The Branded Female Fencer

"'Cause I think Nia always made Gruzaldo proud,"

"Oh, sure, my country is proud, but I feel like it wasn't my personal pride. On second thought - I've always admired the military because my parents were military. He wants to join the army one day and act like his parents, do it for the country, too. There is no falsehood in that feeling. But I thought it would be much later, but my father's remarriage made it kind of hard for me to stay home."

"Were you unfriendly with your stepmother?

"No, we were rather close. My stepmother was a sister in your neighborhood, and I think she used to play with me at a young age, and rather liked me. But I don't know why... I wasn't convinced by my father who remarried right after my mother died. Thinking about whether we'd forgotten about our mother already, or whether our mothers had such feelings for each other since she was alive, I just couldn't help it. So I had trouble staying home and entered the army in the form of flying out of the house"

It is an emotion that Alphilis has never had. I can't imagine Nia's thoughts on Alphilis, but I could imagine something that was going to be a complicated mood. Next to the silent Alphilis, Nia goes on even further.

"I didn't have any questions at first, and I'm glad to hear that. But I started traveling with Alfie and the others, and I wondered if it would be like this if I had friends, what I'd never made friends of before, and what I really wanted to do... and I'm starting to wonder if it would be wrong to be in the military."

"Well..."

Nia is holding her knees and getting smaller. She herself must be confused by her emotions that she has never had before.

"So what does Nia want to do?

"I don't know... but I feel different going back to the army like this"

"Then quit? Then you can try traveling with me, or you can try living with Kazas."

"If I said so, would Alfie welcome me?

Around the corner Asking Nia, Alphilis flashed his face and agreed.

"Absolutely! I missed Fenna and Aerial and Uty a little bit, too, thinking about breaking up with them. I don't even want to be near you anymore."

"Alfie is surprisingly lonely."

"Oh, what do you think I am?

Nia laughs when she sees the swollen Alphilis face.

"Hehe, I'm sorry. But wouldn't Kazas be annoying if I pushed...?

"Isn't that all right around there? Surprisingly, I think Kazas is in deep nostalgia."

"Sure... I wondered when they first confessed, but it's easy to talk out-of-the-box when you talk. The story is interesting inside, and you listen to me a lot. I don't want to waste my time."

"Sure. I thought you were a nasty guy because you were the first one, but once you get to know him, you can talk quite a bit. It's just that Kazas is very rational and logical, so he's not a bad person. Well, I find it hard to understand because I'm bigoted."

"And you're surprisingly sweet, huh? Before this..."

"Oh, stop being in love."

"Chi, no!

Nia turns a bright red face and rushes to deny it, but the condition is strange and Alphilis erupted unexpectedly. Nia also laughs when she is caught.

"Hehe..."

"Pu, haha"

They were two people who laughed out of the blue, but Nia still had something to hook up to her chest. I did feel different about going back to Gruzaldo, but I also feel different about following Alphilis and Kazas as they are now. So what do you want to do? It's very difficult, but Nia couldn't explain it. Near herself didn't think she was such a complex emotional creature.

It must have been a grip between Nia's life as a soldier and the friendship she felt for the first time and the pale love heart that sprouted in her heart, but she wasn't good enough for Nia to successfully explain her first feelings, and she didn't have enough experience.

While Nia is still confused by such a glitzy feeling, Fuji Alphilis looks rugged. He seems to be concentrating his consciousness outside, as he noticed something.

"Alfie, what's up?"

"Something... don't you feel?

"No, I have nothing..."

"... that's crazy. Nia, stay here."

That's what Alphilis says. He walks outside. Nia looks worried and drops off behind it, but Alphilis goes outside for now, with caution.

"(I don't know what... there's chest noise)"

But I just see a few tornadoes outside. None of them are far away and have no impact. There are few clouds in the sky, but I don't see many stars either.

"You don't see many stars... yeah, you don't!?

It's a strange story to not see the stars in a prairie with no light. I could see it pretty clearly when I was always at Faranx's. Speaking of which, no, isn't it bright outside?

Alphilis jumped out of a cave he was digging on the ground and saw the direction he was facing on his back. The face looks blue.

"What's going on, Alfie, what's going on"

Nia, worried from the back, speaks.

"Nia! Wake everyone up!!

"What, what happened!?

"The woods are burning!

A sight in the sight of Alphilis. That was the sight of the forest flaming in a direction where there was a settlement of seekers who were supposed to be heading.

Just around the same time. The Seeker settlement was surrounded by screams and screams. Seeker's settlement, that settlement the inhabitants call Mutrio, was peace itself until only a few minutes ago.

There have been no Warcraft raids in the last few months, relations with the humans living in the prairie have remained good, and new life was born as rare to the Seekers as every month. This augured well that the entire settlement was a thriving arrowhead.

