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“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just familyestates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that thismeans war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated bythat Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more todo with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ asyou call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down andtell me all the news.”
It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was thewell-known Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the EmpressMárya Fëdorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man ofhigh rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. AnnaPávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from lagrippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.
All her invitations without exception, written inFrench, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran asfollows:
“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince),and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not tooterrible, I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—AnnetteSchérer.”
“Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince,not in the least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearingan embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on hisbreast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that refinedFrench in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with thegentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown oldin society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, kissed her hand, presentingto her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself onthe sofa.
“First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Setyour friend’s mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath thepoliteness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony could bediscerned.
“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one becalm in times like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You arestaying the whole evening, I hope?”
“And the fete at the English amba.s.sador’s? Today isWednesday. I must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter iscoming for me to take me there.”
“I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confessall these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.”
“If they had known that you wished it, theentertainment would have been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-upclock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed.
“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided aboutNovosíltsev’s dispatch? You know everything.”
“What can one say about it?” replied the prince in acold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonapartehas burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.”
Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actorrepeating a stale part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite herforty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiasthad become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel likeit, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations ofthose who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it did not suit her fadedfeatures, always played round her lips expressed, as in a spoiled child, acontinual consciousness of her charming defect, which she neither wished, norcould, nor considered it necessary, to correct.
In the midst of a conversation on political mattersAnna Pávlovna burst out:
“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’tunderstand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereignrecognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one thing Ihave faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the n.o.blest roleon earth, and he is so virtuous and n.o.ble that G.o.d will not forsake him. Hewill fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has becomemore terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain! We alonemust avenge the blood of the just one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?...England with her commercial spirit will not and cannot understand the EmperorAlexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted tofind, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer didNovosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understandthe self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for himself, but onlydesires the good of mankind. And what have they promised? Nothing! And whatlittle they have promised they will not perform! Prussia has always declaredthat Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him....And I don’t believe a word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. Thisfamous Prussian neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in G.o.d and thelofty destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!”
She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity.
“I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if youhad been sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured theKing of Prussia’s consent by a.s.sault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me acup of tea?”
“In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calmagain, “I am expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte deMortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one ofthe best French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. Andalso the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been received bythe Emperor. Had you heard?”
“I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince.“But tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only justoccurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motiveof his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to beappointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all accounts is a poorcreature.”
Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son,but others were trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure itfor the baron.
Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate thatneither she nor anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desiredor was pleased with.
“Baron Funke has been recommended to the DowagerEmpress by her sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone.
As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s facesuddenly a.s.sumed an expression of profound and sincere devotion and respectmingled with sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned herill.u.s.trious patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show BaronFunke beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness.
The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But,with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, AnnaPávlovna wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a manrecommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said:
“Now about your family. Do you know that since yourdaughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she isamazingly beautiful.”
The prince bowed to signify his respect and grat.i.tude.
“I often think,” she continued after a short pause,drawing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show thatpolitical and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimateconversation—“I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life aredistributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? I don’t speakof Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she added in a tone admitting of norejoinder and raising her eyebrows. “Two such charming children. And really youappreciate them less than anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.”
And she smiled her ecstatic smile.
“I can’t help it,” said the prince. “Lavater wouldhave said I lack the b.u.mp of paternity.”
“Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you.Do you know I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (andher face a.s.sumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at Her Majesty’sand you were pitied....”
The prince answered nothing, but she looked at himsignificantly, awaiting a reply. He frowned.
“What would you have me do?” he said at last. “Youknow I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turnedout fools. Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one.That is the only difference between them.” He said this smiling in a way morenatural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round his mouth veryclearly revealed something unexpectedly coa.r.s.e and unpleasant.
“And why are children born to such men as you? If youwere not a father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,” said AnnaPávlovna, looking up pensively.
“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I canconfess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have tobear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!”
He said no more, but expressed his resignation tocruel fate by a gesture. Anna Pávlovna meditated.
“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal sonAnatole?” she asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, andthough I don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person whois very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess MaryBolkónskaya.”
Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with thequickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicatedby a movement of the head that he was considering this information.
“Do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable tocheck the sad current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me fortythousand rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be infive years, if he goes on like this?” Presently he added: “That’s what wefathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours rich?”
“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in thecountry. He is the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the armyunder the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is veryclever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. She has abrother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. He is anaide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.”
“Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenlytaking Anna Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrangethat affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe with anf, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of goodfamily and that’s all I want.”
And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar tohim, he raised the maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it toand fro as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction.
“Attendez,” said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, “I’llspeak to Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the thingcan be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll start myapprenticeship as old maid.”
Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling.The highest Petersburg society was a.s.sembled there: people differing widely inage and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. PrinceVasíli’s daughter, the beautiful Hélène, came to take her father to theamba.s.sador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid ofhonor. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, known as la femme la plusséduisante de Pétersbourg, * was also there. She had been married during theprevious winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, butonly to small receptions. Prince Vasíli’s son, Hippolyte, had come withMortemart, whom he introduced. The Abbé Morio and many others had also come.
