The mont Aiko stepped out of the teleportation slash, she seed to hear my muttering and acted awkwardly.
It seed... sothing had happened with the stealth sli herd during my absence from this military expedition, causing to glance at my magic circle formation and see the pattern of the stealth sli herd, which spreading further away from Marquess Roml’s knights.
There was no mistaking it...
Sothing had happened to the stealth sli herd, and they were on a separate ways from the exploration path of Marquess Roml’s knights.
While watching Aiko smile awkwardly at , the teleportation slash behind her slowly closed.
"U-Uumm, Supre Commander..."
"W-Want to hear so interesting information about what we’ve discovered?" Aiko say, and telling a question that piqued my curiosity.
Aiko smiled and tried to keep calm in front of , but unfortunately, her legs were shaking, and her body was making strange movents.
It makes feel certain that sothing has happened to the stealth sli herd, which has caused them to separate themselves from the exploration that Marquess Roml’s knights are doing.
"If it’s sothing interesting, I’d love to hear it," I replied, preparing for the worst-case scenario that Aiko might tell .
While I was in the old castle town, the Soul Ta communication channel had been cut off from my mind. Whether the distance is too far or there is a limitation of the Soul Ta communication channel, I don’t know where the root of the problem lies between the stealth sli herd and Marquess Roml knight.
"I-It’s not sothing that will make the Supre Commander angry or anything..."
"It’s for the sake of being able to imitate what the Supre Commander has done and sharing Supre Commander burden, t-together," replied Aiko, who started to think of a way to telling the information she knew after feeling awkward.
Her eyes darted to the right and left, staring at the ground as if she was confused by her own thoughts.
"I-It shouldn’t be a big problem, because Sirius will take her responsibility for this," Aiko muttered, looking unsure whether to telling the information or not.
Sirius, huh?
If this is related to Sirius’s responsibilities, I can assu that she is doing sothing related to her high curiosity.
My gaze remained fixed on the magic circle formation that mapped the surrounding area and continued to expand into beca a large map. Several red dots, which from the stealth sli herd position, seed to be moving together at the sa speed.
"While the Supre Commander was away, I received a report from Sirius about an underground cave that appeared to have been built by a human, and Sirius tried to enter it... Then found a group of mysterious monsters living inside."
"At that ti, I tried to stop Sirius actions and gave orders to help the Marquess Roml knights who were tasked to exploring the deep forest. However, Sirius still entered the underground cave with the excuse of taking so unique samples inside."
"If I’m not mistaken, Sirius said that there was a strange wooden box, and it contained so shiny objects inside. She tried to take the shiny objects inside the wooden box to hand over to the Supre Commander and divided the stealth sli herd into two parts. One part helped the Marquess Roml knights and the other part would explore the underground cave with her," said Aiko, who looked awkward when telling what had happened.
Twiinnkk...
Twwiinnkk...
Aiko’s eyelids fluttered, and the smile on her face looked forced.
"Supre Commander, you’re not too angry about Sirius’ decision to ignore your orders, are you?"
"I-I know that Sirius should receive a severe punishnt for neglecting her primary duty to assist the Marquess Roml knights who were exploring the deep forest as her primary responsibility, after I was ordered to maintain the Supre Commander’s magic circle formation..."
"B-But believe ... Sirius didn’t do that on purpose!" Aiko shouted in a high-pitched voice, drawing the others’ attention.
What Sirius was doing, indeed seed to be ignoring my orders to assist the Marquess Roml knight.
"I left this military expedition because I knew there were still so people I could trust based on their abilities to fill my absence as the leader of the military expedition," I said in a weak tone and thought about what other action I should take after hearing this.
"U-Um, does that an Sirius will be punished for disregarding your trust, Supre Commander?" Aiko asked with curiosity, her face bearing a sad expression.
"I don’t know... it depends on what Sirius finds out after exploring that underground cave. There’s so reason Sirius could say for ignoring my orders and betrayed my trust in her, right?" I replied, smiling coldly at Aiko, making her tremble with anxiety.
Aiko lowered her face and looked gloomy, showing a vulnerable side of herself who was anxious about the fate of Sirius, who had blatantly ignored the orders I had given.
"There’s no need to worry like that, Aiko."
"Sirius has split the stealth sli herd in two while you were busy maintaining my magic circle formation, right?"
"That ans... she was also aware of her responsibility to replacing you as the leader of the stealth sli herd, but she just went off to explore the underground cave that caught her attention."
"Now, I’m actually curious about the stealth sli who is responsible for helping Marquess Roml’s knights explore the deepest parts of the forest," I said with a cold smile, and looked at Aiko, who was still standing in fear in front of .
Srraasshhh...
Srraasshhh...
