Sun in the Star Iron, my marshal mother

Pera sensed something was wrong and could not help but quicken her pace. Her little feet clattered across the floor quickly as she headed towards the place closest to her and the place she was most familiar with.

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Chapter 4 Pera: Let Me Have Fun/Duck Duck Adventure (k)

There was something off about the atmosphere in the administrative district, and Pera guessed that she must have missed something while working all night.

Feeling a little anxious, Pella trotted to the door of the [Perpetual Motion] machine. After pushing it open, she found that Shiluva was intoxicatedly playing the suona she got from Lin En. There were a lot of colored papers hanging on the wall, and she did not hide the joy on her face.

"Pella? Why are you here?"

Shiluwa put down the suona and looked at the haggard Pella with some confusion.

Pera is her sister's only close friend and also the drummer of her band. Shiluwa is very fond of this serious and capable round-faced girl.

Seeing the mechanical room decorated with lights and colors like a festival, Pera was a little dumbfounded. She even forgot what she came here to ask in the first place. She pointed at the suona in Shiluwa's hand and asked with a smile:

"What are you doing?"

In response to Pera's question, Shiluwa gave a straightforward answer.

"I'm rehearsing."

"Rehearsal, rehearsal of what?"

The more Pera listened, the more confused she became. She didn't remember the band having any performance plans, and what performance required the use of suona?

Under Pera's puzzled look, Shiluwa blew the suona twice more, making a "dudududu" sound.

"What else could it be? Of course it's a rehearsal for that Cocolia guy's funeral!"

Pera: “Huh?”

"When the time comes, I will play the suona like crazy at Cocolia's funeral, and send her, the great guardian, off happily!"

"Wait a minute, did I miss something? The Great Guardian is clearly still living well in Kripal Castle, how come you are almost at the funeral?"

Unable to understand the current situation, Pera quickly stopped Shiluwa from playing the suona, and the latter picked up a newspaper from the table and handed it to Pera.

"No, you see for yourself, these nobles are finally getting back to business."

Pera took the newspaper in a hurry, but when he opened the front page, he saw a joint condemnation of the great guardian Cocolia by all the nobles, accusing the whole of Beloberg of being in dire straits since Cocolia came to power, with morals declining, people's livelihood deteriorating, and people suffering.

Among the various pieces of evidence listed, the most moving one is undoubtedly the article accusing Kokolia of isolating the upper and lower urban areas.

Once upon a time, when Cocolia transferred all the Iron Guards from the Lower City to the Upper City, the reason she gave was to concentrate the forces to deal with the threat of the rift in the Upper City, so that the Upper and Lower City could continue for a longer time. But why the Upper and Lower City should be completely isolated and even correspondence was not allowed, Cocolia never gave a positive response.

The reason why no one has raised any objections openly before is because the Great Guardian has protected this city for seven hundred years from generation to generation. The prestige accumulated over seven hundred years makes most people feel that "the Great Guardian must have her own reasons for doing this" when faced with some seemingly unreasonable actions.

But now, those nobles who have been hiding behind the scenes have spoken out.

According to their explanation, the Great Guardian took all the underground mines in the lower city into his own hands in order to seize the mining rights from the nobles and enrich himself. As a result, the lower city became a purgatory, and the people lived in poverty and hunger.

Even the explanation given by the Grand Guardian at the beginning was untenable - these nobles had obtained evidence that the lower city had been eroded by the Rift.

If the purpose of transferring the Iron Guards to the upper city was to stop the Rift from invading Beloberg, then how come the lower city has been eroded to the point where only two or three towns remain?

"These photos... I can't see any signs of forgery."

Putting down the newspaper in her hand, Pera's voice sounded a little weak.

She knew that Cocolia's policies would surely lead to a desperate counterattack by the nobles, but she did not expect that the counterattack would be so swift and deadly.

As an intelligence officer of the Silver Mane Iron Guard, she knew how many families in Beloberg had been forcibly separated for more than ten years because of the isolation order, especially those Iron Guards transferred from the lower city. When they learned that their hometown had been eroded by the Rift, their families had suffered and might even have died, they would be so sad and indignant.

Once the morale of the army is shaken, it will be difficult to stabilize it.

The incident of Ariel the Fool back then was more of a coup d'état among the nobles and officers, but this time the things thrown out by the desperate nobles would undoubtedly arouse the anger of the vast majority of citizens, and the situation would undoubtedly be much worse.

If it weren't for Cocolia's last words, Pera might have been filled with indignation and dissatisfaction.

But now, she was filled with only doubts.

Think more, Pera, think more.

Cocolia's voice seemed to still echo in her ears. Pera knew that Cocolia must be aware that these nobles would dig out the evidence of this matter and put it on the table. Even if Cocolia could suppress it, it would be a huge political stain... In fact, Pera could not think of a way to break the deadlock.

But even so, Cocolia still carried out her plan without hesitation, and even killed people directly to provoke the nobles, as if... she wanted it to be like this - to let everyone see the sins she committed and push everyone to the opposite side of her.

"That doesn't make sense."

"Pella, what are you mumbling about?"

Shiluwa smiled and pulled the round face of the girl who was lost in thought, and said:

"Don't think too much. Anyway, there are tall people to support us. Let's just watch the show. I have been looking forward to this day for too long. I want to see what tricks that woman Cocolia has."

