Connected World's

Operation Phantom Force's

"Ooh.... Very interesting"

Right now we're stopping at the riverbank where I'm starting to inspect my weapons, lucky that the weaponry we've been given is an old version of the M4 standard, if we were like those in the army where they had to adapt to the SIG-MCX weapon, I guarantee we would have a headache while taking care of that weapon.

"Is that how interesting it is to see me taking care of this thing, Rosella?"

I had to use the language as usual because I saw that he hated formalities so much, started looking at him who had since noticed me dismantling the weapon that my partner had become during this assignment.

Because of my position in the Marines as a Granadier, I was assigned to carry a fairly troublesome arsenal, one of which was an M203 grenade launcher as well as an AT-4 portable anti-tank. Oh also, I was assigned to operate and take full responsibility for the care of the FGM-148 Javelin that I had fired while fighting monsters in the lake.

'I'd better clean that thing up before I get back to Headquarters'

For some reason, I forgot to remove the MCU unit from the Javelin launcher tube so that the MCU unit that acts as the firing unit of the Javelin system, is always in standby mode.

Thank God the battery in the Javelin MCU unit still survives otherwise, I don't know what reason to give to the weapons inventory center when they inspect this thing.

$200 thousand dollars is not a small number for things like this, making me have to be extra careful to objects worth two years more salary.

"Your mother, I was just wondering if this thing was so great that it made you a magician capable of matching me"

I had to hold back the laughter of how he thought we were witches, and even now he still thinks that all the technology we have is a manifestation of magic.

Well I can't blame him for thinking that.

"Rosella, this thing isn't magic level, it's a weapon made from technology"

"Hm...."

Rosella seemed dissatisfied with my answer, as if she was saying that it was highly unlikely that anything made with technology could ever match the creatures of this world.

"Well, whatever, Oh! Look at that Jonas!"

Rosella immediately ran to another direction where she chased a bird-like creature but had a strange shape. You could say these creatures almost all have a shape like creatures of ancient Greek mythology that between extinct hundreds of years ago or absolutely never existed in our world.

Archaeologists would love this world if they knew there were creatures in this world.

Thinking about the posibility that not only archaeologists are going to this world is enough to make my head hurt.

And also

'Is he a child?'

Why did Rosella even appear to be playing around with the flying bird? Is it so exciting to play with birds?

The silence in this world without noise pollution or industrial air makes me a little calm about the world that shares this paradise.

"......"

My eyes feel very heavy, maybe this is the effect of lack of sleep for the past few days.

I chose to lay my body on the grass shortly after removing the MCU unit from the Javelin launcher.

'Very calm'

'......'

As my eyes were almost closed, Rosella started to approach me and sat down beside me.

"Do you look sleepy?"

"so"

I said in a normal tone, our Rosella and I fell back in silence while looking at this very bright sky.

"Hey Jonas"

"Why?"

"You can tell me about your world"

"Oh....."

I sighed as I closed my eyes for a moment before starting to tell a little bit about our world.

"Our world is a developed world due to the development of education and progress in industry"

"Hoo"

"That's why we were able to quickly advance within 200 years our world was transformed into a world with industries everywhere and life was much different from the kingdom's past"

"Hoho.... Then what about those iron things you call weapons? Is that also the result of that industry you mentioned?"

"May I say so"

"It's interesting, but you're still weak humans but you're very quick to adapt"

Hearing Rosella's words I turned a little towards her where she stared into the distance as if thinking of something.

"You're wrong Rosella"

"Did?"

He quickly turned his head towards me, we both stared at each other for a few seconds before I resumed my story.

"It is precisely because we are a weak race that makes us have to adapt immediately. The humans of our world initially considered if a large creature was a threat until finally humans learned to defeat the creature with spears and arrows, when humans did not find any creatures to be a threat, he said, humans saw each other until the development of weapons also developed. Gradually, our world was the one where the most effective arms race was born"

Rosella who listened to my story in silence, she seemed to not budge at all in my story, I myself can only imagine the horror of our world's humans who destroy the world without the need to use any weapons.

