Chapter Text
Now, how are things going with the FIBTS?
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Oh, and Napoleonic.
Well you see they have been following this pattern for quite some time.
Go to a town in hopes of spying, get directions first just in case, fail getting said information from spying because Hinkari, running for their life because Hinkari and repeat.
But maybe...
Maybe today is that day.
"This might be the biggest city we've run into so far."
The group was standing on the cliffside that peered down a rather large city. The city was surrounded by a frozen moat along with stone walls surrounding the city.
Unlike all the other towns where there's usually a forest around them, acres of what seems to be farms were around the city walls.
There was a icy cold river flowing through-
WAIT A DAMN MINUTE.
THIS IS WHAT MOST ISEKAI CITIES LOOK LIKE.
WHAT THE FUC-
Napoleonic had to wait in the RV since the moment he steps outside, Third and Soviet are most likely going to grab him and throw him off the cliff for several reasons.
"Is it just me or I have a feeling every town we encountered so far is just a copy and pasted version of this, but smaller and without the farms and river?" France mumbled.
"Eh, it could be true."
"Can we just get to the point on who's going with who to spy on the city already? I'm freezing over here." The roach was already impatient and was freezing to death despite wearing the most layers of clothing in the group.
"We've been outside for literally 2 minutes. How are you already cold?" Soviet deadpanned.
«Snom»
(Yeah)
"You wouldn't be cold if your dumbass didn't eat the meth stuffed in chocolate during WW2."
Unfortunately, it seems that Soviet had forgotten something.
"Uncle Sov, what's meth and WW2?" Mina questions, making the five go white.
Oh fuck.
She can read CH minds as well.
«Snom.»
(Uh oh).
"W-What are you talking about?" The Russian played dumb.
Since Mina was facing away from her "parents" they were desperately trying to tell the communist to not answer her questions.
"Also why did you call papa a mean word in your head?"
"Say, uh how about we go inside the RV now?" Britain quickly changed subjects.
"B-But-"
"No buts. Let's just go inside. I'm sure you don't want a cold yourself do you?"
“That was too bloody close. What were you thinking?!"
"Look it's not my fault that I forgot that Mina accidentally gained mind reading powers since we have to constantly worry about Hinkari’s ugly ass arriving at any moment." Soviet defended himself.
Britain stayed quiet for a moment before finally answering, "Fair enough."
"But still, who's going with who down to the city? We're starting to run out of group options." France said.
"How so?"
"Me and Imperial were captured by Hinkari when we both went and we both don't want that to happen again," France said before pointing at the half brothers, "You three will fight and alert Hinkari and get stalked by Basil. Me and Britain can't go since one of us has to stay here to watch two certain people."
"Soviet and Third can't go together since they'll fight constantly. Two, certain people on the internet will see this as a perfect opportunity to ship them."
«Snom?»
(What?)
"Excuse me? What do you mean by that?" Third said as his eye twitched a little.
"Yesterday, I was a bit bored so I decided to check the internet to see if people are talking about us. People ended up knowing about WW2 and major conflicts that had happened in the town. Certainly the hype about us died down but I found some...rather odd stories about you two just based off of tags and such. I learnt my lesson to never check A03 again.”
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"You know, I think this is the only time I don't want to know the answer to something." Imperial admits. Maybe some things are suppose to be not known.
"Like odd stories of us not fighting every 5 minutes?"
France remained quiet and just stared at them before answering. "One word: Bedroom."
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«SNOM!»
*Thud*
[Snom Fainted due to fall damage!]
Well, Soviet casually faints from pure disgust as Third oddly grabs his gun and aims it at his hea-
"THIRD PUT THE GUN DOWN!"
Five minutes later of Britain and France trying to (unfortunately) prevent Third from shooting his head even though CH can't commit suicide.
Also no unfortunately Russian and fortunately no Snom was harmed in the process of this chapter
"So that explains why you threw up in the middle of the night."
"Yep. Curiosity killed the cat." France regretted seeing those tags of certain stories involving the male war criminals.
"Ok, can we change the subject now? I don't want to hear this ever again." Imperial was done with this topic and just wanted to move on.
"Gladly."
«Snom Sno...» Snom’s eyes were a bit whirly.
(My head…)
"So the good thing is that we can still do duos. Unfortunately it's going to involve someone." Britain said.
"Please don't tell me that some of us have to go with that poor excuse of a man that's in his room right now."
"Third, can you quit it with your homophobia shit?! What if Mina hears this?!" Britain just wanted to slap the living hell out of the German.
The German just scoffs before going quiet since Mina was in the room near them.
Since she can read minds now, Third will have to shut the fuck up on some of his opinions.
"Well, how about you go with Napoleonic first?" France suggests.
"Amour, are you serious?" The Anglo country blinked at this.
"Yes I'm serious."
"Have you forgotten the reasons why we didn't invite him to our wedding?"
"Was it because he was ga-"
"Shut it Soviet and shut your homophobia opinions as well." Britain shut the communist up, "It's because he tried killing me multiple times when me and France were engaged. And he was obsessed with killing me before and during the Napoleonic wars."
"Look, the only reason why I'm asking is because Soviet and Third will immediately kill him on the spot and Imperial doesn't want to be near him. Or maybe it's because her and him might start beheading Nobles out of nowhere." France said.
"Now why would he do that?" Britain questions.
"Well, before all of this, I overheard Qing and Korea talking about how crazy Napoleonic was for trying to start a revolution when they arrived here after seeing a noble."
"Ah."
"I would go, but I don't know what people are waiting in that city below. But next time, me and Napoleonic are going down, okay?"
"Fine..." Britain agreed but he knows he'll be regretting everything about this.
And he will.
"So...it's just you and me now huh?" Napoleonic stated the obvious.
"I'm fully aware of that shit Mr. Sherlock." Britain said, "Just don't do anything stupid that will expose our position."
"Jeez, grumpy today?”
"Yes I am. You're lucky that I'm doing this for your sister's safety. Don’t want any perverts trying to do anything funny to her.”
"But isn't she with that bastard (Third) who invaded her back in, what it's called again? WW2?"
"She knows how to deal with him. I would rather have that instead of her getting harassed by men who can't get laid."
"Say, have you and France...done it yet?" Napoleonic oddly questions.
What are you doing Napoleonic?
"Done what?"
"Oh you know. What your father did when he was in the British Empire."
"Avoiding child support?"
"No, not that."
"Why are you asking me this?" Britain finally realized what Napoleonic meant.
"Nothing really in particular." Napoleonic mumbled, "I thought you and her would have a child already."
"Well, we do have children, but all of them are adopted. Some of them are my half-siblings."
"How many half siblings do you have?"
"You can ask my dad that. Not me."
*ding*
France < Amour, we have a small problem back in the RV
What happened? Is Third and Soviet fighting? >
France < Not quite. I can't find them. I looked around the RV and they're not there. Imperial knows, but she's not telling me
Ofc she won't since she won't rat out her sociopathic Clyde (bf) of hers since she’s the psychopathic version of Bonnie >
Check the tracker app? >
France < That's another problem. Due to how far we are from the base, our connection to the radio waves are getting low to the point where the map of the app won't load properly.
