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 King’s Beloved Sword, Human, Laura De Farnese Empire Calendar: Year 1506, Month 4, Day 14 Polles, Vistula Forest
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Noise ran rampant in all directions. This young lady had noway of knowing where the noise ended and where sound began. The forest, the fire, trees and trees, shadows and shadows, all of these things quickly brushed past this young lady.
There was one thing that was clear. Sweat. On my neck, no, sweat flowed down this young lady's entire body. As this young lady's sweat was incredibly distinct, it was more vivid than this young lady's consciousness and soon felt more clear than this young lady's existence.
-!...


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"Trash." "Even if we think about it, we’re really like that." "Every single last one of them." "Kill them!" "You—." "Kill them all! Charge!" The sound of fire burning. "Hold out longer! All units, if we back away even slightly here." The sound of trees wailing as they break apart. "Charge! For the glory of Teuton!" "I am not a human! Spare me! I am not a human!" "All your." "Whisper whisper." "Run more. Run faster, you bastards!" "It’s complete hell!" The cry of a wolf. "All," 'This is our last remaining purgatory! Hold on!" "I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it." "We are on your side! We are not your enemy." "It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that." "Defend our position at all costs!" 'There is no place to go. Now." "Yeah. This is the end of the road." "I don’t know where this is." The sound of hoofs. Even there. "No, me." Even here. "Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!" "The traitors!" "I can’t see anything." "We are not humans!" "Ask for forgiveness!" "Please spare me! I’ll surrender!" The sound of dead things being stepped on. "Charge!" "O Lord, I am sorry." "Please." "This can’t be. We shouldn’t have done this. From the beginning." The sound of metal. "I don’t know where my eye went. Someone, please find my..."Do not deserve to live." "Whisper whisper." The sound of crumbling. "They told us to stay here." "Die!" "Even though you’re trash, you’re good at sticking your mouth in places." "Where, do we go?"

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This young lady was closing her eyes.
With her eyes closed, this young lady simply listened.
The things that were nothing yelled fiercely. They were things that were being burned. They were things that were screaming as their limbs had been severed. They were things that bellowed as they stabbed their blades into the limbs of those who were burning to death.
Similar to how it was natural for the forest to shake when the wind blows, the things that caught on fire naturally killed and were killed. This young lady, listened carefully to these nothings and tried to feel something out from there.
 - ... , ... !
It was a difficult task. This young lady continued to sweat. It was more difficult to sweep in the noises that were spat out by other bodies than it was for this young lady's small body to spill out the sound that was within her body. It was really slightly, more difficult.
"....."
Therefore, this young lady listened a slight bit more carefully.
The language of Sardinia. The language of Habsburg and the language of Francia. The language of Anatolia, the language of Castile, the language of Brittany, the language of Batavia, the language of Teuton, the language of Bernicia, the language of Moscow, the language of Kalmar, the sounds that have a nationality and are confined within borders—on this harsh land, this young lady attempted to listen to all of the sounds that billowed from this land where this young lady lived.

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"Trash." "Even if we think about it, we’re really like that." "Every single last one of them." "Kill them!" "You—." "Kill them all! Charge!" The sound of fire burning. "Hold out longer! All units, if we back away even slightly here." The sound of trees wailing as they break apart. "Charge! For the glory of Teuton!" "I am not a human! Spare me! I am not a human!" "All your." "Whisper whisper." "Run more. Run faster, you bastards!" "It’s complete hell!" The cry of a wolf. "All," 'This is our last remaining purgatory! Hold on!" "I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it." "We are on your side! We are not your enemy." "It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that." "Defend our position at all costs!" 'There is no place to go. Now." "Yeah. This is the end of the road." "I don’t know where this is." The sound of hoofs. Even there. "No, me." Even here. "Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!" "The traitors!" "I can’t see anything." "We are not humans!" "Ask for forgiveness!" "Please spare me! I’ll surrender!" The sound of dead things being stepped on. "Charge!" "O Lord, I am sorry." "Please." "This can’t be. We shouldn’t have done this. From the beginning." The sound of metal. "I don’t know where my eye went. Someone, please find my	"Do not deserve to live." "Whisper whisper." The sound of crumbling. "They told us to stay here." "Die!" "Even though you’re trash, you’re good at sticking your mouth in places." "Where, do we go?"

