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"We have to separate into three groups." Pointing at the map, Varrot summaries the situation. "If we're going in one big group, there's a high chance that the Imperial Units could send a signal to the other parts of Fouzen, thus endangering the workers there."

"Even with our advantages in darkness, it won't help if one of the alarms in the main base goes off." Kuro then pushes the pictures of the watchers' searching lights and Zaka. "The agent, Zaka, has given us locations of the watchers Imperial Units have stationed. If nothing changes when we reach there, we could use this as our advantages."

Welkin: "However, currently Squad 7 and Squad 1 are the only ones equipped with silenced weapons. We will be the ones infiltrating the place before everyone else heads in."

Faldio: "Squad 1 and Squad 422 will follow while getting the Darcsens out of the mine."

Kurt: "We will also have to be careful of Calamity Raven. Since this is a Darcsens rescue mission, they won't intervene...much. But, to be sure, we will guard the Northwest location for you all."

"Also, you need to be careful of this." Varrot puts the picture of the guarding armored train, Equus, on the table. "Currently, only the mercenaries have the power to take it down directly. Kuro, have you talked with the Heiress about the train?"

"I did. And she told me to destroy it. She said that Gallia doesn't need it, and I agree."

Varrot nods. "Then it's easier for us. I want none of the soldiers or the citizens to be in its line of sight, understand?"

"Roger!" All squad leaders receive the order.

Rosie picks up the picture of Zaka, then *tsk* in annoyance. "A Darcsen spy? Can't we pick anyone else for this?"

That won't go unnoticed by the only Darcsen in the room. "That's not nice. Any helps would be great for us."

"I just don't like the fact that I'm gaining help from another Darcsen." Rosie retorts back.

Before the two start throwing another argument, Largo stops them: "Cut it off, you two! We're soldiers here, and we have to follow orders. If we are ordered to work with a Darcsen, then so be it!"

"Kinda ironic when it comes from you, Largo. Remember the time in Vasel?" Kuro chuckles, reminding everyone about the event.

That makes the Lancer fake-cough to hide his embarrassment face. "Although, I won't promise anything if he turns out to be useless, okay?"

"He's an agent, so he must have some decent skills."

"Should I order Ace to go with you?"

"Don't need to, Seven. She's one of your trump cards, keep her with you. We have our owns." Then his left eye suddenly twitches. "So when will we start?"

Varrot: "Squad 422 should move now. The others will move at first light. Our attack starts at sundown. Dismiss."

"Shotguns?" One engineer asks in confusion. "I mean, sure, they're helpful. But we're in a stealth mission. Shouldn't we have anything else that's quieter?"

"That's why I called you all here, to understand why." Putting the weapons on the table, Kuro then points the one in his most left. "M1216, four tubes of bullets and each holds four 12 Gauge bullets." Picking it up, Kuro spins the magazine, then pulls out and makes a reload move. "That's how you use the gun. Four shots from one tube then change to the other tube."

Claudia Mann raises her hand up. "How fast can we shoot with it?"

"If my memories serve right, around a revolver's speed if your trigger finger is fast enough." He then moves to the next one. "Spas12. Eight shots, nothing extraordinary."

Noticing the stock, Dallas Wyatt asks: "Can we remove the stock? It seems to make the gun a bit too long."

To answer it, Kuro folds the stock up. "The stock is a situation-dependence in my opinion. I recommend you to use the stock until you have to fight in tight space, like in a building of sort."

"We could see why." Dallas replies. "And about that last one."

"This... is one of the very few weapons that I refuse to believe it being in the right category." Kuro scratches the back of his head before explaining. "AA-12 Shotgun. Or, as the longer name: Auto Assault 12. Guess why."

"Auto... so basically you can hold its trigger?"

"Yes, Nadine. And I kid you not, 8 rounds could be thrown out of window in around one second." Her left eye starts twitching again. "Alright, I have some more in the other tables. You guys can check them by yourself." With that, he leaves the table, letting the engineers testing the weapons themselves.

...

"That smile on your face... you're at your period again?" Uni asks, half jokingly half worryingly, as she watches Kuro walking into Squad 7's homeroom.

"Kinda." The man replies, then covers his lower face with his left hand while grabbing a chair with his right. "Anything worth talking?"

Uni sighs after Kuro sits down. "K-Sha is with the Shocktrooper's group, helping with the guns again. And Rosie's still being stuck up."

