Volume 6 Chapter 71 (1/2)

Chapter 71 - The Worst Man

I opened my eyes and woke up, then I went outside and checked the city's situation

The toas already just a step before total destruction The next time the monsters attacked it felt like they would lose No, they would definitely lose

I looked up to the sky

「Even if there is wall there won't be any way to defend if the ht an arriffon?

I tried thinking it but, as I thought ouldn't be able to protect the toith just us

Even if we repelled the less if the toas destroyed after that

The victory that I should airiffon, and returned triue that, I wouldn't be able to get payback at the fellows at the capital

He sent his daughter to this kind of place No, it was ht them here but, he didn't stop Shannon……well, no matter Anyway, I wanted to deal a blow at that Ralph bastard who sent to erous place

To do that, number was essential as expected

「Before I istical support as ood unless I make everyone my ally huh But as expected that'll be hard」

There was a lot of thing to do

While I was pondering of what to do, the bad fellows inside the Jeho had recovered their liveliness called out to me

『You're troubled huh, Lyle』

『It's in time like this you should rely on us This is our specialty』

『That's right Let's work hard in order to defeat the griffon and becoet a good idea! Lyle, leave it toLyle, let's start preparing』

I got a headache

The ancestors were joyfully looking forward to the griffon subjugation while the surrounding was in despair

「Is there a way? It'll be riffon」

The Second was also recovering his liveliness

『Obviously It's only natural to protect the town』

The Sixth was advising me joyfully

『First you should secure manpower Griffon is smart It seeuys has a habit to play around』

Play, it ht not be accurate to call it like that but, sriffon would sometimes toy around with their prey

This situation was also like that

Ittheot serious froht away

「Even if we gather manpower, the quality of the people who ca in this town are unclear whether they'll be able to fight or not」

In this town there was al

Their morale was low, their experience shallow, and the toas battered

It already looked like a checkmate

「I don't really want to say it but, won't it be better to take Luka and his mother and run away?」

The Second instantly denied that

『That's no good Will you look after them for your whole life? Besides……don't think that a kid and a o to other place』

The Sixth also had the sa away to you After all froriffon, a lot of prey has just arrived It won't let any get away──it's persistent you know?』

──A slight distance away fro on a horse cart was telling his comrades

「Hurry! Hurry and run away!」

They alking while watching the surrounding fearfully in order to escape together back to Centralle

They left the town before dawn Now the day was entering noon

「No e'll win against them with sword or spear」

「dah it was finally a chance for proh they said that you can obtain success just by couys, do you want to die! Run away quickly!」

The youths walking outside the horse cart talked back to Lionel hearing that

「Don't talk when you ride on the horse cart alone damn you! Then how about you also come down and walk huh!」

「Thi, this is a loan from Doris Besides, if we throay the horse cart then on't be able to bring the food too!」

It beca It was then

The sunlight was suddenly blocked and created a shadow

One of them looked up and then dropped his spear

「Oi, don't throw the weapon away Even that is a loan……hat's the matter?」

Lionel raised his face and a voice「Hih!」 escaped his throat

What blocked the sun and created shadoas a hippogriff

It looked down at Lionel and his friends, and then it lifted its face to cry loudly Its cry echoed and hurt the ears of Lionel and others on the ground with how loud it was

One of the, the figures ofaround theot blocked, and ht

The hippogriff swooped down and tras of bird One of thes, and he spewed out blood from his mouth

「He, help── crushed His comrades couldn't even flinch back

The horse that was pulling the cart rariff bit the horse's neck with its beak

Lionel atching that scene from the cart was,

「HiiYAAAAA!!」

He yelled that and jumped down from the cart, then he ran away at full speed

When his friends followed after hi, the ot overtaken by a fastand fell behind

「Don't leave me! Help Help──!」

Lionel stripped the ar His comrades also i

They turned back on the road they came from, and then when they finally arrived at the walled town……the number of his comrades had been reduced to five──

There were people who escaped from the city

When I heard that it was Lionel, I al But, the Third told ht?』 with a lot of sarcasm so I closed my mouth

But, the problem was the fact that there were people who ran away, and the fact that they failed in doing that were coht at the same time

It was a bad news for the townspeople and the subjugation force

Lionel and his friends who threay their equipround of the plaza

Nove at them coldly

「Does Noveh」

「I don't hate him But, I don't have any like for him」

It was a tricky answer However, it was also rare for Noveree

Morris-san was asking the opinion of Normsan

「At this rate we also cannot escape Commander, we should resolve ourselves」

「Re, resolve? What resolve! I don't want Who……ant to die at this kind of place! Tha, that's right Morris, you become bait! I'll report this situation to the capital Ye, yeah That's right That's good If I do that, it won't be running away I'ed, Noret saved alone She didn't even think ould her subordinates who heard that thought of her

The Fifth ripped the Jewel The Seventh explained to ht now is nothing but a hindrance Listen, Lyle……the case of getting killed by your ally in battlefield is not rare An incoer Don't you think it'll be better for such coed Normsan, certainly it was unthinkable that she would be able to take command properly