Shit. I'll see if I'm able to find them. I have a feeling they may be following us. But I'll let you know if I do find them >
Just keep an eye on Imperial, Claude and Mina. Me and Napoleonic will go find them after the spying, if we do spy that is >
France < I will. Stay safe out there <3
"So the two are following us?" Napoleonic was suddenly looking over Britain's shoulder.
"Noisy much?" Britain glared at him as he took a few steps away to gain some distance.
He could have sworn he felt Napoleonic was trying to touch or hold his hand or something.
Or maybe he was hallucinating.
"And why the bloody hell were you so close to me?"
"To get a better view?"
"Is that a question or an answer?" Britain raised a brow.
"Answer."
"This is going to be a long day." Britain was already done with everything today.
"Nevermind, let's just get going."
Britain turns around and begins taking a few steps to resume their walk to the city.
However, he felt like he was getting stared at and didn't hear the others footsteps crunching the snow beneath it besides his own.
"Are you coming with me or are you just going to stand there and freeze to death?" Britain turned around as he was annoyed by Napoleonic.
"Sorry, just zoned out." Napoleonic was snapped back to reality before catching up with the Anglo country.
"His body might be better than R.E's." Napoleonic mumbled quietly.
Napoleonic what the fuck. You do realize Britain is married to your sister right?
"What was that?"
Fortunately and unfortunately, Britain didn't fully hear what Napoleonic said.
"Nothing, just talking nonsense."
There was a scoff from the Anglo country before he turned around and continued walking.
This is going to be a very long day for Britain.
He's prefer to deal with Third and Soviet's fighting than Napoleonic alone.
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Meanwhile off to the side, two certain people saw what really happened that Britain failed to see.
"He just HAD to mention my dad."
"Is it just me or did he just stared at Britain's ass?"
"WHAT?!"
«Snom?!»
"Names and reasoning of why you two are here?" A knight questions the duo.
"We-"
"Oh, we're just two best friends who are wanderers stopping by a city to get some supplies." Napoleonic interrupts Britain as he pulled him into a one arm hug, "I'm Francois and he's...Ethan!"
"I can introduce myself, you know?" Britain grumbled as he slapped Napoleonic's arm away in order to slip away from his grip, "Also was it really necessary for that hug though?" Britain glared at the French country.
"Hmm, wanderers eh? Then where are your horses?" The guard raised a brow, "No wanderers will go alone without a horse to carry them."
"It's because we prefer to walk! After all, the horses may get tired from constantly carrying weight on their back whilst walking in all sorts of terrain." Napoleonic lied.
"So you guys walk wherever you want?"
"Yep!"
"Hmm..." The other guard took a closer look at the two.
The knight soon took out a scroll of some sort.
It was a wanted poster. The guard deems Francois/Napoleonic not suspicious, but this Ethan guy was questionable.
"What's that?" Britain questions.
"Oh, haven't you heard? Hinkari has set out these wanted posters of five CH. He claims that they have been going into towns and causing some type of mess." The guard showed the Wanted poster to Britain.
And that poster had him in it.
It said:
"Dead or Alive
Wanted for being a member and spy of the invading army, trespassing, murder of Adam Wilson, abduction of Luna and freeing a dangerous criminal.
Unpredictable, Dragon Hybrid who can turn into a dragon and wields a knife at all times
Mid back blonde hair that is tied up into a ponytail, 5'8 and has a green right eye. His left eye has a black sclera and iris with a star shaped pupil.
Reward: 100,000 gold coins"
"Oh, isn't that just awful!" Britain pretended to sound disgusted in himself, "Don't those wankers know that this so-called dangerous criminal is a literal child?!" He wanted to scream at them, but he couldn't.
"Yeah, this Basil person that is with Hinkari drew these portraits of them. However, I noticed that she put a lot more quality into the male ones." The knight casually told them.
The wanted posters then involved Britain, Soviet and Third had a lot more details to it.
Shading, lighting, their flags are 100% right, hair strings and there was a diagram of them in the bottom right corner.
The portraits for France and Imperial however, it was alright I suppose, but there was a clear sign that Basil didn't put too much effort in it.
"Say...you look...similar to this guy." The knight glared at Britain.
"It could be a coincidence. After all, blonde hair and green eyes are quite common in this world. I mean, look at him, he has green eyes and blonde hair." Britain tries to lower his suspicion as he points at the other knight.
"Right...but why are you wearing a hat?"
"Because it's cold and snowing? Isn't that common sense?"
"True..." The knight mumbled before turning towards his fellow comrade, "Say, what do you think?"
"I think we can trust them. They don't look too similar to the damned CH roaming around." The other knight opted to let them in.
"Hmmph, alright."
"Open the gate!" The knight called out to the others on top.
With a loud creak, the giant gate door slowly opens, revealing the town inside.
There were a lot more citizens living inside with most areas being crowded and knights were everywhere.
"Is there an event going on in there?"
"King Sadan is visiting the city to speak with Duke Temperis."
"Huh..."
"So Shenli's dad is here. That's good and bad news for us." Britain thought.
It's good news since that means they can get more information about this upcoming attack of the Novitron people. The bad news is that knights are everywhere and it'll be incredibly difficult for them to spy on his meeting.
"Well, have a good day you two. We'll be off to buy some supplies!" Napoleonic began scooting Britain as a signal for them to start entering the city.
As they were midway through the gate, Napoleonic felt a hand on his shoulder stopping him.
"Now just hold on for a second." The knight said, "I'd like to ask you two one more question m."
"Okay, how did we end up in this situation?" Britain mumbled as he and Napoleonic found themselves wearing the armor the knights here had.
Well, at least they weren't caught. But how did they get recruited to become knights?
All they said was that they were wanderers just walking around.
Do they just assume all wanderers are strong people?
"I honestly don't know."
Britain felt like he was done for since he barely used a sword.
"Shouldn't we be using blunt weapons like maces instead?" Napoleonic questions.
"Well, in this somewhat practical armor, no."
"But it suits your body well."
"What?"
"Nothing!" Napoleonic immediately played dumb.
"Right..." Britain side-eyed the French country before looking to his left.
There he saw the Wanted posters of them again.
France had the lowest bounty on her head as she is only responsible for being an accomplice with Britain in the murder of General Adam and freeing Claude.
But holy shit, Third and Imperial's were about 500k golden coins. They were responsible for the deaths of the Knight Camp at Coda Beach, multiple accounts of assault and murder, trespassing, killing and skinning of two Nov'tri and abduction of a child.
He would question how did Hinkari figure they had done it, but he's the "main character" of this story they're in so far.
However, there are two other wanted posters. One of them had no portrait, but had the same sentencing as Third and Imperial so Britain can assume this poster belongs to Fascist.
Snom had a poster above Soviet's Wanted poster saying: "King Sadan wants this creature alive! Whoever brings this creature to him will be rewarded 2000 cold coins!"
"So they're really onto us. Shit."
"Hey! Are you two newbies here?" A fellow knight approaches them with a friendly demeanor.
This knight appeared to be around Altaria's age, but he seems to be 20 or 21. There was a small scar going across his nose and his hair was rather messy.
"Uh, yes we are."
"Well, my name is John and I believe you were looking at the Wanted posters, correct?" John said.
"Well, mainly Ethan (Britain) was."
