Młynar Nearl, the former head of the Nearl household and the uncle of Operators Nearl and Blemishine, has yet to receive a knight title of any kind. Roughly two months after the Kazimierz Major came to a close, he accepted Rhodes Island's invitation and is now assisting us with our affairs in Kazimierz.
Attacks deal 200% ATK as Physical damage, DEF +60%
Mastery 3 · SP cost 30 · Initial SP 15 · Duration 30sAttack interval increased, attack range increased, attacks deal 190% ATK twice. If an enemy has been defeated while skill is active, Trait effect is not reset when skill expires. This can be manually deactivated. (Skill can be halted at any time while active)
Mastery 3 · SP cost 25 · Initial SP 10 · Duration 20sAttack range increased, Trait effect increased by 2x (trait multiplier -10% for each enemy defeated), attacks hit 5 targets for 180% ATK as Physical damage. When any enemy within range is attacked by a Kazimierz Operator, deal an extra 12% of Młynar ATK as True damage.
Mastery 3 · SP cost 42 · Initial SP 20 · Duration 28sATK increased to 113% when attacking. If there are 3 or more enemies nearby, ATK increased to 118%, and take 15% less damage
More likely to be attacked while deployed. When any Kazimierz Operator is attacked, reflect 18% of Młynar's ATK as True Damage
If you've thought it through, I have no qualms with it. Please let me know when the documents are due.
Just another rainfall.
...Please, go ahead. It's okay. Reading the paper is just an unhelpful habit I picked up in the Grand Knight Territory, but one can learn much more from a day's trip outside the city than a hundred papers can teach... It's true that the Nearl name often shows up in the headlines, but there's no need to pay that any mind.
I've never guaranteed your survival for following me, Toland. If it was their lives that your hunters valued, they shouldn't have stepped onto the battlefield or had their recklessness take over them in the first place... Their deaths are not what you need to downplay for your mockery. You will always remember. As will I.
I'm afraid I can't advise Rhodes Island on its affairs in Kazimierz. I may have spent a decade in that tower, but only as an unambitious nobody. I'm in no position to express my views on the General Chamber of Commerce. The sword...? Yes, I know how to use one, and I've always used the same one.
The rivalries in the halls of power never ceased, they've merely become a part of the opportunistic pursuit of profit. The only constant is the innocent being dragged into the cesspool. As vassals of a treasonous knight, your parents were forced to take you into their involuntary flight ere the fabricated incrimination could arrive... Czcibor, why? Why didn't you... flee even further?
No need to have Maria come see me. She's not a child anymore, and ought to make her own decisions, lest she embarrass her parents. A knight should temper themselves through travel, and no matter what she does under Rhodes Island's wing, she must always be responsible for her own actions.
Why are you still here? Our ideals have come to an end, and I witnessed their final moments... No, never mind. You wish to spar? Then pick up your spear. Entrust your future not to a failure, but to sacrifice, and the pain in your flesh. Come.
Leithanien's conspiracies... Nothing more than trifles that happened years ago. It doesn't change the fact that I'm an ordinary citizen, nor does it change anything else. To Kazimierzians, stars and heroes come and go. The success they enjoy is only that which they are permitted.
Father, you once told me that longswords are suitable only for valorous young knights. But the National Council's miscarriage of justice, the General Chamber of Commerce's rise to prominence—everything I've wanted to stop, my blade was useless to prevent. I couldn't remove your lesions, and with it by my side I watched as Schnitz left... I merely became accustomed to its prescence.
We rarely get the opportunity to see Operator Młynar aboard the landship, but if you are lucky enough to run into him and he happens to have some free time, he might just give you a few words of advice at the training grounds. Młynar may not have formally been a campaign knight, but his combat techniques clearly take after the traditional style employed by Kazimierz's knights. It can be inferred that the Nearl family's traditional training practices were sufficient to develop his mastery over the weapons commonly used by knights. As a young man, Młynar frequently followed his father, Kirill Nearl, and his team of campaign knights as an apprentice, giving him the opportunity to accumulate combat experience under the wings of a great many outstanding knights. However, whenever he puts down his training knight shield and picks up his sword, it becomes immediately clear to everyone nearby that the sword is his weapon. In most historied knight families, when a young man comes of age, he often chooses to once again leave home to improve his techniques and disposition, before joining a knight order to serve Kazimierz. However, having already mastered the sword during his time as a wanderer, Młynar set himself on a different path. ...As for his Originium Arts, from what I've heard, knights never use Arts during a duel unless their beliefs are on the line. That said, during his test, he did show us his Arts just once. We've seen Nearl and Blemishine's Arts. They are always as radiant as can be, possibly scorching, unadulterated. To our surprise, though, Operator Młynar's Arts initially felt gentle, even loving. However, upon realizing the anger the flow of his golden light embodied, we had to immediately stop him from drawing his sword, so as to minimize the repair work needed after his test.
