An Unexpected Proposal

BAS continued his story with the grandkids, "Your grandma proposed to me which some people find that unorthodox, but I'm more progressive to a lot of people. Like I was cool with it."

He leaned towards Emily, "Don't tell people tell you what you can and can't do, but at the same time don't afraid to ask for help from a man. But when you get older, don't be an extreme feminist. Feminism is cool and respectable until it is taken too far."

She nodded which he leaned to the boys, "Stay away from girls who are too feminist and don't be a simp."

The boys where confused about the simp part but Hardcasekara shouted, "Preach it!"

Dante added, "Don't be a simp!"

Ghost drank his second Bud Light as he was relaxing on his chair. While Nemu laughed a little bit, "Okay continued the story Dad."

BAS smirked, "Where was I… oh yeah."

Story

Micah confusion, "Now now, wait a minute."

Esdeath looked at him curiously, "What is it?"

Micah asked, "So want to find love?"

Esdeath nodded, the Prime Minister commented, "That's what she said."

Micah added, "You had a long list and which I fit the qualifications?"

The emperor nodded, "You do; you are young, have a promising military career, innocent smile, not born in the capital, and the others that she described."

Micah finished, "Which you want to marry me… like in me of all people?"

Esdeath hugged him trying to seduce him, "Why yes I am."

Micah in his thoughts, 'Well damn… why would I pass this up? But at the same time, what would happen if I revealed my true form and identity? Wait… let's just see how this goes. If it doesn't go well, I'll fake my death and leave this world. 100 IQ move right there.'

Micah then spoke, "Well I like to get to know more about you intimately first. I'm that kind of guy, I'm not turning the offer down, that would be stupid of me to do so…"

She interrupted him, "We can do that."

Micah let out a breath, "Thank you."

She asked, "How about you become like a secretary to me, but you still have command over your troops, but you follow my orders and we will have plenty of time together."

Micah sweating by her seductive looks and the offer, "Okay… I mean yes, ma'am."

The Next Day

The Wolfpack were standing in formation waiting for their major to give the order to march or just some simple orders. One man spoke, "You all hear the rumor."

The girl next to him asked, "The one where The Major is getting married?"

A guy on one end shouted, "HE IS GETTING MARRIED?!"

Another girl in awe, "Who is he getting married to?"

The man next to her replied, "I heard it was General Esdeath, but I don't believe the rumors for one minute."

Micah then appeared, "Shut it!"

They all quiet down which Micah continued, "You probably heard the rumors… they are true. I'm getting married to the General."

The whole brigade cheered which Micah silenced them, "But I'm technical her secretary so I can get to know her better but I'm still in charge of you and we will still suppress rebels and do normal stuff."

He then flipped a few pages, "We are ordered to hunt down the group of assassins known as Night Raid. They are responsible for killing a few people and they are known to wield some Teigu."

His men were not on high alert because of the mention of the Empire's most powerful weapons were in the enemy's hands then Micah on a cheerful note, "Liver is also cooking some food which he wants y'all to try."

A man walked forward, "Sir! Can I speak freely?!"

Micah looked at the man, "Yes you can Sergeant."

The sergeant asked, "What time will he make the food for us to try?"

Micah looked at the sun then back at the sergeant, "In about two hours."

The sergeant walked back in formation while the troops shivered in fear for the food they were about to eat soon, then Micah dismissed the everyone except the Stormtroopers, "Y'all are tasked to go to the southside of the capital to shut down a few brothels for illegally transporting an illegal drug and also 'arrest' the men in charge but the women should be sent to the nearest infirmary for medical treatment."

They saluted and were dismissed to go do their task which Micah marched with them, "The task will start at sundown, I'm going to fill out some paperwork first."

He headed to his office to fill out some paperwork on certain funding and finances. He looked at a few letters about his newly constructed forts that he built to protect a certain piece of land that he was given. The land he was given was thought to be useless but with some of his divine powers he wasn't really supposed to use, he turned it into a coal and iron mine. Micah was secretly building factories to produce steel and making some weapons that surpass the sabers like maybe guns. Esdeath's voice spoke, "So this is what you do when you are not fighting."

Micah chuckled a bit, "A lot of paperwork and it's not going to fill itself out."

She sat on his desk, "Let's get out of here, see you doing paperwork is boring."

Micah got up, "Yes ma'am."

She giggled, "You can call me 'Darling' if you want or something more intimately."

Micah raised an eyebrow, "So 'Honey' or 'Babe' or 'My dearest' for example."

She replied, "My dearest… sounds fancy."

He smiled, "It is fancy from where I'm from. The rich men usually call their wives that, but I didn't come from a rich family, but we are a proud one."

They walked down the halls of the castle and on the streets of the city, which she asked, "What kind of life did you come from before the military?"

Micah replied, "I came the farmlands, my family grew crops like grain and cotton while raising cattle and other farm animals."

She nodded, "What made a farmer's son join the military?"

He chuckled, "Well I wanted to join because I don't have to work on the fields and maybe get rich enough to have a plantation of my own. Where cotton can seen as far as the eye could see and have many workers pick it. Well at the start…"

She looked at him in interest, "So you joined for money but what changed?"

He smiled, "A few battles in the south which I had fun fighting, I love charging at the enemy and saving my comrades. Rebellions were interesting as well to me anyways."

