Chapter 276: 5.02.3 The Substitute teacher.

Baldar has become easily irritable, which is unlike the fake persona he used to carry himself with. Of course, there was no need for him to put on an act to keep his unstable boss at bay, who had a different way of thinking by a long shot.

"It seems stronger as days go by." He spoke to himself when left alone while opening a small diary and seeing the portrait of Sheva who still held a genuine smile on her face. 

A photo from her training years, before the battle and during the time when she was finally able to eat to her fill. "I guess, the one-year time limit for this job was not because I was incapable in his eyes… but that is the amount of time I have left." 

He recalls the day when Jester spoke about him finally having his own team and how he is just an acting head while a small dwarf who didn't even know anything would take over his position in a year or so.