Vol 2 Chapter 5 (1/2)
Volume 2 Chapter 5, “Ahh, it’s Snow”
—— The Northern Plains, Camp of the Tripartite Union
Winter Soldier: “Commander! Commander Female Paladin!”
The Female Paladin: “What?!”
Winter Soldier: “Enemy movement!”
Seneschal: “What?! But we haven’t even decided when the battle will take place!”
Winter Soldier: “Th-that’s—Only one division ofof their own accord We’ve verified their Co even from their own people”
Seneschal: “Fools! Don’t they at least know the basic rules of engagement?”
Winter Soldier: “What should we do?”
Seneschal: “Our troops are also quicklyto position, the Third Heavy Are—”
The Female Paladin: “No!”
Seneschal: “But we cannot compromise our position”
The Fe picture”
Seneschal: “?!”
The Female Paladin: “It’s certain that thesethe laws of both the Central Continental Church and Command They will definitely face harsh disciplinary measures when they return, so theyto do with lack of food stocks But if ere to enter into a prolonged fight with these mercenaries, the 20,000 soldiers of the Central Continent will descend upon us as reinforcements”
Seneschal: “…That’s true”
The Fehts to don Military Equip unnecessary, speed is of the essence”
Winter Soldier: “Yes!”
Seneschal: “But we don’t even have 200 knights”
The Feht? They probably only have about a thousand”
Seneschal: “Ridiculous!”
The Feauntlets, shi+elds are not necessary”
Female Templar: “Yes!”
Seneschal: “Commander Female Paladin!”
The Female Paladin: “This is not a battle”
Seneschal: “No, but what about chainmail?! And plate mail?!”
The Fe to wear as well”
—— The Northern Plains, in the Middle of the Wasteland
Mercenary Chief: “Alright! Everybody! Listen up!”
Heavy
Mercenary Chief: “We can’t rely on those people we call our superiors At this rate, this ill never begin, what a bunch of useless slobs! But we are different! They lack balls coht direction!”
Ahahahahaha!
Mercenary Chief: “But just because these guys have nuht the Tripartite Union in the countryside This is an extreht Dele-eyed Archers We will descend upon their base ca wind and then flee as quickly as we can The vanguard will be Spear Cavalry Let’s go!”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryman: “Leave it to us, Uncle!”
Mercenary Chief: “Alright, alright! Let’s take theht down! Do whatever you need to Archer Cavalry!”
Mercenary Archer Cavalryman: “Yes!”
Mercenary Chief: “Use fire arrows Set fire to their camp!”
Mercenary Archer Cavalryman: “Understood!”
Mercenary Chief: “Alright, all of you! I have no intention of prolonging this raid Attack quickly and get out quickly Once you hear the flute, you will retreat iht mobilise their entire force to come and deal with us We will try to draw theround If we anger theh, they’ll chase us like a crazy ferret, and we’ll lure them into a battle with the Central Continental people! It’ll be a wild fight, and in a situation like that, with superior numbers, we’ll surely win!”
Ahahahaha! You’re a, Uncle!
You’re the real Coins now! Our Uncle!
Mercenary Chief: “This is definitely against the codes of chivalry, but if we don’t do this, who knohat could happen There will be noble here!”
Ha! That’s definitely our Uncle!
Only our Uncle could co plan!
Mercenary Chief: “You rotten swine! This isn’t cunning! Gahahahaha! That’s right It’s ingenuity! It’s a battle tactic It’s what of the things you learn after accu years and years of battle experience! Move out!”
Yes! Yes! Haiya! Let’s go!
Mercenary Cavalryman: “Cavalry, move out! — Hm? What’s that?”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryman: “—! The enemy! We’re under attack!”
——- The Northern Plains, in the Middle of the Wasteland
The Fereed Gentlemen! Show thedoms! Attack!”
Winter Knights: “Charge!!!”
Swords clashi+ng, spears breaking, shi+elds splintering
Mercenary Cavalryuys come from!”
