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"All right, boys. I'm going to train you hard and make you useful as long as you're with me, okay?　I won't forgive you if you say you're going to quit halfway through. Are you ready to follow me?

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　After introducing my friends to Mr. Alphonse, he told me this as a final confirmation.

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　A group of mercenaries gather orphans and educate them.

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　I'm not sure why they are gathering orphans like us, but it seems that we will be fed while they are educating us.

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　Every one of us said we would follow Master Alphonse's advice.

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　Because the rice balls they gave us before that were delicious.

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　No child would be reluctant to leave this favela if they heard that they could eat something like that.

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　Besides, my fellow boys had a twinkle in their eyes when they heard that they could join the mercenaries.

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　In this favela, grown men sometimes go to the battlefield as soldiers.

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　I have heard that they often come back with wounds and have a hard life afterwards.

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　But if they are successful on the battlefield, they can get out of this favela, so they all go to the battlefield.

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　If you think you might be able to live inside the walls instead of outside, it's worth a try.

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　Especially the boys, they think about it all the time and they know more about battles than I do.

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　I wondered where they got that information, but it came in handy this time.

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　I knew about Master Alphonse's Barca mercenaries.

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　The Barka mercenaries had been in a previous battle and had done well.

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　They were very successful.

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　So some of the boys were talking about the possibility of becoming mercenaries.

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　They wanted to go with us, as if they didn't hear our advice.

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"Okay, I'll take you to the village of Barca. Follow me."

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　We all follow Master Alphonse.

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　As soon as we had decided to do so, we were to leave the favela immediately.

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　We had no particular baggage to carry.

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　We followed Master Alphonse almost empty-handed.

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　This is how we left this place where we had been living and headed for a new land.

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　The first time we left the place where we had been living for so long, we were heading for a new land.

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"Hey, girl, I can see the big wall."

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"Oh, really. Could that be it?"

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　We had left the favelas of the Orient and were being carried to the carts that were waiting for us there.

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　Apparently, the Barka Mercenaries have a village called Barka.

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　I was surprised that such a village existed, but it seems that they received it as a reward for their success in the battle.

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　We just rode on a cart toward the village of Barca.

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　I see a big wall.

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　I have seen this wall before in the Orient.

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　I wonder if ordinary villages are surrounded by walls like this.

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　I only know the favelas, so the village and the country look the same, but the number of inhabitants seems to be different.

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　The village of Barca seems to have only about a hundred people, since only the mercenaries live there.

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　It was indeed a village, and even beyond the wall, it seemed to be a peaceful place.

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　We arrive at a building in the middle of the village.

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　This is the home of Mr. Alphonse.

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　And we are going to live here too.

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"Are you going to live with us?"

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"Yes. There are only a few orphans, and the educator is the ai. Ai has other work to do, so it's more efficient for us to stay in the same place."

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"Um, ......, how many sisters do you have, Ai?　Well, there are other women who look just like you, Ai."

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"Hmm?　Ai is Ai. We're not sisters. All of us here are Ai."

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　I didn't understand what Master Alphonse was saying.

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　When we arrived at the village of Barca, we were led to a house where we found a different Ai from the one who was with us.

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　They looked exactly the same, except for the clothes they were wearing.

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　I thought they were sisters, but I guess not.

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　I don't know what they are, but they are all Ai.

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　I don't understand what he means.

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"Anyway, let's give you a name, shall we?

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"What?　Names?　Well, we have names, don't we?"

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"That's the name your parents gave you, right?　No, we name them so that they can work magic. Well, I guess it's easier if I try. Name her Hannah. From now on, your name is Hannah."

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　HANNAH.

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　Master Alphonse gave me my dead parents' name again.

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　At that moment, I was surprised.

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　My head felt strange.

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　Then I understood what it meant to be able to use magic.

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　Suddenly I understood that I had become able to use magic.

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"What is this?　I can use magic?"

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"Yes. Do you want to try something, Hannah?"

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"Um, well, lighting."

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"Wow, that's great, girl. It's so bright."

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　I could work magic.

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　I chanted the word "lighting" that popped into my head, and a bright light shot out from my palm.

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　That's amazing.

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　I never thought I would be able to do this.

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　Master Alphonse is naming others besides me.

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　And when he was done, everyone was able to use magic.

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　It's amazing.

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　It's fun.

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　After we had learned to use magic, we tried different kinds of magic for a while, and then we all fell down from overuse of magic.

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