“The superintendent… officer… killed the colonel How to?”
“Even if that bastard dies, it’s cheap! Rick and Cantana are dead! If you kill him, you should die of course!”
“What are you going to say to Hameln, no, to the military? No, will the rescue team come? We've been abandoned here… ?”
“If you explain it well, how can we solve it?”
“More than that, what is the taboo? Taboo, what the hell was the general trying to kill us?”
“You idiot, you didn’t even know that! Huey explained it earlier. It's a vampire magic circle!”
Seventeen were killed in the attack of the beast, and fifteen were killed in the battle with Nicholas. The damage was great, but to be honest, it was an incredible feat.
Even experienced hunters retreat from the frantic deer and roaming wolves.
And if it's a colonel, it's right under the Great Wall. Although his strength varies widely, he is still a strong soldier. Even if it is a cadet who has been recognized for his talent, he is a difficult opponent for an ordinary military school graduate.
But they lost too much to rejoice.
“… Everyone, shut up.”
After hemostasis was finished, Shiati grabbed the cut end wrapped in cloth and lifted her head. Everyone shut their mouths. Of all living beings, who had lost the greatest in this fight, staggered towards me.
“day off. I… I don't believe it. You are the one who made us to this point.”
I heard a roar, but I nodded as if understanding. Shiati continued with a pale face.
“However, your instructions were not wrong. I got here thanks to your instructions. So… let me know. What should we do?”
Shiati asked grimly. There was no hope for the future in the empty eyes.
All she needed right now was an arrow to point her in the only direction.
But I am a person who cannot move without the wind. I asked her empty heart.
“What would you like me to do?”
“Somehow.”
“But if you know what you want, it will be a little easier to judge. Will you run away to save your life? Or would you risk your life to expose Nicholas' infidelity? What method do you want?”
Moments later, when I asked, Shiati regained her focus. The empty eyes were filled with only burning hatred.
“If I tell you what you want, can you give it to me?”
“As much as I can.”
“I want the military to collapse.”
Shiati replied immediately.
“All my life I’ve been doing what I’m told! Working, learning, scolding, studying, taking exams, being evaluated. In order to become a more useful person to the military, even when my parents died, I endured even when my parents died, I endured the pain, I cried secretly even when it was hard, and I tried to get a better evaluation and do something! By the way!”
The emotionally biased cry reached over a hundred children and myself, who read the wind through them, without filtration. Shia Tie screamed as she grabbed his missing right arm even tighter.
“This isn’t it! It's not meant to be used as a material… ! No matter how much we don't need it, even if it's a common 2nd level… !”
Those below level 2 can be replaced at any time by the military. There is nothing to be sad about even without it.
so threw it away
The cadets who were promoted to the military academy were left alone and brought only the desperately needed ones. It was meant to be used as a material.
So, they are truly abandoned by the country. I don't need you… And, the military came forward to prove it.
“… But, no matter how much we cry. You won't hear it in this country. They're going to kill us and shut our mouths, far from rewarding us. As Nicholas said, we are useless to the military.”
When Shiati finished speaking, the children who were listening to the story also shook their heads. Thanks to her angry cry, she was reminded of the reality she had been trying to deny.
finally… The military will bury Hameln. So everyone dies. can't survive
Such a simple and cruel fact.
“You want to be useful?”
at that time. Someone appeared from among the children. The children were startled by the sudden appearance. The red-haired boy approached him slowly, as if he had been there from the beginning.
Some children recognized him.
“Lan… Kart?”
Rancart did not answer the question, nor did he turn his head. He was only walking in a straight line with his gaze fixed towards me. Without checking even under your feet in this forest.
That's all, a whirlpool spontaneously created in front of him, breaking through the bushes and blowing away the dust. It was as if the world had cleaned the front for him.
The first mystery of the military. A boy with a unique magic of a strategic level. Mage's Timber.
Rankard Spendry.
Standing alone in a neatly dressed forest in the forest with twigs, Rancart started clapping hands out of the blue.
“awesome. It was, indeed, truly unexpected. Just in case, I would kill Nicholas and eat him.”
