Record of Wortenia War: Volume 22 [Parts 1 to 3] by Ryota Hori

Author:Ryota Hori
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Mikoshiba barony had an encampment on foothills not far away from Pireas. Asuka Kiryuu sat in the center of the camp behind layers of defenses, looking at the sky.

“What a beautiful moon... This glowing, vivid light,” she said, reaching for a batch of cookies on a plate inside a basket. It’s good... Well, a professional cook made them.

Asuka smiled as she munched on the cookies made by Kikuna Samejima, the chef Ryoma recruited. The basket resting beside her also had a container of tea. Still, there were too many cookies for her to eat alone. Despite sweets being hard to come by, a cook on Kikuna’s level made the ones there worth their weight in gold.

These could sell for ten thousand yen in Japan, I suppose? And it’s only possible because of Ryoma.

She didn’t know the exact price of these cookies, but she could guess. In Japan she would have shared these with friends. Sadly, sharing cookies of this quality in this world would only bring unwanted trouble.

But if I eat all of these, I’d get fat.

With that in mind, she reached for the plate and uncorked a wooden canteen to drink some cold tea. It was the very image of someone feasting while gazing at the moon. She was sitting in front of a map a short distance from Ryoma’s tent to spare Asuka from the sight of soldiers moving about.

Yet, no one doubted that Asuka was a person of great importance to the Mikoshiba barony. Their leader had participated in her rescue, so they provided Asuka security similar to that of a prime minister in Ryoma’s home world. Skilled Igasaki ninjas followed her, whether she liked it or not. Such preferential treatment could burden the person receiving it. Asuka was a simple student from the middle class before being summoned to this world. All this attention put a hefty amount of stress on her.

But Asuka understood her position, which made her spread a blanket outside her tent and gaze at the beautiful moonlit sky alone. Though she did this to relieve some stress, her thoughts kept returning to Ryoma. She was overjoyed when he rescued her from the Church of Meneos camp. They were like a hero and heroine from a story. That joy had evaporated by then.

“A war...” The words spilled from her shapely lips, laced with doubt, regret, and sorrow.

Being alone filled her with more doubts, and it felt like it defeated the purpose of this moment of respite. Her looking at the moon among the heavens conjured such thoughts.

Why do people have to fight?

Many moons had passed since Asuka arrived from peaceful Japan to encounter more death than she ever cared to see. It was a harsh reality that someone from that background would struggle to tolerate.

People could get used to anything, even hell, and Asuka found that seeing others die didn’t faze her as much as it used to. When she traveled from the Holy City of Menestia through the southern kingdoms and across Rhoadseria, she witnessed the cruelties of this world many times.

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