Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 25: Those who are called leaders 1 of 3 (Part 03)

At one of the warehouse buildings near the dock, several people gathered vigilantly before entering the storage room. Several wooden boxes were brought inside, then the door of the warehouse was tightly closed by them. Inside the mostly wooden building was a bustling sight, under the lighting of the oil lanterns hanging by the people inside there began to gather into the middle of the warehouse to talk about something.

Inside the warehouse, which was supposed to store seafood, were also seen several people in black tights who mingled with fishing groups in the port area and residents of Mylta City. The people who gathered them were none other than a group of organizations claiming to be merchants from the Moloia Kingdom, but in reality they were military groups from the kingdom.

Those people from the kingdom of Moloia look like they're ready for war, those who numbered no more than a third of the people gathered were all wearing tight black clothes with flexible-fitted armour doubles with the clothes they were wearing. In the area around the joints of their combat clothes were fitted with chain armor to cover the between of light armor, and on the back there was a weapon wrapped in white cloth.

The number of these people was not more than ten people, but from the side of the fishing group that came more than a dozen people and plus some ordinary residents from children to the elderly.

One of the men of the kingdom of Moloia opened the wooden box that had been brought in, then showed the black flexible armor they had worn on everyone who came. The armor is a special equipment from the kingdom of Moloia, made with the priority of mobility by only installing the armor plate on the arms to the elbows, knees, and chest and back only, only, besides that part is only protected by a chain armour that is attached with tight clothing.

A burly man two meters tall stood in front of the opened box, then took a deep breath and began to speak in a loud voice, “This is all for you! This moment will be crucial! With the revolution we bring, justice and equality will be upheld in this monarchic country! We must uphold justice and equality! Like the dreams of your brothers, we will start with this city!”

Hearing the black-haired leader's words, the fishermen and the instigated people were actually cheering in support. They all wanted a change in the system of government, wanting to replace the power of the Kingdom of Felixia which tended to side with the nobles rather than its own people.

Among the lively and ambitious cheers, stood Nanra who also supported the interests of the revolution that the people respected. The white-haired child was only speechless with a look of trepidation, guilt and uneasiness making him just stand still among those radicals.

One of the men from the kingdom of Moloia approached the little girl from behind, then patted her on the shoulder saying, “The plan this time depends on you, son. You who have met the Marquess' son must be able to approach him easily. At that time, stick this on him and this plan will begin.”

Getting the black knife covered in poison from the black-clothed woman who approached him, Nanra was trembling with fear. He joined the radical group not only because it was carried away, the hatred in his mind to the nobility was a big role in him. But when ordered to kill the Marquess child with her own hands, doubt and fear completely filled it.

“A-Do we really need to kill that Marquess kid?” said the little girl trembling.

Getting a plain and innocent question from her, the brown-haired woman who handed her the knife smiled at him inwardly as if laughing at the girl. He patted her on the shoulder, then again said, “Of course, this is to break the lineage of nobles who always oppress the weak people. We must end this monarchical system.” The words were so reasonable in Nanra's ears, she did not know that they were only used. The hatred and resentment that existed made him blind to the true purpose that those people were planning.

The heavily clothed woman in armor stood before Nanra, brought her mouth to her ear, and whispered, “Don't worry, this is the justice we hold. We are not evil, what you do is not sin, son.” The words directly affected the little girl like a powerful suggestion that could not be denied, her gaze bore empty fruit and she nodded obediently.

Seeing the expression on the little girl, the brown-haired woman smiled widely and immediately turned to her leader who was distributing equipment to people who would be used for the Marquess child assassination plan. They plan to use them as scapegoats and create internal conflicts before a major assault is due in the spring.

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Somewhere else. Exiting the City Government Headquarters building, Odo slightly sighed lightly with relief as one of the hardest obstacles of his plan had passed. Turning around and looking towards the building, he smiled slightly with a sense of pleasure from finding an interesting partner in the previous conversation.

Putting his hands in his pants pocket, he picked up a cover letter that was originally planned to be handed over during the talk. Without hesitation the child tore the letter apart, and burned it using fire attribute magic from Hariq Iliah until the parchment paper became ashes and vanished into the wind.

