Chapter 20 (2/2)

And although Fii never thought anything much of herself, York had told her to be proud.

Because of that, Fii didn’t want to give way to these boys, and she met their gaze.

“It’s true that I’m weak, and my background isn’t good. But I have the right talents, which is why they brought me into the 18th. That’s all it is, nothing more, nothing less. Besides, background doesn’t matter when it comes to becoming a knight.”

Because they had all just arrived here, the two boys didn’t know just how stubborn Fii could be. Her reaction had them fl.u.s.tered.

She was tiny, and had a girly face, so they had been sure that her personality would have been weak as well.

She even lost during her first match.

“Uu-… Hmph, a guy like you? Didn’t you bribe them or something to get in…?”

“Yeah. I bet something dirty happened!”

In that moment, Fii’s eyes narrowed coldly. And then after her expression turned into one of obvious mocking, she snorted.

Fii was angry.

It wasn’t pleasant that they had mocked illegal immigrants and the poor, nor that they had stupidly accused her of bribery. But this was something else.

“Are the two of you idiots? Do you think the Captain is the sort of person who would allow that?”

In this past week, York had completely gained Fii’s trust.

Every apprentice knight looked up to him, but even so, Fii was amongst the most intense.

To begin with, York had earned her admiration for being the first person to ever say that she was needed. But during the one week with the apprentice knights where they had fervently told tales of his greatness, that admiration slowly became reinforced.

By now, she trusted him, she wors.h.i.+pped him, and she was as good as the first member of the York Faith.

To her, the accusation that she had entered through bribery was as good as insulting Captain York himself.

Not only that, it was an insult to everybody else in the 18th as well.

But las.h.i.+ng out would be immature.

If it was Captain York, he wouldn’t pay any attention to nonsense like this. So Fii simply laughed at them in scorn.

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