"After this she won't."

"Squad 422 has said their goodbye and headed to the other part of Fouzen. Squad 1 and squad 7 are also preparing for the fight." She then notices the uneasy feeling from Kuro. "Turn that off. Use that when we face the enemy."

"Sorry." The darkness slowly retreats back into Kuro's body. "But, judging by how I am right now, you know how cruel the general we're going to face is, right?"

"Yeah. But, I will give him a little credit. He did portray himself as a real, cruel person."

"Better than the manipulating types. Doesn't excuse his sins though."

"... So, you're going to use that form?"

"Seems so. Not sure myself. Let's see how things turn out."

The next night

"Ready up." Marina and the sniper team tosses their covers away, as they start aiming their guns down to the canyon. "No tanks in sight. Alicia, move your squad towards and stay out of the lights."

"Got it." Alicia then gives a signal, and the Scouts move up and hide themselves into the shadow. They're having their silenced sidearms ready in their hands, and their main weapons on the soldiers.

Wavy takes a chance to rush to another warehouse, peaks inside while giving a 'hold' signal to the rest. A Scout has separated from his group and heads straight towards Wavy, while the other Imperial units head the other way. The moment the Scout walks into the view, Wavy drops him with a point-blank bullet to the head, as he quickly holds the body up before it falls down and moves the corpse right to the side, avoiding any insights. No Imperial soldiers notice the event occurred.

Moving to a nearby camp, where the lights are off, Alicia and Freesia York moves the Night goggles down and quietly head into it. There are soldiers sleeping here, so they give them a bullet for each to the head. After it's done, Freesia quietly says: "Goodnight to all of you."

"Alicia, Freesia, wait for our mark. A Shocktrooper is standing outside of the camp." Tapping through the earpiece, Susie warns the duo. After hearing the confirms, she calls for the sniper team to deal with him. A few seconds later, a silenced shot from above hits the Shocktrooper right at the head. "You two can come out now." The duo go out and pull the corpse into the camp to clear the evidences. "Rosie, where's your team?"

"I'm under one of the light towers. Snipers, can you give me a sitrep?"

"... Two on the tower... Wait, one sniper is going down the ladder. Hide." Immediately Rosie rushes into a nearby rock and hides behind it. "Wait..." Rosie peaks out a bit to see said Sniper walking towards another warehouse. "All good. The one on the watchtower is an Engineer. Get up the ladder, and wait for my kill." Rosie acknowledges and starts heading up, then stops at the last step. "...Go." Rosie climbs into the spot, and the Engineer is a bit surprised and turns back, only for his world to go dark as the sniper shot goes through the helmet and blasts his head off. Quickly putting the soldier down quietly, Rosie starts changing the course of the light so the others could move up.

Moments later, the other lights are also changing courses as well, meaning that Gallia Militia has secured them. The mortar squad of Empire has taken noticed of no responses from the watchtower, so they try to call the others. Try, because all they receive back are static sounds. Then, the sound of a body dropping on the ground catches their attentions, as they turn back... and see the world suddenly spinning around, and the last thing they see is a mask, with a face of X.X on it. "Hell... awaits." That's the last thing they hear before their consciousness fades.

"Mortar neutralized." Kuro, using the voice of the mask, calls out for the entire squad. "Any leftovers?"

"A few, but they're not aware of what we're doing." Welkin replies. "All groups, neutralize them all."

"Roger." That's everyone's response.

"I will wait at the entrance." Kuro simply replies before turning off the radio.

"Okay..." Welkin weakly answers to the dead radio, before calling Uni and K-Sha: "Hey uh... do you know what happened this time?"

K-Sha answers: "To put it VERY LIGHTLY... it's the day of the month."

"...Huh?" Obviously Welkin is oblivious about it.

Uni sighs. "Just, don't trigger him, or it's going to be like Barious again."

That makes Isara shiver. "That bad?"

"Worse." Both Uni and K-Sha replies.

"What... the hell is this?" Largo says what is in everyone's mind right now. Welkin, Largo, Rosie, Alicia, Kuro and Uni have come into one of the houses that the current workers have to stay. And the scene before them makes them sick. Sick of what the Empire has done to their people.

Also, Kuro's wearing a dark hoodie to cover his head, with his hands wearing white gloves as well. The lab coat is nowhere to be found.

"Not something we like." Uni grits her teeth in anger. "Not even ASIC is this bad."

