[FATEFGO] Master's Note

Since it was Martin Luther King who thought it would be okay to tell Roja everything, Akira Shenmu didn't hold back anymore, and briefly told him about Chaldea and the Holy Grail.

Roja has always been a person with a particularly strong ability to accept. After listening to Shenmu Akatsuki's explanation, although some concepts are still confused and not well understood, he has accepted most of the reality in front of him.

He touched his chin with one hand, walked around Martin several times, looked him up and down from head to toe, and fell into deep thought again.He pondered for a while, his expression was a little tangled, as if he was hesitating about something.

"So... that 'Martin' is dead, right?"

His voice was a little heavy.

Martin nodded: "The Southern Army arrested him, just to vent their personal anger, and killed him alive..."

His throat was slightly choked, and he couldn't speak anymore.When he was burned by the flames, the teenager named Martin, all he could think about was his mother who was several kilometers away, waiting for his return, and his younger siblings who were making trouble at home.

It wasn't a good memory, and Martin was always careful not to touch this softest part of himself.

Roja was silent, and suddenly smashed the gun in his hand hard on the ground, and let out a loud roar to vent his inner emotions.

"I shouldn't have left him here... I knew he couldn't lure the Southern Army away by himself, and I knew he was only a half-grown child, but I left him such a difficult task..." He covered his face with his hands, "I'm such an idiot..."

In fact, Martin's tragedy was not caused by Roja. The people who should be blamed were those psychopathic Confederate soldiers. Everyone knew that.But seeing how he blamed himself and regretted so much, any comforting words seemed to be ineffective.

Roja only drowned in the bitterness of guilt for a while, and soon returned to normal.He rubbed his nose vigorously, seeing that it was getting late, he invited Shen Muxiao and his party to stay in Anding Camp for one night.

The stability battalion was established by Roja, and at the same time assumed the two roles of the black slave transfer station and the informal northern army.Roja and several of his black friends help the oppressed black slaves in the southern manor escape to the free land in the north every month, and what Roja mainly does is to guide the black slaves through many checkpoints and hunts, and enter the north from various secret passages Territory.There are quite a few strong young people among them, and Roja will persuade them to stay and join the stability camp to protect the border of Pennsylvania—the border of the north as well.Although it has little effect due to the limitation of the number of people, it is also a force that cannot be ignored.

Recently, the policies in the South have become more stringent, and the status of black slaves, which cannot be lowered, has been beaten even worse. They no longer have the basic rights of human beings, and slave owners have become more and more arrogant, resulting in a sudden death rate of black slaves. Lift.Coupled with the inability of the Southern Army to be brave, it squeezed the territory of the Federal State, which had shrunk significantly, to only about one-sixth of its original size.Under the effect of these dual factors, the number of blacks fleeing to the north has become less and less recently, and this trend makes Roja very worried.

The safety camp was placed in Anxi Village in the north, where many blacks lived, as did Roja, his wife and children.

Under the leadership of Roja, they came to the house where he lived - a simple small stone house.

Roja opened the door and went in. His wife Katina, who had been waiting in the living room, greeted him immediately, hugged him tightly, and did not let go for a long time.Roja didn't push her away, but just buried his face in her hair and said softly "I'm back".

Seeing that there were other people in the room and staring at them, Katina was a little embarrassed, and immediately let go of her arms around Roja, smiled and beckoned them to sit down, and turned on the oil lamp on the table After a while, he trotted into the kitchen.Shen Muxiao found that her lower abdomen was slightly convex, which seemed to be pregnant.

Katina came out quickly, still with food in hand.

"Roja didn't tell me that I would bring guests back tonight, so I didn't prepare any dishes. I can only entertain you with this kind of simple food. I'm so sorry..."

"No, no. Thank you for your hard work."

For the current Shenmu Xiao, as long as there is food, she doesn't care about the taste and quality of the food at all.

After wolfing down the rough toast and scrambled eggs, Shen Muxiao slumped on the back of the chair and belched contentedly.Gilgamesh didn't like this house, and hated Katina's simple dishes, and stood aside with a straight face.Fortunately, his abnormal behavior was perfectly prevaricated by Shenmu Xiao with reasons such as "he is not hungry" and "he is a strict self-discipline".

After the meal, Katina went to the well outside to wash the dishes, and Martin took advantage of the opportunity to ask Roja about the current situation.

"In every battle, the North has always had the upper hand. Just when everyone thought the Union would win, Lincoln Abraham was murdered."

"what?"

Martin was the one who was most shocked.