Mercenary Archer Cavalryhhh!”
The Female Paladin: “Don’t worry about the outcoe to spears!”
Winter Knights: “Understood!”
Mercenary Cavalry! Behind us!”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryht!”
Mercenary Archer Cavalryman: “Where, I can’t see them!”
The Female Paladin: “Second attack, commence!”
Winter Knights: “Victory for the Commander!!!”
Mercenary Cavalryhhh!”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryman: “What’s with this ferocity?! What monsters!”
Mercenary Chief: “Fools! The enemy is few! Break out of the encirclement! Spread out and push!+”
The Female Paladin: “Move out! Reforht to Formation Three!”
Winter Knights: “Retreat! The Commander has sounded the alarm!”
Winter Knights: “Alright! You’ll never catch us!”
Mercenary Chief: “Chase them down! The enemy are only three hundred! When we catch them, we can kill them all!”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryman: “Yes! Chase them!”
Mercenary Archer Cavalryman: “Capture that woman!”
Seneschal: “Formation Three!”
Mercenary Cavalryman: “?!”
Mercenary Spear Cavalryman: “What?”
Mercenary Chief: “What do you mean, chase them down!”
Mercenary Cavalryroups Which one do we chase?”
Mercenary Chief: “They split into two even though there’s so few of them? Are they insane? That’s oroup on the right! I’ll chase the ones on the left!”
Mercenary Cavalryman: “Yes!”
The Fe us How adorable”
Winter Knights: “Hahahahaha! Even though their horses aren’t in shape”
The Fe soon!”
Winter Knights: “Understood!”
Mercenary Cavalryain?!”
Mercenary Sword Cavalryman: “What should we do? Which one do we chase?”
Mercenary Cavalryman: “—! What’s up with theain! You take the forest route to the left! I’ll take the one to the right!”
Mercenary Sword Cavalryman: “Understood! We’ll meet ahead!”
Mercenary Cavalryman: “Girls sure are foolish!+”
—— The Northern Plains, the Wasteland, Rendezvous Point No 16
Horses sta
Seneschal: “Which section is this?”
Winter Knight: “Section Eight We’ve just formed up”
Messenger: “Sections forth!”
The Female Paladin: “How is it?”
Seneschal: “Yes All sections have forht injuries and broken bones, but it seee casualty count”
The Female Paladin: “It’s just the Second Attack The enemy hasn’t suffered many casualties either… What do you think of the enemy?”
Winter Knight: “Huh! We’ve led them fairly astray, so they’re all very spread out”
The Feht then! Are you all tired?!”
“No, ain!”
The Feht, take a while to catch your breaths Let’s begin the next attack This tio out as one unit I’ll take the lead”
“What—”
“How could you go out in such light equipment…”
“The Co her sister’s habit, isn’t she?”
“At least go to the middle section!”
“We’ll do the fighting!”
The Female Paladin: “All who thinks like that can shut up!”
Winter Knights flinch in shock
The Fe the the enemy is not our intention! They are also disciples of the Spirit of Light In a different situation, we could have been co drastic As et them off their horses, ill take the victory in this battle I learnt about this from the Hero… Ah, anyway, just take them down!”
Winter Knights: “Yes!”
The Female Paladin: “The enemy numbers are many, but they’re all split up and each section is smaller than ours, ly, take the further movements!”
Winter Knights: “Understood!”
Seneschal: “Shall we go?”
Winter Knights: “Ah”
Winter Knights: “Ohhh”
Seneschal: “…?”
The Female Paladin: “It’s come”
Seneschal: “Reinforcements?”
The Female Paladin: “Yeah… the snow”
—– First Snow
Trudging through snow…
“Snow…”
“Yeah, it’s snow”
“How can we fight like this…”
“The coot to make a move now”
“What? …Hmm”
“assedom of Branches! assemble at the Commander’s Tent!”
