The fully assembled Fujimaru Rika in Sevita's opinion...... It's a bit confusing.

It's not that he realizes that the two of them have a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "full outfit", but that her equipment really doesn't look like it has combat effectiveness in Sevita's opinion.

Her overall outfit looks ...... Very unimperial. Not the knowledge of the Imperian to Isevita could not even judge their possible role from the appearance of the equipment. First of all, the defense seems to be almost none: the chest and abdomen that need the most protection are only covered by black close-fitting reinforced fabric, the arms are also lacking in armor, the structure of nerve bridging interfaces and very few external strengthening tendons is almost only covered by similar fabrics for aesthetic purposes only, and almost only the legs and feet of the whole body are covered by metal armor, but it is difficult to say that it is heavy armor used for protective purposes. Sevita didn't know exactly what the leg armor was for, and only deduced from the startling glance of Rika Fujimaru herself as she walked with her feet raised, and she deduced that there was a jet afterburner hidden underneath.

The overall design of the equipment is obviously tilted towards extreme lightweight on the basis of abandoning many functions, including protection, and another direct result of this design idea is that the structure of the finished product will be as simple as possible. It's not like the oil guys would allow it to be on their own casting table (a different story about running a production line). But considering that this small ship called the Storm Frontier is almost as unimperial in Sevita's opinion, maybe 10,000 years later, the mainstream technology of the empire in war equipment has become this style? But it wouldn't even have an Aquila logo, would it?

"This is an Ortenaus-type Lingji exoskeleton." Fujimaru Rika seemed to be able to read minds, and explained before Sevita couldn't help but ask, "Let's consider it a self-developed equipment of the Chaldean Bureau." The underlying technology used is different from what the Empire is used to, so it's normal for it to look very different. ”

She paused for a few seconds, then added, "The Chaldea Bureau is a newly formed department under the Hall of the Star Torch, and because it is too new, it has no visibility at all. Also, I'm not a psyker and I can't read minds, so I can guess in advance what you're trying to say just because your expression is so easy to understand. ”

Sevita touched her face inexplicably: Did I make any expressions?

"It's not obvious, but it does." Fujimaru Rika said as if she were a prophet, "You don't have to doubt yourself too much, I can see that it's just because I'm very familiar with you unilaterally." ”

Sevita wondered how she had become "one-sidedly acquainted" with him, but he didn't dare to think deeply about it.

The hatch of the boat opened before them, and the endless plains of Jestal were once again unfolded before them. The night stars were scarce, but Sevita's eyes could easily cut through the darkness and see the cargo station towering two kilometers away.

Until now, he still couldn't figure out how the ship had come so close. He could barely deduce from the fact that he had glimpsed the thickness and structure of the hull when the hatch was opened, and the fact that the hatch was not equipped with air-locks or void locks, that it was likely that she was only used for operations within the planet's surface atmosphere.

As the captain of the ship, and at the same time as the one who is more relaxed and free in mentality, Rika Fujimaru jumped out of the hatch first and happily bounced down the gangway. Sevita wanted to follow like that, but he couldn't help but get suspicious as he lifted his feet, and looked around to make sure that a midnight ghost wouldn't suddenly emerge from the dark shadows and drag him back, before stepping on the steps that were obviously too narrow for him to be designed for mortals at the beginning, and staggered down to the ground.

Rika Fujimaru waited for him with her arms folded in place.

"I think you're a little weird." She said, "I can understand that you must be thinking about it right now, but you are so weird that I think there's something weird about it...... It's better to ask me what you want, even though I can only answer the 'answerable' questions. ”

In the case that the other Sevita could think more calmly, he must have wondered if this was a precursor to death. But at this moment, he was so curious, so curious that his desire to survive had even been temporarily suspended.

So he opened his mouth and asked the question he wanted to know the most so far: "Why do you naturally talk to Coetzes in that way?" ”

To put it mildly, Sevita is actually asking "what is your relationship with Coetze". But there was a bit of a skepticism in the wording, and now that the situation was uncertain, Sevita thought it better to follow some social etiquette.

However, judging from Rika Fujimaru's immediately wrinkled expression, she obviously understood the meaning behind this sentence. The girl reluctantly lengthened her voice: "Well—have you asked Conrad this question?" You must have asked, right? ”

Sevita pursed her lips invisibly and did not answer.

He did ask about ten minutes ago. And Conrad Coetze, after a short period of thought, made an intriguing answer:

"My father gave her a lot of titles, but I know that's not what you want to hear." The Eighth Legion primordial said in an exaggerated tone that bordered on an aria, "In my opinion, she is my warden. And I am both her jailer and her prisoner. ”

"I don't know what the hell Conrad said to you." Rika Fujimaru's tone was serious, "But I assure you, Savitarion, things are definitely not what he says they are!" ”

“…… But do you not even know what he said to deny this with such certainty? ”

"Anyway, he hasn't experienced any normal interpersonal relationships, and of course he can't spit out any normal interpersonal relationships. I don't expect him to say anything nice. Rika Fujimaru said indignantly, as she began to walk in the direction of the cargo station, "In my opinion, we are just ordinary colleagues who didn't know each other in the first place, but because of the orders of their superiors, they had to start working together in the same combat group, and there was not even a clear superiority or superiority - but I packed the ticket, and he must have thought that there were." ”

Sevita sighed and followed, "He does think so. He said you were his 'warden'. ”

"That's a little bit better than I thought." Ritsuka snorted, "But I'm still angry." ”

Two kilometres wasn't too far, and when Sevita was caught by Coz, it took him only two or three minutes to fly over the distance. It's just that now Fujimaru Rika is taking the lead, measuring this distance at a walk-like pace with her little short legs, and I'm afraid that this little distance will take about half an hour. Fortunately, it was still late at night, and no one on the deserted plain saw the two of them looking suspicious in the general environment.

