The girl immediately became upset at his words. She put her hands on her hips, her little mouth puffing up in a pout.
"Ah, ah, ah, fine, fine! It was all my fault... Shayo, please don't blame me!" Seeing that the girl was about to get angry, Iyeyas immediately wilted and admitted his mistake with a dejected expression.
"Forget it, forget it. We're starving, and we don't have any money to buy food. Those guards squeezed it all out of us. It's outrageous. We should hurry to the Military Department! With our talents, if we become officers or something, we should be able to get an advance on our pay, right?"
Shayo shook her head and sighed softly before looking ahead with a determined expression.
"That's our only option."
Having made their decision, the two hurriedly asked where the Military Department's recruitment office was.
However, they were both from the countryside and knew nothing about the Imperial Capital. They assumed that registering for military recruitment would be the same anywhere, so they headed straight for the most luxurious place.
When they learned that registration required a large sum of money, they were both completely dumbfounded.
"What? Why do we have to pay money to become soldiers? Aren't we supposed to fight for the Empire? This... this is way too much!"
Iyeyas glared furiously at the person in front of him. In all his life, he had never heard of soldiers having to pay money. If anyone should be paying, shouldn't the Empire be paying the soldiers?
"You don't know the first thing about the rules, yet you dare come here? If you don't have money, get the hell out of here. Don't hold up the people behind you, or I won't be so polite, you low-class country bumpkins."
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