Absolute Loyalty

"So how is she? "

"She will be okay if she rests for a while. And of course I advice you not to do it for a while too. Although her injuries are not severe, it will worsen if you continue to do it"

"Continue to do it?"

"Ahem, here is medicine just give her three times a day for a week. Be gentle with her from now on... oh right, if nothing goes wrong she will wake up tomorrow so you can start giving her medicine from then." after leaving those words behind the old doctor princess sent disappeared within tent forest.

"Damn, every single one of them... not having a fraction of doubt when blaming me for it"

Itami shook his head helplessly and sighed deeply.

"Master, I am done you can enter now"

"Ah!" Itami went inside the tent and saw Elea is sleeping in beautiful kimono princess sent over. Also his tent is now lot tidier than it had been at this morning.

"You have done well, thank you"

"Master, no need to thank me, it is my duty"

"By the way why don't you tell me about yourself? I don't really know anything about you"

"Yes..." Jina explained what happened to her and her family after the attack of wolfman in details to Itami.

"Must have been tough... but are you sure that you want to follow us? You will be living in a very different world than you did back in your village. Also there exists certain risks just by being with us. I think you are better off with someone else"

"Master, please don't.. you saved me so I will offer my life for you. Just a few moment ago I thought I am here for my life but now it seems that is not the case... I will follow you master! "

"Well if you made your mind already I don't really have any objections. But please understand that we are extremely s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e towards betrayals, specially me. If you betray me, consenquences will be heavy"

"I understand, by the way Master what is your name? I don't really know anything about master.."

"Oh right, I forgot about that.. My name is Itami well for now."

"For now? "

"Yeah, Look at my eyes. Now remember well, when my eye color is green my name is 'Itami', if it is red 'Cass', if it is blue you can call me 'Kael' and lastly if it is pure black with no white try to run away as far as you can. Well though i say that, by the time you realize it, it will probably be too late to run."

"Huh?" Jina tilted her head in confusion.

"Well as long as you remember it okay.. Others will call me Kael, but you need to know who is who."

"So master can change your eye colors? What will your name be when your eye color is black?"

"It is 'Isano' . Oh right in case of black eye appears do not approach me for at least 3 days"

"That long? Will you be okay? "

"Haha, I will be okay. Right, tell me how many days are there in one month"

"Huh? ...30 and 31, then there is february which has 28"

"How many months in one year"

"12..."

"Good, it seems the same. Right now tell me what year, month and date is today?"

"987th year, September, 1th"

"So it was early september huh. I was pretty worried over it but seems it will happen 2 months later... "

"Master? "

"Nothing.. Ok you can go ahead and sleep. From what princess told me, we will be clashing against wolfman tonight or tomorrow. If attack happens at night you need to take Elea and go to center of the camp. It will be lot safer there. So you need to sleep early. "

"Understood. Will you be sleeping as well master? "

"Not for now. I am going to walk around for a bit"

Itami got out of his tent and started walking around refugee area of the camp. Heavy armored soldiers marched here and there to make sure refugees behave themselves. Itami wore one too, this time he put whole set on, the red hair sent one of his old ones or maybe spare one for his soldiers?

Anyway the armor he given to him was lot better than his old one. Probably red hair felt little bit guilty for attacking him after jumping to conclusions.

Both soldiers and refugees seems to be uneasy, well they will be fighting very hard battle any moment now so it can't be helped. Princess talked about needing 3 soldiers against 1 normal wolfman. If we assume 2 betas are match against 1 Jagun this army will be wiped out in no time...

But I guess princess's personal army soldiers are on different level than the lots that I and Cass killed yesterday.

There is also red hair, although soldiers of his army are not as fancy looking as princess's, they are very well equipped and probably have years of experience in battle field.

Seeing soldiers in his camp, almost all of them seem to be equipped with such heavy full body armors and various type of weapons. Having different weapons in the army.. probably they are elite units of his army. I heard he brought only a part of his army due to urgency. And there are no horses other than ones who are carrying supplies in his camp.. these poor soldiers, having to walk in that heavy armor, being infantry must be tough.

Walking on Itami arrived at the camp of shiny brat. Unlike from red hairs this camp has lots of horses reigned here and there. Lots of cavalry.. but seems almost all of soldiers here are equipped with light armor. Their weapons, armors and clothes are all identical with each other except the size. And they were all brand new.. probably this army assembled just before they came here.

Itami sighed deeply, because his tent is located at Princess's camp he knew although her soldiers trained hard, they never fought on battle field before.

Both shiny brats army and princess armies will be almost useless meaning they will be there just to add on numbers.

From 4 thousand soldiers here half being fillers... future of these guys are grim. If not for Kael's request and deal with Elea, Itami would be long gone without looking back.

Even though he didn't fight wolfman before but from what he heard from princess, he knew these werewolves are lot stronger than humans in this world. And humans in this world are not weak! Just a random Jagun out there is as strong as bears..

After walking for a while Itami returned to his tent and found Elea sleeping on his old bed while Jina is sleeping on a blanket on floor.

Although princess sent him additional bed it seems Jina did not dare to sleep on it. Shaking his head Itami carried her to remaining bed. After that he lied down on floor and closed his eyes.

*****

Kael opened his eyes.