The plan to make Fonclanc and Blue Garden fight each other that the parliament had put together required their special fortress to attack the Darkness G.o.d Corps and the amba.s.sador’s party while disguised as Gazzetta troops. It was quite a simple tactic to make two countries fight each other.
Since the opponent is Blue Garden’s elite troupe and Gazzetta’s cavalry troop, in order to repel them, they made use of Fonclanc’s best team: the Darkness G.o.d Corps. No matter how much one is a veteran from many battles, there is no guarantee that they would fight and cross swords up front.
Therefore they decided to make use of their spy, “Honeybee” Razshia who was currently traveling with the Darkness G.o.d Corps party. Although, she is not skilled in a.s.sasination, she was adept in handling drugs. It would be good if the Darkness G.o.d Corps could be used to stall the time of attack.
Under normal circ.u.mstances they would not be able to act, but because Volmes’ unit has been destroyed and that guy had become Fonclanc’s prisoner of war. No one in Fonclanc would expect Nossentes to send another squad under the current circ.u.mstances.
It was supposed to be a plan where Fonclanc and Gazzetta would be in conflict while they would have a friendly pact with Fonclanc.
“No matter how much those barbarians try to build up their forces, there is no way they would be able to surpa.s.s our wisdom.”
The special unit was to conceal themselves in the harbour city in advance, while the Darkness G.o.d Corps would be arriving from Trent Rietta, thus they had to prepare for overnight camping.
On the west side of the forest, which extend from the north to the south, there was an untouched and barren plains without anything on it.
“So Isotta is on cooking duty today?”
“Ye-es, I have stocked up on seasonings from Nossentes...I’ll do my best to make a tasty meal.”
“Hoho, I’m looking forward to it.”
“Ah~ I am hungry~”
Thus, that immediately drove the Darkness G.o.d Corps and the amba.s.sadors traveling along with them to head inside the building. “Where did that come from!” Stunned by the weird situation, Rasanasha and Razshia, both the sisters and the Knight from Nossentes who were following them were stunned and quickly followed behind them.
“Hey, who the h.e.l.l is Yuusuke? I have never heard before of that kind of divine arts.”
“I also….have not heard any more than what you know.”
The two people that were whispering could be viewed as sisters who got along well.
Late night~~
Everyone was fast asleep, Yuusuke came to the roof (actually, it’s just the 2nd floor) to catch a breath of fresh air, and he found the figure of Razshia standing there. She seemed to be lost in her thoughts while staring at the stars.
A sight which is hardly seen, Razshia didn’t notice someone was approaching her, as she was lost in her thoughts. She didn’t have the opportunity to go outside to the huge wilderness from the confined s.p.a.ce of Patrucia Nost, thus she never had the feeling of “Freedom” up until now.
She was lost in her thoughts, visualising how simple it was that she could, just like that, continue to move away from Nossentes and forget all about her work.
The silly little conversations that were made during the trip, up until now. The light hearted chats during dinner. Not knowing when the scenario will change, she grasped onto the moment, dropping her own guard. As though something had mixed and spread around within her, but at the same time it stands as an opportunity for her to polish up her abilities.
Ingrained within her was the way of life of a spy.
“Normally, what would someone do….”(Razshia)
“What in particular?”(Yuusuke)
“Ng, the life of normal people~! Arghh!”(Razshia)
Answering a question that someone had asked when she was talking to herself, Razshia jumped up in surprise as she saw Yuusuke’s figure standing next to her.
“Ah, how long have you been creeping up behind me!”(Razshia)
“Not really for long, only just now. I just felt that it is creepy to just watch you without sounding out my opinion.”(Yuusuke)
Razshia unknowingly did a Tsukkomi as Yuusuke quietly approached her and answered her question. (TL notes: Tsukkomi? Refer to link
“That’s a skill right!”(Razshia)
“Yup”(Yuusuke)
Answering nonchalantly, Yuusuke who was standing next to Razshia being confused and had her mouth wide open, was laughing.
