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Chapter 39: To the Asgard Empire
“Together!?”
“Yes. Reina, I want you to serve as Sword’s bodyguard while also aiming to become a Holy Knight. To that end, you will live together.”
“Understood.”
“You just accept that so easily!? Are you really okay with this!?”
“Tch! If it weren’t for Lord-sama’s orders…!”
For some reason, Zeke looked frustrated.
Kenya had no interest in seeing an old knight act like a “Kukoro” heroine.
Now he understood why Sieg had questioned this earlier.
Reina, on the other hand, accepted it without hesitation. In fact, she even looked a little pleased.
“Alright, let’s go over our immediate objectives. Starting today, Sword and Reina, you will head to the Asgard Empire. I’ve arranged for an airship. Sieg, you must remain here as a representative of the military. Tanaka, you and Takemikazuchi will cross the sea. Sieg, you can arrange a ship, right?”
“Understood. I’ll make the necessary preparations.”
“Got it. Sieg-san, can you help with the retrieval?”
“W-Wait a second! Are you really okay with this, Sieg-san? No, Dad?”
“You already gave your answer earlier, didn’t you? As your father, I have no right to interfere any further.”
Sieg’s eyes looked teary for some reason.
His daughter was suddenly leaving home to live with another man.
He had never had a daughter, but… was this what NTR felt like?
“Sword… No, Kenya. I’m entrusting Reina to you.”
“Yes, sir!”
Kenya responded loudly and firmly.
He straightened his posture, understanding that sincerity was the least he could offer.
“Then there’s nothing else to decide. The airship departs at 3 PM. You’ll arrive in the capital by nightfall. You should get going. I’ll be heading there as well, but I’ll be taking a royal aircraft. We’ll meet again over there.”
With that, the Nichia Alliance meeting concluded for the day.
Tanaka returned home to collect his research materials in preparation.
It was a bit risky, but for now, the military still hadn’t recognized Tanaka Issei as a member of the resistance.
If they investigated, they’d figure it out immediately, but for now, only Sieg knew his true identity.
Meanwhile, Kenya finished his own preparations quickly—though there wasn’t much to prepare in the first place.
He had nothing at his current home, so anything he needed would be bought in the Asgard Empire.
Reina had anticipated this, so she had already packed her belongings.
“Alright then, Dad—I mean, Sieg-san. We’re heading out!”
“Take care of Reina. Though I’ll be visiting the capital often, so we’ll see each other soon enough.”
“Oh, really? Then I’ll be crashing at your place for a while.”
Apparently, Sieg had an estate in the capital, Valhalla.
That was actually his main residence—this place was just a vacation home.
Kenya and Reina would be living in that estate.
“We’ll be apart for a while, Reina.”
“Yes, Dad.”
Reina and Sieg exchanged parting words.
It wasn’t a particularly emotional farewell.
It wasn’t like they would never see each other again.
Still, considering Sieg had adopted her, their relationship might be a bit more complicated than it seemed.
And so, Kenya and Reina boarded the airship.
They looked like siblings with matching silver hair.
To an outsider, they appeared to be a close brother and sister.
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Lord and Sieg watched them go.
As Lord observed Sieg staring at their backs, he spoke.
“Sieg, how long do you plan on keeping it a secret from Reina?”
Lord knew about Sieg’s past.
He had even deduced the reason Sieg was keeping it hidden.
“You’re right… It’s my own cowardice. I’m afraid that if I tell her, our relationship will be ruined.”
“That’s not something I’d expect from the man who once nearly destroyed the EU. Are you really that scared of the truth?”
“…Right now, she has sealed away all memories before she turned ten. Maybe it’s better if she never remembers. Perhaps it’s best for both of us if things stay the way they are.”
Reina had been a war orphan when Sieg took her in.
At the time, she had shut herself off completely—her emotions were dead.
It was as if she had locked away her past in order to protect herself.
“But memories always return, whether it’s for better or worse. And in this case, Kenya might be the trigger.”
“Yes… I’ve sensed it too. He’s gradually melting my daughter’s heart.”
Meeting Kenya had stirred Reina’s emotions.
The ice that had frozen her heart was beginning to thaw.