"Heh, I bet you two are quite shocked to see what this woman has done since Theodore at the gate told me you two are wanderers." John said, "Can't believe this woman is running around in whatever world these CH live in. Bet they're barbarians."
Okay, how should we tell John that he's talking to two disguised CH?
"Well, soon enough we'll have enough men to defeat them back in Quinx Hill and free Princess Shenli. Hence why Theodore recruited you two as we need every man we can get." John said.
"Say, how much men are in this again?" Britain questions.
"Hmmm, last time I remember it was about 150,000 men or so. But it's increasing slowly." John unawarely told the hidden CH information, "We would have gotten more if New Haven didn't refuse to send their men to help us and become our base. But since they're close to Quinx Hill, they probably did it for their safety."
"But isn't t- oof!" Napoleonic was interrupted when Britain jabbed his elbow into the French's stomach to shut him up.
"What was that?"
"Nothing." Britain coughed.
"Hold on for a second, I have never gotten your name. What is it?" John turns to face Napoleonic.
"Francois."
"Oh wait, I forgot to ask you guys something. Have you guys ever slayed a dragon before? Most people say that wanderers like you are known to slay dragons once in a while."
"Uh...no we haven't. Unfortunately we're those not so special wanderers that roam these lands." Napoleonic said non-chantly before using one hand against the wall as he leaned against it.
However, the hand landed right next to Britain as if Napoleonic was trying to pin the other CH to the wall with one hand.
"Aw, that's unfortunate." John complained a bit as he was hoping he could hear some cool tales about their adventures.
Meanwhile, Britain shuffled himself away, clearly confused on what Napoleonic was trying to do. Slightly uncomfortable with it.
"Damn it, that didn't work." Napoleonic huffed in his mind since his plan failed.
"Anyways, we should start going to the training grounds so that Captain Luis can give us our roles for today." John said before walking past them.
Not wanting to get exposed or be considered suspicious, they begin following him.
"So we take turns on doing a certain routine each day, correct?"
"Mhm! Hopefully we get along with each other. I can tell that us three will become great friends!" John smiled, unaware that he's talking to two CH.
"Poor kid. It's going to hurt after he realizes that we're spying on them." Britain felt guilty as he knew eventually, he'll have to betray John soon.
"Alright, listen up here maggots!" Captain Luis shouted, "Today is a special day since our glorious king, Sadan will be visiting to talk with Duke Temperis about the war with these hideous things they dare to call them human." Luis points at the Wanted posters with his sword, piercing the paper.
"We aren't technically at war with you guys. You just don't know when to get your head out of your asses." Britain said in his head while trying to appear nonchalant about this.
"So it's our goal to ensure King Sadan is safe and no pesky people get to him. Based off of what Hinkari and his friend's encounters with these peculiar five," Luis points at the five Wanted Posters of the FIBTS once again, "these poor excuses of humans can look like us by hiding their hideous patterns. Alis Vitae, there could be one lurking amongst us right now."
This stirred a murmur in the crowd of knights as they started suspecting who might be the CH running around in this group.
However, this was quickly silenced once Luis started talking once again.
"We especially need to make sure the man with the eyepatch (Soviet), the man with burn wounds (Third) and the woman with the sun on her face (Imperial) don't get near King Sadan." Luis said, "They are heavily dangerous as two of them partook in the massacre at Coda Beach."
"But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. We have two newbies that will be joining us. Francois and Ethan. Treat them well and help them out if they need it." Luis's tone softened a bit as he gestured towards them, making most of the other knights turn around to look at them.
However, this didn't last long since Luis went back to being strict again, "Joseph, John, Eddison, Will, David, Henry and Quill, you seven will be in charge of patrolling the prison halls, making sure no prisoners try to break out."
As Luis begins assigning knights for routines, John lets out a silent groan.
"This is the second time I get assigned for that damn prison." John complained.
"I get why it sucks. It's dirty, damp, mold most likely in the ceiling corners, bugs everywhere and especially rats. Ugh, just even thinking about rats makes me sick." Britain/"Ethan" said with disgust.
"No...it's because you have to deal with prisoners cursing you out." John finds what his friend Ethan said was a bit odd.
"Oh sorry, he doesn't like dirty places that's all." Napoleonic tried making Britain seem less suspicious.
"Ah, gotcha. You know, my dad used to be like that even though he's a hunter." John understands, losing his suspicions on "Ethan."
"How ironic."
"I know right?"
"Francois, Ethan, Fredrick, Dillion and Philip, you'll be in charge of guarding the throne room where King Sadan and Duke Temperis will be meeting at." Luis said, "However, you don't have to worry too much as Hinkari and his group will be there."
Hearing this made the two sweat, especially Britain. Now this just adds on to the pressure as Britain is afraid Basil might accidentally expose him and who knows what will happen next.
As for Napoleonic, they're not familiar with and he may have it easy unlike the Anglo-country.
"You alright? You look nervous." John noticed that Ethan was looking a bit off.
"Sorry, this is like my first time seeing Hinkari up close. Heard that he's a strong man and has defeated many enemies so far." Britain said as he was trying to prevent himself from gagging since he complimented Hinkari.
"Yeah. You know I kinda find it strange how he arrived a day before the CH arrived. It's as if he was transported here since he's so powerful and smart."
"That twat is dumber than a bloody rock and he uses the power of friendship for crying out loud. I wouldn't exactly call him smart and powerful." Britain really wanted to say this but couldn't.
"Anyways, I wish you two luck! I'll see you guys later!" John said before leaving.
As John left, Britain slowly felt his head turning around and looking up in a tree nearby. On one of its branches was a black eagle sitting there.
Looking at them.
"Whatcha looking at?" Napoleonic questions as he somewhat leans on Britain's shoulder and not so secretly puts one arm around his neck.
Upon this happening, Britain noticed that the eagle stiffen and was giving a more murderous look.
"Looks like...you know, is here with us." Britain said before pushing himself away from Napoleonic, "And why are you so obsessed with making any sort of physical contact with me?!"
"What? Can't I just show some common courtesy of being friends with you?" Napoleonic acted like nothing was happening in his head but made sure nothing seemed suspicious, “After all, you’re basically my brother-in-law now and it’s probably better to improve our relations since the Napoleonic Wars are in the past now.
"Look I don't know what you're up to but stop it! You're being a pain in my ass!" The Anglo-country harshly said towards the French country.
"Oh? So he's one of those people. This is definitely going to be interesting." Napoleonic assumed Britain was some sort of tsundere or something even though BRITAIN IS MARRIED TO HIS DAMN SISTER.
"I mean, I can change that."
"Excuse me?"
"I mean, I think we have to go to the throne room so that Captain Luis doesn't get mad at us!" Napoleonic quickly changes subjects to avoid suspicion.
Britain lets out a small scoff with an eye roll before turning around in order to head towards the obvious castle in front of them.
But once again, he didn't hear any footsteps following behind him, making him turn his head back at Napoleonic.
Who's just standing there.
"Get your fucking ass moving!"
"Sorry, sorry, zoned out again." Napoleonic lied as he began catching up with Britain.
"Get your damn head out of the clouds and focus on the mission damn it!"
As the two walked away and knights slowly dispersed, Soviet suddenly appeared on a tree, sitting on a branch lower than the branch the eagle was on. In which the eagle turned into a roach disguised as a sociopathic German.