While everyone was speechless at the sudden appearance, Rancart stopped clapping his hands and made a sly impression.
“But, but you know, Hugh? Nicholas is so different from you. He's old and worn out, and his energy attributes and energy are different from yours. Extremely, terribly inefficient. Eating him with gluttony will not dramatically change your skills.”
“Rankart. How long are you going to tell the story you all know?”
As I spit it out in an annoyed manner, Rancart flinched, not speaking. I crossed my arms and pushed him.
“You should have an efficient conversation that you like, Rancarte. I don’t think you were teaching me from the beginning because you doubted my intellectual level.”
“Ah, uh, um.”
“Just tell me. Because I am tired.”
“Ah, okay, sorry.”
Rancarte, who had apologized for being embarrassed, quickly pulled out the matter. without a moment's hesitation.
“Eat the leftovers.”
A conclusion reached after several leaps and bounds. However, I, who had a mind-reading ability, understood Rancarte's words at once.
you're going to die anyway Even if I don't kill, the military will kill me. So, if it's meaningless to kill, it's more efficient to kill it on the taboo process and make it with my own strength.
In addition, these are the best materials that all fit me and biologically. Unlike Nicholas, 'Gluttony' is a little smoother. If you don't get a chance right now, there's no point in eating it, so eat it now… Well, that's what it meant.
Naturally, Shiati, who had just spoken out, reacted violently.
“Rankart! I thought he was just an unlucky child. Are you also a servant of Nicholas… !”
“Shut up you idiot who doesn’t know anything. Do you think I am a servant of that loser?”
Rancart, displeased, quickly turned his head. In an instant, a tremendous amount of pressure swept over Shiati. Shiati's expression contorted with pain. This is because her lankart's unique magic has reached her standing position.
twisted
Faster at places close to Rankart, slower at places farther away. Everything in the world, including air, swirls to the right at different speeds. In the flow that changed according to the distance, Shiati felt a sharp pain as if someone grabbed her body and tore it.
“Uh-huh, uh-huh!”
Shiati screamed. But even the sound is strangely distant. This is because even the sound gets lost and wanders in the unique magic where the space is twisted.
Rancart, who had subdued Shiati without using his hands, turned his gaze back to me.
“If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, I will do it for you.”
“It would be annoying.”
“What. It's for a friend. I will bear with you this much, this much trouble.”
Of course, the existence of 'friend' that Rankart referred to only referred to me.
The children screamed and tried to save Shiati, but instead of approaching them, they felt pain as if their outstretched arms were torn apart.
You cannot cross a storm in a teacup in a straight line. must go slanted. But who and how will you know? Can you see through and overcome the maze of swirling space at once?
too much No one may approach or withdraw without his permission. Even me.
A right-handed world.
For him, the world is like water swirling to the right. the world's wisdom. that flow. If you don't follow it, you will collide and get caught up in it. It causes blisters and subsides.
The owner of that world, Rankart, grabbed Shiati at any moment and gave him strength as if to twist it.
“ah. Note that. As you said, even if you interfere with me, I can overcome your hindrances and only kill them all. I'm not like Nicholas. Hugh, you may have a number of hidden secrets… Still, it can’t reach me.”
Rankard insisted that he would not be as persuasive as Nicholas. Its eyes were shining with interest and curiosity. It's like someone wondering how I'm going to react.
but.
“Rankart. Don’t be a little funny.”
I got annoyed and spit it out. Rankart is puzzled.
Although I listen well to the wishes of others, that doesn't mean I listen to the hordes of young children asking for fun. it's annoying
“Didn’t I just take the exam with you and Nicholas and tell them the answer? Are you going to give me the same answer again? Where did the Lancart Spendray, who complained about having the same problem by changing the constants, go?”
“no no. I.”
“I deliberately control my power, so that it hurts but doesn’t die… . It's a threat. Are you wasting your magic power knowing that it doesn't work? Don't be annoyed, take the magic away.”
Rancart followed my instructions. The force that had been tearing her body out and inward was released, and Shiati's body collapsed. A sob mixed with pain leaked out through the cracks in his face, which was in contact with the ground.
