Iris and Crescent

Once the feverish fervor of drunkenness passed, people would sober up.

In fact, most werewolves had followed Fenrir and the others in rebellion because they had nowhere else to go. The Werewolf Code had deprived them of employment opportunities. As long as they had homes, food, and stable lives, they would behave themselves.

The problem was that humans wanted all werewolves dead. Under such circumstances, even if the werewolves did not want to resist, they had no choice.

The train would arrive in Vienna around lunchtime. It was expected to stop there for an hour, and passengers bound for Venice or Florence could get off and look around.

Being able to get off, stretch, and breathe fresh air during a long journey was indeed necessary, but the real reason was that relations between France and Italy had never been particularly good. Once the train reached Vienna Station, its broad-gauge tracks had to be changed to narrow-gauge ones.

After Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified China, he implemented standardized carriage axles, writing, and conduct. Perhaps the "axles" he spoke of referred to track gauge.

Trains that could travel freely through France and Germany could not get through Italy. Since gaining independence, France had continually expanded into Italy and occupied Italian land, costing Italy a great deal of territory.

The Nice region in southern France was scenic and beautiful, but before the 16th century, it belonged to Italy and had been seized by France. Then there was Corsica, right at Italy's doorstep. It had originally belonged to Italy and was closer to Italy, yet France had taken it in the end as well. Although Italians surrendered whenever they encountered the British during World War II, they had never backed down from war with cheese-eating France. In May 1940, the German army swept into