Chapter 119
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"Why you though?"
Joshua's face appeared as though he could devour me at any moment.
'He really looks like Cedric when he's angry. Well, both of them are pretty intimidating when they're mad...'
"His Majesty issued orders to send recruitment notices to Academy graduates, and since I graduated at the top this year, I was specifically summoned."
"..."
"I'm not going because I want to, Josh."
'I never actively tried to avoid it, but I certainly never wished for this.'
"But if I don't go, it won't just be Julianne; others will suffer too."
'Even if it weren't compulsory, I would have still contemplated it though.'
"And you're going too. I'm too worried to just let you go alone."
'Even though I made those protective earrings for you, what if something happens to you out there? Even during the battle at Rinelope, the entire Imperial Army was wiped out. The Blanchet couple may have been insufferable, but they did have decades of experience. That's something.'
