Editing City Series:Volume6b Chapter8 (section)

===Part 5===

Hazel had returned to the secondary cockpit as Schwarz Löwe continued flying.

It flew north above the Black Forest.

“Hazel?”

The voice from the vocal devices received no response.

“Did she fall asleep? I guess this was her first real battle.”

Berger kept the wings moving.

He did not know their destination, but he knew which direction to fly.

“A Verlsten Brief, huh?”

When he had Schreibened, he had taken a quick look at the letter from a thousand years ago that Hazel had given him. It had contained a map showing a road heading north from the Black Forest.

The map had shown several roads, but that one was the most complex and ran deepest into the forest.

The Verlsten Brief had said to follow that road. Even though the road would not have existed back when it was written.

Schwarz Löwe tilted its head in midair, which allowed it to notice some light far below.

Some kind of large vehicle was driving along the road.

Schwarz Löwe ascended further to avoid being noticed. It closed its wings to reduce the noise as it looked down.

A Grösse Panzer transport truck was driving through the forest below.

He recognized the large form on its way to northern Germany.

“That’s the truck I saw before. The one Bermark Nein protected.”

Its only focus was on traveling north.

He realized he could see a small white color illuminated by the pale starlight.

White steam was emerging from below the black sheet placed over the rear of the truck.

Something was operating below that sheet.

“…?”

Berger watched in puzzlement as a branch from the forest caught on the sheet.

The sheet was pulled back, revealing to the starlight half of what it covered.

Berger recognized it.

“!?”

He cried out and ascended. He veered away from the road and flapped his wings to stop in midair.

The truck drove away below, even more white smoke rising from it.

A high-altitude wind blew across Berger as he spoke the name of what he had seen and why the Verlsten Brief had sent him here.

“The Sylphide!”