[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

The Winter Soldier came home, and when Alex was still in school, his house was always empty—Bucky was away for a long time, and he dedicated most of the year to the Hydra base.

Suffice it to say that when Alex isn't around, Bucky is either in the Hydra base, Squid Bomber, or on his way to Squid Bomber Skewer.

But today, something is different.

The Winter Soldier picked up the submachine gun that was going to be put back in his hand again, and approached the closed bedroom without a sound: someone is in Alex's room.

As the distance approached, his body slowly tensed up.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and a little girl with silver curly hair appeared behind the door.

Bucky immediately lowered the muzzle of the submachine gun and pulled the safety device: "Alex? When did you come back? Did I remember the wrong time?" He thought he had misremembered when Alex was on vacation.

"No, I'm back early."

The petite little girl rushed over, hugged Bucky's waist, and buried her face in his arms.

The Winter Soldier, who was evading gods and Buddhas at the Hydra base, quickly removed the gun in his hand, and then hugged his little girl: "What's wrong?"

Alex looked up, her face dry—the Winter Soldier thought she was crying, but she wasn't.

"I don't know." She opened her mouth, not knowing what to say, "I just...I want to see Uncle Bucky, so..."

So come back.

Such words made Bucky unable to say anything, he stroked Alex's soft hair: "Have you eaten yet?"

"……No."

"Then let's eat first."

After eating, Bucky knew from Alex that the Triwizard Tournament was over.

"One of Beauxbaton's teachers has been replaced." After the meal, Alex sat on the sofa, leaning against his uncle beside him, and said slowly, "That person replaced the Goblet of Fire with a Portkey." , anyone who wants to touch it will be taken to Voldemort by it with a "whoosh!" - the first to reach the finish line is Mihail, but he did not touch the trophy, but waited by the side until Edward Both Mothan and Harry came, and only then did he throw the anti-curse props his uncle gave him on the trophy."

"Then, the trophy teleported to the finish line who was waiting in another location - the noseless guy I blasted with the bazooka and the Backlash Curse in the first year. After that, it was a mess, and the three schools combined to trap Voldemort In the castle, the students were arranged to evacuate, and then the Aurors came and wanted to go in, but William opened the four-dimensional maze. They were in different timelines, and they could see Voldemort or their opponents in front of them, but they just couldn’t beat them. By—now that Hogwarts Castle is in a mess, William is really good at making trouble."

"Hogwarts is dangerous now?" Bucky summed it up and asked.

"With Headmaster Dumbledore here, he will arrange it—I suspect that William and him will have a lot of discussion on the third level, otherwise it would be impossible to make it like that." Alex flattened his mouth and muttered: " Angus is also restless, he brought back the little girl next to the crown, and is still teaching her to write in the mage tower."

She thought about it again, and said: "But Harry is fine, I have decisively killed the soul piece in his head, and for the rest, let the crown split into Edward Mosang and the main soul hurt each other!"

After listening to her quietly, Bucky said, "So, what about you? Alex, what's wrong with you?"

The girl who was named raised her head with a blank face: "...me?"

What's up with her?

She, she's just...

"...I had a nightmare," Alex whispered, "I thought the nightmare was over, but..."

"I found that the person in my dream appeared in this world."

It was a long, long dream.

The human girl in the dream turned into a sinister, cunning, and evil-doing illithid. In the hundreds of years since it became the elder of the illithid, it has repeated those plots, bloody massacres and aggressions.

Until one day, it found traces of humans belonging to the above-ground world near its own residence.

Those auras that were incompatible with the underground world guided it to find a human who did not belong to this underground world.

Those were human beings from the above-ground world who had to flee underground because of being hunted down.

His name is Agana Sifiasha Haieri—even though he has been separated from the above-ground world for a long time, the illithids vaguely remember that the surname Haieri belongs to the most powerful human empires in the above-ground world. royalty.

Agana gave the illithid a human name, saying that because it had a human heart, it shouldn't be called an illithid.

Alexandra, that's the name he gave, Guardian of Humanity.

"Alex means the guardian of mankind—it also means that you are my guardian." The blond-haired, blue-eyed young man said so.

