Me, stunned by the sudden announcement from the princess. In contrast, the princess seems to really enjoy herself.
"Uh, are you serious?
"Absolutely. I'm sure my knight can do it."
"No, let's be a little suspicious."
"It is a precise judgment after grasping the power of my knight. There's no question about it. Besides, I don't have time to be too long. It's been almost six months since that place was dropped. The state of the people in captivity is pretty harsh, too."
Apparently, the princess had sent a secret detective to the enemy's side beforehand.
"It's a situation where soldiers and people who are running late, and the people of the subdued villages around them, are being gathered in one place and forced to work. They're getting more dead every day because they haven't been given a decent meal. There are reports that more diseases can spread."
"It's..."
Pretty bad.If the disease spreads in an overall debilitating state, it will infect and kill those there at once.
If so, even if the base is reclaimed, the surrounding situation is pushed into an irreparable state.
"That's why we need to liberate the people as soon as possible. My knight will make a basement for it."
"Saying?
"Free the town and surrounding areas once and for all with an abnomulet unit where your troops took control of the base and then kept it waiting in the rear. We've already arranged medical teams and supplies, so you should come with my knight's sword."
I mean, after that, you're almost ready for a situation where I can lead the troops and make the operation a success.
Then the question would be, how quickly do I free the base? The fact that we are collecting and managing prisoners in one place eliminates the fear of being taken hostage if we control them first. But on the contrary, if you can't control it there, does that mean the operation itself will end in failure?
Then the frontal assault at the Armunale is a mess. We need to sneak out the back and secure where the prisoners are first.
For that, you mean I'll be in charge of troop formation with the personnel I need?
"What, do you understand me?
"Okay. That order, let's make sure it succeeds."
When I nod, the princess smiles.
"That's what I trusted you to say. Commander Cazzo, give Eldo something to gather information about the soldiers who are at this base later. With that in mind, Eldo should gather personnel before your aircraft arrives. This order shall have the right of superior order. Oh, but not Dennis and Jean. 'Cause I'm gonna have these two do another job."
Bring it up to the right of superior order? This means that the orders of those who have the power of order shall have the fourth power following His Majesty and the Commander-in-Chief. Now on this occasion, there is nothing but a princess who can refuse this order.
The point is, you're definitely gonna follow my call.
"I understand. I'll give you the roster by tomorrow morning."
Until tomorrow morning, Commander Cazzo will be up all night when we have a roster of everyone on this base. Woe to you.
"Then as soon as I receive it, I go into the selection of candidates. Even after you've adjusted your own fuselage?
"Yeah, just leave me in perfect condition. Because I know it's a difficult operation."
"Okay."
I nodded and the meeting opened.
"Erdokun!
After the princess went back to the prepared room, Angus jumped in from the front when I went out into the hallway.
Take it and stroke your head. Angus' body smelled delicious just after he was cooking.
"Oops, tired."
"Good luck to you too, Eldo! I'm ready for dinner!
"Right. Dining room?"
"Yeah, I thought it would be noisy in the dining room, so I'm transporting it to my room"
"That would help."
I have a lot to think about after this. It helps to eat slowly in your own room.
Hey, there's something I need to check before I do.
"Who's coming over here right now with my squad?
Before I came over, Mr. O'Rail told me that I would leave some people in Wang Capital for the maintenance and transportation of the fuselage. I didn't have time to decide exactly who to leave behind, so I didn't know the members who were coming over here because I had left Mr. O'Rail in charge for now.
"Uh, Mr. Bunois and Mr. Cattleya, the veterans, and Pamira, the mechanics, are here with us."
"And Pamira?
I thought all the mechanics were staying, but did only Pamira come this way?
"Mr. O'Rail said you'd have a specialist mechanic anyway because you'd be unscrupulous over here."
"Kukuku, you know perfectly well"
I was just hoping you could make some adjustments to the abnomulet I borrowed. Exactly. I'm not even going to get a physical operator (sense board), but I was hoping to get some adjustment around the joint.
"Shall we go to your room? The dish is going to get cold."
"Oh."
We headed back to our room in the jealousy of the soldiers around us.
No, nothing feels better than someone else's jealousy!
The next morning I summoned a knight early as I received a compiled dossier.
"So, Battis, say hello."
"Well, I knew it somehow, but seriously, am I good?
The office reserved for me, the Batis called in there, asks me in an upright but shattered tone in front of me.
For once, I'm on top of the ranks, and Battis would have to use respect, but only me and Angus and Battis are here right now. We only know each other, so we don't have to be tough either. More than that, I don't like Battis' salutation or anything.
