Volume 18 Chapter 6 (2/2)

“Kyuikyui!”

Silphyd prepared to attack with everything she had, however, Azulo swiftly dodge the his sword

With his left hand, he was able to hang on at the claw of Azulo Then following Azulo’s on's back

Having faster reaction time than Julio, Saito took him by the neck and pointed his sword

“Get us down!”

Despite the situation, Julio kept his calm face

“You’re just in ti”

“You got to be kidding me!” Saito scream furiously

“Oh God!you’re always acting like this, at least listen for once to what people have to say”

“Do you expectabout the crusade, always clinging to that foolishness, just GET us down!”

As Julio shook his head ”As you wish,” hen he finally decided to land Azulo

Upon reaching the ground, Saito immediately ran to where Tabitha was

“Tabitha!”

“I'mfine”

After leaving Tabitha in Kirche’s care, he turned once more to Julio

“Hey Julio!”

“What now?”

“We need to talk”

“Alright, honestly for once, I alanted to have a little chat with you”

“What’s your purpose, the reason for continuing with this crusade? Can’t you just live in peace and forget about the holy land?”

To hear hie an expression from someone who has to help a friend in his studies because he always gets bad grades

“Wenecessary for our purposes in this world Just think a little, what do you think is the reason e have repeated the war for the last 6000 years? If you look a bit, initially the people were still the saht just for a piece of barren land and for their prideDo you think that justifies all the blood that had been spilled so far?”

“I don’t know”

“That's because we are in a situation where our hearts cannot find a support to cling to, we are in a situation where our ”sacred land” has been stolen by the heretics, and then, what should we believe then?”

“So, that was your reason for starting a war against the elves?”

“Yes, for they have unjustly established a land that was rightfully ours fro”

“ Dammit, was that really a reason?”

For a fewat Julio, then suddenly he began to laugh

“A ha ha ha! Don’t look!

“What’s so funny?”

“Nothing, it's just that, I never really thought that petty reason would start this endless war Really, it would be fine to just leave the sacred land alone It’s really absurd to fight, you know And it would be a hundred times, no, a thousand times more fun to just stay and play with your friends”

“What did you say?”

Saito's face turned pale This guy is really getting in my nerves

“You insist on going in this endless crusade forever without giving any logical reason, by the waging a war against the elves over and over again, do you really expect to win if you only fight for honor? How many times have passed since your ancestors were displayed as a pathetic losers after failing to recover their land even after a millennia?”

“You Perhaps, are you trying to mock me?”

Filled with rage, Saito then threw his fist against Julio, however, he nied it smoothly

“Hey! Hey! Do not get et very bad if you cannot even control your emotion like this”

Saito could only keep seeing Julio with full hatred

“Youthat’s what people like you always think, always controlling and treating us like idiots! Do you really look at all the people around you only as mere pawns?”

“Of course not, I never thought so like that”

“Liar! What about that girl, Tabitha's sisterwhen she wears that crown? What did you say to make her cheat? What did you say to her for her to betray her own sister? Surely, you've tampered her with a potion!”

Upon hearing this, Julio's face turned slightly serious

“Potion? I would never use so like that”

“Well, then what did you do? Or perhaps, do not tell me you”

Saito bit his lip because of the thought that overwhelmed him

“Are you trying to tell irl fell in love with you?”

Then, Julio opened the pal man felt proud for himself in such a desperate situation

“If I say yes, ill you do then?”

Saito was outraged by the hostile tone of Julius and began to respond

“damnYou're the worst! How dare you use a woman as in love with youseriously you are the lowest, I wonder ould your God do if he knew this!”

The color of Julio’s face changed at this

“What did you say?”

His eyes were burned with anger and his grin had disappeared completely

De his contempt, Saito said as he lifted his lips:

“You, was it your ”body and soul”? Or is it your God that tells you it's okay to use women in love with you, for your silly purposes?”

With quickhit in Saito’s face, which Saito swiftly pushed back

“Think what you're doing, idiot!”

While recovering, Saito placed his hand on the hilt of his sword

“Do you still want to continue?”