Taking his foot off and rethinking the next stage of the plan, the boy decided to return to the Inkara Orphanage first to check on Siska and Julia's work. Tracing the snow-covered city streets and looking white, the boy saw some people who had started doing routine activities.

There are some who have just returned after taking clean water from an artificial lake that some of the water is frozen, some are seen carrying the results of a hunt in the form of wild boar, and there were also some traveling merchant carts from outside the city. Seeing all that, Odo understood very well that the city where he is now still has strong potential to keep going.

“Yah, if maximized it can definitely .... The problem is only about processing and routes. In contrast to sea routes, land routes tend to be more dangerous and long taken. What is needed to advance this city is first securing land routes, then new methods of preservation of products that will be sold later ..”.

When he thinks of other ways in the head, he has unwittingly passed the destination. Odo stood in an area near the pier with the sea frozen and ships unable to sail because of the ice. “Ah, am I daydreaming again?” the child's mind while looking at the open sea with a blank look, a little nostalgia strange in the mind as if he had seen the frozen sea view.

Odo walked over the wooden dock and went towards the end, then looked towards the sea which was mostly frozen until the high seas boundary. Slightly putting a knotty smile on the face, the boy muttered, “Indah .... Though this place is beautiful, but why is the problem so much ...”.

Jem!!

Before realizing it, a knife suddenly stuck on Odo's back. It was right on target penetrating from behind and piercing his heart. The warm sensation that filled his chest was instantly felt, and at the same time the immense pain made his body tremble.

He had no time to ease the pain by numbing his senses or preparing regeneration magic, it was too sudden and even he was not aware that someone was approaching him. Looking back, Odo was surprised to see who stabbed him.

“Nan ... ra ...?”

The white-haired little girl opened the hood of her white robe. At first glance Odo saw the bright white particles that surrounded Nanra, he immediately knew that it was one of the camouflage magic of nature's attributes to disguise existence with the environment.

Nanra turned the knife that stuck on Odo's body, then ripped the black-haired boy's heart apart. When the knife was removed from him, the boy's body immediately suffocated and blood splattered on the wooden floor of the pier. Trying to use Instant Regen to heal wounds and regenerate a severely injured heart, a sudden feeling of weakness first attacks him. The poison began to activate, attacking his blood vessels and making his entire muscles spasm and breathing became chaotic. His eyes were red, blood coming out of his nose and ears.

Getting an attack on the vital part without any preparation was completely beyond the child's expectations, the defense magic and regeneration magic system had no time to prepare. With a blurry look, the boy looked towards the girl before him who was carrying a black blade in hand.

The purplish blue-eyed girl looked sad, teary-eyed and looked like she did not want to do what she was doing now. Trying to ask the girl, Odo vomited blood and her body immediately collapsed onto the pier floor. Blood flowed, flooding until it seeped and dripped onto the surface of the frozen water under the pier. His body was motionless, stiff and his gaze was blank with a prone position.

Seeing Odo lying covered in blood like that, Nanra's legs immediately limp and herself sat on her knees in regret that began to fill her. He shed tears, but after that a smile full of despair appeared on the look on his face.

“Did you kill him?” asked someone who came to approach the girl, he was a large-bodied man who was seen wearing tight-fitting black armor. The man was over 170 cm tall, blond and had a tanned cornea. On the clothes he wore were several circular gear belts, containing weapons such as daggers, short swords, and iron tubes.

Not far from the man standing, there were several men and women wearing clothes almost similar to the man. Some of them wore white robes for camouflage, and a weapon that was carried and wrapped tightly in a white cloth.

Nanra simply fell silent without answering the question of the man who approached her. He lowered his head, only sitting quietly in front of Odo who was sprawled. The man approached the little girl, then held her shoulder and said, “Sorry to let a little boy like you do this, but .. isn't this what you wanted when you joined the group? We will revolutionize, overhaul the ancient system of this Kingdom with the help of outsiders ..” The man who said that was a native of the city, though, and even a chief fisherman who invited other townspeople to defect and join a revolutionary group funded by Moloias who claimed to be merchants.

A burly man approached Nanra and the blond man. He was wearing black, tight-fitting clothes, and was carrying a large axe and a cloth-wrapped weapon on his back. Taking out the weapon wrapped in cloth, he opened it and a shotgun was seen. He filled his muzzle with gunpowder from an iron tube he had taken from the belt, then pushed the lead ball into the barrel of a rifle. Without the slightest hesitation, the black-haired burly man instantly lit the wick with fire magic and directly shot Odo in the head to confirm his death.

