The trail of the sky The light belongs to you

After the scheduled ship incident, Onasa and Agathe continued to investigate the man in black, planning to go to the Luan area next...

"Luan... ah..."

"What's the matter? Do you want to see the group of partners in the warehouse?"

"...What... I've stopped dealing with them a long time ago." Agathe raised one eyebrow, and looked at the girl next to him with a displeased expression, "...I hope they can be honest."

Next, the two marched one after the other on the Guroni Mountain Road, silently dealing with the attacking monsters—the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

"...Agathe," Onasa who was walking behind suddenly stopped, "Have you visited Misha recently?"

"...I went there not long ago." Agathe also turned around. "Because of this occupation, I can only see it almost once a year."

"...Well," Onasha breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes suddenly became gentle, "That? Sit for a while?"

"Ah... well, it's not too far from the gate." Agathe walked to Onasa, put the heavy sword behind her aside, and sat down.

"We haven't seen each other for a long time." Onasa looked up at the clouds dyed red by the setting sun in the distance, thinking.

"Yeah, since... that time, they have been walking their own paths."

"If possible, I really want to go to the orchard again..."

Onasa closed her eyes, and suddenly found that the person beside her seemed to have changed her posture, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Agathe's face.

"What happened today?" Agathe stroked the epee beside him uncomfortably, "Suddenly so nostalgic, it doesn't look like you..."

"Hehe, indeed." Onasa tidied up the corners of her skirt that were stained with mud, and stood up. "After all, we have grown a lot, but we paid a big price."

The boy ten years ago has turned into a guerrilla with a terrifying title and martial arts prowess,

The girl from ten years ago no longer cries and is no longer afraid, because only she can protect herself.

"Then... let's go."

When we arrived at the checkpoint on the Guroni Mountain Road, the setting sun had already dispersed, and the bright and bright moonlight filled the surrounding trees, creating a peaceful atmosphere.

This is a resting place for travelers and guerrillas. In the atmosphere of Warcraft, you can still find a sense of peace of mind here, but...

"Huh?" When she got close to the prison, Onasa suddenly noticed something strange, "Agathe..."

The red-haired young man just nodded slightly—tonight, the atmosphere in the prison is different from the past.

As it was getting late, there were no extra rooms in the prison. Under the arrangement of the deputy chief, they stayed in the same room as Estier and Joshua.

"Hmph... I didn't expect you to come here too."

Agathe and Onasa walked into the room, "Estil, Joshua, hello, we meet again..."

"Onasa!" Seeing that she didn't have time to say goodbye to her partner, Estier couldn't hide her joy, "I was thinking about whether you would come to the detention center... but I didn't expect to come with this knife mouth... "

"W-what... a knife mouth!?"

"...Why are you so surprised? Aren't you used to being called that?" Onasa put on a teasing expression and tapped Agathe's shoulder lightly with her elbow.

"Brother Agathe," Joshua stepped forward politely, "Are you also going to investigate the man in black going to Luan?"

"Ah, that's right. Although there are still many things that are not clear, there are still some clues compared to the beginning." Agathe threw the luggage and epee aside, and jumped onto the bed with a bang, "Then I'm going to sleep, you guys Go to sleep, little ghosts too..."

"What... brat!?"

"Okay, don't bother me!" Agathe yelled at Estier, "Go to Luan early tomorrow morning and see what tasks are on the bulletin board!"

The young man leaned his head on the pillow and yawned big, "Whoa...that's what you should...do..."

Immediately—he fell asleep.

The three people who were extremely ashamed were left behind, "This, I fell asleep so quickly..." "The speed of falling asleep is almost as fast as you, Estier."

"Ah, I'm so sorry." Onasa smiled awkwardly, "He just has a sharper mouth...I made you laugh."

"Maybe he was just worried, so he told us that."

"Speaking of which," Estier suddenly remembered something, "Onasha, you and Agathe have known each other since childhood, right? Was he like this back then?"

"Well, almost, but... it should be more mature now."

"I always feel that you have a good relationship."

"Ah~ I don't think I can compare to you and Estelle?"

"W-what..." Joshua blushed suddenly, and backed away again and again, "I, we..."

"Haha~ Joshua, you are so cute~" Onasha burst out laughing after a long absence, and sat down on the bed all of a sudden, "I was just joking."