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The fluctuations in her emotions became more intense.
Eventually, she had even smiled.
That alone was something to be celebrated.
But it also meant she was getting closer to remembering her past.
“When the day comes that she remembers everything and chooses to face it, I will tell her the truth.”
“I see… She’s strong. She’ll be able to handle it.”
“Yes… But when that time comes, will we truly become a real family, or will she reject me?”
“If that happens, it could fracture the Nichia Alliance. Don’t let it come to that.”
“I don’t want that either. But… if Reina learns the truth and still calls me ‘Dad’—”
Sieg gazed in the direction Reina had disappeared, though she was no longer visible.
His eyes welled up with tears as he looked to the sky.
“Then I will take her to visit her mother’s grave—my wife, Sakiko’s grave. As her true father.”
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“Whoa… It’s just like a real ocean.”
Aboard the airship to the Asgard Empire, Kenya and Reina stood by the window.
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“Is this your first time seeing the ocean?”
“No, not really… but it hasn’t changed at all.”
Reina tilted her head slightly, not quite understanding what he meant.
“Hey, Reina. Which way is the Asian Union?”
“Hmm… Japan is southwest from here, so it would be in that direction. Since we’re heading toward the Asgard Empire, it’s that way.”
“So the world map here is basically identical to Earth. Well, I guess this is a game world, after all.”
“Game?”
“Ah, never mind. Forget I said anything.”
And so, Kenya looked out from the airship window in the direction of the Asian Union.
The other heroine—the girl he had risked his life to protect.
The girl who had once told him she loved him, the one Kenya cherished deeply.
As he thought of Kurokami Kaguya…
◇ Kaguya’s Perspective
“We’ve arrived… Kaguya, we’re here.”
After an entire day crossing the sea by ship, Kaguya and her group had finally reached the edge of the Asian Union, the largest nation in Asia—Chubu, known as the leader of the Asian Union.
Chubu was once a collection of fragmented nations, unified by an emperor of the time to form a single country. As time passed, the monarchy was abolished, and it became a democratic nation.
Structurally, it followed a format nearly identical to the EU, where elected representatives governed.
In principle, all citizens were equal under the law. However, in reality, the wealth gap was extreme, and those with money continued to amass wealth—a capitalist society.
Equal rights, unequal wealth.
While wealth redistribution isn’t necessarily the answer, there was no denying that money dictated power in this country.
A massive nation with such a political and economic structure—this was Chubu.
On a national scale, it was second in size only to the Asgard Empire.
“Welcome, people of Japan. And my comrades.”
At the port, Kaguya and the others were greeted by a military official of the Asian Union.
A suspicious-looking bureaucrat stretched out his large hands in a welcoming gesture.
They already knew Isshin and his group were arriving today—and that more Japanese resistance members were steadily making their way here.
To put it nicely, they were comrades in arms.
To put it bluntly, they were disposable pawns.
“We appreciate you accepting us Japanese.”
Isshin said firmly, gripping the man’s hand in a handshake.
“Not at all. Strengthening our forces is an urgent matter. We never know when the Asgard Empire will bare its fangs again. You are welcome here. We are allies—let us fight together.”
(Hmph, what you really want are pawns willing to throw their lives away. How transparent.)
Still, Isshin and the others had no choice but to accept this arrangement.
They knew that if ordered, they could be sent straight to their deaths.
With the EU on the verge of collapse, the Asian Union was the only remaining coalition capable of standing against the Empire.
Joining the Union was Japan’s only hope for independence—or so they believed.
On this day, Isshin’s resistance group, Amaterasu, officially became part of the Asian Union’s Japanese military.
In return, they were granted food, shelter, and supplies.
Then, one girl stepped forward in front of the bureaucrat.
Slowly, deliberately, she placed her feet firmly on the ground, raised her face, and looked him straight in the eye.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Kurokami Kaguya. I have a request.”
“Hmm? What is it, young lady?”
“I will fight with my life. I will train relentlessly and become strong. So… please, give me power. Give me the strength to fight. The country that stole my brother, that took my loved ones… And the Empire that took Kenya from me…I…”
Her tear-stained eyes burned with the flames of vengeance.
“I will never forgive them.”
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