To tell the truth, Leon would have been best if we could have had a threesome together, too, but Leon doesn't have an Armunale yet. So this time it was just a call from Batis.
"Yeah, this time it's a mission to ask for a few elite speeds. I want someone who's breathing with me."
"I know that, but some of the knights here have a lot of front-line experience, right? Isn't it strange to leave me alone?
"There's no problem there. That means I know my strengths directly, so it's easy to command. I'm just having trouble being told I can't do what I can't do."
Because of the Knight's Pride and all that, I have trouble being told that I can do difficult things. This operation must be sure to succeed. If you can't do it, think of another way, so you need to find something that can evaluate you correctly.
"Well, well."
To my word, Battis still doesn't seem convinced. Scratch your hair like it won't boil off.
So I'll cut the last bill.
"Besides, I'm only a nobleman, but an honorary nobleman who just won a medal. A lot of people care about it."
Pilots are many aristocrats. It's also just the top nobles like Batis and Leon and people with the corresponding powers and traditions. There's always the one who says he doesn't like to be instructed by a former civilian human being, even though his position is above him in that. One way or another, I don't have time to build trust with those people.
"Okay. I don't have the right to refuse either way. I am pleased to take that order."
"Oops, that would be the first order. Who do you think would be better off if we were to pick another knight in Battis? Honestly, the only material I've been given is judgment."
On the desk in front of me is a dossier of the soldiers just delivered this morning. With the exception of the average soldier, as the only ones I can take with me are the Armunale riders, I appropriately picked up something excellent for infiltration, something excellent for personal martial arts, something excellent for medicine, etc., but even if I wanted to narrow it down to one person, catalog specs alone don't understand how they think.
So I asked Batis, who has been assigned to this base for about a few months.
"Um, don't ask me the hard part. I'm the biggest rookie here, and they almost made me do chores. Knight, there was hardly any interaction, was there?
"We have to work together, knight. He said there's no interaction... that's a problem."
"Well, that's one of those field-specific up and down relationships."
"Then we can get rid of the people who brought him up here."
You should be more or less disgusted with me after I bring out such a hassle. You can't let him in like that.
Ask Battis his name and pull those figures out of the roster.
and the rest narrowed down to three.
One has the longest knight history, no longer an old body. You just think you've been working out well and are still in ballistic active duty?
The other is an old man as old as Mr. Bodwan and full of veteran style. Both are the type of people who do their job exactly without pinching their personal feelings in the field.
The last one is still a young female knight. I don't have much background, but even yesterday's battle has turned out perfectly. It seems to be an advantage of advanced aristocracy, but I don't know because it didn't even say his personality.
"These three?"
"Can I see it?
"Oh."
Pass the materials to Battis and I'll make the tea that Angus put in for me. Yeah, yummy.
Yesterday's tonkatsu was also very delicious with crispy clothes and meat.
Of course Angus was delicious.
"Of these, Mr. Elexia is the only one I know."
"Of a female knight?
"Oh, I have some interaction as a senior nobleman who is the same as the Lux Road family, and I took care of him a little here"
That's just fine. If there was an interaction, you might also know the personality.
"What kind of person are you from Batis?
"What... hmm"
Battis put his hand on his chin and worried a little, then told him:
"Military temperament, for better or worse - huh?
What a difficult answer to react.
"I'm serious and serious about everything, but you're so clumsy with it"
"Clumsy?"
"You mean you don't know the compromise, it feels like you want perfection everywhere? I was the first to see what I met with Mr. Elexia at this base, the bareback of the sword in the morning practice. You're on the front line, captain, and if you're in the class, you're gonna get a little out of your hands in the morning and leave your strength behind, right? You can't do that, and you're the type to keep waving your sword until it's a snare."
"It's... it's the end of the line."
If you can't get to the bottom of it and give it all you can during the raid, there's no point in what you've been trying to do as a knight. Plus, if you're in the captain class, it hardly means you're going to have an infantry fight in the first place. So much so that some of them say it's more meaningful to do combat simulations in the cockpit than bareback.
I think both are important, so I haven't changed the menu since I was a student, but I still won't do it until I'm just exhausted.
"That's why I'm clumsy. I can't get out of my way when I start. You know what? Mr. Elexia, the reason I joined the academy is because I don't like socializing. So I thought Mr. Elexia's parents would give up in the right place and return to their way of life as nobles, because seriously too much has made them the chief graduates of the year."
"It's..."
Yeah, you're serious everywhere, and then you're clumsy. It may be difficult to use. This rescue mission should give rise to a life that must be thrown away somewhere. If we don't get cut off there, we could end up in a crisis to the lives around us.
