"How do you feel, Itsuki?" said Naofumi.

Itsuki looked at Naofumi but remained silent.

"Come on, say something."

"Something."

Naofumi was slightly offended, "I'm sorry Rishia, but it looks like I'll be breaking my promise to you."

"Wait a second." said Rishia, "Itsuki, please apologize."

"I'm sorry." said Itsuki.

"What happened to you?" said Naofumi.

"I don't know." said Itsuki.

"Are you hiding something again?"

"Am I hiding something?"

"Have you forgotten who you are?"

"No. My name is Kawasumi Itsuki, the Hero of the Bow. I was fighting for justice but I lost."

"So it's not amnesia, unless... Are you planning something?"

"What am I planning?"

"I think the Bowman is broken." said Marius.

"Broken, uh?" said Naofumi, "Itsuki, do a handstand while taking off your clothes."

"Yes." Itsuki stood on one hand while he used the other to unbutton his clothes.

"Itsuki, stop!" said Rishia.

"Yes." Itsuki went back on his feet and stood upright.

"Incredible... Bowman, fall on your face." said Marius.

"Yes." Itsuki fell flat to the floor face first.

Marius started laughing his heart out.

"Marius, stop it!" said Rishia.

"Yeah, that's abit too much Marius." said Naofumi, "Itsuki, kill yourself."

"Yes." Itsuki got from the floor then started pulling the rope from his bow before looking for a place to hang it.

"Itsuki, stop! Please!" said Rishia.

"Told you he's broken." said Marius.

"No he's not! I can still fix him!"

"Bowman! Fight me!" said Aquila.

"Yes." Itsuki approached Aquila and went into combat stance.

"No! Not you too! Itsuki, stop!" said Rishia.

"Alright, fun's over." said Naofumi, "Don't you have something to do today?"

"That reminds me. Aquila, let's go pick up your clothes." said Marius.

"What use am I for clothes?" said Aquila.

"You don't wear clothes here, then I'll kick you out, and you won't see yout queen mother."

"Fine." Aquila exited the Camping Plant.

"I must take my leave." Marius exited, but he stopped and turned his head, "Bowman, spin around until you are dizzy."

"Yes." Itsuki started spinning.

"Stop!" Rishia exclaimed.

"Alright, that's enough." said Naofumi.

Marius laughed as he leaves them.


Marius and Aquila entered the damaged Tailor Shop but saw no sign of the tailor lady.

"Hello?" said Marius.

Suddenly, the tailor got out of the backroom but she tripped. The tailor quickly got up and greeted them, "Masked Hero. Welcome back."

"Is everything okay?"

"Everything's fine, don't worry about it." she rubbed the back fo her head.

"I could come back later."

"No no no, it's fine. You're here for Aquila's clothes, right?"

"Yes."

The tailor dived behind the counter, before emerging with a large light yellow sleeveless shirt and dark red pair of shorts, "Tadaa!"

"Aquila."

Aquila walked towards the counter than grabbed his new clothes. He took off his loincloth and the tailor quickly turned around. Despite slight difficulty, Aquila manages to put on his clothes.

"You can look now." said Marius.

The tailor turned around and her eyes sparkled, "Look how handsome he is!"

"I am... Handsome!" said Aquila.

"I made it sleeveless so people can see his strong arms, and I choosed light yellow to show more definition on his muscles, and I included those collar to add character."

"Right." Marius gave the tailor some silver and gold coins.

"T-This is too much."

"Take it as gift. You do need to-"

The shop sign fell to the ground and they all heard it.

"Well, you know what I mean."

"T-Thank you... You're so generous..." the tailor's face started blushing.

"... We'll take our leave. Aquila, come."

"Yes, centurion father."

Aquila followed Marius outside while he adjusted himself with to his clothes.

"I envied Filo so much. To have someone as handsome as the Masked Hero as future husband." said the tailor.

"Did you say something, boss?" said Imiya, peaking out of the backroom.

"N-Nothing! Oh no, I forgot to take his measurement!"


Walking around, the town resident resumed with their lives despite the reconstruction going on. Filolials from Naofumi's village trot around carrying building materials, and legionnaires stationed there saluted Marius whenever he passed them. Making their way to the royal estate, they saw Melty talking to the residents.

After she finished talking to the residents, she was approached by Marius.

"Is everything going well here?" said Marius.

"Sir Marius. Yes, things are going well here. Thanks to your legion no innocent lives were lost."

"Have my legions been helpful?"

"They've been really helpful in maintaining the peace here, thanks to you. So how's Filo?"

"She's doing great. She no longer has difficulty walking around now."

"That's good to hear."

"It is. Where's Hanzo?"

"Oh, uh..." Melty's face suddenly blushed, "Well, he's training right now."

"Did something happen?"

"Oh, n-nothing happened."

"Very well. We'll be returning to the barracks. Take care, princess."

"You too."

Marius put his fist on his left chest, bowed slightly and leaves.

Melty turned around, patting her face to suppress her blushing.