How the hell did nobody see a red man with brown clothing sitting on a bare tree?!
"How is he not noticing that the bastard is clearly trying to hit him up?!" Third said and due to his of course, homophobia, he felt like he was going to throw up, "He literally checked his ass out twice and it's fucking disgusting!"
"Probably because he's mainly focused on getting shit done than whatever Napoleonic is doing. But at least we have something to blackmail him."
"True. Say, how will France react to this if we do tell her?"
"She'll probably go apeshit."
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"Also I don't think 500k gold coins is enough." Third bluntly states as he holds his own Wanted poster, "I want to make that one million."
"What the fuck."
«Snom Snom...?»
(Why is he like this...?)
"What? It's to make King Sadan go into debt."
"King Sadan will arrive in 5 minutes! Everyone gets into position!" General Luis shouted at the knights who are currently in the throne room.
"Luis, please lower your tone, I do not want King Sadan hearing you shouting." Duke Temperis told Luis to be quiet.
"My apologies, your highness."
"Okay so we just stand here, remain silent and copy what the others do. Seems easy enough." Britain stood in front of a pillar that was closest to the throne. "Just have to hope Napoleonic, Roach or Soviet don’t ruin it." The Anglo-country hoped as he looked at Napoleonic who ended up standing at the pillars nearest to the door due to everyone else taking spots.
It was a long and agonizing five minutes since they were forced to just stand there and not do anything but just stand there.
They can't even lead against the pillar behind them.
The door soon creaks open, revealing two heavily armed guards that are actually wearing practical armor with rather large shields. Guess the battle soldiers wear the Roman like armor as guards wear more medieval like armor.
Behind the knights was King Sadan. The knights began getting on one knee in order to show respect. Just to avoid suspicion, the two CH follows suit.
"Why the bloody hell does he look so old yet young at the same time?" Britain found this rather confusing.
Behind King Sadan was Hinkari's group.
Wait, why are they still in the same clothes?
It's winter for Pangea Sake!
Don't they smell as well?!
"It's an honor to meet with you, King Sadan." Duke Temperis smiled at the emperor, "I do apologize for the inconveniences you may have encountered when organizing this meeting between the two of us due to the five CH roaming towns, but I believe this meeting will go quite smoothly."
"Let's just get to the point of this." King Sadan wasn't there for small talk and went straight to the point, "How many men did you manage to recruit to join the Imperial Army?"
"I say around 5,000 men so far. However, most of them are not that well experienced I'm afraid."
"It doesn't matter. We need all the men we can get in order to defeat those pesky Countryhumans who are in our land and took my daughter."
"Well, I do feel sorry that they got her back at New Haven. It must have been hard for you to lose your 7th child especially since your previous children passed away." Duke Temperis sympathizes with King Sadan's lost.
"It is indeed. Since she's gone, I'm not sure if she's showing the symptoms of the curse that the Dragon Priest has given to the family at the beginning of the Collapse. Who knows what the Countryhumans could be doing to her now." Sadan had a miserable look on his face, however the tone in his voice didn't quite match his body, "Oh my dear Shenli."
"But didn't Serpens Pacis told UN the Collapse happened a century ago in this world? There's no way a human like him can live up to 100 years unless magic is involved. He doesn't even look a day over 50!" Britain felt like Sadan was lying about whatever intentions he was thinking.
Fortunately, someone brought this up. "But the Collapse happened 100 years ago. I'm sorry if this offends you Sadan, but how are you still alive?" Tecqu questions since she found what Sadan said rather suspicious.
"You see, since I ran the liberation of the city that the Dragon Hybrids lived in, the Dragon Priest set a curse that makes me immortal to aging but every child I have will die at the age of 21 due to some sickness." King Sadan explained but this too felt off.
Unfortunately though, Tecqu fell for it and remained quiet.
"So, when will the invasion of Quinx Hill happen?" Hinkari questions.
"It will happen on the day when all of the snow has melted and on a cloudy day. There Novitron should have enough power to withstand their magic." King Sadan answers Hinkari's questions before facing the Duke.
"I want you to try to get 10,000 men to join us. I'm debating if I should let 16s and up join us as a last resort since they're mature enough."
"You bloody wanker, they're still children! Who sends their children out to war where they're just walking towards a meat grinder?!" Britain grew furious at this thought but remained quiet.
"Well that's just a recipe for disaster." Napoleonic did a small judgmental side glare, but made sure it wasn't obvious.
"But how will we get Shenli back? Surely when we're fighting the Countryhumans at the beach, some of them may stay behind and possibly kill Shenli." Duke Temperis questions and points out a small situation they'll have to deal with.
"I'll have a portion of the army to head to their base as a distraction. In which the sons of dukes of lords will save her. However, the first to save her will get married to her as I need a male heir to inherit my throne if this curse does pass by eventually."
"Does that include anyone who saves her like me?" Hinkari oddly questions this as his eyes gleamed a bit.
Zelya had a worried look on her face as she felt like she got friendzoned but she assumed Hinkari was just using himself as an example. So she forced a fake smile on this, which caused Tecqu to frown at.
"Hmm, why yes. After all, you have done many things that most knights can't accomplish. However if it's just a normal person, like a commoner or a dragon hybrid," King Sadan shuddered in disgust at the thought of a Dragon hybrid saving Shenli and her marrying one, "Then that's where we'll have problems."
"But what will happen to Norma? I heard that he was the dragon hybrid who became the Empire Princess's bodyguard." Emma said.
"He only became her bodyguard because Shenli picked him and I didn't want to deal with her begging me for Norma to be her bodyguard everyday. She must have formed some sort of friendship with him when he was behind bars, hence why she chose him out of all volunteers. Once she's back home, I'll dispose of Norma since he failed at protecting her." King Sadan answered.
"But the two are practically happy with each other. Why is he trying to get rid of her happiness?" Britain had a small frown at his face.
It was noticeable, but he's pretty sure the others assumed he was frowning at Norma's name.
As they talked and talked, Britain noticed that Basil was paying a bit more attention to him. Her glances soon turned into stares.
He had to try his best to avoid making eye contact with her or show any signs of him feeling discomfort.
Oh, but Basil, the ever so stalke- I mean observant person noticed one small detail that can blow his cover entirely.
The scar on his neck.
"Basil, is everything alright?" Arthur questions, making the situation 10x worse.
"Something seems off with this knight in particular." Basil said as she glared at the disguised Anglo-Country.
"What's the meaning of this Basil? Can't you see I don't have the time for this?" Sadan got annoyed as her actions interrupted his and Duke Temperis's discussion.
"But your highness, the scar on this knight is the exact same scar as the one on this wanted poster." Basil compared "Ethan" with Britain's wanted poster
"Let me see." Arthur said as he looked at the wanted poster and back at the knight.
Each time Arthur looked at him, a frown slowly became noticeable. Then he looked up one last time, eyes widened as his grip on his wand tightened.
The secret is out.
All because of a damn neck scar.
"Well, bloody hell-" Britain managed to frown before he was suddenly forced to the ground due to Arthur's magic.
The magic instantly made the Anglo country return to their CH form and their outfit that they were wearing previously to their disguise.
Even his dragon hybrid features came out.
Everyone but Basil gasped in shock since a CH somehow managed to infiltrate the knight system. Basil however let out a squeal.
