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The Tank Commander and the the rest of the crew that had ran away fro the others about what little they had seen of the inside of the town The Mechanized Scouting Unit had stopped advancing because their tank had been destroyed, and had decided to hold their ground there while waiting for the main force to arrive

Considering that the Tank had been designed to resist attacks froer Su Unit decided that the eneh caliber

“Well, we also destroyed their golem, so it a draw this time around”

“Grandahl are good with things related to ic, as expected”

“What happened with the tanks that ith the main force?”

“It see transported here this very instant When all four of them are mobilized at once, it won’t matter if a Summoned Beast or a Golem stand in their way, there’ll be no way to stop them”

The young vice-commander said that and looked toward the city of Barasse, with one of it’s walls alate It aste that they had lost one of their tanks here, but just with that one tank and a long-range catapult they had been able to do this e Once the assault Tanks and the main force arrived, a small city such as this wouldn’t even be a pit spot, he mused

“That’s right Until the main force arrives, keep the ene unit on standby here Make preparations to cahttime attacks”

“Understood”

The city of Barasse was beginning to be enveloped by the dusk The rubble that had been scattered in front of the gate had been cleared away, and the gate itself was shut tight Treateoing around checking the state of the city returned to the gate and grouped up with Richello and Gashe

“Gashe, who is your wound?”

“It’s fine, it’s just a scratch I was just bloay by the battering rahed

Even ht noas the fact that the Commander had to lie down, and the coht now They had been very anxious when the tank had entered the city, but it had retreated without being able to do anything, so they had been able to e

“That gole”

“Do you think the nor in the city lent us a hand?”

“Holem, but anyway, it helped us a lot”

As they were talking, the sound of sohout the area Elmerl and the rest iate with tense faces, thinking that it was the Na’Hato sound was coate And then-

“Elmerl-saann~!”

“Eh?”

“A child?”

“Open uuuuppp!”

The tilances They tried to get the guard as on the wall to confir was standing directly beneath the walls, and they could not confirm his appearance

For now, they opened up the gate just a little bit to see who it was, and there stood a boy ho looked to be about 12 and had black hair and a foreign-looking face

“It really is a child Have you been outside all this time?”

“How did you e to stay safe?”

Making sure that there was no movement from the fires of the Na’Hatome camp in the distance, Elmerl and Richello invited hiht Seeing the the of where to start explaining, he caught sight of Gashe

“Ah, it’s Gashe!”

“Oh? You know me too?”

“I’m Kou” He took that old amulet and wore it around his neck

“What?”

“Huh?”

“Ehhhhh!?”

It was trio of surprised faces

“Could it be that you have returned to your original body?”

“Ah, I’ve not told you yet, have I?”

He remembered that in his letters, he had already told theistered his composite body as an adventurer, but he hadn’t told them about his boy-type suotten this body froi, and how he used it when he had business around the city

“Wait! Don’t tell olem from before That was also you?”

“Yup, I flew over in a hurry, and I was quite relieved that I made it in time”

“I see” After hearing of this, Elht between the tank and the golem

There were getting a lot of curious looks fro by, as they were standing right in front of the gate, lively talking to a young boy

“We were saved by you once again”

“Ehehe~”

At ht

In the lounge of overnor of the city of Barasse, which was also being used as an eency headquarters for the army, army officers, members of the Adventurer's Guild and the Barasse nobility were gathered around a large table which had a hugearea They were discussing how to deal with the onslaught fro Na’Hatome troops Due to the swift orders from the capital, reinforcements from the city of Curacall were on their way, and if they could hold out for just twoNa’Hatome would have no choice but to retreat

“I believe that the ai here is to capture Barasse and using that as a headquarters to keep Curacall in check, all to aid thefrom the west”

“They’ll force us to deploy soth of our main forces here, huh”

The Na’Hatome forces that had landed in the port city of Lapa of Eptita and were now gathering in the border city of Pulse were esti-range catapults and mechanized weapons to make up for an deficit in foot soldiers

“As for defense, I have a suggestion- no, a request for the governor”

“What is it?”

“I want you to change the commander”

At the , Elmerl requested that the old coular army of Grandahl be replaced because there were some doubts as to his capabilities as a leader Elnation were heard from the other attendees Incidentally, the old , and so was absent

“But, it see his duty to protect the city?”

“This tiet inside the city, and he was about to scatter the soldiers for no good reasonIf the backup sent by the Gawiik party had not made it in time, he himself would have not made it out alive”

“HmmBut, you know…Ah, then let’s do it like this You can take charge of the units from the Adventurers association, and make an independent force”