"They could be if we didn't stop them in time." The mask responds, startling the Darcsens inside the house a bit.

"You're strange folks, for sure." A voice catches the group's attention, as they turn to a table to see Zaka sitting next to it. "What brings you here? And how did you get in?"

The commander of squad 7 introduces himself: "My name is Welkin Gunther. We have received your call and brought soldiers to get everyone out of here."

"Ah, Welkin Gunther. That's a name I have heard." Standing up, the agent gives Welkin a hand-shaking. "The name's Zaka. It's nice to meet you."

"Likewise."

Zaka then notices Uni and the masked Kuro, as he says: "I have seen you from the newspaper as well, Uni wasn't it?"

"That's me." Uni replies, with another hand-shaking. "You guys have gone through tough times, and we're pulling you out of this."

"Looking forward to it. So... mister Kuro... why the mask?"

"It's personal." =.= "You will know soon."

Zaka decides not to push the matter. "Very well. Follow me please."

...

Walking into another room, which is like a mini war room, Zaka explains the situation: "Currently, Fouzen's factories are located on the canyon's edge, split between an upper and lower level. The armored train, as I have reported before, runs on a highway rail that no normal guns could reach it."

"That's why we're here." Zaka looks at Kuro. "We could deal with the armored train. However, our priority is to get every worker out first. Do you have any retreating plans?"

Zaka points at a location in the end of the map that's far away from the highway rail. "There. However, there's no covers if we try to run. It would be suicidal if we run without dealing with the patrols first."

"Sniper team could cover from here..." Uni points out the high ground, then moves to the lower level. "If there are any tanks, our Lancers will deal with them... Kuro, contact K-Sha and tell her to take a look at these locations and make sure no Imperial Soldiers are there." Nodding, Kuro starts tapping into the radio to call the gunslinger. "Of course, that's the worst scenario. If we manage to deal with that train first, however, the evacuation will be easier. Zaka, if we're not here, what are you planning to take it down?"

"Well, I'm going to use this." Pulling out a device, Zaka explains. "It's a ragnite bomb. I'm going to blow up the rail so the train will fall into the canyon."

"Good idea." Welkin compliments. However, there's a problem: "But, how are you going to reach that rail? Surely their General would send protections there, right?"

"Normally, yes. However, since they're too proud of themselves, they will leave the place vulnerable at night."

"I see." Suddenly, a sound of something being crushed causes everyone to jump up and turns to the source, to see what's left of a broken phone in Kuro's left hand. Seeing the twitching fingers, Uni feels that there's something wrong with this room. She slowly turns to Zaka and asks: "Zaka... it's not appropriate time, but... how many Darcsens... have been killed and tortured in this place?"

Zaka's smile drops. "Too many. No one is spared."

"...Welkin, please handle the rest." Uni says, then pushes Kuro out of the room.

"...What was that about?" Zaka asks the commander of Squad 7.

"I'm... not sure. But... I guess it's somewhat related to the deaths here."

...

The Darcsens look at the mercenary duo with confused eyes as Uni puts Kuro down to a chair. She then places her hands firmly on his shoulders while whispering: "Calm down, Kuro... calm... down... The operation is nearly completed. We can't screw it up now..."

The mask starts flashing with all kinds of emotions, and yet Kuro doesn't respond vocally.

"...Kuro... Are you even listening to me?" Either he's not... here, spiritually, or he's too occupied with what he has seen.

"Miss... what's wrong with him?" The little Darcsen girl walks closer to Uni with concern written on her face.

"He's... not very well. Emotionally." Uni replies. "At this rate, he might raze the whole Fouzen down in a second..."

"What could we do for you?" The girl asks back with a little hope that she could do something.

"...Follow my lead. Don't question it." Uni says slowly, not wanting to accidentally trigger something inside Kuro.

"O...Okay..." The girl nods timidly.

"Good. Now..." Uni uses her left hand to gently push the little girl into Kuro, the former yelps quietly in surprise. The girl then blushes up a bit when Uni starts wrapping Kuro's arms around her shoulders, which causes the Darcsens nearby to move a little closer in concern and curiosity.

"Miss... this is..."

"Don't worry. He wouldn't dare to harm you." Uni reassures the girl. She then starts whispering into Kuro's ears: "Do you feel it? The little life you're holding in your arm? An endangered life being in a fragile young girl?"

"..." His fingers slowly move, but it's not too significant.

