Scarlett looked at the top and said, “How do we get over it?”
While she was thinking, Victor knocked on a metal plate on top.
Twice, five times, twice...
Scarlett saw Victor send a signal, and soon a rope came down from the top.
Victor motioned for her to go up first.
Scarlett held the bag with one hand, looking at the rope in confusion.
She tried to climb, but was slipping due to her lack of strength.
“Come”
Victor called out to her, and she reluctantly approached.
He tied the bag to the end of the rope, then picked it up and hugged it around his neck.
“Hold on tight.”
“Okay...”
Victor started climbing with the rope, and Scarlett closed her eyes in fear.
The further she got from the ground, the more her body trembled, but she couldn't say that she was afraid in front of Victor bearing her weight.
When they reached the top, Victor let go of the rope and stood up, and Scarlett immediately descended.
With a confused face, she said, “Thank you.”
Victor looked at her with a pained expression, then ran his hand through his hair and took a deep breath.
Scarlett asked: “Was I heavy?”
Victor covered his neck where her breath was touching him, frowned and said, “Impossible.”
“So…ah”
Scarlett realized too late the reason for his suffering, so she touched her reddened face with her hands and quickly turned around: “I’m sorry.”
“Look ahead”
Scarlett raised her head at his words, looked under the top, and her mouth automatically opened.
Behind the peak, in the valley where Lucy's waterfall was, there were two official buildings, and between them were gliders, which she thought had disappeared after the pirates had been eliminated, flying.
“There are gliders...”
“Well, uess without wind.”
Scarlett sat on top and looked down.
The two buildings had the emblems of the Navy and the Army.
She turned to Victor and said: “They have withdrawn special units from the Navy and the Army.”
“So, these special units...”
“The Air Force.
But no planes.”
“Air forces without planes?”
“They have a winged plane made by the Crimson Family’s ancestor, but it’s broken.”
Victor turned her body and said: “I will give you a chance now.
If you want to come back, come back.”
“And if I don’t come back?”
“If you are from the Crimson family, you must be an engineer who came to fix that plane.”
“And if I can’t fix it?”
“You won't get out of here”
Scarlett paused.
Victor pulled the rope to lift the bag and said: “Out of respect for my ex-wife, I will make the prison comfortable.”
Scarlett stared at him.
When did this guy start joking?
They descended to the ground via an unstable elevator at the top.
Lucy's waterfall held sacred power, her parents said.
The water was flowing with enchanting beauty.
Scarlett took off her shoes to take the pebbles out of the water, but Victor said annoyed: “Do you want to play with water this season?”
“No, gravel is the substance...
Ah, should I not say?”
“Are you afraid that I will l how to make watches?”
Indeed, Victor Domfelt would not have done so.
Victor pointed to one of his men, and the sailor entered the water and brought pebbles: “Come in, miss.”
“Thanks...”
Victor was making it impossible for a lady to do anything with her own hands.
“Doesn’t my work as a watchmaker affect your honor?” I asked.
"no."
“Why?”
“Because watch technology is the highest technology in the country.”
I expected him to say something strict, but he was surprisingly flexible.
Scarlett put on her shoes and looked at the pebbles the sailor had given her.
It had a radiance as if the sun was trapped inside it.
She put one in her bag, when Balin ran up to her with a pale face: “Commander!
What were you thinking…”
“She said she would come, how do I stop her?”
“You should have stopped her, even by force...
Oh my God.”
With Palin's face, Scarlett realized that her entry here could put her life in danger.
She looked at the calm Victor.
Maybe this was an advantage.
If Victor cared so much about her, he would have stopped her from coming.
She didn't expect that his mild feeling towards her would become an advantage one day.
I thought: I would like to tell the past Scarlett not to be so sad, it will come in handy one day.
The official building was wooden, well lit.
The weather in the valley was mild.
In the huge warehouse behind the building, Scarlett saw gliders.
She wanted to watch her more, but Victor wouldn't stop.
Head to the end of the warehouse, and open a wooden door.
Scarlett opened her mouth: “Ah…”
It was a biplane, with double wooden wings and a complex engine.
She searched in her memory for the plane, and remembered her parents’ conversation:
The engine was not able to fly.
This was the last engine built by her parents, which meant that Salantir did not yet have the technology to build aircraft.
Scarlett tried to repair the engine immediately, but Victor stopped her: “Aren’t you listening?”
"What did you say?"
“You must change your clothes, miss,” Blight said hurriedly.
Scarlett nodded quickly.
It seemed that, since her arrival, she had been enchanted by the plane and had not heard what was around her.
Several people entered the warehouse, including an officer named Waldo who commanded an army unit that had joined the Air Force: "If the engine works, we won't deny it.
But can a pretty lady do such hard work?"
Balin approached and said, “Anyway, Crimson Ancestor couldn’t make it fly.
It’s enough to start the engine.”
"Who doesn't know that?
The question is, can this girl turn it on?"
Scarlett frowned.
It seemed that the Navy and the Army were not getting along.
“If I was going to do this,” Waldo said, “I would bring my wife.”
The sailors clicked their tongues.
Scarlett looked at Victor, who seemed uninterested in his ex-wife, and took out a cigarette, but headed toward the door because smoking was forbidden here.
He told the soldiers: “My ex-wife needs to change her clothes.”
The soldiers rushed out of the warehouse.
Scarlett looked at the clothes Blight had brought.
It was the smallest, but big on her, and clearly for servants.
Scarlett reluctantly changed her clothes and began repairing.
The engine was old but clean due to good care.
It wasn't able to fly, but it was a premium technology compared to Salantir's current technology.
Scarlett didn't understand why Salantir was suppressing technology.
She tied her hair and started repairing the engine.
After a whole day, Victor came in: “Why don’t you rest?”
“Scarlett Domfelt”
“Crimson”
“Yes?”
Scarlett turned around, her eyes red.
She looked at her watch and said, “It has only been three hours.”
“Fifteen hours, miss,” said Blight.
“Really?”
Scarlett looked at the engine embarrassed: “I need more work...
No, it will work now.”
"Really?
I'll get Waldo right away!"
Blight ran excitedly.
Meanwhile, Scarlett, who had been wondering all fifteen hours, asked Victor: “Since I am now in charge, can I ask you?”
"On what?"
“Is Festina really preparing for war?”
“This is a very deep question.”
Victor responded calmly and ignored the matter.
Soon, people streamed into the warehouse.
"You fixed it?
That's bullshit!" Waldo said in an angry tone.
“Even the renegade engineer from Festina couldn't fix it...”
Everyone fell silent when Victor turned his gaze to them.
It was not officially specified, but Victor Domfelt was implicitly the commander of these air forces.
He was distinguished by his position, accomplishments, and royal lineage.
Waldo only had a margin of freedom because Victor respected him.
Victor looked at Scarlett as she finished repairing the engine.
The tools, which he had never expected her to handle, moved smoothly in her hands.
Victor stared at her hands silently.