Chapter 8 (1/2)

08.THE FALL OF RACONIA

“Willian-san! Good morning!”

“…You are already so energetic at morning. Good morning.”

Karl was looking at Willian, who had an annoyed expression on his face, with sparkling eyes.

“Oh, are you two acquainted with each other? Then, you go take care of him.”

“Wha-!? But!”

Because of the sudden arrangement, Willian let a few words escape.

“Hm? Do you want to talk back, foreigner guy?”

Being glared at, Willian flinched. The other man was his superior, and also a second rank civilian. There were many reasons why Willian couldn´t talk back.

“No, I understand. Come Karl, the place we were stationed at is to that direction.”

“Ah, yes!”

The superior officer was glaring at the back of both Willian and Karl.

Willian and Karl got to the place they were a.s.signed to. It was at the higher floors of the fort, behind the archers. Like how it would always be, from the distance, an army was starting to arrange into a formation outside the fort. Exactly like how it would always be, it was an attack that went in accord to the programme.

“You are very unlucky. For you to have to stick with a hateable guy like me.”

Maybe because of how bored Willian was, he started a conversation with Karl. Karl was being afflicted by the pressure of the silence. After being talked to,  his face brightened. And so, he went to test the waters and said…

“Willian-san, are you disliked by the others?”

Karl looked at Willian with a blank face. It seems he didn´t understand why Willian had said that before.

“I am. This is because I didn´t know the scale of it at the first.”

Karl tilted his head to the side, not understand what Willian was talking about by saying scale.

“No, it´s only that… It´s just that I didn´t think there so many soldiers that were like that to that extent, and that I also underestimated the feeling of envy of humans.” (TL note: Yep, there is really nothing specified there. T.T well, it should still be possible to get what it is being talked about)

Turning his eyes away from the open-mouthed Karl, Willian looked to outside the fort. Today wasn´t a battle at the field, but a defensive war; it was one which you would be shut inside your castle. Willian was looking at the army that was approaching towards the fort of Raconia.

“Hm, just like alwa…. Isn´t there too many?”

The battlecries started to resound through the fort. And in response, the surroundings of the castle also started to make a stir themselves.

“Rather than just saying they have more than us, it would be better to say they have many times our numbers.”

Just like always, the sounds were. The idle mood was blown away from the Raconia fort.

Karl couldn´t keep his back straight because of the fear. Yesterday was his first battle, and that battle was only a small skirmish. Compared to the army that they were facing today, it had been a very small scale battle.

“You are lucky, Karl-kun.”

Karl looked at Willian. His face

“You will be able to have a taste of battle. You will overflowing with it.”

It was a gruesome smile.

Today, the tranquilness in Raconia was no more.

The battle started. The battlefield was filled with corpses. The allied forces weren´t standing in front of the fort of Raconia anymore. There were many places that had ladders which permited the advancing of enemy troops. Things like what squad you belonged to or where the spot you were a.s.signed to didn´t matter anymore. It was a clear defeat. It was a lost battle.

“It isn´t that bad.”

With a smile, Willian cut down the invading enemies. By comparing him to Karl, it was like comparing a baby and an adult; it was to a level that even comparing was presumptuous.

“This is good just like this. Yes, this is the best!”

Leisurely piercing his sword at the openings of the armor of his enemies, Willian. Tearing through their throats, the sword made the sound of cutting through the wind. Being deprived of their throats, the enemy soldiers couldn´t even scream.

“I am really lucky.”

Willian kicked with all his strength the enemy that put out his head as he was climbing up the ladder. Willian saw off the scene of the many other people falling together from the ladder one after another with a smile.

“Now then, I guess I will keep cutting them up until the command of retreat is given.”

Jumping into all the confusion, Willian was cutting the enemy soldiers. He would evade the attacks of his enemies, and sometimes use his allies as a s.h.i.+eld. That gapless style of fighting was in a different different to the concept of the battle in ranks and formations.

“I am not like you, you bunch of worms! My practice partner is as giant as a f.u.c.king gorilla you would see at the circus. Other than that, I am not like you that kept doing practice-swinging like r.e.t.a.r.ds. I used my head and trained my body in a efficient manner. To begin with, the world I am living is different from you brain dead worthless trash that are lower than insects.””

As to be expected, there was no way Willian could speak out those thoughts. If he spilled them out, he wouldn´t be able to stop doing so.

“”Hm, oh, isn´t Karl-kun still alive? Well, he looks like he is about to die though.””