Are You Sure Our Empire's Knight Order Captain is a Yandere? - Chapter 15

Five in the morning, the next day.
“Because you’re totally asking for it.”
Jingū Yè impatiently waved a hand at me.
I’m asking for a beating? Are you seriously having a laugh?
The only reason I get slapped around every day is because… I’m asking for it?
“You seriously trekked all the way to my office just to ask that weird question?”
“Yeah, why not?”
“Ugh, honestly, you’re a nightmare.”
Jingū Yè’s eyes never left the documents; both hands flew across the paper.
“Just park yourself over there for now.”
“Haven’t you ever thought about getting a job with the Imperial Inspectorate?”
I watched Jingū Yè sign two different documents at the same time, and still managed to shoot me a glance now and then.
“No way. These Knight Corps internal documents are enough to give me a migraine, which is exactly why I’ve had to bring in an extra martial arts instructor for the lads.”
“Oh, right, so that’s it… hold on, what?”
“Right, that’s enough faffing around. Time for morning drills.”
Jingū Yè stood up from her chair, stretched out a long yawn, and headed for the bathroom.
“I’m hopping in the shower first; you wait.”
Listening to the rush of water, I cottoned on to a monumental secret:
Hahahaha, Jingū Yè is humming a little tune in the shower!
Ten minutes later, Jingū Yè strode out of the bathroom in her full Knight uniform. The steam clung to her freshly washed long hair, and the air was suddenly thick with that clear, faint scent of a young girl.
“Ha! You’ve got that ‘loli aroma’ but you still won’t admit you’re a loli.”
“Shut up!”
Jingū Yè pouted, her face flushed from the hot water.
“I am definitely still growing, thank you!”
“Oh, come off it, you’re the perfect specimen!”
I gestured in the air towards Jingū Yè.
“That build is absolutely bang on for a loli!”
“Oi!”
Jingū Yè noticed where my eyes were looking and clamped her hands over her chest in a panic. She snapped,
“What are you gawping at, you creep!”
“There’s nothing to see, is there?”
“You…”
“Aaaaargh! That’s it, you’re dead! I am seriously going to murder you, you absolute idiot!”
“Hahaha. I told you, you’re fine as you are. Gotta appreciate what you’ve got.”
“Commander?”
“Get lost, get lost, get lost, get lost, get lost!”
“Um… Commander?”
Outside Jingū Yè’s office (which is also her room), a slightly timid-looking…
…a blue-haired, muscular baby-face was standing there. Let me think… that lad’s name was…
“Carter? What’s up?”
Jingū Yè was currently straddling me, relentlessly trying to twist my elbow joint out of its socket.
Oh yeah, his name is Carter.
“Uh, Commander, the morning drill has already kicked off…”
“Alright, I’ll be there as soon as I’ve sorted this out. Tell them to do twenty laps of the training ground as a warm-up first.”
“Yes, ma’am!”
“Get up!”
Jingū Yè stood up from me and rubbed her arm.
“Why are your joints so incredibly tough? I couldn’t even manage to dislocate it!”
Hey, dislocating a joint is not a joke, Madam!
I quickly scrambled up from the floor and popped my arm back into place.
“Is that okay?”
“It’s fine.”
Jingū Yè sat on the edge of the bed to pull on her black tights. Hmm, what a shame…
…how can a role model not have stripes?
“Do you know what I’m talking about?”
“Of course, I do.”
Jingū Yè gave me a disgusted look.
“The Commander of the Knight Corps—revered by the Empire like a goddess and known by the noble title of the ‘Aloof Cold Plum’—is caught being cozy with some strange dude in her private chambers.”
“You know all that and you’re still so calm? Will it actually cause any bother?”
Or is it really no big deal?
Is all that stuff about female officers being found with the opposite s3x and having their careers ruined just nonsense made up in novels?
Couldn’t be!
The royal city’s resident lolicon mob would riot, surely?
“My downfall would probably be… getting absolutely dragged and complained about by a bunch of simpletons. When things don’t get better, they’d angrily form a whole militia. The King, to try and calm everyone down, would be forced to sack the poor, innocent, beautiful girl from the Knight Corps. But the public would still feel cheated; their damaged hearts can’t be fixed. So, on a dark, windy night, they’d storm the Royal City and eventually, three months later, successfully take the King’s head and overthrow the dynasty.”
After hearing all that, my only thought was how she managed to reel off such a huge, dramatic story without taking a breath or even blushing.
Jingū Yè is clearly a talented one!
“Right, they should have finished their twenty laps by now. Let’s head down.”
“I’m going too?”
“Don’t be silly! Didn’t I just tell you you’re the Knight Corps’ new martial arts instructor from now on?”
…That’s the second dirty look today.
“How are you planning on introducing me, though?”
This suddenly felt like a massive question. First impressions are everything.
“”This is your new coach. Brace yourselves for the training from hell!””
If you really introduce me like that, I’m going to get workplace bullied…
If I could, I’d totally love having a Knight Corps girlfriend, too.
Imagine: you’re sitting alone, having a quiet pint in the pub, when some idiot inevitably rocks up and brags about how brilliant his girlfriend is.
Then, you slowly look up.
“”My girlfriend is in the Knight Corps.””
Brilliant! That would absolutely blow the minds of a bunch of simpletons.
Plus, hehehe, I love uniforms…
“Can you make the introduction a bit more exciting, maybe?”
“More exciting?”
“Yeah!”
Don’t girls love a good surprise, especially during this romantic cherry blossom season?
“…Fine.”
Because I was walking just behind Jingū Yè at the time,
I naturally missed the faint, almost-there smile that flickered across her face.