Lunar Veil [2/2] Anonymous 2018/09/17 (Mon) 09:43 No. 2213 ▼ XX
The Apollo 11 departs, and it won’t be coming again. In the end, it’s me, and seven other rabbits who survived. Did we even hurt those humans? Doesn’t matter. I got my helmet back at some point during all that... I take it off myself this time, shake out my ears, and fall down.
“That fighting reminded me of what I saw when we last went down to Earth,” says Keiun. “Humans... aren’t they just barbaric?”
I sigh and answer, “Never been, but yeah...” while picking myself up. It’s no time to rest, we’ve got comrades to bring back home and send off. I put my helmet on again, and with the others walk toward the dead I’d gathered while still fighting.
The next several hours are a blur, at the end of which I find myself seated behind a table before Lady Toyohime and Lady Yorihime inside the manor. They
both look serious, for once.
“Those are the losses for certain, Ringo?” Lady Toyohime asks me.
“Yeah,” I say, looking at nothing in particular, “forty-one rabbits dead.”
“And eight who returned,” says Lady Yorihime, seemingly crossing her arms, “but that brings the count to forty-nine; we sent fifty of you.”
I look up, not at them, and gaze off to the side, sighing through my nose.
“We haven’t taken a survey of the names yet but,” whispers Lady Toyohime, before she addresses me in a normal tone, “Ringo? Did someone run away?”
“Reisen,” I say.
“R-Reisen did!?”
“Reisen!?”
The sisters look at one another, or I can guess that’s what they’re doing out the corner of my eye.
“Why!?” asks Lady Toyohime. I’m surprised she’s reacting stronger than Lady Yorihime. I slide down in my chair, fold my arms, and finally look at them.
“She was a scared rabbit,” I explain, “not a scared soldier.” And I think to myself,
Is any rabbit a soldier? “We can’t let this be acknowledged, Elder Sister,” says Lady Yorihime, turning to her elder, “At least not the whole truth of it.”
“You’re right...” the older Lunarian agrees.
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Kizin !3bPfzwokco 2018/10/03 (Wed) 08:51 No. 2214 ▼ Kizin !3bPfzwokco 2019/07/18 (Thu) 00:26 No. 2236 ▼ >>2213 that pic...
only now do I see its error