"... Really, really, I didn't expect you to play tricks on people." Joshua looked at the girl in front of him who was laughing so hard that her stomach hurt, with a speechless expression on her face.

"Cough... let's get down to business," Onasa stopped teasing Joshua, "Are you going to Luan to continue your practice?"

"Yes, by the way, let's investigate Dad's situation."

"Mr. Cassius..." Onasa closed her eyes, "I have always admired his martial arts."

"I think Onasa is also very powerful." Estier remembered that Onasa solved the entire air pirate team at the air pirate base alone, "at the air pirate base... we couldn't catch up. .”

"No, it's just that I've always been used to acting alone, and it has become like this over time. I think you have a higher future than me..."

However, at this point in the conversation, it was interrupted by a low growl of a monster... At the same time, Agathe also woke up.

"..."

"Just now... did you hear anything..."

"This voice is...!"

"...You two sleep well here." As soon as the words finished, Agathe picked up the epee beside the bed and rushed out of the room.

"Agathe...!" Agathe's follower, Onasa also rushed out - this voice was the cry that often disturbed the wolves that attacked them in the process of tracking the men in black.

"Joshua...!"

"Well, let's go take a look too."

After the four of them left the checkpoint together, what they saw was a kind of magical beast that had never appeared in the block, and was fighting with the soldiers of the checkpoint.

"Oops...go help!"

"...you don't need to worry about it here."

Hearing Agathe's irrelevant statement, Estier was very angry, "You...are you still a guerrilla when you say that!?"

"Estil... calm down," Onasa stared at the attacking wolves in front of her, narrowing her purple eyes slightly, "Guarding the pass is the duty of the soldiers, we don't need to intervene, they can solve it. "

"That's right! Little girl!"

"It is our duty to guard the pass!"

Obviously, the target of the wolves' attack is not only here, but from the direction of Lu Ann - there was a burst of urgent and sharp distress calls.

"Cut...!" "Oops..."

The four of them immediately came to the gate of the opposite gate, where there was only one soldier guarding it. Under the fierce attack of the wolves, the only soldier lost consciousness and was injured in many places on his body.

"Ha!" Agathe raised the epee beside him and cut off the head of the monster that was rushing towards the wounded soldier. During the attack, another monster waited for an opportunity and rushed towards the wounded soldier. he……

"Look at the sword!" A silver light shone behind the monster, and after a scream, it disappeared—it was Onasha's support, the girl tapped the ground lightly, and jumped to Agathe's side. At this time, the rest The magical beasts formed a circle and surrounded the two of them.

"Ha...do you want to surround us? Do some monsters seem to use their brains?"

"...We are here to help!"

"Estil?"

"you……"

"Repel them first and then...!"

"Okay...but let me tell you in advance, my epee doesn't have eyes!"

"Be careful... it's coming!"

A few minutes later, the battle was over. After all, it was a joint effort of four people. Although the monsters were also very tenacious, they were easily resolved.

After this battle, Agathe finally affirmed the strength of the two children of Cassius Bright, let go of his "sword mouth" style, and gave a little praise, but Estee Er and Joshua felt flattered.

After the commotion, the four returned to the room—it was finally time to rest.

The wounded soldiers were not seriously injured, the guards continued to be guarded by shifts, and the travelers in the middle of the night also fell into a sweet dream, and the invasion of monsters was commonplace for soldiers—however, Onasa couldn't sleep.

She knew that her old problem was coming again.

Whenever some unexpected situation happens, her nerves will be tense unconsciously, and her action pattern is like a straight line that will not deviate, and she can always predict the next situation with her intuition.

Once something accidentally deviates from this straight line, she will be concerned about it all the time, just like the meeting with the red captain by the air pirates by the lake, the experience of being imprisoned, and the attack of the wolves.

Agathe should also be very clear-this means that their route is correct, and those men in black are likely to be around.

Onasa has always prided herself on her keen senses and intuition, but that can cause her problems too - such as occasional insomnia and cranky thoughts...

"Um……?"

The sound of steady breathing——, suddenly a strange sound entered her ears—it was outside the prison!