Because of the thoughts racing through her mind, Pella was unable to fully comprehend what Shiluva said. Instead, she tried to put herself in the Great Guardian's perspective to think about Cocolia's actions, but still gained nothing.

"It's inconsistent and totally illogical... Could it be that the Great Guardian really lost his mind because Miss Bronya was kidnapped by that Lynn?"

"Brother Lin?"

A familiar girl's voice sounded at the corner of the stairs. A blonde girl wearing a cat-ear hat ran down the stairs step by step, looking at her friend in surprise.

"Perla~"

"Lingbao!"

Seeing the lovely Lingke, Pera felt her confused mind suddenly become clear, and she gave Lingke a big hug.

“Pella, what are you mumbling about? Why did I hear Brother Lin’s name?”

In front of her best friend, Ling Ke completely lost her usual introversion and asked out of curiosity.

"Lynn...brother?"

Why does Lingbao call me so intimately?

No one came. Pella had a bad feeling in her heart and quickly grabbed Ling Ke's hand and said seriously:

"Lingbao, Lin En is a bad guy who attacked the Great Guardian and kidnapped Miss Bronya. Don't be fooled by him!"

"Hey, but I think Brother Lin is a good person?"

As if frightened by Pera's seriousness, Lingke's little head tilted back slightly and blinked, then she began to defend Lynn again.

“Not long ago, Brother Lin En took me to see the sea!

The sea, the endless sea, the kind of sea that I have only seen in books!

It's a pity you didn't come with us, Pera."

"The sea?"

Pera was full of doubts.

"After seven hundred years of cold waves, where is the ocean? Lingbao, you didn't get drugged by him, did you?

Elbow, come with me to the infirmary for a checkup."

As she spoke, Pera reached out her little hand and touched Lingke's forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever. Lingke, who was treated like a child, blushed and shook her head.

"No, it's really the sea. It was blown up by Brother Lin En. We even swam and fished together in swimsuits. Brother Lin En also promised me that one day everyone in Beloberg would be able to see the sea."

"Wait, Ling Ke, what did you just say?!"

Ling Ke was somewhat at a loss as to what to do with Pella's sudden serious expression. She hesitantly repeated:

"So that everyone in Belloberg can see the sea?"

"Not this one, not this one, the one in front!"

"Uh...swimsuits and fishing?"

"This is it!"

After searching for the key words, Pera held Ling Ke's hand tightly, as if she was afraid that she would run away, and said seriously:

"Swimsuit, Lingbao's swimsuit, I want to see it!"

Ling Ke: “Huh?”

"I haven't even seen Lingbao's swimsuit yet, how come that weird alien got there first?

Lingbao, let me take a rest."

"No, I'm so shy."

Lingke leaned back slightly and turned her head shyly to avoid Pella's sight.

"Why not? Lin En can see it but I can't?"

Pera was surprisingly angry.

The already round face puffed up with anger, looking like a puffer fish filled with water, making people want to poke it with their fingers.

"Poke~"

"Shiluwa, don't poke my face casually, I'm not a child!"

"Haha, sorry sorry, Pera was just too adorable and I couldn't help it."

Xiluwa smiled awkwardly, then turned and walked upstairs.

"Sister, I'm going to prepare lunch first. Have fun, you two~"

After Shiluva left, Pera held Lingke's hand and continued to tease her.

“Please, Lingbao, I really need this!

Just think of yourself as a model for me~"

"But it's really embarrassing to wear that kind of clothes indoors."

Lingke didn't know why it was the same outfit and it was fine to wear it on the sea, but once the scene was changed to indoors it became extremely embarrassing and she blushed just thinking about it.

The girl, feeling ashamed, continued to shake her head and refused:

"I'm sorry, I can't do that!"

Rejected, Pera let go of Lingke's hand, but she didn't look sad at all. Instead, she smiled as if she really couldn't do anything to you.

Pera smiled and took off her round-frame glasses and placed them on the table. Then she looked at Lingke again and shouted:

"Obey, let me be healthy!"

"do not want!"

Pera rushed towards Lingke and hugged the girl's waist. The two girls immediately laughed and made a noise together. The small house was filled with a cheerful atmosphere that was different from the gloomy outside world.

........

Xiacheng District, Rivet Town.

There is naturally no sunlight deep underground, and Bronya can only rely on the mechanical watch on her hand to confirm the current time.

Although Yarilo was a technologically advanced civilization seven hundred years ago, after such a long period of decline, Beloberg's technological level has actually regressed a lot, retaining only some very rough and durable basic mechanical technologies, such as the various mechanical soldiers with extremely simple appearances.

Small and compact creations like mobile phones have mostly disappeared into the history.

"The sun should be setting at this time."

Bronya glanced at her watch and continued to wander aimlessly in Rivet Town.

My body was moving aimlessly, and my thoughts were in a mess and completely incomprehensible.

"These two people actually didn't come after me."

Bronya's voice sounded a little aggrieved. Although she told Lin En to leave her alone, after something like this had happened, she should at least catch up with him to try to keep him or say something, right?

As a result, half a day passed and neither Xier nor Lin En came to see her.

"Could it be that Xi'er and Lin En started over again after I left?"

No, no, no, it shouldn’t be like that.

If that were the case, I would be so pathetic.

"Humph, it's better if you don't come looking for me. I don't want to see this bad guy again!"