Chapter 15 (1/2)

THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

The wind of the night caressed her cheeks

With her head hair being blown by the wind, Riku looked upwards The flag fluttering at the night sky noasn´t the unicorn and the griffon flags anyon Deht now, she wasn´t part of theeneral Gortoberuk´s flag either, so in order to have all parties satisfied, she put the generic De The symbol drawn in yellow color of the Deht stand out

“If it is this much, even from the Myuuz castle they should be able to notice it”

Witha job, Riku stretched herself With only about fifty solders, they were able to take the fort back With that, the spiritualists located at the plains, which were surrounded by the mountains, had been successfully denied a retreat path With that, all it was necessary to do was to coordinate to Gortoberuk´s moves well and defeat the spiritualists With all she had done, without doubt she was going to get a promotion

“L-lieutenant!!”

If she were to get pro her Just by thinking about that, her heart warht she was under a cold weather, it felt to her as if she was in front of a fire place, co

“It´s a serious matter, first lieutenant Barusak!!”

But because of the hindering voice, the wars fleay to so down the owner of the voice with her halberd, but seeing the troubled face of that voice´s owner, she gave up on that For soh her heart

“What happened?”

“A serious eneral Gortoberuk´s army and the spiritualists started to move!”

“…They started to move?”

Unconsciously, she ended up repeating what the soldier said

With Riku recapturing the fort, the situation for the spiritualist and dee in consideration, even though they should have been revising their strategies, without bothering to do that, both started attacking each other It reallyabout

“I don´t know the details really well but…”

“What is thatabout?”

Moving very fast, she went to the lookout

In the lookout, inside a ht Under the lookout, there were soathered, ere so to the direction of the Myuuz castle

“Hey, that is really bad, right?”

“No,included in their plan”

“How is the situation?”

As Riku caap for her to walk through After responding to their salutes by with her hand, she leaned forward to see the situation Doing that, she strained her eyes Aht, she was able to see

“They are definitely going for an attack, but… Which of them are they?”

It was possible to know that there werearound But, whether those were from the demon side or the spiritualist side, she didn´t knoell She thought about go getting the binoculars, but unfortunately, it didn´t seeue

“Is there soht?”

“Y, yes I do”

“You can see, right? Describe the situation in as much detail as possible”

He changed places with another de The demon soldier that had bird eyes narrowed his sharp eyes and started to observe the situation Doing his job as well as he could, he explained the situation of the battle in detail With each word he spoke, Riku and the other soldiers gradually beca, as if being afraid of the reality he was talking about, had his voice starting to trerasped her halberd

“Thank you, that is enough You keep up watching over them like that”

Lightly tapping his shoulder, Riku turned her look away from the battlefield

“Half of you are to re preparations for battle! Quickly!!”

“But what about the horses? If we go down to the foot of the mountain, on´t reach in time”

“Isn´t it fine to just use the ones the spiritualist had been using? There were about twenty of thes, don´t you!? The slow ones should ride on horses, and the fast ones go on foot”

From now on, it was all a question of time

If they weren´t to do so, the demon side would receive a blow they wouldn´t be able to recover from As if to scold the herself that was too soaked in the aftertaste of victory, she slapped her own cheeks and started the preparations for battle

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Unexpected to the people at the fort ere in unrest, Gortoberuk and his soldiers were all calm

Silently advancing, they had an increasingfast, and the foot soldiers were accoether, the nuht, disappearing a was one that the staff officer had proposed; a pincer attack using a bait, and added in to that was the surprise attack they were going to do now To Gortoberuk´s point of view, the plan didn´t really need to have any ainst not having the they were necessary as a precaution

“What do you think about the strategy, adjutant?”

While riding his horse, positioned at the vanguard of his forces, he asked a question to his adjutant, as riding next to him Then, the adjutant showed a pleased smile

“Tonight, they are definitely exhausted From their capital to here, no o, it would take at least five days With the and even taking their ti their encauard down”

“That´s right, umu”

Gortoberuk beca his victory as he touched his prided mustache

“The adjutant is really a art Indeed, their leader have come to participate in the war, but as far as I airl I will show her the difference in experience between us”

“As expected of lieutenant general Gortoberuk If you are able to take down that lass of a leader, you eneral”

At the beginning, the adjutant was feeling very anxious about the battle, but that anxiety had already faded away Right now, all as in the back of his s after they win the battle At this dahich is about the time when they should have won the battle, Gortoberuk will definitely be proeneral by that tiher position And if Gortoberuk were to give hiher position Noret even if twenty years had passed, and even so, heabout that, he couldn´t calm down

“Right now, concentrate in the battle in front of your eyes If you start getting cocky and get a hole in your throat, don´t blame me”

Gortoberuk said half-jokingly The adjutant, without saying anything, s behind theht that victory was sothat wouldn´t happen often2 All of theh the darkness

“Look! It´s the spiritualist´s bonfires You guys prepare yourselves”

The bonfires that were visible froether with Gortoberuk´s words, the o Their faces were seriousness itself, as if their relaxed faces fro his sword, Gortoberuk raised his voice

“Raise your battle cries!3 Light your fires! We will annihilate the enemy in their sleep!!”

Their battle criesup their torches, their surroundings became clear all at once But…

“What!??”

While still riding on his horse, Gortoberuk became speechless The Bistolru and Barusak troops that should have been spread out there sleeping around the bonfires weren´t there Except for the fires still being there, they had completely left the place

“What does this mean? The enemy soldiers… There is nobody here!”

“Don´t lon your guard! Theysomewhere around!”

Right in the instant the adjutant´s got his e across, it happened

Voices full of ridicule were coroup, many black shadows stood up

“daot us!!

The adjutant´s voice was close to a screanal, the whole spiritualist ar their battle cries, those voicestheir silver swords, they charged against the demons The demons that were taken by surprise by those sudden actions soon were already cru down