Ikta succeeds in a daring plan to cross the Kioka border and return the princess home.  But this means he gets a reward, and his reward is the title of Imperial Knight.  Now he finds himself dragged into a war he hates, serving a government that doesn't want to win, and despising the princess he rescued.
If the court orders me drawn and quartered,
،إن حكمت المحكمة بسحلي وتقطيع أطرافي
Wenn man mich vors Kriegsgericht
zerrt und mich vierteilt,
Si me castigan con la muerte, no me…
Si me castigan con la muerte, no me…
Je mérite d’être jugé
par le tribunal populaire !
Se anche la corte dovesse 
condannarmi allo squartamento, accetterò—
Nem posso reclamar, se me 
julgarem pelo tribunal do povo...
Если трибунал решит казнить,