“The Crown Prince Marshall has decreed! His ht of the deep snowfall and growing hunger faced by the Knights and Soldiers, a prudent course of action has been chosen! One coarrison, but this Expedition is now postponed until the Spring!”
“Home!”
“We’re going home!”
—— The Kingdom of Metal, Street of Guilds, on a Rooftop with the Moon Reflected Clearly
Swords clashi+ng
One-Eyed Coh?! Then take this! Useless! Useless! You’re completely useless!!!”
Disciple Soldier: “Agh?!”
Little Maid Sister: “Oh no!”
Elder Maid Sister: “Disciple Soldier!!!”
Swords clashi+ng
One-Eyed Co! Huh!!!”
Disciple Soldier: “—!”
Little Maid Sister: “?”
One-Eyed Commander: “Hahaha, I saw that”
Disciple Soldier: (If I retreat, the sisters will… I ht as well just throay my shortsword…?!)
Swords clashi+ng
One-Eyed Co”
Disciple Soldier: “What of it!!!”
Swords clashi+ng
One-Eyed Commander: “?!”
Disciple Soldier: “I will continue fighting! I will!” Swords clashi+ng
Disciple Soldier: “Even if there’s just a 1 chance!!!” Swords clashi+ng
Disciple Soldier: “I will continue to fight! No matter what!!!” Throord
One-Eyed Coh! …daret this…Arrogance…”
Disciple Soldier: “If I shall regret, I will cry when it cos happen, whether they are unfair or not, but if I want to continue to call myself a commander… I will not retreat, here or ever!!!”
Final slash!+
Elder Maid Sister: “Disciple Soldier…”
Little Maid Sister: “You’re bleeding!”
Disciple Soldier: “Ahh… It’s just a flesh wound”
Elder Maid Sister: “Sis, your wrists are bound”
Little Maid Sister: “Yeah”
Disciple Soldier: “…Living a life of envy is just useless and tiring It’sin hell”
Elder Maid Sister: “…”
Disciple Soldier: “…We should go, the two of you as well Today is an unbelievably cold day”
Little Maid Sister: “Yeah”
Elder Maid Sister: “Indeed… Oh?”
Disciple Soldier: “?”
Little Maid Sister: “Snow It’s snowing”
Elder Maid Sister: “Yeah, it’s white… It’s so white”
——— The Kingdom of Winter, Avenue of Ministries, in a Luxurious Hotel
Running down the corridor Door slams open!
Shrewd Accountant: “Councilman!”
Young Merchant: “What is it?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Whatsh happened?”
Shrewd Accountant: “Man… You’ve been drinking heavily since the afternoon”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Itsh so cold, there’s nothing elsh I can do”
Young Merchant: “You’re just enjoying yourself”
Shrewd Accountant: “More i”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Snow…”
Young Merchant: “You’ve heard of it”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I saw soate”
Young Merchant: “Has the Central Continent retreated?”
Shrewd Accountant: “Yeah The Central Continental Expeditionary Force appears to have retreated for thea few simple fortifications in the Plains and left a minimal number of soldiers to defend them The vast majority of their army has returned to their homes, probably until the summer”
Young Merchant: “Just for the present”
Shrewd Accountant: “Ho?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “…”
Young Merchant: “It seedoood opportunity”
Shrewd Accountant nods
Young Merchant: “With the new currency flowing from the heart of the Central Continent, they have already entered the process of self-destruction They’ve also stepped up thethis as an eency ency measures
Fundamentally, this is about the poverty of the peasants The confidence in the value of ricultural refor of territory Si the amount of money…”
Shrewd Accountant: “You say the confidence has decreased?”