“Then what are you going to do? The rescue boat and the instructors will come. Even if we interrogate just a few people here, we'll quickly figure out the full story of this case. Once the report goes up and goes to the headquarters, the 'reasonable' judgment that the military will make is clear… .”
“I told you not to talk about what we know.”
“Ah, yes.”
On the subject of testing this and other things because he himself does not believe in rationality. When will you realize that such a test itself is irrational?
I kept Rancarte's mouth shut and summarized the story briefly.
“In a word, this is it. There can be no other response to overcome this difficulty. No, there may be, but you haven't come up with exactly that. So, I'm curious about how I'm going to break it. Right?”
“Nothing is… Wait a minute. Can you overcome this situation and difficulties?”
“It’s a problem, it’s a situation. If you don't know, shut up and watch. Why do you keep interrupting and muddying the water?”
Having killed the flag by beating one more time, I quickly waved my hand.
“Go and clear the blockage of the river. There is something to do downstream.”
“Yeah, anyway. The end of the river is the sea. Primal fear, as long as sea monsters live in the sea, it's impossible to escape anyway… .”
“Again, another story we all know.”
When I put on an annoyed expression on my face, Rancarte shut her mouth and hurriedly headed for the riverbank.
My request is absurd. Whether or not to listen depends only on Rankart's will, and there is no problem at all if he doesn't listen.
But, as long as he agrees to the command to watch and not disturb, he must listen to my request.
Curious about how I would deal with it, I fell into the trap of having to help prepare it.
Not long after Rancarte headed for the riverside, a rough crackling was heard. Drifts that had blocked the river like a dam were broken at once. What had been difficult even with hundreds of people hanging on it was so easily accomplished in front of Rankart's native magic.
Magic. A mystery that overwrites the rules of the world. For those who deal with it as they please, the structure and weight of the floating object that is supported by it will simply break down.
“Chiati!”
“… ね, yes one person… Better than a hundred people, G.”
Shiati managed to get up, supported by her friends. She gave up with a smile on her pale face.
“… still. length… It looks like it.”
“Rankart… ! Even if we don't see them as friends, at least I thought they were motives!”
Caropald, once a follower of Rancarte, but more cherished, reacted outraged at Shiati's rise. Caropald shouted, completely forgetting that he admired and feared Lancart's magic.
“Everyone help me! I can't stand it unless you feed that bastard!”
“Come on, there you go. flaw. Compared to a severed arm, this is nothing.”
Shiati, who was gasping as she grabbed the caropald, repeated her voice in a shriveled voice.
“What I just went through is what all of us will face in the future. It's good that everyone gets used to it. No military, no one. Us… Far from helping, I won't even care.”
The children bowed their heads sadly.
There is no chance that they will overcome the hardships to come, even if even one Rankart cannot handle them.
Even the colonel, whom he had overcome a little while ago, managed to defeat it after a pre-prepared trap and the brave sacrifice of 15 men… If the military uses its power properly. One hundred and thirty students who are no different from the lottery will be uprooted like weeds and thrown away like garbage.
someone shouted
“f*ck… ! What did I do wrong!”
The exhilaration subsides, and only crying remains. In the excitement of battle, forgotten pain and sorrow returned, and the flames that had flashed for a moment were extinguished and darkness came.
They lost their place. Even wasting time is not a refuge for them. Another enemy with the name of the Rescue Ship is approaching every moment.
Everyone lost their way, lost their way, and lost hope and will. I just swallow the cry inside. In the meantime, I hope that someone will light the way.
If the supremacy of the Catholic Church had been spread here, they would have prayed to God. Save yourself from this ordeal and lead me to heaven.
But there is neither heaven nor hell in this world. Death is the simplest end imaginable.
It's heaven, it's hell Faith that is processed to be eaten is artificial. Saying it's artificial is nothing more than an imitated lie. It is nothing more than something that keeps the best in the body and excretes only the bad.
“Go to hell… .”
Still, I have to fulfill that wish.
Even hope is lost, no one can think of a way, and only earnest hope is in the middle of the heart.
