Blazing Sun

Since Nile's abdication, the status of our elite troops has become rather delicate because we're associated with the alliance leader.

We are troops attached to the leader, so we cannot take sides in war.

We are the most elite forces of the Alliance, so we cannot do nothing in war.

We are the most real strength of the new leaders, so we cannot disband either.

Mockingbird, I'm tired.

General?

Don't you think the battle now is laughable?

We're fighting not for the tribe, nor the faith, but simply for personal selfishness.

I don't know.

I just need to fight with the General.

Fight with General Nephthys, and it's enough to just do my own thing.

The General will lead us all to victory.

Hahaha, of course. I am the ''Ever-Victorious General''!

I have the most elite soldiers, the most comprehensive training facilities, and the best equipment and weapons in Nebu, so of course I can win.

But after the leader abdicated, the situation is different.

No new people joined, no military investment... I don't know how long I can hold out.

The General can surely overcome this difficulty.

You sure are confident in me.

Reporting! General Nephthys, someone has reported the Golden Marsh Tribe for violating the rules of war.

The Golden Marsh Tribe? Who reported this?

...It's the Golden Marsh Tribe themselves who reported it.

What!

General! The Golden Marsh Tribe is fighting their way in!

Charge!!!

What the hell is Wadjet thinking?

Is she crazy? Does she not want to be an alliance leader anymore?

To leave a few wounds on me, those people... don't even care about their own lives, do they?

...Anyway, I've got to recover first.

General, it is not just us being attacked here, but in other places too... Even Mockingbird was taken!

What in the world is going on?!

Lord Wadjet's far-sightedness is not something that someone like you can see through, you only know how to fight!

What are you talking about?

Lord Wadjet had a message for us to pass to the General.

It is too painful to cut the flesh with a dull blade, so let the Golden Marsh Tribe end you quick.''

What does Wadjet mean by this?!

Don't you get it? After Nile abdicated, the army attached to Nile should be disbanded immediately.

But you didn't disband and even kept your army until now and tried to intervene in the competition for the position of the new alliance leader.

What leader would be comfortable using soldiers who have no respect for the one who will become the leader of the alliance?

Is Wadjet trying to force me out of the field?

You'd like to think so, but too bad you won't have the chance!

General, Golden Marsh is not the only tribe involved in the attack...

...Fine. Great! Wadjet, and all you people!

The alliance elite force is what the Nebu Alliance invested a lot of resources into.

It is impossible for the greedy tribes to not covet our soldiers. They will only take captives and not kill.

We still have a chance to get everyone out.

So what? Your neutral status is gone. Even if you save...

You talk a lot. Let's go to your Golden Marsh Tribe first and talk a walk around.

...

Get ready to attack Golden Marsh.

Yes!

Up ahead is where the Golden Marsh captured our comrades.

Resolve it as quickly as possible.

Charge!

Who goes there?!

The guards have been reinforced, as expected. Too bad I was their opponent.

Let's release all our men.

Yes!

...General Nephthys?

Mockingbird! It's good that you're okay.

I have disappointed you.

I don't blame you. It was not just Golden Marsh this time. The other tribes made a move too. I'm prepared to snatch everyone back.

...Then General, in what name will you conduct this snatching?

Needless to say, it's as the direct subordinates of the alliance leader...

We don't have a leader anymore, General.

What are you talking about? How can the alliance not have a leader? They just haven't picked one yet.

If the new leader wants to appoint some other guards, then...

Why don't you fight for the position of leader?

...

If there is no leader, then put forth a leader. That's the easiest way to solve the problem, right?

During the time I was captured by the Golden Marsh, I met a lot of slaves and poor people.

We... No, the General should save them.

Mockingbird, do you know how this civil war broke out?

The former leader Nile abdicated.

Nile was not the first chief. Her abdication was just the trigger. The real reason is that there is no successor to her.

I'm okay, the Kasi Tribe Celestial is okay, even Wadjet is okay. We all don't have much prestige to convince the masses.

The nature of war today is to gain prestige by defeating others. In the end, the one with the highest prestige will be the leader.

Isn't this advantageous for you? You have the most elite soldiers and talent to fight on the battlefield.

If it's you...

I can't do it.

I have no tribe support and no talent for governance. I can only fight.

I don't want to, and I'm not ready to become the alliance leader.

...Understood.

Let us bid farewell here then, General.

What?

I believe the General can lead us to every victory.

But now I don't understand the meaning of Victory.

I have many questions, many ideas, and none of them are problems if your intent is to become the new leader.

But since you've refused, there has to be an answer to these questions.

What did you see when you got captured?

I saw wretched sorrow, General.

We can probably wait in place for the war to end and for a new leader to be born.

But the ordinary people of the alliance can't wait.

Huh? What's wrong? Why are you guys all standing in front of me?

General... We have received a bit of bad news.

That's not good.

Mockingbird... passed way.

What?!

Who did it?!

We don't know. This news was straight from Diviner Hemetto...

I'll go to her and ask what's going on first.

Hemetto! Come here!

How dare you be so disrespectful to Lord Hemetto!

Even Nile didn't dare to stop me! Get out of my way!

Ugh...!

What's with all that noise?

I'm in a bad mood.

Why should I care about what mood you're in? What's the matter with Mockingbird?!

That's my question! What are the injuries on Mockingbird's body?!

Stop hiding! Fight me!

Damn you. You're as strong as a monster, as rumored.

Okay, let's move.

...

Don't look at me, I tried my best.

Your soldiers visited Wadjet and Ifurito, and then you went to ask Bifrost to ask for kids.

Coincidentally, she got involved when Rasparta attacked a Bifrost General. Mockingbird got stabbed when she tried to block the knife.

It is said that the slash was not fatal, and Mockingbird died because of an old wound left by Wadjet.

Even I can't calculate what will happen to Bifrost.

Bifrost, and Rasparta. I shall remember this grudge!

What about Wadjet's?

...She is a candidate to be the new leader. I will not make a move against her for now.

Temporarily? I'll wait then.

Hmph, I don't need to you remind me.

Are these what Mockingbird left?

Yes, General. We also found a letter addressed to you.

...This girl.

What does it say?

...I thought for a long time, and I don't know what I should say either.''

I'm going to go straight to Wadjet next, and frankly, I'm terrified. I'm terrified that I'll be going to die.''

Falling at the hands of Wadjet would make me feel my existence was meaningless.''

So, I prepared three farewell letters and hid them in various corners. If it were the General, she will surely find them.''

If I die, these farewell letters will be the meaning of my existence.''

Don't let the meaning of my existence disappear, General.''

This girl, she is still trying to soothe me after she's gone.

Is the silly girl worrying about me?

Ha... Hahahahaha...

I am really... a failure of a General.