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Traveler – Part 07

“We’re under attack!”

The cry was accompanied by the blaring of a horn.

Wrapped in sleeping bags, the injured boys stirred, rising as if under the enchantment of the horn’s spell. One by one, they armed themselves and bravely emerged from their tents. Clutching the unfinished letter to his chest, Kazuya joined his comrades outside.

Snowy rain made it bitterly cold, swiftly chilling them to their bones. Despite the absence of the moon and stars, it was unusually bright—the enemy’s searchlights intermittently illuminating the winter forest.

A bomb landed nearby, the explosive boom shaking the ground. Enormous flames and dust engulfed Kazuya and his fellow soldiers.

“Ah…”

Heat knocked them to the ground, and Kazuya’s letter floated away like a white dove, gently fluttering in the night sky illuminated by the searchlights.

“W-Wait…” Kazuya groaned. “I have to send it. To Ruri…”

Collapsed on the ground, he watched the letter fly away, soaring into the night as