Kreel glanced at Anne and gestured, saying, "Let's talk somewhere else."
He pointed at another young officer and said, "Ebner Sumei! My closest friend, a twenty-fifth rank Fifth Order Army Warden and a Seventeenth Rank Knight, also the only man who has forced me to remove my gloves to fight."
The young officer, with healthy vigor and black hair and eyes, naturally exuding a strong oppressive aura, laughed and said, "I have indeed heard about you! A loyal subordinate of my cousin."
Charles gave a forced laugh and did not dare to follow up on that point; he certainly could not say in front of Anne that he was an admirer of Menilman, The Empire's First Rose—it would show too little emotional intelligence!
Kreel and Ebner, Anne and Charles, the four of them left shoulder to shoulder.