The sound of firing echoed through the air, making the people in that place gasp in shock. The smoke from the musket billowed thinly, its axis starting to match together with the man who re-wrapped his weapon with a cloth.

[Note: The musket was a popular weapon between the 15th and mid-19th centuries. The shotgun can only be fired once after it is filled with lead ball ammunition and gunpowder filled from the muzzle of the gun barrel]

“Hah, I originally thought the Dragon Killer was as strong as anything, but it turned out to be this weak. If you know this, it is better that I do not have to make plans for rebellion and incite for a long time the inhabitants of this rotten city .... HAAAH!”

The tall, burly man stepped on Odo's sprawled head. Stir, stomp, and stomp vent his sense of regret. “Stat! Goddammit! Goddammit! Why are there such children! Goddammit! The Swordsman also said that he was not in his residence! UH! Waste of time .... Is the USGM calculation plan really accurate? What individual potential catastrophe! Though to bring Mahia Drive just in case, but if this is just a waste of resources!” he continued, continuing to stomp on Odo's head which was sprawled and completely immobile.

Hearing that, the blond-haired man standing near Nanra was startled. His body was trembling and filled with negative thoughts. With a look full of fear, he asked, “A-What are you saying? Don't you want to help our revolution ...? Not that you want to free us from the strict monarchy system of the Kingdom of Felixia!!”

Hearing that, the burly man who was nearly two meters tall only glanced at him with a dark gaze. Raising his right hand, he said, “Replace the plan from Alpa to Delta, kill them!” As the black-haired man lowered his hands, his comrades who were from the Moloia kingdom instantly turned on the axes of the rifles and shot at the people from the city who defected at them. Like a meaningless piece of trash, they are easily removed.

The corpses were scattered from the city defectors, they were all killed by those who had previously promised a pseudo-revolution with heretical incitement. The sound of a shotgun roar seemed to carry instant terror in that place and create panic quickly.

Thin puffs of smoke filled the place, the blood-stinging scent mixed with gunpowder began to scatter in the air. The townspeople who can't use weapons can't fight back, although trying to use the weapons in hand is still useless because their opponents are trained people who are accustomed to using shotguns.

In less than ten minutes, those who took less than a month were painstakingly instigated to be put aside lightly. Seeing his comrades being killed like trash, the blond man who had invited the people who had become corpses was just wide-eyed without being able to move seeing his comrades being killed.

After refilling the bullets and preparing his weapon, the black-haired burly man held his rifle to the back of the head of the fisherman's group leader.

“Do you think we would willingly give you our equipment useless people? HUH! You're just cattle, you better be good cattle and don't bite your master! This is the result if the cattle defected to another employer.”

With tears in his eyes and an expression full of anger, the blonde-haired man turned his head and stared with overflowing hatred. The person from Moloia only looked flat when he got that look, then said, “Tenaknya, after this there will probably be a change. Well, of course you will be remembered as the villain who killed the Marquess' son and started the war.” Without any hesitation and casually, the burly man pulled the trigger and punched the head of the chief fisherman with hot lead. His body collapsed and blood flowed profusely soaking the pier floor.

Nanra who was sitting limp on the floor of the pier did not dare to turn her head, the sound of the death melody between the sound of the rifle and the screams still burrowing in her head. He paled, his body trembled and to the point of wetting his plain white dress. The sound could not come out of his mouth, the throat felt very fiber to the point of breathing heavily.

The big black-haired man walked up to Nanra, then grabbed the little girl's hair and dragged her along. “Le-Release .... Please .... release!” He struggled, but his strength was not strong enough to make the man stop. He was dragged out of the dock violently and down the snow-covered road. Looking at the corpses and blood mixed with snow, the little girl let out a loud scream.

“HAAAA— Ukkhh!!”

His face was kicked until his body bounced and hit a pole near the dock where it tied the rope. His mouth was bleeding, some of his teeth were falling out. Nanra's body was increasingly trembling full of fear and pain. Seeing the big man approaching her again, the little girl tried to crawl away.

“Oi! Don't think you can escape, you little boy!”

