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Epilogue[]

The loud rumbling sounds and fixed movement shook Saito awake. He barely opened his eyes, solely to search out himself in a cocoon-like cabin. He has been sleeping on a easy mattress affixed to the cabin wall.

“Are you awake?”

Saito jumped on the query. He noticed Arie him with a quick face.

“Bastard! Why did you do this to Tiffania!”

He needed to rise up and punch him, however he was restrained by Arie’s subordinates, Madhav and Idris.

“Hey, hey, don’t be mistaken. I used to be the one who saved you. Despite the fact that it was only a coincidence.”

Saito then observed Tiffania and Luctiana who have been sleeping on the wall reverse of him.

“Tiffa!”

Saito shortly rushed to her facet. Tiffania’s physique was coated in bandages. Her face and nostril have been coated with one thing like a oxygen masks, and there have been tubes inserted into her physique. Luctiana, sleeping in a mattress perpendicular to Tiffania’s, obtained the identical therapy.

Despite the fact that Tiffania’s eyes have been closed, there was nonetheless some motion on her chest.

“Is she nonetheless alive?”

Arie nodded in response to Saito’s query. “That’s proper. If we have been got here just a bit later, then there was nothing we are able to do with the tools we’ve right here. We solely managed to succeed in you after every part was over as a result of we needed to evade the Navy.”

Saito breathed a sigh of aid, and tears flowed down his cheeks.

“Thank goodness… thank goodness…” Saito repeated as he held Tiffania’s hand in his grasp for some time.

“Shouldn’t you be thanking me too?”

“Why did you save us?” Saito might perceive why Arie would come to save lots of Luctiana. Deep down inside, Arie was in love with Luctiana. He would relatively be branded a traitor of his folks than watch the fiancée he liked get killed.

“That’s as a result of if I save Luctiana, then we’re all needed folks. So even when I don’t wish to settle for this, I might solely escape to the nation of the barbarians… Gallia. It will likely be harmful for us to go alone, so we want your assist.” Arie defined with a distressed face.

“The place’s my sword?”

Arie pointed beside the mattress, the place Derflinger and some small computerized pistols may very well be discovered.

“We bought your weapons too, because you’ll be needing it sooner or later.”

“What do you imply by that?”

“The Navy… deliberate to have all of you killed. They failed to do this so I might think about that they’ll get very upset and begin looking out the world across the ’dragon’s nest’… I consider that they’ll discover that we’re lengthy gone and ship troops after us. No, they could have already did that. This isn’t some trip journey, so a minimum of assist us a bit of.”

“Gained’t it’s troublesome if we get killed?”

Arie sighed. “We’re not as united as you assume we’re. Possibly it’s the identical in your facet too.”

Simply then, Saito observed that there was one other younger lady sleeping there. She was undoubtedly Fatima, who had beforehand shot at Tiffania with out hesitation.

“She’s right here too!”

“We will’t simply go away her alone, can we?”

Saito shot a hateful glare at Fatima. She appeared to have misplaced consciousness, and was loud night breathing evenly. He was burning with the urge to leap on her and strangle her little neck. Nonetheless, Saito all of a sudden felt that she regarded similar to Tiffania.

I ought to cease, he thought in his head. In any case, Tiffania was alive, in some way. If he had allowed himself to be possessed by anger and homicide this lady… wouldn’t that make him the identical as her?

If she did this once more, I’ll by no means forgive her, Saito swore in his coronary heart.

After that, Saito regarded outdoors the cabin window. He was shocked to search out water outdoors the window. Evidently they have been shifting within the sea.

“Isn’t this, a submarine!”

“Submarine? It is a sea dragon ship, you understand. Nicely, we haven’t actually used it a lot, so it’s regular so that you can be shocked.”

Evidently the ocean dragon that had fought with Saito earlier than was now towing the ellipsoidal ship. You guys actually like to make use of dragon to tow every kind of issues, huh, thought Saito.

Saito stared at Arie.

“Is there anything I may also help you with?”

“There’s one thing I wish to ask you.”

“Extra questions? You might be actually troublesome.”

Saito requested, straight to the purpose. “That ’dragon’s nest’ is the ’Holy Land’, am I proper?”

Madhav and Idris instantly stood up, however Arie stopped them. “This isn’t my query to reply.”

Arie and Saito stared at one another for a second.

Simply then… Tiffania, who had been sleeping on the mattress, opened her mouth a bit of.

“Saito…”

“Are you awake? Tiffa!” Nonetheless, it doesn’t appear so. As a substitute, she was solely calling out for Saito in her goals.

“Saito… Saito… The place are you? Don’t go away me alone…”

“Right here, I’m right here, it’s alright now, you’ve me by your facet.”

“Saito…” Tiffania closed her lips, and silence returned to the ship.

“I’ve to return to Gallia… to inform Louise and the others about this.”

Now was not the time to be worrying over Arie and Luctiana. It was comprehensible that that they had helped him as a result of they knew issues would find yourself like this.

He felt his chest burn in ache as he held Tiffania’s hand. Saito opened up his shirt in concern, and peered at his chest.

There have been unknown runes engraved clearly on his chest.

“That is…”

The runes of, a well-recognized…?

He considered how he made the contract with Tiffania earlier than. Then, this actually was… the contract of a “acquainted”?

An overlapping double acquainted contract?

May this occur?

Saito held on to Derflinger beside him. The runes on his left hand shone brightly. So he nonetheless has his Gandálfr powers.

“Hey, Derf, what are these runes on my chest? Does this imply I’m Tiffania’s acquainted? Despite the fact that I’ve turn into Louise’s acquainted?”

Nonetheless, Derflinger didn’t say something.

A peculiar uneasiness crept into Saito’s thoughts.

The gradual reveal of the thriller across the “Holy Land”, the runes engraved on his chest… A sense that he was going to be dragged into a sophisticated and historical darkness masquerading itself as ’future’, this was the kind of opaque uneasiness that has eaten into his thoughts.

“What… will occur to me? Louise…”

Saito stated as he confronted the window. Twilight prolonged past the window, coloring the seawater round him in varied shades of darkness.