Hannoic War
Family Visits (part 12)

"When does a war end? That's when a side wins"

- Lelouch vi Britannia

Family Visit

"Oh, there seems to be a merchant caravan resting here as well" said Father Filda from her chariot.

The darkness of the night covered the vision of Father Filda who was on her way to the city of Ballerius.

Dark nights also bring opportunities for robbers and thieves to harm merchants and other passersby.

Filda's father came down from his chariot to see some caravans of merchants eating and resting and singing.

The bonfire shone in their midst while they were having fun.

The sound of laughter sounded.

"Birds of ghosts stare at each of his enemies~~" ,sings of them are heard, guitar sounds are played as well.

Looks like some women are sitting and having fun with a beer.

Filda's father approached while Hanno followed behind.

They then approached the caravan.

When they arrived, the person playing the guitar smiled at them.

Then the person playing the guitar stopped playing his guitar.

"Come on! Strangers came with us to share the bonfire together" said the guitar player, smiling under his black hood.

"Good singing young man? Where are you from?" asked a merchant to the guitar player.

It seems that some men are drinking beer and women are laughing and having fun.

"Oh, I'm a local here" said the guitar player.

"You lied" said Father Filda, "your logic is different, you are a squatted Legata"

The guitar player smiles while looking at Father Filda.

"Ohh.there are wise parents here." said the guitar player.

Then Filda's father sat on the wood with Hanno standing beside him.

"Young man standing next to this old uncle, may I ask where are you from?" said the guitar player..

"Hm? Me? I'm a local here too" Hanno said.

"Ohhh....local people here also?.I think not" said the guitar player.

Then she opened her black veil

Her long blonde hair was visible while her soft face was also visible.

Jean opens her veil and smiles as she tricks Filda and Hanno's father into not knowing.

"You!" said Father Filda in surprise.

"Jean where are you going?" said Hanno in surprise.

"I have to follow and protect my students, right?" Jean said.

"Oh she's your student woman?" said one of the merchants.

"Yes" Jean said.

"Oi, you want a drink? Here's a bottle of beer" said a merchant offering beer to the Father of Filda by bringing the glass closer to its establishment.

"Ah, yes thank you" said Father Filda while taking a glass of the beer.

"Oh yes you young man sit down and drink this beer" said the merchant offering his drink to Hanno.

"Hm? Ah well" said Hanno while sitting next to Father Filda.

"A caravan merchant must be friendly to strangers" said the merchant who offered the beer, "where are you going?" asked the merchant to both of them.

"Ballerius Town" said Father Filda.

"Oh then our aim and this caravan are the same" said the merchant.

"Yes? So this damned woman is headed to Ballerius city too?" said Filda's father roughly as usual.

"And I told you, if my goal is to follow only my students" Jean said, typing her guitar gently.

"How did you get ahead of us?" Hanno asked Jean with a suspicious face.

"It's just instinct" Jean said, "after all I want to visit someone there too."

"Someone?" asked Hanno curiously.

"Family" replied Jean.

"Family?" said Father Filda, "you mean that there are people from the Berrau family who also visit Ballerius City?" asked Father Filda.

"No, he's not from the Berrau family." ' explains Jean with a smile.

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"Aah!" shouted a soldier falling down along with the items he was carrying.

His leg was hurt by a fall.

"Be careful" said the woman dressed in medical clothes to help the soldier stand up and take some of the items he was carrying.

In front of the woman was plastered by the walls of the sizable town of Ballerius, hundreds of wounded Vespasian troops walked into the city.

The city of Ballerius is not a city that is quite crowded but has a large-scale city.

The population is not dense even though Ballerius city is the largest city on the border.

The war of dozens of years has caused various problems for this city such as the possibility of a siege from the enemy and many of its population are forced into servitude.

The medically dressed woman simply walked back into the gates of Ballerius.

"ah! Charla! Where is Vespasiah?" 'call an old noble with armour to the medically dressed woman with a bodyguard behind her

The old nobleman was the one whose medically dressed woman was familiar, he was his uncle.

"Uncle?! What is uncle doing here? Shouldn't uncle be in Gelaria?" said the medically dressed woman called Charla.

"Ahhh..I just want to visit my family.but your uncle asked that I be accompanied by troops and armour" said the old nobleman.

The old nobleman was one of the members of the Ohara family, named Tairur Ohara. He is known as a weak person and has no power other than being controlled by other members of his family.

"Uncle should stay in the inn" said Charla firmly and quickly.

Charla is a member of Ohara's family but does not like politics and does not interfere in it even though she knows enough about politics.

But to protect his family he would interfere in politics by force.

"Knight of Raidrir" , call Charla the chivalric guardian of the Ohara family whom she believes in, "Bring uncle into the inn of the elite where he is closely guarded."

"Good buk" Raidrir said.

