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13 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Ikta is a brilliant, but lazy and unmotivated boy. His childhood friend, a high-ranking daughter of a noble, offers him an easy position at a library if he can help he get the top score on a military exam. But their lives take a sudden turn when the boat carrying them to the exam runs aground, and Ikta rescues a mysterious girl on board. When she turns out to be a princess, and they all find themselves behind enemy lines, Ikta is going to start having to work hard for real.
Episode 2
24 mins
Ikta succeeds in a daring plan to cross the Kioka border and return the princess home. 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.
Episode 3
Ikta and the crew join the High-Level Officer's School. Ikta finds a surprising revelation. Torway's elder brothers prove to be a thorn in their side.
Episode 4
Ikta skilfully outmaneuvers the elder Remeon brothers in the Mock Battle. As they inch closer to victory, Ikta and his crew uncover a heinous plot against the Princess.
Episode 5
23 mins
"Welcome to the world of science!" When Yatori was 9 years old, she was sent to study with the general Bada Sankrein, and met a young boy her age, Ikta. The world he shows her is new and exciting, like nothing she's ever seen.
Episode 6
24 mins
Ikta and crew are assigned to a garrison in the far northern region of the empire. The staff are petty and don't like it when Ikta defies orders. But when they try to put him in the garrison prison, he comes across a secret that they want to keep hidden.
Episode 7
24 mins
War breaks out as the Empire's oppression of the mountain people results in a terrifying backlash. With the one competent leader in the Northern Garrison dead, the ignorant garrison commander flings the troops into a highly defended, mountainous position.
Episode 8
Ikta and his comrades are forced further forward into the treacherous mountains. The front-lines of the Imperial Army suffers significant casualties in the battle. Ikta is forced to make a hard decision.
Episode 9
24 mins
The war against the mountain people continues, and the imperial forces are about to make one last march to their final staging ground. The incompetent imperial commanders pick a route that leaves their flanks exposed to an attack..
Episode 10
24 mins
The Sinack have been subdued, but the Imperial Army finds that it's been caught in a trap! A huge army from the Aldera nation has crossed the supposedly-impassable northern mountains, and threatens to overwhelm the exhausted Imperial forces.
Episode 11
24 mins
The Imperial Army is pushed back, and Ikta is forced to use every trick at his disposal to keep his numerically inferior force from being overwhelmed. The Alderamin army has 12,000 troops, and his unit has only a little over 600.
Episode 12
The Ghost squad makes its attack on the Imperial Army. Ikta Solork takes on the unenviable task of fighting a battle on two fronts.
Episode 13
29 mins
Ikta suffers a serious setback at the hands of the unsleeping, shining officer from the Kioka republic. His lines have been broken and the retreat is in disarray.