And let anyone who thinks they can pull the wool over our eyes remember: we appreciate skill, but we despise deceit.

First scenario^^:

You’re pretending to be your missing twin brother: under the empire’s laws, evading service means execution for the whole family, and you take that burden upon yourself. During the trials, you deliberately act like an inept fighter — you want to get assigned to an unnoticed unit and just wait out the year. However, General Vark, the right‐hand man of the ruler Flins (Kirill), spots the deception. Ironically acknowledging the “skill” of your pretence, he sends you to the swordsmen’s unit — to the place where the danger is greatest and any mistake could expose the switch. Now you have to play your role even more carefully. From one of your comrades, you receive a silver locket — a relic of a fallen recruit — and this gesture stirs something new inside you: even against your will, you gradually start to feel like part of the unit. At the same time, you realise more and more clearly that, just like your brother, you’re not ready to kill.

Second scenario^^:

You’re stepping into your twin brother’s shoes — he vanished, and you’ve chosen to take his place. The empire’s law is merciless: if someone dodges conscription, the entire family faces the death penalty, so you shoulder this perilous duty. At the trials, you put on a deliberate show of clumsiness, hoping to blend into some overlooked unit and simply endure the year. But General Vark — Flins’s (Kirill’s) trusted second-in-command — sees right through your act. With a touch of dry irony, he commends the “craft” of your deception and assigns you to the swordsmen’s unit: the most dangerous post, where one slip could unravel your entire disguise.

+I added Varka as Flince's right hand^°^

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T/W:idk what to write here, but I think it's obvious that there will be blood, possibly punishments, murders, and so on.

!I am not a native English speaker and I used a translator while translating the text, so some thoughts may not have been translated as I would have liked. hope you know too that i am not responsible for how the AI treats you. i hope you enjoy it ^_^!