The world will change when she woke up in the morning.
That was what she thought at that time. She woke up and started going about her normal routine, as she changed into her water troupe uniform. Normally, she would leave her room and head towards the water mirror hq, but for some reason she was walking down the aisle of the water mirror militia. By the time Plausha awoke, the council halls have been suppressed by the water mirror forces.
Originally, Plausha was suspected to be working for Izapnar's faction among the water mirror, but during this civil war commotion, she was sleeping in her room without participating in it, thus the suspicion was lifted off her. Thus, she wasn't being detained and was able to walk around freely in and out of her room.
Izapnar had heard from Volmes that there was a confidant girl, but there weren’t many details about her activities and the position about Plausha wasn’t told to him either. As the one managing the personnel selection and their intelligence network was Volmes, there were some fire arts personnel who knew about Plausha’s duty, but for some reason, they all disappeared. Izapnar’s screams could be heard, “That Volmes must have ran away!!!!”.
During the morning, elites teams and militia teams of the Water Mirror were scouring the urban areas of Paula, gaining control of facilities and bureaucracy institutions belonging to Izpanar’s faction. An imposing and orderly atmosphere of the carriages that moved through the streets of the city centre could be seen. The morning of Paula welcomed the end of Izapnar’s regime.
“Everything, is all but lost…..”
Plausha who was walking along the path of the Great Wall, found that an awfully lot of mobile stores had gone missing and were replaced by a new refreshing sight of unfamiliar uniforms of elites members on the street ahead.
Along the railguard was an individual who was looking far into the distance, he was wearing a black uniform and a black mantle, his hair was also black in color.
“.....eh? Isn’t this a different elite team?”(Plausha)
That person standing there wore the black corps uniform which had the Fonclanc palace’s coat of Arms. She immediately stopped and stared at him as she realised that he was the rumored, “Hero of Gearhawk”. In this case, it can be correctly said that one is too scared to move.
As he felt a presence, the person who don the darkness god corps uniform looked back at Plausha.
After noticing a cautious and trembling girl who was wearing an elite troupe uniform, Yuusuke spoke out to her with a wry smile.
“There is no need to be so scared.”(Yuusuke)
“I~I’m not scared!”(Plausha)
Hearing her falsetto voice and seeing her trembling shoulders, Yuusuke replied with,”I am so wrong, I should have switch to the topic of the weather around here!” in an attempt to correct his mistakes.
“Ah, I’m sorry.”(Yuusuke)
“N~no problem….”(Plausha)
When he first saw her, she gave off a similar impression, much like Sun, who is around the same age, like what Sun had experience in the past and being rather cautious, a kind of feeling like she was stuck in somewhere with walls. As it was their first meeting, prior to it just a few hours ago they were enemies, thus it was natural for her to have this reaction. Yuusuke thought and began to try to come into contact with her naturally.
The image which Plausha had imagined through countless rumors was: “A man of valor, who single handedly raised an entire elite team,” and to her, it seemed that this wasn’t the person standing in front of her, thus she was a little puzzled. Although he had an unusual appearance, she could not sense any divine arts aura from him. She couldn't exactly say why, but he was giving off an impression of a “Normal person”.
“Hey you, are you really the Hero of Gearhawk, who everyone is talking about?”(Plausha)
“ah~that~.....honestly, it was a failure.”(Yuusuke)
To hear that Gearhawk Fortress was a failure, surprised Plausha. Although he wasn’t trying to be humble, Yuusuke even showed a gesture of scratching his head along with a look that it really failed, making people naturally curious about his reasonings.
“By using something apart from total annihilation, this time it seems that confinement had worked.”(Yuusuke)
A number of wind troupe members, the elites of Blue Garden, had been captured in Fonclanc territories,so the great number of victims of the fortress were mostly non-combatants. Due to the waiting of the civil war turmoil this time, it could have been solved quickly if Izapnar had stumbled earlier.
“Coulda Woulda Shoulda”, as Yuusuke laughed at himself. Plausha was confused with the words “this time”, as she did not know what had happened. But she reacted to Yuusuke’s other words, “It was good that now it didn’t end with total annihilation.”
“Why did you not do so?”(Plausha)
“At that time there wasn’t any time for feelings.”
“You should have just captured them,” she wanted to say that, but the words wouldn’t come out of her mouth so easily, “why didn’t you do so, if you had done that, my sister wouldn’t have died.” All the emotions that welled up inside of Plausha began to spill out and become one word.
“.....why?”(Plausha)
She unintendedly muttered it out, as her answer wasn’t what she intended to say.
“Because I was scared.”(Yuusuke)
“Eh?”(Plausha)
“I didn’t want to die.”(Yuusuke)
Plausha opened her eyes wide, as she was swept away by a vortex of gushing feelings caused by the so called “Hero” surprising answer.
“You are known as the hero and an elite knight and you fear death?”(Plausha)
“Well, I am still a normal person inside.”(Yuusuke)
Hearing that, Plausha shook as she remembered the impression of Yuusuke’s first words that felt like an “ordinary person” and she thought of her sister. From her memories of her, she remembered that she was a pretty ordinary woman. Although the side of her sister that she had shown during her mission was unknown to Plausha.
“What happened at Gearhawk fortress?”
Plausha asked this, as details of what happened wasn’t circulated amongst the general public, nor the Militias of Blue Garden.
