The hero magician wants to relax. He was too active and targeted for his life, so we'll start over.

Ariez floating island military port.

I was returning from the Union to the kingdom of Verilardo. The Union still has a Phantom Anger fleet and a United States-provided fleet, on alert. The Blue Fleet, the nascent Shadow Fleet ship that joined us as reinforcements, is coming with me to the Aries military port.

I spoke directly to Ebis, one of Eziog's modified flight magicians. … to draw conclusions on how to deal with it next time, based on reports of a commercially destructive frigate, "High Wave," and information about Eziog that Ebis told us.

"If you say you are unwilling to return to the Empire, I will keep your figure under my authority. Get a job or a place to live."

"Yes, thank you"

Evis was a much more courteous boy. The same goes for my age, but I feel like I'm dealing with a high school student.

"Was the meal good here?

"Yes, very. Once you know that great food, you don't feel like going back to the Empire anymore"

Ebis boy haunted by self-ridicule.... This guy is a good-looking, good-looking voice.

"Right. You seem to talk a lot about Eziog and his base."

I look at the paperwork I took from him. Do you like Elisa's arm in charge, or did Ebis cooperate fully with you?... both of them.

"An act of betrayal… it's something you shouldn't do if it's true"

Ebis becomes a serious face.

I just want you to know that I'm serious.

"Yeah.... naturally, I also had the opinion that what you talk about too easily is letting me grab some information about the lies here and try to trap them"

"Oh no...! No, that's right. I don't think it's weird if they think so."

You're a much more rational boy. Where it doesn't look like it's coming from, I think it would have had a good reputation from an adult.

"Are you suspicious of me, too?

"I fully trust you, if you say so, it's a lie. Well, that's not because you're an Imperial soldier. There's no one who trusts someone just at a glance."

"Right."

Ebis admitted. Yes, even he said, how far do you trust me the first time you met him?

"Credit, trust, is what you stack up to win. If you want to be trusted, you can behave that way. You know what I'm talking about?

"Yes."

Enzog's boy nodded with a face of tension.

"Fine. We're losing the aircraft carrier by you Enzog Flight Force.... Oh, don't get me wrong, but I'm not going to do this to you on the matter. It's on the battlefield, they do it, they kill it, they kill each other."

Most of all, we just got hit with a golem and a shapeshifter, and the human dead are zero in the recent meeting.

"... your people have left you to be wiped out, but is that one of the words of resentment?

"When it comes to feeling nothing, it's a lie."

Ebis lowered his gaze.

"I was a colleague, and I've taken care of a lot of things. I just thought we were gonna die sooner or later."

Evis' words are always interrupted. The eyes were faintly moist.

"There have been many deaths... and I feel strange. Everyone who flew with me died in battle, but you're not sad."

Not speaking well, Evis mocked himself again.

This boy's been watching death, too, I'm sure. Maybe that's why my senses are paralyzed. To protect my heart, I became blunt against something called death.

"When I remember, I miss you. But if you don't, I'll be fine."

…… Yes, I think so. "

"Then you're just like me."

He has continued to see many deaths and buried those hostile on the battlefield. The death of those close to you can be hard and cry. But there is no deep sorrow in sympathy for human death that is not.

If he says it's that feeling too, I don't suppose Eziog's people were close to each other from the heart.

Many have died so far, Ebis said. Perhaps he was unconsciously distancing himself from his surroundings. To not be hurt by the death of one's companion, not to be sad.

"You're out of line. I intend to attack the base, the facility where you raised Eziog. In the war against the Great Empire, hostility is troublesome."

……

I felt Ebis' tension increase. Naturally, he declared that an attack on a place he had been before would defeat his fellow citizens who grew up in the same facility.

"It's just not an honest hobby, like you, to be raised as a weapon by the Great Empire to kill those who are being fought without any cause or will"

That's synonymous with saying that you kill a human being who has been replaced with a chimeric weapon because it has a monstrous body.

"I don't know, Mr. Evis. If you don't have to fight, I've never done it. If I told you to leave the empire, would any of the kids get out of the facility?

"... I think I'm here"

Ebis thinks.

"Flying magicians… the majority of us who were given the name of Eziog were raised first and foremost to obey the orders of the adults of the Empire. So what the superiors said is absolute, and it doesn't matter who they are or what the organization is."

"Yeah?"

I feel a little different from the answer I intended, but I mean...

"If the superior commands you to 'leave the empire,' you say you will obey them all?

"Yes."

I see, there is no such thing as a doctrinal claim. Are the magicians of Eziog tools? You're distorted that the intention of persuasion might be resolved by an order or something. True. I wonder if this kind of thing is called brainwashing.

But you're in trouble, this is... It helps with one order. How extreme is it not to help, you can let them go because you can lie, and you can't even avoid bloodshed...

"Evis, would you be happy to help all your colleagues on the base?

I'm aware that I'm asking weird questions myself. The Ebis shut up as if he had spoken often. After a few seconds, he answered.

"I'm not sure, but I think it would be better to help than to die"

At least, friendship seems to be zero. There's a kid who wants to help first! It is a subtle response at a time when it is not something like that, but in a way it can also be said to be the best answer.

"Okay. Let's think in that direction."

The biggest aim is to remove the power of the Flying Mage from the Great Empire, so it would be right to just do it.