The silence lasted for about fifty meters, and when Sevita patiently paced the sixty-third small step, he finally couldn't help but speak: "...... So, what the hell is all this all about? ”

This is a very general question, but Fujimaru Rika did not ask Sevita which specific part she wanted to know, but directly gave a partial answer: "Hmm...... Anyway, the Emperor had assigned the two of us to a secret mission that needed a few soldiers, so we began to try to clean up the Midnight Lord and see if we could get some useful people out. In the process, we've heard that the number of disappearances in the number one city in the world's largest airport in Jeestal is surging every thirty standard Terra years, and we suspect that the Midnight Lord Warbands are periodically raiding here, so we came to see if we could find a clue - and we found you. ”

“…… That's a coincidence. Sevita's tone was self-deprecating.

"Maybe there's something interfering in the dark." Fujimaru Rika's tone was relaxed, obviously not taking what she was saying seriously, "After all, my luck has always been good, and it's normal to find a celebrity from the Great Expedition period somehow." ”

"What's the name, the notoriety?" Sevita smiled wryly, "The Midnight Lord doesn't care about any honor, and I even want to lose my past all these years. ”

“…… It's not something that can be thrown away. ”

"Who's to say it isn't? Didn't my 'past' come to the door in the middle of the night? Sevita shrugged her shoulders in a pretended manner, "But at first I thought that it wouldn't be this 'past' that I was looking for. ”

As he finished speaking, he pursed his lips and tensed the muscles on his face, trying not to let the little girl walking in front of him on his right see the slightest change in his mood.

Before he made up his mind that he wanted to stay on this planet, Conrad Coetze told him a prophecy:

"If you could see what I saw, what would you choose?" At the time of saying these words, Koz's mental state looked precarious, but it was still some distance from making Sevita feel that the problem was serious, "I saw you go back, I saw you die. See the battle barge of the Dark Angel appear above the planet, and see the world of Jestal burned to the ground. I see that no one of the inhabitants of this planet has been spared, but destruction is still long overdue, and the real evil will still flow from the wounds here to the entire galaxy...... But there are already many such small wounds in the galaxy. ”

These detailed but broken descriptions upset Sevita. Of course, he knew that his genetic father's talent for prophecy — or curse — would always happen in the future that Coetz foresaw. Moreover, some of his own hunches overlapped with it, which further proved the accuracy of the prophecy.

Even though he had decided an hour before that he wanted to stay here and fight his cousins in the First Legion in a lifeless battle, he was still anxious about the many more scenes that Koz revealed. A slight change in mindset isn't enough to shake an Astarte's decision, but it still makes Sevita wonder what Coetz means by "real evil."

Thinking about this did not affect his conversation with Rika Fujimaru. In order to enliven the atmosphere that had been stiff due to the brief silence, Sevita pretended to be light-hearted and asked, "So, did you insist on getting off the ship to investigate the 'Chaos Gang' who came to create the disappearance case once in thirty years?" It's not wise for me to say that they are not on the planet at this point in time. ”

"Not the Chaos Gang." Rika Fujimaru replied, "Somney has reviewed all the records uploaded by the planetary government to the server within two hours, and he believes that there is clear evidence that the disappearances that occur every thirty years are self-stolen by the local governor's guards. ”

“…… What else can the forbidden army do? Sevita raised an eyebrow, "Okay, I'm starting to get curious." The Governor here has always had a good reputation, how did he make this judgment? ”

Fujimaru Rika was silent for a while, and her tone was a little gloomy when she spoke again: "...... Because the local governor, Jesmine Deville, was a good man. ”

Sevita thought it was a bit ridiculous, but the person who made the judgment was the Forbidden Army. Although he didn't have a good impression of these golden and cold guys who symbolized the imperial power, he had to admit that they were outstanding in all aspects of their work.

He decided to listen to why: "...... How so? ”

"In the more than 100 years since Jessamine de Ville became Governor, the local government archives are very detailed. Somney easily found records of each of the relevant cases – albeit simple, only the names of the missing persons, basic information – mostly elderly and infirm civilians, the amount of compensation for the accident and the date of payment. I could see that the local government was very conscientious in this matter, and the civil servants were so efficient in handling the work that I doubted my eyes. ”

Sevita didn't hear anything wrong. Even if he hadn't lived on this planet, this narrative alone would confirm that Governor Deville was a good man.

From the one on the throne, the rulers of the empire are counted as one, and most of them treat the people under them as consumables. Almost no one really cares about the living conditions of the Lebanese people.

But Governor de Ville was different. She didn't have enough power to stop these disappearances, but at least she remembered—wait a minute?

In the definition of the Imperial Law, the scope of compensation for accidents is generally limited to the losses caused by production accidents. Does the compensation clause on the agricultural planet, or rather, on the Jestal, apply to such man-made accidents?

"So I said, the problem is that the local governor, Jesmine de Vey, is a good man." Rika Fujimaru's gloomy tone rang in Sevita's ears, "She is still condemned by her conscience when she uses the lives of her people for some purpose, and in order to make up for this, she even went so far as to amend the local law to add a restrictive but tailor-made supplement to the accident compensation - just ninety years before similar disappearances first began to occur." ”

Rika Fujimaru took a deep breath:

Conrad saw some bad signs. So I thought, I have to figure out what's going on on this planet. ”