"On the day before the presidential election, he was killed in his apartment." Roja's voice was a little heavy, "Since then, the morale of the north has plummeted, and the southern army has become very scary for some reason. I don't know what they used What kind of trick was used to deliberately lure the stone monsters to attack the northern city wall. The group of stone monsters had no weaknesses in their bodies, and their strength was amazing, almost smashing all the walls. However, they made mistakes more than once and hit their own people. "

Having said that, Roja laughed at himself.

"Then what about the Homestead Act and the Emancipation Proclamation? Haven't they been released yet?" Shen Muxiao asked.

"Wow, it's a miracle that you can remember something."

Gilgamesh's mocking words drifted over.Shen Muxiao didn't want to speak, and gave him a hard look.

Roja has no impression of the two bills mentioned by Akatsuki Shenmu.He shook his head and continued: "According to my friends who live in the South, the Southern Army conducted a large-scale purge. Generals as high as Robert Lee were sentenced to death simply because he had Appease the suspicion of blacks. The current Southern Army has completely become an army to exterminate blacks. I personally think that the southern military division is a guy who hates blacks extremely, otherwise he would not take such extreme methods.”

To actually purge the army, this alone can give a glimpse of the extremes of the black hands behind the scenes.

Gilgamesh didn't seem to like this man's moves.He snorted coldly with some disdain: "What a stupid guy, he has brought his desires to the extreme."

Roja shrugged and said helplessly: "But it is the Southern Army that has the upper hand now. This is an indisputable fact."

Gilgamesh pursed his lips, and a fine line formed between his brows, apparently worried about the complicated situation.

The atmosphere became a little dignified.Shen Muxiao didn't like this depressing sense of tranquility, so she asked Roja something she was curious about.

"After listening to Mr. Brant's methodical analysis of the situation, he must have received a good education. How could you be willing to do such a dangerous job in the border area? Besides, your wife is a black man..."

For such a question, Roja seems to have heard it many times, and there is no surprise on his face.She lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and began to recount: "It's a complicated story."

The Brant family was rooted in Virginia, and it was one of the largest big families in the area. It always had a large number of slaves. Although it could not be called invincible wealth, the family property was indeed strong.In the eyes of the Brant family, black people have always been discarded items, and they have never regarded black people as "people".

Born into such a family, Rojaben should have grown up to be a solid supporter of the Southern government.But it seems that there is a problem in a certain link, or it is because of his nature. As the eldest son of the family, Roja, who will inherit the entire manor one day, is different from the rest of the family.He believes that all life is equal, whether domestic animals, blacks or whites, are equal.

All black slaves know that Master Roja is the gentlest.He has always been so polite, he will deliver herbs to the black old lady who was whipped, and he will plead for mercy for the black coachman who accidentally startled the horse.This is probably the best aristocratic temperament, they thought.

Roja obviously became an outlier.But as the eldest son and extremely intelligent, his father, Newt, did not want to give up his son easily.He had to keep feeding him white supremacy, trying to correct his thinking.But the branches that grow horizontally are not so easy to break back.Roja learned how to perfunctory and how to hide himself.

When his father officially handed over the full power of the family to him, he would release all the black slaves in the family.The young Roja thought so.If all goes well, he should be able to realize this idea in a decade or so.But he meets Katina.

Katina is a second-generation black slave, and her father is a white man-the manor owner raped her mother, and that's how she got her.When she was sold to Brant Manor, she was only 17 years old. Although she was a little thin, she was already slim.

Roja fell in love with her immediately.He suppressed his emotions, and only dared to communicate with Katina in private, not daring to speak out.But this secret love affair was made public somehow, and Newt concluded that the fault was all on Katina, and decided to sell her to another state, preferably never to set foot in Virginia again.Roja was faster than him, and he immediately chose to take Katina out of the house.

Abandoning everything they had, Roja and Katina traveled thousands of miles to the north with the yelling of their father behind them.

"It was very chaotic at that time, so it was very convenient to escape to the north. At first we lived without a fixed place for a few years, and of course I also regretted that I abandoned such a leisurely life and came to the north to suffer. But..." He looked at Katina by the well spread her hands helplessly, her face brimming with happiness, "I'm not the only boy in the family, and the Brant family wouldn't be doing well without me. But I only want Katina, so I have nothing It's worth regretting."

Gilgamesh stood far away, pretending to be uninterested, but his seriousness was comparable to that of Akatsuki.

This is a good love saying, I don't know if there is a chance to use it.he thought.