"... Victor?"
Aldis's mouth called out his name for the first time in ten years.
There's a tall man floating in the air looking down at us.
I'm a little old to call you a youth, but still young to call you a grand age.
As he exposed his wheat hair to the overhead wind, he turned his pale eyes to Aldis and asked.
"That face... it's Ardis, right?I can only think of myself as rejuvenating.What the hell is going on in this world? "
Aldis's name comes out of his mouth.
That meant indirectly proving that he was the same person that Ardis knew.
"Do you understand me...?"
Victor comes down slowly to the ground.
"Hmm. You'll see."
Victor stepped down near Aldis and laughed small.
"I wonder how much I've handled you as a child who hasn't been able to use his sword yet."
The gentle tone lingers in your chest with warmth.
There can be no doubt that he is no longer a familiar person with Aldis.
One of his associates in the mercenary regiment to which Aldis once belonged.
He was called a "genius" because of his abilities and talents.
When I was in the mercenary regiment, I was able to save my life many times, and I received many kinds of help in training.
"... after all, it wasn't helpful at all."
Well then, you can't take responsibility until the students are ready.
Nevertheless, Victor, a genius skin, was far from suitable as a mentor.
His teachings probably had a lot of sensory parts, and Aldis stopped asking for them on the way.
"Isn't that what you're saying when you grow bad students?"
"Raising people is not like being a hobbyist.I just told you when I wanted to. "
With the benefactor's story coming out of Victor's mouth, Ardis asks if he had met his old friends and wanted to check it out first.
"The commander... is everyone all right?What happened to Sark and Ellion? "
For a moment, Victor's expression fell out of his face.
"You don't know anything?"
I don't know.
There's no way to know.
If I'd known, I wouldn't have come across a friend of mine in ten years.
"Ten years. I've been looking for her for ten years since I lost without a hand or leg.I was able to rendezvous with Rona, but nothing has happened since then.Victor, what have you been up to?How long have you been here? "
"I came here two years ago.No, should I say two days ago?It's so confusing, this shift is... "
It's been ten years for Aldis, but we also know that in the case of Minerva, the flow of time is very different between that world and ours.
That battle was ten years ago for Aldis and, in a sense, ten days ago, because a day there would be as long as a year in our world.
Victor already seemed to be aware of that.
Two years in our world means Victor came to us eight days after the battle.
Is it going to be two or six days in Victor's experience?
"You're still alive. That means the regiment is still alive, right?What happened to the commander? How long do we have to survive? "
To find out, Aldis has been collecting information from around the world for years.
But no matter where we go, we can't even find traces of them, not just our surviving companions.
Naturally, the world itself is different.
On the other hand, only the name of the commander was conveyed as an evil god, and the hateful enemy was worshipped as a goddess.
Ardis, who couldn't give up just to make him feel connected, was able to grasp the situation because he was able to reunite with Rona.
Although temporarily, he was able to return to that world, and Ardis was finally able to hope.
I hope to fulfill my vengeance.
"... what are you gonna do when you hear that?"
"That's what I found out. We'll meet.If you're fighting that woman, you're gonna need some power alone, right? "
We can't leave the twins and the minervas yet.
But the flow of time is on Ardis's side.
We can't do it right now, but in a few years, we'll be able to travel without any trouble.
Still, it shouldn't be too late for a few days to pass in the other world.
"... please don't, you're not the one who can win even if you stand up.And the Regiment doesn't exist anymore.It was devastating. "
"I'm devastated... I see..."
But what Victor told me was a hard fact for Aldis.
Even though I had anticipated it to some extent, I still feel that I can't regret it even if I'm actually pushed into it like this.
A brilliant and well-guided Victor must have been the only one who could have escaped that hostile land.
Aldis chewed his lips thinking of his benefactors and friends who would no longer be able to see him.
That's when it happened.
"Whoa, don't move."
Suddenly Victor waved his sword.
It was such a moment that I couldn't react to Aldis.
Gwaaa!
The General, who was the commander of the Trinian army, had his feet amputated from his ankles and bled out.
Ardis and the others tried to escape into the gap where they were talking, but there was no way they could escape from someone who could grasp a person's position by magic.
Victor uses magic to create and burn the General's legs.
Drop legs to prevent movement and burn wounds with flames to prevent bleeding to death immediately.
When I was in the mercenary regiment, I used to see it as a restraint method, but I could say that it was a good trick.
Aren't you on the side of the Tria army?
Viktor interrupted Aldis, but he didn't seem to be on Tria's side because he dropped the General's foot lightly.
"Tria? Oh, was it an independent eastern city as a new nation a while ago?"
Apparently, Victor didn't know what army he was fighting for.
Victor adds words to Ardis' suspicious expression.
