Side story episode 3
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For Yupi, a girl from a mountain village, that day came very suddenly and cruelly.
“Emperor or Revolution?”
“Oh, Your Majesty the Emperor!”
The cavalryman of the Iron Cavalry, equipped with unfamiliar weapons, asked. In the face of that question, the girl Uffie, who knew nothing about the ways of the world, could only answer in the direction that seemed higher and more magnificent.
“… … You said emperor.”
“Yes, yes! We are just servants of His Majesty the Emperor… …”
That answer was the beginning of a tragedy.
“Those who reject the revolution, kill them all.”
“… … !”
“Sir, what should we do with this woman?”
“Do whatever you want, but make sure you clean up after yourself.”
“I will follow your orders!”
At the sharp question of one of his subordinates, the man called Major turned his head as if he was fine. Taang! At the same time, a sound rang out. It was the sound of Uffi’s father’s bones being shattered and scattered as he desperately tried to protect her.
“Gyaaaah!”
“father!”
Screams rang out. The villagers who were belatedly begging for their lives and running away were dying one by one before their weapons.
I felt like I was going to burst into tears at any moment. In a state of despair where my mind was about to go blank, the men moved to rape Euphie.
“Follow me, you damn bitch!”
The man shouted and grabbed Yupi’s hair, and Yupi took advantage of the gap to bite his finger with all her might.
Immediately afterwards, Yuffie desperately ran away, thinking about the man who lived alone in a remote corner of the village, who was usually hard to approach.
He remembered that the townspeople were afraid of the man and called him a ‘monster’. At the same time, he remembered that Yuffie and the townspeople owed their lives to the monster.
Help me, sir. Yuffie cried out as she ran desperately. The Iron Horse cavalry belatedly caught up with Yuffie, and there was no way a mere girl could escape their armor and their clutches.
“What is the matter?”
Just as Yuffie’s screams rang out again, a robed man appeared from the cabin.
The shadows cast beneath the robe were extremely dark.
“There is no mercy for those who cannot accept the revolution.”
Looking at that sight, one of the men from the ‘Iron Age’ spat out coldly.
“Did you say revolution?”
The robed man tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand.
bang!
The Iron Horse cavalryman, armed with the latest armor, stretched out his arm. At the same time, an unknown, strange explosion continued from his hand.
It was a barrage of death scattered without even a shred of mercy.
Black gunpowder was scattered, and there was no need to say what would happen at the end.
Yuffie screamed, imagining the man’s body bursting out of existence, not even a single shape remaining there.
It should have been so.
“uh……?”
The robed man was still there, as if the barrage of fire directed at him had all been a lie.
“How many empires have fallen, how many emperors have died?”
The man asked back.
“Which empire are you trying to overthrow?”
“What, what did you say… … ?”
It was as if he just couldn’t understand. It was like the ramblings of a lunatic, words that made no sense at all.
“I have already brought down the Third Reich. And my empire has also fallen. So is the empire you are trying to bring down the Fifth Empire? Is that the weapon that will defeat my sister, Lize, and her empire?”
“What the hell is this kid talking about… … ”
How could this man have blocked the blow of the magical armor, the birthplace of revolution that contained the essence of magical engineering? I couldn’t figure it out. It must have been some kind of mistake or a misfire.
“Kill the dog of the empire!”
With that thought, the Iron Horseman stretched out his arms again. The magical circuits embedded in his armor activated, and black gunpowder was once again scattered.
Boom!
Immediately afterwards, the man’s flesh burst apart. It wasn’t a man in robes. It was a proud revolutionary army’s first platoon, a cavalryman from the Iron Horse, who had just exploded.
“uh……?”
“Comrade, you’ve been hit!”
Immediately afterwards, the cavalrymen of the Iron Guard all turned their heads toward the man. What had happened? I couldn’t tell. It was clear that the man had played a trick on his comrades in the revolutionary army.
“Deploy the armor’s tactical posture!”
“Implement tactical posture!”
That was why the leader of the Iron Guard, the major, and his men raised their voices. Soon, the armor the Iron Guard was wearing began to move like a living creature and wrap around their bodies.
Clank, clank!
Like a reinforced exoskeleton, the armor began to cover the cavalrymen’s bodies, assimilating them and supplying them with magical power.
“… … .”
Looking at that sight, the robed man tilted his head with interest.
To the man, it was a weapon that resembled the armored personnel carriers of the ‘old world’. Like the revolution they were calling for, it must have been something suitable for the new world.
“Death awaits the enemies of the revolution!”
“Death to the enemies of the revolution!”
I couldn’t know, and I didn’t want to know. It was just that the beliefs they were desperately clamoring for were squeezing the man like a mirror reflecting his past foolishness.
