MY RETAINERS ARE MY STRENGTH Beset by an unprecedented wave of monsters, the group of small to medium-sized countries known as the Union of Eastern Nations is in dire straights. Requested to send reinforcements to their aid, Souma dispatches troops to the Kingdom of Lastania—where Julius, former crown prince of the Principality of Amidonia, is currently holding the monsters at bay. And so it comes to be that Souma, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with an old foe, must depend on his retainers’ strength to save Lastania…