"My current superiors have ordered me to gather information about East China.I've heard your name a long time since I've been here.I thought it was someone else with the same name because it didn't suit my age, but I didn't think it was rejuvenating.Ah, "this" means the eastern country.I'm far west of here now. "
Commander? And Ardis gets caught up in Victor's words, but understands them.
"Is it a coincidence you were here?"
"It's a coincidence. If I was flying around gathering information, I'd be in your fight.Just in case of a win or loss, I thought I'd kidnap some people and go home.Even if they didn't come back alone, would you be willing to interpret them as dead in battle without witnesses? "
Aldis laughs bitterly at the value of exposing people as part of gathering information.
Ardis also learned on the 10th day of the year that the idea that it is bad for someone who can't protect herself to leave town is quite an argument in our world.
"And he must be the commander of the army there.They seem to have a lot more information than the Hei soldiers.I was going to take him with me at last, but... well, you're the one who's in trouble, and I'm going to miss him with old friendship.Let's leave the commander alone for today. "
Victor is starting to work for his new employer, and the tone of his tone strongly suggests a temperature difference with Ardis.
Ardis blames the attitude that has already been said to be the past.
"Has Victor... forgotten his grudge against her?"
Hatred, anger, hate. The feelings of hatred are still dull in Ardis.
Is he different?
I wonder if Ardis was the only one who thought it was connected like a family.
I wonder if there is any resentment against the madwoman who laughed at the bond.
Aldis's emotions are dyed in a dark color of anger.
"You've forgotten what she did to us!Don't you want to avenge them who died like that!? "
Looking at Ardis from the front, Victor affirms with a cold look.
"... you can't beat her."
Ardis reveals his frustration as if the answer had been eluded.
"I'm not asking you that."
That's what I was about to say.
Little discomfort.
The discomfort pours cold water on Aldis's anger.
Victor called her "her."
I wouldn't call you that if you were a mercenary.
Because she is an enemy to all the mercenaries.
At last, Aldis looks at Victor's outfit.
And I opened my eyes wide.
A feeling of fear that makes your heart drowsy and a feeling of discomfort that you poured mud directly into your stomach.
The reason for this was the design of the equipment Victor was wearing.
"That equipment....."
Leather armor partially reinforced with metal plates, greaves with protrusions on the toes, and long bracelets with plant patterns.
It is exactly the same as the enemy costume that Ardis saw ten years ago.
I can't forget to look at it.
It was the same form of armor that her men wore.
But the only thing I hadn't noticed so far was that Ardis couldn't stay calm about reuniting with Victor.
The equipment Victor is wearing now is unified in red from top to bottom.
Until that day ten years ago, Ardis had never seen an enemy dyed in red.
I don't know if Ardis just happened to run into it, or if it's a unit that's been formed over the last decade.
But one thing is certain.
It was common sense to mercenaries that if the battlefield changed, they could become allies and enemies.
"What, have you noticed by now?You're as narrow as ever. "
It was a natural question to think about.
How did Victor get here?
There may have been humans who came and went as a result that wasn't supposed to be like Aldis, or beasts who came and went as long ago as Rona.
But there must be others that will definitely have a connection between this world and that other world.
Otherwise, there is no explanation that that madwoman is worshipped as a goddess in this world, and Grace, who was the leader of the regiment, is hated as an evil god.
It wasn't strange to have someone who recognized us and the world over there and, in some cases, had the means to get around.
I don't know if she's herself or someone in the faction, but at least she's not on Ardis's side.
From that reasoning and Victor's disguise, I come to one conclusion that I do not want to admit.
"... did you betray me?"
Ardis's eyes are filled with hostility.
Viktor, on the other hand, glances back at Aldis with a cold face that has lost all emotions.
"Hey, Aldis, that's not sweet.Mercenaries cannot be forced to devote their lives to the same enemy as knights.It's like a bird singing like a bird when you change your position. "
Viktor answered with a strong tone to reprimand the incomprehensible junior.
"- Don't be embarrassed."
It was only for a moment that the atmosphere seemed to put pressure on Ardis.
As always, Victor remained shy of Ardis's queries, which amplified his frustration and anger even further.
"Is that... your answer!?"
Instantly closing the distance, Aldis smashes the Azure Sky Ayara in his hand.
Viktor parries it with his own sword with a cool face.
What would you do then?
Victor's words, which can also be called provocations.
Aldis is driven by passion.
When I opened the gate and summoned twenty swords, I had them slashed simultaneously from all directions of Victor.
"Wow, you're going to do something interesting."
Viktor instantly regains his cold expression, as he instantly looks intrigued by Aldis' call to the sword from that world.
"But, Ardis, aren't you a little too peaceful?"
"What do you mean?"
The next moment, all the swords that Ardis was manipulating were out of its control.
Twenty flying swords turned their notches from Victor to Ardis, and slashed them toward the Lord just now.