The large-bodied man grabbed Nanra's hair and raised his body until his feet were lifted off the ground. Slapping the little girl's face, the man snapped, “Shut up, you're rancid! You don't make me kill you too! You will be the trigger of this war after the death of the Marquess' son!” One of Nanra's teeth fell out again, her face bruised and she fell silent with a trembling body. Nanra's body was thrown violently onto the ground, the boy immediately wrestled out in pain and spewed blood from his mouth until he lost consciousness.

“That he ..., and also take our equipment from those corpses! No trace .... Finish it before anyone else sees this place!” the big man's orders to all his subordinates.

The sprawled nanra was immediately tied up with her hands and feet with a rope, then her mouth was silenced with a cloth. The little girl was picked up by two men dressed in black, then taken away from the place to be the scapegoat for the murder of the Marquess' son.

The big man who led the Moloia gang walked towards Odo's body which was sprawled on the dock. Squatting in front of him, he curses, “Hah! They overestimated the news! Strong what! He's just a kid .... Has the old system started to dilapidate to the point of including a child like this in the list of dangerous individuals?” He grabbed Odo by the hair, then raised his head to look at the face of the boy whose right skull was crushed.

“Last Defense Magic Activation Completed, Auto Mode starts gradually measured by situation .... Causality starts for security and potential additional damage.”

“!!!”

“Dia ... still alive? Seriously? Though he had been poisoned and shot in the head, why was he still alive!!?”

The man stepped back, prepared his shotgun and prepared to shoot Odo. But before the man finished preparing his weapon, the child whose eyes were not even completely open immediately moved very quickly and hit the man's chest very hard. His body soared into the air and only stopped when it hit the warehouse building. Everyone who saw that was shocked when their leader suddenly floated up. Looking at the black aura-covered child, they immediately shivered and simultaneously pointed the shotgun back at Odo.

Standing upright and slowly opening his eyes, the boy brought up several magic circles around his body. By itself the poison that was contaminating his body separated from the blood flowing in his veins, the clear liquid came out from Odo's hollow back and dripped out onto the pier floor.

The boy's right eyeball spun rapidly and irregularly, a magic circle appeared above his right skull which was shattered by the firing. The hot tin was pulled out from inside the coconut using the electromagnetics from the magic circle, and as it fell down, the wounds on its head slowly regenerated at high speed. Ether particles are collected from the air, accessed with internal Mana and used to reshape bones, flesh, and skin. Without taking a minute, the wounds on his head recovered and even his hair was re-formed using Ether combined with Mana.

Odo's right eyeball stopped spinning quickly, his vision recovered and what he first saw upon awakening was a full expanse of corpses that filled the blood and gunpowder scented spot. He stared flatly, handing over the regeneration of the puncture wound to Auto Senses.

His eyes immediately focused quickly on Nanra who was about to be taken away by two people dressed in special tight armor. Making a magic circle throw under the stand, Odo shot away very quickly and landed a kick on the face of one of the people who lifted Nanra up. Before resting on the ground, he quickly swung his hand and hit one more person. They both bounce and fall sprawled, Odo lands and catches the unconscious girl with both hands.

Staring at all of them flatly, Odo sped up the regeneration of his body and immediately activated his Magic Core to the utmost extent. Lightning came out, enveloping his body and Nanra. Sensing intense intimidation and being stared at by monsters, the black-clothed men simultaneously pulled the trigger and pitched the hot lead towards Odo.

The black-haired child stomped his right foot twice onto the surface of the stone path, then sent lightning diffusely to create a strong electromagnetic force and forcefully pulled the hot lead that floated downwards. The speed of all the bullets that shot towards him was forcefully deflected down, then hit the road surface and the corpses that were lying in that place. Seeing what happened, they all trembled and only found out the original strength of the child called the Dragon Killer.

“Why. So then. You folks. Undertook. Idiotically. The thing. These. What is. Principality. Moloea. Warred. Want?”

Odo's linguistic abilities are impaired, his brain regeneration has not completely recovered and some of his bodily functions are still in poor condition. He spoke in a mess and his voice was unclear. It sounded like the sound of a rigid machine whose array was said to be chaotic, sounding horrifying to all of them who were no strangers to such a sound.