Morris-san forcefully led Normsan away and the crowd dispersed

The Third was calm

His tone was colder than usual

『Morris-kun ht be unable to decide by himself He has indecisiveness in hi able to resist any It's also unthinkable that Norht to command……then, we can only have her die』

No no, even without going that extreht until there, the Fourth seemed to notice and harshly talked to me instead

『Lyle, that's just how important the position of commander is Sometimes they also have to order their subordinate to die They receive that much authority and reward, and yet if they're unable to be useful when it's time then it's out of the question If you wish for pro position then resolve is necessary An incompetent who can't do that will only be harmful if they're proeveryone here to die just for the sake of Norma alone』

The Fifth was also harsh

『Nor a position that is beyond herWell, she is sent here because she is someone like that Lyle, she'll die anyway even if you don't do it Erase her for the sake of the future』

Norht to coment of the ancestors Besides, the whole arether with Nor I understood but……

「……Nove to talk to Normsan」

Novem nodded

「Yes, Lyle-sa resolve in exasperation

With Novem in tow, I headed to the inn that was turned into Nor

The matter of Lionel became known in the blink of eye It loo on the side road was coriff Even though……even though I wanted to be successful in life and made her live in co a circle and co

「Did you hear? It seeriffon We're, just disposable pawns」

「……For the palace, the jobless low ranked nobles are like trash」

「Yeah」

「The palace bunches will be drinking tea while laughing at our death If it's like this, it would be better to spend time slovenly in the destitute row house It turns out like this because I went out of ot kicked out of the house byot soot a bad premonition shi+t! Those palace bunches, my parents, and my shi+tty brother too, drop dead all of you!」

The nobles ere barely in the rank of being able to inherit their house were gathering and co abuse toward such soldiers

「fuck you all! Do you knoe're feeling while waiting for help until now!」

「That's right! When we thought……e thought that help finally come, there are only cowards who cauys!」

「My husband, he desperately fought until help cauys……」

The soldiers replied thoughtlessly

「So what? After all, we and also you guys──are abandoned by the country! In the first place who can win against sooing to get toyed until death here!」

Hearing those words, the townspeople were aghast and turned pale There were even people around ere starting a fight and punching each other

A gap was being created between the subjugation force and the townspeople

Novem muttered

「It will be better if Nor her job properly」

I could only agree

「You're right If only she do her job properly……I also won't be troubled」

We were abandoned

The toas abandoned

The region of Gioni that the palace casted away

Surely fronificant daot abandoned, there was no way they could accept it

「I'll do it ……I'll hts were staying

Morris was talking with Norma inside a room there

「No way I don't want to die I'll be successful……」

Norhed inside his heart seeing that

(Even this person is quiet powerful though)

She wasn't incompetent, but she was overly self-centered that she was hated by her colleagues Besides, she would happily accept even a blatant bribe and even sought it out fro

Her appearance wasn't bad Because she used it to butter up a superior with power, she was also able to becoht squad captain

But, there were a lot of knights who hated her There were knights who had their achievehts eren't properly evaluated and looked down at because of her lie

Nor for the sake of her own success What she did was too excessive no ht becoht squad captain around this time if only she did it noric also wasn't bad North, and yet her personality was a disaster that obstructed her career instead

「Coht here If you return, the palace will only blas! I wasn't told that there'll be griffon It's ht, it's my duty That's why, ih with that already!」

Morris as usually gentle finally snapped Nor soundlessly

「Do you still not understand? We're abandoned by the palace The townspeople had reported that there is a griffon Even the istrate who ran away to the capital should have reported the situation Are you seriously thinking that the palace didn't know this?」

Morris was a knight leader In Bahnseiht

Above that rank was ten-knight squad leader, and above it was hundred-knight squad leader

He couldn't be said to be walking on the elite course as a knight, but he had worked as knight for many years until now

If he heard various ruuess what the palace was thinking

(Recently, the higher-ups were considering the increase of the jobless houses as a probledo use of this case to take care of that probleular army──the elites would be sent and there would be no problem Rather, they should even use the annihilation of the first subjugation force as advertising

The elite regular arreatly enlivened the capital

「Commander, we're disposable pawn If you return, you will lose your position and honor」

Norive bribe tolike this! I──!」

She was hated by her colleagues That was all

Even for the superior, it would be dangerous to treat Norhts around her His other subordinates would be discontent

Morris resolved hio ho Surely they'll be fine)

Morris had no thinking of taking the right of co of his family who remained in the capital

Then, the door was knocked──

I could hear a screa of griht who I asked to show us the way had a bad and unuidedanything

Noveonally behind me

「Lyle-sama, I will respect Lyle-sama's opinion no aze hurt

Surely, she was thinking that I would take the right of co on the situation, Morris-san asthe troops would also have to be killed

……I don't want to do that

「I' to have a talk Don't ies」