Almost instinctively, Onasa immediately rushed out of the room, came to the gate of the prison, and tricked the guarding soldiers with "the reason why she couldn't sleep in the middle of the night to go out to relax". Came to the place she expected...

There, it seemed that the figure she had been waiting for appeared, the helmet decoration floating slightly under the caress of the moonlight, and the dazzling bright red...

"I didn't expect to show up here... Although it's midnight, don't you think it's too blatant?"

The man in black turned his back on him——

Observing at a close distance, Onasa couldn't help being a little surprised. Even though she was covered by a tight mask, she could still see the handsome face of the young man, the corners of her mouth slightly raised with a cynical smile, and the silver hair hidden under the helmet... But, This person makes people feel a sense of hostility, not simply hostility to the enemy, but, as if, hostility to the whole world and the human species.

"Hehe... Onasa Baroka, Ravenu Village, B-class guerrilla, volunteer in the church..." The red captain paused slightly, his voice was clear and deep, "Is that so, was she abandoned by her family? ?”

"!!" Listening to the other party talking about her experience, Onasa has been very calm, because this is what she expected... However, when she said the last sentence, it seemed that something slipped through her heart , a burst of cold.

"You..." The slender fingers unconsciously clasped the rapier on the side of the body, "You are the captain, right? At that time, I met the sky pirates by the shore of Lake Valyria."

"Indeed." The captain took a few steps forward and prepared for battle, "Sure enough, it's the same as what was said in the report, both swordsmanship and intuition are extraordinary... But, do you really plan to start a battle here? ?”

"...What is your purpose?"

"Well, I think it's better to find the answer by yourself?"

"You really deserve to be the captain, even the tone of your speech is better than those people..." Onasha raised the corners of her mouth and smiled mockingly, "Of course I won't do anything here, but you can't escape either. "

"……Innocent."

"what!?"

"Onasa Barlowka, both you and Agathe Korosna are still imprisoned in the shackles of the past. In this way, it is impossible to really move forward."

"...I don't deny it. However, whether you are taking steps is not something you can draw conclusions from."

Hearing these words, Onasa not only didn't feel angry or emotional because of it, on the contrary, her expression gradually changed to firmness—it was a kind of stubborn firmness belonging to a girl, and the captain couldn't help being a little surprised.

"...Maybe, you are different from others," Captain Red faded the smile on his face, and quickly retreated to the depths of the grass, "But don't forget, kindness alone cannot save this deceitful world."

Immediately, the figure gradually turned transparent and disappeared under the night.

Onasa didn't go after him, and she didn't even think about chasing him - she couldn't catch him here, she would only expose herself.

"The kindness of one's own power...?"

Looking at her hands under the combat gloves, leaving countless battle marks, even she herself does not know when she started, she is no longer cheerful, no longer smiling, no longer the girl that everyone wants to protect when she sees her .

She has become cold and arrogant, even though she always supports others with a gentle smile, and lends a helping hand, she is just the cold winter before the early spring, warmth is just an illusion, and coldness is her theme.

Since when did Onasa no longer need the protection of others, no longer surrounded by people around her, no longer demanding the warmth, dissociated from the crowd, walking alone, alone.

She had never doubted that she would turn into a cruel girl, but...in the end she didn't.

【Onasha, keep smiling and bring warmth to others】

Like a motto, these words would quietly sound and echo every time she was so desperate that she wanted to give up.

So she guards the kindness in her heart, and she is unwilling to take revenge on the world because of the hurt she has suffered in the past-even if someone says hatred, it is not her fault.

This kindness is the driving force for her to walk so far—the volunteers of the church and the comfort to others have always, always played such a role.

But she also walked on the verge of collapse and collapse many times, because this kindness can be given to anyone, but not to herself.

"...what a curse..."

I don't know when the sky is no longer covered with stars and moons - Guansuo is also illuminated by the bright morning light.

Be it the monster or the red captain, the aura has all dissipated.

In order not to make the guarding soldiers suspicious, Onasa returned to the room of the prison, pretending that she had never left, and lay on the bed.

Well, let's go on like this...

At least... this kindness will also give you a little peace of mind...

If there are too few beautiful things in this world, then create them yourself...

Even if you can't enjoy the goodness yourself, that's okay.

It was dawn, and in a daze, Onasa seemed to see that there was light... around her, the light that belonged to her alone.