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Thirty Fifth Wind [Audio]

-The souds of gunfire are heard, several repeating rounds, as well as a frustrated grunt-

...Daddy, where are you...

If I know anything about desert fox's, it's that as smart as they are, they still run away from a bullet...

(( Virigina, in this AU, is the daughter of MIA soldier Werner Maxwell. He'd gone missing in Northern Africa, suspected to be captured by the Afrika Corps ))

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You lookin' for your old man, huh?

Yeah... They say they're looking for him, but I don't think they're looking in the right places.

Who's lookin' for him?

Is that why you joined up? To look for your old man?

United States Armed Forces, North African operations.

...They won't let me go into combat on account of being a woman.

So, he's a deserter too, huh?

Combat is no place for a woman. Or any sane human being, for that matter.

You don't know that! My father's no deserter!

And I can fight too! I'm a better shot than any of these draft boys!

Takes one to know one, girlie. I should know.

Bet you ain't better than me. I was "born" for killing. At least, that's what those creeps at the hospital kept sayin'.

You don't know my father!

I never forget a face, frauline. And I never forget the names of those I've killed.

What was his name? Perhaps he and I have met on the battlefield.

Lt. Col. Werner Maxwell...

Unmöglich! You are the daughter of that... that traitor?

That man... was the only worthy foe I have ever met in battle. And the only one to survive my attack...

...What in the HELL are you talking about?! You had better explain yourself if you have the gall to call my father a traitor!

He was a traitor to his people, to the Fatherland! He abandoned his role as a member of the Council of Seven, abandoned his research for the Yggdrasil Project... and exiled himself. All in the name of "atonement." For the grievous sin of creating a living weapon... me.

They sent me to find him and kill him. But... I could not defeat him. I was wounded. But instead of killing me... he bound my wounds and nursed me back to health. He said that this was not the path that I should take... That we were wrong to even think that the our beloved country could ever be restored though violence and bloodshed.

Since then, I have questioned my motives for being a soldier in this war. I no longer know what it is I am fighting for...

You...you...

You're crazy. None of that could possibly be true. My father's research was purely medical.

So you think, Frauline. I suppose he wanted to spare you the sordid details of his sinful past. As to be expected of one who bears the weight of the world on his shoulders.

But here I am. The culmination of years of experimentation. The "ultimate warrior." An einherjar, to herald in a new age for rightful rulers of this world.

But... I tire of endless battle against foes who fall before me like grass before the scythe. I have gained freewill. I no longer wish to become a tool, a weapon, to be used by others. I suppose I have your father to thank for that. Perhaps he has finally "atoned".

....No... You...

YOU'RE SOME SS MONSTER! MY FATHER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

Tell me this: which is truly more evil? The monster, or the men and women who gave birth to it? I have seen far more evils and atrocities than you can even imagine, Frauline.

Did you not wonder why your father disappeared? He wanted to protect you from the hounds chasing after him. From me.

But I do not seek to hunt him any longer. Not after he saved my worthless life. But there are others who are surely after him... and me. I am not the only human weapon that was created during that time.

Do you wish to find him? Perhaps I may be able to help you.

I... I don't know what to think.

There is a terrible man chasing after me now. He is called Janus Cascade, a man possessed of a Demon. He'll kill me, and then he'll come for your father.

I don't think that I could win against him, not as I am now. But if your father and I fought side by side... perhaps we would stand a chance of defeating him.

...I'm in the town of Sieben right now.

I am not too far from there.

I know you have no reason to trust me, but... I intend no harm toward you or your father. Before I met him, I had no thoughts of my own. He awakened "freewill" within me. I cannot go back to the being the mindless killing machine I once was. I have become too... human.

...My name is Virginia. Virginia Maxwell.

Then you may call me Jet Enduro.

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