Comrade Masquerade



Comrade Masquerade is a chapter in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away. In this chapter, Masquerade would try to redeem herself from attending the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony and her frameup by the Black Changelings for robbing a bank in Yuktobania.

There, she meets up with Yuktobanian Air Force member, Captain Artyom Sabantsev, after hearing a radio broadcast from her car.

Returning Characters

 * Masquerade
 * Su Ji-Hoon

Debuting Characters

 * Artyom Sabantsev

Mentioned Characters

 * Ventsislav Prochaskov

Transcript
IT was an ordinary day in Zakat, and I was sitting on a bench, alone... and now I was stuck into a hellhole long after the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony. I lost all my ideas. I walked round and round and round, and sighed in dispair.

"This is Captain Artyom Sabantsev, broadcasting to the free people of the multiverse..."

That was how he introduced himself every night. And every night we would huddle around my grandfather's battered radio set, to wait for Sabantsev to broadcast his messages of hope and defiance in many different languages. We knew of the Demons of Razgriz, of course -- a multidimensional resistance movement operating throughout the multiverse, fighting the warmongering Alliance, Coalition, Beleninsk Pact and New Central Powers members, including ducangers and terrorists, at the risks of their own lives.

Nothing to do with us -- there's no profit in resistance, I thought. But there she was, talking to me. And she knew what was going on, what the Belkans were after in Yuktobania, what Prochaskov had been chasing: an experimental Yuktobanian aircraft, codenamed "Silver Blade."