The black-haired boy closed his eyes, then re-accessed his regeneration magic to regulate the restoration of his body functions and brain damage. Without taking ten seconds, he finished and opened his eyes.

“Hah, so if my brain breaks it will be like that, yes ...”

Odo glanced at the flat Nanra he lifted with both hands. Looking back at those people from Moloia, Odo increased his magic pressure back and really intended to slaughter everyone before him.

“Artificial!!” suddenly a loud voice sounded. The man who had previously beaten the wall of the warehouse started to stand up again, his head bleeding but it was not enough to keep him quiet.

Taking the large axe on his back, the big-bodied burly man increased the pressure of his combat aura and prepared to fight against Odo. “What are you doing! The boy is not dead! Pick up your guns and aim for him!” the big man's orders.

All his men at the place immediately prepared their weapons, and inserted lead balls and black powder into the rifle casings. Seeing the men holding a black powder from a tube drawn on a belt around his waist, Odo knew instantly that it was gunpowder. He quickly raised his right leg up high, collected Mana and used a magic structure to turn it into lightning.

Stripping his right leg down, electricity quickly passed through the corpses and used their blood as a conductor. The electricity snatched small iron tubes containing their gunpowder, and blasted streaks of corpses until the gunpowder tubes carried by the black-clad men were created.

A terrible blow happened. Flesh, blood, bones, everything splattered uncharacteristically in that place and made a red puff of smoke created from the explosion. The large man who was beyond the range of the explosion could only gap, he could not move at all as Odo aimed for the gunpowder tubes with his lightning magic.

Staring flat at the only man still standing in the middle of the blaze burning the corpses, Odo asked, “The weapon? Where you guys from? Empire or Kingdom of Moloia? Judging from the clothes and the kind of limitations of magic activation, it looks like you guys are from Moloia, ‘kan?”

The burly man felt humiliated, his facial veins tightened and immediately raised his axe to attack Odo. But without being able to approach more than two steps, the man was immediately restrained down as his weapon was pulled by electromagnetic forces from the road surface that Odo still controlled. The two men's hands were clamped to his own weapons, unable to get up and all the metal attached to his body seemed to make him bow before Odo.

“Why ... why should there be someone like you! You rancid! Whereas if this mission is successful our Master can become the next King ..”.

The man looked very disappointed, but he did not give up at all and still tried to stand up against the electromagnetics that pulled his body down. Odo again stomped his feet, then added the power of the electromagnetic force and made the big man jolt violently to the surface as the armor on his body was pulled downwards.

“—Why? I should have said that .... Why are you doing something like this? Even though my mood was good earlier, but why should there be anything like this? Haaaah! Why do I get good things, there's always something like this. Terrible taste. I didn't expect to be stabbed like that by someone I knew .... Just remind me of that incident ...”

His black aura began to fuse with the lightning, and made him turn dark blue. Fire started to come out around the child, then re-blend with the surrounding lightning and make it dark red. The magic pressure emanating from him was truly terrifying, more than what the man who was jolted down thought.

Moving his legs forward, Odo prepared to finish off the man. But just as he took a few steps forward, a hot lead shot out from a direction that the boy did not expect. The bullet sped quickly and passed through Odo's electromagnetic field without changing its path, then severely hit its head. Odo's eyes and part of his face were shattered, it was stronger than an ordinary shotgun.

“!!!”

Odo was completely unaware of it before part of his vision was reddened by blood. The boy's body instantly collapsed with a portion of his head crushed and blood returning to flow a lot from his head. He falls on his stomach with Nanra and oppresses her.

More than 500 meters from where Odo was shot, just above one of the fish storage sheds were seen two men dressed in black whose bodies were covered in white robes and camouflaged to disguise his whereabouts. One fell down while aiming with a rifle, and the other knelt and looked at the target with finger binoculars.

“Targeted, eliminated,” says person looking with binoculars.

They take off their camouflage robes when they make sure they fire directly at the target. The one who was holding a long barrel rifle was a bright brown long-haired woman, while the other was a short-shoulder blonde young girl. Like the other Moloians, they wore special black tights.

The rifle carried by the brown-haired woman was very different from the shotgun carried by those around the dock, the rifle is a modern type with bullets using shell ammunition and memegasin. The bullets used are ballistic, consisting of simple parts such as projectiles and explosives that serve as propellants, making the projectile shot using explosive power in a narrow space on the shell. The rifle is very similar to the Springfield type long-barreled rifle with the addition of an M84 type shot.

