32. Battlefield (3)
Yuma stared intently at the face of the kneeling woman.
“….”
Revolutionary group .
Casiella, whom I encountered on the magic train heading to the transit city of Akan, seemed clear.
Yuma was not the only one who found the current situation absurd.
The Marquis Tornel looked at the two in turn and opened his mouth.
“Are you spherical?”
Yuma put that question aside and walked towards the door of her barracks, looking down at Cassiela who was still on her knees.
“Rise, leader of the revolutionary group.”
“Yuma-sama.”
Casiela’s black eyes met Yuma’s blue eyes.
“I don’t know what’s going on. It’s only right that you two talk about it later. This is a battlefield. Captain Casiella.”
Casiella jumped up at Yuma’s reprimand.
“…I’m sorry.”
Yuma lifted Casiela up from her knees and sat down on the chair in front of her again.
“You too, sit down, Casiella.”
Casiella lowered her head.
“Yes, Yuma.”
And then she sat down in the seat right next to Yuma’s left.
I thought that we should find a place just for the two of us as soon as possible and listen to their story. From Yuma’s perspective, she couldn’t even figure out why Casiella was like this.
Yuma slowly opened her mouth again.
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“First, let’s talk about the battlefield. Did you say that you suffered less damage than yesterday due to the activities of the revolutionary group? Marquis Tornell.”
“That’s right. Thanks to you and the revolutionary group, most of the enemy soldiers occupying the places belonging to the Marquis retreated today.”
The Marquis of Tornel unfolded the map.
“There’s only one place we haven’t recovered yet: the western wall.”
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Tornell raised his baton and pointed to the western wall.
Looking at the geographical features shown on the map, the western wall was a place where one could see the situation of the battle at a glance. In other words, it was a place that must be recovered in order to end this war.
“The Revolutionary Corps can bring its strength here. And the reinforcements of the second division, which will probably arrive within tomorrow, can also be stationed here. As I just said to the Marquis, the main unit will send Kamet, the Conqueror. We will face it.”
Caciela’s eyes widened.
A low-pitched voice came out.
“…Do you plan to deal with the Conqueror directly?”
“Yes.”
Casiela looked somewhat worried.
It was a worry filled with subtle emotions. Yuma didn’t seem worried about losing.
“Kamet the Conqueror is a man whose lineage, according to legend, originated from the Lion tribe.”
Tornell nodded his head.
“I’ve heard this too. If you can harness the power of that lion species, you have the potential to become twice as strong as when you fought me.”
Yuma did not notice anything unusual about those words.
“It doesn’t matter.”
No matter what alien race’s power is used, it will not have a more powerful defense than the .
“You can defeat it. If you hit the boss, the enemies will lose their will to fight. Then, completely block the front line.”
“I understand.”
Tornell felt confident in Yuma’s words.
A meeting that was not like a meeting has ended.
Yuma looked at Director Casiella.
“Let’s go out and talk.”
Casiella nodded her head vigorously.
“Yes, Yuma.”
Yuma brought Casiella into the empty barracks outside. Yuma stared at Casiella.
“Tell me more, what does it mean to follow me?”
Casiel also stared at Yuma.
“Erestina.”
The name of someone Yuma knew came out of Casiella’s mouth.
An NPC I became friends with in the VR game .
In that game, the name of the commander of the revolutionary army Was ‘Erestina’.
“This is my mother. The person Yuma called a friend. The person who founded the Dawn Revolutionary Army when she was young 22 years ago.”
Erestina.
I am the leader of the revolutionary group.
Are you Erestina’s daughter?
Yuma felt like she had been hit on the head by the fact that Casiela in front of her was Erestina’s daughter.
-Later. If we make this world a little fairer, we can get married and live happily. That’s my dream.
She was a woman with an attractive eye smile. Erestina.
‘… The probability that they are the same person is low. No, hardly any.’
Is just a game.
In the first place, the names of continents and countries that Yuma knew did not exist in this world.
The ‘Argalos Islands’, where we parted ways with Erestina in the game, did not even exist in this world.
Even if the game developers of Loop Blood and the people who put me into this world are related.