[An old letter] I don't care, Father. Must knights prove themselves through victory? The men in the arenas never seem more brilliant simply because they manage to maul more of their opponents. Knights should stand with those in distress, those with nothing but the clothes on their backs. This alone I will always believe in. When you stand with the weak, failure is hardly unheard of. Rather than relishing in victory, I would rather believe that the spirit of the knighthood also encompasses the endurance of failure. It's just as our family motto goes, 'Fear neither hardship nor darkness.'
Unlike the Radiant Knight, Młynar primarily operates outside the Grand Knight Territory. Not long after he came aboard Rhodes Island and signed his agreement, he made his way back to Kazimierz. However, he did not immediately report to Rhodes Island's Kawalerielki office. In addition, he tendered his letter of resignation to his former employer in the Grand Knight Territory by mail. Clearly, there are many in the city who view Młynar as a threat, and we can also surmise from his own account that a number of recent incidents he was involved in have affected the interests of certain individuals. Still, the retrial of a misjudged case, or the downfall of a few companies and nobles, are hardly significant in this city. At this point, rather than being concerned by all the attacks, open or covert, against his family, perhaps it's more fitting to say that having stayed in this city for ten years, he no longer feels that fighting these forces will accomplish anything. 'We were honored to have his help during an operation. He wasn't as difficult to work with as I expected. By which I mean I thought he'd be a bossy, arrogant noble, or maybe someone who strictly followed the traditional rules of chivalry... but he simply listened and promised to give you a hand before you screwed up too badly. The only thing we had to get used to is that he never calls anyone by their codename. I mean, we do have a good number of Kazimierzian operators who use their titles from the Major as their codenames, so maybe he's got a grudge against that, but it's not that weird if you ask me. '...That said, it's hard not to feel bad if you make a mistake while working with him. That time, I almost screwed up the entire mission, and after that we let him make all the decisions. 'He gives smooth, efficient plans. It doesn't seem like he cares whether you can actually follow them or not, though. I remember him asking us to split up to stop a couple commercial knights from tailing us. How were we supposed to find them? How would we stop them? Can we knock them out? Is it okay if we blow the roads up? He didn't discuss any of that with us. 'I guess he's probably more used to working alone? I mean, all of us did our own thing and finished our own objectives with no communication whatsoever, and somehow it all just worked out... I'm really curious. What kind of man does it take to get used to doing things the way he does? And what got him doing things like that in the first place?'
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Mizuki6★ · SpecialistSeems Margaret kept the title she earned from that charade. Hmph, so she still sees her actions as a victory, after squandering the Nearls' glory in those cheap commercial performances... My Originium Arts? Alas, I can nary illuminate a thing.
Golden plains, a field of wheat, the path of a nomadic city, and the wake of a Catastrophe. The manor's garden, the arena, and those who hand over their last coin along with their last harvest... Father, I've always tried to walk a righteous path.
No need to teach me how to get along with the Infected...You should be aware of my time spent living among the refugees…? The Infected, the disabled, the bankrupt, the famished and poor... they're all the same in the ways that matter. The most honorable thing they can hope to achieve is climbing out of their tent in the settlement before their final moments arrive.
Forget it, Schnitz. How am I to tutor Maria in your stead? I am no knight, and certainly no father. No one would call me 'gentle.' Besides... I never once imagined I would actually return to this place... Why, Schnitz? Why am I the one to remain?
You, too, encourage the others to throw themselves at a cause that will yield no results. Those who attempt to walk through fire in the dark night will only find themselves immolated. That said, you don't need my advice, given the path you so obstinately walk alone.