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"Trash." "Even if we think about it, we’re really like that." "Every single last one of them." "Kill them!" "You—." "Kill them all! Charge!" The sound of fire burning. "Hold out longer! All units, if we back away even slightly here." The sound of trees wailing as they break apart. "Charge! For the glory of Teuton!" "I am not a human! Spare me! I am not a human!" "All your." "Whisper whisper." "Run more. Run faster, you bastards!" "It’s complete hell!" The cry of a wolf. "All," 'This is our last remaining purgatory! Hold on!" "I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it." "We are on your side! We are not your enemy." "It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that." "Defend our position at all costs!" 'There is no place to go. Now." "Yeah. This is the end of the road." "I don’t know where this is." The sound of hoofs. Even there. "No, me." Even here. "Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!" "The traitors!" "I can’t see anything." "We are not humans!" "Ask for forgiveness!" "Please spare me! I’ll surrender!" The sound of dead things being stepped on. "Charge!" "O Lord, I am sorry." "Please." "This can’t be. We shouldn’t have done this. From the beginning." The sound of metal. "I don’t know where my eye went. Someone, please find my.."Do not deserve to live." "Whisper whisper." The sound of crumbling. "They told us to stay here." "Die!" "Even though you’re trash, you’re good at sticking your mouth in places." "Where, do we go?"




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- This young lady was stifled.
Within the forest of sound.
This young lady, was stifled, but.



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[ONLY WHITE "LETTERS"]
"Kill them!" "You—." "Kill them all! Charge!"
"Hold out longer! All units, if we back away even slightly here."
"Charge! For the glory of Teuton!" "I am not a human! Spare me! I am not a human!" "All your."
"Run more. Run faster, you bastards!" "It’s complete hell!"
"All," 'This is our last remaining purgatory! Hold on!" "I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it." "We are on your side! We are not your enemy." "It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that." "Defend our position at all costs!" 'There is no place to go. Now." "Yeah. This is the end of the road." "I don’t know where this is."
"No, me."
"Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!" "The traitors!" "I can’t see anything." "We are not humans!" "Ask for forgiveness!" "Please spare me! I’ll surrender!"
"Charge!" "O Lord, I am sorry." "Please." "This can’t be. We shouldn’t have done this. From the beginning."
"I don’t know where my eye went. Someone,
please find my***."	"Do not deserve to live."
"They told us to stay here." "Die!"

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-This young lady closed her eyes further.

First, this young lady erased the miscellaneous sounds.

The sound of flames blazing The sound of trees breaking The
sound of metal.

The regretful cries of animals. The witches’ mumblings.

This young lady first erased these all.

And.



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[ONLY WHITE "LETTERS"]
"You—." "Kill them all! Charge!"
"Charge! For the glory of Teuton!"
"All your."
"Run more. Run faster, you bastards!"
"I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it."
"It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that."
"There is no place to go. Now." "Yeah. This is the end of the road." "I don’t know where this is."
"No, me."
"Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!"
"I can’t see anything."
"Ask for forgiveness!"
"Charge!" "O Lord, I am sorry." "Please."
I don’t know where my eye went. Someone, please find my**." 	"Do not deserve to live."
"They told us to stay here."



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"--Go right"

This young lady pointed towards the sound of people shouting
But not yet This was still too far. Ifyou tried to put your hand in the nirvana which appeared beautiful when looked at from afar. it wasjust a chaotic mire. We were far, from the place where Elizabeth Atanaxia Evatriae von Habsburg resided.

The language of demons cannot be heard in the place where the Imperial Princess resides.

Sweat flowed.

This young lady erased the sound of demons.

And.

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[I DID NOT PUT THE LETTERS OFF, ONLY WHAT WAS HIGHLIGHT]

"You—."
"Charge! For the glory of Teuton!"
"All your."
"All,"
"I can’t see anything." "No, I am sorry, men. This is not it."
"It’s hot. Exceedingly so." "Are things that."
" No, me."
"Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!"
"Ask for forgiveness!"
"Please."
"Do not deserve to live."

