Chapter 17: The Way Home
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A vast white pine forest and snow, under the lofty mountains, in the forest, a train full of soldiers returning triumphantly roared and spewed out a white vapour, shuttling in a silver world.
It's still the northern region, and it's winter, so it's normal to have snow or something.
The train was filled with more than 1,500 soldiers of the mountain chasseur unit of Estes who had been reorganized from the fortress of Briguz and had returned to the capital with the commander.
Composed of hundreds of veteran hunters and thousands of new senior Oriental soldiers, this gang has never been to the hillbilly gate of the capital, and a group of old men who have experienced the battlefield but have never enjoyed the blessings are chatting excitedly with their buddies about all kinds of hearsay things about the capital, while smoking cigarettes and drinking and laughing heroically.
"Woo............"
But at this time, their eldest sister, Estes, who had become famous in the battle outside the Cyprus, had no sense of excitement or joy at all, and leaned on the shoulder of Major Black Lily with a pale face, moaning weakly, as if she was very uncomfortable and unmotivated.
For her, who has always been full of vitality and feels that the energy and strength in her body are exhausted, such a situation is very rare.
"Black Hitomi, how many letters did you read just now?"
There's a reason why Estes looks like he's about to die.
"Three of the sixteen hundred and sixty letters, captain."
Still looking paralyzed, Hitomi replied as he counted the letters he had read
"How many more?"
With a towel over her face and a dying-ready look, Estes looked very haggard
"And four hundred and seventy-six unread letters."
Although I don't know if the captain covered with a towel can see it, the black pupil still pointed to the thick stack of letters on the table
"And ...... More than 400 letters? ”
Is it a delusion? It seemed that Estes's voice trembled a little as he said more than four hundred letters.
"In less than eight years...... He wrote more than 2,000 letters...... Isn't that the same as one letter a day? ”
I wanted to be with myself in the few days of training with the reorganization of the troops, the lamp boiled oil, and I was full of gratitude to read my mother's letters, and I slept less than three hours a day, and I got up early in the morning and read the letters that I hadn't read for more than a month, and Estes felt afraid.
The letters sent by my mother are not ordinary family letters, each letter is a short story or prose that is not too big or small, and it is conservatively estimated that each one must be thousands of words.
Because it was to be read with gratitude, for a few days Estes did not care about anything in order to read the letter, and the strength of reading the letter was more than that of the national alchemist who had to take the exam. For several days, he was busy with the reorganization work during the day, and he had to read letters at night, and for several days in a row, Estes's eyes were like pandas, and by today, after the reorganization was completed, he was already dizzy and about to collapse.
Thinking about the mother Estes who wrote letters almost every day and wrote more than two million words of letters to her family eight years ago, she once again felt what a wise decision she made to leave home and hide for eight years.
You can even write so many letters to your family, and if you have time to meet, you won't nag me to death?
Thinking about it, Estes was even more determined to have time
"Black Hitomi, please read it to me, my eyes really can't bear it."
As he spoke, Estes weakly changed his position and lay down on Black Lily's lap.
"Hmm."
Then Hitomi opened a letter and began to read it
"To my dear daughter, Aisha (Estes), how are you doing today? I'll give you ...... on the desk in my study."
"Purr-purr-"
The 1664th letter had just begun, and Estes was already so tired that he fell asleep directly on Black Lily's lap
For a while, she was too tired. To be precise, she has been exhausted since she sent troops out of the fortress until now.
Don't look at Estes all day long, but it's the first time she's leading the troops into battle, as a responsible commander, she is always worried about the needless casualties of her own soldiers caused by her paralysis and carelessness, so she has been very nervous, and now, the battle is over, and the reorganization is complete, Estes can finally take a little rest.
The nerves have been tense for two months in a row, and Estes, who has been overworked all day, can't withstand such pressure even if she is energetic, and on the slender and soft thighs of Black Lily, listening to the natural voice of the black pupil and the voice of her mother's nagging but meticulous care.
Estes fell asleep with a happy smile.
It was so sweet to sleep.
“…… Captain, I've got you a barbecue...... Alas? ”
The red pupil who had just gone to the dining car to get a whole cart of barbecue meat had the meat leg of a large, unscientific unknown creature in his mouth, and looked at Estes who fell asleep on the black lily's lap
"Is the captain asleep?"
Eat the big unscientific meat leg in his mouth directly at an even more unscientific speed and throw the bone to the side to get forward, the red pupil looked at Estes with a cute sleeping face, and asked softly The two people present
"Of course, the captain only slept sixteen hours in a week, and the iron beaters couldn't bear it."
As an adjutant, Black Lily knows very well what Estes has been up to lately.
As a former officer of the Draguma Empire, she knew very well what it took to be a competent officer, and Estes was undoubtedly a competent officer.
Tireless in work and combat, although there are some places in the personality that are easy to be misunderstood, as a leader and superior who cares for his subordinates and soldiers, and shares weal and woe with them, he always makes soldiers trust.
"Let the captain get a good night's sleep, the train will take ten hours to reach the capital, let the captain have a good rest first." As an adjutant, Black Lily is really very considerate
"And what about these barbecues?"
