The External

December, 10, 1420

Scarlet and her fleet withdrew back to Azkon's borders following the events on the Garrera on the evening of December 7, 1420. The loss of the Kraken caused the entire Azkon army to become disheartened and make a complete retreat from Vongord.

The Vongord received their captured lands back as a result of the complete retreat. In addition, after losing Garrera, the Azkon Empire eliminated Operation Penguin Blockade and labeled it a failure.

Scarlet and Prince Vad travel to Mox, the Azkon capital, for a meeting since all of the generals of Azkon have been summoned there as a result of their retreat. Because of this meeting, there's now rumors that the emperor of the Azkon Empire is going to sign the peace treaty Vongord offered to them after their defeat on Garrera.

"I hate my life!!" Prince Vad suddenly exclaimed while sitting on the cafeteria inside the Kamilla.

Prince Vad got very sad after his ship got cut in two, his men are trying to comfort him but nothing worked on him, so Kaizer decided to step in to help his miserable brother.

"Brother, can you stop crying on the cafeteria, you're the next heir to the throne, you must not show any weakness on public." Kaizer demanded to the prince, he then take a seat and get a glass of water.

"I'm sorry brother, i just get very sad when i think what will happen to my life now." Prince Vad responded.

"Are you scared of what father will do to you?" Kaizer inquired.

"No, I don't care what father will do to me, but now that the Kraken is destroyed, i'm pretty sure Scarlet will think i'm very weak now since i just lost the largest ship Azkon Empire have, and because of that.. she will not marry me anymore!" Prince Vad exclaimed at Kaizer.

Kaizer get furious after hearing what Prince Vad said, the glass of water his holding is cracking because of the amount of rage his getting, he then break the glass of water into pieces, and stood up, and subsequently grabbed Prince Vad's hand and dragged him back to his room.

On that same time of the day, at the balcony on the top of Kamilla, Scarlet was there once again, admiring the beautiful snowy mountains on her left side, and the gorgeous forest covered on snow at her right.

After a while of sightseeing she then saw Maya flying back to the Kamilla, Maya flew right at her direction and said, "General, i got the goods you're asking for." she then hand over a mysterious bag to Scarlet.

"Thank you Maya, your flying magic was really reliable" Scarlet said to Maya.

Maya nodded as a response and flew to the hangar at the side of the Kamilla where she can enter the ship again. Scarlet opened the mysterious bag and grab the object inside it, the object inside the bag turns out to be a bread.

She didn't noticed Neo was sitting and watching her as she happily eat the bread until he suddenly talk, "Does it taste good?" Neo asked to Scarlet as he watch her eating the tasty looking bread.

Due to Neo's unexpected questioning, Scarlet accidentally drop the bread she was eating, which she immediately save from falling to the floor by quickly crouching to catch the bread, she then stood up and said, "Master, please don't startle me like that."

"Oh, i didn't know you didn't noticed me sitting here for a long time now." Neo spoke.

"Wha- how come i didn't notice you're sitting there for a long time now??" Scarlet exclaimed after realizing what Neo said.

"Maybe your eagerness for the bread to finally come, block your senses and make you unable to realized i was here the whole time." Neo responded as he stood up from the seat he was sitting from.

Neo then start walking slowly toward Scarlet and asked, "Now Scarlet, does it taste good?" Scarlet walk back as Neo slowly approach her, she keeps retreating until she finally hit the railing on the balcony, "Answer me Scarlet.. does it taste good?" Neo asked again.

"Ye- i mean no! it doesn't taste good, so please don't take my limited edition special jam bread!" Scarlet responded.

"I'm not gonna eat it, i'm just asking if it taste good" Neo said.

"You're not?" Scarlet inquired.

"Yeah I'm not gonna eat it.. unless" Neo replied.

After hearing Neo's last word, Scarlet quickly finish the bread she was eating, she ate it very fast Neo didn't even realized she was done eating it, Neo then said, "You can win a food eating competition if eat you like that."

"Shut up.." Scarlet said while gasping because of exhaustion she got after eating the bread in just a second.

"Attention! Attention! we are now approaching the walls."

"What's that?" Neo asked.

"Oh that's just speakers inside the ship" Scarlet responded.

"No, not that; I mean the walls his talking about," Neo clarified his question.

"What? you don't know about the Azkon walls?" Scarlet exclaimed.

"Yeah, i really have no idea" Neo replied to Scarlet's sudden exclaimed.

"Hmm.. this amnesia that master have is really frightening, who would thought it was this bad.." Scarlet mumbled to herself with a sign of anxiety on her face.

"Alright Master, Let me educate you about the walls!" Scarlet suddenly shouted.

"Okay!" Neo replied.

"Alright, first thing you need to know about the walls is: It's a 1000 years old structure! and because of that reason, no one knew who made the walls! that's why there's some theory that the walls wasn't actually man-made." Scarlet happily explained.

Neo nodded as response after hearing what Scarlet explained.

"Second thing you need to know about the walls is: It was built to protect Azkon. But actually no, since Azkon Empire was only founded 100 years ago and the walls was built 1000 years ago. So what is the walls actually protecting? actually many people don't know too much about the walls too, even me.." Scarlet explained with a doubt on her face.

Neo nodded as response to Scarlet's uncertain explanation without any sign of confusion on his face.

"Alright the third and the last thing you need to know about the walls is: Why that airship over there is aiming it's cannons at us?"

Neo nodde-

"WHAT!"