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"-Go left"

Those banners of all nations were a camouflage.

As this young lady understood the language of all nations. this young lady knew this.

That. was nothing more than a deceitful tactic that disguised their military strength to appear larger than what it seems to be by simply switching out their banners and carrying out multiple charges. The number of languages that could actually be heard, was only a small handful.

There was a direction where the language of multiple nations could be heard all at once. That was most likely where the mercenaries from multiple nations were fighting.

It was a boundlessly dangerous battlefield. As the witches had said earlier, this was a dirty battleground. There is no way that the Imperial Princess would appoint unfamiliar mercenaries as her guards in a place like that The Elite Guards of Habsburg which the Imperial Princess had personally raised since long ago were most likely protecting her.

Sweat flowed.

This young lady erased the chaotic sound of mercenaries.

And.

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"You—."
"Charge! For the glory of Teuton!"
"All,"
"No, I am sorry, men. This is not it."
"Are things that."
. "Fight for the glory of the Kingdom of Sardinia! All right! Follow me!"
"Do not deserve to live."

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"-Go right"

Surely.

Now the words which this young lady could hear were distinct. As we approached closer and closer towards the direction of the sounds, the sounds regained the nations which they were born in and remained within their borders.

In this battle, the Imperial Princess could not mobilize a large number of soldiers. His Lordship's stratagem undoubtedly worked out properly.

At most, the only languages that could be heard were of Habsburg, Teuton. and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-um. Coincidentally. these three nations all shared their borders with the Black Mountains. Did they intend to use this opportunity to make it so that it would be impossible for the Crescent Alliance to come back for a while? Was that their goal?

The language of Habsburg and Teuton shared the same root, so it was easy to confuse. Then all this young lady had to do was erase the Polish-Lithuanian shouting Similar to how there was no way the Imperial Princess would leave her safety in the hands of mercenaries, there was absolutely no way she would have ordered the cavalry units of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to protect her life. Solely towards the sound of Habsburg

Sweat flowed.

This young lady erased the sound of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

And.

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"You—."
" All,"
"Are things that."
"Do not deserve to live."

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"-Go left"

“Roger"”

His Lordship's Captain of the Royal Guards answered with a playful tone and guided this young lady towards that direction. The sound of the horn resonated Iengthily and left behind a lingering trace.

Occasionally. a single group of soldiers would appear and block our path, but since they were things that were not in a formation, we simply stepped over them.

The witches chatted with excitement They flew freely between the aspen trees, speeded through the low-altitude night sky on the ground of the forest, and shouted as they shot down humans with their crossbows.

"Wait a second."

"Doesn’t this, sort of."

"Feel like we’re getting somewhere right now-?"

"Doesn't it feel like we're gradually breaking through them more?"

"Really? Wait, we're breaking through this? Didn‘t the enemy forces, have like, at the very least, five or seven thousand soldiers? You're saying that we're breaking through this right now?"

"Wait a second, we're this far in, but why are there so few troops here? Where are the enemies hiding? Eh? What, is this? Seriously, what's up with this?! I'mjust seeing things, right? I have a weird hunch right now."

Sweat flowed.

This young lady finally erased the sound of Teuton.

And.

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"You—."
" All,"
"Are things that."
"Do not deserve to live."

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"-Go left Very slightly."

"Fuck. if we live through this. then it really won‘t make any fucking sense. Ah. fuck. Shit Seriously? This doesn't seem like an illusion."

"No. We still don’t know yet. In war, nothing is certain until the end. If the enemy's reserve troops suddenly appear in front of us with a bang, then we'll be taking a luxury liner straight to Hades."

"No. I have a good feeling My instincts have never been wrong before, so you can trust me. It's an objective truth that's as believable as the fact that you're all perverts. Whoa, I was perfectly..."

"You've been illogical from beginning to end,you crazy bitch! Since we‘re still in the middle of a battle, if you're going to pointlessly flap your lips. thenjust shoot your crossbow more! You bitch who has noodles for brains! I've already killed seven!"