“This is way better.”(Yuusuke)
“….what’s better?”(Razshia)
“Being natural of course.”(Yuusuke)
Razshia had a shocked and stiffened face. Realizing that she had forgot about her own acting while her target pointed it out to her, she began reprimanding herself inside her mind. And then, for some reason or another, her shyness took control of her feelings and her face became hot.
“Why…..How.”(Razshia)
Losing her control of her emotions, she began to blush nonstop. For Razshia, this was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
“Hahahaha finally I can see the true you, this is a good night.”(Yuusuke)
“Ng? Eh?”(Razshia)
“Go to sleep early” Yuusuke spoke in a friendly voice towards the panicking Razshia, as his figure disappeared, leaving a grain of light. He had used instant movement through customization by replacing a part of the building. Due to the range it’s limited, but it truly is a teleportation skill.
“Wh…..What, you mean….!”(Razshia)
Realising her acting was exposed and that she had shown her actual personality, she began to compose herself from her unknown shame after seeing the absurd divine arts.
From here on, other than pretending to be blood related to Rasanasha, she could drop the acting and concentrate on working together, as Razshia’s feelings became light.
Dawn, the next morning. Everyone was seated facing each other while having breakfast.
“Rasa-ane’s breast to body proportion is too slim, isn’t it better for you to eat a little more?”(Razshia)
“Re~Really I wonder….?”(Rasanasha)
“What does Yuusuke-san think about it?”(Razshia)
“Don’t ask me that kind of question!”(Yuusuke)
Although the situation remained the same, today’s mood had changed compared to yesterday’s. It hadn’t gone from bad to the worst, but seemingly had turned for the better, “Why?” as a directed question and staring towards a certain black man in suspicion began.
“...Captain~”(Fonke)
“What’s up? Fonke.”(Yuusuke)
“For some reason, the atmosphere around Shia-chan seems to have changed.”(Fonke)
“Yeah.”(Yuusuke)
Yuusuke was silently eating his meal when Fonke brought up the question, as Aisha began glancing on the sideline.
Although it was the normal ranting of Fonke, this time Aisha wasn’t giving him an earful, she seem determined to know the truth while feigning ignorance, as she listened attentively. Because of that, there was a surprising hand raise.
“Erm...Captain.”(Isotta)
“What’s up? Isotta.”(Yuusuke)
“Yesterday night, for a short while….you weren’t in your room….?”(Isotta)
It was an uncommon sight for the shy green hair girl of the Darkness G.o.d Corps to voice out her thoughts, as Fonke had a startled look on his face. “Isotta has spoken…..!” Vermeer muttered out in surprised tone. Surprised a little by the sudden outburst, Yuusuke returned to his usual slacker mood.
“Don’t tell me...you have been tracing my presence?”(Yuusuke)
“Eh? EH! I~I, it wasn’t my intention, Rashia-san also, headed out for a stroll...that.”(Isotta)
Yuusuke’s attempts to dodge the question was shot down immediately by Isotta, and thus began the onslaught from Fonke.
“CA-PTA-IN”(Fonke)
“What is it?”(Yuusuke)
“In other words, you were with Shia-chan last night?”(Fonke)
“Wait a minute.”
Shocked...even the amba.s.sadors and the accompanist knight were all making a commotion across the breakfast table.
“It seems that this has completely turned out, as usual”, as the sight of Yuusuke predicting, dispelled the subtle air around the dining table, while trying to give a brief explanation of Razshia’s change.
“On the Roof! Looking at Stars! How daring….seems like someone no longer cares.”
“NOISY.”
“Don’t purposely misinterpret it!”
Fonke took a hit from Yuusuke’s and Aisha’s Double tsukkomi. It seems like it became one of the relaxing moments, even the usually strict and formal amba.s.sadors who were tied down to etiquette and the usually stiff Nossentes Knight had began to soften up.
As the centre of the topic, Razshia herself, began to opened up comfortably to the warm atmosphere of the Darkness G.o.d Corps.