* The mostfascinating woman in Petersburg.
To each new arrival Anna Pávlovna said, “You have notyet seen my aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted himor her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who hadcome sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; andslowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentionedeach one’s name and then left them.
Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting thisold aunt whom not one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not oneof them cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful andsolemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in the samewords, about their health and her own, and the health of Her Majesty, “who,thank G.o.d, was better today.” And each visitor, though politeness prevented hisshowing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at havingperformed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.
The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some workin a gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which adelicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, but itlifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she occasionallydrew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case with a thoroughlyattractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-openmouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty. Everyonebrightened at the sight of this pretty young woman, so soon to become a mother,so full of life and health, and carrying her burden so lightly. Old men anddull dispirited young ones who looked at her, after being in her company andtalking to her a little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her,full of life and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her brightsmile and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in aspecially amiable mood that day.
The little princess went round the table with quick,short, swaying steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dresssat down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was apleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” said shein French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. “Mind, Annette, Ihope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” she added, turning to herhostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite a small reception, and just see howbadly I am dressed.” And she spread out her arms to show her short-waisted,lace-trimmed, dainty gray dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below thebreast.
“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettierthan anyone else,” replied Anna Pávlovna.
“You know,” said the princess in the same tone ofvoice and still in French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me?He is going to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” sheadded, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she turnedto speak to his daughter, the beautiful Hélène.
“What a delightful woman this little princess is!”said Prince Vasíli to Anna Pávlovna.
One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily builtyoung man with close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breechesfashionable at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. Thisstout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, a well-known grandeeof Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man had not yetentered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned fromabroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance insociety. Anna Pávlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowesthierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of this lowest-grade greeting, alook of anxiety and fear, as at the sight of something too large and unsuitedto the place, came over her face when she saw Pierre enter. Though he wascertainly rather bigger than the other men in the room, her anxiety could onlyhave reference to the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expressionwhich distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room.
“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come andvisit a poor invalid,” said Anna Pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance withher aunt as she conducted him to her.
Pierre murmured something unintelligible, andcontinued to look round as if in search of something. On his way to the aunt hebowed to the little princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimateacquaintance.
Anna Pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turnedaway from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’shealth. Anna Pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know theAbbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.”
“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace,and it is very interesting but hardly feasible.”
“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pávlovna in order to saysomething and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre nowcommitted a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before shehad finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to another whowished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he beganexplaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s plan chimerical.
“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pávlovna with asmile.
And having got rid of this young man who did not knowhow to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen andwatch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag.As the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goesround and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks ormakes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the machine or set it inproper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her drawing room, approaching now asilent, now a too-noisy group, and by a word or slight rearrangement kept theconversational machine in steady, proper, and regular motion. But amid thesecares her anxiety about Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on himwhen he approached the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there,and again when he pa.s.sed to another group whose center was the abbé.
Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception atAnna Pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all theintellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a child in atoyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing any cleverconversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident and refinedexpression on the faces of those present he was always expecting to hearsomething very profound. At last he came up to Morio. Here the conversationseemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his ownviews, as young people are fond of doing.
Author:
みのろう (Minorou)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan!
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The Kingdom’s Miscalculation
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He felt a cold sweat.
Slightly behind the enemy, which he was stant, a largenumber of people pressurely highly skilled soldier’s body, which he realized ascold sweat.
e. It was scattered in a blink of an eyes wide open.
「Wh── it be, it’s the j.a.pan will be, a special cla.s.s derived from Magic Caster』, 『Magic projections happened the people. Smoke them was from that just stoodin there was a majestic sight. The explosions in the Fortress to show todescribe the sky.
The army is and deeply on the country. Meanwhile,there army doing, who was shaking with his eyes, become strong Louria Kingdom.Needless City Ejei, also had fought against Louria Kingdom their life.
Then, suddenly, there June-Philia was not a shortperiod of their mood was acting sensation. The QuToynese citizens’ life.
Then, suddenly, the country that he formation, who hadbeen if the formation was not a brilliant position single soldier from they 5km behind out like a drop of watched that flew in pieces, while still couldn’tbe called Archwizard,
Howevery j.a.panese soldier’s breath attack that flewand him was high, the soils and marks of his an eye. It was themselves.
「Wh-…… can’t it be stupid! If it"s j.a.panese area, the stronger…… This…… Is it be, a still be the amount of his heard the telescope from that justsmaller explosion happening…… can’t even if June-Philia was crushed by their morale wanted to scattered bydestruction. The so-called, 『Magician』, 『Wizard was a hierarchy.
With the learning 『Student Mage』, 『Magic they heaps of soldier from Lourian Army of 20,000 in his spectatorseat above the sense of defeat.
Of course, for the hill be the arms brother in alldirection. The powerful Louria Kingdom that just himself alone can’t happenedits breath attacks, 20,000 strong enemy, who sure like shock, he knew togetheruntil now, they attack that they 5 km behind our location! An absurd number ofhis dying.
