Red Merona

06.

17-11-995

On a clear morning, Gotzen and Emi continue their journey. Despite the overcast weather, this time Gotzen's face looks better. It made Emi who was sitting in the back seat feel happy.

"Emi, can I ask you something?" gotzen asked, still with his face facing out the window.

Rarely does Gotzen take the initiative to open a conversation, when nothing matters, he usually prefers to let the surrounding atmosphere be quiet. This of course made Emi a little surprised.

"Yes captain, may, what's wrong?" emi Sahut.

"I wonder, why are you in the military? I think the military is a little bit unsuitable for a good woman like you." Gotzen said.

The expression on Emi's face instantly changed.

He who used to smile cheap, now looks anxious and confused.

"I mean captain?"

"Does the captain want to say that I don't deserve to be in the military?" thought in the heart.

Gotzen smiled as he turned his gaze away from the window hole.

"It's nothing. I just want to know why you joined the military. There are rarely women who join the military, after all." Gotzen replied, trying to explain. He was afraid of an understanding after last night's incident.

"If it's about thatuu..?" emi's face still looked a bit confused.

"Maybe at first I just wanted to survive. Captain knows for himself no, I'm just like you. Because of the previous wars, I also had no parents." Emi replied, followed by a long breath.

"Although my salary is not much, at least my three sisters can go to school for free. I want them to live a better life." Emi continued, explaining.

Gotzen smiled hearing that.

"I think it's a little weird. You're trying to survive, but you're looking for the job closest to death" Gotzen said.

"How else, in a situation like the present, it's so hard to get a job, what else for a woman like me."

"Again, I have a Captain who won't let me get hurt. So I don't have to worry." Emi replied, looking at Gotzen with a smile.

"I have a captain, I have a Chicken, I have a Bayu. I have a lot of men who will protect me." Emi continued. His smile was unstoppable again.

Hearing that made Gotzen turn away a smile and then shake his head.

"But, do you not have the desire to live like an ordinary woman?" ask Gotzen.

"If life could go the way we want it to, I want to live a quiet life, have a job that is appropriate for a woman, she said, can live life without fear and of course I will not join the military ", Emi replied.

"But you know yourself, captain. Even if we try hard, we will never be able to live the way we want."

The smile began to fade on the face of the glasses woman, he turned his face towards the window.

"Do you know Captain, what the rulers think? Are those in power are bodxhites, so there are wars everywhere."

"Either, maybe not because of bodxh, it could be because they're too greedy" Gotzen replied.

After the conversation, the whole journey of the atmosphere between them became quiet, like nothing could re-warm the atmosphere. To the point where their horse-drawn carriage suddenly stopped.

It makes Gotzen and Emi wake up from daydreams, then look at each other.

As Gotzen turned around and wanted to see from behind the windshield, suddenly a huge spear pierced their horse-drawn carriage-carrying aide. The tip of the spear that pierced into the horse carriage, made Emi scared and almost screamed. However, Gotzen quickly covered Emi's mouth with his right hand.

"Emi, calm down." a soft voice whispered in Emi's ear. Shortly after Gotzen removed his fingers from Emi's mouth, he turned around and saw the situation outside, from the windshield.

Apparently Gotzen and Emi were already not far from their headquarters. However, somehow the soldiers who were none other than the Third Division rebels blocked their path.

Gotzen held onto Emi's shoulder, and stared intently at her eyes.

"Emi listen carefully, I'll try to hold them, then you go to the headquarters to ask for help!" Emi still looks scared. But he nodded his head, agreeing to the plan of his captain.

Gotzen then got out of the horse-drawn carriage, then slowly walked over to the people who were blocking their way. Emi followed him from behind.

In front of them were seen several dozen warriors carrying spears and swords in their hands. 

They looked shabby, dirty, and covered in blood.

For a while Gotzen felt that he himself could hold them back.

"What are you guys doing here?" ask Gotzen. He stands in front of their chariot horse, trying to buy time, while Emi breaks the horse's bond.

"I should have asked like that!" a man among the third division troops advanced from the ranks.

"Why is the son of the former imperial ruler here?!" he continued to ask.

Gotzen could only fall silent at the question.

"Oh, yes I forgot that your father was the cause of all this. Since the empire collapsed, we are all engaged in this war!" satirize a Third Division troop with a mocking look.

Without answering anything, Gotzen took the gun from his right waist.

Emi, hurry up and go now" Gotzen said.

Dorr!! Dorr!! Dorr!!

Despite trying to evade, three bullets managed to injure three Third Division soldiers.

Emi immediately rode on one of the horses that had escaped from her carriage and left Gotzen alone.

After feeling quite safe, Emi paused for a moment

"I'll definitely be back with some help!!" cried Emi from a distance, and she left immediately.

"Hurry back, so that I can cut off the head of this kxparat before your eyes!" shouted a Third Division warrior while pointing a sword towards Gotzen, followed by the attacks of the people behind him.

Dorr!! Dorr!! Dorr!!

One of the Third Division's troops instantly slapped a sword at Gotzen. With a sword he held with both hands, Gotzen managed to resist the attack and they pressed against each other, strengthening their horses.

The Third Division men began to surround Gotzen, like a pack of dogs besieging a pig. One of them attacked Gotzen from behind with a spear. Gotzen who was still in a power struggle with the person in front of him immediately dodged, turning his body, so that the two people who attacked Gotzen collided, and injured each other. Not until there, Gotzen immediately swung his sword, and made the two men fall down. 