"Pfft, only seven? Are you saying that as if that's some exploit? I've shot down at least fifteen people now, girl."

"I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I attached a spearhead to the end of my broom. so I‘vejust been bashing it into people. In other words, a ramming tactic. I've killed about three people like this. and the number of people I’ve shot down with my crossbow is about twenty, so my exploits are roughly at thirty."

Sweat flowed.

This young lady had no more sounds to erase.

And.


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You.
All,
Are things that.
Do not deserve to live.



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"-Go straight."

"Huh?!“

"This doesn't seem right! This, is real! I'm not seeing things!"

"Shit. we're seriously breaking through? This is seriously being broken throoouugh?!"

"Whisper whisper."

"Whisper whisper?"

"Whisper whisper!"

"What is this fucked up situation where our Euryale has suddenly increased to three people?!"

"They'rejust the girls who're at a lost for words but wanted to continue the harmony. so they imitated the bitch with the easiest line to copy. Now you have no other choice but to acknowledge the fact that I'm perfectly logical, right, you fucking bitch?"

"No, this isn't the time for that nonsense! The horn to charge! I did n't think we'd actually use this! Your Excellency Acting General? Your Excelleeency? Hey, you crazy general! They‘re right in front of our noses! They'll be in front of us soon! That. it's vague because of the darkness, but that's the banner of those Habsburg bastards! The two-headed eagle!"

"It's the leader's military flag! I saw it! I caught a glimpse of itjust now! Over there!"

And.....

And.......

And.

This young lady opened her eyes.



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You all Are things that Do not deserve to live.

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- Found you.

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"You all, are things that do not deserve live."

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"- Elizabeth Atanaxia Evatriae von Habsburg."

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"--Laura De Farnese!"
"Witches! Witches have appeared!"
'The Three Nightmares! It's the Berbere Sisters!"
'Why. No, how did they get here
"It's an ambush!"
"It's the Devil of Bruno! The Devil of Bruno is invading!"
"Do not panic! Spearmen, forward! Protect the crossbowmen!"
"Crossbowmen, quickly go to the backline and form a line. Hurry!"
'Yes, Your Highness!"
"Spearmen forward!"
"Crossbowmen retreat to the back and group up!"
"How dare the daughter of a harlot assault the Empire	!"
"Hurry up and call the other units here! This is urgent!"
"But Your Highness, there are still enemy forces in the forest that are resisting...!"
"We must run away! Your Highness! We cannot send out our aerial mages! Because they had cast their explosion magic on the forest, our gunpowder supply has long since been depleted! We have no way of blocking the witches!"
"Make the crossbowmen fire as they slowly retreat. Do not panic. Aim for as long as possible and fire. Do not panic! The moment you all panic is the moment we are defeated!"
"It's the enemy general! That blonde-haired girl is the enemy general!"
"Crossbowmen. Fire! Fire!"

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"Heed this young lady's words!"
"Rooooger!"
'Today, we shall resonate the end of life on this dark night! I, Laura De Farnese, shall be the one to personally command you all! During the moment you all accelerate and charge at full speed, and even during the moment you all are looking forward after having penetrated the body of an enemy, you all shall witness this young lady at the forefront with her blade raised high! This young lady shall be together with you all in this moment! On this day, if you all are to die here, then you shall do so after this young lady! Our military strength is completely inferior. Therefore, now is the perfect moment to charge at the enemy's ringleader!"
"Fuck, shit I really have no idea now!"
"All soldiers, charge! Blow the horn of Yotvingians!"
"Order to charge! All soldiers, chaaaarge—!"
"Crossbow wielders, fire! Horns! Left-wing, charge! Right-wing as well!"
'That bitch with the pointlessly shiny silver hair is the Imperial Princess of the Empire!"
"Prepare to ram! Prepare to ram! We'll be the ones to strike at those Habsburg pieces of trash first! Euryale!Take your messed-up bunch and fly to the sky! Bombard them from above!"
"Yes. Understood."
"Euryale spoke! She finally spoke!"
"She's always been able to speak well, you crazy bitch!"