This type of weapon uses the Bolt Action mechanism system, a firearm cock which is operated manually by sliding it to the back of the handle so that the rear of the barrel is open, the used blank bullet casings are thrown out and new bullets enter the breech and the bolts are closed again. The mechanism is much more instant when compared to the shotgun that has to fill every bullet will shoot.

“That's why they don't believe the USGM calculation results. Who made our country as prosperous as it is today?” said the brown-haired woman.

“Hmm, that's right. Although he is only a system, but young people who have raised us people of Development, Researchers and Mechanics. Those military men never believed the results of calculations and considered the victory they could was the result of their own efforts. Do they think this weapon we're wearing is a product of our own thinking?” said the blonde girl next to him.

The two men were indeed from the side of Moloia, but from different factions because the kingdom was also divided into several parties. As they chatted, suddenly from around their target came out white smoke from the snow that evaporated quickly due to the heat.

“Chairman, department .... The boy is alive!!” the girl who saw Odo with finger binoculars was completely shocked. The child who was shot in the head stood back up while raising the girl with both hands. Although his head was partially damaged and not damaged, he still stood back up.

“I'll be after his feet! Coordinates!” The brown-haired female immediately got down again and prepared to aim. He pulled out the gun handle and pulled out an empty shell, pushed it and inserted a new bullet from the megasin.

“Ya!” The blonde girl used her power and did a firing rate calculation. Magic circles in micro-scales appear on binocular lenses, analyzing the electromagnetic forces present and making calculations of firing rates.

“Target coordinates, 05.76 correction 0— Tch! Closed target blocked fog ...”

Stopping his calculations, Odo completely enveloped his body with white smoke and took time to regenerate his head. From behind the white fog, occasional flashes of blue and bright red.

As the fog disappeared, Odo's figure was still standing in place. However, the wound on his head had completely recovered on the outside and the boy looked extremely wrathful. The surrounding electromagnetics and lightning were completely chaotic, all the metals in that place were up to float into the air due to the act.

Odo instantly emitted sonar magic on the surface of the ground for several kilometers, then detected the presence of the shooter with vibrations that existed. Without much effort, he found the two men and stared intently at them.

“Dead you're rancid!”

The big man who was stuck to the ground finished releasing all his iron equipment because he was aware of the electromagnetic force. He quickly ran towards Odo and was about to land a blow.

But without being able to touch it, the man's body instantly burned from within and exploded. The crackling was not fierce, it did not make any sound and its body instantly burned into a crumbly ember that was lost in the wind. What Odo did was one of Hariq Iliah's powers, manipulating the temperature in the man's body and creating plasma from within to crush him into ashes.

The two women standing on the roof shivered got the look of the boy. What they knew from the USGM information was more terrifying than what they thought. “That child .. he is truly a monster .... What are we fighting? Why do you want to attack this place first than anywhere else ..?” said the woman with brown hair, her body began to shiver in fear.

“We retreat ...”

“Yes .... This time mission failed ..”

Odo just stood in his place and looked at them, he could not step or move anymore because his entire motor system was disturbed because his head regeneration was not completely finished. The movements that the boy had made before relied solely on the sensory system of the spine, in other words relying only on reflexes and not consciously using magic. It was one of the forms of the Last Defense Magic System he had.

“Nan .. ra ...”

The black-haired boy looked at the girl he was carrying, the girl's face was bonyok and some of her teeth fell out. Feeling the overflowing anger, he felt frustrated that he could not move from his place at all.

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Note: Just a reminder, the use of the word dock and port is different, yes. Not patronizing, just reminding.

The harbor tends to a place to dock, or a docked area or complex whose contents can be warehouses, boats, and docks. If the dock itself is a low wall that extends on the beach jutting into the sea in the port area. Those who have been to the port area must understand.

Additional information:

The kingdom of Moloia is indeed magically very much left behind from other countries because the people there activation/magic core is weak. But, in terms of technology and science it can be said that they are the most advanced. Wh why? Know for yourself what's going on there?:v

If using a simple parable, when Indonesia was still swords and wearing witchcraft, Europe had started to use rifles.