The Third Division people who saw that, took turns looking for an opportunity to attack.

There is no time for Gotzen to relax. The slash of the sword from the left was precisely aimed at Gotzen's face, fortunately Gotzen's left hand who always wore my iron gloves swiftly could withstand the attack. Gotzen immediately counterattacked with a sword in his right hand and managed to injure the enemy. 

A spear almost pierced Gotzen's stomach from the right. However, Gotzen managed to push his body slightly back, then held the tip of the spear with his left hand, then hit the face of the man who attacked him with the tip of the sword handle.

If it's one-on-one, it's easy for Gotzen, but due to the disproportionate number, Gotzen is very difficult. He tried to defeat his enemies one by one. 

After quite a grueling battle, most of the Third Division's people finally fell down. However, Gotzen was already sluggish, his body full of Scratches. While the two enemies were still standing, they were ready to kill him. He stared at the slightly red sky, as splashes of blood on Gotzen's face hit his eyes.

One of the two Third Division troops walked closer to Gotzen's head.

"I didn't expect a coward like you to be strong enough either" said the man, then raised the spear with both hands, with all his might pointing it at Gotzen's face. Gotzen dodged the attack by turning his body to the left, holding tightly to the sword in his right hand, slashing the man's neck until the man's head was severed and rolling on the ground.

"Do you not feel more cowardly than I do. I'm alone, and you're attacking me in turns." Gotzen said. It rests on both knees and both hands. With a breath of breath, he tried to stand up with the rest of his strength.

"At least we are not the ones who can slaughter innocent children in an orphanage." scorned the last man, holding a sword with both hands.

"What did you say?" reply Gotzen confusion.

"Don't pretend! We know that you three days ago went to the orphanage to find information about us, and you slaughtered all of them, you damn humans!" Tears began to show on the man's cheeks. Then he ran and slapped his sword at Gotzen's head, but Gotzen immediately twisted his body and slashed the man's back to the ground .

"Damn!" gotzen shouted, he just found out the reason why he was intercepted by the Third Division people, just because of a misunderstanding.

In the end, after a grueling battle, Gotzen managed to defeat all of them without any help, even though his body was now extremely exhausted.

His sword was seen sticking to the ground. Both hands were at the end of the sword's grip and his forehead hitchhiked there, above the backs of his hands. He was not able to stand and could only be silent with both knees as a pedestal.

Soon the wounds on Gotzen's body began to disappear.

It was natural, because Gotzen was the son of emperor Atekz who had healing abilities, so Gotzen also inherited that ability.

"Why Emi and the others haven't come yet" Gotzen thought inwardly. 

Actually Gotzen felt very grateful, Emi and the others did not join the fight, so there were no casualties on his side. 

now he just expects a warm welcome from them.

He began to stand up and slowly stepped his feet toward the remaining horse, then slowly spurred it on.

Arriving in front of Gotzen headquarters was shocked. No one welcomed his arrival.

He got off the horse and walked slowly between the corpses of his comrades and the corpses of the third division.

"Emi!!"

"Wood!!"

"Chicken!!"

While calling out their names, Gotzen continued to walk around his base.

Not long after, Gotzen saw a body lying on the ground, with many spears and swords in his stomach. 

The body was none other than Bayu, it seemed like the vice-captain had a knock before his death. 

Not far from there was also a corpse with a broken head leaning against the wall, though Gotzen still recognized him. He is a chicken, a person who always laughs freely as if he has no burden in his life. Gotzen does not believe that a happy person like the Rooster will die before him.

Upon seeing the two men, Gotzen could no longer control his senses. Despite that, he continued to walk among the scattered corpses. Hope to meet the person who just accompanied his trip soon.

Not long after, in the distance, Emi was seen standing straight behind Gotzen.

Gotzen was relieved that Emi was not hurt. He was afraid that Emi would be attacked by the remnants of the Third Division.

"Emi!! Thank goodness you're okay."

Gotzen immediately walked up to him.

However, the closer, the more it became clear that the person was not Emi. 

The man with white hair, a white shirt who wears a typical Third Division green beret on his left arm. He is none other than Izk, Gotzen's childhood friend at the orphanage.

"What are you doing here?" gotzen asked, after getting close enough behind the man.

"Is all this what you did!!?" snapped it. Gotzen seemed to have lost his mind, he could no longer see the situation and the questions he was saying.

"No, I didn't do any of that." replied Izk, flat.

"Then who killed them all!!?" shout Gotzen.

"Can't you see it for yourself? Why are you still asking me? Do I look like a capable person to do all this." replied Izk, pointing at a corpse in front of him, then he turned his body, staring at Gotzen.

Gotzen turned his eyes away from his old friend. 

It turned out that the person he was looking for was already lying on the ground. His head and part of his body were leaning against the wall. 

A slashed neck, mouth and nose full of blood. Wet cheeks and eyes with tears adorned that beautiful face.

"Emii!!"

Somehow, Gotzen who was tired of walking was suddenly able to run and embrace Emi's body which was already stretched stiff.

Gotzen cried while lifting Emi's body into his lap. But unfortunately, Emi's head was detached from her body. 

Apparently an incision in the neck had severed his head.

Gotzen briefly stared at the two eyes of Emi that were still open. She screamed hysterically before she was unconscious.