I JUST WANT A PEACEFUL LIFE

While Angus and Anna treat the poor orc like some kind of toy, the Duchess finally arrives and talks with the other knights. After making sure everything is ready, they depart from the Windshire Fortress.

Their convoy is quite large and attracts a lot of passersby. However, none of them is surprised at this scene. In the last few days, various large convoys emerged from the Windshire Fort.

Since the war ended prematurely, King Leon began to mobilize the army in groups. It is impossible to send the whole army at the same time. Not only will it take too much attention, but it will also give a picture that Windshire Fort is empty, leading to more trouble.

Moreover, the army consists of knights from various noble factions and squads. Dividing the army into parts would be better to ensure no logistic problems and accidents. (A.N: Similar to when the Allied forces returned from WW2.)

The journey from the Windshire Fortress is very peaceful, especially with the absence of Mira. Under the excuse of reading books, Mira is back to her kingdom with her vampire subordinate Lenora.

Angus wasn't surprised at this sudden action since he could understand a little bit about Mira's behavior. As a very powerful person, Mira gets bored quickly with many things.

To her, Anna is one of her sources of entertainment. Since she knows the journey is uneventful and relatively peaceful, she leaves.

'In the first place, Mira came here because she was bored. Well, at least Anna is not too sad to like last time. Still, this girl is truly troublesome.' thought Angus while seeing Anna standing on the pile of unconscious knights.

"Hahahaha…" laughed Anna happily.

A few minutes ago, the Duchess called Angus and Jayna about the camp arrangement. They decide to leave Anna on her own with Ilgor and Brigida. They didn't expect the little troublemaker to sneak away and start beating the training knights.

Anna piled the beaten knights and laughed happily on top of them like some sort of demon lord or something. Seeing the groaned Ilgor and Brigida among the piled knights, Angus and Jayna could only sigh deeply.

"Anna, come here. It's already quite late. You need to take a bath first." called Jayna.

"Okay. Yay! Bubbles Bubbles!!" replied Anna happily.

While Anna leaves with Jayna to their tent, Angus takes care of the pile of knights.

"*Clap* *Clap* Alright, enough pretending and lying around!! Go back to your station and do your previous task! Bring those who get serious injuries to the healer. No need to overreact and be a pussy." ordered Angus to the knights strictly.

Hearing this, the knights could only groan at this injustice and drag their hurting bodies. After a few moments, the area is cleared, leaving only a few people. Angus stared at Brigida and Ilgor with a frown.

"I could understand if it was only Ilgor since he couldn't stop Anna. But you could at least stop her before it escalated!! Did you want me to be lectured for hours by Aunt Extalia again?!!" complained Angus to Brigida.

"Erm… I am sorry." apologized Brigida.

"Tch… Alright. Tell me why all of this could happen! I didn't believe Anna would use 'order' to put you down." said Angus.

"It starts with Anna hearing the knight practice before. Suddenly, she ran fast and arrived at the nearby weapon practice. Noticing Anna near the practicing weapon, the other knights try to prevent and catch her."

"Unfortunately, she is too fast and grabs one of the weapons before swinging it around while laughing. Before we knew it, she beat everyone, including us." said Ilgor.

"Is that true?" asked Angus to Brigida.

"Yes. Except that Lady Anna is beating me down." said Brigida.

"Hmm??" asked Angus in confusion.

"After finding many knights lying down on the ground, Lady Anna started to make her signature mischievous smile. She began to pile up all the knights."

"Since her stature is too small compared to the knights' body, she decided to use me to pile them up before joining with the knights." explained Brigida.

"Did she use 'order' to do it?" asked Angus.

"No. She just asked me to pile them up." said Brigida truthfully.

"And you agree with her?!" retorted Angus helplessly.

"It's better than getting beaten up by Lady Anna. Besides, I can't fight or even raise my hand against her from the previous order." said Brigida.

"*Sigh* Fine. Just notify me if something like this happens again. Alright, Ilgor, go tend your injury. Brigida, stay here." said Angus.

"Yes, Master." said Ilgor before leaving the two.

"Master Angus, is something wrong?" asked Brigida.

