In a world of war

The Preselection

It has been four years since my plan with Luvasire has been in action.

In these four years, I have had a total of nine encounters with him. And this was all thanks to Henry.

On the first encounter, we came up with code words to use in front of our masters.

Second encounter, we discussed on how to contact each other. Our plan was simple, we would send each other letters.

We obviously knew that our masters would check the letters so we decided that the letters' contents would be false and the real message would be inside of the envelope itself, then we would cover it with another paper.

Letters were sent containing our progress and how much information we have gotten from our masters.

Third encounter, the coding was a mess, we dropped it since we could actually converse well with our letters.

Fourth to seventh encounter was pretty much wasted because our masters were present, so we constantly made small talk and joked around.

Eighth encounter, we trained together and had a few rounds of sparring as we conversed with each other in the presence of our masters.

Nineth encounter was on mating season when we would give gifts to our lovers. I had instructed Luvasire to pretend he had feelings for me and bring me a gift, to which Henry was pleased with.

And the Tenth encounter will be tomorrow, on the day of the selection.

In these four years, I have progressed quite alot.

I perfected my fighting skills and I did research on this Empire's military rules and it's pretty extreme.

It is known that you can have only one chance to challenge an officer, kill them, get away with it, and take their place in the military.

If you attempt more than once then you become a criminal whether you succeed or not.

All I have to do is challenge Henry, get him to accept it then kill him.

It would have been the same with Luvasire but his master was closest to Henry so we would have to take him under interrogation.

Luvasire was fine with this since he had long ago subdued Master Cordeanel.

Interrupting my thoughts, I hear Henry's footsteps as he approaches the cellar.

Opening the cellar, he comes to my cell and throws training clothes at me.

"Wear them, their all waiting outside." He says to me with a handsome smirk.

I see, a joint training session to know who is the strongest before the selection.

"Yes, Master." I say, as I kiss his hand.

The moment he leaves, I wipe my mouth and start to ready myself.

. . .

Walking in, I see my dear Luva and throw a nice smile his way.

He returns it with a light nod.

Henry walks out of the circle that we had formed and voices, "Today is the last day that we get to test your skills! They'll put you in groups when assigned to the military so we want to see your skills in order to know who you'd work best with so that we can inform the military! Keep in mind that you will be sparring and who ever loses a dual will not join the military, so do your best!"

The devils start to scrunch up their faces as Luvasire and I exchange looks.

Henry laughs leaving the rest of us in confusion.