[PSSO Citadel 2, Citadel stables, 9:30 o'clock]
Xzaivier and the 9999 other sword saints (all A and S ranks, he and Yagumi are the only F ranks that are getting deployed) are by their horses, saddled up and ready to ride out. Xzaivier has a flashback of Amai hugging him, he remembers how warm her embrace was.
Xzaivier: (in his mind) Amai, we're coming, I promise, I won't let that freakshow kill you.
Bellatrix: ATTENTION SWORD SAINTS! IT'S YOUR AUXILIARY SPEAKING! Get on your horses and prepare for a long ride!
Everyone guides their horses onto the street, stopping commoner horses, commoner carriages. Everyone exits their cobblestone homes to catch a glimpse of what's happening. Even Amai's parents who had been weeping and crying for the entire month non-stop came out. All of the sword saints got onto their horses before waiting for the streets Infront of them to clear. Once they were Bellatrix began to gallop as the rest followed, commoners could only sit and watch in awe as the sword saints' stallions' hooves thud against the cobblestone street.
Clippity-Clop
Clippity-Clop
Clippity-Clop
For several hours the warriors rode through the massive nation of Sol, fiercely and loudly.
[Kingston City, Nation of Sol, 17: 12 o'clock]
They all decided to stop by the Kingston City's sword saint checkpoint, which is in the southern region of the nation of Sol (every city except the 5 capital cities also have sword saint checkpoints) resting and replenishing their energy for the rest of the ride for about 3 hours.
[Kingston city diner, Nation of Sol, 17: 15 o'clock]
Xzaivier walks into a diner filled with sword saints.
The environment is so alive and positive and alive that you'd swear these people weren't going to war if you were a regular citizen. Xzaivier locates Yagumi who's currently arguing with Bellatrix over who's stronger (it's obviously Bella but Yagumi will never admit it) Jin's carrying a buffet's worth of food to their table. Xzaivier orders banana bread, once it's ready Xzaivier collects and eats outside. Xzaivier notices an old brewery worker struggling to lift a box of wine onto his horse carriage. Xzaivier walks over and helps.
Xzaivier: Leave it, I've got it.
Xzaivier picks up the box with ease and places it onto the horse carriage.
Old man: Thank you so much young man, there aren't many like you anymore.
Xzaivier: No problem.
Old man: Here take this.
The man takes out a handful of pints, about 50.
Old man: This is all I have left but you deserve it.
Xzaivier: ...No, if this is all you have then you should use it on yourself.
Old man: No I insist.
Xzaivier: I insist aswell. In fact...
Xzaivier pulls 200 pints.
Xzaivier: You need this more than me.
Old man: Thank you so much. This continent needs more sword saints like you.
Xzaivier: No problem.
Xzaivier walks back the diner, pays the waiter before leaving, but is stopped by Yagumi, Jin, Bellatrix and a random 5'8 tall sword saint with short messy yellow hair, yellow/orange/black haori (the black is patterned around in the same way tiger stripes would be. The yellow aswell as the orange are blended together), Her Jika Tabi boots have the same pattern and colour scheme. This girl is Jin's childhood bestfriend.
Xzaivier: Who's she?
???: Of course the sleep deprived F rank doesn't know his superiors. Tsk... It's honestly disgusting.
A vein appears on Xzaivier's temple.
Xzaivier: Great, another overconfident bitch of sword saint. Exactly who we need to defeat Gimori.
???: What did you just say you asshole?!!!
Xzaivier: I'd say I was pretty audible.
The two get in eachother's faces.
???: You don't get to talk about the legendary Tora that way bastard!
Tora unsheathes her Tiger blade, simultaneously trying to slash Xzaivier across the chest but Xzaivier effortlessly evades before looking at Tora's rank, sewed onto her Haori (The rank of a sword saint is sewed onto the Haori on the right side of the haori's chest area, Citadel captains have their ranks on the back of the Haori)
Xzaivier: An E rank huh... You're barely a superior of mine. You're just as weak as me, if not weaker.
Tora yells before aggressively slashing down vertically. Xzaivier parries the attack by half unsheathing his flame blade. Jin appears by the two.
Jin: Alright Xzaivier you can stop teasing her now.
Xzaivier steps back before resheathing his flame blade.
Xzaivier: Teasing??? I was serious.
Yagumi: Welp... that's the Xzaivier I know... Never afraid to take on anyone whether it's an enemy or an ally.
Bellatrix chuckles.
Bellatrix: You should really have some restraint X, you might pick fight the wrong person and get flipped upside down.
Xzaivier: X? Really?
Jin: Hey, it sounds cool, right Tora?
Tora glares at Xzaivier.
Jin: Don't mind her, she's just a bit tense from the heat.
Jin massages Tora's shoulders.
Yagumi: Yeah what Jin said, imagine being called X the cultist slayer.
Xzaivier: Whatever.
Yagumi: In fact... It sounds a bit too cool. Hey Bellatrix I want a nickname too.
Bellatrix: How about... Yag-Yag the loudest ego.
Yagumi: That sounds horrible, and I do not have the loudest ego, let alone an ego at all.
Jin, Bellatrix and Xzaivier glance at eachother before laughing loudly.
Yagumi: Stop laughing. I COMMAND it.
Bellatrix: (wipping a tear of joy from her eye) I think you might be forgetting who's in charge of this operation Yag-Yag.
Bellatrix adjusts her Citadel Auxiliary mandatory armband as she speaks. The group laughs at the fuming Yagumi, even the angry Tora cracks.