Now that I thought about it, I recalled Lukas mentioning something about “monsters” while speaking with that low-ranking noble yesterday.
Monsters… I knew nothing about them.
That was only natural. In the original novel, monsters had never appeared, and all the information I had was based on that flimsy book. So of course, I was completely clueless.
When I tilted my head in confusion and looked at Lukas, he nodded slowly and began speaking again.
"Twelve years ago, there was a massive monster subjugation war. The empire gathered forces from all over to fight."
This was another thing I had never heard of.
Squeezing romance and conflict with a villain into a single-volume novel left no room for backstory.