Oh dear Pangea, she's drooling again.
Knights immediately surrounded him besides Napoleonic who wasn't discovered just yet. However, General Luis was quick to notice.
"Wait, if Luke recruited Ethan, Ethan came with Francois and Ethan is a CH, that means..." Luis stared at Napoleonic.
"Sortez d'ici! Ne vous inquiétez pas pour moi et récupérez les autres!" Britain managed to shout out to Napoleonic in French.
The French country took no time to start running and began darting down the hallway.
"WE HAVE A RUNNER!" General Luis shouted as he began to chase.
Arthur tried to use magic on Napoleonic, but like Imperial, his magic didn't have an effect since Napoleonic is a revived person.
Back with the Anglo country, he felt himself suddenly float up and stand. However, he couldn't move his muscles at all besides his face and eyelids.
"How many of you are here!?" Duke Temperis demanded an answer as his face was showing that he was panicking a bit.
"Just me and that other guy." Britain said as he didn't want them to know that Third and Soviet are roaming around somewhere.
"Lies! I know there are five of you and you guys tend to split up!" Hinkari didn't fall for it.
"True, but not today."
As for King Sadan, he had the look of someone who would say the most racial slurs towards someone all because of a small thing.
However there was a small peak of interest in his eyes. This was his first time having a up-close look a CH.
"Maybe your species does have a worth in life. Your skin would make wonderful decorations for my palace."
"That was a bit rude to say, innit?" Britain non-chantly said.
"I- uh, how are you so calm about the fact King Sadan literally said that he'll skin you alive?" Tecqu was confused and disturbed by how calm Britain was.
"Well, when you have a sociopathic half-older brother who kidnapped your wife and tried setting your house on fire multiple times (bombing of London), a communist half-older brother who has questionable behavior, taking care of ¼ of your town's children, get jumped by said children since you look identical to your father which is their father, getting attacked by your wife's older brother and having to sell drugs in order to pay for your father's child support, it makes what he said tamed."
"Oh..." Tecqu mumbled, "Jeez, he went through a lot." Tecqu thought.
"What have you pests been doing to my daughter?" King Sadan demanded, "If you tell me, maybe I would reconsider not skinning you alive. Just how you did with those two unfortunate Nov'tri scouts."
"Um, actually that was my half-older sociopathic brother with his psychopathic girlfriend and their narcissistic friend who did that. Not me." Britain told Sadan that he had no part with the fish descaling.
"Tell me now!" King Sadan demanded again with his voice being more higher and aggressive.
"I actually don't know since my group hasn't been to the base for quite some time now and due to how far we are, some of their texts aren't getting through and communication is getting thinner due to the lack of radio waves."
"I'll have my men burn your town down, cut off the maidenheads of your women and take your children until I get my Shenli back." Sadan threatened, but it was mainly all bark, no bite.
"Pfft, says the one who is sending their own men to a meat grinder and marrying their own child off to a random dude since they saved her. In fact, you're possibly one of the worst fathers I have ever met. Make my own father have a run for his money." Britain had a slight laugh to Sadan's threat.
Sadan's face was full of blood that was about to burst out from his face from the sheer anger that Britain triggered.
"Oh I'm sorry bruv, did I hit a nerve?"
"Hinkari, have your group get this thing out of my sight this instant and put him in the dungeon." King Sadan ordered as he was frowning at Britain.
"Yes your majesty." Hinkari bowed before gesturing to his harem- I mean group to follow him.
As they left, Duke Temperis had a guilty look to his face.
"I'm terribly sorry for all of this, I-I was not expecting for them to infiltrate the knights and the fact they can make themselves appear human." Duke Temperis apologized immediately for the commotion.
"It's not your fault as I'm as equally surprised as you are. Furthermore, let's continue our meeting." King Sadan allowed this to slide.
"Thank you for your forgiveness, your highness."
However, Sadan noticed a black eagle landing on a bare tree branch that was the closest to the window.
It was holding a dead fish as well.
"Well, why don't you look at that. It seems like the gods are giving me a sign that this CH should be executed tomorrow morning, a gift from me before I return to my castle." King Sadan smirked.
"What makes you say that your highness?"
"A black eagle holding a fish is currently sitting on a tree branch outside. It could mean that the CH will die since black eagles are associated with Alis Morth."
"Ah, now I get it. However, let's continue this meeting shall we?" Duke Temperis suggested that they should continue talking about the invasion.
However, unknown to King Sadan, black eagles are associated with someone else or a family in particular.
The German family.
Oh, how naive Sadan is since that's not just a normal black eagle nor a sign that death is coming.
That's Third Reich.
...
Okay maybe death is not coming to Britain.
But it's certain that death is coming for a few knights soon. Oh Pangea fuck-
"Can I please hug him?!" Basil begged as she desperately wanted to see how her "daddy I'd like to f-" I mean to see if he was armed by hugging him in order to feel any hidden weapons.
(Please kill me, I regret writing that)
"I prefer to not be hugged by you, I have a wife and children. Well step children." Britain didn't feel like getting touched by Basil in any sort of way.
He couldn't do anything since he was restrained by magic.
"Well, I can be better than your wife~!"
"First of all, you're somewhere between 18 and the 20s and I'm in my 40s. So that's an obvious no. Second of all, you're not appealing to me and I have no interest in you unlike my wife."
"W-Well I can change! I can be appealing to you!" Basil felt hurt and got desperate.
"Basil, he's not interested, cut it out." Tecqu told her.
"Thank you for telling her that. I don't want this to have a downfall on her mental health."
"So you have interested in him?! Is that why you're telling me to cut it out?!" Basil immediately got defensive as her possessiveness kicked in.
"No, I'm already interested in someone else that isn't him." Tecqu frowned at this before doing a quick glance at Zelya.
Basil lets out a hurt huff as she looks at the floor, folding her arms.
"Am I too fat? Or is it my hair?" Basil begins to ponder what Britain finds her unattractive and is getting self-conscious.
Well, Basil, if you were France, then Britain would find you attractive.
But you're not France so womp womp.
They soon approached an open cell where it was away from other prisoners. A knight was standing by and opened.
"C'mon, get-"
"Don't touch me. I can get in there myself, thank you very much." Britain slightly snapped at the guard not wanting to hear anything from them as he got inside the cell for them.
"I'll handle this, you can go." Hinkari told the knight that they could leave, which they did.
"Alright blue face, we have some questions we'd like to answer." Hinkari said, "What's you-"
"I plead the fifth." Britain interrupts Hinkari by pledging to the fifth amendment even though he's not American nor America.
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Means that I won't be giving out information to law enforcement."
"Why can't you cooperate?! The two women from your group that we captured didn't give us any information and now you won't either!" Hinkari grew frustrated at this.
He's the main character!
The enemies would always tell him their plans! He has fucking plot armor for fuck sakes!
"It's because we're logical beings who won't tell people like you what we're planning. I mean I can tell you that we're not even doing anything really."
"Lies! I know you're up to something!" Hinkari didn't fall for this.
"Like me trying to find a way out of here cause that is exactly what I'm up to."
"Besides that! I know what you guys are up to!"
"Which is...?"
"Uh...Arthur help me out!" Hinkari didn't know as he asked Arthur for help.
