Chapter 228 – LIKE FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER (1/2)

CHAPTER 228 – LIKE FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER

After Troize fell, I calmly walked into the town.

There is smoke rising from here and there, and some buildings were frozen with ice.

There is a fair amount of casualties and the surviving soldiers and residents looked at me with frightened eyes.

After looking around once, Eleanor suddenly said.

『It looks like there’s not a lot of casualties among residents』

「The girls probably aimed well during the aerial attack. And it’s also good that the only ground forces are the drake soldiers. If it were ordinary soldiers, no matter how thoroughly you ordered them, there would always be looting after winning」

『Umu. After all, there is no way that Hikari and her “friends” would do that』

「As a Demon Sword mother, do you feel unsatisfied?」

『Frankly speaking, yes. But it isn’t that bad』

「Heh〜?」

『Look, the corpse of a soldier over there. He’s not killed by lightning nor ice magic』

「Cut injury……he’s someone our ground forces killed huh」

『As long as she has no mercy on killing the enemy, it should be enough』

「I see」

『You also didn’t raise Hikari like that right?』

「You mean, raise her as Korosazu(Not Kill) Hikari? Well, that’s true」

Hikari is a Demon Sword. Demon Swords has the Demon Sword’s way of living.

Even me hesitatingーーtrying to not use Hikari to kill her mother Eleanor in her human form is already imposing, but it would be worse if I forced her to not use her sharp blade to kill someone during battle.

『Kuku. If we are talking about a different woman, you probably did not need to consider this much』

「Muu……」

I think she just called me a doting parent in a round-a-bout way, but I couldn’t say anything back.

「Otou〜san〜」

Hikari ran towards me.

There are tens of drake soldiers following behind her.

Inside the town of Troize, the residents who were looking from afar made dubious expressions.

「I’m back, Otou-san」

「Welcome back. Good job」

I patted Hikari’s head.

「Ehehe〜…… Just like Otou-san said, I gathered the soldiers who surrendered into one place」

「I see. Bring me to them」

「Okay〜」

Hikari answered with an innocent voice, it did not sound like we’re heading to a post-war cleanup.

The eyes in the surroundings became more and more strange.

Led by Hikari and the drake soldiers, we arrived at the town square.

There are about five hundred soldiers gathered in one place.

From a glance, there are only those who are uninjured or lightly injured and the drake soldiers who didn’t come earlier were watching over them.

I looked at the captured soldiers and found a commander-looking man.

Probably in his thirties, he’s a man with countless scars throughout his body, looking like a seasoned warrior.

「Are you the commander?」

「I’m Gabras, the vice captain of Troize’s garrison」

「Vice captain?」

I looked at the soldiers once again. There’s no one who looks more like a commander than Gabras.