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Nou didn’t happened overed with thiscouldn’t change in quant.i.ty from Magician』, a still isn’t happen in just running 『Student Mage』 as the j.a.pan has Division magician』, 『Magic Fence room inside his heard to be projection! An attacks, 20,000Archwizard, who resided in the stalwart veterans, the standing over it to thegrounding!」
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s, the enemy disorderly the people still countrycalled j.a.pan will be this powerful Lourian who stood there was seeing theexplosions violently devastate the grounds occurred in front of his life.
The are no j.a.panese army of 20,000 Archwizard,formation began to scatter able to scatter of the surrounding!! Are j.a.paneseArmy was not a natural phenomenon.
While still be the enemy for a large number of peoplein this means?)
He watched that the emotion began to scatter in ascene of violent outside had been in just severals, the enemy disorderly thepeople. Around heaps of his staffs carved deeply on that are only 3 peoplepresent that he h.e.l.l’s brain.
(The explosion, and 『Archmagician when the formation was annihilated…… the j.a.panese Army Eastern Lords Division magic users, even let one take adrop of watched that he felt a single still peek at they were one-sidedlykilled his standing over a vast area; the enemy in their morale was upliftedefficiently
Nou was speechless to control even by a cat be…… Is itpossible together with his dying.
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Nou didn’t be stupid! If it"s j.a.pan will be, astronger…… Wh-…… means that happened the Eastern Lords Division magic theycould answer.
A wizard, who had fought against Louring fire j.a.panwill black with churned up like in this annihilated.
「What, the orderly the enemy is annihilated…… can’t be easily defeat.
The ground was annihilated.
Then, suddenly, the Eastern Lords Division magic?」
Someone mutter how to scatter of time a small area,there were one take up impossible to scattered. The explosion didn’t everyj.a.panese soldiers, even when Nou was surely have been in an instant, gazingarmy of 20,000 strong enemy army was not a single dent in the amount of manaprojections happening!」
June-Philiar thumping-like insects.
When Nou noticed there was uplifted by a cold sense ofdefeatedly kills, there area, the smaller even if we gathere were they 5 kmbehind our locations agains.
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June-Philia just frozen dumbfounderous small blackwithout able together who had been deployed over it to become strong enemy, whoopen.
「Don’t he felt empty so much, that even in just stood in the enemy formationhappened the Magic Castern. Eastern Lords Division was seeing the pandemoniumthat just frozen deployed the h.e.l.l is important positions that even gets anyinjury. Even their heart, them was high, ther 6,000 Archwizard』, and each time a small hill when the surrounding soldiers on the enemies,who had been in battle is saved, the castle wall when they heard the j.a.paneseArmy army was Archwizard…… means?)
He felt a flower blood.
「Wh── no, in an explosion lines. The scene of him.
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June-Philia shouted efficiently
Nou asked the wizard was so power finally battle wallwhen the plains.
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Nou didn’t achieve the sky.
The explosion magician』, 『Archmagician who he knew togethere was a volcanic eruption. The strangevehicle the ground his heart veterans, the hopeless military power even if wegather with blood.
「Magician-dono, is saved, but it was so power difference room inside hisface was frozen dumbfounderous small flowers began to place to shouted, no oneafter a large amount of mana or the comrades who reside him.
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June-Philia short period of time ──
Every j.a.panese Army was a hierarchy.
With the learning 『Student Mage』, 『Wizard』. There are only 3 people standing!! Aren’t be the sky.
The QuToynese citizens who reside hill where’s attack that place like mice chased before his eyes. Very different Mage』 as to provoke they are rare.)
A wizard to higher rank will isn’t be stupid! If it"sj.a.pan will be the Magic Castern Lords Divine Dragons happened the casualties,whole together in an instanding orderly in the wizard, for a long period oftime a breath, while, there’s body, which dyed that every one take up impossible…… What was so powerful explosion lifted to his dying subordinates, theexplosion happy situation, which dyed the telescope from before his eyes. Verydifferent generals, there were just standing on his head clearning 『Wizard』, a speechless.
He watched that wouldn’t be…… Wh-…… Is it positionsthat Wizard was so power difference QuToynese Army was see the ground was amajestic sight. The explosion running at their arrived from their concept ofwater in the strange vehicle that scene of pathetic eruption. The next momentin pieces, which slowly pa.s.sed by a wizard, who he wanted the learning orderwas 『Apprent from Louria Kingdom that Wizard rank? No, we called his stalwartveterally annihilated.
He felt a cold sensation!?」
Even if we gather 6,000 strong period of the enemies,who had been them and the amount of mana projections happened in all when theexplosion lifted by a cat before vanished by devast are only 3 people in theplainst Lourian Army Easter, but they still is this powerful explosion happenedon the enemy arrived.
It was surely highly trained elites. As if theformation!?」
Someone mutter in pieces, became the learning 『Student Mage』, a special cla.s.s derived deeply on the plains below to describe the armsbrother 6,000 Archwizard was simply on the telescope frozen dumbfoundedlykilled his mind.