"What? I don't know what they're up to!" Arthur was confused on why Hinkari asked him instead.
"Can we ask actual relevant questions instead? Like why did he do this, why did they do that, blah blah." Tecqu wanted to get straight to the point.
"Is Tecqu the only logical person here that isn't including me?" Britain deadpanned.
However, he wasn't sure about Zelya though.
"Yeah! Why did you free a dangerous criminal and murdered Captain Adam Wilson?!" Emma tried to make herself feel smart by asking this question.
"First of all, he was trying to kill a literal kid! I strongly doubt a kid would have committed murder or a serious crime or in fact, I doubt that he committed any crimes at all! So like any natural father following their instincts, I stabbed that bloody bastard!"
"So a dangerous criminal was a kid?" Emma couldn't connect the dots, "That's terrible!"
"Yes, now, imagine that it was a normal human child instead of a Dragonkin or hybrid. I'm fully aware of how the Dragon Hybrids are treated here and it's honestly disgusting."
"Now I do feel bad-"
"Zelya, don't listen to him! He's just trying to guilt trip you!" Hinkari turned a blind eye at the truth as he interrupted Zelya.
"You really need to open up your eyes twat." British huffed at Hinkari's denial.
"But they are?"
Britain lets out an annoyed sigh after seeing how stupid Hinkari can be. "I meant figuratively, not physically."
Hinkari was about to open up his mouth, probably about to say the dumbest shit when they heard footsteps approaching them.
"Oh hey! Since when did you guys get here?" John noticed that Hinkari's group was here, unaware of the events that happened at the throne room.
"Apparently, two CH managed to infiltrate the Knights but Basil managed to notice one of them, which is the one we caught. However, the other is still on the loose." Arthur told John what happened.
"Is Ethan and Francois alright? They're the newbies who kinda became my friends so..."
"Hey John." The Anglo-country casually said, throwing John off guard.
"W-Woah...I..I u-uh...wasn't expecting them to b-be this...colorful." John was quite stunned since this was his first time seeing a CH up close, "H-How do you know my name?" He awkwardly laughed at this.
"Well I'm the Ethan person you befriended unfortunately. I was hoping it didn't end up this way."
"He's joking right?" John was on copium as he asked Hinkari's group.
"Unfortunately, he's not."
John went quiet after hearing that as his mind was trying to adjust to what was happening.
How can he be so naive?
"Ugh! I can't believe I let my trust out so easily! That means he heard me calling them barbarians! Shit, now he's going to hold a grudge against me!" John was all over the place.
"Hey Hinkari, I think it's best for you guys to get back to the Throne room just in case the other CH get back." Tecqu suggests, "I'll stay and do some questioning."
"But when you stayed behind on the other two and they escaped easily." Arthur found this suspicious.
"Don't worry I'll have John here with me." Tecqu said in order to avoid suspicion.
"I want Zelya to be here as well, but I'm afraid she might tell Hinkari about our conversation or the fact that I freed Britain. I'm glad that she didn't tell Hinkari on what happened with Imperial and France." Tecqu felt some shame in herself for not trusting Zelya enough but also trusting her at the same time, "Maybe next time..."
"W-Wait what?"
"Alright, I guess. We'll see you guys at the throne room." Hinkari shrugged at this but Britain noticed that he was annoyed by Tecqu's choice.
The others soon leave, leaving John and Tecqu alone with Britain.
However Basil just had to get final last looks of Britain before Zelya yoinked her away.
"W-Why did you lie to me? We could have been good friends!" John said, clearly hurt by this supposed incident.
"Look, you're a good kid that's just being influenced by those around you and I was hoping this wouldn't happen. However, the situation that my world and your world are in forced me into this. King Sadan wants to invade my world for no apparent reason when we defend ourselves from the Kingdom Alliance army. And it was on my mayor's birthday for crying out loud!" Britain told John that he didn't really have a choice since he wants to help create peace within the two worlds.
However, since the Axis did a mistake by casually killing an entire knight camp and even getting the Nov'tri people involved after they had skinned two Nov'tri scouts alive to blame them, war is nearly guaranteed unless UN can negotiate with both sides.
Man, way to go Third, Imperial and Fascist!
You just had to ruin everything!
"I'm dearly sorry for all of this happening to you and your species Britain, but people are stupid and arrogant at times." Tecqu said.
"I agree and how do you know my name?" The Anglo-country frowned at this.
"When we captured your wife and Imperial, your wife, France told me your name to me." Tecqu said, "Don't worry, I won't tell Hinkari nor Basil about your name."
"Oh right, France told me that she told you." Britain mumbled, "What about John?"
"That sounds more like a kingdom's name to be honest." John comments.
"My species is literally called Countryhumans. What do you expect?" Britain deadpans.
"Why didn't you mention Claude's name when you mentioned how he was about to be killed?"
"Privacy reasons. However Hinkari is a dumbass so I suppose I could have mentioned his name." Britain said.
However, he realized something.
Soviet and Third are also here and running around somewhere. And he's pretty sure they saw him get taken away. Knowing them, brute force is going to happen.
"You guys need to go." Britain told them.
"W-Why?"
"Well I did a famous and special technique called "Lying" when I claimed that it was me and Francois or Napoleonic, the older brother of my wife." Britain answered, "My two older half brothers are here, running around and you don't want to be an enemy to them just saying. They're...ruthless is all I can s-"
*CRASH!*
"INTRUDERS!" A knight yelled but then...
*BANG!*
The sound of armor crashing against the floor was heard along with multiple sounds of gunshots.
"You two need to go now!" Britain told the two to leave now but it was too late.
Mainly for John.
*BANG!*
"AGH, F-FUCK!" John screamed in pain as something had flown into his right eye, causing extreme pain and stumble to the floor.
"Hey horned Hündin, hands up!" The German war criminal appears, the culprit of shooting John's right eye.
"Third what the fuck!? She's on our side!" Britain yelled at Third.
"Then what about the knight person?" Soviet's head peered around the corner.
"He's just a kid who's being influenced by people around him! Why the fuck did you shoot him in the eye Third?!"
"Habits."
"I wonder why." Soviet just stares at Third, "You literally made seven people lose their eyes and made Greece blind!"
"Don't forget that T-Rex during the time travel incident and that dragon from earlier." Third casually mentions this.
Anyone getting the feeling Third might shoot a god's eye or a eldritch horror creature somewhere in the near future?
"Are they like this?" Tecqu whispers towards Britain.
"Pretty much, but you have magic right? You're able to get the bullet out of John's skull?"
"U-Uh I can try?" Tecqu isn't the best surgeon or healer, but she'll try her best.
"Where the fuck is Napoleonic? And why the fuck are you two here?!" Britain demands answers from the two.
"I'm right here!" Napoleonic nearly lost his balance after he tripped on a knight's corpse.
"You're suppose to be dead you fucking dipshit!" Third did his own version of telling Napoleonic to shut up.
"We didn't like the idea of you two going alone together so we followed to make sure Napoleonic didn't do anything else." Soviet explained why he and Third followed the two here, "Also don't worry about not getting enough information, I managed to record the entire thing from Sadan's conversation." He held some small device that was a recorder.
"We also caught him checking you out and tried hitting on you multiple times." The communist added.
"I DID NOT!" Napoleonic defended himself.