The man smiled bitterly, leaving behind the smooth, reinforced armor that covered the soldiers of the ‘Iron Age’.
It was at the same time that a chilling chill spread along his feet.
A cold, incomprehensible chill rose up towards the iron cavalry, clad in revolutionary armor and spraying black gunpowder.
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Swish, swish.
They would not understand the cold air that the man was spreading.
No matter how advanced their weapons are, they cannot overcome the winter that will come at the end of the world.
The winter monarch was there.
A cold air spread along the man’s feet, engulfing the Iron Knight’s body and freezing it. The sparks scattered by the Iron Knight’s magic armor in front of him were literally nothing more than a child’s plaything.
“… … .”
Even their passion for revolution could not be an exception in the face of the cosmic winter that men embrace.
“What is this revolution for?”
“Ah, ahhhh… … .”
The man opened his mouth, spewing the chill of the apocalypse. One of the Iron Guard soldiers fell to his heels in fear as he watched his comrades fall before the Winter Lord.
“How noble must the cause be that such atrocities are carried out without even an iota of forgiveness or understanding?”
The man asked back.
The voice was never mocking or anything like that. It was just a pure, incomprehensible retort.
“We, we are a revolutionary army resisting the dictatorship of the imperialists… … ”
“Look around you.”
The man asked back as if he couldn’t understand.
“Do the people in this town look like the people of the dictator you are trying to fight against?”
“These guys, they defended the emperor with their own mouths and rejected the revolution!”
“Was it a sin worthy of death?”
The man tilted his head and asked back.
It was at the same time that the major, the unit commander leading the iron cavalry, took advantage of the opportunity to kick the ground.
The movement of the Auror Master, who had been unfolding the armor of thought, was met with a swift and incomparable strike that was in no way inferior to it.
Kaang!
And the sword in the major’s hand bounced off with a sound like it was hitting steel. Did he counter with a sword?
The major raised his head as he thought about this, and then closed his mouth in shock.
The hem of the man’s robe was wriggling like a living creature.
As a major, there was no way he could have known that it was a dark artifact called the ‘Shadow Cloak’.
“If we assume that the people here deserve to die just because they gave a foolish answer… … .”
The hems of the pitch-black robe twitched like a living creature, and an indescribable chill spread along the ground beneath his feet.
“Your decision to not be able to figure out who you are fighting is also foolishness that deserves death.”
“Ah, ahhh… … !”
Kieeeek!
An ear-piercing scream rang out. It was not a scream that any creature in this world could make.
It was the sound of shadows scattered around the man’s feet, and the cries of shadow creatures crouching beneath it.
The Shadow Lurkers spread their thorny tentacles and wrapped themselves around the Iron Troopers.
The living thorns of darkness tore through the armor of the revolution and dug into the flesh. Blood and viscera were scattered in a mess.
“Ahhh, ahhhhhh!”
Kwajik, kwajik, kwajik!
Flesh, blood, and bones were torn and scattered in a mess. It was such a horrible death that it was fortunate that those who were engulfed in the cold of the apocalypse were frozen.
In the blink of an eye, the dozens or so men in the iron cavalry had become a number that could be counted on one hand. And they no longer had the will to resist.
“S-save me, no, please save me! I, I’ll beg you like this!”
“Do you seek my mercy?”
The man asked back, as if he couldn’t understand.
“Where has the revolutionary cause and ruthlessness you have been calling for gone?”
The Lord of Cold and Darkness, Winter and Shadows asked.
“You have treated me and others so cruelly, so why should I have mercy on you?”
Just tilting his head as if he simply couldn’t understand.
An unknown fear came over them, as if they were encountering an unknown creature with which they could not communicate.
“It was a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!”
“Misunderstand.”
The man smiled bitterly when he heard that.
“Many things start from the most trivial misunderstandings.”
Kwajik!
At the same time, pitch-black skewers rose from the shadows. Before the iron cavalrymen could even respond to the man’s words, the skewers plunged into the gaps in the armor.
There was no room to even scream. All that could be heard was a hollow, hollow sound, as if the soul was being sucked out.
The monster of winter and shadow turned its head away.
As she realized that the darkness beneath her robe was directed towards her, the strength left her legs once again.
“Ah, I, I… … ”
“There is nothing to be afraid of.”
The man opened his mouth. His voice was somewhat softer and more subdued than before.
“Ah, what is your identity, sir…?”
Hearing that voice, Yuffie was frightened and asked back. After asking back, she quickly closed her mouth in regret for asking something she shouldn’t have asked.
“There were many names.”
The man answered the question with a bitter smile.
“But now, I don’t even know what to call myself.”