"Back of effective weapons there are always consequences where the industry race that uses resources is growing rapidly, in the end, our world fought each other for these resources that had more value than gold and any gem that the world gave"

"Human greed caused our world to be like this, our human world is the only real threat that we humans are capable of making our race extinct in just minutes"

As if not believing my story, Rosella seemed to want to refute at a glance, but after she witnessed for herself how powerful our weapons were able to defeat the monster that made Rosella a little difficult while in the lake, Rosella was speechless other than to remain silent.

The silence between us was a little strange as Rosella imagined how our world would evolve so quickly and the consequences it would have, while I was imagining retirement in this world, it was far from civilization that gave me a headache.

...****************...

As the atmosphere began to darken, I began to prepare our belongings and continued on my way.

In the middle of the journey, Rosella still continued to remain silent, it seems she still can not imagine our world.

It was impossible for him to believe that our world humans were able to annihilate all life on the planet in just a matter of minutes.

If he knew about the thermonuclear weapon that has tens of thousands in our world, he might think that I was crazy.

The night on the way, I decided to use long-distance lights because in this street there is not a single street light that illuminates the darkness of this street.

"Hey Jonas"

"Hm"

"On your world"

"Is there anything else you want to know?"

"Ehm..... What is your world ... no, don't think about it"

Somehow Rosella seemed a little agitated, was it possible because she still could not accept that our world was like that? I don't know.

'Hm?'

On the way, something began to appear in the distance, and something was an M2-Bradley armored vehicle that seemed to be on guard in the gate fence area into the headquarters area along with several marines.

"Oh? Is that your soldier too?"

Rosella asked as she looked at the human-looking guard post lights with strange clothes in her eyes.

"Yes, we're up"

"Oh, very fast huh"

Somehow Rosella sounded disappointed when we got to the base, but for me, I don't care about that anymore, all I thought about was how to deal with the chief inventory that would interrogate me later.

When my car stopped in front of the post, some Marines with the rank of Lance Corporal seemed to start inspecting my identification card as well as the contents of the car.

But just as they saw who was sitting next to the driver's seat, they turned their backs.

"What the!? No way"

"Sir! is she real?"

Some funny reactions were seen in the eyes of the Marines when they saw Rosella who was calmly sitting as if he did not care about the gaze of the Marines. Although I actually know what he thinks, especially when looking at the poker face that Rosella shows is very clear that she wants to laugh right now.

"Whoa!? No shot, so it's true, that we are in fantasy world"

"You can say like that, Lcpl"

My reply to the Marines who still seem very interested in Rosella. Their reaction was exactly the same as mine, so I couldn't blame them if they were like that.

"Welcome back to base, Corporal!"

They then raised the barrier gate letting me in after the inspection was completed.

As we passed the post guard marines, Rosella burst into laughter

"ahaha! Their reaction was so funny!"

'I was expecting this to happen'

As we continued our way towards the entrance gate to Headquarters, Rosella seemed to get even more excited looking at the base.

"Whoa.... This place is so bright!? Did you guys use some kind of lighting magic?"

Headquarters in the bright lights looked very strange in the eyes of Rosella, all this time he knew was the illumination of the candle if the night had come, well for us humans who already know about electrical energy and lighting energy that is much more efficient than a bulb, very clear view of the headquarters is very bright it makes him amazed at what he saw

"Oh!? Steel can move?"

The Abrams tank, which appeared to be undergoing routine maintenance, began to enter the storage hangar and happened to be spotted by him.

It didn't take long for us to arrive at the transport vehicle storage garage where the Mechanical Platoon would take over the vehicle checking process.

["Hey Corporal, I hear your journey is very interesting huh?"]

A new voice came as Rosella and I got out of the car, just as I saw who was talking, the man with the Green BDU Marine Pattern, seemed to be smiling sinisterly at me.

["Is there anything you want to know, Sergeant One?"]

["It appears you have other intentions by taking him to Headquarters, don't you think, Corporal?"]

["I don't understand what you mean"]

I then walked past her as if ignoring what she was trying to say with Rosella following behind me, but just before we fully exited the parking lot of the vehicle, First Sergeant started talking again which I fully know what he meant.

["If you're hoping for a possible negotiation, you seem very sneaky, don't you, Corporal"]

As we walked towards the command center located about 300 meters from the vehicle parking base, Rosella, who was a little curious about what we were talking about, started walking beside me with a face demanding an answer.

