Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter8 (section)

===Part 4===

Jeanne and her exhausted subordinates listened to that voice after leaving destroyed Cologne and taking shelter in the mountains. She gasped and looked up at the Requiem above Cologne.

“Sir!?”

“Can you hear me?” repeated the voice on the radio. “Our country was burdened with massive debt after that war. In the war where we tried to stand above the people and create a country that allowed for that. That attempt was a failure and the ruin it wrought has led to the current war. …Are we fighting this war for the people or for ourselves?”

He paused.

“Can you hear me? Yes, you, the many knights living in Borderson territory.”

The seated soldiers looked up too.

“The head of the Karlsruhe family asks that you look to Cologne’s sky if this speech has inspired anything within you. Look to this land. This is the result of the old knights failing to protect your land.”

“…Sir.”

Jeanne took a step toward the Requiem.

<We travel together.>

“Cologne was bombed because its people chose to fight and it was destroyed because we were here. The old knights were with the people, yet we could only protect a small handful. …The time has come to make a choice. Who is it you should protect and who is it that can protect them?”

Someone shouted their approval and then everyone stood up.

“I say this as an old knight who has fought for twenty long years.”

The morning sun was starting to rise into the eastern sky.

<We sing together.>

“Can you hear me? It is no longer land that we must protect. I have one request for all of the new knights out there and all of the lions slumbering in Borderson. Use your power to resist the Allied forces and their superior numbers.”