Part 41: Reunion

Chapter 40 - Reunion



"Riou, good luck. Good luck."

"Leave it to me. Riou has got the bravest member of the Winged Horde with him. You can rest easy."

"Hmph... I'm here too, you know."

"Lord Riou. To get to Muse, let's take a boat to Coronet Town to the north."



"Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not good."

"That's my job."



"Very polite, aren't they?"




"Hey hey hey! This is the place, isn't it? Where you and I waited for Jowy together."

"What business do you have here, young lady?"

"Waaaaaaaaaaah!!! You scared me!!!! Don't talk all of a sudden like that!!!!"

"I'm Teresa, mayor of Greenhill. This is Lord Riou, leader of the Unicorn Army. We're here to discuss peace."

"Forgive me, but Lord Jowy is at the Jowston Hill meeting place. Please pass."



"Hey! Where are you going!!!"

"Don't worry, he's old enough not to get lost. Anyway, let's head for the meeting place."



"Thank you. Let's go, Lord Riou."



There's some sort of juvenile joke to be made here.



"Jowy? Is that really you, Jowy? How have you been??"

"Yeah, fine. But my name has changed. It's 'Jowy Blight' now.... Riou, how have you been?"



I imagine Riou saying this really casually like he wants to high five Jowy.

"I'm glad..."

"What's going on? This is supposed to be a peace conference, but it looks like no preparations have been made."

"Well, this place was built to host peace conferences, but in this case, your side is going to surrender unconditionally."

"What are you saying? Th... that would mean..."

"J... Jowy........ Why Jowy? What does this mean? I thought you joined Highland so you could stop Luca Blight... Stop this stupid war!!! I thought that was why you left us!!!"

"It's true, Nanami........ But the world is a lot more complicated than I thought...... Riou.... please. Right here, right now... Surrender to Highland. If you don't..."

"Why!? Why?! Luca Blight is dead, but...!"



And they were doing so well, too...

"..................................I'm sorry, Riou, Nanami. I'm commander of the Highland Army now and Riou is the leader of the Unicorn Army. We're not old friends anymore, now we're enemies. I demand that you surrender to the Highland Army, Riou."





"Riou!!!"

"You're so stubborn. I've got no choice, I guess."

"You think it will really go like that?"



Looks like someone remembered their good trick.

"Run away, Riou!!!"

"You won't get away!! Archers!!!!!!!"

"W, wait!!! Don't shoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"But why... Jowy?"

"Sorry........ sorry................. But I couldn't do it in front of Pilika................"

"You're just prolonging this useless war, you know."

"I know..................."

"Jo... Jowy.... Uncle.... Jowy... Finally... Finally... you're back..."

"Pilika... your voice..."

"I was....... I was so... lonely..... I was so lonely without you......"





This goes about as well as you might expect.



"Wait!!!! Put that lever back!!!!!!!"

"No way!!! If I do that, the gate will close!!!! Shu told me that!!!!! Riou!!! You finally came!!! Let's get out of here!!!! I opened the gate on this street for us!!!!"

"Wait you punks!!!! ....!!!! Who, who are you!?"

"You wanna try and fight the leader of the Unicorn Army?"



"Now move it! Move it! You don't have wings, but you've got feet, right?"



"Viktor, what are you doing here? And Pilika too???"

"Well ya see..... Shu knew that this was going to happen to them. He told me he didn't want you to have any ill-feelings left. Anyway, let's get out of here. Flik is leading the troops and they should be coming to Toto Village to meet us."

"So that's why you brought Pilika along too......."

"If they catch us, we're in trouble."

"Aaaahhh! Wait!!! Wait!!!"



"Just like Shu said, there weren't many soldiers east of Muse, but it was still dangerous. Well I'm back. So I think I'll take a nice, long bath to wash off this sweat."

"I'm hungry."



"Pilika.........Why did you bring Pilika.........?"

"Because it was necessary."

"You used that child like a tool!! I won't ever, ever forgive you!!!"

"I'm not asking for your forgiveness. Lord Riou, you can hate me if you want to."



Next Time: Chapter 41 - Mountain Bandits?


Bonus! Cookoff Number 5