He comes from the Haieri royal family, and the family that inherited this surname is characterized by silver hair and blue-purple eyes, but the crown prince born to the first concubine only inherited the golden hair and blue eyes of the mother's family.

The emperor has always suspected that this is not his own child, but he only has this one son.

A few years later, the imperial concubine died, and the emperor accepted a new concubine. The young woman gave birth to a son for the emperor, a boy with the purest silver hair and blue-purple eyes of the Haieri royal family.

When the little prince was five years old, the emperor finally made up his mind. He decided to pass everything he had on to his youngest son who had the same hair and eyes as him.

As a result, the grown-up crown prince was deposed, the glory of a soldier was taken away, and the world was turned upside down overnight.

"If I hadn't met Alex, I'd probably—no, I'd have been completely degenerate." During the spare time of being hunted down, the blond prince said, "I didn't degenerate until I met Alex. Since there are illithids who go on hunger strike and stick to the bottom line because the recipe is intelligent life, it seems that I, who was betrayed by everyone, have no reason to fall."

"Alex, you are my light."

As he said so, his dark blue eyes reflected the appearance of an illithid.

It was a terrifying appearance, but in Agana's opinion, it might be the brightest light in the world.

But in the eyes of the illithid Alex, Agana is the real light.

His brilliant blond hair, which does not fade even in the ground, and a smile like a sun god, gave it a human name, told it that he saw its human heart, and let it know that its persistence is not without reward.

The spirit sucker is powerful, and before Agana's injury improved, it eliminated all the pursuers and sent him to the entrance of the above-ground world.

It's time to say goodbye, it thought.

It's time to part, this is the treasure it accidentally saw, but it doesn't belong to it, neither to the illithid nor to this underground world.

However, that person grabbed its tentacles: "Aren't you coming with me? I never thought about being separated from Alex!"

At that moment, the illithid's tentacles froze as if under a freezing spell.

This is enough.

It didn't matter, it thought, whether Agana said it because he needed its strength and cunning to take back the Empire, or if he really meant it.

For it, that's enough.

The illithid, immersed in conspiracy and betrayal for hundreds of years, decided at that time to help the betrayed human prince return to the empire. Even if the other party wanted to kill it, it would not resist.

It has already obtained enough precious words—no matter what kind of thoughts are behind the words.

After that, the flames of war burned the whole earth.

The prince, who took his mother's name as his middle name, rather than his father's middle name as is common on the mainland, staged a hell of a comeback.

Agana Sifiasha Haieri, this name finally became the name of the founding emperor of the most powerful empire in human history.

The illithid accompanied him from the lowest valley to the highest peak.

The scenery along the way is very beautiful.

The illithid, who was so beautiful that he had already planned to die like this, couldn't help but think, if he has time, let's go and see this world.

Not as a mage, nor as a strategic adviser, but just as a creature that grows in this world, to see what the world that gave birth to oneself looks like.

Mountains, lakes, grasslands, rivers... What will everything look like after the war is quelled?

The illithid decided to check it out, before it died.

Probably the god in the dark had finally seen enough of the farce and decided not to give special treatment to this brainless illithid. In the second year after Agana ascended the throne, the illithid clearly felt own weakness.

It figured out that, like any illithid that didn't get its brain in time, it would die in four months.

So the illithid allocated the last four months to the world. It wore a big cloak to cover up its tentacles and abnormal appearance, and left the palace to watch peach blossoms, colorful fallen flowers, and little lotus dew. Sharp, the sun is setting.

In the last month, the illithid, who was worried that he would lose his mind before death, chose his resting place in a remote primeval forest on the mainland. There were no human habitation or intelligent creatures here, so he didn't have to worry about attacking them.

But what it didn't expect was that when it was waiting for death to come, it seemed to see an illusion.

If it is not an illusion, who can explain why the emperor, who is supposed to be in the imperial palace thousands of miles away, stands in front of it?

"I never thought about being separated from Alex."

The young emperor said so, tearing open the scroll of seal in his hand.

It recognized that it was an ancient magic used to make the target lose their minds, follow only instinct, and die of rage.

But it was useless, because it lost its mind in the next second.

But, you can almost guess the ending, right?

"I never thought about being separated from Alex."

Agana was the last and only one of the illithid who had never eaten a brain in his life.