As I said that, I suddenly heard the sound of soone’s footsteps trampling the grass. My eyes imdiately glanced toward the source of the footsteps and feels a presence of soone, who using stealth magic.
My hand imdiately pulled out my magic staff that was stuck in the ground, and I imdiately pointed it towards, that’s presence.
Kachiinngg...
Kachiinngg...
Simultaneously, Alice and Alyssa imdiately drew their magic staffs after sensing the sa presence as . The key rings on our magic staff jingled, and several attack magic circles ford before my eyes.
Swiirrll...
Swwiiirrrlll...
With this fast chanting of the magic circle formation, I still restrained myself from making a quick magic attack and posing a threat first.
"S-Supre Commander..." Aiko called out to in a hesitant tone, and her hand grabbed my arm.
Srraasshhh...
"S-She was the one in charge while Sirius and I were busy with our own affairs," Aiko continued while pulling my arm to lower the magic staff that was ready to release a magic attack.
In front of the activated magic circle formation, ready to attack at any mont, I saw the form of a little girl releasing her stealth magic. Her hands were raised in surrender pose, and her mouth trembled, unable to speak.
"Su-Supre Commander?" In a soft, gentle voice that sounded gentle to my ears, the girl called Supre Commander.
It felt strange because I had no recollection of ever eting a little girl like this. Especially one who could use stealth magic, which requires a significant consumption of magical energy.
In other words, the little girl before was no ordinary little girl. It was a little girl I had never t in person, but sohow... she calling as her Supre Commander.
To be honest, I already know the answer.
Maybe it was my fault too, for always relying on Aiko and Sirius, on every problem related to the stealth sli herd.
"I almost unleashed a magic attack on you..." I said in a calm tone and lowered my magic staff, while releasing the magic circle formation in front of .
This little girl...
She the stealth sli that Aiko relies on, huh?
Her outward appearance was that of an innocent child wearing a military uniform, which was slightly larger in proportion to her slender little body.
Still looks cute for her, though...
"Thank Goodness that didn’t happen, Supre Commander," Aiko replied as she let go of my hand with her trembling hands.
"..." I looked at the stealth sli figure in front of carefully.
Her human form, which looked like a little girl, almost made misunderstand her, and my hand reflexively reached for my magic staff that was stuck on the ground, almost releasing a quick magic chant along with my twin sister’s fast magic chant.
The little girl in front of had pastel purple hair and eyes that matched her hair color, now staring at calmly like a little girl who wasn’t afraid of my quick magic spell.
"Forgive for appearing suddenly, Supre Commander."
"I was just making sure Aiko was okay and still alive after going to the trouble of fulfilling the Supre Commander’s orders."
"I see... Aiko looks fine after becoming a dried sli in the hot afternoon," she said while glancing at Aiko, who was still holding my arm.
Compared to seeing her as an innocent little girl, I actually see this stealth sli as a calm and more mature than her little girl form.
"Thank Goodness Aiko is fine and didn’t make the Supre Commander worry about her body condition, which is drying up like a sli in the heat," she continue while smiling cheerfully and stroking her chest.
Is this just my guess, or is this stealth sli really more mature than Aiko and Sirius?
Even Aiko and Sirius never showed their mature attitude like this...
I’m not seeing things right, am I?
And my eyes aren’t deceiving , are they?
"Yeah, by the way, may I know your na?" I asked, which inadvertently made realize that there were still many stealth slis that hadn’t been properly nad.
"Ah, forgive for being so presumptuous, Supre Commander. My na is Stealth Sli number four hundred and one," she replied while bowing her head as a sign of respect to .
"..." I was stunned for a mont and took a deep breath regarding my past self’s behavior of not wanting to think too much about complicated nas for the whole stealth sli herd.
I an...
With so many of them, my little brain would explode trying to think of complicated nicknas.
So I ca up with a simple way to na them.
Even if it’s just giving them nas based on numbers.
Sohow, I feel guilty about this...
And coincidentally, this stealth sli has qualified for get a nickna that suits her.
"Starting today, throw away the na stealth sli number four hundred and one..."
"At this very mont, your na is Iona," I said while staring at the stealth sli in front of .
The mont I said that, I suddenly felt a rush of silent air and saw her body trembling.
Her head, which was bowed in front of , imdiately lifted and looked at .
"M-My Supre Commander, did I mishear sothing about having to drop my old na and adopt my new one... Iona, which sounds too beautiful for this weak stealth sli?" the little girl asked while still bowing in front of and holding her trembling body.
"Yes, did you... Want to refuse your new na?" I replied coldly.
"N-No, I-I love that... my new beautiful na, My Supre Commander!! T-Thank you so much, My Supre Commander!!" the little girl said, and she suddenly knelt before .
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