After proceeding smoothly, they arrived at the northernmost peninsula on the evening of the third day. They will be stopping for one night on the sh.o.r.es of the lake while waiting for the arrival of the boat that they had requested from the port city. Because fishing was done, a series of fish cuisine was served on the dining table, thus it became a modest farewell party for the knight who they had journeyed with up till now.
“Now then, please be careful on your way back.”
“The situation over there seems tough too, take care of yourself.”
He will be heading towards the northwest of Nossentes, as he had to join up with the main force. And like that, it became the morning of the 4th day of escaping from Patrucia Nost. Seeing off the knight in the carriage, Yuusuke and his team boarded the 3 boats that came to pick them up, and they headed towards the harbour city across moon mirror lake.
“Is this Razshia’s first time riding a boat?”
“Un, yes…...ah Fish! It’s really swimming.”
Timidly looking out the edge of the boat into the surface of the lake, Razshia was showing child-like reactions as the fishes swam by. During her more than 10 years of life, she who had not stepped out of Patrucia Nost had almost no knowledge of this unknown world.
Looking at the childish appearance of Razshia, Yuusuke was convinced that “this is her original appearance”, while Rasanasha who knew the actual situation was compa.s.sionate of how the current situation was.
“This place is….Fonclanc’s harbor city.”(Razshia)
Looking up, it wasn’t a ceiling of stones, it was a huge sky that stretch endlessly even til “the outside of town.” For a moment, Razshia stood there admiring the scenery.
Overwhelmed by the bustling atmosphere of the port city, she had yet again realized the huge difference of knowledge from the book of information and the reality. Standing in the location, feeling the wind blowing, the interaction of the people coming and going to and fro from the city, as if the whole city was like a enormous organism.
The party had arrived at the port city around noon, they headed to the inn which they had previously stayed at, and reported to Sanc Adiet about the recent event that had happened in Nossentes. Until the pick-up carriage arrived they would be taking a break in the port city.
Arriving back to their homeland, the amba.s.sadors could finally relax, while thanking the Darkness G.o.d Corps who had played their role of escort well.
“I believe it’s generally safe when we arrived here, though there was that strife which happened when we had arrived here for the first time.”
“It’s better not to relax so much until we have arrived at Sanc Adiet.”
“Yeah. That said, until we reach the palace, no one is to slack off.”
“Fumu…..that’s true, it’s as you guys said.”
Yuusuke nodded to ascertain Vermeer and Shaheed’s speech, as he urged the amba.s.sadors to stay alert too and they agreed.
“OHHH, Shirley-chan Von-Chan ~ I am coming over right now~~!”
And just one person, a user of the wind arts, seem to have relaxed and dashed off down the streets of the port city. Yuusuke and the amba.s.sadors pretended that they didn’t see anything. Taking it as “he is gathering information” as an official reason.
In the room for the sisters, the ‘elder sister’ Rasanasha looks out from the window towards the city skyline as she voiced out to the ‘little sister’ Razshia.
“Shia, let’s go shopping.”
“Eh? What are we buying?”
“Clothing for you.”
“Ah…..okay, I guess so. Yea, let’s go.”
That night, due to the confusion, Razshia came along with only the clothes she was wearing, she didn’t bring any other clothes along with her. In the first place, she did not have many personal possessions to begin with. She was always given mission essential items only.
Buying whatever she needed for herself in the city. For such an obvious reason, she didn’t have the experience of purchasing things outside of the mission. Even if there is something that she fancied, due to nature of the missions to act as “a different person”, she wasn’t allowed to own anything.
Of course, the money that was use to purchase items, like drugs, were all issued by the accounting department officers whereby they only gave the necessary amount each time.
“....erm for the shopping, I don’t need to pay for any expenses right…?”
“This isn’t a mission, it’s from my personal purse.”
“Ple~Please take care of me….”
“Ufufufu Don’t worry about it.”
2 very beautiful sisters could be seen walking along, viewing the stalls on the main streets of the port city. In anycase, they are the singing princess and the seduction operative. Both young and old, guy or girl will look back when they walked pa.s.s them.
On a later date, when Fonke heard about the story, “I could have been carrying their luggage!” he will regret it very much that he had headed to the pub instead.