Few days later...

Things have settled in Rock Valley since the attack. Filo helped guiding the filolials and even Motoyasu's filolial queens, while carrying her unhatched child around. Aquila dillgently patrolled the village with the legions.

In the training ground, Ren and the slaves trained with Eclair, and they received additional training from Mercy, who just did it out of boredom. Raphtalia, Fohl and the other slaves have sinced returned from their training with Granny.

Meanwhile, Marius and most of his legions have gone to their marching drills outside of the region.

"Alright, next is Marius's room." said Naofumi, who's doing a surprise inspection on everyone's room.

He tried to grabbed the door knob but realized it still broken. As he opened the door halfway to Marius's room, something heavy blocked it. Naofumi peeked behind the door and saw a small crate stopping the door. Naofumi pushed the door wider and he entered the door with Raphtalia.

"Everything's more organized here." said Naofumi.

"He doesn't have alot of stuff." said Raphtalia as she scannned across the room.

Naofumi spotted a paper, a quill pen and an ink bottle on top of a desk. He picked it up and saw a list various names, all in greek.

"What language is that?"

"It's greek. It's a language that also existed in my world." Naofumi's system translated the words, "Looks like a list of name. All are boy's names though."

"It is for their child?"

"Yeah, seems like it. And he still hasn't figured out which one to pick." Naofumi put the paper back then opened the desk drawer to find more written papers. "Jackpot. Now let's see what we have here."

Raphtalia stood closer to Naofumi, "What does it say?"

"Looks like a poem about war, and so is this one... Either I'm not much of a poet, or Marius's poetry skills are really bad."

"Can you read one?"

"Let's see here... Let Helios rise his sun and shine on our battlefield. Let us drew our swords and march our feet. Let us slay our enemies and achieved glorious victory... What do you think?"

"I'm not sure."

"Yeah, me neither. But atleast it's not as bad as finding Motoyasu's dirty artwork... Hold on." Naofumi saw something interesting, "Here's one about Filo."

"What does it say?"

"Oh, Filo. My sweet little nymph. Aphrodite blessed you with her gift of beauty. Your feathers are as graceful as the feathers ofGlaukopis. You fight with the strength of a thousand armies. And your young, lustful, little body-Okay, I'm not reading that part." Naofumi put the paper back, then saw a some papers were stacked and tied together. Naofumi picked it up then began reading.

"What about that one?"

"Looks like Marius has written something about himself. Looks like a memoir. Want to learn more about him?"

"I don't think we should."

"Come one, this will be fun." Naofumi closed the drawer while Marius's memoir is still on his hand.

"What if he finds out it's missing?"

"Marius's not gonna be here for awhile. If we can finished it tonight, we'll put it back and he won't even noticed it's gone."

"Alright, Master Naofumi."

"Okay, next is Filo's room."


After dinner, and after informing everyone about the surprise inspection, Naofumi and Raphtalia retrieved to their rooms. Then Sadina and Atla entered the room, followed by Keel.

"A little reading time?" said Sadina.

"It's Marius's memoir, so it's gonna be interesting." said Naofumi.

Atla climbed on Naofumi's bed then sat next to him.

"Can you even read it?" said Naofumi.

"I can always hear your voice." said Atla.

"Did someone said Marius's memoir?" said Mercy, standing near the door.

"Why are you still here?" said Naofumi.

"I pay rent, didn't I?"

"Who is she?" Raphtalia whispered.

"Just someone Marius knew. So all of you want to hear his story?" said Naofumi.

Everyone nodded.

"Alright, just don't tell Marius about this, and this should only be between all of us."

Mercy closed the door then locked it, "I'm all ears."

Naofumi cleared his throat as everyone sat down.

"My journey as been nothing but war and bloodshed. My body as grown too accustomed to wearing armor that I even wear it on my sleep, and the sword of which I slay my enemies became my trusted friend."

But every man starts somewhere. Mine started when I was a little boy in a greek village in the outskirts of The Great Empire. Back when my name was still Alexios."

"Alexios?" said Raphtalia.

"So that's your real name." Naofumi continued reading...


A young boy name Alexios ran on the wheatfields after seeing a sight he never saw before. The curious boy peeked throught the wheat and the soldiers that he never saw before, different from the hoplite guards he used to see, marching towards his home.

Leading the soldiers was a man with a steel mask ontop of a horse, and the soldiers followed his every command. Alexios quickly ran towards his house.

"Alexios." said a pregnant woman.

"Mater, why are those strange soldier coming here?" said Alexios.

"Soldiers?" the woman looked up and she saw the soldiers approaching their home, "Get inside, quickly!"

"But mater."

The woman pulled Alexios inside before handing him to another boy, who was older than Alexios.

"Sophokles, get you and your brother in your room. Now!"

Sophokles dragged Alexios inside their room then he shut the door.

"Are the boys inside?" said a man who entered the villa.

"Yes." said the woman. "Aegeus, what are the legions doing here?"

"I don't know. Stay inside, I'll talk to them."

