Due to Fugmius' death and his canceled knighting ceremony, Donotyr had to continue his training. This time, his training exercise was to run for two miles.

"Good job!" Azotha commended Donotyr as he was able to run for a mile.

Exhausted and tired, Donotyr sat down on a bench to prepare to run for the next mile. As Donotyr was sitting down the bench, he noticed that his pants were missing.

"Hey, loser!" Donotyr heard a voice call out to him.

"You are not worthy of wearing the rangers' uniform if you are not an official ranger, attend the next training session naked!" Some cadets were teasing Donotyr behind him for the failure of his knighting ceremony due to a circumstance that he himself cannot control.

"We weren't lucky that we only got his pants!" a cadet mocked.

Next time, we'll try to steal the rest of his uniform as well!" another added.

Donotyr tried to ignore the other cadets' insults but they had gotten louder and louder each passing time.

"Lady Myruas, what about those bullies? What should I do about them?"

"When you're ready, you can run for another mile," Azotha said to Donotyr.

"Bu-bu-but the bullies... They took off my pants!"

Azotha remained silent as Donotyr complained about the bullies.

"Unlike him, we'll be having our knighting ceremony and be official rangers next week!" a mocking voice said from afar.

The group jeered at Donotyr as they looked upon his failure to become a knight.

"Yes. I have a perfect plan for the upcoming knighting ceremony!-" the cadet was suddenly interrupted.

"Hey! Leave my friend alone!" Deng shouted at the mocking cadets. "What did he ever do to you?"

The group just looked at Deng with fear and stopped at their mocking with Donotyr. They left the track-and-field area to discuss their plans for Donotyr in secret.

Meanwhile, Vinith and Zena found a pair of black trousers in the trash bin.

"Whose pants are these?" Zena wondered as she was holding the pants in her hands.

"We do not know," Vinith replied to her friend.

Deng had returned from the track-and-field area with a sad-looking Donotyr.

"Maybe those pants are his," Zena said as she returned the pants to Donotyr.

"I encountered a group of cadets bullying him. They were mocking how they stole his pants, wanted him to attend training naked, and now they have plans to humiliate him at the next ceremony," Deng reported.

"That's sad," Zena told Deng.

"Tomorrow, we'll secretly smuggle him into our workplace before anything worse can happen," Vinith added. "Also, we have to keep his uniform somewhere safe."