4. Are we on the same side? – (25)
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“Oh!”
Chersha Kalua Heading to the far right on the third floor of her mansion where she is staying, Ashera encountered a woman who was visibly surprised by her face.
A small-sized girl with long green hair that seems to embrace fresh greenery.
Obviously Chersha Kalua knew her as another wizard who would support Glaade as her companion.
According to the confirmed information, he remembered that his name was a mage belonging to Calrissian, the mage tower in the eastern part of Plea, and that he was a 4th tier wizard. Considering she was 17 the same age as Edna Chersha, she was obviously on a high level.
However, the level of the other two was so high that their presence was relatively weak.
This must be the first time they’ve met each other, but Plea seemed to know herself.
“Ah, are you Ashera-sama?”
As I tried to respond with a small nod to the girl who said my name, a memory from a few days ago came to mind without me knowing.
Something seemed familiar, it was the girl who had been looking at him from the garden outside the window of the mansion a few days ago.
“Yes, that’s right. Mr. Plea.”
Without much emotion, Ashera immediately asks something close to the main point.
“So, is Chersha in your room?”
“Ah, ah, yes! There is!”
She remembers that then she collapsed in his gaze, and the aftermath seemed to still linger. She seems to have a hard time even sharing her words with herself.
So she tries to finish the conversation as quickly as it is.
“Okay, thanks for the reply. Then I hope you have a good rest.”
After Ashera said that, she passed Plea.
Obviously, a mage supporting Glead, she would be an ally, but I didn’t feel like continuing to talk to her.
And the woman named Plea seems to be uncomfortable with herself. Conversation was unnecessary, she thought.
“Now, wait a minute.”
However, while looking at Ashera with her eyes mixed with fear, Plea finally stopped.
“…?”
Asera looked at her as if she had something more to say.
Receiving that gaze, Pleia hesitated, shaking her hand slightly.
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But as if she had made up her mind soon, she held both of her hands and looked at Ashera.
“Asera-sama! Chersha and Ashera are definitely on the same side… right?”
The appearance of a cold female knight.
She was certainly a woman of ideal beauty, just as she had looked up from the garden a few days before.
That’s why he can’t even predict that level… A female knight who has reached an extremely high level.
Asera Glade.
That’s how she decided to live for Chersha-sama. Plea couldn’t possibly forget that.
So, her hand trembled just by facing her like this. She still couldn’t help asking.
Aren’t we on the same side now? We’re not enemies. Plea wanted to hear Ashera’s definitive answer.
“I don’t know what Plea-nim thought when he said that, but I’m definitely on the same side. We support each other, and the city of Glia is now in a second-class crisis, right?”
Ashera, who organized her thoughts for a very short time, calmly said what Plea wanted.
“Is that right!?”
Looking at Ashera with hopeful eyes, Plea asked again.
Asera looked at Plea with a small smile.
“Yes. Although I don’t know what Plea-sama is worried about.”
Unlike her words, Ashera’s words seemed to know what she was worried about.
At that moment, Plea had no choice but to stiffen her body without realizing it.
That contradictory feeling that he is obviously smiling but not laughing.
Plea was acutely aware of this from the appearance of Ashera in front of her.
Asera’s appearance was so cold and so cold… Plea was worried about what to say and couldn’t open her mouth.
“…”
Leaving Plea frozen like that, Ashera calmly continued her words.
“Still, there won’t be anything like Plea-sama worrying about.”
As I said that, I erased the coldness in my eyes a little.
Consciously change her outer appearance of herself.
No matter how much he thinks of Chersha Kalua as her lifelong enemy, and as someone she will never get close to.
You shouldn’t show it off.
Until the second-class crisis situation in this city is passed.
That’s why Ashera smiles warmly, erasing even a little of the deep cold that surrounds my face.
“Go, thank you!!”
Ashera suddenly changed her attitude and said with a warm smile. Plea, who truly felt that, smiled brightly without even realizing it.
“Nothing.”
After that, Ashera parted ways with Plea, and she soon reached Chersha’s room.
……
After lunch, the afternoon sun warmly illuminates the interior.
It’s a while to enjoy it.