In the end, the NPCs that passed by in the game are just data. I thought that living, breathing beings in this world could not be considered the same person.
“Photo.”
Yuma looked at Casiella and continued her words.
“Are you holding something like a photo?”
Yuma clearly remembered Erestina’s face.
I have played Dozens of times with [Don’t give up].
So far, except for three or four times, I have all gone through Erestina’s route.
There was no way I couldn’t remember her face.
Casiella took out her pendant necklace from her arms. Inside the pendant was a photo.
Red hair that looks exactly like Casiella. And a slightly different beautiful face.
Eyebrows and eyes that make a person look good.
An eye smile depicting a crescent moon.
“….”
Yuma looked at the photo for a long time.
The person in that photo was clearly the Erestina from That she knew.
Yuma slowly raised her head.
“When did he die?”
“He passed away when I was 14 years old. It had been 5 years since my father passed away due to illness… He was murdered when the commercial route he had built as a revolutionary army was robbed by a nobleman who was targeting that commercial route.”
Yuma spoke slowly.
“At a bar…you mean in Dawn?”
Dawn.
Another name for Dawn.
Casiella’s eyes widened at the name of the bar she hadn’t heard in a long time.
“Yes.”
Casiella was steeped in her memories.
No, she might have been filled with regret.
“Have you ever told a story about the time when a bar was used as the headquarters of the revolutionary army?”
“Yes, you did it often. When I was very young.”
A story about the adventures Erestina had before she got married.
Caciela started to do it.
Her story began with Erestina telling of her own childhood.
She ran away from home to escape from her father, who was drinking and assaulting her, and went to work as the youngest child of her small family. She then told a story about how she built a small top with her own hands.
She opened the Dawn, a bar, as a home for the non-existent to prevent the tyranny of noble families. She tells the story of how merchants used that bar to form a complete commercial union while avoiding the eyes of nobles.
‘Same.’
Place names, countries, detailed locations, etc.
Geographical requirements and times were slightly different, but what Erestina did was the same.
Yuma recalled the line Erestina habitually said in .
-The world is changing little by little. With this.
After she said that, she always smiled awkwardly. She acted full of faith, but without any certainty that that faith would achieve anything. She was just a person who did things quietly.
-Are you going to have a drink today? [Don’t force it].
‘… ‘Just a game.’
Yuma took a deep breath.
It was just a character in a game.
I couldn’t say for certain that the Erestina I knew and your mother were different people.
“Erestina has never used a sword.”
Casiella laughed bitterly at Yuma’s words.
No one remembers. I am so happy that there is someone to talk to about the hero that only I remember.
It was a feeling I hadn’t felt in a long time, so I couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s right. Because my mother was smart. Enough that she didn’t have to use a sword in the revolution.”
Erestina pen and ink. And she achieved a revolution with just her head.
Casiella pulled her sword from her belt.
A blue flame rose from the sword.
“But I wasn’t. I had to pick up the sword to survive.”
Both of her parents died when she was young.
The girl who had to stand alone in this world had to pick up a sword.
“When you and Yuma met on the magic train in Halo, you told me that your revolution was wrong.”
He definitely said that.
“Hearing it from someone who knew my mother’s revolution, those words resonated so strongly in her head.”
Caciela spoke slowly.
“I wondered what the right revolution was. But Yuma did it with flying colors. Single-handedly. He saved Akan, which was in danger of becoming a drug city. He defeated the dragon who was trying to rule the county.”
Tears flowed from Casiella’s eyes.
“I knew very well what saving this world, the salvation of a dream, was. I’m sorry.”
Casiella, who had supported the revolutionary group and inherited it to this world, burst into tears. She didn’t know that her sorrow might have been overcome by the relief of meeting a huge adult.
Yuma raised his right hand.
And she patted Casiela on the shoulder.
“It was a lot of hard work.”
That was all Yuma could say to the revolutionary leader who had run for her life alone.
“Thank you, Yuma.”
Cassiela laughed, resting her face on Yuma’s shoulder.
-My revolution. It wouldn’t have been completely useless, would it have left something for future generations? Huh? Please answer me, [Don’t be pushy].
Erestina’s voice rang clearly in my head.
Something was definitely left behind.
Something.