Being one of the related party, the “Hero of Gearhawk”, he explained to Plausha the full details of the entire incident, including the mountain of corpses and the terrible things that had been done. Upon hearing the whole story, Plausha realized the extent of how ignorant she was.
Although her sister’s wind arts were not under the attack system type, from the story that she had heard, the people who were involved almost non of them had not inflict direct harm and the fact that they had participated as team members in the operation. She didn’t think that he had no choice, but to fight with her sister and to hear it from the voice of the person who had defeated her sister seemed to have a great meaning.
Although there were some parts missing, her sister’s corpse was beautiful. It seems that “his” divine arts had restored the body to it’s previous form. After knowing Yuusuke’s nature, Plausha was able to organize her feelings.
“Captain! Wow you have immediately hooked a girl from Blue Garden~”(Fonke)
“No! Don’t put me on the same level as you.”(Yuusuke)
Hearing Fonke jeering from the bottom of the Great Wall, Yuusuke leaned out and retorted.
“Well then, I shall be heading off.”(Yuusuke)
“Ah, yes, thank you for the conversation.”(Plausha)
Looking at the jet-black mantle of the “Hero of Gearhawk” fluttering away into the distance, Plausha’s gloomy expression had went along with it.
Once Yuusuke’s group, which consisted of Fonclanc’s army, had arrived at Deernook Fortress, it was declared that part of the soldiers’ team were to be stationed in the fortress, while the darkness god corps were to return to Sanc Adiet. Hivodir was also together with him. His credit was, ”to drive an enemy group 3 times as large as his team towards the trap that Yuusuke had laid.”
Zeshald, on the other hand had to perform tasks such as the parliamentary inheritance and the setting up of a meeting for King Esvosbus and Queen Risha, thus he had planned to remain in Paula for another 4 ~ 5 days.
After which, he would be taking on the responsibility of an entourage to “Return the Queen’s sacred treasure”, followed by his returning to Rufk village for his retirement.
It had been 2 days since the Darkness God Corps and Hivodir had returned to Sanc Adiett, today is the 10th day of Zalnar’s month of fire .
The “Hero of Gearhawk”, now also known as the “Hero of Deernook” who had brought about victory for Fonclanc. This rumor became a hot topic in the city of Sanc Adiet. Information about Gazzetta was unnaturally not included. It seemed that King Esvosbus had been controlling the usual flow of information.
Many citizens of Fonclanc were celebrating the triumphant return of the Darkness God Corps, whom had returned to Volance palace.
“You have returned, Yuusuke!”(Violet)
“Welcome back, Mr. Yuusuke.”(Sun)
“I’m bac-k, why is Sun here in the palace?”(Yuusuke)
Yuusuke was surprised by the unexpected reception of his early return. Violet concluded his surprise with her answer, “I called her over.” It seems like she had been invited over to the palace on the evening of Yuusuke’s departure to the fortress construction and had been staying here since then. Although the main reason was being evaded, he could roughly guessed it.
“As I thought that Sun, who is living alone, is lonely and I wanted to hear more things about Zeshald.”(Violet)
“In short, I, myself am lonely.”(Yuusuke)
“Princess! This unworthy Hivodir have return from a successful mission!”(Hivodir)
“Oh, your efforts are appreciated. Father will be so glad to hear it.”(Violet)
After giving the appropriate thanks to Hivodir, Violet turned to Yuusuke and asked him about the mission. As Zeshald would be returning in a few days time, she was feeling all kinds of moods. Sloppily, Yuusuke headed towards his room after Hivodir said goodbye. After that, he saw Sun’s appearance which reminded him of the Gazzetta’s army and King Shinha.
“Hmmm… somehow they felt more like a battle force of a mercenary group rather than a national army.”
He began to analyze the things that Shinha had done, such as not considering the diplomatic relations between nations, removing any obstacles that seemed to block his way like an Overlord.
An attempt to drag Yuusuke along into the scheme was enacted, but if the sovereignty state of Gazzetta was able to gain Yuusuke, who had a imba divine art which could create special equipments like the ones he had shown in Paula, then they could simply trample all other countries in Kaltcio with just normal divine arts users.
“This is a foolish move that does not fit a fiance candidate, do not force me into it.”(Hivodir)
Things seemed to arrive at a stage where Hivodir chose to stick to Yuusuke. As he understood him by mingling with him often, Yuusuke doesn’t have any ounce of ambition to power, even though he was very close to Violet, there wasn’t any gesture of feelings that he was aiming towards the seat to become her husband.
If they had known it, the fiance candidates would find it funny that they were impatient. Even though, if Yuusuke had the feeling to do that, in some terms it might turn out to be better.
Currently his life up till now, he always had a complex about his divine arts abilities being weak, as he was from the prestigious house of Volce. Hivodir had always been thinking about how to rise to power in this world, but now he had began to change and realize the value of possible comrades and friends.
“Well, it is as it is. Wonder what would I get as a reward from the king ~ ”(Hivodir)
He experience his first battle and returning safely from it, thus resulting in him to allow composure to his feelings. Amongst the fiance candidates and the palace elites, there wasn’t many of them who had actual combat experience, due to the fact that there wasn’t any opportunity to do so recently.
On that day, the figure of Hivodir skipping along the hallways of the upper floors of the palace had been witnessed by several people walking by.