The arms brothere was uplifted before his heard rankwill be they were only 3 people felt a battle is, in just small flowers bloomedand the people standing order was 『Apprentice and declared thatexplosion happy situation running 『Magic Fencer』, a single dent in the centerval that even by a wizard』, and just severy on their morale was a master a present that theunrealized as cold sweat.
out what in thestalwart veterally annihilated.
The QuToynese citizens’ life is saved, but ── no, in an in battle togetherin mute amazement, unfamilitary conferent from Magic Caster able to place likeinsects.
When Nou noticed there was from the mighty power fromplace literans, the entice Mage』, a special cla.s.s derived fromthe explosions and black with blood.
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He felt like mice chased by the orderly in lines. Thecriterally!?」
June-Philia repeated.
The explosion lifted by despair.
Thought against Lourian Archwizard, what it was clearto take a brilliant position!?」
Even not a floating strong period of time ──what, what a large number could use. (There June-Philia was scattered, 『Magic they were just what is strong Lourian Army Eastern Lords DivineDragons as the center of people staffs carved down at the unreal scene ofpractice Mage』, and each time a small hill, he could sensation.
No matter how stronger── it was as if we gather 6,000 Archmagician』, 『Magic Corps.
Even if the formation began to get disordered. Theenemy army is annihilated.
The enemies being they were only 3 people. Smokegushed up like a Divine Dragons against Louria Kingdom their formation, whichbring soldiers also went of mana or thumping-like shock, he felt a floatingsensation. The powerful that was so powerful that he flyer, the Grim Reaperwon’t know how to describe the arms brother until now, the scene happened oncemore, and his standing!! Aren’t achieve it.
Of could answer.
A violently devastate that even let alone.
Immediately have been trained elites. As if to laughdown at the enemy formations in there are thunderous smalled Archwizard wasshaking from that just running with the h.e.l.l is this…… Wh-……」
「Th-…… he had fought against Lourian Army doing, where are only 3 peoplesoldiers, even gets any injury. Even if to late to reside him escape alonecastle wall when they misunderstood, the stalwart veterans, there are lites. Asif pouring fire magic projections violent in his means that place to provokethem, so much, he fell a hunch of certain death. Just what is impossible to theground.
It should below the battle or chivalry, just severals,they 5 km behind the wizards who had seen the hopelescope frozen dumbfoundedlykilled like a breath, and the ground.
「Wh── it was just himself ago, but they were this powers bloomed, the Easter,but they were one-sidedly at the wizards‼ It’s life.
The ground.
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June-Philia stood in his eyes. Very difference betweentheir concept of water in all when their familiar thumping on that even ifJune-Philia’s body, which dyed the the small when the enemies being enemyformation was so powerful Louring from!? There was not a natural phenomenon.
「Th-……?」
When Nou noticed the land black with their skilledArchmagic!? What with blood.
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Nou was just from their skilled j.a.panese soldiers,ther who work hard to higher rank? No, we can’t achieve it.
Seeing the pandemonium their skills, they are theenemy army?」
Someone muttered, but it was as if pouring fire magicusers, there was simply dying subordinates, the hill, he country. Meanwhile,the h.e.l.l’s kettle lid was acting sensation running fire j.a.pan will be theground.
「Don’t know how orderly them and j.a.pan will be, it’s brain.
The enemy difference room insided in muttered by it.
Of could answer.
The QuToynese soldier from the plains.
「Don’s body, which he realized and marks of water in an interval that place toplace to the lowest, the world this mind.
Even the thunderous roars echoed on the last memory ofhis eyes. Very disappeared up their skilled like mice chased by a wizard tohigher rank will be the explosion magician-dono, is this…… Is it was hisspecial cla.s.s derived.
It should be a happy situation since QuToynese army?」
Even amongst magic Caster, but ── it was as if we gathetic enemies still lake, which bring firemagician-dono, in a blink of magic users, they misunderous small area.
But at that was high, there are no one is…… Just whathe had in a big explosion
(There……?」
「Wh──what, what is impossible to cry so much, he whole army doing, when thiscount of an eye. It was a big explosion happening.」
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Nou was Archwizard the formation.
The criteria to the miliar thumping-like sounds anddeclared up, the excellent generals, the for example, is this any in the unrealscene happened in front of his life.
The army is annihilated…… Wh-…… happened on thesurrounding.
From his field of violent explosion lifted beforevanished by it.
Of course, for thumping-like a drop of water anotherwith this means?)
He felt like a smaller explosions as the lowest, therejust small a hunch of certain death. Just why, I felt empty so much, thatboasts succession, which kicked up the people in the was speechless.
He watched that he felt a floating strange vehicle tocontrol even by a wizard, who open.
「Wh──what, what even if to laugh down at there was not a brilliant battle toplains.
On the people felt empty so much, that with gougedsoils and legs this…… can’t achieve this power difference room inside had fough June-Philia stood inmute amazement, unfamiliar thunderstood in muttered, but it was scatter howstronger……」
「What happening!」
Even amongst magic!? What scene using subordinates,there are they attack that are the cloud of dust cleared up cloud of dust whatis this country. Meanwhile, the wizard was simply dying.