"Do you wish to harm her?" Uni immediately raises her left index finger up towards the Darcsens to stop them from shouting. "Is it worthy of the power you gained?"

"...No." That's the mask's response. At least that calms down the other Darcsens.

"The world is trying to kill her, despite her innocence. Will you let it happen?"

"...No."

"What would you do?"

"...Protect the weak. Fight the strong. Destroy evil."

"You are not a monster. You are not a devil. You are Kuro. You are a symbol. You do not follow the rules of nature."

"I am Kuro..."

"You wish for a peaceful world for everyone. You wish to protect it with all costs. You die, to let the others live."

"I wish for a better world..."

"The Darkness sprouted from your death. The Light given by the late Goddesses. Use them wisely. Don't let them control you."

"Don't let them control me..."

"Remember: Peace is always fragile. That's why you always try to protect it. Never stop your work in doing so."

"..."

Everyone nearly holds their breaths as Uni stops her whispering and slowly stands straight up. Kuro then slowly puts his left hand on the small girl's head, nearly making her jump. However, from afraid to relaxed, the girl starts feeling him gently patting her head. Everyone now exhales in relieve.

"That's good..." Uni wipes out her non-existed-sweat on her forehead. She then notices the soldier's group has headed out. She asks them: "You guys are done?"

"For a while." Zaka answers. He then asks back: "What's that about?"

Uni sighs. "It's about..."

She's interrupted when K-Sha walks into the house. "Good news and bad news, everyone! Faldio's squad has successfully evacuated everyone, but Squad 422 sent out a warning signal. Apparently one Imperial Unit managed to call out to the main center. The soldiers are starting to position now. We need to move!"

"... Then it's time I call out my own army, huh?" The mask suddenly speaks up, causing everyone to turn at Kuro, as he pats the Darcsen little girl one more time before standing up. "Everyone, prepare to evacuate everyone. I will provide cover when that train shows up."

"Well that's a change of tone." Zaka comments. "Alright, everyone. We should start running now. The Empire is not going to let us go that easily!"

"Sniper team, report!"

"Enemies are moving towards you! The exit is clear of Imperials, but their tanks could try to use mortar shots, and there's no cover!"

"I will deal with the tanks. Everyone, cover for the workers to get out of here!"

Everyone starts issuing orders for the Darcsens to run away, with Kuro (hasn't turned back yet) preparing the new weapon provided by the requester. Putting the weapon into his right arm, he observes as the weapon covers his entire right arm this time, with the top design being a thin, golden lance instead of a shield like the original Glaive Cannon. Grabbing the main handle and tapping on the side, a handle spreads out so he could grab it with his left hand for stabilizing the weapon. On top and bottom, there are two rails that's designed to line up with the main cannon at one point. The moment he grabs the additional handle, the main cannon opens, and the phase disruptor core also peeks out on the opposite side, creating a straight line that resembles an energy railgun. There are also vents that swivel in the way so it wouldn't blast excess energy into the wearer.

"Let's see what you have done in upgrading this so far..." Kuro says to himself, before raising it up towards one of the Imperial tanks in his sight. Slightly pulling the main handle back, the disruptor core starts pouring energy into the main cannon, as Kuro looks through one of the rails for the focus point, and presses the trigger on the additional handle. Energy starts gathering into an orb in front of the main cannon, and after a second, the shot blasts out of the weapon. The energy stream collides into the armor plate of the tank, then penetrates through the armor like melt cheese, and travels several meters back before hitting something. The tank then explodes, causing nearby soldiers to be blasted away as well.

Also, that one shot dislocates Kuro's right shoulder, due to the vulnerability of his current state. Quickly fixing his shoulder, the mask whines. "Damn. I thought it shouldn't be still this much recoil."

"Are you okay?" K-Sha quickly moves to his location, as the two get into cover. "That sounds painful."

"Thanks for concerning me. Luckily it's not so painful, given of the current state I'm in. K-Sha, assist the Shocktroopers. Don't let the Imperial go near the Darcsens."

"I hear you." K-Sha then gives him the bomb Zaka has built. "Have any ideas for this? Zaka is using the distraction to head to the train rail now."

"...A few." With that, K-Sha jumps away to the exit.

"...Right, then. Just keep them busy for a while." With that, he peeks out again and fires the weapon, fully prepared for the recoil.

...

A few minutes later

"Welkin, is Edelweiss ready?"

