As the general walked towards the stage, the clamorous crowd becoming as timid as a mouse.
He was a tall figure, probably around 195 - 200 centimeters.
His silver hair was at jaw length, his right eye was covered with a patch, his other eye gazing like a black hole, sucking people's souls inside.
His mustache was curved around the sides of his lips, meeting with his bandholz beard.
He was wearing blue-black uniform that was resembling royal suits, with fur on some sides.
He had no weapons whatsoever yet he was in tank class.
With him slowly walking to the stage, crowd started whispering to each other but not daring to speak up.
"It's really him... Lennart of the Eleven"
Shirou whispered in admiration to himself, he admired and respected the Eleven deeply since his childhood.
Lennart got onto stage and observed everyone with his dark eye, anyone who was causing even a small - inaudible sound freezed at their place in eaze.
When he started to speak, his was voice rather a calm -cold and piercing- one.
"As you know, the aggression of Ressca was getting out of the hand.
We didn't consider that as a threat for our own nation, our own people, we all thought that a nation like Ressca would be defeated in no time, but we were wrong."
His voice was really powerful in his words, in each key word using more power.
"Turns out, the new leader of Ressca, a dictator made the crippling country a yet global power, and start to expend it's borders as fast as he can.
The expansion started to threat a lot of nations, we might be targeted by their greed too."
He said this words with not so much power but with sharpness and emotions.
The crowd got in shock and disbelief, most of them started do whisper each other, talking about the it.
The room was filled with weird whispers, most of them not understandable.
Shirou, gazed into the silver haired elf girl -Eina did the same-, elf had a smirk of justification on her lips, still her legs crossed and her eyes narrowed.
Lennart continued speaking up with sharp emotions in his words tones, making all of the other voices disappear at the same second.
"We made alliance with 9 nations, and the alliance would grow a lot bigger with ease."
In this ally nations there is Kingdom of Arst, Delius Republic and Andalien kingdom which were our enemies at some parts of history, but to stop this global threat, we should forget about our past and work as one."
In each word his words got sharper and sharper combined with his deep voice.
"If we can't manage to sustain that, the demolish would be inevitable, many people would suffer."
'What... How did they manage to hide this horrific situation from public... How did that elf know this if this wasn't permitted to public yet.'
Shirou's thoughts encircled his brain, trying to understand how.
"You, young warriors of our mighty nation, will be trained with a team all around the ally nations."
Some of the crowd was now frightened at the idea to go to battle, but most of the crowd wasn't frightened but rather excited and honored to fight for their nation.
"How did all of this happen in such short time, Ressca was a poor and the people was in poverty, their army was seventeenth out of 34 nations"
Eina's voice was not as calm but rather in disbelief, piercing cold.
"Because of the dictator, he got in charge just eight months ago, but did unbelievably great job in such time, he is a dictator but people of Ressca admires him in a amazing way, because of his success in short time."
The silver haired elf's voice was cold.
She still knew too much that it made the two much more suspicious of her.
"How do you know that much, it's like you were there."
Eina's voice was so cold that it could disintegrate a stone, not just because she was suspicious of her but because she didn't grow to like her from the start.
Before the girl could gave an answer, Lennart continued giving his speech.
"All of you will separate into groups of three or four, the groups will be send near one or two warriors, they will train you and you will help them in battlefield fighting as a team for your honour-your nation."
"That's it, you have three days to find partners.
If you can't you will be matched with another people who could not.
Three days later, not in here but in the main hall."
He walked away after he was done.
As soon as he left, the crowd started to speak -like a class waiting their teacher to leave-, causing noise chaos in the room.
People started to leave after some time, the room was nearly empty.
When there was only them three left, Shirou told the girl "Speak up, how do you know that much."
"Let's see... Let me get into your group and I will tell you more than this, everything you wanna know, kid. "
"By the way, I am Claudia"
"Not a chance"
"Okay, will do"
Said Eina and Shirou at the same time, Eina was strongly against her while Shirou was eager to know more, he was taking an interest on her and they needed one more person to actually become a group, so why not.
Eina and Shirou turned around, whispering at each other.
"We can't let someone we just met in."
"Why not, If we do we can learn more about our situation and the war we are going to be in, it's win-win."
"That's why we can't trust her."
"If you are that suspicious of her, when she is in our party you can observe her actions right?"
"But..."
"Trust me, okay?"
Eina nodded her head slowly, approving him with unwillingness.
Shirou turns to Claudia, then Eina does too.
"Okay, we accept you into our group."
Claudia's eyes sparkle, a small smile appears on her lips, looking at Shirou's eyes.
"I am from Demeter, kid ; a forest country, heavily populated by elves, which happens to be one of the neighbouring nations of Ressca and one of the first countries that Ressca invaded."
Claudia says with a serious tone, her eyes within pain.
"Ressca was cruel and unhinged, we fought hard but they got inside our capital in -Arbor- with eaze; Demeter fall and some of us managed to run away, like me."
Shirou was looking at her with sympathy and sadness.
Eina felt relived and was emphasizing her situation, she felt sorrowful.
"Because Demeter was close and interacted with Ressca often, we knew the situation in Ressca too."
"The warriors of Ressca..."
Claudia had terror in her eyes, nearly sweating and shaking, both her voice and her body.
"Especially that one girl...
She had horrendous amount of power, slaying all of our best warriors in one blink"
She was looking inside Shirou's eyes with her cold gaze.
There was terror, fear and sadness in her eyes that could be felt strongly in her gaze.
"I don't wanna experience something like that ever again..."
Shirou and Eina looked at each other for a second then tried to comfort her.
"S-sorry for acting as I did before, but I can't still be warm to you"
Eina had sympathy and seriousness in her voice, it was warm and soothing; she was just like an angel for a second.
"I know kid, I know, these things takes time to build between"
Claudia's voice was as soft as silk, that made the two surprised; she didn't speak like that often.
"Kid, you both have the communication magic right?"
Claudia's voice was back to normal, energetic and strong.
"Yeah, we both do"
Shirou touched his earlobe.
The communication magic was a common magic that all classes had, it could easily be learnt after age of 13 even by kids yet it was one of the most important magics; such simple and common so it was used in many places.
"Well then kid, let me activate the communication between you both?"
She walked closer to Shirou, she was reaching his chin in terms of height, Shirou was 186 centimeters. Except her index and middle finger all of her fingers closed in her right hand.
She moved her arm up and put her two fingers at his forehead, making blue strings.
That means she activated the communication magic with him, she does the same to Eina too.
"Bye till three days, kids."
She walked away and left the room, the empty room was now showing it's full largeness and beautiful instructure.