"Huh? Ieyasu, if you had even a little self-awareness, you should've fixed your bad habits of sleeping in, getting lost, and slacking off sooner! If you hadn't been like that the whole way, our journey wouldn't have been so slow, and we wouldn't have ended up running from the bandits separately."
The girl immediately became upset. She put her hands on her hips and puffed out her cheeks.
"Ah, ah, ah, fine, fine! It was all my fault... Sayo, please don't blame me anymore!" Seeing that she was about to get angry, Ieyasu instantly backed down, hanging his head as he admitted his mistake.
"Forget it. We're starving, and we don't have money to buy food. Those guards squeezed it all out of us. It's outrageous. Let's hurry to the military headquarters! With our abilities, if we become officers or something, we should be able to get an advance on our pay!"
Sayo shook her head and sighed softly before looking ahead with determination.
"That's our only option."
Having made their decision, the two hurriedly asked where they could enlist at the military headquarters.
However, they were from the countryside and knew nothing about the Imperial Capital. They assumed it did not matter where they registered for military recruitment, so they went straight to the most luxurious place.
When they learned that registration required a large sum of money, both of them were stunned.
"What? Why do we have to pay money to join the army? Aren't we fighting for the Empire? This... this is way too much!"
Ieyasu glared furiously at the man before him. In all his life, he had never heard of soldiers having to pay money. If anyone was paying, shouldn't the Empire be paying the soldiers?
"You don't know the first thing about the rules,