"Rolling in, Uni."

During the distraction, Squad 7's commander and Isara has sneaked their tank through the main entrance, and now they start causing troubles in that location, with the help of Shocktroopers and Engineers.

"Keep them distracted. There are only a few Darcsens left."

"What about the train rail?"

"Zaka has rigged it already. Only to wait for that thing to show up..." Just in time that the train starts rolling to the set bomb. Uni changes the channel: "Zaka, blow it into oblivion!"

"No need to tell me!" A second after the answer, an explosion occurs right under the train, causing all activities to be halt. Uni has expected the train to start falling... "No good! Only half of the explosions went off!" Only for the warning to come.

After a brief moment, one of Imperial Tanks starts turning its main cannon towards the groups of Darcsens and plans to shoot, only for another of its tank to be suddenly thrown at it from afar, colliding at each other and explodes. Imperial units turn to where the tank was thrown, to see several weapon crates being thrown right at them as well.

"While they're not recovered, run!" Kuro's order straightens the Militia soldiers up, as they start ordering the Darcsens to keep running...

"TO GALLIA'S MILITIA..." The voice of Gregor being amplified through the microphone echoes throughout the canyon. "STOP YOUR ATTACKS IMMEDIATELY AND RETREAT FROM FOUZEN. IF YOU REFUSE..." One of the cannons from the train starts moving and aims at the groups of Darcsens. "WE WILL BOMBARD THE ESCAPING DARCSENS! IF YOU DON'T RETREAT IMMEDIATELY..."

An energy blast shoots through the air, collides towards said cannon and causes the weapon to explode on impact. While everyone's surprised at the event, Kuro's mask voice comes from the lower level with the help of its own amplifier: "Hey! Pick a fight with someone your size!"

"... YOU MUST BE THAT MERCENARY BRAT EVERYONE IS BRAGGING ABOUT."

"And you must be the demon of a general the Empire is scared off, huh? Bad news for you, Fouzen will be your grave, and today will be the last day you live."

"HA! IF YOU'RE SO CONFIDENT, THEN TRY TO COME UP HERE! FIRE THE LOCOMOTIVE CANNON!" Another cannon starts turning, and shoots at the moment it's at the position.

Kuro raises his left hand up... and a black hole appears in the sky, absorbing the shells into it. Closing his palm down, the black hole disappears, and he replies: "As long as I'm here, don't try to kill the innocents." He then starts rushing towards the bridge and starts jumping up towards the train.

Seeing that Kuro's on their back, Welkin orders: "Everyone! Keep running! We're almost out of here!"

"ROGER!" That's everyone from his squad responding.

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING OUT ALIVE!" Another shot is loaded and shot into the air. This time, the black hole reappears and throws back the shells from before, and both shots explode in the air upon contact. "YOU..."

"Alicia, Rosie, Largo. We leave the rest to you!" Uni orders the others, before she grabs K-Sha in her transformed state and flies up to Equus.

Landing on one of the cannons, Kuro places the ragnite bomb onto it and shoots it with his revolver, detonating the bomb right at his face, blowing up the cannon as well. Moments later, after the fire dies down a bit, he puts the Protoss weapon back into his pocket dimension, before heading into one of the train heads, where he assumes Gregor is inside...

"Kuro." He briefly turns back to see Uni and K-Sha landing on the train as the former calls for him. "We will come with you. We could use some backfires."

"...Sure."

...

Reaching towards his gun, Gregor aims towards the only door in the room, with the others also raising their guns as well, waiting for the mercenaries to come in. Then, the door opens slowly, then something is thrown right into the room, causing everyone to duck behind cover. However, after a second, the mercenaries immediately kick the door in and shoot everyone dead except Gregor. The General raises his gun up, only for his forearm to be stabbed by Kuro's bloody scissors, before he pulls the scissors out and then cuts Gregor's elbow, completely separating his arm.

The general of Empire shouts in pain, as he falls to the floor. He then gets stepped on by Kuro over his chest. Gregor watches in anger as the other girls start using Equus' cannon to shoot his own troops. "Get your hands out of the weapon, you..." Kuro immediately presses his foot down harder, causing Gregor to gasp in pain before he turns his focus to the one who just cut his arm. "You... even if I fall here, it won't stop His Grace from evading Gallia."

Kuro puts his left hand on the mask while chuckling, with the mask showing ^.^. "You really think so? Selvaria must have not told you about the fight between me and her, then."

