Chapter 2: Everyone in the canteen.

12:00 pm

The canteen of the fortress (a large room with checkered floor) was teeming with people, both men and women, who ate or argued with each other.

"What did you do on your finger?" Leila asked, turning to Anna.

"Elisa bit me ..."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, it's the only cat in the whole fortress!"

"It seems strange to me ... Elisa knows you, and she is meek."

"She must have had a crooked moon, what should I tell you?"

"Do you feel OK? You are a little pale, and you sweat ... "

"I'm fine ... Maybe a little fever."

"After lunch, go to the infirmary, I don't want it to get worse."

"Yup…"

Damn ... Ever since Elisa bit me I feel strange ... Maybe she really got rage ...

She think.

"I heard that tomorrow we will be sent to the front line." Yukiya said.

"To be used as cannon fodder."

"Exactly, Ryo."

"But who wants to? I don't get slaughtered for a nation that interned us and our compatriots in the ghettos!" Ayano protested.

"The alternative is the guillotine." The hacker explained.

"Not shooting?"

"No, Ayano ... Bullets are precious these days. Imagine if they waste three Eleven."

"We are Japanese, shit ... Japanese!"

"Not for the high spheres of Europia. For them we are just expendable pieces."

"Don't talk to me about those pigs ... They stay safe in Paris gorging themselves and living in luxury, while the Japanese suffer from hunger and misery!"

"And it's not that simple soldiers are better, mind you ... A bunch of slackers who are in the rear doing the party. The weight of the fighting weighs heavily on the Eleven… " Ryo said.

"Japanese!" Ayano exclaimed, irritated by that epithet.

"Come on, Ayano ... Don't be so surly!"

"Ryo, if you use that term again I swear I won't give it to you anymore!"

"Okay ... In the future I will avoid it."

Also because you are the only girl in the trio.

"What will those three be confabulating?" Kate wondered.

"I really have no idea." Ferilli replied, resuming to eat her lamb with potatoes.

Are they plotting something? I should talk to Commander Leila or Major Hammel about it.

The girl thought suspiciously.

Oscar also kept an eye on the Japanese trio.

"I see you distracted, Major." Klaus called him back.

"I'm not distracted ... I keep an eye on our guests. And by the way, why do they eat in our canteen?"

"Because now they are pilots of the W-0 unit, not prisoners."

"In my opinion, they are only waiting for the right moment to escape."

"Impossible, they won't be able to bypass our security measures."

"I sincerely hope so."