Sanzen no Souru Supina

■ Night 60: Wings pay off

"Come on, hey, I'm telling you it hurts! I'm on your side, I'm on your side! I can't wait! Give me some meat! No, no, no, no, no!

Now, Ashle, who visited Isma's apartment in the shake of a few days, was stunned by the sudden expansion.

If we talk timeline, this will be that morning, the same morning Aska returned from the Temple of the Snake Witches in the Grafberd Forest.

Isma was rolling around alone in a courtyard with a fountain pavilion incorporating an Alam-inspired design.

Self-proclaimed: It is the Raptor-Sougenhayabusa, somewhere familiar, that is attacking the forgotten king of the earthspider.

"Um... what are you doing, Isma?

The situation was incomprehensible to me, Ashley asked.

"Hi Ashley, good day! No, I'm not! You'll see when you see it, they're attacking you, Hayabusa!

Wearing an Aram-style costume, Isma replied as she rolled down the tiled ground.

By the way, Sougenhayabusa is indeed a fierce hunter, but the size itself is relatively smaller among his fellow Raptors.

It's bigger than the pigeons you see all the time in the city, but would it be easier to imagine if you said it was smaller than a crow a turn?

It is of such size and weight that even if a woman is on her arm, she does not feel greatly under the strain.

Isma was being flirted with by the owner of that wing.

Pah, it's more of a picture of you playing or being played than it is of you being raided.

Even if you look back and look closely, you can't grasp the situation completely.

"No, um, what are you playing with... why are you being attacked?

"I don't know if I know that. Ugh, hey, no!

Hayabusa jerked off his hands as the earthspider man swung at the mess, wondering if he had let Isma's face rush, this time setting his aim on Ashle.

"Danger! Ashley!"

Rarely did Isma warn.

Though small as a fellow raptor, Sougenhayabusa is an excellent hunter.

Its beaks and hook claws are powerful weapons that can crush the bones of prey, cleave tough fur, and crush and rip meat.

It's not free if you're attacked by a concentrated head of sensitive organs as delicate as mankind.

About ears and nose can easily be ripped off, and if you get a scratch on your eyelids and eyeballs, it's deadly.

Reflectively, Ashle tried to keep her arms around her and protect her face.

There, Hayabusa's hook claw gently descends.

The Attack I was afraid of...... not.

On the contrary, hey, and don't you come up to your shoulders repeatedly jumping like a young bird?

"Alle? I don't know... are you much less familiar with humans, this co"

clap it out and Ashley says.

"No, that's not going to happen. It's too blatant. Sougen Hayabusa is a nerve. It's very hard to handle, really! This is not discrimination. Are you sure, Colle?!

Isma protested because she was able to land to Hayabusa, who gave herself away in such a way that she thought of Ashle as her mother bird, or as her contact.

It was Snow who had accompanied Ashley who laughed bitterly at the way it was.

Hayabusa flew away when he was sweet to Ashley.

In order to catch the rising airflow, the sky rises high and quickly loses sight.

"Wow. It's like the maiden of a true knight."

"Ma, I don't know if I'm wrong, even if I am"

As usual, he bounced with a lightness that did not make him feel his own weight, and Isma so appreciated Ashle's sentiments.

Wear the pong and dust and turn around.

Then, earlier than Ashley asked him how the current noise was, he succeeded Ho.

"And you're here at a good time. As you can tell, it looks like we could have broken in without using the front door or a trick. I gave you a warning beforehand, but I'm not caught in the vigilance net I set you up with. It's quite handy."

If you're praised for letting go, you can also illuminate that ashle.

"Familiarize yourself with the secrecy in downtown, because that was a challenge."

"It's not just Ashley, it's good to have brought Snow here."

Izma praised the two for their visit in advance while guiding them to the Fountain Pavilion set up in the courtyard.

Prior to the implementation of the operation, Isma had given some challenges to the face of the squad.

It's a curriculum to increase the survival of individuals when this city-heliatium is in a state of war, or when it jumps over there and becomes a battlefield.

Especially to Ashle and Snow, who are not very capable of covert action or action in downtown, were given the training to overcome walls, or to discover spaces that are not usually recognised as paths (...), and to break this down.

"Are you familiar?

"Much. I used to train on the streets of Extram before my exam to be promoted from Cathedral Knight to Holy Knight (Paladin), and Sion and I did a lot of shadow-stamped rehab in an alley on Catel Island."

"But wasn't the earthspider idea a little different again?

"The same goes for hook ropes and aids… Until then, I didn't think it was a road (...). When I realized it was a place where spaces could pass (...), I changed the sight of the city."

Ashley said in memory of what has happened in the last few days.

"I really learned how to scratch the gates from neighborhood to neighborhood that can be closed at night."

Yeah, and Isma nods.