Smart.
Hearing the knock again, Ed slowly gets up.
“Looks like a guest.”
“Ah, again… who really?”
Ed, who had been quietly warming himself right next to where he was sitting, suddenly stood up, and Chersha frowned a little involuntarily.
It hasn’t been a few minutes since I’ve enjoyed such a pleasant drowsiness. I was really trying to feel this little happiness, but someone else interrupted.
The moment Chersha thought that if it was Plea who visited this time, she would have to tell her not to come to this room for the next few hours.
“Chersha-nim, this is me. Asherah Glad.”
The cold voice that came from outside the door was so unexpected.
Asera Glade.
Chersha quickly tidies up her outfit and her appearance.
I had no intention of showing her anything like her disheveled side.
“I came because I wanted to talk to you for a while. Do you have a good time?”
“…”
In Chersha’s gaze, who was about to answer right away, the figure of Ed, who had stiffened his body for a moment, caught his eye.
The moment she confirmed it, Chersha bit her own lip as it was.
But even for a moment, she opens her mouth right away.
“Ed.”
“Huh?”
“Open the door.”
Chersha’s cold voice, which subsided without my knowledge, reached Ed first, ahead of Ashera.
***
Northern mountains right in front of the city of Glia.
“Grrr…”
“Quik.”
“Kirik”
Now, there were various kinds of bizarre beasts guarding their respective places.
Like a well-trained soldier waiting for orders from his commander. The witches were just keeping their place.
The number of water mirrors exceeded the unit of hundreds and reached the unit of thousands.
The sight of so many Demon Beasts settling in the northern mountains made it look as if dots of various colors adorned and embroidered the northern mountains.
……
“The number of monsters… Is increasing more and more.”
“…If you dare to say that, what difference does it make?”
And the mercenaries and other knights who were watching from the top of the Glia city fortress were checking the scene.
It’s an overwhelming amount. Sometimes, that fact alone made me feel that it was an irresistible force.
Natural disasters that humans cannot deny.
The feeling of entrusting oneself to a small ferry in the middle of the vast sea, facing the waves of huge waves soaring to cover the sky.
They, standing guard over the Glia Fortress, were losing their minds bit by bit, very little, while not even being aware of the amount of monsters like black dots that continued to increase over the distant northern mountains.
ㅡShyeweeeing.
A chilly wind continues to blow in the fall.
As if trying to spread the aura of the cold snow that does not melt all year round that exists deep in the north all over Glia. A bitter wind was blowing.
“Eh…”
“It’s not even winter, but it’s really cold like this.”
Brush.
Drreuk.
The knights and mercenaries who kept tightening their collars in the cold.
……
Tolisch Birbalce has already finished talking with his vassals to participate in the mobilization order with the forces of the Margrave Birbalche Knights without cooperation with other families.
And the next day, when he climbed the Glia city fortress and checked the movements of the monsters, Tolish laughed involuntarily.
A wave of demons numbering in the thousands.
It had the magical power to make the viewer lose their will to fight.
Arbalthea, the capital at the center of the Chaldean Empire, Tolisch lived only in the capital and experienced the situation in the north in such a crisis situation, it felt like a different world.
Even now, their families, nobles, and royals in the capital must be living a normal life.
However, there was a sense of crisis hovering over the northern part, as if walking on thin ice.
“…The city of Glia has never been breached. Are the records I know really correct?”
Tolish Birbalce. He speaks in a low, deep voice. He wanted someone to relieve this uneasiness in his own chest.
That a knight harbors anxiety before even standing on the battlefield.
What could be more embarrassing to a knight than that?
And Philia Nardia, who was watching the wave of the demon with a serious expression right next to Tolisch, murmured softly as if she was trying to soothe Tolisch.
“The city of Glia has never been penetrated by a foreign invasion, let alone by demons.”
“I see.”
“Yes, that is the reason why the Glaad family and various knight families and mercenaries are concentrated in the city of Glia.”
“Gleadra…I see.”
Tolish gave a small laugh and shook his head.
That was an act close to resignation.
Thinking that Tolish might have remembered someone from that small act, Filia sighed lightly enough for no one to notice.