![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Come on, everyone! We're almost at the rendezvous point!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"We've been running for a long time so how soon is almost there!?" |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"It's only because of this Mist that it felt like we're going nowhere. We're on the right bearing, we'll be fine. Stop messing about and run!" |
![Story Monster.png](/images/3/30/Story_Monster.png) Monster |
"ーーROAR!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Vivienne look out!" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"HARGH!" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Putra, I'm with you! Yoshino and Vivienne, keep running!" |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"We should have pulled away, but we were flanked... The ward behind us must not be working anymore." |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"That's why we were alerted and headed to the front lines. Don't think we need to worry about what's behind us." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"C'est vrai. C'est vrai. It's vital that we're not trapped from a ward leak." |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Everybody, I'm counting on you! I'll be back as soon as I meet up with the advance party!" |
![Story Vivienne.png](/images/8/89/Story_Vivienne.png) Vivienne |
"Yoshino, let's go!" |
![Story Yoshino.png](/images/b/bd/Story_Yoshino.png) Yoshino |
"The goal is just ahead. Let's run hard." |
ーーーー |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"This will be it!" |
![Story Monster.png](/images/3/30/Story_Monster.png) Monster |
"......!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"That's done!" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"We can't rest easy. It took longer than I thought. Just one of them is enough to split us up." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"The enemy is strong... Even if it's a ward leak, wasn't this supposed to be a safe zone?" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Vivienne said it's still better here. This is still the entrance to the Northern Front; the combat zone closer to Eisengrad is more chaotic." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"The Mist is still chasing us even if we defeated the monster. I don't know if it's too late, but it's not normal here." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"I didn't expect this after crossing the border... Verforet Northern Front, it's a horrible place to be." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Look up there, everyone! There are monsters hiding in the trees." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"We've been surrounded for some time. They were deliberately hiding themselves from us." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"They were waiting for the Mist to thicken. They must have used the monster earlier as bait to stall." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"They're cunning. We're very quickly surrounded, it might be difficult to break through the front without Miss Yoshino and Miss Vivienne." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"With this poor visibility, it's better not to go back. Perhaps that's what Yoshino thought. We have to do something ourselves." |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"Brute force is implausible. We can't take on this many enemies at once. Let's attract the enemy's attention while splitting up." |
??? |
"Do not! That's what the enemy wants! They'll lure you into a trap and round you up! You must go straight ahead as planned!" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"There's a voice from the bushes..." |
??? |
"There is only one monster in the tree. It is a Mist Monster that uses illusions to make it appear more numerous. Defeat its real self and you can destroy it." |
??? |
"I'll take care of the real self. You can all jump straight into the bushes." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Sounds like an ally. Who is she, Gendamerie's Rangers?" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"She must be a fighter from the Northern Front. She's quite skilled." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Better still, let her take care of this. Let's all go into those bushes!" |
On Queensway's signal, the four of us started running at the same time. Within the thick Mist, we ran as fast as we could towards the barely visible bushes. |
ーーAt the same time, something sharp came flying out of the bushes. |
![Story Monster.png](/images/3/30/Story_Monster.png) Monster |
"......!" |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Whoa, what!? An arrow!?" |
![Story Yakutsk.png](/images/b/b6/Story_Yakutsk.png) Yakutsk |
"A hit straight into the monster's eye..." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Must be a very skilled archer to aim at the eyeball of a Monster hiding in a tree in the Mist like this." |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"That's the monster's real body. All the monsters in the trees have disappeared." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Miss Pennsylvania! So it was you!?" |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"Miss Vivienne and Miss Yoshino told us about you and we picked them up from the rendezvous point. You've all been caught up in a nasty Mist." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"You're Queensway's junior? So you're not a Ranger?" |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"I'm sorry for giving you instructions so abruptly, but I thought that declaring myself as Pennsylvania would alert other monsters." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"Why would monsters react to your name Pennsylvania?" |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Because she's slained many similar monsters on the Northern Front. Pennsylvania has experience fighting as an archer on the Northern Front at such a young age." |
![Story Putra.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Putra.png) Putra |
"In other words, she's in the monsters' blacklist!?" |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"Mist Monsters on the Northern Front sometimes recognize people's names and voices. A lot of our people were in danger because of that." |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"In the meantime, let's get out of here as soon as possible. Miss Orleans is waiting for you all at the rendezvous point. We're having a bit of trouble there ourselves too..." |
![Story Queensway.png](/images/b/bc/Story_Queensway.png) Queensway |
"Trouble? Is it going to jeopardize the operation?" |
![Story Pennsylvania.png](/images/1/15/Story_Pennsylvania.png) Pennsylvania |
"We may have to change the mission objectives itself. It's a problem my bow can't handle. Let's meet up with Miss Orleans for the time being." |
Surrounded by troublesome enemies and with our unit split up, Pennsylvania, a former Verforench Gendamerie archer, saved the day in the nick of time. She is a prodigy archer who, for various reasons, was admitted to the St. Iris Knight Academy as a special scholarship student. |
Pennsylvania was called in to play a key role in this operation, but she suddenly said "It's a problem my bow can't handle". This is not good, as the main operation has not even started. This may not be the right thing to say in a brutally contested area, but... The future ahead is grim. |