She nodded, "That was when you started writing the book."

He chuckled, "What about you, what made you join the army?"

She began telling her story which he knew the story, but he liked to hear it from her then he saw an ice cream shop. He went over to get her some ice cream which she asked, "How did you know I would like some?"

Micah replied, "Who doesn't like some ice cream?"

She started eating her ice cream which Micah thought to himself, 'That's cute… I know she is sadistic and all, but I don't mind being bottom. Like a wise man once said, 'It doesn't matter if you are top or bottom, it's how good you are in the role.''

He looked around the saw a blurry figure on the roof disappear which he made a note of this but continued his way with her.

Later That Night

A tall blonde girl with a few feline characteristics looked down in the brothel with a shorter brown hair boy. She was telling him about how the corrupt government allow this suffering to happen and that she was going down to kick some ass until they heard a loud knock and door of the place broke. The boy asked, "What's going on?"

The girl replied to him, "Quiet! I don't know what's going on."

They watched as some military troops came in slaughtering the men and now were surrounding the boss. Micah then walked to the boss who shouted, "Who are you?! I have the Prime Minister's protection!"

Micah smirked and pulled out his saber to cut open the man's throat, "So he chose death… remember they resisted arrest and boss tried to kill me. Now let's get these girls to some care. I also want this place to tore down for any drugs and other illegal items then burn the items."

The soldiers saluted and processed to do as ordered which the boy asked, "Who is that dude?"

The girl replied, "I don't know, I'll ask the boss."

They then leaned off the building to return to their base to report on their findings. Which Micah stepped out of the building smiling, "Well another day in the capital and group of criminals to bully."

A soldier stood next to him, "Why do we go around and do this stuff again?"

Micah replied, "Well second lieutenant, you know what weakens a rebellion without killing the rebels?"

The soldier shrugged which Micah continued, "Taking care of the problems that caused it. This group has been kidnapping women from their homes and selling illegal drugs causing poverty and ruin. People don't like that, and this group has been bribing the government to stay protected. So, by getting rid of them we stop the problems they keep causing. Return the girls to their families will prevent those families from joining the revolt… and so on."

The soldier in awe, "But what about the Prime Minister's protection?"

Micah laughed, "That protection shit is bullshit, the man lies as naturally as he breathes. He cares about money which I slide some money to him just so he allows me to do this little operation here."

The soldier looked at him in confusion, "So we are technically fighting government corruption by corrupting the government for you to control it."

Micah nodded, "Yep, fight fire with fire."

Then they lit a fire on everything they could find then Micah looked at his troops, "On to the next target."

Some Undisclosed Location

A woman with short silver hair with one light purple eye while the other was covered by an eyepatch and a mechanical right arm smoke a cigarette looked at the documents of the Revolutionary Army's movements which they have been struggling a little bit. Then the feline girl and brown hair boy entered which she smiled, "How have you two been and how was your small mission?"

The girl said, "Boss, we were about to raid the place until a group of soldiers entered the place and killed all the scum and took the women to get medicine care."

The woman looked at them seriously, "What kind of soldiers?"

The boy described them, and the woman asked, "Are you sure that's what they look like Tatsumi?"

Tatsumi nodded, "Yes ma'am."

The girl added, "The leader of the group is the same one who I saw with Esdeath. Red eyes, silver hair, and pale skin."

The woman looked in her book of Imperial officers to look out for, "Oh… I know who you are talking about, Leone. This man is a problem for the Revolutionary Army."

Tatsumi asked, "Who is he?"

A green hair man spoke, "Micah Ludrauph, which he is now a major."

The woman chuckled, "He got promoted again? Well he is indeed smart boy, right Lubbock?"

Lubbock smiled, "You know he always knows how to cause trouble for his enemies. He is also planned on getting married."

As the two were talking Tatsumi asked, "How do you know this guy?"

The woman looked at him, "He was under my command back when I was a general in the Imperial Army. He had interesting thoughts and strategies on creating rebellions on enemy neighbors and how to prevent rebellions. I told him he should write a book about it and he did."

Lubbock pulled out a copy of the book from the bookshelf, "People Tactics, he always complains that he could have made a better title."

She giggled, "So he is still in the capital and looks like he wants to clean house."

A long black hair girl with red eyes asked, "Do you want him assassinated?"

She quickly replied, "No, just keep an eye on him. He may be our enemy but he also showing himself to be the Minister's enemy as well."

Tatsumi asked, "Can we turn him?"

The woman shrugged, "Well no, he shows his loyalty to the Emperor and the Empire. The Revolutionary Army also has a bounty on his head for his Death March West which was his homeland."

Outside of story

BAS rolled his eyes, "The Death March West was a literally as it sounds, I took my troops west of the Empire which the only thing that followed me and my men was death and destruction. We slash and burned crops, killed a lot of people, and continued on to the next town to repeat."

Ghost added, "Like Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War."

The kids were in awe but didn't really understand much while Nemu face palmed. Esdeath giggled, "I thought his march was beautiful really, but it wasn't as great as my march to the north."

BAS grabbed another beer, "You two boys will love a family tradition that Nemu is going to follow."

Dante leaned to Nemu, "What's the family tradition?"

Nemu sighed, "When the son turns 21, the dad takes the son to a few strip clubs and get him wasted."

Hardcasekara nodded, "I love this family tradition already."