Sophokles look through the keyhole of their door. Then he heard Alexios climbing on the window.

"Alexios, what are you doing?!" said Sophokles.

"I want to see the soldiers." said Alexios.

"You're gonna get us in trouble! Alexios!"

Alexios jumped off the window and landed on the ground. He then went and hid amongs the crops. He could see the masked soldier walking towards his father as he sneaked further away.

One of the soldiers laid his equipment down before relaxing. Then, he heard rustling behind him. He turned around and saw Alexios hiding behind the wheat.

"I can see you, you know?" said the soldier.

Alexios stepped out of his hiding spot and started observing the soldiers's shield.

"Like it? It's a scutum."

"Scutum?"

"Yes. It's like the hoplon, but better."

"Are you hoplites?"

"No, child. I'm a legionnaire. We are the legions."

"Legions?"

"You don't go out from your village much, do you?"

"No. Pater only brought me to the market, but never to the city."

Then, they heard the sound of horns, and the soldier picked up his equipment.

"Good talking with you, boy." said the soldier before he joined his comrades.

Alexios watched the legions marched and he waved at them.

"Alexios!" Aegeus called out.

Alexios turned and ran towards his father, "Pater pater! Did you see the soldier!"

"What are you doing!"

"But the sol-"

"You will not talk to them! You hear me!"

"Y-Yes, pater."

Aegeus calmed down, "Get back inside."

The shaken boy quickly ran back to his room. The pregnant woman went to her husband and she put her hand on his shoulder.

"This food... This food was all meant for our people. Is it not enough for the romans? What should we do, Rhea?" said Aegeus.

"We'll find a way like we always do, my love." said Rhea. "Atleast we still have enough for our family."

Aegeus put his hand on Rhea's pregnant belly.

"Back then, I never knew my father was force by the centurion to give up almost all of our crops to the romans. After all, I was just a child. The only thing I remembered that day was how much I wanted to join the legions. But whenever I spoke about my ambitions, my father would scold me, telling me to let go of such idea.But I never did heed my father"

I kept my ambition for ten years. When I reached the mature age, I was told that I must learn of my responsibilities that will be waiting for me in my adulthood. As a young teenager, I would rather have some fun..."

The tutor fell asleep on her chair while still facing the two boys she was teaching. While Sophokles was diligently writing the things he learnt, Alexios slowly got up then sneaked towards the door.

"Alexios!" Sophokles whispered, "Alexios! Where are you going!"

"Sorry, brother. But I got something to do at the market." Alexios whispered.

"Alexios!"

Alexios quitely exited the room. He climbed up the window so his father won't see him going out throught the main door of their villa. He sneaked passed his father and the workers who were tending the farm but was stopped by his little sister.

"Where are you going, big brother?" said Callidora.

"I'm just going to the market." said Alexios.

"But aren't you and Sophokles suppose to be studying today?"

"Well, I... Please don't tell pater and mater about this."

"Only if you promise to buy me some sweets."

"Very well. Now go play somewhere else." Alexios patted Callidora's head before running off.

Walking through the market to waste his time, Alexios heard his friend calling for him.

"Alexios!" another young teenage boy came running towards Alexios.

"Ephialtes, what did you do this time?" said Alexios.

"You must help me, my friend!"

"Stop him!" said the hoplite guards who were chasingEphialtes.

Alexios looked around and saw stacks of crates on a cart. Alexios quickly climbed on the cart before pushing all the crates to block the hoplite guards.

He and his friend quickly ran away, leaving behind the commotion he left behind. After hiding at the backalley, Alexios peeked outside and saw that they were no longer being chased.

"Oh, thank you. I'll be at the stake if it weren't for you." said Ephialtes.

"What did you do?" said Alexios.

"Do you know that beautiful girl name Helen?"

"The noble's daughter? By the gods, don't tell me you were about to go with her."

"Well, almost. He father finds out, he called the hoplite guards and that's how we got here."

"And what happened to the merchant's daughter?"

"Phoibe? Well, she's went out with her family on a trade deal, so I help myself with another one."

"That's the girl from the other village. I'm talking about Zoe."

"Wait, that's her name?"

"For someone who loves to chase girls around, you seem to have trouble remembering their names."

"So what are we going to do today?"

"Since you've made your mark here, we'll just have to go somewhere else."

"Then let's go to the very center of town. I heard a band of celtic girls came to visit there, and I know how much you love celtic girls."

Alexios crossed his arms, "Are they cute?"

"Oh, I bet they are."

"And are they blonde?"

"You'll see."

Alexios let out a big smile, "Then let's go!"


Naofumi's raised his eyebrows, and everyone couldn't not believed what they heard.

"Marius was a skirt chaser?" said Raphtalia.

"And his preference matches Filo." said Naofumi.

Sadina giggled, "And here I thought he's always a serious person."

"Please, do go on." said Mercy.


In a Shield Legion where they spent the night, Marius sneezed again and again.

"Malaka!" Marius exclaimed.