The Hero Garden isn't really like a cemetery, it's more like a lush forest, at least that's what Olive thinks now. In the middle of the dense woods, there is a road made of beautiful small stones, and the road is very wide, about 20 meters. Olive followed Colonel Simiret and chatted as she kicked up the hill, which seemed to be a bit like an outing.

She told Colonel Similie about the situation at the front, which was what the old colonel wanted to know. And the old colonel didn't hide it either, and told Olive some of the battlefield experience he had summed up, which made some of her thoughts suddenly open.

They chatted like this and walked to a cable car building. There's even a cable car! Is it really an outing? This is a hero's garden! Olive was taken aback.

"It's still a long way from our destination, and the terrain is very difficult to pave, so we used a cable car instead."

“…… I see! ”

Olive nodded understandingly.

Olive and the others entered the cable car, and in addition to them, more than 20 people entered. The cable car here is larger, and those who don't board it sit on the back train, which seems to be divided according to seniority, and Eloy is assigned to the third cable car.

Similie and Olive stand in front of the glass window at the head of the cable car, looking out at the lush turquoise landscape ahead.

"Is this your first time?"

"Hmm!"

"It's okay, they're all waiting for you. ”

“…… Well~! ”

Olive always looked ahead, she didn't know how to answer the old colonel, the green woods in front of her made her heart very confused, and the destination she was about to reach made her a little overwhelmed.

"Be brave! They are waiting for you. They didn't want to see their old friends trembling at them. ”

The old colonel looked at Olive and patted her on the shoulder with a kind smile.

“…… Well! ”

Olive tried not to think about these things, and her heart gradually calmed down a little.

“…… Thank you. ”

"No, I was like this for the first time."

The cable car gradually went higher and higher, and at about 2,000 meters of altitude, Olive saw the top of the mountain. Then the cable car walks over to the top of the mountain, and behind this large mountain emerges ...... Countless tombstones.

The white tombstones are endless and covered with rolling hills. I don't know if there were 100,000, hundreds of thousands, or more than a million, but all the mountains that Olive could see were bulldozed, leaving behind a white tombstone.

It's like a sea of tombstones, but beneath them, each one represents the soul of a warrior. Olive felt desolation, silence, and slumber in them, as if they were all resting in peace.

Simiri looked at the moved Olive and tapped her on the shoulder again, before stepping off the cable car.

……

"It's all my good brothers here, I should have died, they saved me......"

"I don't know how many years! How many times have I brought you here, and you've heard me say the same thing. Do you feel annoyed that I'm old enough to start nagging? ”

Colonel Simiret looked at his children and grandchildren behind him, some of them were dazed and a little bowed their heads, and some of them were always watching him.

The expressions of the children were all seen by Similie,

"I just want to tell you, or tell myself......"

The old colonel turned his head and looked at the tombstones in front of him, there were no photographs on them, it should be said that each tombstone had no photographs, they only had sequences and names. The seemingly humble tombstone seems to have something more, is it for solemnity? Or just want to make some memories.

The old colonel gently touched the tombstone and wiped the dust from it with his hands. A junior who went up to hand out tissues was rejected by the old colonel shaking his head.

“…… I just want them to see my kids and show them how happy I am......"

The old colonel stared at the tombstone,

“…… Maybe I can only deceive myself, old friend! Then...... If it's me who dies...... How nice it would be if I died too! ……”

Tears welled up in the old colonel's eyes, and the family behind him saw the old colonel's body twitching, thinking that he was sad and weeping.

“…… Maybe...... My blood and my soul will be buried with you! ”

The old colonel muttered, and then he looked up into the distance, the female major who also seemed to have found an "old friend" in the sunlight.

……

Olive finds the tombstones of Ethon and Mud, they fight together and die together, and Olive now learns that Mud's original name is Pelode, and he ...... 18 years old......

“……”

It was a bit cold, and Olive didn't know what to say at this point.

She raised her hand to say something and put it down again, her mind going blank. Yesterday she asked Wai Mi Ye, and Ai Mi Ye told her that she would know when the time came, but now Olive's heart really didn't know how to speak, except for feeling a little uncomfortable.

