A War Hero With No Regrets – Chapter 55

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Even if she had faced the past, it was just the beginning.

“Get up.”

At the sound of her own voice clearly piercing through, the crying Charlotte raised her head.

“You don’t have time to cry.”

Beyond that, there was the Empire that had turned into ashes.

A man stood, burning with determination as he faced an even more grotesque and powerful enemy.

Just by looking at his lonely back, it felt like her heart would burst.

That’s right.

This was Oracle.

It wasn’t a place to look at the past, but the cradle of the prophet that showed the future that was to come.

And as the administrator managing that cradle, Charlotte Evergreen’s duty was not yet over.

Luthers Edan had gifted her the end of the war.

He had kept his promise, so now it was her turn to keep the promise she had made with him.

To always make you happy.

To shoulder that burden and move forward together.

Charlotte stood up, grabbing her trembling legs.

Luthers would still be moving towards his own path.

That illusion Oracle had shown her.

Even though he said he had retired, in the end, he was undoubtedly working for them from the shadows of the Empire.

Lea’s attack.

The terrorist attack on the President.

The man-made disaster that occurred in the Republic of Bostania.

The Red Cross Brigade.

And finally, leading to the annihilation of all humanity.

Charlotte Evergreen was the only one who knew all these facts.

She had to stop it.

She bit her lip and activated the console.

The one outside, President Mikhail Bismarck, was the root of all these nightmares.

The mastermind who had pushed her lover, who had tried to leave everything behind and start a new life, back to the battlefield.

It was unforgivable.

“Time acceleration rate is 1/100. Connect all controls to my consciousness and activate the time drive function.”

She quickly moved her hands and manipulated the console.

Whoosh.

Boom.

Along with the sound of the entire world being set up again, warning messages echoed to her.

But Charlotte ignored them all.

If she could see that future, and if she could finally twist that future.

She would do anything.

Just like her beloved lover had done.

Her eyes were now filled with determination.

The eyes of the soldier Charlotte Evergreen, who had fought against the Titans in countless Graveyards of the past.

She began to observe the future.

The time acceleration rate was now 1/1000.

Outside, they must have already determined that there was a problem with Oracle, in which she had boarded.

Then, in the meantime, she had to obtain as much information as possible and twist the future.

The first one was the terrorist attack by the Revolutionary Front that would take place in the Eastern Military District.

In the process, whether Lea got shot or not didn’t make much of a change to the world.

She boldly passed over it.

Rather, it was perfect for creating a point of contact between Werner and Lea.

Charlotte Evergreen wasn’t a superhuman like her lover.

She had only obtained access to the new technology called Oracle.

There was no ability to turn back the past.

Even the future was assisted by Oracle’s capabilities, and even that couldn’t be confirmed as 100% certain to happen.

After all, it was just an indirect experience.

That’s why she had picked Lea Gilliard.

Even so, she was just a first lieutenant doing paperwork in the Eastern Military District.

Unlike the others who were treated as high-ranking officers after the war, even if she suddenly left the military, it wouldn’t have much of an impact.

It was according to Charlotte’s plan.

Lea Gilliard was shot, but it wasn’t to the extent of endangering her life.

Werner Grimm bid farewell to her, and the National Security Strategy Agency began its steps as a full-fledged intelligence agency.

As a bonus, they re-established contact with the criminal forces they had cut ties with.

Charlotte Evergreen nodded her head.

She herself would have used any means necessary, legal or illegal, without hesitation.

As Lea Gilliard recovered from her gunshot wound and Werner Grimm’s influence gradually expanded, Lea Gilliard began to exchange private communications with Werner.

What kind of trick of fate was this?

Charlotte could only let out a bitter sigh as she watched the situation.

Did she also know deep down?

Even though time had been turned back, she might remember it in her heart.

In the process, Charlotte was able to deliver messages by mixing the letters she had written with Lea’s letters.

As a bonus, Lea Gilliard realized the full story through the execution of the ‘Missing Protocol’.

However, the President’s surveillance of the National Security Strategy Agency, in which Luthers Edan was involved, was not to be taken lightly.

In the end, the President was the cause of all these events.

If Luthers was assassinated by the President, the world would regress once at that point, but Charlotte thought that she would never have such an opportunity again after that.

Then, she had to wrap up everything before Luthers was purged.

She contacted the officers of the 808 Security Battalion, who were originally supposed to be in charge of the President’s security, and made them develop stomach aches.

Instead, she had Drake Brown deployed.

By continuously sending strange radio signals to make the President feel a threat to his safety, she made sure the responsibility for the security failure was not shifted to Luthers.

It was a conclusion reached after eight simulations.

However, no matter what, she couldn’t stop the Empire from declaring war on the Republic of Bostania.

Moreover, what on earth were those terrible creatures lurking beneath the underground of Saint Francis and the sewers of the Armaments Bureau?

They were neither Titans nor humans.

Charlotte felt nauseous at the fact that suicidal experiments were being conducted in the very group she belonged to.

It was also because of the fact that their arrogance and carelessness would not only ruin the hard-won peace but also lead to the annihilation of humanity.

The President had already crossed the line long ago.

Everyone had been following such a person.

Hundreds of millions of people were being toyed with by a single madman.

‘I have to do it.’

Nevertheless, she must not collapse.

She had to oust the President and eliminate all the variables that threatened the survival and future of humanity.

‘There won’t be a second chance. This is probably the first and last opportunity for me to access Oracle.’

The President was watching.

He would surely try to find out what future she had seen, by any means necessary.

That’s why she had to do it now.

Even if her heart felt like it was going to burst, even if she felt a needle-like pain in her eyes.

Charlotte explored all the countless futures that diverged and scattered into numerous branches.

Eight times.

Nine times.

Ten times.

Twenty times.

Fifty times.

One hundred and fifty times.

Three hundred and twenty-six times.

Five hundred and seventy times.

But at the end of all those futures, Luthers Edan always put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

In the end, her heart, which had vowed and vowed not to break, collapsed.

Why?

Why isn’t there one?

Why can’t I save you?

You said you could see the future, but why do you always commit suicide no matter what action I take?

No, she had to face reality.

In fact, she couldn’t stop it.

The underground tunnel of Saint Francis had long become a nest for those terrible creatures.

It was too late.

It was a future that couldn’t be changed.

Even if she somehow prevented Luthers Edan from being appointed as the commander of the Red Cross Brigade, he continued to head to the battlefield.

He retired from the military and acted as a mercenary and militia.

In one cycle, he killed the President and boarded the reinforced exoskeleton being researched at the technical institute, heading to the battlefield alone.

Charlotte didn’t exist in Luthers Edan’s future.

“No… just once, just one more time…!!”

Just as Charlotte was about to observe another future.

“Cough, ack…!!”

She vomited blood.

Thin blood spilled onto the floor.

Her vision blurred, and her hands trembled.

“No, no… I have to see more….”

The moment she reached out her hand towards the console, with a flash of light, she was pulled out of the illusion.

She had returned to reality.

“Colonel Charlotte!”

Her entire body was drenched in sweat, and her hair was completely disheveled.

As if a blood vessel had ruptured, there were red bloodstains all over her eyes.

“No, no…!! No! Why did you stop it again!!”

Charlotte struggled.

Even while being forcibly pulled out, she tried her best not to leave Oracle.

“Charlotte! You’re coming to your sen—”

The moment Director Isaac rushed towards her, startled by the unexpected situation that had inevitably occurred, he had no choice but to stop in his tracks.

“You, your eyes….”

“Ah….”

Charlotte Evergreen’s vision was blurred.

For some reason.

Her right eye couldn’t see.

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