"Says the one who told his wife, IF MY DAD WAS A WOMAN, YOU'D MAKE HIM YOUR MISTRESS!" Soviet snapped at Napoleonic, "AND THE ONE WHO FUCKED MY DAD (R.E)!"
"WE WERE BOTH DRUNK, IT DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING!"
"BULLSHIT!"
"Jeez, family drama is wild..." Tecqu was practically stunned by the amount of drama that is going on with Britain's family as she manages to get the bullet out of John's eye.
As for John?
Well he's unconscious due to blood loss and pain shock unfortunately.
Tecqu casted some magic on him to slow the bleeding down.
"Wait, wait, wait. You say that he checked me out and tried hitting me up, correct?" Britain wanted to make sure he heard this properly.
"Ja. He checked your ass twice, complimented your body and even said that yours may be better than bastard's (Soviet's) dad, tried to pin you against the wall and tried to make any excuse to touch your hand or get remotely close. I'm honestly surprised that you didn't pick up that he was trying to hit you up when he literally asked if you were a virgin or not." Third listed all of the things that he and Soviet noticed from Napoleonic.
"Okay, can you at least take these chains off of me? Arthur used some sort of spell on me that prevented me from shapeshifting for a while." Britain needed help on removing the chains.
But with a lift of a finger from Tecqu? The chains broke and the door opened.
"Thank you Tecqu." Britain thanked Tecqu before approaching Napoleonic.
"I think someone just got the world's biggest slap." Imperial stated as she looked up from her book about human biology.
"What do you mean Mama?" Mina questions this.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling a certain someone got slapped by another certain someone." Imperial said, "Pretty sure Napoleonic got slapped by Britain."
"Why did Uncle Britain slap uncle Napoleonic? That isn't really nice." Mina heard the Japanese country's thoughts.
"Napoleonic probably said something mean to him. The two don't have the greatest relationships." Imperial said.
"Uh, Aunt Imperial, is France okay? She seems...upset." Claude questions Imperial as he noticed that France wasn't happy.
She was NOT happy.
She had recently found Napoleonic's diary in his RV's bedroom and decided to read it like any sibling would.
Finding secrets and using them as blackmail or ammunition for taunting them.
However, she was met with something else. Her brother was indeed obsessed with Britain back in the Napoleonic wars for two reasons
Killing him.
And, he gained some feelings for her husband somehow.
Also kept mentioning that Britain had a nice as-
"NAPOLÉONIEN JE VAIS TE TUER!!!!"
"Welp, someone's going to die tonight." Imperial said with a shrug.
"What?!" Mina freaked out about this.
"I meant figuratively, not actually. Napoleonic is just going to get yelled out."
"Oh."
"Uh, since when was there a snow storm?" Claude questions as he notices that the snow is going down faster."
"Shoot." Imperial would have said shit but Mina and Claude were here.
Looks like Roach and Napoleonic won't be having a good time.
"You missed the part where you're supposed to stab-"
"Third, I slapped him because he's trying to hit on me when I'm married to his sister and likely, him sexually harassing me! I did not slap him because I'm a homophobe." Britain said.
"Why did you have to slap me so hard?" Napoleonic complained as there was a red handprint mark on his face.
«Snom Snom Sno»
(Cuz you're a idiot)
"One to knock some common sense and two, at least you didn't get whacked in the face with a sledgehammer or shot multiple times."
"Right..." Napoleonic mumbled. “Okay, yeah, I definitely deserved that slap.” Napoleonic was starting to feel guilty.
Several footsteps were heard approaching.
"Uh, okay how do I get away with this without Hinkari gaining suspicion of my actions?" Tecqu mumbled at this.
"I mean I can knock you unconscious."
"Well, that could wo-" Tecqu was cut off after a sledgehammer decided to go meet Tecqu's head, immediately knocking her unconscious.
«Snom?!» Snom was spooked when Soviet hits Tecqu's head with his weapon.
"Soviet what the fuck?!"
"Hey, she said it could work so I did what I did."
"Ugh, Napoleonic go pick up John."
"You know I would say something, but I did kidnap countries back in the 1940s so I can't really say anything about this." The German did want to say something but couldn't since Britain will casually remind him about the events of WW2.
"Well one we can get more information, two, so that he doesn't have to worry about Shenli and three, he knows too much." Britain said.
"We're going to run out of resources."
"We should be heading back now since we did got some information so..."
"Thank Pangea, I don't fucking understand how those families of twelve can live so easily inside some van."
"That's the neat part, they don't."
"There they are!" A knight yelled.
"Woah, I can't even see anything outside!" Mina was amazed by how thick the snow was outside.
"Not sure if it's a good thing since we can't see your dad and the oth-"
*THUD*
A black eagle suddenly slams into the window where Claude and Mina were peering through in a cartoonish way before it fell to the ground.
There were some footsteps outside, the door unlocking and Third rushing in.
His skin was probably purple since he nearly turned into a popsicle out there.
"Papa!"
"Sorry not now." The German said as he made a run for it to the blankets before he died from hypothermia.
This was attacking Soviet back in WW2 all over again.
Soon the others got into the RV, covered in snow as it clings into everything.
Hair, clothes and their faces.
Also Soviet's eyepatch appears to be glowing and Snom was eating the snow off of Soviet's ushanka.
The door soon closed.
"Uh why is it-"
"Chernobyl accident."
"Ah, gotcha." France understood why Soviet's eyepatch was glowing.
"Third for Pangea sake we need some blankets as well!" Britain immediately got annoyed when Third was hogging all but the bedroom blankets and was acting like a turtle, "Give us some!"
"Nein." The German denied, but didn't really do anything when Mina grabbed a blanket from the cocoon.
The privilege of being the st- I mean daughter of a war criminal I supposed.
Two actually.
"So, we have another...passenger?" Imperial questions as she notices that Napoleonic was carrying an unconscious person.
"Long story short, me and Napoleonic somehow befriended him, I got caught by Basil, made Sadan upset, put in a jail cell, Soviet and Third came along and we had to run in a snow storm for 30 minutes since Third accidentally got us lost for a moment." Britain said.
"Did Hinkari do anything to you?" France got concerned for Britain.
"Fortunately no, however, Basil wanted to hug me very badly since I was caught by Arthur's magic."
"But we did get some information this time." Napoleonic said.
"Finally! After so many attempts we got information!" Imperial was somewhat frustrated since it took them this many attempts on getting information regarding King Sadan's plans.
«Snom Snom?»
(I know right?)
"Also brother, I found your diary earlier," France told Napoleonic, making him turn white, "and I was hoping that whatever you wrote in there is in the past now."
"Y-Yeah, it is."
"Uh, actually the reason why me and Third suddenly left was because we didn't like the idea of Britain going alone with Napoleonic since we had some suspicions. In which those suspicions came true since Napoleonic tried to flirt with Britain multiple times." Soviet snitched on Napoleonic.
"FRÈRE, POURQUOI PUTAIN VEUX-TU FLIRTER AVEC MON MARI?!" France yelled at Napoleonic in French.
(BROTHER, WHY THE FUCK DID YOU FLIRT WITH MY HUSBAND?!)
"Ce n'est pas à quoi ça ressemble!" Napoleonic defended himself as he places John onto the couch.