“What did you say about my own body and soul?!!”

Julio, without hesitation, then dealt a punch to Saito

“Idiot!”

In the time that Saito was about to draw his sword, he noticed as in Julio's face, an expression such fury, that prevented him to control hi tone whichto him

“Are you really try to faceany beast?”

In truth, Saito didn’t have the slightest idea on as going on, and apparently, Julio wasn't even considering the consequences of what he’s doing, but anyway, Saito never faced an opponent before as unarmed

After regaining his composure, Saito decided to throay his sword, which was picked up immediately by a worried Louise

“Saito”

“You dare to talk about what's inside of !”

The tone of Julio made Saito to remember those of his childhood bullies

Then, Saito fought Julio with the fist of his left hand, and immediately after, in less than a blink, deal a direct hit with his right hand

This see practice, however there were ti more serious Without the power of Gandalfr, Saito was just an ordinary boy He will eventually lose to this match due to shock

However, the physical abilities of Julio orthy of ade Saito’s punches easily, then respond by throwing a kick, even so, Saito caught his leg and with all his strength pinned hiht in the beautiful face of Julio

But then, the attacks of Saito didn’t last for so long, as Julio took one leg of Saito and then turn his body skillfully, thus changing positions

Their fury seeain In such a display of tenacity and fury made Louise, Kirche and Tabitha speechless as they observed the to reach the conclusion

Finally, both Saito and Julio were exhausted, they lay down and not being able to send another punch The two of them had been in such a pitiful state as they seenizable Saito's face was completely swollen, and part of his left eye was hidden behind his swollen cheeks For Julio, an endless stream of blood flowed from his nose, this combined with the defor in his cheeks

This had been a contest of fists, so it was obvious that the hands of those two contestants were completely destroyed, their hands was so swollen that even their little finger ice its original size, those liht now

So while in the state of breathing laboriously, Saito started to say:

“ This is very strange of you, you, who made yourself lose your sanity”

At this Julio answered revealing the pain

“You know, I envy you”

“What did you say?”

“You can love so”

“What are you trying to say?”

“What, you really thought I had no feelings? I have done a tre in love And yet I fell for it, and not only that, I also saw the need of having to use it I really believed that someone like you would be able to understand what's in my heart?”

“Well, I don’t understand the fact that it is ”necessary” to use it”

“That’s very unfortunate”

“But then, use it for what?”

“Who do you think we're doing this for? For the for you, you who are living on this doomed earth”

Froushi+h , in his eyes tears flowed, he then started a plain sob

For Saito, he never would have guessed that Julio was able to mourn, so he was really surprised

Eventually after crying for a moment, Julio stood up With a puzzled expressions, Kirche and Tabitha rushed to theh poorly, were treated with soh to completely stop the pain, but at least it served so they could calm for a bit

Then Julio said brokenly:

“That’s enough, do whatever you want, I do not care anyuys would able live in this land, nor for everyone who always like to kill each other for just a small piece of land”

“Julio, what’s wrong? What are you talking about?” Louise asked confused from what she heard

“See it for yourself,” said Julio with a voice that reflected his discouragement

“What the hell are you talking about!?”

At thethis

The earth began to shake

Castlee, were following the trail of Saito

Right behind thehts also followed closely, looking for answers

One of the noble chasing the wind dragon has spotted Saito and the others, after using a ‘far-sight spell’, he shouted excitedly:

“They already landed!”

“Very well!” Castlean to increase the speed of their horses

After a few minutes

A violent trean to shake

“Uwa! An earthquake!”

As the knights lost their control on the horses, one by one they stopped, those horses started to panic as so and inevitably ended up lying on the ground, even so the intensity of the shaking becaer

“It’s too violent!”

The shaking continued for a few moments to then stop abruptly

“That earthquake was so strong! I've never felt so like that before!”

At that , it was the Pope Pope Vittorio, as

ic rope, started to say:

“It has already started!”

“What did you say? What was already started?”

“The ”Great Uprising” has begun!”

“What's that?”

