He would surely ask about it.
But she won't tell him.
For as long as she can she won't tell him.
Because that promise may be simple but it also reveals a lot.
Especially to Hunter, who can easily catch on things.
And those things are something they shouldn't know yet.
'This will be a lot of trouble. If I am to accept it, then I will have to upheld the meaning of that position.'
She looked at each of them and her eyes landed on Drake.
He will give her the most trouble.
So before anything else, she needs to establish a consensus between them.
After the announcement, they were given time to speak with one another.
"This will be the first meeting, I guess for now, I am telling you all to get to the training ground by tomorrow morning."
The next day.
Some knights would look towards the center of the training ground.
Others didn't bother looking at them because it was only natural that they are to train there.
While some were glaring daggers at Saphira who became the commander.
She was deemed as the family of the traitor.
But why?
Why was she voted as the commander?
Her sister was once like that and look what had happened.
Why must they choose her?
Those discriminating eyes were speaking of the same things.
But she didn't care, she has a duty to uphold that they can think whatever they want and she wouldn't bother with them.
But if they are to bother them in their training then that is something else.
She is now a commander, higher than the captains who are older than her.
She wouldn't mind using her position to make them stop if they are to become a bother.
She will not use her position as the crown princess.
No.
She had vowed that she will never use that, instead she will continue doing things with her own capability.
And achieve more even without that title.
This way the people will have no complains if she were to become the Empress because she did things with her own power.
"We may have just returned but the enemies ahead are still a lot, that is why I am asking you all to keep training. We may have returend to have that bit of rest but we are still knights."
She could hear scoffs coming from those who heard her.
Hunter glared at them and they could only look away.
He is the vice commander at the same time the crown prince.
Since he was respecting her, then those of lower rank should have no right of disrespecting her.
Saphira didn't bother with them but instead she was glancing towards Drake.
While Drake was looking at the side, making it obvious that he really didn't want to be there.
She continued talking about the fact that they need to strengthen themselves even more.
Soon Drake's head snapped towards her direction in time to catch something flying towards him.
It was the sheath of Saphira's sword.
The rest were baffled when she slowly pulled her whole sword out of its case, together with its sheath.
And then they were shocked when she suddenly threw the sheath towards Drake.
In Qillian Empire, a knight throwing the sheath of their sword towards another knight was a custom between knights of challenging one another.
Not just the other five but the rest of the knights were completely taken a back by what she had done.
First and foremost, Hunter and the rest had been seeing her being passive ever since they have reunited.
They never expected that she will make this move upon the creation of their order and upon the first meeting she had called.
What shocked the rest of the knights the most was the fact that the one who issued the challenge was the daughter of Fiamma Dukedom.
And the one she challenged was the son of Alphius Dukedom.
It was well known that Drake hated Saphira through and through.
That is why if a challenge were to be expected then it would be Drake asking for it and not the other way around.
Because of this, word spread like fire.
In the training ground, Saphira Fiamma and Drake Alphius are having a duel.
Drake glared at her as he hold the sheath tighter.
He had been holding back all this time, because of Hunter's warning.
He did his best not to ask for a fight but Saphira was actually daring enough to look for one.
Saphira walked towards him.
Her every movement was being watched closedly by the other five.
"You hate me?" she asked.
Even though Drake was taller than her, her presence was enough to cope up with the height difference.
It doesn't look like she would be intimidated by Drake being taller than her.
Her face was half a foot from his that she can clearly see the hatred swimming in his silver eyes.
"Go on and hate me for being Saphira Fiamma the sister of Raynisha Fiamma. But at this moment? I am standing in front of you as Saphira Fiamma the commander of the Order of the Seven Myths."
She squinted her eyes and a dangerous glint appeared within those red orange orbs.
"Just as how Hunter Orabella, the crown prince of Qillian Empire stands before me as Hunter Orabella the vice commander of the Order of the Seven Myths."
Drake's eyes shifted upon the mention of their other identities, separate from their family background.
His hatred is getting the best out of him that he was neglecting their current ranks.
Hunter was the crown prince but he was standing in front of Saphira with the respect a vice commander should give the commander.
"You do whatever you want outside of duty but you are currently on duty. You are currently a knight under a commander. You should give your commander the respect a subordinate should give."
She stepped back and raised her sword towards him.
"Pull out your sword knight."