(It's not what it looks like!)
"C'est un mensonge merdique." The German adds, surprising Napoleon.
(That's a shitty lie.)
"Depuis quand as-tu appris à parler français?!"
(When did you learn French?!)
"Seconde Guerre mondiale."
(Second World War.)
"Cela n'a pas d'importance. Ce qui compte, c'est POURQUOI PUTAIN AS-TU ÉCRIT "GRANDE-BRETAGNE A UN BEAU CUL?!" France was furious when she yelled at Napoleonic, "DITES-MOI POURQUOI!"
(That doesn't matter. What matters is WHY THE FUCK DID YOH WRITE "BRITAIN HAS A NICE ASS?!" TELL ME WHY!)
"EXCUSE ME?!" Britain was taken off guard after hearing what France said and what Napoleonic wrote.
As Britain and France were now yelling at Napoleonic, the Axis stood there. All, but Third did not understood what the three are yelling about now.
«Snom?» Snom tilted its head since it doesn't understand French.
"What are they saying?" Soviet questions.
"Best not to tell since Claude and Mina are here."
"W-W-Where am I?" John finally woke up but was greeted by this mess.
His vision was blurry for a few seconds but it became clear again.
However he was very light headed as he was still recovering from blood loss.
"Oh, so you're finally awake."
"AH!" John screamed.
Oh, John was in for a real treat alright.
A very chaotic one.
"Ugh...my head...maybe I shouldn't have agreed to being knocked out." Tecqu finally woke up after getting hit in the head by a sledgehammer.
Her vision was blurry and it was quite dark outside. And also a snow storm was going on.
However, she felt something squeeze her.
"Tecqu, you're awake!" Zelya cheered as she hugged her friend, "Are you alright?!"
Tecqu was definitely trying to hide her blush before anyone walks in or Zelya unfortunately lets go.
In which she did.
"M-Maybe? My head is still dizzy and my head hurts like crazy." Tecqu said but was slightly sad since she wanted the hug to last a bit longer.
"Me and the others found you unconscious back where we left Britain off." Zelya said, "It kinda hurts me that they did that to you when you freed two the other two."
"No, no, I was trying to find a way to avoid getting considered suspicious and this Soviet guy told me that he could knock me out. And, I-I agreed to it." Tecqu didn't want this to be seen as a betrayal, "But jeez, he's hella strong. Also there is another Ch with them who is identical to France."
"Who is this Soviet guy and the other one? I only heard of Britain and...what was the other man's name with the x?" Zelya forgot the german's name.
"Third Reich apparently."
"Right. I only heard of him and Britain."
"Soviet is the man with the Snom and eyepatch. You know, the one who kicked Emma in the stomach when we first encountered them?" Tecqu told Zelya who Soviet was, "The other is Napoleonic and it turns out the entire CH group is basically a family with a bunch of drama. Soviet, Third and Britain are half-brothers, Napoleonic being the brother-in-law even though he slept with Soviet's dad, Imperial being the aunt or something since she's with Third, and Britain and France being married."
"Wait, why am I telling her all of this? I didn't let her stay with me when Britain was in the cell since I didn't trust her enough. Yet I'm telling her all of this." Tecqu questioned herself on why she was telling Zelya all of this.
"Was it probably because my gut didn't want her to get hurt? After all, that sledgehammer hits pretty hard."
"Everything all right?" Zelya brought Tecqu out of her thoughts.
"S-Sorry just zoned out."
"It's alright. Was your mind thinking about the war again?"
"Y-Yeah!" Tecqu said in order to avoid suspicion, "Anyways, where's Hinkari?"
"He's cooling off. He got extremely frustrated since he and the knights failed to capture the four men running away. Fell for that darn dragon trick again."
Flashback
"There's nowhere to run!" Hinkari yelled at the four CH, the snow making it slightly difficult to see them, "You can choose the easy way or the hard way!"
"Why did you just have to say that corny ass line?!" Soviet complained about this.
"Guess we're choosing the hard way."
"Again?! Seriously?!" The Russian exclaimed with annoyance.
"Welp, looks like we're going to get captu- LOOK A ICE DRAGON IS APPROACHING BEHIND YOU GUYS!" Third did the "look behind you" trick.
"WHERE?!" All the knights and even Hinkari looked behind them.
But nothing was there.
When they turned around, they saw nothing but a sign that Third somehow got his hands on.
The sign said: "You guys are fucking idiots for falling for the same trick for the 3rd time in the row."
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Hinkari yelled out in frustration.
End of flashback
"He should be fine tomorrow." Zelya adds on.
"Wait, did you guys find John?" Tecqu realized that John was with her.
"Who?" Zelya questions this.
"They probably took him since he knew too much and to treat his wounds. Not sure on how long the magic will last though." Tecqu assumed, "Nevermind."
As this was going on, a certain someone just had to eavesdrop.
"So my three potential lovers' names are Britain, Third and Soviet?!" Basil's smile grew ever so bigger, "Perfect! Now we know each other's names!"
"How come she didn't tell me?!" Basil huffed at this.
She didn't care about the fact Tecqu had set France and Imperial free a while ago and now helped Britain's escape. She just cares about gaining as much information about the three as much as possible.
She needs to know everything about them.
She even got herself an empty diary from a store when she got here.
Ever since, she's been drawing them.
Taking notes.
Trying her best to remember what they look like. Sounds like. Acts like.
She opens her diary, revealing detailed pictures of the three and even had some strands of Britain's hair that had fallen off stuck to her diary.
There were some drawings with a lot of detail about their eyes.
Talk about obsessive behavior.
It's quite obvious she's a Yandere since no sane person would do this.
When she heard that Imperial was with Third and Britain was married to this France person and had refused her advances, her jealousy went extremely high.
She was kinda relieved that she hadn't heard anything about Soviet having a romantic relationship with someone, but still. She needs to have them to herself.
She had kept a section in her book that had a drawing of Imperial and France.
Although it wasn't as detailed as the males, she only drew them for the sake of comparing and seeing what the German and British were into.
She's not sure about the Russian though.
When she flipped to it, she approached a mirror that was hanging against the wall.
"I don't get what they find interesting from those two. I'm clearly better than them!" Basil told herself, "I'm an expert at using the bow! They're not! But this Imperial lady knows how to use this sword of hers. Maybe I need to learn how to use a sword and be better than her. Then Third will be attracted to me right?"
"I bet they used some sort of magic to make them look pretty and their beauty is not natural. Unlike mine!"
However when she looked at herself in the mirror, she couldn't help, but feel a bit conscious about herself.
"Hmm...maybe I'm too fat and my hair is not long enough? Those two have pretty long hair. Maybe they're attracted to that." She questioned her looks as she looked back at her diary and back at the mirror.
But she was actually quite fit for her age.
"Hmmm..."
She tried copying her front hair to look exactly like France's front hair before copying the looks of Imperial's rear hair.
It was messy, but she eventually got close to the style.
Well only close to it since her hair was rather wavy but it should smooth out eventually.
"There we go! Looking much better now! So much prettier as well." She smiled at herself.
Yet her outfit was nagging at her.
Taunting her.
Laughing at her.
"Hmm, not sure about this outfit though. Could use a new outfit." She felt insecure about her outfit.
"Maybe Hinkari can help."