Margaret doesn't speak to me, but considering how she was back then... we had no need to. She is just like you were at that age, Yolanta, too much so. She will experience the same things you did, and she will never regret them. That I should tarry at her side more? Hmph, there's no point.
In the first two years after they left the Grand Knight Territory, the campaign knights would often bring me their letters. By the time the last one arrived, Maria was already old enough to understand its gist... Whether the letters were written beforehand makes no difference to me, but given the weight of their lives and deaths, they wouldn't have disappeared without so much as a peep.
The Grand Knight Territory's appearance is ever-fluid. Today, the city exhibits no trace of what it was twenty years ago, its sunset-lit silhouette sunken and gone... Yet its nightscapes still spring up to my mind at times wanted and at times not. Often, I find myself thinking that I should at least... try to seek out and reclaim that past.
A wilderness without light…
The sound of a rainstorm in the wilderness...
Młynar Nearl. Per our contract's provisions, I shall assist Rhodes Island with its operations in Kazimierz. ...You already knew my name. I'm neither a knight, nor do I have a title.
'Fear neither hardship nor darkness...' Hmph. A bygone time unworthy of remembering. A dream, far too lucid.
A Kazimierzian is smart after the damage is done…
Nearly the same struggles and sacrifices...
I appreciate your appraisal, if you consider such ordinary performance worthy of promotion.
Blank paperwork for promotion within the order, excerpts from the recon knights' reports on our movements... Schnitz often sent these things, as his way of saying hello.
Titles and positions are both meaningless. The knights of the Nearl family do not require recognition to walk their paths. Even in modern Kazimierz, where every path leads to darkness.
How should I present myself...? As the one slandered by the papers and the groundless gossip in town? Or as the wanderer who once treated that vilification as a badge of honor?
Man has forgotten true struggle… as well as those who require it to survive.
To think they all still believe that blood is not spilled in vain…
...Follow me.
Follow me.
Sand, dust, and blood. Most fail to imagine the sight of their admixture.
The sound of the wind in the barrens... Far too familiar.
To think they are unaware of their own shame...
It would seem they have yet to remember what to fear.
I'm fully prepared.
Yes?
Hm.
Blade whetted again… for but another battle…
These so-called foes… not even worth drawing my sword.
Do I need to repeat myself on the battle plan?
Just like the old days?… No.
All those... I have yet to abandon.
This won't hurt your eyes.
It will be over before you feel the pain.
How very tiring.
Face the tide? Hmph.
It rains.
The sunlight will have to wait.
That sigh... still haunts my mind.
Even if there is but a sigh at the very end.
You still have full confidence in everything... With these people's fate in your hand, you still believe there will be a happy ending.
There is no one man who loftily sneers at the pointlessness of it all... Time speeds past us equally.
If you have no other work for me, I shall take my leave.
...Wake me up.
Deserters… they always have somewhere to hide, among their like-minded brethren.
From the windows of Kawalerielki's towers, my eyes have grown tired of those men and their unpunished misdeeds.
Mark my words, there will be battles you cannot win. Have you considered the consequences of those inevitable failures?
'Failure can be endured.' ... But the price is always dear.
You... accommodate quite a few people here.
I have no promises to make.
...I believe I've made a suggestion regarding this matter?
I can tell who you are. Speak freely.
Kazimierz's knight novels... Hmph... The Grand Knight Territory no longer has room for such fantasies.
Do not add any frivolous decorations to my sword, Toland... In the Grand Knight Territory, there are merchants eying the Nearl name. They will do as you do, and ridicule me in your place.
Arknights.
Arknights.
Margaret and Maria should be on board... No, no need to tell them. I find the commotions that come with the New Year unbearable. I'm just going to read the paper here.
Let us pretend that today was the New Year. Who could remember dates, after having trudged the wilderness for so long? ...But I am not wrong about the dates, I know. Everything that happens in Kawalerielki is measured by how many days it remains in the paper, no more and no less. No matter the story.
Good day... 'Doktor.'
Do I long for the old days? No. I simply cannot forget. That which I saw in the places untouched by light... and could do nothing about.
If you have no time to deal with work today, then I'll take my leave. A present? I used to give Maria gifts when she was little. I even once chased after bandits who had ransacked a village, for the sake of a small child's birthday wish. That said, you are not a small child.