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"Fuck, the Acting General got hit by an arrow!"
"Heal her! Pour a crap ton of magic and heal her!"
'You crazy bitches, you girls continue your bombing! Don't come down, don't come down! We'll handle things down here!"
"	This young lady is completely fine. If anything, the hole in
this young lady's thigh is rather refreshing. We do not have the time to be doing something like this. We must end this all before the enemy reinforcements can arrive! All soldiers, be prepared for harm and charge! Sweep them away! Do not stop!"
'This kid is really fucked up even while she's crying tears!"
"Kill them! Set them on fire! Massacre them! Avenge our compatriots! There is only a single command which this young
lady has given you all	slaughter! Slaughter them and slaughter
them some more! End all of their lives and put an end to this!"
'Yeah. If you complain about a little flesh wound, then you wouldn't be a witch. At the very least, that'd just be a rookie whom you can't even call a witch."
"Now I feel like taking orders! If the person giving orders doesn't have any blood on them and is just flapping their lips, then I automatically want to hit them on the back of their head."
"Uhm, but the general isn't a witch	."
'We, the Berbere Witches, now acknowledge you, General, as an honorable wiiitch! Ahahahah! You imperial bastards, look at their dumb faces! This is why I can't stop going to war! Because I want to keep seeing things like this!"

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"Shot! Her Highness has been shot!"
"Mage unit! Where's our mage unit?!"
"Elite Guards, protect Her Highness! This is not the time to be holding your blade!"
"Damn it. The bolt was coated in poison. Those damn witches-----. Fortunately, it only grazed Your Highness' hand. If we do not treat it quickly, then the poison will spread throughout the body."
"You bastard, are you telling us to lay our hands on Her Highness' royal body?!"
"We do not have enough time to neutralize it! It is the witches' poison! A decision must be quickly------."
"-------!"
'Your Highness?!"
"Dear Lord. How could Your Highness do that to your own royal body---."
"Right now, is something like my finger that important? What do you intend to do by calling all of the elite guards here? Immediately secure a wider ground! If we can hold out longer, then we will live, but if we were to collapse here, then we will die!"
"Contact with the other units---.  Your Highness, this one apologizes, but because the entire forest has been set ablaze, we cannot assemble the other units. At this moment, even if we have to swallow down our tears, we must retreat. We can turn today's disgrace into tomorrow's glory."
"Please withdraw, Your Highness!"
"We commanders will hold them off here."

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"Dantalian. Aah, Dantalian. O Demon Lord of Peasants. Have you turned that broken thing, were you finally able to turn that broken thing into a human? Was even that capable of becoming a human? Was that something which was possible? Is your world a place where you pick up those broken things, fix them, and spread them out? Even if you spread them out, would that be a world?"
'Your Highness!"
"----."
"Quickly, Your Highness' decision."
"----Retreat. I command you all. Stall for time as I withdraw. Devote your lives to me. I shall live a lifetime with your seconds and minutes. From this day forth, as my life is simply an extension which has been added due to you all, know this and be laid to rest I too shall live while aware of this."
"As you command."
"For the glory of Habsburg."
"It seems that I was careless. A single step. Because we lacked a single step, we were unable to catch the Crescent Alliance by their tail. The opportunity to capture both Demon Lord Barbatos and Paimon and display their heads in the Imperial city, has this slipped between my fingers? How regretful. How pathetic. It is all because of my incompetence and lack of virtue. I was careless because I had treated the enemy general as a doll."
'Your Highness."
"Laura De Farnese."