"Ehh..why is that? Though I want to meet my nephew.." Tairur said in a soft tone despite objections to being brought by his knights.

Charla just stared from afar as Tairar looked objected despite being weak and unable to do anything.

"Why did Edrar's uncle let Tairar's uncle come out of Galeria?" said Charla, thinking "he could have been killed by a hitman outside Galeria even though he had a loyal army around him."

"Miss, may I take you home" said one of the knights bowing respectfully to him.

Charla then turned her head around and saw her exhausted troops entering the city.

And some were seen being treated by the medical forces of the town of Ballerius.

"You better take care of Mr. Tairar, I'm more needed here than beside Uncle" Charla said.

"Alright then buk" said the knight walking away.

Then Charla turned around and walked towards her army.

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In a room Kalavvar lay holding food on a bed.

Rodrick stood in the room while carrying a sign in his hand.

While chewing some Kalavvar berries then spoke.

"I'm tired of your face, Rodrick, you better just sit down and put it on" Kalavvar said, munching on the berries

Indeed boredom has filled Kalavvar's head, he wants to go out and fight or at least to his favorite brothel.

But the world says otherwise, he is old. While the sewing wounds that have not healed make him not allowed to feel the body of a prostitute.

"By the way where the glowing knight is! Scerl?!" said Kalavvar to Scerl.

Scerl then opened the door and entered Kalavvar's room.

"Yes sir?" said Scerl.

"I'm bored! Entertain me!" said Kalavvar.

"Eh? My lord..I cannot comfort you, I would rather hire a clown or a waiter for the ropes?" said Scerl.

"No, can you comfort me with your youth war story? Or can you tell me about your experiences in the war during the Aquantania rebellion? I tried to join the rebellion but was banned by Taitus because he was worried about me in the war" Kalavvar said.

"Aquantania rebellion.it was not a pleasant war for me.The soldiers complained every night I walked in the camp.the news of defeat in the battle everywhere..aquantania's army turned unstoppable and almost reached the capital, but one day at the camp I heard the news that Aquantania's army was destroyed in Paras and we won" Scerl said.

"So you didn't participate in the battle?" said Kalavvar.

"No, there was only one battle that I was fighting during the siege of Lenarr castle, and during that time I and the troops were only guarding the castle during the war, no troops were attacking us in that castle" ,said Scerl.

"Together Vespasian, right? I heard Vespasian is a strange general" Kalavvar said.

"Yes he was, I was a little frightened by the coldness and silence of him, his tactics were strange, during the war he didn't move anywhere just and he was only in Lenarr's castle for months, even the troops started calling him a coward" Scerl said.

"Lenarr Castle..isn't it close enough to the position of the rebel capital of Aquantania in the city of Ovi at the time? Why is he not moving to Ovi city?" Kalavvar thought.

"I don't know my master either, but it's weird, the important thing is that my master I don't have any other story" Scerl said.

"No, no, I want to hear more about Vespasian's tactics.I wonder what he thought and what he suspected during the Aquantania war.." ' said the interested and curious Kalavvar, "Bedrick bring me a map near that closet" Kalavvar said.

"Yes my lord" said Bedrick who then moved and then handed over a roll of the map to Kalavvar.

"Here he is" said Kalavvar who then stretched the map on his mattress while removing the crumbs of food in his mattress.

Kalavvar then appointed the city of Ovi and the castle of Lenarr, and saw the position of the capital.

"He.he deliberately did not attack the city of Ovi first....not because he was afraid but because he was sure that the Aquantanians marching to the middle of enemy territory would return to Ovi if he took it that fast, he wanted to lure the Aquantanian army to be surrounded and destroyed" Kalavvar smiled.

"My lord?" said Scerl quite confused.

"He wanted to attack the city of Ovi when the Aquantanians were defeated and so the Aquantanians would lose their place of retreat when defeated, even if the Aquantanian forces win and take the capital then Vespasian can still trap them in the capital and the city of Ovi can be taken quickly" Kalavvar said, grinning widely.

Kalavvar then took out a piece of cheese and ate it voraciously.

"If that happens then the Aquantanians will lose Aquantania and they will have trouble choosing to remain silent when Vespasian conquers their territory when they remain in the capital" Kalavvar said with his mouth full of cheese.

"My gentlemen eat slowly" Scerl said

"He's not a freak or a coward Scerl! He's genius! He's a brilliant genius! Hahahahaha!" said Kalavvar who laughed with cheese from his mouth thrown everywhere.

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"Are you sure you won't get out of this train even though we've arrived?" asked Khasrow.

"Yes, it is safer not to go out before other nobles come" Vespasian said coldly.

"Alright then sir, according to your orders I will go out to see the situation first" Khasrow said as he exited the closed carriage.

Then Vespasian opened the letter he had given from the center of the camp.

He read the letters and words one by one.

"It seems that a ceasefire is inevitable for now" Vespasian said in a heavy tone of voice.