LET ME WALK YOU TO THE STATION!
NO, IT'S FINE.
I’D LIKE TO GO ALONE.
PLEASE GIVE THE LETTER TO BRUNER.
I’M SURE HE WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING TO KEEP ME FROM GOING...
PLEASE PERSUADE HIM FOR ME.
BEST OF LUCK, ANNETTE.
THIS IS A TROOP TRANSPORT TRAIN. WE WILL NOW BE DEPARTING.
THIS TRAIN IS A TROOP TRANSPORT TRAIN.
Episode 35
A DARKNESS LIKE THAT OF DEATH.
FULL OF NOTHING BUT SILENCE...
THINKING BACK ON IT...
I HAVE ALWAYS LIVED...
IN A STATE OF FEAR AND PANIC.
LIGHT...
MY LIGHT...
IS HER.
WHY ARE THE FLOWERS...
ANNETTE!!!
I...
...DON'T WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE...
HAA
HAAAH
HAAA
TRACES OF HER. AGAIN.
HAA...
...I MUST HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP IN THE BARRACKS.
HOW MUCH LONGER WILL SHE HAVE ME IN HER GRASP?
I GUESS NOW...
...THERE'S NO REASON TO NOT LIGHT MY CIGAR ANYMORE.
WHY DO I CHOOSE TO LOVE SOMEONE?
HMMM...
I GUESS IT'S BECAUSE LOVE MAKES ME A BETTER PERSON.
BULL****.
WINTER, THE SEASON OF FROZEN GROUNDS. THE WAR BEGAN.
AN AXIS* ARMY LED BY FRANZE INVADED THE WESTERN FRONTIER OF PADANIA.
800 AIRCRAFTS...
700,000 SOLDIERS
...AND OVER 2,200 TANKS.
THE AXIS SENT HALF OF ITS FORCES TO PADANIA'S DEFENSE GARRISON...
...AND ADVANCED THE REST OF THE ARMORED DIVISION INTO THE WOODLANDS ABOVE IT.
PADANIA’S COMMAND PREDICTED THAT FRANZE’S ARMORED DIVISION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BREAK THROUGH THE DENSE FORESTRY.
THEY DECIDED ON CONCENTRATING THEIR FORCES AT THE DEFENSE GARRISON.
HOWEVER...
...THIS DECISION WAS OVERTURNED JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE.
NOTIFIED BY A SPY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HEINER WALDERMAR CAME TO A CONCLUSION...
...THAT FRANZEAN FORCES COULD PUSH THROUGH THE WOODS.
AS A RESULT, HE WAS ABLE TO ACT MORE QUICKLY THAN FRANZE COULD.
FRANZE'S ARMORED DIVISION WILL CROSS LENIN RIVER ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
THIS IS WHERE WE FACE THE ENEMY.
HAVING EXPECTED PADANIA TO FOCUS ON THE GARRISON, THE FRANZEAN COMMAND WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD.
AFTER THREE WEEKS, THEY ORDERED A CEASE-FIRE AND RETREATED.
IT WAS PADANIA'S VICTORY.
WINNING THE FIRST BATTLE GREATLY ASSUAGED THE PEOPLE,
WHO LAVISHED ALL SORTS OF TITLES ON HEINER, THE KEY CONTRIBUTOR TO THE VICTORY.
HEINER WALDEMAR, THE MAN BEHIND THE VICTORY.
FROM BATTLEFIELD DIRECTOR TO PADANIAN VICTOR.
FRANZEAN MASTERMIND, THE COMMANDER- IN- CHIEF OF PADANIA.
...WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
AH... IT'S ONLY A RUMOR AND NEEDS CONFIRMATION.
BUT...
WHO'S ON THE WESTERN FRONT...?
MRS. WALDE-- NO, MISS ROZENBERG...
IS SAID TO BE WORKING AS A NURSE IN A FIELD HOSPITAL AT THE FRONTLINES.
GO RIGHT NOW...
...AND FIND OUT IF IT'S TRUE.
Annette is seen off at the station, wanting to go alone, and leaves a letter to be given to Bruner. As she boards the military transport train, dreamlike moments full of darkness and fear unfold. The man who wakes up in the barracks wrestles with traces of Annette as war breaks out; Heiner Waldemar's move brings victory to Padania. In the end, a rumor emerges that Annette Rozenberg is serving as a nurse at the front.
