KINGDOM 13

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title) A heated battle.

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b1) Okay, here's your food.
panel1) Oh!
b2) I think I got food to everyone.
b3) Now that I take a closer look...
b4) Everyone is so beat up.
panel2) It's making me sick.

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b1) Ah.
b2) Xin, come over here and have breakfast with everyone.
b3) Now then, let's hear it.

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b1) Why did all your plans...
b2) fail to come to fruition?
b3) Sir...
b4) Everything was going fine until we actually got out of the castle.
b5) But there was an unthinkable enemy waiting for us outside.
b6) Who?

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panel) General Wang Ji.

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b1) mphm
b2) Wait right there, Wenjun Chang!
b3) WAHHH!! He's almost on me!!

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bubble sfx.) pshuuuuu
b1) GYAHHHH
b2) dammit
b3) I'll stop Wang Ji!
b4) You guys protect our king!!
b5) Sir!
b6) Wenjun Chang!
panel1) Piao, forgive me.
panel2) I never dreamed this man would be here.

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b1) WANG JI!!!!
b2) Here I am, Wenjun Chang.
bubble sfx.) kching
b3) buah
panel) tsk
b4) hmph

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b1) It's been so long since we've been this close while mounted, hasn't it?
b2) We're enemies right now! // This is the FIRST time!!
b3) That aside, you said you weren't interested in this fight over the throne!
b4) So why are you fighting now?

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b1) Because I love the blood curdling feel of having your life on the line in battle!!
b2) You're making no sense!!
b3) Don't give me that, you understand!
b4) hnggh

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b1) Ever since Qin became a merchant country, the battles have become seriously boring.
b2) Things have gotten dim since the time of the shining king.
box) The king of Qin that made a name for himself on the battlefield. Zheng's great grandfather.
b3) You're right, since this country has become more of a merchant country, the battles that take place are between men trying to gain political and financial ground...
b4) But that has nothing to do with you guys that fight real battles, right?
b5) Get serious.
b6) Do you really think I'd get excited over such a silly fight? // I'm much more delicate than that.
b7) Then are you saying that fighting an old castle soldier like me gets you excited?

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b1) It just might.
panel1) There was the time when we were both on the same battlefield, and you always stood out.
b2) So getting the chance to fight you will
b3) definitely
b4) make
b5) me
b6) HAPPY!
b7) Wenjun Chang!
b8) Ah.
b9) SIR!!!!
panel2) Oh!!

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panel1) It's the sheaf hill!! // Alright, now that we've made it this far...
b1) Oh looky here, when did we get into such a backwater place?
b2) And to top it off, this looks like the perfect place to have back up troops waiting.
b3) THAT'S
b4) EXACTLY RIGHT, WANG JI!!

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b1) Divisions 1 and 2, protect the carriage with the king!!
b2) Divisions 3 and 4, aid our leader!!
b3) Oh, here they come.
b4) With these numbers, I'd say that's all of the personal units you have.
b5) Wang Ji, stand down.
b6) You can't win this fight.
b7) You don't need to worry about me.
b8) I figured something like this would happen,

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b1) So I prepared some extra units of my own!!
b2) See?
panel1) What... the!?
panel2) Now then WenJun Chang,

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panel) LET THE BATTLE START!!
b1) While the battle was going on, Wang Ji and I continued our fight.

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panel1) But I took on one of Wang Ji's attacks, and fell off of a cliff. // Luckily for me, there was a river below and I was saved, but I was separated from my men and the battle.
b1) HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!
b2) WHAT HAPPENED TO PIAO AFTER ALL THAT!!
b3) Sir,
b4 who's that boy?
b6) Piao's friend,
b7) his name is Xin.
b8) That's him?

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b1) My king, I was with Piao throughout the whole ordeal,
b2) so I'll continue off where the captain left off, but before that...
b3) Would it be alright to call that boy over here?
b4) Granted.
b5) Xin, com here.
b6) huh?
b7) You have the right to know exactly what...
b8) happened to us all after our captain fell.