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"So this is Daisetsuzan. It's really an amazing place."
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Riding a Valkyrie over the mountain.
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I muttered such thoughts to myself in the deep snow.
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The next moment, the cold air entered my body through my mouth.
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I pulled on my fur cape to cover the lower half of my face.
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It was cold.
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A small ice stone is all I can manage to stand.
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I must confess that I had underestimated the snowy mountains.
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Brother Ars had crossed the mountain with an army of several thousand men, and men like Gran and Thanatos had crossed the mountain on their own and reached the west.
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If others could do it, I could do it.
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I thought so, but this seems to be quite difficult.
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If you really want to cross the mountain, it might be better to do it in spring or summer when the conditions are a little better.
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Biden says that they will die regardless, even in the summer.
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"Thanatos' guy went over all this. That's amazing."
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"It's true. And it's not just the cold. The fact that there are demons here makes it even worse.
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"No, I don't think so. In a way, the presence of demons may be a good thing in itself to get over the mountain.
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"Oh, really? What makes you say that, Ian?"
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Food. Where there's snow all year round, there's probably not much to eat. If there's a demon that can move in such a situation, I'd kill it and eat it.
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"Oh, I see. Demons look more like food than enemies. Maybe that's true for the warriors of Atmos. But don't let them turn into giants again. We might die next time."
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I talk to Ian, who covers his mouth but continues to walk beside me.
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Like me, Ian seems to have a renewed sense of the environment of this snowy mountain.
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He is thinking about how Thanatos, one of Ian's friends, crossed this mountain to meet his brother Ars.
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He said that it was only because of the presence of demons that he was able to cross this place called the Mountain of Death.
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That may be true.
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Thanatos will be able to defeat the demons that appear here.
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And he would strip off the skin of such demons, wrap himself around them, eat their flesh, and drink their blood.
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It is because they were able to do so that they must have been able to cross the mountain.
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A while after we entered this mountain, we also encountered a demon.
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It was an ice bear or something like that.
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It was just like a bear in the mountains, but bigger.
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And yet, it was not slow, but rather fast.
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Moreover, its body hair is white, making it difficult to spot while it is far away.
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The ice bear allowed me to get close to it, and I was attacked by it.
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It was probably thanks to the Valkyries that we were able to avoid it.
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A soldier at the back of the line was attacked, but Valkyrie was the first to notice and avoided the attack, and Ian was able to deal with him.
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It was cold, but bearable.
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So Ian jumped down from the Valkyrie he was riding, stood in front of the ice bear, and turned into a giant.
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Ian is big, and so is the ice bear.
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The two giants collided with each other as hard as they could, and Ian let out a yell.
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He always shouts when he transforms into a Titan.
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So this was a usual thing for Ian.
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But what would happen if he shouted that loud in such a snowy mountain?
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A soldier from Valiant who belonged to the cavalry panicked.
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And he advises me.
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You should run away now.
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Apparently, it is very bad to make a loud noise or impact in the snowy mountains.
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It's called an avalanche.
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If you throw a stone into the water of a pond, the water will spread out as a wave.
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Something similar is said to happen in the snowy mountains.
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However, the phenomenon seems to have occurred higher up in the mountains, not at Ian's location where the loud voice was generated.
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The snow crashes down on top of the mountain, and then the snow slides down the slope in a big swell.
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Before Ian could finish off the ice bears, the snow sloshed down on us.
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There was no time to escape.
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Or rather, there was no place to run.
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The huge wave of snow covered the entire slope of the mountain.
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We survived because of the Valkyries.
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Ai, who was with me, ordered the Valkyrie.
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Build a wall.
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And the Valkyrie heard that and immediately used the "wall-building" technique.
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We had only a short time before the avalanche hit and we needed a wall to protect us.
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If it weren't for the Valkyries, we probably wouldn't have survived.
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With a human being, [wall construction] cannot be activated unless he/she puts his/her hands on the ground, but with the Valkyrie, he/she could have activated the magic right away thanks to the four feet always on the ground.
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They built several walls, behind which the Valkyries and the Valkyries entered.
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Then the avalanche hit them.
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Apparently, the avalanche had been built at an angle to reduce its momentum as much as possible.
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Thanks to this, the entire wall was not swept away, and the Valkyries were only buried alive.
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We were covered with snow over our heads, but we did not die because of the ice-absorbing stones, the fur cloak, and the warmth of the Valkyries.
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And so we managed to survive the avalanche.
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That's when we all finally pulled ourselves together.
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The soldiers who had been following me had been thinking that I was so confident that they would be all right.
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But in reality, we all understood that carelessness leads to immediate death.
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For now, Ian will not turn into a Titan.
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He always screams when he does that, and if there is another avalanche, there is no guarantee that everyone will be safe.
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So we continued onward, still being baptized by the snowy mountain known as the Mountain of Death.
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