Angus didn't say anything but just glanced at Brigida. Under Angus' stare, Brigida feels quite uncomfortable. She somehow feels embarrassed despite already getting seen naked by Angus before.

"Brigida, you said before you are getting enhanced and experimented on by the Nergal, right?" asked Angus.

"Yes. I am sorry I can't reveal too much about it. Is there something wrong?" asked Brigida.

"Not really. I am just curious about this experiment and your current body. Do you mind if I do some tests for you?" asked Angus.

"Master Angus, you don't need to ask permission for this. My body is yours. Yours only." said Brigida while muttering in a low voice at the last sentence.

"If you don't want to experience getting burned for eternity, I suggest you never speak that way." said Angus without changing his solemn expression.

Angus is not dense. He also realizes Brigida's feelings for him. Furthermore, Brigida's feelings for him are more complex than Lilith's. If Lilith's feeling is shown love and respect with the borderline of yandere, Brigida is more like a fangirl with deep respect and love for Angus.

Furthermore, she also felt guilty for trying to use him. As these feelings combined, she unconsciously put Angus in a special place in her heart.

If she somehow does not get captured and meets Angus once again under different circumstances, she may devote her life to him without any hesitation.

In his past life, Angus was good at reading people and deeply understood human psychology. Although he rarely used it since it was pretty mindful and hassle. Now, his mind is very powerful and he can read others' behavior effortlessly.

Still, it didn't mean he could reciprocate Brigida's feelings. In his mind and heart, he could only love Jayna and obsess with her. Despite this, he still cares for Brigida as his underling.

During the past few days, he finds Brigida's body somehow changed, especially in her eyes. Her green eyes become more vibrant.

He also notices it occasionally releases a dimmed light when Brigida uses the Mana Eye skill. Usually, when someone uses the Mana Eye skill, it releases mana blue or the user's mana attribute color.

Brigida's mana attribute is lightning which should release a white-yellowish or bright blue color. Angus knows the only way to change eye color is by using a particular eye skill or spell. Yet, he knows Brigida didn't use any of those skills.

During their talk before, Angus finds her eye color somewhat become more vibrant and dimly lit up. He has already seen this kind of familiar phenomenon. After using [Analyze], he finds there is a chance Brigida possesses Magic Eyes.

Magic Eyes are rare eye mutations that give many different special abilities. As there is no same pair of eyes in this world, there are no same Magic Eyes. Therefore, it is a unique ability that couldn't be transferred to others.

Even if the eyes are transplanted to others, the magic eyes' properties may disappear or manifest different magic eyes. At most, the magic eyes' ability is similar but never the same.

Up till now, Angus only knows two people who possess Magic Eyes. One of them is Swordmaster Ban, Jayna's sword teacher. The other is his previous private tutor, Andria Cobalt.

Their Magic eyes give different abilities. Swordmaster Ban's eyes enhanced his eyesight depth and precision, while Andria Cobalt's eye is more special. It allows her to look at mana circulation in someone's body. Although this ability is very limited and has a lot of restrictions.

Fortunately, Angus is forcefully suppressing his mana growth during her tutelage. Otherwise, she will find Angus's abnormal mana growth even before forming his core.

No matter which one of these Magic eyes, it is still a handy ability to enhance someone's battle prowess. Swordmaster Ban uses Magic Eyes to make his attack more precise despite the long distance.

On the other hand, Andria Cobalt uses her Magic Eyes to predict her opponent's attack or spell casting. This shows how powerful Magic Eyes' ability is. There are even the legendary Soul-Shattering eyes that could kill any living being with just one look.

Unfortunately, this ability is like mutation. No one could predict or force the manifestation of Magic Eyes. It is even rumored that even the harmless manaless insect has the chance to manifest Magic Eyes.

Though Angus doubts it since he knows they will burn into ash before they can use or manifest their Magic eyes. After a few tests, Angus is sure Brigida will manifest Magic Eyes.

Unfortunately, it is still developing and they don't know what kind of Magic eyes it is. To be safe, Angus orders Brigida to wear black glasses for the time being. He also advises her eyes to imbue mana into her eyes to fasten the manifestation.