Chapter 1449: Darlene's Homecoming (Part 1)

August 11, 299th year of the Britannia Empire calendar

Britannia Empire, somewhere in the north

Daliana felt her body bouncing up and down with an irregular rhythm.

Slowly opening her eyes, she saw Yara sitting opposite her.

Yara, who was sitting opposite her, also found that Daliana had woken up.

"Daliana, are you awake? How did you sleep?"

"Not bad. If this carriage wasn't so bumpy, I should be able to sleep better."

After stretching hard, Daliana looked out of the carriage. First release

Judging from the sky, it should be around 3 p.m. now.

Slept for about 2 hours... It's quite long.

After mumbling this in her heart, Daliana turned her gaze back to Yara.

"Yara, do you want to sleep for a while?"

"No, I don't need to. I'm not sleepy."

Daliana and Yara were sitting in a carriage they rented.

Like other troops of the Britannia Empire, the Delan Undead Corps adopts a rotation system. The team members take turns to rest.

However, the Delan Undead Corps' vacation system has a more humane system than other troops.

That is, when you don't want to rest, you can save up your vacation.

As a result, there are a large number of team members who don't know what to do even if they are on vacation. They save up every vacation and gradually save up an amazingly long vacation.

For example, Darlene and Yara are among them.

Darlene and Yara are both people who give them a short vacation, and they don't know what to do.

So they both choose to save up their vacation.

After several years of accumulation, the vacation they saved up has reached an amazing 4 months.

At the beginning of this year, Darlene received a letter from her parents in her hometown.

Darlene's parents did not hide their longing for Darlene in the letter.

After reading this letter from her parents, Darlene made up her mind to use up all her 4 months of vacation in one go! Go back to her hometown to see her parents.

After Darlene said that she decided to go back to her hometown, Yara decided to use her four-month vacation and accompany Darlene to her hometown.

Yara decided to accompany Darlene to her hometown purely for the purpose of traveling.

Darlene is Yara's closest friend in the army.

Yara is also very interested in Darlene's hometown.

Anyway, it's useless to save her four-month vacation, so she might as well take this opportunity to use it all up at once.

After the end of the Great Defense War, the base of their Delan Undead Squad was moved from the North to the suburbs of Pendragon.

And Darlene's hometown happened to be in the North.

Although the journey is a bit far, as long as they rent a carriage, relying on the speed of the carriage, it is enough for Darlene and Yara to go back and forth between Pendragon and Darlene's hometown during their four-month vacation.

Darlene and Yara are members of the Delan Undead Squad, the ace unit of the Michael Knights.

The military pay that has been saved over the years is not enough to rent a carriage.

Even buying a carriage is more than enough.

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"Hey, Darlene." Yara looked at the scenery outside the carriage and asked Darlene in a casual tone, "Are we very close to your hometown?"

"Yeah." Darlene nodded.

Then she turned her head and imitated Yara, looking out of the carriage.

"I can already... feel... we are very close to my hometown..."

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In the vast wilderness, the carriage that Darlene and Yara were riding in was moving alone on the straight dirt road under the blue sky towards the end of the horizon.

A row of wooden fences blocked the farmland one after another from the dirt road.

Some farmers working on the farmland cast curious eyes at Darlene and Yara's carriage from time to time.

Some children playing in the field even chased after Darlene and her friends’ carriage and waved to them enthusiastically.

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“Guests, we are here.”

The driver said to Darlene and Yara.

“Thank you for your care along the way.” Darlene and Yara packed up their luggage piled on the carriage together and thanked the driver.

“You’re welcome. Then, as we agreed, I will come here to pick you up in a month. Don’t be late.”

“No problem. Don’t worry. We won’t be late.”

It took Darlene and Yara one and a half months to rush to their hometown, stay in their hometown for a month, and then take another one and a half months to return to the station. This is Darlene and Yara’s plan.

Darlene and Yara rented a carriage from the Pendragon Central Station, so their reputation is still quite guaranteed. If they said they would come here to pick them up one month later, they would definitely come to pick them up one month later.

After packing their luggage, jumping off the carriage, and watching the coachman drive away, Darlene turned her head and looked at the small black dots in the distance where smoke was constantly coming out.

These small black dots were the houses in Darlene's hometown, Soya Village.

Looking at her hometown, which was already so close, Darlene felt her heart beating faster.

This tension gave Darlene the illusion that she was waiting for the order to attack on the battlefield.

After taking several deep breaths and suppressing the tension in her heart, Darlene carried her only luggage, a large suitcase, and strode towards her hometown.

If you follow this dirt road into Darlene's hometown, you must first cross a mill bridge.

The gurgling stream flowing out of the sluice of the mill bridge is slowly extending forward.

The old and mottled mill built next to the mill bridge is squarely located between the stream flowing out of the sluice and the twilight of the evening.

It is now dusk, and the chimneys of every household are constantly emitting smoke.

The sunlight cast by the setting sun leaves Darlene and Yara with very long shadows on the ground. First release

Darlene is very familiar with this mill bridge.

When she was a child, she always jumped and played on this mill bridge with her friends. Counting what debris is floating through the stream below.

It would be a little inaccurate to say that Darlene was only familiar with the Mill Bridge.

It should be said that Darlene was familiar with everything here.

Darlene was too familiar with everything around here.

Every storefront nearby was so familiar, Uncle David's house, Aunt Maya's house, Winnie's house...

Darlene felt that her legs seemed to have self-awareness, like an old horse that knew the way, pulling Darlene to turn left and right.

Finally, she stopped in front of a brown wooden door with a broken handle.