Zero no Tsukaima:Volume13 Chapter6
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Chapter 6: Long Spear
Dawn of the next day.
"Uhh", Saito rubbed his eyes and sat up straight.
After that last night no one spoke anymore, the dinner naturally ending as well.
At his side Louise was still in a deep slumber. Probably exhausted from yesterday's incident. After the dinner, Louise was comtemplating all the way until she was led to her room, where she jumped inside her bed immediately.
Saito was thinking, putting what he said in the beginning aside, about the plan of involving the Gallian King he has no complaints.
Using force to threaten elves, he'd have no interest, as for the Gallian king, it's another issue. There's no one more undue than that person. To satisfy his own desires, he assaulted Louise and Saito, killed Tabitha's father, drove her mother crazy, and made Tabitha go through hell literally.
Unforgivable.
Logically, Louise should have thought this way as well, why would she ever disagree.
He couldn't come up with a good reason himself. The Pope's plan is certainly dangerous, but it's much more assuring than not knowing when you'd be assaulted. Besides, as soon as this matter is ended, there'd be no reason to fear an attack anymore.
In every possible senario, isn't it always better to solve it earlier?
Just as Saito was thinking in this direction, someone knocked on their door.
Saito opened it, just to face Julio with heterochromic eyes, smiling.
"Morning, brother"
"There's no such relationship between you and me!"
Hearing Saito's irriated curses, Julio chuckled
"Don't say that, we're both familiars, shouldn't we be friendly towards each other?"
"You jerk, is not the type to want to be friends. Whatever is on your mind no one knows. What business do you have, coming here so early"
Saito never liked Julio much from the start. because of his compliments at Albion which made Louise blush. Someone who has jealousy as profound as Saito is determined not to give Louise away.
Julio neglected Saito's unpleasant attitude and beckoned.
"There are things we want you to see
"Want me?"
"Yes. It's about to be ready."
"What about Louise?"
Julio shook his head.
"It's only for your eyes."
Julio brought Saito to the basement of the grand Cathedral, a place whioh intuitively makes people feel suspicious. Past the spiral staircase downwards is a damp underground tunnel. Weak dancing fires illuminated the sides of the tunnel. Saito pressed forwards while feeling uncertain, and eventually reach a place completely dark.
Julio picked up the lit up firewood hanging on the sides of the wall and proceeded.
The surroundings seemed to be chilly. Turns out icy air was blowing from the interiors.
"This really is a terribly creepy place. There aren't any monsters, I hope?"
Saito said, hugging his body and rubbing his shoulders. Julio chuckled.
"Perhaps. Perhaps not. After all, this is a cemetery left behind from the anicent eras. It's also the reason why this is constructed."
"Oh so it's a cemetery. You have really taken me to some horrible place"
Saito complained but continue to follow Julio with a tremblibg body into a fairly wider area. Inside this circular shaped, cylindrical shaped place, was a rectangular steel gate. It was covered entirely with red rust and layers of dust. To believe that it was still in use would be surprising.
"So? You brought me here to look at a grave? I'm not especially fascinated to look at these stuff in the early morning"
"Somewhat. Though say this is a cemetery, what's sleeping inside is not a person"
"Huuhhh?"
The steel door was heavily sealed. Inserting the key brought along into the gigantic lock, then, "Clack!", a loud unlocking sound echoed throught the tunnel.
Julio took down the chains and grasped the handle to the door with force, giving a forced moan umatching his face and pulled. Yet still, the door didn't even bulge.
"This isn't easy at all. Completely rusted. Are you going to help?"
Julio stuck out his tongue and hurried Saito.
Sucking his own lip in, Saito reached out his hands to the door. Giving everything they've got, the door, after a lound "Bang!", gave away. Dust brew everywhere, making Saito caught by surprise choke and cough.
The door leads to a pitch black room.
Julio raised his torch up high, but the interiors was just as dark. It seemed that the room was quite spacious. Julio started to search for the magic lamps positioned on the walls.
"I think it should be around here"
"What do you want me to look at. If it's a normal grace then I'll really be angry"
"Alright, alright, you will definitely be frightened. Ah, here we go!"
Julio placed his hand inside the magic lantern and pressed down the switch.
And so, all the other lights inside the room lit up simultaneously.
From the darkness a room as large as two churches came out of no where.
"This, what's this"
Seeing the items placed inside, Saito was too surprised to breathe normally.
"Impressed, eh?"
Saito did not even hear Julio's words. He was completely crushed by the sight in front of him. Lying on the shelf on the right, are all guns.
Not any common gun you can find on Halkenia.
The structure was obviously different.
Saito tried and lift one up. It seemed kind of heavy. When holding it, the marking on his left hand started to glow.
"..."
Saito look at this gun speechless. Under the fine quality of the wooden covered barrel, proctured a box shaped magazine. Throughout the entire Halkenia, there is definitely not a gun with rapid fire like this one.
Saito looked at the belly of the barrel. Familiar latin characters jumped into his eyes.
ENGLAND
"It's made in England."
That's right, it's an item from Earth. Saito then picked up another gun. This is a familiar gun seen in televisions and games, Saito remembers that, isn't it the famous Russian made gun?
"It's that. The AK rifle."
He unplucked a magazine from the English rifle. The bullets were filled up to the top. Next to the rifle layed automatic, roulette-type, all sorts of handguns. (Sorry, I'm not really familiar with guns, but I suppose it's clear enough to understand. Not American)
There were in total around 10 modern guns. Although inside some of the were damaged, but a number of them were still gleaming brightly stainless from rust.
Julio explained
"Although we have used a statis spell to preserve these as soon as we found them, some of them broke, or even worst, into pieces"
On the shelf next to this one, were all old guns. They included musket guns and matchlock guns currently in use by Halkenia. The only difference is, from the look of the words inscribed on the guns, they were all items from Earth.
There were in total a few dozen of them.
Progressing even further down the shelves, placed more ancient weapons. All sorts or swords, spears, crossbows, even a boomerang. However these sorts of weapons were already undiffrentiable from Halkenia's, though the katana made Saito realise that these were also once part of Earth.
Next to the handheld weapons were all sorts of other stuff. There were something like a cannon, and even a rare thing like a rocket launcher. However, these were all broken down.
Sprawling on the ground the head of a fighter jet aircraft was also quite intimidating.
"Why are these things here?"
"In the eastern lands, our spies have started collecting these things a few centuries ago. On that side, we occasionally find these kind of items. To transport these things under the elves' noses sure was a tough job."
Saito remembered Seista's great grandfather. He too was Japan's navy fighter pilot. According to legends, he also came from the eastern lands.
"I say the eastern grounds, but more accurately, it should be weapons found near the holy grounds."
Julio then pointed inside.
"This isn't all"
Illuminated by the dim light, a small hill shaped item sat there covered by a cloth. Shouldered by the light, it seemed just like a tent.
"What's that"
"See for yourself"
Julio calmly walked forward, unpeeled the cloth. The fabric dropping onto the ground triggered a storm of dust.
Peering through the flying dust, the silhouette of the object gradually appeared, making Saito once again speechless.
"E-even this kind of stuff"
It was a humongous metal box. The heavy steel plates assembled as a box overwhelmed Saito like a two-storey building.
Furthermore, on top of the box, a long barrel extended outwards.
"Tank"
Though its intimidating omnious presence, the tank sat there quietly. From it's heavily layered grey paint like trams from the old days, one can imagine the era it came from.
On the tank's side was a distinctive white cross. The turret carried a white "324" number and its badge.
"It's a German Panzer!"
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