At the time Castlemont wondered about this, a new tremor started and shook the earth violently, this new trean to kneel, and even the soldiers ere on foot could not re, as they felt the intensity of the earthquake

“Hwuah!”

Castlemont was thrown froround Crawling quickly, Castle of the earth felt like being sed in a violent storm

“What the hell is going on?!”

Without answering, Vittorio only did was to observe so at a distance

Castleaze in the same direction as Vittorio

This time, he was completely speechless

“Oi, what the hell was that?!”

Malicorne and Guiche kept their hands on the ground due to the intensive shaking, they soon noticed that Reynald re in one direction

“Hey Reynald, what's wrong?”

Reynald didn’t answer He just raised his finger slowly and pointed forward Seeing the disaster right in front of them, they were completely shocked

So, because no one could explain as happening, they decided to extend their hands and then pinched each other’s cheeks

“It hurts!” Both Guiche and Malicorne said al cry

“ This is not a dream!”

Both men frohts ended up forgetting their precautions and hostilities they had with each other when they saw before their eyes, that gigantic and horrifying natural disaster

As if rean to murmur:

“So, it’s true, the continent of Albion that was once part of Halkeginia”

A trely strong vibration did not show any signs of stopping

With a voice as if not believing in what he was seeing, Saito said:

“The !”

The on that he wasthis es, began to ascend up in the sky

It was a spectacle that could be described in one word: ”Majestic”

As if there was a rocket pushi+ng those mountains up as they unstoppably ascended towards the sky

At the time the mountain was fully in the air, a furious cloud of dust rose froht had started prematurely The sa him

“What the hell was that what's going on?”

Julio then explained it to Saito:

“This is the ”great uprising”, this happens when the gradual accuan to raise an entire land mass

“Wind stone?”

Certainly, they were used to raise ”shi+ps” to the sky, in addition for being a crystal that kept the power of the wind from the previous resident

“ As you know, the lands of Halkeginia were rich of these wind stones To put in silass where the power of the spirits lies, so what happens is that it gradually crystallized into the ground for a ”spiritual power” So after tens of thousands of years, the ah so that those wind stones will eventually raise the whole earth”

“The whole earth, you say?”

Then Julio said in a tired voice:

“Unfortunately, right now a large saturation of wind stones were buried throughout Halkeginia, we soon be tossed like a pancake into the air and huge chunks of land will began to float Do you finally understand? This is reason e must reach the holy land”

“Then why do you keep it secret all this time?!”

Then Julio replied as if spitting:

“Tellthis, was it hard for you to believe in the sincerity of our words? An idiot not seeing things with their own eyes will never believe”

After 30subsided With that, Vittorio, the Teether, they finally arrived to the place where Saito and the others were

Apparently, what happen today in the on, had cahts, as they were confused not knoas happening

“Are you surprised?” Vittorio asked Saito

“Yeahthis is the first time I saw a mountain rose up like that”

After listening to Saito, a smile spread across the face of Vittorio

“The land that has risen will gradually consuain they will return to the surface The continent of Albion is part of the re’”

“What was really happening in Halkeginia?” Asked Louise with a worried face, to which Vittorio said while shaking his head

“ActuallyIt’s not all, according to research we have done personally, our estimate is that 50 of the whole land would rise up just like what you have witnessed, but there were soe to all the continent would be catastrophic, so within a few decades these types of events will began to occur throughout Halkeginia”

“So, what you’re trying to say is that ill be left without a place to live by?” said Guiche in a shocked voice

“Yes, it will not be today nor toinian population will lose the land needed to live, when that happens, there will be land conflicts, and a ith no real winners will began And to prevent that fro, we have awakened ”the void”, that is e an elves”

“In the holy landis there so?”

Vittorio then quickly answered that question:

“There is a giant ical device built by the founder, Briainst this(spiritual power) We, the four of four who possess the power of ”VOID”, it is our duty to recover the Holy Land for our salvation lies in it so that we can rid of our land this threatening disaster!”