But the red pupil is a foodie who looks at his stomach with a natural look, pointing to the huge roasted dangerous bird on the cart, the charred meat on the outside and tender on the inside (although it is missing a thigh)
"This is fresh food that I went to the mountains to collect while the train was adding water and coal, and it will be cold if I don't eat it."
Able to hunt a dangerous man-eating bird while the train is docking...... This kind of thing is really only capable of carnivorous red pupils.
"That's a problem."
Looking at the big roasted bird in front of him, the black lily didn't know what to do all of a sudden.
"Do you want to let Black Hitomi solve it?"
"Click, click...... Well? I don't need to. ”
But the black pupil on the opposite side had already begun to nibble on dessert biscuits at this time
"If only I had cookies."
In fact, Black Hitomi is also a foodie, but a sweetie.
"Then there is no way."
Now the three people who can eat the most are not in the right profession, and the other is sleeping like something. Red Pupil alone couldn't have eaten this enlarged bird.
As for Black Lily himself, he ignored his own gorgeousness, and Black and White knew that his little belly was more than enough for the three foodies here.
"Ahh
But at this moment, a blue-haired figure on the side of the barbecue had already begun to feast.
“?! Captain?! ”
Just when the three of them were thinking about how to solve the barbecue, Black Lily suddenly found that Estes, who was still lying on his lap just now, was gone, and was replaced by a foodie standing next to the barbecue and quickly destroying the barbecue, although the appearance was elegant but the speed was extremely amazing.
"Captain, why are you awake? I thought ......"
Originally, Black Lily wanted to say something, but as soon as he looked into the captain's eyes, he shut up
Closed.
Estes' eyes.
Other words......
'This thing is still sleeping!' ’*3
The three cronies who saw this scene were completely speechless for Estes.
At this time, Estes's expression can only be described as classic, obviously with an innocent and happy smile, the corners of his mouth are still drooling, but his hands and mouth are stuffed with barbecue, a happy sleeping face, breathing is as peaceful and orderly as falling asleep, but the barbecue in front of him, that black lily believes that he has eliminated half of the huge proper bird that has been wiped out by Estes in a week, this is still the amount that Estes has done alone, according to this speed, If the red pupil continues, it won't take more than three minutes for the red pupil to gnaw on the bones.
Eating automatically in a sleepwalking state is also a strange attribute of Estes.
Proportional to Estes's amazing combat power, this young lieutenant colonel and alchemist also has an unusually large appetite.
As much energy as you consume during battle, you need to replenish energy and food when you are resting.
There are in and out, there are comings and goings, and the exchange is very fair.
"Ahh
And in the short time we were talking nonsense, Red Pupil also hurriedly joined the annihilation battle to eliminate the Tuo Bird, and two girls who had the same obsession with barbecue used the amazing speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye to put the barbecue in front of them into an unscientific stomach.
Estes' eating record is to eat a roasted saber-toothed tiger and a braised brown bear at one time.
Red Pupil's highest record was to eat one adult toto's bird and ten roasted hares at a time
Hitomi's eating record is that he ate a box of biscuits and an 18-inch cake at a time.
The amount of food shows the combat effectiveness, this theory seems to be applicable in this unit, the food consumption of the three foodies is directly proportional to their combat effectiveness, and as for the black lily guy.
That's an out-of-spec cargo~
"Ahh......h Purr ......"
After eating the barbecue, Estes lay back on Black Lily's lap and went to sleep in a daze.
The whole process was done in one go without a single break, which made people wonder if Estes was pretending to be on purpose
"Purr...... Purr ......"
But apparently it wasn't pretend, and Estes would never have shown such a foul cute smile when he was awake. Only Black Lily and the three of them had the honor of seeing Estes's sleeping face.
Do not sleep in front of enemies and in front of people you don't trust
It's another of Estes's habits, but anyone who can sleep peacefully is someone she trusts.
This is something that both the Red Eyes, as killers and assassins, know and understand.
For the most vulnerable side of yourself, you can only rest assured by giving it to the people you trust the most.
Black pupils and red pupils used to come over like this, and the captain was so defenseless in front of him, which showed that the captain, Estes trusted and trusted them in his heart.
"Hey."
looked at Estes lying on his lap, squinted at her for a long time, and the black lily finally couldn't hold it back for a long time.
"Don't you think the captain is so cute as to foul when you sleep?"
Looking at the two girl sisters on the other side who looked like they were still talking, Black Lily seduced and bewitched them
"Uh-huh."
The two dumb sisters nodded slightly without even hesitating
"Would you like to touch it? ~”
"Hmmm! Well! ”
The two dumb-headed sisters nodded vigorously.
"So what are you waiting for? ~”
Thinking of the humiliating things that Estes had done to him when he was captive, Black Lily felt that the dark magic in her body was about to materialize excitedly.
"Let's get started~ First poke and poke, then press and press, then rub and then ......"
So, under the leadership of Black Lily, the black-bellied adjutant, the two sisters fell into a different kind of black-bellied natural road.