180 – Eve (4)
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“Welcome~~!”
The bell on the crude wooden door rang with a clear sound. The big, bear-sized owner glanced at the door and shouted a welcome greeting in a nonchalant manner.
The person who entered the store was a woman wearing a fur coat. Even though she was wearing thick clothes, her sense of volume that was not hidden was still the same even when the seasons changed.
She turned her head around and looked inside her, then smiled broadly at the pink-haired person waving her hand in her corner.
“Roxanna!”
“It’s been a while, Sister Bell.”
“Hey~ How many months has this been?”
A tavern in the alley of Kayef, the capital.
Because it was an unforgettable place for the members of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion, who have now disappeared into the dark side of history.
It was a perfect place for everyone to gather for the first time in three months.
It’s normal for the owner to do this at least once without knowing it, but the indifferent owner who gave up managing the regulars was the trademark of this bar.
“What about Rumia?”
“I have urgent additional work for a while. She says she’s about half an hour late.”
“That kid is really suffering… ….”
Ever since she was a magician battalion under the Northern Legion, she has been the one who took on the role of Enoch Levandel’s lieutenant.
She is unfortunate that Enoch Levandel has been given a crazy promotion, and this time she is forced to lose her position as his lieutenant.
Instead, she was assigned the position of Commander of the Magic Training Battalion of the Army Education Command under direct control of the Army Headquarters.
Her To be honest, if you only judge her career, there was no one as brilliant as her among her magicians.
A first-class red mage, now she was the closest assistant to Enoch Levandel, who was considered a living legend in the army.
As a matter of course, she also took part in the Quernen War, and as her great lieutenant, she was quite helpful in setting up the actual strategy.
She was given the position of battalion commander on the strong recommendation of Sonny Zeppelin, who had just been appointed as the new head of magic.
Although he himself whined that his commander was not compatible with him.
If you listen to the story, it is said that it is quite popular among trainees.
She was very pretty, and it seemed that she actually had a lot of talent for education.
Anyway.
A new battalion commander was born following Lieutenant Colonel Claude Lane, who is currently working with Joseph Lewandowski as the battalion commander of the Special Operations Command.
Of course, Rumia possessed the ability to do so.
If it was natural, it was natural.
“By the way, are you busy these days, Colonel Roxanna?”
“Ah, that’s it again. Since it was winter, sortie missions were reduced a lot. They said to save oil.”
Roxanne said, as if the title lieutenant colonel was very awkward, twirling her fingers through her loose pink hair.
According to the defense reform plan promoted by the Ministry of War, to which Enoch Levandel belongs, the newly created aviation companies in each corps were united under the new organization called ‘Uk ranian Army Aviation Corps’.
In the meantime, it was under the control of the corps, but in the battlefield to be unfolded, there were bound to be some missions that could only be performed independently by the air corps, not the corps.
In addition, diabola and other airships are already being phased out.
Considering that until now, airships have been used only for ground support and munitions supply missions.
Isn’t it also possible to assign Manfred fighters to each corps to perform a completely different role?
Therefore, the Air Corps was newly established under the direct control of the Army Headquarters.
As it is a newly created military branch, Roxanna Elim, who was one of the few officers belonging to the aviation squadron, was naturally assigned a position.
The 1st Fighter Wing Commander under the command of the Army Air Corps.
Do you think it’s a bit unreasonable for a major to occupy a position at the level of a leader?
Thanks to that, she became a lieutenant colonel one rank higher than Rumia Bluet and Bell Meyer.
“Actually, I still can’t get used to it. When I told the uncles to be comfortable, they took off school saying how to do that to the lieutenant colonel.”
“Because if you sit there, you have a sense of responsibility. It is natural to be respected.”
“So Belle is the hospital director.”
Through the Quernen War and coup d’état, King Orlando I showed a deep interest in converting blue mages into non-combat units.
Because the gap between the victims who had completed the minimum compulsory education and those who did not has widened so drastically.
However, magicians are armored personnel carriers, aviation units, and the Magic Education Headquarters.
It was impossible to create a medical headquarters by taking only fewer blue mages in addition to the fewer mages themselves.
For this reason, the army medical base was first established only in Kayef, the capital, and a capital hospital was established there exclusively for soldiers.
There was no talent better suited to the position of hospital director than Bell Meyer, who had already received great support from soldiers on the frontlines, saying that he was an angel in white and a nightingale.
She, like Roxanna Elim, also took the position of ‘invitation’.
“…… Everyone has grown terribly.”
“That’s right.”
In fact, the members of the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion, including the two, were as if they were boasting a crazy speed of promotion.
