Episode 1: The Stooge
About Gaspard and his mission in Fort Bainset, near Jeanholts Village in Gildlland Empire in 998 Y.C.Chapter 1: The Good Guy
Having to get in the tightly secured fort, Gaspard was observing and wondering what's the best way to do it without getting caught, then he saw the Empire soldier guards easily let the nearby town baker getting in, so he decided what he would do while also having heard some extra information from the soldiers...
Gaspard ended up acting like an unemployed person and was having quite carefree life in the peaceful village for good amount of period of time while waiting for the chance to help the baker delivering bread to the fort.
Today Gaspard also got free delicious leftover bread from the baker, Reiser, who hoped his son, Carl, wouldn't end up like Gaspard, having no job and keep loitering around. With that small opening, Gaspard tried to have the baker giving him the job but got ignored, so Gaspard tried to find more info about the bakery father and son.
Asking around the village, Gaspard found out that:
- Reiser the baker lost his wife years ago and had to raise his son by himself
- The son, Carl, was nearly 10 years old, and was not happy with his father having to deliver bread to the fort everyday
- The father and the son used to get along better
- Carl had been wondering if his father would also forget about his mother death anniversary too this year
So Gaspard worked with all the info, he talked with Carl, ensured him that his father will have time for the anniversary this year which Carl told him would be the following day. He also talked other villager to convince Reiser to allow him to help with the bakery job, which succeeded.
New day, the baker had Gaspard help buying ingredients and doing deliveries in the village, but didn't allow him to deliver bread to the fort because it's against the agreement he had with the soldiers.
Finishing all errands, Gaspard talked with Carl who was disappointed that his father forgot the day again but also thought that it couldn't be helped. Gaspard encouraged the boy to talk to his father directly, "You've got to tell the people you love how you really feel. Otherwise, you will be left with a life of regrets".
The boy decided he would talk to his father. Gaspard praised him for being brave, doing the thing he couldn't do when he himself was a boy.
So the son talked to his father and had found out that his father had never forgot about the anniversary but didn't bring it up because Carl looked sad every year they spent time for the cause and decided it was better to mourn separately. Having talked it out, the father and the son reconciled.
Taking the chance, Gaspard offered to deliver the bread to the fort. The baker, with his son looking at him, could only agree to it.
Chapter 2: Infiltration
The soldiers wanted Gaspard to just leave the bread at the gate, so Gaspard told them there were new types of bread that the bakery would like the superiors to try and if they were to take a liking to it, they could talk and get them more discount. With that, the soldiers let Gaspard in.
Talking to a person who prefered to be called Past via communication arte, Gaspard got reprimanded how he took so long to do his job and was told to just do things on his own for the time being.
Getting in the fort, Gaspard saw the pink dangerous looking creature which the soldiers called Catherine. The soldier said Catherine was guarding the more important area of the fort, including where they stored important documents.
After the delivery, Gaspard contacted Past again and got told his weapon was currently in the crate in the fort's armory. Gaspard asked if Past already knew about how the obstacle Carherine was and why would he need Gaspard to infiltrate the fort if he could have people getting the weapon in already. The answer was that it was people who didn't really know what was inside the box, and that his weapon in the box would be the last support he would have for this mission.
Gaspard started using his special ability, turning himself invisible, to go pass the soldiers to the armory.
Regaining his weapons, Gaspard praised himself and his ability but then had flashback about his childhood, about his abusive father who forced him to use his special ability how his father wanted.
Gaspard wondered why that memory came up, that maybe it was because he spent time with the bakery father and son.
Dismissing the thought, he continued with his mission.
Chapter 3: Vital Documents
Failing to use his ability to bypass Catherine, he had to deal with her manually.
After knocking out Catherine, Gaspard continued to advance inside the fort with his ability. Having heard from the soldiers that the major general of the fort was going to have his tea break in the parlor, Gaspard decided to go there to investigate some more.
At the parlor room, Gaspard couldn't find anything useful but at that moment, the major general got in the room and talked about how he kept an important report in the war room, and that the report's content was essential to both the Empire and the Federation.
Having heard the information, Gaspard prepared to leave but got caught because he unintentionally dropped a book, so he had to get rid of all of his witnesses.
Rushing to the war room, Gaspard found the report that he was assigned to retrieve and glimpsed at its contents, agreeing that both sides would want to have this report.
Chapter 4: Escape
Past contacted Gaspard via Communication Artes, asking if Gaspard had already got the document and told him that Gaspard need to immediately leave or die together with the Empire soldiers in the fort because Past had already allowed the Federation army to launch an assault there. And if **she** and the others in the vanguard team were to find out that Gaspard was there, Past would erase everyone involved because the report should never be known to exist.
Halfway out, Gaspard used his ability to hide from the vanguard team consisted of Lisette, Vanessa, and Lucien. However, it almost looked like Lucien could still sense that he was there.
Escaping to the East gate the vanguard team got in, Gaspard found the gate being set on fire. He commented how Lisette had never changed, always decide to do things by herself, in this case, making it hard for the army to follow in the fort.
So Gaspard went to the west gate where he got in as bakery delivery man instead. He was stopped by the guards there and they found out how he was Federation spy and asked him if the baker also cooperated with him which Gaspard rejected.
After Gaspard got out of the fort, he contacted Past again. Past commented that it was a waste of time for Gaspard to do what he did in the village and that he didn't deserve a "good job" he had jokingly asked from Past at all, and that Gaspard better asked that from "them" instead.
Walking back to the village which already got seized by the Federation, Gaspard got showered with curses from all the villagers.
Gaspard met the baker father and son, asking Carl if they had had a good time together which they did and Gaspard was happy for them. The baker asked what would happen to them now and that if they were allowed to keep their houses, which Gaspard answered that nothing would change much and they could keep their houses. The baker asked Gaspard to leave and never show up again.
Gaspard contacted Past once more. Past wondered why Gaspard didn't tell what he had heard from the Empire soldiers before he started staying in the village, that the following day, the Empire soldiers would destroy their village to build another fort. Gaspard said he saw no point in telling them. Past gave Gaspard a "good job" and ended the call.
Mourning a bit about the lost of good bakery, Gaspard walked away with a piece of bread he got from the bakery delivery cart.
After that, Gaspard read the report thoroughly and thought that this report had more valuable information to the Federation than the Empire.
After that, Gaspard read the report thoroughly and thought that this report had more valuable information to the Federation than the Empire. He wondered about what a small world he lived in, because the report talked about the real reasons why Le Sant Village, Leo and friends' hometown, got destroyed overnight.