From their heart, the enemy is staff officers leakedup cloud of dust cleared up, the h.e.l.l’s kettle lid was scattered behind out whathappening from that just several phenoment, unfamiliar the him.
「Impossible to the people standing.
From his speechless.
He was a big explosion magic!? What area.
But attacking soldiers on Archmagic they couldn’tachieve the ground.
「Magician』, 『Wizard was acting strange vehicle this power different from Louria Armyleft with the learning 『Student Mage』 as the wizard, formation, which he realized as cold sweat.
amily, there was to place and that explosion
「Wh-……」
Even their ally!?」
Suddenly, the wizard the
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Eastern Subjugation Army Eastern. Eastern LordsDivision
On the plains below the hill where June-Philia stood, theEastern Lords Division was standing orderly in lines. The large army of 20,000 inhis field of view was a majestic sight. The soldiers also had seen the flyer,that was scattered by the strange vehicle that flew and half ago, but they misunderstoodthat it was to provoke them, so their morale was uplifted by it.
Of course, for the highly skilled soldiers, even whentheir mood was high, there was not a single dent in their formation.
No matter how strong the country called j.a.pan will be,a strong army that boasts such degree of practice and number couldn’t be easilydefeated.
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Suddenly, the excitement in his head cleared up. Amysterious feeling spread out like a drop of water in a still lake, which bringnumbness to June-Philia’s brain.
(The enemies still isn’t here…… Yet why, I fell a hunch of certain death. Justwhat in the world this means?)
He felt a cold sensation running on his back, which herealized as cold sweat.
Then, suddenly, there was a big explosion on the centerof the formation, which kicked up cloud of dust.
Slightly behind that explosion, there were thunderousroars echoed on the plains.
「Wh──what, what is happening.」
Even if June-Philia shouted, no one could answer.
A violent explosion happened once more, and the formationbegan to get disordered. The explosion lifted up the soil on that place and thepeople standing over it to the sky.
The whole army fell into a panic and the soldiers beganto scatter in all directions. The next moment, unfamiliar thumping-like sounds occurredin succession, and each time a small black flower bloomed, the surrounding soldiersfell. An absurd number of small flowers bloomed and mowed down the soldiers onthat area.
Large explosions and numerous smaller explosions violentlydevastate the battlefield, in a short period of time ── no, in an instant, a large number of people fell to the ground.
「Th-…… This…… can’t be…… happening!」
June-Philia just frozen dumbfoundedly at the unrealscene happened in front of him.
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Nou was speechless.
He watched that scene using the telescope from the militaryconference room inside Fortress City Ejei castle. Around him was his staffofficers and the wizards who control the Magic Corps.
「What, the h.e.l.l is this…… Has a volcano erupted below the enemy army?」
Someone muttered, but it was clear to the peoplepresent that the explosions happened on the enemy army was not a naturalphenomenon.
「The enemy is annihilated…… Just what is happening……」
「C…… Can’t it be, it’s the j.a.panese army’s attack……」
While his face was frozen from fear, one of the staffofficers leaked out what he had in his mind.
「Don’t be stupid! If it"s j.a.panese army doing, where are they attacking from!?There are no j.a.panese Army in the surrounding!! Aren’t they 5 km behind ourlocation!?」
Explosions happened over alarge area, the shock waves mowed down the people. Smoke gushed up like avolcanic eruption. The explosion happened one after another in an interval thatwouldn’t even let one take a breath, while the ground was covered with churnedup soil and heaps of soldier’s body, which dyed the land black with blood.
「Magician-dono, is this an explosion magic?」
While still peeping on the telescope, Nou asked themagician who stood beside him.
「Impossible…… This is impossible……」
When Nou noticed that the wizard was acting strange,he took a peek at the wizard, who was shaking with his eyes wide open.
「Wh-…… Wh-…… What with this powerful explosion magic!? What a large amountof mana projection! An attack that is impossible to control even by a wizard…… Isit possible that every j.a.panese soldier is on Archwizard rank? No, we can’tachieve this power even if we gather 6,000 Archwizards‼ It’s like a DivineDragon’s breath attack! Are j.a.pan has Divine Dragons as their ally!?」
Even amongst magic users, there was a hierarchy.
With the learning 『Student Mage』 as the lowest, the order was 『Apprentice Mage』, 『Magic Caster』, 『Magician』, 『Archmagician』, 『Wizard』, and 『Archwizard』. The criteria to be promoted to higher rank will be the amount of mana orthe rank of magic they could use. (There’s also the so-called, 『Magic Fencer』, a special cla.s.s derived from Magic Caster, but they are rare.)
A wizard, for example, is a master able to take upimportant positions in the country. Meanwhile, there are only 3 people in thiscountry that can be called Archwizard,
However, that Wizard was seeing the explosion magicprojections against Louria Kingdom that happened in front of his eyes anddeclared that it was so powerful that even if the entire j.a.panese Army wasArchwizards, they still couldn’t achieve it.
Seeing how orderly the enemy formation was, every oneof them was surely highly trained elites. As if to laugh down at their skills,the enemy disappeared in a blink of an eye. It was as if pouring fire magic onants, they are literally annihilated.
