Episode 12

黒き咆吠

Black Howling

 

Ashiliana Calendar, the Year of the Holy termination, on the night of the 2nd Day of the 9th month, the famous ‘Blorahan Lightening Attack ’has begun…

As the 4 mercenaries fell together with Gana, they released their equipment, which attached itself to the mountain wall. Together, they used Kuruda Annihilation Technique – sword and injured Gana at the same time. Gana screamed in pain as she continued to fall. Surprisingly, an energy barrier appeared, allowing Gana to land quite safely on the ground.

At Blorahan, the Soulfan army began their first assault, Gau Ban, Folly and Kyou showed up and fought them, forcing the Soulfan soldiers to retreat. The trio brought Dais into the house where Kai Sink was waiting. While Kai Sink was persuading Dais to take a medicine that he had brought for him, Folly explained to Gau that Kai Sink of Crimson was also a Cevar. He was also known the Lazalem, Silver Sword, one of the 11 Lazalems in Ashiliana. These people were in harmony with the power of Souma and played an important role in keeping the flow of Souma throughout Ashiliana. In fact, Kai Sink was the one who created the famous scar on Scar Face’s face.

Dais, for some reason, refused to take the medicine. Instead, he told Gau, Folly and Kyou the reason of Soulfan’s attack. They want to bring down Ashiliana. By defeating Kuruda, they would be able to do so. Kai Sink continued on by saying that Soulfan had no Lazalems, thus, unable to get the power of Souma. Since Ashiliana was rich in the power of Souma, the neighboring countries were in constant fear. It was through this fear that they wished to destroy Ashiliana. Kai Sink suspected that Soulfan was a prawn used by someone whose identity had not been known yet. Suddenly, fiery crossbows appeared and the house was in fire. Gau took upon himself to defeat the Soulfan troops while Dais and the others were taken to safety. Dais (who had adopted Gau as his younger brother) gave him his boomerang in hopes that it would protect him as he shown Soulfan the true fear of a Kuruda Var.

On the Aikia Road, Elle was rushing for time to reach Blorahan. Gana intersected her with her demon beast. At the same time, Master Leen’s advisor, Falanx was checking the dead bodies. By observing the fatal wounds on the soldiers’ bodies, he concluded they were done by Kai Sink. He slyly grinned.

As for Gau, while he was fighting with the Soulfan soldiers, he recalled Dais’ words.  The reason that Dais refused to take the medicine was because he knew that he couldn’t stop Death from coming to him. Like he himself had found a reason so strong enough to consume his life into fighting and making weapons, so must Gau find a virtuous and proud reason to fight till it consume his life as well. Though Gau would be fighting in other battles and with other opponents, he would be always constantly fighting against himself. As his older brother, the only thing he could do was to give him his best weapon.

Master Leen was disturbed that his men were doing badly against a Var. A solider came up and reported to him that Falanx had disappeared. Yet, Master Leen set his mind on the battlefield. Back to the Aikia Road, Gana was mocking at the stupidity of people fearing Cevars. In response, Elle decided to crave the meaning fear into Gana’s heart. With one blow, Elle killed Gana’s demon beast and defeated Gana, who was completely loss for words. She questioned Elle’s intentions for allowing her to live. Elle replied that killing and defeating were two different things. Though Cevars had the power of fear, it was a sad and painful thing to live with because they also had the power to take a life as easily as they wanted. Gana, after admitting defeat, told Elle that the 4 mercenaries were still alive.

Soon, Master Leen set out his armoured troops against Gau. Though tired and injured, Gau said that in respect of his loved ones and his opponents, he would give himself a fighting name – Black Howling.

 

In the Early Dawn of the 3rd day of the 9th month, Soulfan reported that they had difficulty with an enemy whose powers matched a Cevar. Despite this, they had no problem fighting back and their spirits were still as high as ever. However in Ashiliana’s records, it was reported that though there were 1000 Soulfan soliders invading Blorahan, they were defeated by 1 Var.

 

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The 56th Cevar, Kai Sink of Crimson, Lazalem Silver Sword

 

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