"Nothing, I just don't like him"

My words seemed to be the answer to the question mark-filled expression on his face.

...****************...

I, Rosella de Voir Junois, am the ruler of the Demon Kingdom and the ruler of the half-human race.

After so many things that I went through as a ruler, I never thought I would be surprised by something done by humans.

But this was different when I was together with the humans I called Jonas, heading to the headquarters of the strange humans who mentioned that they were from another world.

A very comfortable vehicle capable of traveling at speeds that exceed the speed of a horse, we arrive with a count of fingers as if a very long distance that normally can take three days can be traveled with just a few moments.

When we stopped for a while, I listened to Jonas' story about his world.

It was shocking to me to hear the story where there was no more fighting for gold and diamonds in the world.

A world where people can live quietly and free from conflict where technological advances of war result in a highly advanced civilization.

But one side I feel a little uncomfortable when he tells about the ability of human weakness that is able to make the civilization that has been built can be destroyed instantly.

A power that is beyond reason but when I witnessed it myself in this human base, I could not stop thinking about the possibility that he said it was possible.

The steel thing that seemed to move very firmly without caring about the obstacles in front, the iron object flew very quickly across the sky with a shape like an iron bird, like a bird, flying objects of various sizes that I have seen in the kingdom as well as steel objects floating in the water without any screens at all.

'Their civilization is too advanced for our world, so that's why they don't care about the total help they give to our kingdom?'

A platinum coin that has a fantastic value where you can live as luxuriously as possible for two years is a value I never imagined as long as I am the crown princess of my kingdom.

[Another world currency economy consists of,

Bronze Coins

Silver Coins

Almetheis/gold Coin

Platinum Coins

The prevailing exchange rate where 1 Silver Coin is equivalent to 76 Bronze coins, 1 Almetheis Coin/gold is equivalent to 243 silver coins, and for 1 Platinum Coin is equivalent to 9760 Almetheis coins.

The value is converted to a temporary USD value where 1 Platinum Coin for $54,000]

When we got to headquarters, someone who seemed to have a position beyond Jonas seemed to mock him, I don't know what they said, ' he said, but Jonas' expression that seemed to hate the man's words made me think that the man said something rude.

We walked again to a building that looked like it was made of marble, standing very upright as if it was made with a very rare dwarf technique.

"Miss Rosella, I will take you to meet with my boss, before I want to report first, so you wait here for a moment"

Inside the building, Jonas then walks toward where several humans appear to be standing at the reception of reports such as a bounty hunter union.

The very clean room in the bright illumination makes me a little uncomfortable, because accustomed to the dim light from candles and lanterns, seeing something like this very clearly makes my eyes a little uncomfortable.

"Miss Rosella"

Jonas once again used formal language towards me shortly after he finished reporting to someone. In this room many pairs of eyes seemed to be staring at me with curious and curious gazes that made me slightly want to hold back the laughter, they still seemed to be unfamiliar with the existence of beings other than humans and from their expressions, they still seemed to be unfamiliar with the existence of beings other than humans and from their expressions, they were very clearly not showing any expression that wanted to express hostile intentions from within them, or at least that was what I believed.

Not knowing why, I felt that soon we would meet someone much higher in terms of the position in this otherworldly Human Headquarters.

Just when I made that assumption, we were also in a room where a man in formal attire who was very much different from the nobles of this world seemed to gracefully welcome us into the room.

Jonas who is also dressed formally like the man looks very different between the two, Jonas although dressed formally but the difference of authority and aura full of assertiveness is still much different from the man.

Beside the man, the two human figures that I knew who it was started to make me want to spit towards the two of them.

'Two heroes, what they want here'

"Uhm.... Ha.hallo Rosella"

Suzu welcomed Rosella in the usual attire of their world, beside Suzu one more hero named Riria also seemed to want to say something but I chose to ignore both of them.

'Curtain....'

"Miss Rosella, I'm so honored by your visit here"

The man who was then answered by Jonas seemed to act as an interpreter between us.

I was then invited to sit with a man full of authority that seemed to smile respectfully of me, although I know the people of this world they must be a much more advanced human both education to manners, even though I know the humans of this world must be a much more advanced human both education to manners, yet when looking directly in front of my eyes the very well-educated man behaved like this, making me stutter a little.