Once you stop making wishes, you naturally no longer look forward to birthdays. Whether that's because you can already fulfill them on your own, or out of crippling despair... I'm afraid it's been far too long since the last time I said 'Happy birthday' to anyone.
The future that Rhodes Island paints is impossible, but still, you attract supporters to chase it with no regard for their own safety. Your tottering ideals would never have come this far without the support of your followers. So spare me the civilities. I'm only walking this path alongside you for the time being.
No matter when or where, there are always those shouting out their naive ideals. However, the idealists are not the only ones who can move forward.
[Classified Log] Based on available data, the Nearl couple was active on the battlefield for an exceedingly short period of time. The two of them rose to prominence twenty-five years ago when they fought under the same knight order's banner during the campaign knights' invasion of Ursus, with Schnitz taking over command during a crucial battle when the knight captain was gravely injured, and leaving a deep impression on the soldiers from both sides. However, that was their last notable accomplishment. Their disappearance without a trace over a decade ago seems to have marked a turning point in the fate of this generation of the Nearl family. As Rhodes Island has expressed our willingness to help locate them, Młynar agreed to have a conversation with us on the matter. During our conversation, we learned that Yolanta Nearl was also born into an established knight family and had been on good terms with the Nearls since she was young. She had originally intended to join the Silverlance Pegasus when she became a campaign knight, but Schnitz insisted that she would be more effective on the battlefield with a bow than a silverlance. 'He arrived at that conclusion the moment she released her bowstring for the first time,' said Młynar, without elaborating further. Yolanta quickly proved Schnitz correct with her performance during the campaign, and her extraordinary talent in and understanding of Originium Arts made her particularly effective when deployed in positions overlooking the entire battlefield. As for his brother Schnitz, Młynar had only this to say: 'He is my brother.' Perhaps it is because of how well he knew them, but despite the passage of time and the fact that everyone, including their daughters Margaret and Maria, has already accepted that they might be dead, Młynar continues to search for his brother and sister-in-law. When asked if he had any new leads, he shook his head, though it seemed his doubts on the matter were stronger than ever.
Before joining Rhodes Island, Młynar worked at a medium-sized corporation that primarily sold construction materials. Mieszko Industries is its biggest shareholder, and the company has had a stable fiscal performance. It has not faced any significant charges and has no obvious connections to the nobility. It's merely one of Kazimierz's countless unremarkable companies. While prevailing rumors at the time suggested that the Nearls' younger son would join either the Adeptus Sprawiedliwi or the Knights Association and eventually take over the family's Knight Primus title from the ailing Kirill, the decision that Młynar ultimately made was perhaps influenced by some external factor, or his disappointment with Kazimierz. But we've met many disappointed men. The real question is what made him decide to do something now, and how much of his strength he's willing to lend to Rhodes Island. Młynar joined Rhodes Island after the Infected disturbances across the Dzwonek region. The Adeptus Sprawiedliwi successfully kept the word of the incident from spreading, thus ensuring no other forces could take advantage of this information. Młynar himself did not provide much in the way of his personal perspective on the matter. However, when HR brought this up again while organizing files, he gave an unexpected response: 'I've just always thought I needed to prove Kazimierz still has a way out.' Młynar has also never brought up anything to do with Operators Blemishine, Whislash, or Platinum since signing his cooperation agreement with us. Nor does he interact with Flametail and the others while in Kazimierz. There has been only one instance of Młynar, Whislash, and Blemishine having a conversation, after Whislash requested a meeting, and it lasted less than ten minutes. Although the details of that conversation are unknown, our Engineering operators told us that Blemishine suddenly seemed much more energetic, as if a weight had been lifted from her heart. Even then, Młynar didn't appear to pay much more attention to the other Kazimierzian operators than before, even though many of us are just as curious about him as we are about the Radiant Knight herself. It is clear that Młynar is not looking for an answer from Rhodes Island, and perhaps he does not even believe that there is an answer out there. But when he assisted us with a string of Infected problems, he displayed a sense of responsibility that definitely did not seem to come from respect towards his work. Some may believe the Land of Knights has no more room for knightly fantasies, and that the endless waves will eventually consume its cities, but how can anyone know how the next story will be written, and where the next city will be built, until they are completed?