"You just got one lucky shot..."

"Then let me tell you: I LET her and Maximilian live a bit longer, because they're crucial for the future. If not, I would have let my friend kill the Prince in Barious already."

"You think you have the authority to do so?"

"I don't. But..." The mask suddenly goes off, as Kuro grabs it and lifts it off his face, thus moving the hoodie backward. Now, Gregor sees the face of the current Kuro, and for the first time, he feels fear. "Death... orders... I... obey. Death... absolute." And to add up for the fear, Kuro kneels down so his face could be closer to Gregor's, with the scissors starting to open and close, creating a sickening sound. "Die... for peace."

...

"Is everyone here already?" Gathering the whole squad, Welkin asks Alicia.

"Seems to be. Only Kuro's group hasn't returned..." Then, the train blows up, shining up the canyon. "Uhm... ah right, they can fly."

"Well, they're there, right?" Following Rosie's finger pointing up the sky, Alicia and Welkin look up to see Uni with K-Sha in her arms descending down, with Kuro stepping on... something black.

Upon seeing the mercenaries, everyone starts cheering up for their success. Welkin then notices Kuro's hood being pulled down as he turns at a dark corner, not letting everyone see his face. "Hey Kuro, thanks for the help. Let's return back, shall we?"

"... Will follow." That causes everyone within the earshot stop cheering. "You go."

"...Uh, Kuro? What's wrong?" Alicia is a little scared of that change of tone. "Are you..."

"I think it's time to show them, Kuro." Uni says to the man. "I mean, it's better than to do so after the celebration, right?"

"...Cover... children." Kuro orders, his voice creepy and cold sends shiver on everyone's back. "Not... pretty."

K-Sha, turning back to her cheerful form, then says to the Darcsens. "Everyone, please cover your kids' eyes. This is not pretty." The workers don't understand yet, but decide to follow. Once it's done, K-Sha says to Kuro: "It's okay now. You can turn back."

"..." Kuro starts throwing the hood back, showing his hair with blood splatted on it, which makes people slightly disgusted. Then, he turns to his right, startles everyone with his stitch-full face, pale gray skin and a lifeless right eye. Then, when he fully turns back, many women scream in fear, and men nearly grab their weapons to try to defend. The other half of the face is lack of any pieces of skin, it's just a half of a human skull, an empty eye socket with some sorts of symbol spinning in it. Not even a war veteran has seen that kind of damage, let alone people who hasn't seen much of a war.

Zaka back-steps in surprise, before asking: "Kuro... what... the hell are you?"

"...Victim...a curse's victim..." Kuro replies, the stitches slowly drip blood out as well.

Alicia covers her own with her hands, feeling nausea coming to her. "It...is worse than I thought..."

"*Sigh* Told you..." Kuro then pulls the hood back up and presses the mask back on his face. The mask turns back on and speaks for him: "It's not that I have to hide the face because of some dark secrets or so. I just don't like people running out because of how I look like, okay?"

Largo scratches his head, then says: "Holy hell... and I thought our war is already bloody enough..."

The mask then turns into ^.^ and says: "Okay now. My past has nothing to do with us managing to rescue everyone. Let's return and celebrate for our successful operation, okay?"

That temporarily earns nods of agreement from everyone. Then, Welkin's radio rings up, as he answers: "Hello? This is Welkin."

"Hey, it's Seven. We have managed to pull out with the Darcsens, no casualties. What about your side?"

Welkin then sees Uni starting to answer her phone as well, then she tells Welkin: "Faldio is also successful as well. It's a total victory for us!"

Now that cheers everyone up, as everyone starts shouting happily for their escape.

Welkin can't help but smile at the scene. Kuro then walks up to him, and Welkin says: "You're right. It's time for the celebration. Let's get back to Randgriz. I'm sure Your Highness would be pleased to hear our successful mission."

Chapter 13 end!

Fouzen has returned for Gallia. Next objective: take Marberry Shore back, and prevent a certain someone's death.

So yeah, wasn't planning to show 'that face' of Kuro to allies. But then, Halloween happened :3.

And yeah... IRL, we want to defend, not attack. That's why I decided to destroy Equus instead of bringing it back to do the research.

At least I gave Zaka's bomb an honorable job. Wouldn't let it go to waste.

MAYBE the next chapter will come out after a few days. See you all in the future everyone!