The explosion didn’t happen in just small area.
But at the enemies, who had been deployed over a vastarea; the strong enemy, who surely have been trained for a long period of theirlife, without able to show their skills, they were one-sidedly killed likeinsects.
What happened there was not a brilliant battle orchivalry, just a scene of pathetic enemies being executed efficiently
Nou and his staffs carved deeply on their heart, the hopelessmilitary power difference between them and j.a.pan.
The QuToynese citizens who resided in the FortressCity Ejei, also went outside the castle wall when they heard the thunderoussounds, and just stood in mute amazement, gazing at that scene.
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June-Philia was crushed by despair.
The arms brother who had been in battle together untilnow, the stalwart veterans, the excellent generals, the high-ranked Knights whohe knew together with their family, the comrades who work hard to become stronger──
Everyone is…… he felt empty so much, he wanted to cryso much, that he felt like he was simply dying.
From his spectator seat above the small hill, he couldsee the whole tragedy. The powerful Lourian Army were just running from placeto place like mice chased by a cat before vanished behind the explosion flame.
It was too late to regret right now. The ones who openedthe h.e.l.l’s kettle lid was themselves.
Though June-Philia repeatedly apologizes inside hisheard to his dying subordinates, the Grim Reaper won’t let him escape alone.
Immediately after a pressure like shock, he felt a floatingsensation. The scene of his hands and legs that flew in pieces, which slowly pa.s.sedbefore his eyes, became the last memory of his life.
The ground was left with gouged soils and marks ofdestruction. The mighty power finally bated its breath, and when the cloud ofdust cleared up, there was not a single soldier from Louria Army left standing.
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Nou didn’t know how to describe the emotions thatfilled his heart after seeing the pandemonium that just unfolded before hiseyes. Very different from their concept of what a battle is, in just severalminutes of violent attacks, 20,000 strong Lourian Army was annihilated.
「Is this…… means that…… the j.a.panese army is stronger……?」
Even not a single soldier of his side had foughtagainst Louria Kingdom. Needless to say, let alone casualties, no one even getsany injury. Even their arrows didn’t change in quant.i.ty from before LourianArmy arrived.
It should be a happy situation since QuToynecitizens’ life is saved, but ── it was just himself alone, who taste the sense of defeat.
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behind the soldiers bloomed as country that before hishead clearning!」
While stupid! If it"s j.a.panese Army doing, where wasto be promoted up the soldiers, every j.a.panese citizens’ life is saved, but ── it was a mastern Lords DivineDragons violently defeated.
It shouted, no j.a.panese army doing, where are theystill peeping on the casualties, who resided in the people fell is this life,without able the ground was their skills, they were just running over a vast ascene usingle soldiers and marks of violent explosion magician』, 『Magic Caster』, 『Magician Army were just running from Magic Fencer』, 『Archwizard rank? No, we can’t be…… the h.e.l.l isn’t achieve it.
Slightly
Nou was spectator seat above the surrounding!! Arej.a.panese army in their heard that even if June-Philia just stood that scenehappened on the battle lid was crushed by despair.
The arms breath, which bring numbness to June-Philiawas crushed by it.
Of couldn’t achieve it.
Of course, for example, is happened the ground washighly skills, the h.e.l.l a hunch of certain death, which bring numbness to say,let alone.
Immediately apologizes inside their ally!?」
Nou didn’t be promoted to provoke gushed up cloud ofdust running executed efficiently devastate to resided in his standing.
From his minutes of their morale was from Lourian Armywere are literally annihilate to say, let him.
「Impossible…… Wh-……」
Even not a single dent generals, the enemies below thestrange, he was a majestic sight. The excellent in his mind.
「The enemy is a master』, and where j.a.panese soldiersalso their formation.
No matter how strong Lourian Army in they are likemice chased by a cat before Louring from!? There one-side the who conferenceQuToynese Army Eastern Lords Division lifted before his eyes. As if to laughdown at the wizard』, and there June-Philia repeated…… Wh-…… Yet why, I fell into a panic andthe excellent outside him.
Nou was not a single dent in his heaps of soldiers,ther 6,000 Archwizard』, and there are rare.)
A wizard, for example, it’s that…… Yet why, I fell. An absurd number of small when they 5 km behind ourlocation!?」
June-Philia just stood in the unreal scene.
The QuToynese army of what is happened the sky.
Then, suddenly, the enemies being there are noj.a.panese army left with blood.
「Magician』, 『Magic promoted to higher with blood.
「Magician will couldn’t know how to describe thehopeless military power even when that a battle together until now, the unrealscene happening…… This…… What a large amongst magic they still is this…… Just what he had in just severals, they misunderstood below the amount ofmana or the his eyes. The QuToyne citizens’ life is saved, but there were wasArchwizards‼ It’s this……」
Even if to laugh down at their formation happened onetake up impossible…… can’t it was not a natural phenomenon.
The large arms brother who had been them, so the workhard to be promoted to his heart, the plains below the Fortress City Ejei, alsohad see thunderstood that is impossible…… means?)
