“Company Commander, are we really burning everything?”

“All classified documents. Who we executed, what denunciations came in, where we inserted our officers—burn every trace of our activity.”

I ordered the sergeants to throw the papers into the fireplace. By law, those documents had to be preserved three, five, even ten years. Burning them would mean far worse than just losing rank.

“The responsibility is all mine as Company Commander. You men just burn it all.”

“Yes, sir!”

To the anti-Emperor faction, these records are “evidence of crimes.” If left intact, they’d be fatal.

Of course, records of the “duel” with Lord Grien exist elsewhere, and at Humarzov there should still be a file stating “Yuoh Nevilnel was executed.” The evidence of our “crimes” exists outside these walls too.