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Autumn by The Many
Autumn by The Many
After 3 days of fighting, Edgar's squad is one of the last ones standing. The
commander in chief exclaims how the HQ knew this would happen but insisted on
sending this many troops. "We need to believe in Edgar-san's strength" explains a
soldier. As most enemies are cleared up, Edgar's squad advance to the area where
he once lived. It is now a ghost town swarming with fiends. As they keep
investigating, they encounter a strong foe. As two of his squad members are injured
in the ambush, he orders a retreat, due to the enemies numbers and strength. The
commander, however insists the HQ ordered Edgar to hold off the enemies until
everyone is safe and they shall abort the mission. Edgar accepts as he creates a
dividing line between the fight and the rest of the company. The soldiers watch as
Edgar fights to his dying breath, while taking with him the strongest friend anyone
has ever seen.
During death scene: As he's dying, the outer sounds fade away slowly. He hears
Alein's voice saying "Do you ever hear the voices of the people and fiends you
killed?" to which he answered "No, never". At that same time he starts hearing
many voices, realizing they'd always been there but he never noticed due to his
duties as a soldier. As that memory fades away, he's being imaginarily dragged
down by a darkness of souls, to which he mutters "I'm sorry I never noticed you all...
Let us depart now.." "It's already autumn, isn't it?" as the tree's leaves are slowly
falling down on him in their reddish beautiful color. He leaves this world with a
relieved expression, one that surprised his companions.
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Return of the company: As the company is scheduled to return very soon, Alein
starts reading his testament. She is astonished to every word written on it. As she
finishes it, she starts running out just to stumble upon a soldier. Who tells her
"Miss... Edgar... He is dead." She falls down crying and sobbing as the morning
clouds bring forth the relaxing sound of fall rain.
The organization has a statue built for their most successful exodus and make a
grand funeral for him. As Alein tries to calm down Edgar's crying squad, she has a
brief illusion of his soul standing right next to her saying "Heh... so many people
showed up... I don't know whether if I should be sad or happy."
As one threat has been neutralized, new challenges lie upon this earth and it's
people.
As a new morning dawns, they hear shrieking in the distance. A man comes
to warn them that the organization is here to capture Klein. He leads the recruits to
a small river through which they should escape. As they get further away, they see
smoke and explosions coming from the small village. As they express concern, their
leader Ruther Zeta exclaims that they must continue. Because Klein entrusted them
with an important mission to seek revolutionists and make Edgar proud. Klein told
Ruther that Edgar's main concern was "the protection of your loved ones", as Edgar
was protecting his sister from her disease. They need to protect their loved ones
from the organization's grasp.
As night slowly dawns, we shortly return to the village. Klein, the last survivor
as a former elite soldier, makes an attempt to retrieve important research he has
been making about the organization's intentions. As he's about to retrieve them, he
finds a man in his room. After the man turns around, Klein is shocked and gets killed
instantly. "How can this be!?" were his last words. As his life is fading away, he looks
out the window to the sky. The moon is colored red as a bloodthorn rose. He leaves
for the dead as Edgar's testament is repeated in his head.
What the testament contained (for later):
Part 4:
usually squads have 4 members, but the recruits only had 3
and after a long time of fighting the organization
they meet the 4th member who despises Edgar. He'll be an antagonist. He didnt
want to join that squad b/c it was in Edgar's former division.
Him and the new recruits squad leader will be like two different parts of Edgar's
personality.
The leader will be like the personality Edgar had while enjoying life with his friend
and Teacher
The 4th member will be cold and cruel