As expected, it was Alicia, who would come to have the alias of the Pyro Sorceress.

How many more explosions had there been?

At some point, the train fell silent. . . But his senses continued to send him strange signals.

‘𝘜𝘨𝘩. . .’

It was as if he had a hunch that he should go ahead and see? In the end, he couldn’t stand it anymore and got up from his seat as if he was being pushed.

“Ugh. . .”

Oswald took out the Winchester V10 he had put in his magic backpack, reloaded it, and pulled the lever to get ready to fire at any time.

He slowly proceeded towards the first-class section, keeping a lookout. . . He could see scenes that had been scorched or swept away by explosions here and there.

‘𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘺.’

Judging from the fact that there were no bodies. . . It seemed that they had all fallen out through that large hole.

Anyway, after passing the luxurious dining car, he reached the first-class section. . . and he saw several bodies that hadn’t been visible before. They were wearing green coats, the same as the ones he had encountered in the third-class section.

‘𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. . .’

Anyway, as he continued to move forward, the last compartment of the carriage soon came into view. However, judging from the situation he could see through the corridor. . .

“A hostage situation. . .”

Alicia, the Pyro Sorceress, was in a rather unfavorable situation.

‘𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯, 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢’𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. . .’

Alicia’s original personality was stubborn, righteous, weak to the weak, and strong to the strong. Also, most of Alicia’s techniques were either wide-area spells or powerful and destructive ones.

In other words, that meant that she had no techniques that could only target an opponent who was holding a hostage.

‘𝘜𝘨𝘩. . .’

In the past, when he played as Alicia, he simply killed the hostages and all, so it wasn’t a big problem. Since the train was going to explode at Central Station anyway, no one said anything if a hostage or two died.

However. . . The current Alicia was not like that. Her damn personality was holding her back.

Of course, by the time the train was about to arrive at Central Station, the Enforcers dispatched by the Empire’s police organization, Sword, would break in and somehow sort out the situation, preventing the explosion at Central. It could be said to be an outline of the events that occurred when playing as other characters.

‘𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭.’

It was more efficient in terms of time to stop at the station before Central and take another train heading to the Vatican.

This was because if he went all the way to Central, he would be caught by Sword and investigated, and as a result, Oswald’s own actions could be revealed, causing the development to go in an unexpected direction.

Also, since the planned time would also be disrupted, he might not be able to raid the Plague Dungeon, so. . . Oswald decided to wrap up the situation here.

Click.

Oswald, who had cocked his gun, found the revolutionary and aimed at him. Since Alicia and her opponent were almost in a straight line, the revolutionary didn’t see Oswald.

‘𝘗𝘩𝘦𝘸. . .’

He regulated his breathing and aimed at the revolutionary’s right temple, which was slightly visible to the left of Alicia’s ear, and pulled the trigger as his intuition told him to.

Bang!

Whoosh!

Boom!

Surprised by the shockwave that passed by his ear, Alicia looked back, and at the same time, blood exploded from the revolutionary’s head, and he collapsed on the spot.

With that, Oswald turned around and headed back to his room.

The situation was sorted out. . . and the engineer immediately stopped the train at White March Station, the station before Central.

‘𝘈𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥.’

The train was originally supposed to go all the way to Central. . . but since there was a high probability that there were explosives planted inside the train, it stopped at the previous station and all the passengers disembarked.

Of course, there were also Sword members in White March, but there weren’t many of them.

Sword officers immediately occupied White March Station and began their search. Oswald was able to pass through the checkpoint easily thanks to his Winchester’s good reputation.

“I bought a train ticket to Vatican City, but when is the next train coming?”

“There will be a train to the next station in two hours.”

“Hmm. . . I understand.”

It seemed like a good idea to just kill some time at a restaurant near the station.

Just as he was leaving the station. . . He happened to run into Alicia, who was also leaving the station. She was momentarily taken aback, but Oswald, who didn’t need to associate with her, ignored her and passed by.

“Oswald!”

“. . .”

Oswald had never imagined that she would call out to him, but he had already made up his mind to pass her by, so he ignored her call and continued on.

However, she didn’t seem to be willing to let Oswald go just like that, and at some point, she had overtaken him and blocked his way.

“Why are you ignoring me when I call you?”

“We’re not close enough to greet each other, are we?”

“. . .”

“If you don’t have anything to do, can I pass?”

“No, I still have something to do with you.”

“Ha. . . Just make it quick.”

“Thank you.”

“What?”

“Thank you. For earlier.”

“. . . . . .”

She had stopped him just to say thank you. . . She really had a crazy personality. She had to do her own stubbornness, justice, and beliefs unconditionally to feel satisfied.

“I guess I misunderstood you a bit. . . In many ways. . .”

The many ways in which she had misunderstood. . . Perhaps she had noticed the circumstances behind Oswald’s suspension from the Academy.

“Are we done now?”

“What?”

“Then let’s never meet again.”

After parting ways with Alicia, Oswald entered a nearby restaurant.

‘𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺. . . 𝘋𝘰 𝘐 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴?’

He had solved such a big incident. . . He was a little puzzled that there was no Fate Points reward.

‘𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦. . . 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥?’

Soon after, the meal came out, and Oswald started eating.