Before sundown, the snow clouds that were covering the sky turn to light black colors.

He secretly leaves army headquarters and takes a dark carriage to the Third Knight Training School. When John poked Shire and his knee against that box seat, he spent the time talking to him until he got there.

Next to Jill, at the opposite angle, he looks at Boffow and overlaps his words with a white exhale. It's not very far, but sometimes you're driving along snowy roads, and the journey is longer than it should be.

"What will you do if you return to Kensei?

With Shire cutting out so much, the conversation in the carriage had begun.

I'm trying to extrapolate a human being named myself - from the discouragement of that voice and the eyes directed at him, John guessed the intent of his question.

Even if you take it to Kensei, the most powerful knight in the Federation, you won't be trusted with it, and vice versa, you almost have trouble being too lightly trusted.

As marshals, as sword saints, we need to know each other correctly first in order to believe that we are opponents with all that qualities. If we want a cooperative relationship there, it cannot be established if one relies too much on it.

Hope so, he responded in untrue terms.

"I want to stop the sword emperor Gadinoa-Lumiops"

"Do I need to return to Kensei, if so? If you really are that sword saint, I don't see why you bother to stick to the role. In modern times, the status of Kensei has power. Format would be in line with the three generals, but essentially comparable to the Marshals"

"This comes from the achievements of Kensei during the Great War," Shire adds at the end.

"If that man chooses to battlefield seventy years ago, I have to head there too. I had the same view, and I had to understand.... Then I don't want power or anything, so if I stop that man, I promise I'll get out of Kensei's position."

"When you fight for your enemies, do you say so?

John replied, "Though there is one," to a bewildered inquiry.

"Every opportunity for experience comes to everyone. But I guess that depends on what you learn and feel in that experience. I've learned by now, I've felt... she's pushing my back. I can walk without looking back. I'll fight for me tomorrow."

"For yourself?"

Between a few thoughts, Shire continues.

"... the Confederation is broken in the wake of a war or reconciliation and the declaration of war by the Empire. In one way or another, the resistance is gaining momentum, headed by the President of the Government. All because contemporary Kensei is connected to the chairman of the government."

John silently waited for the next word.

"His strength is origami, something the federal government and the federal army acknowledge. I also acknowledge his power. That's why I also got a louder voice to say I should fight. One day the power will return only as much as it gives. You can't let him go wild like this. … I am thinking of the path of harmony"

With a more serious voice than ever, Shire goes on even further.

"I expected you to want the path of harmony, too. If you were able to return to Kensei, could you help us to sharpen the momentum of the resistance, as a condition?

"... ok. Help me if I have to."

Shire shuts his mouth and the carriage just stops running.

If we left the dark screen and checked the windows, we found out that it was in front of the third exercise area. Sometimes the school is not used on winter vacations, and the snow carpet laid on one side is brand new.

John, who got off the carriage with the other three, stepped on the snow as it was to the middle of the exercise area.

When he stops, he has a 30-mida interval - against Shire, who pulls out the long sword he was carrying, and sets it up, he pulls out the beauty of the moon.

One wave I gave Holoro, but only once now I had brought it out of neutral countries to stand on the battlefield as a sword saint.

Jill and Boffow are just away and watching how things are going, and nothing prevents them.

"Whatever it is, if you have enough power for it, we're talking about"

Shire is regarded as one of the best in the Federation.

Stepped in with the momentum to reach divine speed, John confronted this from the front.

January 5th. It will be that afternoon, one day across from the first day of the meeting.

National representatives have gathered on the floor of the Federal Assembly and meetings have been held with them carried over from the first day. Delegates who were on the move are all in line this morning to make their arrival.

Since there is no such thing as the absence of a highly influential person, what has been arranged on this occasion will be treated as the general thrust of the future Confederation.

"... It's too late to talk about harmony. I'm not sure why, but the Federation has been shown hostility by the Empire. By your reasoning, they are poking their swords at me. You think that's where our voices come from?

"There must have been opportunities for harmony before. This would also have been caused by your neglect to move the government. It won't arrive unless you're willing to let it arrive."

For about a moment after the conference began, the conference was moving on to the flow of fighting.

Shire as the head of the moderates, Trevillo as the head of the antiwar, will be the center of each. Sometimes the two speak for most of their opinions, and there are few occasions when any delegate speaks for himself.

In terms of the overall number of people, the moderates make up 70%, but the resistance prevailed.

"How could His Excellency the Marshal be opposed to the war...... you think the Federation would lose?

This was because Winde, the strongest adversarial force, was attached to the anti-war faction.

Even when it comes to harmony, the Federation must have the strength commensurate with that of the Empire. There is definitely more to gain from aggression than dialogue, and it would be unlikely that the Empire would bother to bring it into dialogue.

If you don't gain from attacking the Federation, you need to make the Empire think so.

That is why Kensei's position, which holds great power even in the army, is affected.

"Because if we start a war, many people will die."

If Kensei leads his men to disobey the army, he has no power to stop at Shire, who hasn't been a marshal for a while. I may not be able to prepare that much power.

A government chairman who has consigned with Kensei will launch a new regular army to take over, possibly - a leap forward prediction, but undeniable.

Delegates get lost as to which faction they should be now.

"It's war, so you can't help it, can you? You're a strange person...... don't worry. When the war begins, this Winde, with the greatest sword of the Union, will retreat from the empire to see it."

These are the reasons why Winde can stay strong.

"... let us through"

Shire, who saw fit around the time, instructed his men to refrain nearby.

When the conference hall door is opened by a subordinate, a young man walks out of the back of it. While it caught the attention of delegates from all over the country, it did not look frightened by the appearance of snuggling the sleeves of the kimonos.

It has a magnificent style of gait, but I don't have the impression that it makes people feel intimidated.

- That was John.

In a position alongside the risen Shire, he quietly stopped the walk.

"Answer me what imitation this is, Marshal Shire"

Trevillo wrinkles between his brows.

To the progress of the meeting, which was not in the stepping stone, the face of the delegates in the conference room, not just him, is transformed into something uniformly bewildered.

In the historic circumstances in which war was declared by the Empire, yet another sign that history would be engraved in time was gathering their consciousness.

"Earlier words, if you didn't pass them on, change the way you say them...... Sword Saint Winde. You cannot beat the sword emperor described in the Empire's bulletin. He says there will be more casualties where you stand on the battlefield."

Listening to the inquiry, Shire assures Winde.

"... Yes?

Blue muscles stood on the previously refreshing look.