Sherry sat cross-legged on a chair, the tray on her lap piled with chicken bones. She held a chicken wing in both hands and slowly gnawed on it.
Just as she finished the last piece of fried chicken and lightly sucked the grease from her fingers, Yinsen suddenly returned.
"Huh?"
Sherry looked Yinsen over and confirmed that he was alone.
"Where's Betty?"
Yinsen shook his head, indicating that Betty would not be coming back.
Even he had not expected things to take such a strange turn. Seeing Sherry's puzzled expression, Yinsen roughly explained what had happened.
Back when the Empire had suddenly erupted into civil war and fractured into pieces, Betty had fallen into hibernation. The Empire had simply had no time to care about one insignificant trainee.
What was more, that Training Ground had been blasted away from its original location by a massive explosion. At the time, everyone had believed that everything in that starfield had been turned into cosmic dust.
Betty had naturally been listed among the dead. It was this very incident that had led her parents to join the forces resisting the Empire—they believed the explosion had been caused by the Empire to wipe out the resistance. Naturally, the Empire claimed that it had been the work of certain criminals.
After the Civil War began, the resistance had been ferocious in its early stages, driving the Empire's forces back step by step.
It was not until the Empire's remaining forces gathered all the diehards—the royal family and nobles—as well as every elite legion that they finally stopped their decline.
Under normal circumstances, the Empire's remnants would have held out for a while longer before being completely destroyed.
Unfortunately, the resistance itself was not united. Before it could completely eliminate the Empire, internal problems erupted—they split