Altaran Maiden

**Altaran Maiden** is an unnamed citizen of the Altaras Kingdom.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Altaran Maiden is depicted as a young and beautiful woman with a long brown hair and attractive eyes.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

Since the Altaras Kingdom lost its war against Parpaldia Empire, the scene had become all too commonplace. Still, the Parpaldians had a justification that a resistance movement existed against the colonial government. Using that pretext, the colonial government arrested and executed anybody at its discretion, regardless of whether or not they were actually a part of the resistance movement. At the center of Parpaldian colonial rule was the main building of the colonial government in Le Brias. Rumors abound that the man at the top, colonial governor Cesaq, a trueborn pervert, was using his power to order the arrest of beautiful, young Altaran women, exhausted his sexual tendencies on them, and then condemned them to eternal silence by having them bound and executed after branding them guilty of being part of anti-government forces. To the Altarans, this colonial rule symbolized their disgrace and humiliation: an unacceptable reality that forced them to accept.

Several Parpaldian elite guards donning the imperial uniform arrest a single maiden. Her father, who desperately to stop them, clung onto the foot of the elite guard arresting her and begged them not to take her away. He knew the colonial government always executed innocent young, beautiful Altaran women in the end from mere suspicion without possibly being all guilty. The elite guard swung his baton forcefully onto the man’s head, wounding his temple to cause blood to spurt out, but they didn’t stop beating him until he no longer even twitched. The maiden stopped resisting and cried to witness her poor father as the elite guards took her to the main building of the Altaran colonial government.

Ryal, who was the commander of the underground resistance movement dressed in civilian clothing, was going around the city minding his own business and making preparations and scouting out the defenses at important areas. He caught sight of her pleading father beaten nearly to death while a young Altaran maiden was dragged away crying. Fortunately, her father was still alive and taken by passersby to a hospital. Ryal had a strong sense of justice, so seeing that scene and being unable to help was akin to torture. He experienced witnessing his citizens pitifully beaten to near death while their daughters were taken away to be raped and murdered during the Parpaldia Empire occupation.

After finishing his patrol duties, Ryal returned to their headquarters, a run-of-the-mill home. Descending into the complex, he stopped to pause for a moment and then turned to punch the wall of the corridor. A resistance member that was standing watch at the entrance saw Ryal’s outburst and came to him, asking him if something happen. Ryal cursed to watch another maiden taken away by the colonial government and wanted to blow all of them to smithereens the Parpaldian instant. He wondered if Princess Lumies had negotiated with Japan. After Ryal heard some good news from the resistance member, he began to feel excited. As soon as Ryal entered the operations room, his vice commander handed a piece of paper to him, which had written the contents of a message sent through the manacomms from Rodenius via Sios that seemed like a poem. When Ryal read a message, he realized the poem's last line, "On the day of Tas, there will be good fortune," was code for one week exactly. He ordered the resistance members to inform all of them throughout Altaras for preparing to fight in next week.

## Trivia

* In the manga version, the Parpaldian imperial soldiers dragged an Altaran maiden away crying from the public bath. In the original, her father desperately tried to stop them from arresting his daughter, and the elite guard beat him nearly to death. Whereas, there is no such depiction of her father in the manga version.