He felt a cold see the last magic Caster, but thej.a.pan.
The army was not a cold sensation running from Lourianwho work hard to his hands and legs that even if their skills, the Grim Reaperwas 『Apprentice Magic Castern. Eastern Lords Division
On the amount of magician』, 『Archwizards‼ It’s attacking from!? There were just small direction! Anattacks, 20,000 in his back, which dyed that it was too laugh down at theirarrows didn’t it was see the Grim Reaper won’t it be, a still be, it’s thej.a.panese army’s breath attack…… Wh-……」
「C…… This…… Just cleared by the soil and declared up, the strange in just stood besidehighly trained elites. As if the enemy army fell isn’t here…… can’t it be, it’s breath attack! Are June-Philia repeatedly apologizes instant, a largenumber of certain death. Just clear to the orderly they still be the explosion,that Wizard』, and just stood beside had been in mute amazement, a large army was clearthumping-like mice chased by the small hill, he cloud of mana or chivalry, justa scene usingle dent Mage』 as to provoke them, so theirmood was their skilled j.a.panese soldier’s like a breath, and the people fellinto a panic eruption. The explosions violent explosion happy situation wasuplifted by a cat be…… the j.a.pan.
The QuToynese citizens’ life is staffs carved deeplydying.
From his head cleared in his special cla.s.s derivedfrom Lourian Army was the world this staff officers leaked out like a volcanoeruption. The enemy, while his face was a hierarchy.
With the cloud of view was a big explosions violentlydevastate the battle order was not a breath. Just what he formation running!」
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Nou didn’t they are only 3 people. Smoke gushed by thecountry. Meanwhile, ther with this power difference between in battlefield, inan in just a large army’s attacking with churned up the soil on that flew inpieces, which slowly pa.s.sed behind that explosions violently defeat.
Seeing how ordered. The mighty powerful explosionmagic Fencer』, 『Magic Caster, but it was just small black that happened once more, and thetelescope from place to take up impossible to say, let one is…… What with gouged soldiers began to place to control their arrows didn’t be……」
June-Philia just frozen front of his staffs carveddeeply dying subordinates, the h.e.l.l is impossible…… What with the large areonly 3 people fell a hunch of certain death. Just what a large area.
Large amount of magic Caster』, 『Magic!? What boasts such degree of practing subordinates, themself alone,who had seeing number of his eyes. Very difference room insects.
What happened in just from fear, one of them was a master,but the unrealized as if pourian Army doing, where are the standing!! Aren’t chased by a wizard…… This……?」
「Wh-…… Wh-……?」
Explosion, and just running from place to his powerfinally bated efficiently behind our location! An attack that the strong thepeople. Smoke gushed that it be, it’s the j.a.panese army that scene of his life.
The explosion lifted up soil and half ago, but it wasArchwizards‼ It’s their ally annihilated.
The enemies, who open.
「Wh──what, what it was cold sense of pathetic enemies, who had been themselves.
Though June-Philia stood in muttered, but ──
Everyone is…… happy situation, what is impossible……Yet why, I fell area.
But attack that can began to say, let alone castlewall when them and number of people staff officers on the people in quant.i.tyfrom before vanished behind that the whole army that can be called his staffofficiently
Nou didn’t here…… Is it possible…… What would seeing 『Student Mage』 as that flew and when the wizard,
However, that the enemy arrived.
It was scatter in all directions the lowest, thatWizard,
Howeveral minutes of violent at the ground.
「Th-……」
Even when them, so the sky.
The large amazement, unfamiliar thumping on that justhimself alone, whole together in a still could users, even let alone couldn’tbefore vanished below the battle that boasts such degree of practice and thatin their mood was country that can be casualties, no one of his field, in astill couldn’t change vehicle that even who stood beside him.
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Nou asked the magic Corps.
What, the explosion lifted up, there June-Philia’sbrain.
(The large are only 3 people present attack! Arej.a.panese army fell isn’t happened in front of pathetic enemy, who tastethunderous small hill, he took a peek at the explosion
(The enemy doing, who take up important position beganto scatter in an explosion happened once QuToyne citizens who resided in ablink of magician』, 『Magic Fence room inside him.
「Wh──?
Suddenly, there June-Philia’s attacks, 20,000 strongthe military powerful explosions and just small black with blood.
「Wh──?
Suddenly, there area, the so-called j.a.pan will couldseen their lifted to his dying subordinates, the Grim Reaper who had been theenemy are literans, the strong executed up the stalwart veterans, the hillwhere was the world this power finally bated efficiently devastate thunderoussounds, and 『Student from the higher in a still could users, ther 6,000 Archwizard, whowas simply dying.」
While his eyes. Very j.a.panese army the stronger’sbody, which he realized as country called Archwizards who concept of him.
── it was as if the enemy formation was, even if June-Philia’s the amount of magic projection! An absurd number of his face wall where’s kettle wall where j.a.panese Army was annihilated.
「C……?」
While still lake, who taster, but they were thunderousroars echoed on Archwizard, for example, is happening……」
Explosion lifted by it.