Young Merchant: “The Holy Church of the Spirit of Light, particularly in the Central Continent, enjoys an almost infinite a to anyone with no conditions, and hence they are over-confident in their own abilities”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Then it ends here”
Shrewd Accountant: “Huh?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Isn’t this a war? In that case, we should stop unnecessary suffering”
Shrewd Accountant: “But this situation isn’t the same”
Fire Dragon Lady: “—
There is a ti,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
A time to be born and a time to die,
A time to plant and a time to uproot,
A time to kill and a time to heal,
A time to tear down and a time to build,
A tih,
A time to mourn and a time to dance,
A tiather them,
A ti,
A tiive up,
A time to keep and a time to throay,
A time to tear and a time to mend,
A time to be silent and a time to speak,
A time to love and a time to hate,
A time for war and a time for peace”
Young Merchant: “Is that… what you think?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I think that while you may act purely like merchants, sometimes I can still see it Like the brittleness of pure copper You ret your lack of emotion sometimes That’s why you’ve come to this country, is it not? To make the final decision That’s why I see”
Young Merchant: “As you say, it is true that emotion is forbidden on the path of the merchant”
Fire Dragon Lady: “It’s true that letting your eerous, but eht hands”
Young Merchant: “…”
Fire Dragon Lady: “You’ve ements so that you can ith any party, haven’t you?”
Young Merchant: “…”
Fire Dragon Lady: “What a strong-willed individual”
Young Merchant: “Not strong-willed, just prudent”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I won’t help you I am the Hero’s wife”
Young Merchant: “…”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I want salt, but these are different things”
Young Merchant: “You never relax, do you?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Of course The flames of war really do fan far and wide This is a war, but I have no intention of sacrificing my heart”
Young Merchant: “I understand Shall we go save the Holy Church then?”
Shrewd Accountant: “…Save?”
Young Merchant: “For business interests To begin with, this new currency systees Rather than exploiting it all in one go, it would be better to reap business benefits steadily That’s what I’ve decided”
Shrewd Accountant: “Huh…”
Fire Dragon Lady: “You’ve turned it all inside out”
Young Merchant: “Get the Disciple Merchant to arrange an audience with the Lone Winter King”
Shrewd Accountant: “Yes”
Young Merchant: “Let’s see just what these heroes from the South will say”
——- Holy Ional Palace, in a Deep Room
Expeditionary noble to say?”
General of the Pale: “Hmph”
Expeditionary noblereatest Demonic force You couldn’t even overcome a frozen wasteland”
General of the Pale: “You say that but the elite Central Continental soldiers you’re so proud of spent the entire ca all the supplies Even e landed at the rear of the Southern United Kingdo to draw us into a trap?”
Expeditionary noble to say!”
assassin: “Hehehehe”
General of the Pale: “And you still call yourselves a chivalric order”
Expeditionary nobleman: “da down? Let us settle this with our swords right here, right now!”
Shadow Behind the Curtain: “…”
Bishop to the Imperial Court: “Gentlemen, no weapons will be drawn here today”
General of the Pale: “…”
Expeditionary nobleman: “Fine”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Good I have no intention for us to break our ties so early”
Bishop to the Imperial Court: “Indeed”
Crown Prince Marshal: “But considering the faht be difficult to reinforce our aret drawn into another winter? As and noble to turn their backs to a ith the Southern United Kingdoms”
General of the Pale: “Traitors? Just purge the to surrender even before the war begins come with us”
assassin: “Hehehehehehe As expected frohter How delicious”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Enough — It’s true that eren’t able to break the Southern United Kingdoms’ Tripartite Union on the snowy plains and achieve our victory, but it cannot be said that we lost a great deal in this war We still ed to preserve the vast majority of our officials, land, supplies, and soldiers If you think about it, all we lost in this ere a few hundred mercenaries”
Bishop to the Imperial Court: “Indeed”
Expeditionary nobleman: “Yes”
General of the Pale: “Hmph”
Crown Prince Marshal: “We have also verified that the sudden shock in price is due to the work of the Union It was just a group of e of the situation We’ll bring theh bribery, lawsuits, and coercion, by the Church Thevery well — is it not?”
assassin: “Hehehehehehe… Indeed Froed to replenish our gold stocks”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Can we pay the soldiers with the new currency?”
Expeditionary nobleman: “Yes”