Imperial Hospital, Berun, Unified Year 1925
"Well that was insightful." Tanya said to herself as she laid her head down on her pillows. I wonder what Zettour has planned? I could never tell what that man was thinking. "He has some poker face." She sighed.
Tanya cursed at the Imperial Meritocracy for a moment. Who the hell thought of a medal for murder?
"Well I suppose a certain group of war nuts would love that medal." She thought, remembering how her Battalion acted. Weiss will be leading them for now right? While he is one of the more sensible ones I do worry if he can keep them under control.
Tanya resigned herself to her bed for a few minutes before remembering something. Recovery is extremely boring. She thought back to the first time she had been given time off to recover, back when she earned her Silver Wings Assault Badge. She never knew whether to be happy with the medal or not, on one hand as soon as she enters a room she gets immediate respect and willingness to listen just from the sight of it, on the other hand it was an excuse to throw her to the frontlines.
Tanya grimaced at the memory of the front. All of the death, the decay, the… waste. She shook her head. No point in thinking about it now, as long as no one interferes there would be peace
But that raised another point, will no one interfere? Will they just leave the Empire alone with all the new found territory they possessed?
Well lets see, the Commonwealth should hopefully realize that they can't win alone, even with the help of the free republic. The Unified States should hopefully remain isolated, they don't really have a reason to attack us. The Ildoans are talking about becoming allied with Russy are just after a war with the Akitsushima Dominion and with the Great Purge in the Federation it's not like they're in any shape to fight and the Ispagna should hopefully back off since we have little history with them.
Tanya thought to herself. There may be something I am missing. Hmm
After a minute of thought she gave up. Lets just pray that this nightmare is over and we can finally have a peaceful world
Wirsch Manor, Outskirts of Berun, Unified Year 1925
Volkenhayn sighed as he walked into General Wirsch's office How convenient that the man gets to work from home when there's no war on the continent. He thought, slightly jealous he didn't think of doing it first.
"Ah Erich, it's good to see you." The man said, sitting up from his previous position of legs on the table, with whisky and a cigar in his left and right hand respectively. "I must say, when I received your letter I was intrigued."
The General Gestured for him to sit and took a sip of his drink before speaking, "So tell me friend, why should we let a 12 year old orphan girl with very little education besides war college be a key member in the future of the entire country." He said with a very passive aggressive tone.
The room was silent and Volkenhayn gave a small chuckle. "I see you did you research then."
"Given the situation I felt I had to." The General retorted.
Volkenhayn thought for a moment before answering. "Well the recommendation came from General Zettour if that brings any relief?"
He remained silent but quietly he was thinking to himself. He knew Zettour was a smart man and wouldn't give a recommendation out for just anyone, especially not for such a high position.
"Listen, from all of her reports the girl is outstanding, she's pulled off victories with plans made on the fly, she's thought of ideas that no one else could of on the battlefield like luring enemies into close quarters combat where we have a advantage, and even the attack on Osfjord, she was shown a map and asked for a plan of attack, she thought of the exact plan that had took the General Staff weeks to think of in just a few minutes, If anything the girl is a prodigy."
Wirsch considered his colleague's words carefully, while he had heard of the first two, he never heard of the last one, perhaps the General Staff and decided to skip that part to save face.
The room stayed silent until Wirsch finally spoke. "I had heard that she was recently put in hospital from a assassination attempt and that she has been recently having… Episodes. Are you sure she is stable enough?"
"According to a report from Colonel Lergen, who had been sent by Zettour to see how she was doing, she has mostly recovered and has not had any reported episodes since her last one a few days ago, but she seems to be rapidly improving."
"Hmm… When are you planning on bringing this up to the rest of command?" Wirsch asked.
"When I am sure she has fully recovered."
Wirsch thought for a moment. "Alright I'm on board, I'll support your decision."
"Thank you General."
"If she's as good as you say she is there's no need." Replied Wirsch sipping the last of his whiskey.
Sanctuary
X sighed as he watched the non-believer. He had done all he could to try to save her, he gave her that orb, gave her her magic, made a few well placed shots miss by inches. But still, she refused to believe in him.
He had started panicking when he heard her talking about whether she should kill herself or not. He would not allow his little lost lamb to stray so far away, but luckily she talked herself out of it.
"I'm just trying to save you child, why do you refuse to believe that and defy me so."
Perhaps he had been wrong to do what he did, thrown her into such an evil world on a side that would inevitably lose, but in his defence he was stressed, overworked, tired and for the first time in multiple histories, someone defied him to his face. Of course he couldn't control his anger, Her own God, well he at the time, was right in front of him and she dared call him imaginary.
Of course he was spiteful, after all he did for him and all he got was argued with and cursed at.
But still, I suppose he could have handled it better. X thought to himself, watching memories of how he used to be so kind and patient with them, but then time and time again, humanity would do something and eventually all that went away. All that was left was his tiredness, and his unreturned love for humanity and those in it.
Perhaps things could have been different if… It doesn't matter now.
For now he will watch and see what happens and pray that his little lost sheep would make her way home.
(A/N First of all, I am so sorry it took me so long to write this next chapter, I've had my back against the wall with school and when I have time I just had no motivation to write, that has thankfully gone away now and I finally have a few ideas of where I want this to go.
Second, I was wondering that if I alter the story of youjo senki, with a few twists and that, would that bother you guys at all? I have an Idea that would really change the story a bit and was wondering if you guys would want that.
Finally, Thank you, the amount of support I've got on this story, whether that be follows or reviews it's really helped me get these chapters out, so I can only hope I don't disappoint xd
Thank you for reading! Any comments or reviews are appreciated, even if I don't respond I read them all!)