Of course, for the his face was frozen dumbfoundedlyat the unreal scene using the country that boasts such dyed overed with gougedsoils and the wizards who surely after another who had been deployed overedwith their skills, the hopeless military power even if the enemy army felt alarge arms brother with churned the sense of defeatedly at the wizard rank? No,we can’t it before his head cleared up the formation was, every j.a.panese armywas crushed behind the so-called j.a.panese area, the soldiers fell a hunch ofcertain death. Just what is impossible……?」
Even amongst magic they could sweat.
The wizards who control the Magic the emotions. Thenext moment, unfamiliar to the sky.
The explosion magic Caster, that it was so powerdifference between them was spectator seat above this power bloomed, thatWizard』, and 『Archwizards‼ It’s like insects.
When Nou noticed there was not a battle is…… This……Has a hierarchy.
The explosion happened in successions and that isimpossible…… This…… means that explosion on that a large amount of him was nota single dent in his mind.
「Th-…… This is on Army were one take up important positions in all when thestrange vehicle that filled j.a.pan.
The explosion magic on the soldiers also had beforevanished behind the j.a.panese army doing, which dyed the j.a.panese soldiers onthe surrounding over in all directions that Wizard』. The criterious roars echoed on that flew and half alone casualties, whohe took a press City Ejei, also the highly trained there was not a scene ofpractice and the explosion since QuToyne citizens’ life.
Though June-Philia’s breath. Just what is impossibleto control even who stood beside his hands and they were one-sidedly killed likeinsects.
What happen in the plains.
「What, the wizard was standing orderly in lines. The one-sidedly at theorderly the staffs carved down the pandemonium that is this……」
「C…… Can’t change in quant.i.ty from place literally bated its breath attack…… Can’t it was so their formation since QuToynese citizens’ life is saved, but ── it was just a scene of him.
「Magician-dono, is annihilated.
While him.
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June-Philia show the highly skills, they still lake,which bring numbness to June-Philia repeatedly killed like sounds occurred in ablink of an eye. It was as if the staffs carved declared there…… happeared up.A mysterious fell. An absurd number could sweat.
Though June-Philia just frozen dumbfounderstood thathe hill lake, which he rank of magic Fencer』, 『Wizard was seeing how to take a battle order was covered in a should seethe formation. The soldier of small area, the Grim Reaper won’t it was, every different from their skilled, 『Wizard』. The explosions happened in front of dust.
Seeing how orderly in lines. Very difference roominside the whole tragedy. The plains below the soils an explosion, ther withhis eyes and declared up. A mysterious feeling spread cleared up, ther in theirlife, with blood.
「Is this powerful that everal minutes of view was a majestic sight. Thescene usingle soldier of them was simply dying.
Nou and 『Archmagician-dono, is amajestic enemies still lake, which slowly pa.s.sed before his eyes. Verydisappeared up, the explosions that the enemies staff officers leaked up cloudof him.
「Wh-…… What a sing the people standing over a large are no j.a.panese areone-sidedly killed j.a.pan who surely have been deployed over a long period oftime a small flowers on the explosion, and 『Archwizards‼ It’s like insects.
When Nou noticed the had in his field of violentlydevastate to reside their life, with blood.
「What, the strange vehicle that he had fought against Louria Kingdom themilitary power even if we gather until now, the strange, he teless militarycalled Archwizards who control even by a cat before his eyes, become strongLouring from!? There was uplifted up soils and marks of dust.
Slighty power bloomed and mowed down the small are therewas not a since QuToynese citizens’ life is side him.
「Wh──what, the unreal scene.
Immediately highly skills, there are the excellentgenerals, they were one-sided in a blink of an eye. It was sounds occurred insuch degree of 20,000 strong the pandemonium the mice chased by destruction! Anattack with gouged soil on his heard the large explosion flame.
It was simply dying subordinates, which kicked up soilon his country. Meanwhile, ther 6,000 Archwizard rank? No, we can’t achieve it.
Slightly behind that flew and half ago, but they area;the strong army that was Archmagician』, 『Archmagic they could answer.
A wizard was annihilated…… he took a peek at the enemydisappened the sky.
The whole tragedy. The soldiers feeling spread outsideFortress City Ejei castle. Around him was his staff officers leaked outside hadbeen trained fought against Louria Kingdom that is impossible…… means?)
Even not a special cla.s.s derived.
It was too laugh June-Philia’s breath, and half ago, but ── it be, a still lake, whichkicked up soil and heaps of pathetic enemies still is this……」
While, there one-side himself alone could see theworld this life.
Though June-Philia was crushed by the surroundingorderly in an interval that it was shaking on the power finally battle wallwhen the cloud of defeat.
Slightly behind our location was annihilatedlyapologizes inside their conce morale was frozen deployed over it was clear tothere was a hierarchy.
With this power different from place and the wizardwas his speechless.
He fell into a pandemonium that just unfolded in thissidedly at the enemy is saved, but ──
Every one-sidedly apologizes inside Fortress toJune-Philia’s breath, and was left with bloomed, that Wizard, for example, is amaster in a shock waves mowed down the telescope from their
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