Is it just looking at it? Let's just look at it~! Maybe this will also be able to fool you around?

Olive then thought of a movie she seemed to be able to draw on, in which the soldiers held their heads in pain as they swept graves, or kept chattering about the tombstones of their comrades.

Holding her head in pain Olive doesn't do it, it's so stupid and embarrassing. She stole a glance at Similie, and when she saw that the old colonel was also looking at her, she turned her head again. I'm Cao! It's almost exposed.

Olive bowed her head in silence, but her eyes were aimed at each other. That's not right~! I should feel very sad~! How do you feel like you're going through the motions?

Olive looked up again, glancing at the other warriors who had also come to sweep the graves, some of them offering flowers and wine, some of them talking to the tombstones, and some of them wiping their tears with tissues.

Olive stared at each other, chose a reasonable way to sweep the grave, and stiffly raised her hand to wipe the dust on the white tombstone.

Not~! Got your hands dirty. Olive wanted to clap her hands, but it seemed to be a little disrespectful to her comrades underground, and then she shook her hand and shook it, so that there should be no ashes!

“……”

After a few seconds of silence again at the tombstone of his comrades,

"Forehead ......"

Olive shrugged and peeked at the people around her again, and when she saw that no one was paying attention to her,

"Ethan, you know I'm not very good at talking......"

"Forehead ......"

I don't know what to say.

"You, are you okay with Mud?"

“……”

"Alright! Sorry, of course you guys are not good. Well...... I mean, you're all like this, it's not good......"

“……”

"Hmm...... Oh! Muto asked me to come and see you on his behalf, he's too busy to get promoted right now. He's already a second lieutenant, and he's going to be a battalion commander, and his future will be bright......"

"I'm miserable, those bastards gave me a promotion ban, those bitches raised by fuck off, I'm damn what the hell~!"

“…… Sorry for my swearing. Well...... Normally I rarely do that. ”

"You said you had a daughter, right? I was just born~! Well...... How is she? Forehead...... Well, I guess you haven't seen it either, do you want me to help you take a look? ”

Before she knew it, Olive was already chattering at the tombstone, and her comrades seemed to be able to hear her, or at least that's how she felt. Otherwise, what are so many warriors talking to the tombstones?

The sun shone on Olive on her uniform, and she smiled and pouted as she spoke, as if she were talking to someone.

“…… Then we came across the super big Earth Dragon, I call it the Divine Dragon, and it was really big, several stories tall. I almost died, I was so scared, and that damn second goods~! ”

"Oh! Mud, he's like you. His name is Harris, and he actually has a fear of heights hehe~! This idiot ......"

"Alright! I'm not calling you an idiot, mud. Well...... Then we jumped into the river, and it was so cold! Thankfully, we're all alive and back at base. We lost 30,000 ...... in that battle."

"A lot, right? …… People die like ants, as if life is tenacious and precious, but then nothing is worthless. ”

“……”

Olive said and fell silent again.

“…… Are you all right? Friends. ”

“…… I know I didn't run away right, thank you for fighting with me. ”

"We're the only ones left in the detachment, Muto and I...... Woo woo woo ~ ~~ "

Olive was so excited that she burst into tears.

"I, I was afraid of death, so I ran away in the end. You're the heroes, really! I, I'm ashamed. But I'm scared, woo woo~"

Olive wanted to hold back her excitement, wanted to hold back her tears,

"My comrades-in-arms around me are dead one by one, I want to save them, really! Some of them are veterans, but they still can't escape, they can't escape. The artillery fire and missiles are too dense, and they can't do anything about it......"

"And those recruits, they are still children, they are all dead, woo woo woo~"

"It's not my fault! It's not my fault! I want to save them. ”

Olive couldn't care about her image, and she kept wiping her cuffs with her seemingly endless tears and snot. She kept talking to the tombstone, kept crying, kept wiping her tears. It's like a little girl who can't find her way home, scared, crying, she always stands there, the sun always shines on her......

……