Volume 1 Chapter 7 (1/2)
Chapter 1 E 7 (Escape 3)
Dogagaga!
An explosion resounded.
The door not just opened but destroyed to Smithers.
”Now! Please enter...”
Seria voice resounded.
At first, when Seria was going to use flame based magic, Rolph thought that she was going to break the door by melting it with high heat.
However, Seria understood what Rolph worried about.
For Seria and Rolph who can use magic art, they will be okay, but for ordinary soldiers, it would be fatal.
That's why rather than doing that, Seria immediately cooled the door rapidly using ice related magic toward the heated door. Making use of thermal expansion.
A smell of rusty iron hung in the air, which is the unique scent of blood.
”This is...”
”What happened here...”
The two people at a loss for words.
The characteristic of his robe. Make her could not have mistaken.
”No~~~~! Grandfather!!”
Seria broke down and fall to her knees.
Losing herself, Seria holds Gaies body in her arms.
Even for Rolph who had gone to many battlefields, he's still not used to see a dead body with such merciless wounds.
And, if you think about the condition that Gaies neck is broken, one can see that the criminal deliver decisive blows to Gaies back where he's crouched down when his respiratory tract was blocked up.
”Just who did such a cruel act...” <tln: he=”” deserve=”” it.=””>
A resentful word comes out from Rolph's mouth.
He just thinks that the weak had died.
For Rolph, he's a fellow soldier who has been fighting together for years
The flame of anger because of her grandfather have been killed dwelled in her eyes.
It is not good to have both commanders lose their calm.
After that, Gaies who's her grandfather took her in and brought her up.
Right now he does not have other choices other than try to calm her down for now.
She's a genius who at a young age have been appointed as a junior imperial court magician.
Although her calmness has been restored, the death of her family is still affecting her heart.
”Rolph-sama! Seria-sama!”
”There's a survivor. This person is still alive!”
In a few minutes, the soldier who tried to confirm all the body comes back reporting to Rolph and Seria.
””What!?”” Is that right?”
Rolph and Seria rushed toward where the soldier have been lying down on a sea of blood.
”R-Rolph-sama...”
The cracking voice is indeed coming from the body of a soldier that they thought have died.
”What had happened?”
”What had happened here?”
Since the person is a sole witness.
Because the soldier is the only person, who knows what had happened inside this room.
”What did you say?! A monster you said?”
Listening to the soldier worrisome words, Rolph's face turns pale.
They barely could hear the word monster but, they both unable to understand the situation out of it.
”R-Right. Oi! Anyone! Bring this person to a doctor!”
”Say it clearly! Grandfather is, what did it do to grandfather!? What is this monster all about?”
While desperately tried to control Seria who's forcefully keep on asking, Rolph ordered to carry the wounded soldier with a stretcher and rushed to the medical office.
”Why?! Why did you stop me!?”
Rolph feels that the appearance of Seria that flares up at him appear like a demon.
As expected, is this because of difference in experience?
After he went through the trouble calming her down, after hearing the soldier mentioned the word 「monster」, it immediately threw her mind and heart out of order once again.
What Rolph had said was a sound argument. Right now, if they conduct the unreasonable interrogation, then that bloodied soldier might die after all.
Rather than one soldier life, for her, it's more important to get the information regarding the one who robbed her grandfather life.
”That... Won't confirming the situation here more important than that person life?”
Thus Seria tried to fight against Rolph words.
However, Rolph keeps persuade Seria's heart calmly and put the situation in order.
”Indeed finding that information is important; however, only that man know everything that had happened. Even if we leave his injury and keep interrogating him, no useful information seems to come out. It would be meaningless then if he dies first before we get the information. Although it would take time then, won't that man recovery will be good for the prospect of interrogation in the future?”
After Rolph saying until that far, Seria is unable to refute him anymore than this.
The thing that she could not consent is that her family member becomes a victim of it.
”Fuu... I understand. Rolph-sama words are right. I'm very sorry for being upset.”
After she had sighed Seria gained part of her calmness.