"In times of war, all the awkwardness is closed, so it blocks the route."

"The neighborhoods around the EXTRAM Pope's office have similar structures... because I've never experienced capital defense combat."

At this time, cities of considerable size were finely separated by walls inside fortifications of castles that protected their surroundings, and their gates were often closed at night to restrict passage.

This was a common mechanism in the Ixophone community, and in times of war the gates of each neighborhood were also designed to serve as a defense against enemy forces.

Familiarity with its structure is paradoxically tantamount to looking down on the battlefield from the standpoint of attacking this.

It was only natural, though, that Isma imposed this challenge on Ashley, the commander who leads the squad.

"But the target point for the training was the sauna (Hamam) or the Hanayashi cabinet - something could not be done."

It was Snow who snapped to protest against the two men who talk about the purpose and achievements of the training.

When designating courses for training, Isma always set the ultimate goal.

It is in itself an appropriate, rather visionary instruction as an instructor.

The problem was at the designated location itself.

"What, because... training is ineffective without rewards, sa"

"I don't think I should be such a jerk!

"Uh, how about that? Hey, Ashley where you're the guardian."

Ashley laughed bitterly when she spoke of being a guardian.

When they found out that the target point for this training was a steam bath for women (Hamam) or a downtown whorehouse, Ashley also ate it.

However, if you try to calm down, both locations are no more places for exchanging information.

Aram-style teahouse: Chai Hane is a social place for men, but the steam bath (Hamam) is for women, and the whorehouse is a place for men and women to talk.

Isma suggested the importance of exploring places like that.

I see. It is efficient to collect information where it is exchanged.

What is more, the place where the people gather is nothing like a fluent language, but it is also common for truths to lurk among rumours whispered there.

"You think it was a lot of fun for me? Besides, I didn't know that the culture of Alam was so intrusive into Heliatium, which is supposed to be an Ixist state."

"Yeah, well, even though religion is an Ixophone country, because heliatium, which holds a fair amount of annual contributions every year, is essentially a part of Osmadra. Besides, it turns out that cultural hybrids happen first and foremost in the trade arena."

Ashle's eyes sparkled with curiosity at Isma's view.

That had been suppressed under the current state of affairs of entering the Great War or not, but it was as obvious as anyone who knew about this young knight could see.

The temperament of a boy who loved them with an interest in ancient history, ruins and heritage, and the formation and mechanisms of culture and civilization forms the basis of Ashle, even as he became an adult and one-serving knight.

Ashle was already familiar with the fact that Isma's insight into that aspect was considerable, even though he appeared to be usually kidding.

There's no reason to stop a fever from accidentally telling the story.

"That too. Heliatium is no longer the largest trading city in the Farouche Sea world. Connection point with the Osmadra Empire and further east of it. Exactly what East-West trade requires. Its importance is not limited to a single country in the Vibronze Empire. Heliatium is not just the coastal region of the Farouche Sea, but the heart that supplies the entire world with supplies and culture, from east to west, from north to south, which connects the Farouche Sea to the Obsidian Sea."

Now “Another Eternal Capital": Heliatium was bringing an unchangeable experience to Ashley as an intersection of history that felt in reality, beyond the existence of a land that she had long admired.

And Isma takes an interesting look at Ashley, who talks somewhere lit up about herself being so excited.

Silently.

The young knight continues so that his back is pushed by that silence.

"The opposing Osmadra Empire is in a position to get huge annual contributions in return for renewing the peace treaty with the Vibronze Empire every few years. This means that even if you're napping, the huge amount of money someone earns rolls in on hand. If you're a person with a gold account at all, there's no reason to set up a fight until you destroy the treaty. There's got to be another way if we're going to war because we've decided to put up a big name for how much to prepare for the Crusades. And yet I came all the way out here to take the helium at this time of year... and I knew there was a reason I could never give it up. That's what I realized."

To put it all that far, Ashley cut the words.

For knights, rap is not a very praiseworthy quality.

Not to mention now as a norm against my children, I'm in a position to show what a knight is.

Snow in the neighbor's seat blinks his eyes at the sudden reflection from a historical perspective.

Ashley frowned badly and looked in the wrong direction.

"Yeah. No, I think it's a good read"

And to such an ashle Isma repeated her chief approval.

Probably felt growing up as a man.

On the other hand, it was Snow who roared "muh".

Omae seemed to feel pointed out farther away that the reading was sweet.

Still, I can't see you sticking to Ashley like before.

Instead, there is something like a vision or even an admiration for Ashley's perception and insight into the world situation she showed.

Well, Isma didn't say anything to her voice, and she also observed how you were doing.

I get reports from Ele and Elma's sisters from time to time, but I see, and this may be more handsome than I expected.

Yeah, yeah, nodding again.

Then I stood up to pick out the tea leaves.