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52 . GUNDAH

Adara looked into the distance. Smoke billowed in the air in the middle of the blizzard. His hand gripped tightly the edge

balcony of the main building of the eastern alliance. The translucent dome that protects it still looks strong with auroral-like shadows that sometimes appear every few minutes.

For about two hours he was standing there. His heart rippled, trembling as he remembered the sound of the danger sirens ringing nonstop. He leaves the unit to meet his mother, but crosses paths with Jason. The man who was still in the recovery period seemed to be hastily walking in one direction.

“What happened?” ask the girl.

“Military aggression,” Jason replied. “Everything was sudden and the troops in the ranks had been wiped out.”

Netra Adara is breaking. It had only been a few days that the war had ended and now there had been a surprise attack from the enemy. The defense of eastern alliances that are increasingly weak due to the squeezing of the territory sometimes cannot synergize with the strategies that have been given.

“You're going there? In this situation?”

The girl was still blocking Jason's arm, looking at the man's right arm that was still wrapped around the bandage. The EWF system left many of the nerves in his wrist numb and Jason actually had to be hospitalized for the next month. However, the man seemed to be staunchly wanting to live up to his ambitions.

A man in a white suit who had been chasing Jason since earlier instantly stopped when he saw the two of them.

“Jason, go back to your room!” her door.

The man brushed his hair for a moment. “The squad needs my help, Kei,” he said. “I can't just shut up.”

Kei sighed. “Though you take the plunge, you can't use EWF anymore,” he said pointing

into Jason's arm.

“I'm fine.” Jason berkilah's. “I can still use other ways besides EWF.”

Before long, the man turned around and passed away leaving Adara and Kei. As if nothing could stop him, Adara could only fall silent.

“He's back to the old Jason Kim,” Kei said as he put both his hands in his pocket. Him

seeing Adara clenching her hands where the girl's right hand was also still wrapped in bandages. “Naomi does not allow you to down ‘kan?” tanyakanya.

The black haired girl nodded.

“Your mother is very worried about you,” she said.

Adara looked at the doctor. Her broken hair seemed to cover her face a little. “But I can't

leaving Jason alone out there,” reply.

“She is not alone, Adara.”

The girl's forehead is wrinkled. At least, even if there were a lot of troops accompanying Jason, if he were to come along anyway, he could stop the man just in case he went crazy again with his Clibanarii.

“Who?” then later.

“Sam says that Jo is in line this time.”

Inevitably, the netra girl surnamed Yusagi was obstructing. He clasped and squeezed Kei's arm.

“Are you crazy?” tanyakanya. “He still has Jun!”

Kei doesn't give much away. He himself has no authority here considering he is just a

the doctor. The man only sighed, not chiming in on the girl squeezing both of his arms right now.

Adara screeches. He leaves the man and runs in the same direction as Jason and heads to a room. More precisely, the warehouse of the Clibanarii. The girl met a man who was still struggling with an important device in front of her to test a Clibanarii in a glass room.

“Sam!” exclaimed Adara, making the man in blue jumpsuit look over. “What do you recommend Jo for

to the field today?”

Sam frowned. He took off his glasses for a moment, then looked back at the girl who had just arrived. “Jo?”

Sam seemed to think. “I don't recommend it,” he said. “He himself volunteered.”

“Hah? What?”

“That's right, Adara,” said Sam. He breathed and got up from the chair.

“How about Jun?” Adara asked again.

“Jun .. is he not with you?” reply Sam rhetorical. “I thought he was in your unit because earlier when I asked about Jun to Jo, he said that Jun was with you.”

“Hoax,” as good as that brown-eyed girl. He snorted in annoyance, massaging his suddenly throbbing forehead.

“Away.”

The girl looked back at the man in front of her.

“I remember, Jo once told me that she wanted to be in that line,” Sam said. “Maybe, it's time for him to devote himself.”

Adara fell silent. His breath was almost back to hunting, but he stopped. It was in vain that he attempted to

forbid the young man. He must have left with the other troops by now.

“I think, Jun is okay about this,” continued Sam. “You don't need to worry.”

“How do I not worry, Sam,” timpal Adara half clucked. “Jo is the only one Jun has

after their parents are gone. How am I not worried about Jo?”

The two eyes meet each other. The breath that airs just escapes. Sam knows how

Adara is still suffering traumatized from Richard's death and a major disaster some time ago. The memory has not been fully recovered in his memory and at times can make the girl fall.

“Sometimes, we cannot avoid something that should be our duty, Adara,”. “There are times when we have to keep moving to protect the country and release our loved ones for that obligation. In a situation like the present, you will slowly understand why everyone is shoulder to shoulder even put aside love itself.”

Saliva Adara gulped. He took a long breath.

“You ... return to your unit,” pinta Sam. “Your mother must be looking for you.”

***

Now, the girl just fell silent. Mind fucked. Afraid that Jason or even Jo might attack the man

wrongful. Attacking Adnan.

Adara fears Adnan is in enemy ranks at this time. The young man definitely had no other choice but to follow the rules that prevailed there.

“Oh, come on!”

The girl hit the balcony fence with a rumble in the chest. He wants to get out, but if everyone doesn't

let it go, what can he do. Say, Yusagi Adara is the only ace the eastern alliance currently has. If he were to recklessly go outside and disappear by the enemy, it was certain that the eastern alliance would be on the verge of collapse.

Now, he can only resignedly think of his colleagues who are in the front row. His eyes looked

his right hand is still bandaged. Slowly, the memory of the war some time ago returned. Likewise his communication with Adnan for the first time which was not even known by anyone until now.

There are many questions, but they cannot be said. Adara feared that the decision would have a major effect on the foundation of the eastern alliance. He had just first kissed the war and this made the memories of the past losing his father depressing him.

“Dad,” murmured. “What should I do?”

***