I bit the cold whistle into my mouth.
The rescue boat wasted time in a place full of drifting material.
There are clearly traces of staying here, but the children were nowhere to be seen. However, it was presumed from the traces that he was attacked by beasts and fought a fierce battle. There were bloodstains everywhere, and there were traces of something heavy being dragged to the riverbank.
In the meantime, someone who recognized the sword marks carved on the tree carefully pointed it out. There are traces of Instructor Nicholas wielding his sword. The opponent is like a group of organized generals, maybe students.
The instructors were confused, but soon became indignant and hastened the search further.
There is no reason for Nicholas to attack children in such a remote place, but the children have good reason to attack Nicholas.
The trainees who participated in the graduation practice are failed works that have been eliminated from the competition and whose level 2 has been confirmed. They must have threatened or attacked Chief Hugh or Instructor Nicholas… The high school teachers judged.
In any case, the need to hasten the search increased. The rescue team was divided into a camp search team and a downstream search team. The possibility that a corner of the accumulated drift material had collapsed and went down the river was also considered.
So it was time for the rescue boat to go down the river. Upon arrival at the lower garrison, sighting information was obtained. It was a story of children on several rafts passing the garrison and going down to the city downstream.
Complaining about why you didn't catch them… I couldn't. It wasn't Nicholas's general, and the secondary school instructor was of a lower rank than the garrison commander. It was also an internal affairs of Hameln, which had nothing to do with the garrison.
It was time for the saluting instructors to go further downstream.
“By the way, did you give me another strange command? They were rowing and singing school songs… .”
There was a great commotion on the downstream side of the Hameln River.
The Hameln River is not that big of a river, so it was a good area for people to live. In particular, the narrower the river, the safer it was because there were less terrifying sea threats coming up against the water.
A series of hordes floated into such a river. They were children on several large rafts.
– The hall of learning in a small garden. Oh, the arms of Hameln.
To the sound of a whistle, children who are hoarse in their throats sang while tearing their vocal cords. It was a cry more terrifying than any other desperate screams. Citizens frowned and turned their heads towards the river.
-Burn all your blood and sweat, defeat your enemies…
Onlookers flocked to the riverside with displeasure and curiosity. It was time for them to think whether the instructor with bad taste had given any strange orders.
beep – ok.
A strange thing happened when the boy on the frontmost raft blew his whistle.
The children who were rowing got up. They looked at each other once, then grabbed each other's hands and headed to the edge of the raft. while still singing with his mouth.
-For the sake of a brilliant country, I will sacrifice my life to advance… .
Although large in size, a raft is a raft. It seems difficult to balance, let alone walk from above. Nevertheless, the children held each other, and calmly took off their hard boots on the swaying raft. Bare feet landed on a rough log.
someone groaned The children were not. Because they were still singing.
Some of the onlookers, who showed a lot of bad imagination, laughed out of hope. However, the dream was too unrealistic.
How can so many people… .
The misty river gave off a mysterious atmosphere. The sound of cool water flows through the cloudy vision. The wind was chilling against his face.
-Forward… . Forward… .
Singing the chorus, the children held hands and marched forward. the edge of the raft. If you take one more step, you will reach the place where you will step on soft water instead of hard logs.
Then, realizing that something was ominous, the audience hurriedly shouted something. However, it is not transmitted to children who are singing.
At dawn, the sunlight filtered through the fog shines on the river whitish. Because the current is rough and there is no light to reach them, the faces of the children are not reflected on the surface of the water.
But it didn't matter. Right next to him, when he turned his head, there were faces that looked alike.
So, the children sang the last verse to each other.
-To the future of the military… .
It sank down the cold, deep river.
Then, the song stopped.
– The command will deliver to the Hameln Secondary Military School. Investigate and report the facts as soon as possible. Search and interrogate survivors to uncover their intentions.
Emergency. Emergency. Get the full story as quickly as possible. The headquarters also conducted an independent investigation… .
… .
– Correct it.
From this point on, level 5 information control is activated.
Control Hameln.
Repeat. Control Hameln.