There are those who have suddenly attacked the settlement from all directions. At first, the Seekers thought that they were human, but that blowing up their arms would not stop them from moving forward, that magic would not work at all, that giant creatures and unspeakable things, and even that many orcs and goblins would come, and that the tactics used by the Seekers for the external enemies they had been assembling would not work. No, the settlement was turning into a completely confusing bump.

"Wow! What are these guys!?

"Neither magic nor bow will work!?

"Somebody, somebody! My boy's still inside."

"Somebody help me over here! There's a guy underneath!!

"The north side is blocked! Find the exit!!

"Nor the West!

"What is that giant monster!? I've never even seen it."

"Somebody contact the King -!

"Drop it, everyone's stuff!

Rin's voice echoes around the settlement surrounded by screaming. It was a seemingly stately seeker who showed up following some tenacious young man. He is dressed in brightly colored clothing and has a sword at his waist. He was one of the royals who could unite this land and was in a position to command those who fought.

"This is Dear Cesari!

"I don't need a salute or a greeting! Report the situation. The size of the enemy, in what direction are they attacking?

"I don't know. Anyway, there's a lot of them, and they're attacking us from all directions."

"Stupid, where did you come from?"

"... I brought it here with a metastasis..."

Everyone is annoyed by the voice. The Seekers were surprised again after confirming the Lord of their voices. Because it was a young boy standing behind a flaming house. Cesari also breathed into the creeps of its standings about how long she had been there.

"Stupid, say it's a metastasis? That's all you got?"

"... well I just used my powers to carry this number... but they helped me... and if I just transferred from nearby, I could save magic... so I used a few transfers... and there are some methods like this..."

[Summoning (Sammon)]

With that voice, numerous magic formations have unfolded around the boy - who is, of course, lifeless - from which many giant creatures have emerged. Seekers who put that sight in front of them and prepare weapons and sorcery.

"Who is it!

"... I'd like to ask you one thing before..."

"... which one do you name yourselves... when you kill your own livestock... eg pigs or sheep?

Moments later, the faces of the Seekers stain the colours of their anger. But the lifeless are flat, no, their faces rarely seem pleasantly distorted to the lifeless.

"Don't think of that as a child! Kill him!"

"... try..."

In the wake of each other's voices, a fierce battle was launched. The mutlio is flaming, blood, dyed red.

"Hurry up, people!

"Wait, Alfi. Don't be too hasty!

"Aerie, that's not what you're doing! If we don't get there soon, it's all gonna be too late!

"Aerie, please do it from me too!

A bright blue Fenna pleads with Aerial. If you try Fenna, once again, you're about to burn the place that should be your own home. Fenna wasn't sure she'd endure any more tricks. If they were all dead when we got to the settlement. All the nasty thoughts come to Fenna's mind.

On the other hand, it is the cause of this fire that floats behind the brain of a relatively calm aerial. It's not like there are no warcraft using fire in the prairie, but there are no stupid beasts using fire in the woods unless it's too much to go on. There are no wild beasts that burn their place of life. Aerial thought it was about humans doing such stupid things, but he thought that some tribe was attacking the Seeker settlement, but whatever he thought was reckless, such as attacking inside the Seeker. Fire momentum again, unusual size.

"(Magic, huh? Even so, there's no way the Seekers are going to make it this far themselves, who the hell is)"

There were no clear answers in Aerial either, just questions and anxieties I didn't know how to handle swirled in my heart.

The Alphilis soon arrive near the settlement. Strangely enough, it doesn't even reach animals, warcraft, or seekers fleeing. Even more puzzling was that the settlement approached from a southwesterly direction, but there were not many firehands to the south, and there were strong firehands to the north and west. If you have an outside enemy approaching the settlement from the outside, it is normal that the southwest closest to the prairie is burning. Nevertheless, it does not change that there is a firehand, and the Alphilis try to get around from south to east so as to avoid fire.

"Fenna, what's the entrance?

"If you don't even have a bond, you should be able to get in from anywhere!

"The kingdom is working safely!?

"Huh?"

Fenna is surprised by one word in the alphilis. This mutlio's junction is protected ten times more than in Fenna's by a powerful junction. The effect is semi-permanent because even if one disappears, other junctions repair it. In fact, since the completion of this juncture, the mutlio has never allowed the progression of external enemies. Perhaps that's why the Seeker safely pulls back, but now it's whatever happens when you accuse him of it.

But Fenna just thought that the mutlio was on fire and the junction was disappearing, but if the junction wasn't disappearing, there's a possible...

"This... maybe?

"That's similar to what's going on inside Fenna..."

"Let's go inside!

"Oh, wait! Fenna!"

Fenna screamed but quickly or ran to the juncture to roll off the horse. I didn't even have time to stop them, so they all eventually followed Fenna. And when Fenna whines somewhat near the junction, the junction opens partially.

"Guys, come on!

"No, after looking at the situation a little more..."

"Then I'll go alone!!

"Ah... a lot!

Not long before stopping Fenna, who courageously jumps into the junction, all went inside the mutlio.

Continued