessly on us with its rays stinging the skin and making the stone walls and training fields radiate waves of warmth.
But for me, the arrival of summer wasn't just about the season itself. It meant that the time we'd been waiting for... I mean, the plan we had been preparing all this time, was drawing near. Soon, we would infiltrate the Empire of Rodonia. Soon, we would set out to free the elven slaves suffering there.