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"Ah—Wait a second. I feel like they’re about to retreat
"Eh. They put up this much of a fight, but now they’re running away with their tails between their legs? As a witch, that doesn’t really seem right..."
"Raise your hand if you want to keep fighting."
"Sorry. My right hand was cut off."
"I got hit in the shoulder by a bolt, so that’s a bit."
"I’m not particularly injured anywhere, but my back strangely hurts"
"Fuck. I laughed because the enemy troops looked fucked up, but now that I look at it, my dear sisters have also abruptly become fucked up as well. Even if it was a late night bombing, what’s up with your conditions? Carelessly getting hit by arrows and becoming half-dead. And you girls call yourselves the elites of the unit which possesses Quadriphyllous medals—?"
"Even if we hear that from the girl who hasn’t died for over 300 years...."
"Leader Humbabajust has some seriously good luck.yup."
"Luck is also a type of skill. Albeit, I believe I’ve taken a couple of steps up the stairs of adulthood for having said a line like this. What should we do? Your Excellency Acting General, if you tell us to pursue them, then it’s not like we can’t."
"Pursue them. Pursue them, but do not push after them to the point of dying. Our wounds are deep as well. Do not become intoxicated by the chance of victory and bear in mind the fact that we have no more than a thousand troops. Just focus on finishing off the rest of the commanders that were abandoned here. They are most likely generals whom the Imperial Princess had raised with care. If you take their lives, then the Empire will receive quite the blow."

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"The enemy general is not the devil or a monster. She is the same human as you all! Do not be afraid and fight back! You bastards, are you not ashamed for having been born as the sons of Habsburg? Do you intend to be afraid of some country-bumpkin from Sardinia and die here? Instead of dying in shame, do so proudly!"

"...."

"Not yet We can still endure. The other units nearby are rushing here to support us! Hold out, men! Ifyou hold out now, then you will be able to return to the homes which you all have been longing for! We will die if we split up! We will die if we break apart!"

"-Her Highness the Imperial Princess has-."

"I saw her get hit by a bolt earlier-."

"No. I saw her retreating with the other commanders. I could n't see well because it was dark, but Her Highness is the only one who could possess such beautiful silver hair."

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"Roger roger. As you command-"

"Then shall we hunt down the pathetic remnants and make them more pitiful? Sorry, but we're actually amazing at things like this."
A"h. It's not fun now that they're running away-. It's like finding out in the middle of intercourse that your partner was never wet-.I want to smoke. I want to die-."

"That's a weird thing to say. Ifyou really did want to commit suicide whenever you realized that, then you would have had to commit suicide every single time you had sex"

"What did this bitch say?"

"Whatever. This is over. We've won this battle."

"Yup."

"At this very moment, there's no way that the tables could be turned"

"First, the enemy troops may be unfaltering elites among elites, but their morale and courage rely heavily on their single leader. Since their leader has run away, their morale will quickly plummet and their courage will soon collapse. The only thing that will come to the spot where their morale and courage have vanished, is the fear of death."

"Until now, they probably managed to focus on the fight in front of them because they were either chased by the panic that came from the hurried situation or because the Imperial Princess' urgent situation handling and hasty orders had been kicking them on the rears."

"Similar to how we want to commit suicide whenever our drugs wear out"

Because of that very reason, they'll become engulfed in fear that quickly."

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"When will the reinforcements-."

"We'd be better off making a retreat after having been torn apart! Some of us may get our asses caught by the witches and die, but would n't the rest of us survive? Instead of waiting for backup from foreign nations, which may or may not even come, it would be wiser tojust save our own lives!“

"Her Highness the Imperial Princess had- us."

"That is not so. We are protecting Her Highness."

"This officer shall attempt to cut through the enemy's ranks.
May the blessing of war be with me."

"....Mother......"

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"Second, it's really simple, but the fact that we've already killed all of the remaining enemy aerial mages. Now there's no need for us to descend arduously. All we have to do is just drop the gunpowder pouches from the sky and set them on fire."

"If the enemy forces maneuvered as fast as they did earlier. then we would have been forced to continuously descend, but-."

"From this point on. the enemy‘s focus is on stalling for time. Since they have to endure in order to prevent us from chasing after the Imperial Princess, their movement would be restricted. right? In our case, we have no reason to push ourselves like that. Ahahah."

"Third. the fact that we’re now the ones in control of the fire assault From now on, the sea of trees isn't the enemy‘s territory, but ours. Since the enemy has lost all of their aerial mages, they have no way of surveying from above."

"Whisper whisper."

"Yup, and whisper whisper."

"What‘s that supposed to mean? They ca n't survey from above. so it's whisper whisper? You sure you haven‘t gone completely insane because there's no way to purify your head? Would you like it if I referred to you as a rat in poison?"

