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“I want to use the gate.”
“Please take a number first…”
“Take a look at this.”
Across the human territories, there was no place where the name of the royal family did not hold sway. After all, the entirety of the human lands was part of the empire.
As soon as the authenticity of the emblem was verified, we were given a priority pass for the gate without further questions.
The usage fee was also waived, but to avoid any potential issues later, the proper payment was made. Having priority access alone felt like an unfair advantage, let alone getting a fee waiver as well; it just felt wrong to not pay.
“It feels like we’re doing something wrong,” Ellen commented.
I shook my head. “It was given to me to be used in emergency situations, and we’re using it in an emergency situation. How is that a problem?”
If you get down to it, this was precisely an emergency.
Our entire travel plan was about to be disrupted; if this wasn’t an emergency, what was?
Or… Had Charlotte been aware that this would happen when she gave me the imperial emblem? Was I overthinking things? There was no way Charlotte could have predicted this, right?
“… Self-brainwashing?”
“… Why would you even bring that up here? And it’s not!”
‘Such a power, such a bearer. You meant it in that sense, didn’t you?!’
And it’s not self-brainwashing, it’s Self-Deception!
“Hey, if you don’t wanna come with me now, you can always follow two days later.”
“… No.”
In the end, Ellen liked the idea as well.
Thanks to the imperial emblem, which acted like a VIP pass, Ellen and I were able to bypass all the queues at the subsequent stops and arrived at the Egxian Forward Base in just one day.
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The Egxian Forward Base was the first base that humans built...
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