I was supposed to update the Arknights side story today, but I need to explain something first.
Fuck, this stuff is too hard to write. Hypergryph's shitty Riddler-style writing made reading the plot and figuring out the characters agonizing, and writing it has been unbearably difficult and drawn-out.
So I need to slow down the Arknights updates for a while and write something simpler as a transition, to sort out my thoughts and whatnot.
There won't be an Arknights side story update tonight. Instead, I'll be updating side-story content from another world. I'm only posting this chapter to give everyone a heads-up.
(The following is here to pad out the word count so I can post a chapter. Fucking Tomato's writing software doesn't have a messaging feature.)
However, unlike many other Imperial commissars, Cain did not readily sacrifice his own soldiers. Unless it was necessary to ensure his own survival, he would not waste soldiers' lives, nor was he interested in enforcing the brutal discipline favored by many commissars. Cain did his best to avoid actual combat, but he usually had to fight to maintain his status as an "Imperial hero." Ironically, that title of hero placed him in even more dangerous situations. Over the course of his career, he took part in many successful campaigns and, after retiring, became an instructor for new Imperial commissars.
At the beginning of 42K, Cain's memoirs were sealed by the Ordo Hereticus because they seriously contradicted official propaganda. They were preserved and organized by Amberley Vail, a female inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, with whom Cain had many intimate encounters during his career. Vail edited Cain's chaotic notes and drew upon information from other sources, such as the memoirs of Valhallan General Sura (101.M42). It was worth noting that, as Vail of the