>>5368128"Phew... All done!" After what felt like an eternity, Benny had finally composed his masterpiece.
Being so isolated in his tent, he barely remembered to say goodbye to the benevolent Dragon who saved him, and the strange but silent demon woman who departed in some mindless bloodshed he had no interest in.
It felt hypocritical to create such an anthem for a commander such as Griffith, making sure to point out all his honorable traits, while still doing the violence and killing he hated masked under the excuse of uniting the masses.
He was ready to exit and hand it to Griffith himself to see if he was satisfied, but not feeling confident in his skills, he showed the harmonic progression to Mule and the other children at the camp as they clapped, finally feeling accepted to his first crowd.
"Amazing, Bernard! You truly are a one man band! Griffith will surely accept this song!"
"C-Could you gi-ive this to him? I-I'm afraid of g-g-going through the a-a-postles wh-wh-When Grunbeld is not around..."
"Oh, didn't you hear...? Sir Grunbeld was... Killed in action along with the faceless entity..." Mule sadly gave the news to the musician.
"W-W-W-Wh-at? B-b-b-By who?"
"That damn Phantom Impaler! He's the one who is forming a Union against our Band in Ilos! How could he... Such an honorable, powerful knight like Grunbeld? That monster... Let's hope that Griffith can avenge him eventually!"
Though the morality of the Falcons was at an all time low, Mule believed whole heartedly that he would live to see Vlad Santana be killed after making a name for himself as an enemy.
"No...N-no-no-on-no!" Benny stammers. "T-t-t-his is all wrong!" The pacifist panics, knowing full well that and invasion of Ilos would likely mean the death of his father.
He wanted to trust in Vlad, since he still did not hate him for neglecting him in this journey, but after killing the only ones who watched over him in the band... He did not know which side to rely on.
"Why, Vlad... Why do you keep fighting? Don't you see what you're doing?"
<span class="mu-g">Cooling Magma: Epilogue End.</span>
