Hakai No Miko Volume 1 Chapter 30 (1/2)

Even though quite a bit of time has already passed since the sun vanished behind the horizon, the fortress that had been built in the Solbiant Plains was engulfed in a lurand bonfire

The soldiers are busily running around and angry voices are flitting about everywhere

The Company Commander Aide Marchronis, who had been entrusted with the fortress and as a them, frantically dealt with his subordinates that were constantly rushi+ng over to ask for his orders or to give reports

“Sir Coh places to let the injured soldiers rest!”

“I don't es! It would be bad to expose the lost their resilience already Check the conditions of their injuries and carry the heavily wounded into the buildings as priority!” (Marchronis)

“Sir Company Commander Aide! The ointes as well!”

“Fetch the wine barrels from the food storehouses! At least disinfect them with alcohol! There's probably spare clothes in the storehouse, too Tear those up and use thees!” (Marchronis)

This uproar was due to the injured soldiers that had arrived at the fortress while the sun was going down

It's been more than half a month since a battalion had departed toon the Hoghnareah Hill to the north Everyone considered the cleaning up of the zoan to be a simple task The zoan had already lost their momentum from ancient times

However, it happened three days after the battalion went towards the hill A large-scaled wildfire occurred around the area of the zoan village and could even be seen from the fortress Marchronis felt a bad pre that it burned down the zoan' village

He knew that his premonition had come true three days after that

The soldiers of the battalion that set out to ic state The soldiers were pitch black froree that they could have been rants fro reached the fortress, the majority collapsed on the spot due to intense exhaustion, not even able to move a step further

‘Once I asked the soldiers just what kind of natural disaster they ran into, I was told that the battalion suffered a crushi+ng defeat that etting attacked with fire by the zoan

They told niaz who led the battalion, all personnel beyond the rank of co the chaos The soldiers had no other option but to run aithout adriven onwards by the fire, and had walked for al until they at last returned to the fortress

As expected, this was soht from the start either

However, when injured soldiers marched into the fortress one after the other after that day, he had no choice but to accept reality

Currently the returned, injured soldiers are put to rest inside the overflowing fortress Being forced to listen to their endless groans is a hellish experience

Finishi+ng the first-aid treatment for the newly arrived injured soldiers, the fortress finally regained its calmness It was at the time when thedoards the western sky

“Sir Marchronis, do you have a moment?”

A soldier that had the tuft of a platoon leader attached to his helmet arrived at Marchronis' location

“What is it, Setius?” (Marchronis)

“There's so I'd like you to hear about, Sir” (Setius)

“What's wrong? Go ahead and tell me” (Marchronis)

“This place here is, a bit…” (Setius)

He hesitates to speak while pointing with his line of sight at the soldiers that had been put to rest in the surroundings and the soldiers who are nursing them

“Understood Follow me” (Marchronis)

Marchronis turned his feet towards a building

Even on the stairs and in the passages of the buildings, many wounded soldiers have been laid down Marchronis was careful to not disturb them as they headed towards the official roo on the inner wall Marchronis sat down on the chair at the desk for official duties set in front of that wall as if he were collapsing into it

“You seem to be quite exhausted, Sir Coht about that” (Marchronis)

Beginning with his superior officer, the co a move on the zoan divine child, it's been tooin succession for the hands of the co from military service

“I didn't expect for wounded soldiers being sent day after day like this either To say nothing of it being o today” (Marchronis)

“This is al us, isn't it?” (Setius)

He had the sa to Holmea State just like hi been flooded with many more soldiers compared to the amount currently stationed in the fortress, the fortress' soldiers' fatigue is already reaching its li of the wounded

“Be that as it may, I can't tell the zoan to not send them over On the contrary, many soldiers have been saved because they received their treatment I'm certainly thankful to theht?” (Marchronis)

Because our side sent a battalion with the intention of eradicating the zoan, we couldn't complain even if the soldiers would have been ency treatons for the sake of those who couldn't walk

In the are beasts, but as it stands, I don't knohich side are actually the savage beasts

“So, what is the matter that you want to report to me?” (Marchronis)

“Actually, the returned soldiersworrisome” (Setius)

“What is it?” (Marchronis)

“The captured soldiers are talking about having seen a hu the zoan Moreover, the same report has been delivered by several soldiers” (Setius)

“A hu village?” (Marchronis)

“No, that doesn't seem to be the case It's a story that's i that they saw the zoan acting in accordance to what that child said” (Setius)

That's iht

Resentment towards the human has likely sunk deep into the minds of the zoan, ere chased out of the plains where they used to live by the humans It's absolutely unthinkable for the zoan to follow the words said by a hu was stuck in the h it off

“Did you forget, Sir Company Commander Aide? About the divine child that vanished froside the zoan that broke out of prison” (Setius)

Marchronis suddenly rehtly before this there was the incident of the escape of the divine child that had cruelly killed the company commander At that tiht along froside her

He pondered on whether it was possible for the zoan to have taken hi zoan took along a boy to the extent of even braving danger, it was deee of the zoan's jailbreak to slip out on his own

Because Priest Mildas, who had that unidentified divine child put into the dungeon together with the zoan divine child, caused a fuss, they searched for the boy and even depended on the cooperation of the battalion, but in the end they weren't able to find him As it's unthinkable for a child to survive all by itself in these vast plains, Marchronis si's death somewhere

“No way! It's that child!? No, wait, wait! You said that the zoan were obeying that child!? You don't say that the recent fire assault…!” (Marchronis)

Marchronis obtained a clue to unravel the questions of the last few days

For hi able to believe at first that the battalion was attacked with fire right when he received the report was because that was so

However, if the zoan followed the huine anything else but thisan idea of that human child

“What is that child…?” (Marchronis)

Even if he wanted to question Mildas who apparently knew the true identity of that divine child, he had already departed from the fortress On the day the search by the battalion had been aborted, he thoroughly raised hell and at last, after getting angry, returned to the city

“Does it see about thisbetrayed by a hu with the zoan, it would likely cause a co them

“There area the soldiers who are in contact with the I think it's already too late for that” (Setius)

“fuck! It would have been better if I had that shi+tty toad spit it out by constricting hi over spilt milk

“Anyways, the zoan, who currently have the ht come attack this place Everyone's probably tired, but increase the lookouts Shorten the shi+ft change intervals” (Marchronis)

That's out of concern that the worn-out soldiers won't be able to keep concentrating for a long time

“As you command!” (Setius)

Once Setius left the roo, only Marchronis was left in the room He tiredly entrusted his body to the chair's back

“A hu on here!?” (Marchronis)

The one who could answer Marchronis' question wasn't present