Of course, compared to Enoch Levandel, who showed a promotion close to the speed of light from second lieutenant to brigadier general, he is new blood.
Considering that they started as noncommissioned officers, not officers, and were commissioned on the spot, it is rather that they made an unprecedented promotion that will remain in the history of the Uk ranian Army.
“Come on, let’s have a toast. The beer will cool down.”
“Good.”
Crackle.
Roxanna bursts out with her smirk, Bell Meyer raises her beer glass to toast.
“Today, Brigadier Enoch is also coming?”
“Ummm, well…… I haven’t been able to see him much lately.”
“In the northern industrial complex, in the western industrial complex, in the southern naval arsenal… …. Not only in Korea, but also in the three Baltor countries, the Reinhardt Empire, and the Republic of Polania all the time.”
It was the most famous human move in Uk ran after King Orlando I and Sonny Zeppelin.
Just as the girls are looking for Enoch Levandel right now, all men and women who hold important positions in Uk ran, young and old, are calling for Enoch Levandel.
So, Roxanna Elim sometimes misses the time when the 8th Assault Magical Infantry Battalion was just formed.
Because back then, there wasn’t even a day where I wasn’t attached.
“…… Miss you.”
Roxanne, thinking that I had let out her own thoughts, she was startled and pulled her body back.
Soon, she looked at Bell Meyer sipping her beer with her lonely eyes, and shut her mouth.
Yes, she wasn’t the only one who loved her Enoch Levandel.
She said, including Rumia, who is not here, all three women who were to gather today were looking at only one man.
So Roxanne I responded to her Belle’s words.
“Me too.”
“What, are you going to openly admit it now?”
“Her sisters must be so open-minded. If you don’t actively appeal in the first place, you won’t even look at it, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Because Belle told me to win first if you want to win first.”
“Yes, I did. She’s doing great Hiding her heart won’t do anything.”
Enoch Levandel was not insensitive.
It’s just that the burden on his shoulders is so excessively heavy that he can’t even think of anything else.
Hasn’t it been quite a while since he hasn’t been in a relationship right away?
Roxanna licked her lips, imagining her memories of that time. In an instant Bell Meyer’s body stiffened.
For a split second, a strange sensation ran through her nerves.
“Wait, Roxanna.”
“Yes?”
“Look straight into my eyes.”
Bell Meyer put down her beer glass and looked at Roxanna.
She asked back with a puzzled look at her sister’s sudden mood swings, but instead of answering her bell, she just stared at her.
“Why, why?”
“Are you…… No no…… To? Really?”
“What is real!”
Embarrassment shone in his red eyes.
“Really? No…… I couldn’t believe it, but it’s more trash than I thought…… ?”
Wack.
Bell Meyer stood up from her seat, holding Roxanna’s hand instead of answering her.
She’s completely stuck with her. Her eyes, which seem to be sucked in just by looking at her, are watching Roxanna.
Roxanna couldn’t figure out why Bell Meyer was acting like that all of a sudden.
The moment she hears the whispered words, her hair stands on end from the top of her head to her toes.
“Did you do it with Brigadier General Enoch?”
I could tell what she was asking about without even bothering to explain.
As Roxanna fully understood her meaning, she sighed deeply.
I didn’t say anything, but it’s just a response that’s no different from an expression of positivity.
“I never thought he even touched Roxanna.”
“Wait a minute. Touched…… I mean, who else besides me…… Ah.”
This time Roxanna’s emerald eyes shimmered.
“Sister Belle?”
“… ….”
She said nothing, and filled her own empty glass with her beer.
“Roxanna, let’s make one promise with her sister. To be honest, I know that it’s my fault to say things like this…….”
“What promise?”
“Never talk to Rumia about this.”
She didn’t even have to worry. Roxanna nodded her head as well.
Because they were the two people who unintentionally trampled on the pure love of her dear sister and her beloved sister.
“Now, take this.”
Even her empty glass was quickly filled with bubbling beer.
“Ah— sorry! Waited a long time!! I was late because the regiment commander suddenly called.”
It’s scary to gulp down a beer in such silence.
With a jingle, the closed wooden door opened, and a silver-haired officer breathed heavily and entered the tavern.
“Ahahahaha…… Are you here?”
“Uh, uh, welcome!”
“What is it? Why are you both in this mood? It’s out of place and awkward.”
“It’s been a long time since I saw you! I guess that’s why.”
“That’s right sister~! Oh my, you seem to have gotten prettier while I haven’t seen you? Sit down, sit down!”
Rumia Bluet tilted her head as she watched the two stutter her words.
Anyway.
A man named Enoch Levandell was more trash than he seemed.
And they were the victims, their noses pierced by such scum.