"Don't worry. Do you have any idea what this is about the other two?
"Sorry, those two were too upstairs to see each other in the first place"
"Right. Then you're on hold for now. Let's hear a little bit this afternoon, and we'll decide tomorrow."
"What are we gonna do in the morning?
"It's your special training."
"Mine?
As I turned my smile, Battis tilted his neck as he pulled his face apart.
"Hey, why are you doing this in Abnomulet?
"Battis never moved this fuselage yet, did he? Once you move the abnomule, things will change. It doesn't hurt to experience it once."
"I'm sure Leon said that too."
At the opening of the base, two Abnomules were facing each other.
One of them is, of course, the aircraft I'm renting. And the other plane is the one that Commander Cazzo asked me to lend to him. The passenger, of course, is Batis.
"Then let's go. The rules are anticipatory."
"Aye. You can't use magic on him, though!
Battis, the plane moves.
I immediately stick out my sword and aim for Battis' fuselage. Battis shifted it gently to the side and stormed straight ahead.
I crouch my fuselage, put my shoulder forward, and adjust so that my shoulder hits the other cockpit. This prevents the opponent from grabbing the fuselage.
Batis has also responded immediately.
You must have noticed my purpose at the time I crouched the fuselage. After pushing in with the momentum as it was, he jumps up the other way and jumps over my fuselage.
I aligned my sword with the Battis aircraft, which looked back at the same time as landing.
Kickin 'swords bump into each other, and they finally get together.
"Well, you know better when you're on a battle trajectory."
"Oh, sure, this could be a pretty good experience!
Batis draws his sword from the match at last.
My fuselage waves its sword straight into the Battis aircraft, but it was too much of a surprise.
Almunale would have guessed it even now. This fuselage does not allow for instantaneous power or manoeuvre.
But that's the same for Battis' fuselage.
My gap that Armunale would have put in is not enough for Abnomule's mobility to just attack.
With my back filled with gaps, I rebuild my posture through the side of the Battis plane intact.
Let's go next.
"Keep coming!
This time it starts here.
Run the fuselage and wave your sword down towards the Batis aircraft.
Batis took it from the front, while lightly pulling out his powers.
Being outpowered while receiving is hard to discern. I'm struck by the motion and I lose balance on the fuselage.
"I got it."
"Too bad!"
But it's not me that makes it easy to take the gap.
My fuselage, stepping forward, leaves Battis' foot to stare straight back. Then, if I snagged one of my arms onto his leg, the Batis plane also got involved and fell flashly.
The base floor cracks as it makes a fierce noise, but I don't care about that. Anyway, there are holes everywhere after the battle.
"Ouch..."
"There's a gap!
I go for the fallen fuselage and stick out my sword while I sleep.
"Nah!
But it was derailed by being kicked in the forearm just before the sword arrived.
And we get up quickly.
"Damn, I'm still kidding. Let me maneuver."
"Armunale could do more interesting manoeuvres, right?
You're a crook artist.
"That could be interesting too!
I pull the second sword out of my hips, one in each hand. Then Batis set up another bottle as well.
"Are you sure? If you're a duplicant, I'm better at it, right?
"Ha, I'm so out of Erdo's duplicity. Don't think of me as the old me forever."
"Then show me!
Cut in two planes in a row.
Fragments of the sword splash around the fuselage, reflecting sparkle and light. In the meantime, our fuselage plays each other's swords at such speeds that it doesn't seem like an abnomulet, peeps into gaps, and waves swords.
"Good move. But..."
I aim for the moment Batis has been passionate about sword moves, and when I take the other sword, I set up a foot payment at the same time.
Advice Batis caught on easily to it.
"When you're passionate, you'll still only be able to see it in front of you."
Attach a sword to the throat of the Batis aircraft and decide to settle.
"Shit! I lost again!
"Abnomulet. Sometimes I wonder what's going on."
"Can you make such an embarrassing excuse?"
This one has ridden the abnomulet several times for battle. I'm much more advantageous in the part about being.
But Battistically, they can't make that a reason for losing.
"Next we win. Another bottle."
"Oh, I hate to, but I'm gonna have you hanging out exactly in the morning. But before that - I'm hiding there. You don't have to hide from me like that. Come out."
I turn my voice to the shadow of the hangar.
Then one woman emerged from the shadows.
That woman flushes more silvered platinum blonde hair on her back than Angus' hair and looks up at our fuselage in a Rin position.
That was the knight I was just going to look into, Elexia Kurtzlord.