The Daughter of Evil - Volume 3 - Chapter Ep3

Epilogue-To the Blue Country; Scene 4
Praeludium of Red, page 252-255

♣ Yukina ~On the HMS Victoricia, “Main Deck"~

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“Miss Chartette!”

“Oi, long time no see, Yukina.”

The head of the Langley Unit in the Beelzenian army, Chartette Langley. She had expressly come to an enemy country to see off my departure.

Beelzenia and Marlon had once again agreed to a cease-fire. Marlon had proposed a most advantageous agreement for Beelzenia. Their real problem was that if the war kept on the way it was going, Beelzenia had little hope of winning, lacking in material resources as they were. To Beelzenia this was probably the best compromise possible.

Naturally, that didn’t mean that there was no more ill will between the two countries. It wouldn’t be a surprise if they ended up starting a war again someday.

It seemed Chartette had to always be under surveillance to act in the Lucifenian territory, being a Beelzenian soldier.

“And that surveillance is in the form of that jerk there, yannow.”

Chartette’s expression was sour, and in the direction she pointed was Lily wearing a Lucifenian army uniform.

“Have you been reinstated in the Lucifenian army, Miss Lily?”

“After quite a bit of trouble. There’s a whole mess of problems, but it’s my home country. I thought…maybe I could change it from the inside.”

“But how could you be taken in so quickly after deserting before…?”

“Well you see, I did the same as you. I just used what I could.”

“…?”

“I decisively employed my parental connections!”

“Hahaha, got it!”

Beside Lily, Chartette got out some kind of cylinder wrapped in cloth.

“Where’s Big Sis? I got somethin’ I wanna give to her, yannow.”

“M–miss Germaine is uh…a little tied up right now.”

“Gotcha. Well then, I’ll give ya this instead. …Be careful now, it’s a little heavy, yannow.”

Chartette unwrapped the cloth from the cylinder and handed it over to me.

“Is this…a rapier?”

“I had my dad make a new one, yannow. I heard Big Sis broke hers, ya see.”

“Thank you very much. I’m sure Miss Germaine will be thrilled.”

“Actually, I was kinda wantin’ to go to Marlon with you all, yannow…”

Chartette folded her arms, looking genuinely regretful.

“You have your own station too, Miss Chartette. It can’t be helped. Just you coming to see us off like this is more than enough.”

“Time’s almost up, Langley. Let’s go.” Lily grabbed Chartette’s shoulder.

“…Come on, just a bit longer.”

“Huh?”

“I still gotta go say hi to someone, yannow!” Chartette said, before bluntly heading to the ship’s hold.

“H–hang on a second, Langley!”

Lily flusteredly started to run after her, but suddenly stopped and turned back to me.

“Yukina…”

“What is it, Miss Lily?”

“I don’t know what’s going on with the country of Marlon myself, but try not to do anything rash.”

“You don’t need to worry. It’s where I was born.”

“Ha ha, that’s right. Well then. When things have settled down you should come back to Lucifenia again.”

“Of course. Let’s eat and chat again when I do.”

Lily quickly saluted, and then turned around to chase after Chartette.

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After one hour Chartette got off the boat, Lily dragging her by the ear.

I watched everything from the main deck and took notes; Chartette was shouting something with a smile on her face, but I couldn’t catch what it was she was saying.