Chapter 43
On the presidential living quarters, President Macario is sitting on his work table while in front of him are Admiral Aurelio and the robed woman.
Brando and Nievas are also within the quarter's, sitting on the couch. Aurelio's men that came with Aurelio himself were standing guard, in and out of the room.
Macario looked sternly at Aurelio for some moments then proceeded his gaze at the robed woman. Moreover, the room was eerily silent which made Aurelio sweat profusely.
Throwing a towel to Aurelio, Macario asked the robed woman.
"Might I ask your name please."
The robed woman raised her head a little and then said,
"My name is Meiya Everheart of the Everheart household. I'm the third child and the first daughter of my father, Reynald Everheart."
"What an intro." Thought Macario.
Without showing any emotions, Macario then said,
"It was said that the eyes can see through a person's soul. So I hope that you'd tell us your perspective of the situation on your side. Now, as of now you are under our custody with claims and warrants due to you attacking our allies. Might I know the reason for this?"
Without leaving Macario's gaze, Meiya replied,
"Your 'ally' was set as a target for capture back on our academy. We merely accepted the task."
Raising an eyebrow, Macario followed,
"We? So there's more with you?"
"They're dead. Killed by your beasts."
"Beasts?"
When Macario heard this, he then set his gaze back at Aurelio, showing an expression of "what the hell is she talking about?" Aurelio on the other hand, just shrugged his shoulders and said,
"When she said beasts, she probably meant about our aerial and naval fighter jets."
Hearing the term fighter jets, Meiya then nervously said,
"Fighter jets? Like those from the Sirius and Triam Empire? Are you saying that you're beasts are actually fighter jets?"
When she said this, everyone on the room immediately looked towards her. She didn't know why but she felt heavily oppressed by the sudden attention. Even when fighting against rivals and enemies, she never felt being oppressed like this before.
After a moment of silence, Macario asked,
"You know about jets?"
Meiya nodded her head, albeit weakly.
Macario then contemplated for some moments before proceeding to look at Aurelio.
"Give her temporary residence here at the Malacañang Royal port. I'll need to make a call."
Aurelio nodded and left with Meiya and his men. After they left, Brando then said.
"When the hell was this port named."
Minding his own matters, Macario emotionlessly replied,
"Just now."
"....."
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*Mieya POV*
Back when I fell in unconscious , I didn't really understood what just happened since the moment I woke up I was in a room.
Thinking about what would happen to me, I decided a small plan of escape. So, I knocked out the first person that went inside the room and continued to do so until I finally got to see the bright outdoor lights.
When I did got out though however, i immediately fell into a daze.
There were rows and rows if these 'creatures', they're wings touching the ground.
Wait, ground?
I then proceeded to look around, and what greeted my eyes were water. No, the sea.
There were also many ships at the vicinity.
I've heard about ships of all classes. Ships made from wood, ships made from iron and wood, but this is the first time I've seen ships move without sails which truly flabbergasted me. No, wait. Are there even any signs of wood here?
Not knowing what to do, I just stood there. And then everything went black once more.
By the time I woke up, i saw the same room once more and the light of the day, already setting which I saw through what I could probably call a window.
My hands on the other hand, could not move.
When I checked why, I saw that my hands are now covered by some sort of stiff black gloves with blue outlines. No matter what I did I couldn't move it.
Not knowing what to do, I just observed the black gloves with blue outlines. After observing for some time I got a gist of a small revelation. And that was that this gloves are actually good at detaining mages.
Normally when one would detain mages they would have to use some sort of sealing spell or sealing marks. As long as the mage can't do any formations then that said mage would be a sitting duck. However, this process was very tedious to do so most only subjects to either cutting their hands or making them somewhat no longer usable.
This gloves however, takes all of those cruel methods to the no zone as it can already strip a mage to a sitting duck just by making their hands immobile.
And, a great evidence of this is me.
The room of the door opened.
Three men then entered and said,
"You're awake, good. Now get a move on, were already at the port."
I stood up and just followed what they said. Even if I do anything funny this time, it'll just be useless effort since I can't use my magic arts.
Finally leaving the long metallic looking hallway, I then saw the same sight I saw earlier. However.....
"Is.. is that a port?"
It was huge. Too huge to be called a port. I've never seen a port as large as that before.
I don't want to believe that that's a port but it was mercilessly crushed by the reply of the man in front of me.
"Yes it is."
I gulped a mouthful.
Looking around, there were also many other ships in the area. One of the largest that I currently see is the ship that has multicolored boxes on it.
I suddenly felt my stomach hurting again. When this happens, I know that something not good would happen. But, I couldn't help but also feel curiosity towards this people.
They're metallic ships, they're beasts resting on this huge ship, the huge port. How come I've never heard of this. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but remember Father's stories.
My father would always tell us his experience everytime he goes to the other Empires in order to help us understand things and never be rash when we 'go out and have experience in the world'. Come to think of it, didn't he say that the Sirius Empire and Triam Empire have metallic ships as well.
Could this be....
No, I immediately took this off my head. If those Empire's would truly do such a thing, then that means they were breaking the diplomatic peace treaties formed by our and their Empire's.
So, if it isn't them. Then who is it?
I kept on contemplating on who's behind these people until I suddenly noticed that I was gestured to enter a room.
When I entered, I saw three people there. Two sitting on what I would presume as a long chair while the other person was looking right at me, beckoning me to sit in front of the two chairs opposite of him.
At first, there were just brief introductions on my part. However, I suddenly heard a very familiar term that was always said by my father.
"Fighter jets?"
The moment I said that, the person that asked my name and for my brief introductions suddenly looked at me, also the man that brought me here looked at me as well. I even have a feeling that those behind me were also looking at me when I said that.
Wh-what.... Was saying that......
I started to panic. I'm currently detained and I couldn't do any of my magic arts. Wou-would they do something to me because I said that?
Thinking on my current predicament and how to escape it, the man in front of me suddenly said.
"Give her temporary residence here."
Eh, what? Residence?
I was dazed when I heard that. They're not going to do anything to me? No slavery or other cruel stuff of some sort?
Even when I was brought to this so called residence, I still couldn't get rid of my dazed expression.
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