“This is so important, ould you kept this hidden all this tihtly

Seeing his reaction, Vittorio repeated the sao

“Do you really believe that anyone would even believe in a story like this? Unless they see it with their own eyes, people will never actually believe, and also, in the given case that we have told this story before, probably at least a few of you would say ”Can we really believe what they said?”, then ruin to spread, which alone would lead to unnecessary panic a the people”

That ht to himself

If I haven’t seen the truth with my own eyes, if I haven’t witnessed that such mountain could rise up to the sky, when I heard this story, I most likely would never have to believed it

“See, I told you” Julio saidvoice

“We h this would cost us our lives, if it is to recover the Holy Land, ill do whatever is necessary, those words came from the mouth of the God, even Valhalla(Death) would cooperate to us in our crusade! The ”great uprising” of today e ht call, our letters of TRIUMPH, all of these were done with the sole purpose of us to believe!”

Vittorio then took Saito’s hand

“Will you lend us your strength, Gandálfr? Everything is for the distant future, our descendants s to them, no matter what happen in the crusade, our first priority noill begin with negotiations If the elves peacefully return ”the holy land”, then there will be no proble the attack, that would be our last option, we ht to survive!”

Saito and his friends began to look at each other faces

As Isabela and Castlemont, Malicorne, Guiche and Reynald, Tabitha and Kirche, all evidenced in their faces that they did not knohat to do

The whole story was too incredible, too unexpected, while their heads still could not process as really happening But

The ht now, as they look up, it beca how the uni were shaken uncontrollably

But it was precisely for this reason that at the reement

After what the Romalia had done so far, it was difficult to say whether they would accept to ”cooperate” with them

With these concerns clouding their judg his hand, and then head to Vittorio:

“We currently do not have the authority to respond to your request; so I ask to give us time to make our considerations, but before that, we have a few conditions”

“Go ahead”

“First, I ask that from this moment, that you won’t hide any information”

“I promise”

From that point, Louise looked at Tabitha

“The next thing is, that the throne is restored to the rightful queen of Gallia”

“I cannot do that”

“Why?”

“Gallia is a huge nation, if you don’t have a queen in coh to achieve victory,” Vittorio said in a calm voice as he could

“But Tabitha can”

Saying this Saito, Tabitha started to respond in her own:

“I, I intend to go with you”

“Is that alright?”

“That was , the h I really don't like it, I still agree with the plan that the crown be given to the imposter sent by Romalia”

Having said that, Tabitha then took the hand of Saito

“Then it's settled”

At that tian to look around

“All of us here have seen, for the first time today that we shared here our truth and so, we have becohten us in our future endeavors!”

All of the soldiers rose and began to see each other in amazement, however, after a time they decided to shake hands, and embrace each other

Saito and others, who still had trouble accepting this, saw the how the things had become

While he rubbed his face, Julio asked Saito:

“What's wrong, aren’t you satisfied?”

“Well it is, or rather, still I do not like the idea that in the end, everything was finished just as you have planned”

“Do not say sos finished well atleast for reat effort to resist”

“What do you mean?”

“All this would have been easier, if we only waited for the new void user”

“Why was it not done?”

After hearing this, Julio replied as if sighing:

“I was excited”

“To what?”

“I wanted to fight you I really wished to face you In order to achieve greatness, one must remove the obstacles, that was the way to solve the proble, daer, I would have been more preferable”

Saito then stared Julio, his face was haggard, swollen everywhere and blood could be seen from either side of the handsome face of Julio

Then he recalled his words of just o:

”You can love so”

That guyAlthough we have al the truth in his chest He was also re like a small child

“Idiot!” Saito said

“That’s what I should say” Julio said while his eyes remained fixed on Saito

“By the way, I would like to apologize, for what I said before, about ned your body and soul, but it is also your fault for your bad habit of alanting to deceive people”

“I haven’t truly deceived people before” He said in a dejected voice

Then Saito turned his face away trying to avoid to look into his eyes, he decided to extend his hand to Julio

“What is this?”

“A handshake, but this does not mean that I have already accepted cooperate with you”

Julio watched that hand for a ainst his handshake

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