"I don‘t hear hoofbeats anymore-um. They're leaving the forest"

"Ahah, all right We immediately have another reason now. Fourth, the proof that our allies, who have been sitting and taking a shit this entire time. have finally started to push the enemy back! Time is on our side."

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"-- it's hot."
"--water--."
"....."

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"Except one thing. we can't really do much with this measly number of a thousand troops.“

"It'd be difficult for us to chase after them and take them out, and it'll also be difficult for us to annihilate them all here."

"Second. although we can continue fighting, our cavalry unit has become quite exhausted because they had to keep up with us. It'd be greedy of us to want them to not be exhausted after having gone through a forest while it was burning on all sides. We have no reserve troops."

"Third, we're just genuinely worried about our master."

"Thus, because of the four aforementioned advantages, we recommend the continuation of battle."

"And because of the three aforementioned disadvantages, we also recommend a retreat Master’s Acting General."

"Your Excellency Acting General may be disappointed that you were unable to capture the Imperial Princess. but that was Your Excellency/s goal alone. We have already sufficiently achieved our original goal of putting our pursuers at a deadlock. Any more than this, would simply be excessive greed. It's a bummer that the bolt which I had shot barely missed, but, well, it can't be helped. Your Excellency was also fortunate to only get a hole in your thigh."

"This young lady understands well that you girls wish to hurriedly return to His Lordship and brag about your exploits today. This young lady is tearing up not only because of the hole in her thigh. How could His Lordship have appointed you girls as his Royal Guards and make this young lady shed tears? As expected, His Lordship is undoubtedly an eternal tyrant"

"We can't deny that So, what are we going to do? Fight? Retreat?"

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".....".

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"-We are returning”

This young lady ordered.

The remnants of Habsburg had taken flight, so they were already a fair distance away from our forces now. It goes without saying that both the witches and cavalry units were incredibly tired. Although we wished to sweep through them more. we did not have the surplus strength to do so. It was quite regrettable. We had missed our golden opportunity.

"Okay. We also believe that that is the wisest decision. Troops that confuse goals with exploits in battle are destined to not last long. Let's withdraw with leisure."

"Wow. Who here saw the Imperial Princess of the Empire's glare when she got grazed by that poison bolt? I bet she's raising a hundred venomous snakes in her stomach. She looked like she had quite the sharp temper, seriously."

"We could have killed her, but it's because you girls didn't listen to my orders. Why did n't you fire when I told you to fire, but fi red whenever you felt like it? Is it that? Are you girls in your rebellious period? Are you girls going through puberty again for the first time in 50 years?"

Murmur murmur.

Similar to the way this young lady had come here. this young lady borrowed the back seat of the Captain's broom. A terrible pain spread throughout this young lady's thigh whenever the broom moved slowly, but this young lady stared at the sky indifferently.

As it had happened late in the night.

This young lady had triumphed.


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"...."
The sun was rising in the distance.

What remained in the distance were the burnt remnants of the forest The sun also shined down on the areas which had been burned. While watching the sight of the sunlight seep into the mounds of ash. this young lady let out an inadvertent 'ah'.

Ifyou picked up the pile of ashes. it would be a mere handful. If the sun did not shine and the world was dark. then the pile of ashes would be nothing more than an impurity that made people choke and tear up if breathed in.

Things that remained after having been burned. At most, it was nothing more than a legacy of something which had once lived.

If the afternoon sun shined down upon them, then even those would shine radiantly. Are you a corpse or are you a doll? The Imperial Princess had asked this young lady this question. However, it did not matter whether this young lady was a corpse or a doll, rather, it did not even matter if this young lady was a pile of ashes that no longer had anything to burn.

If I have His Lordship.

If His Lordship calls my name.

If His Lordship will listen to my voice.

This young lady did not know what to call this. Was this an emotion? Was this not too excessively serene to be referred to as an emotion? Was this perhaps rationality, then? Was this not too excessively smooth to be referred to as rationality?

This young lady contemplated.

This young lady contemplated deeply.

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AND DECIDED TO REFER TO THIS, WHICH DID NOT HAVE NAME YET, AS LOVE.