"I'm Lieutenant General Norman, commanding officer of the Second Battalion of the Second Marine Division deployed in this foreign world"

What did Jonas translate a little to make me confused, what does the second division mean? what does it mean they're some sort of split-off from military units?

"Uhm.... I am Rosella de Voir Junois, I accept your flattery Ehm... Lieutenant Juendrual?"

Seeing how Rosella was unable to spell the name of the rank correctly, Jonathan immediately whispered to him to say his name only because it was just a title.

When Jonas told me about it, I immediately fixed the way I spoke once again.

"Don't be too nervous Miss Rosella, I don't mind if you can't name me properly"

He said in a relaxed tone but that tone actually made me a little depressed, even though he did not show hostile intentions to me but somehow I was afraid of him.

"Oh, so"

The man named Norman then nodded slightly before speaking about what he wanted to say.

"First, I want to say that we have no hidden intentions in your kingdom, so you don't have to be vigilant about our activities there"

"A little lack of me know that, but I still do not know the full intent of you who easily give us help without any reward"

My words may sound too late to the man who was very clearly leading the foreign world army that was helping my kingdom, he said, but that doesn't mean I can be silent and as if indifferent to the worst posibility I think deep inside my mind.

"Thank you for your attitude, Miss Rosella"

I nodded at Norman's words, and then we started talking about the two human figures that I hated so much.

"Why is there a hero here? You don't think about killing me here, do you?"

Threatened me to Norman who suddenly got a serious look from Jonathan who had not been able to translate my words.

"Don't be too serious, Corporal Jonathan"

Norman's recollection of Jonas making my eyebrows rise, he seemed to know a little of my words.

"I can't deny your suspicions about us, Miss Rosella, but that's not why we invited you here, but it's a topic about both of them that you definitely know they come from another world, don't you think?"

I nodded at his words

"The two of the five heroes you call, are one of the citizens of our world"

And just as Norman said that, as Jonathan translated, it surprised me a little bit.

"They came from a country called Japan, from our world, we didn't expect at all the existence of those in this world, where in our world they are considered lost for two more years"

"Right now our goal is to find those heroes who are most likely residents of our world, and return them back to our world"

"Ha!? Wait a minute, Mr Norman, are you kidding me? How could you possibly do that, you would know that these are human assets against us throughout history, do you think of taking them for granted?"

I can't believe what Norman said, even if what he said was true, which might be the human state would accept if the humans they called were brought back into their world, do they intend to....

"Wait, you don't think that"

The atmosphere in the room was slightly tense, Riria, Suzu, Jonathan even I myself felt goosebumps when I saw the serious expression of the man named Norman.

"If they don't intend to return our citizens, then we will force them to give it back voluntarily"

'Ha.... He's this....'

I was first made afraid by humans other than the heroes, the human in front of me was very clear that he was just an ordinary human who had no flow at all, but his words felt so horrible that I could personally accept them.

That night I was in this strange human Headquarters where they prepared a special room for me, but my thoughts regarding Norman's words still could not be received directly.

'He intends to forcibly take his citizens back to their world no matter if it means declaring war with the humans of this world'

Those are the words that I caught from our conversation, the two heroes even seemed a little uncomfortable with the words of that man named Norman.

'Why do they care so much about their people?'

The man I know is a creature who does not even care about the lives of its citizens especially when talking about the five humans summoned to this world compared to all humans in their world, they shouldn't care about that, so why are they

'I don't know exactly what they're after, but whatever it is, I should be able to maintain diplomatic relations with them'

I know a little bit of their strength just from hearing the words of that man named Norman.

I, the Demon Queen, can be made to tremble in fear of words alone is something I cannot imagine in my life.

'Our cultural differences are too far apart, I can't let our position just vanish'

...****************...

Somewhere in the Vunois kingdom.

"Miss Tiara, as you ordered, we have gathered soldiers to begin our operation"

"Good, tell the higher-ups that are there to get ready for the battlefield immediately, we can't stay silent any longer"

"By pleasure"

With a dark smile, Tiara gazed out at the far side of the kingdom precisely at the border between her kingdom and the demon kingdom territory, thinking of something that would change the situation drastically

'I never thought if there was a traitor among mankind, Rosella, you'd be done this time'