No Fatigue: 24-jikan Tatakaeru Otoko no Tenseitan

"... from the interrogation of the prisoner, I know what the enemy is after"

I gather four Knights Squad Leaders and Julia and Popols to explain the enemy's operations as identified from the interrogation.

In the first place, it seems that the aim of the Union of Southern Lords of Sonorat was to bring the Royal Army of Santa Mana into their own pocket and destroy it. This would mean that the invasion of southern Sonorat by the Royal Army was induced by coalition forces.

The coalition, inferior in number of troops, sought to draw the Royal Army into Golhata, which is of local interest.

To this end, he deliberately left the fort unfinished, narrowed the number of soldiers entering the fort to make it appear less defensive, and lurked and ambushed the soldiers who had not yet entered the fort into the ridge. It is, of course, to push the Royal Army of Santa Mana into devastation with the pull tripartite.

"But the interrogation found that this was not the only Allied operation"

The Allied forces were anticipating the possibility that even with the pulling tripartite, they would not be able to destroy the Royal Army, which prevailed in number.

If the resistance of the Royal Army was stubborn and difficult to annihilate, the Allied forces are supposed to give up the attack and retreat to the rear.

But they were putting measures further ahead from there.

"The coalition retreats under the guise of crushing again, passing through the fort (...) and exiting behind the fort. I mean, make it look like you abandoned the fort"

"What... you're not going to come to the fort that I just built?

Julia says with her neck tilted.

"Looks like the fort is supposed to dawn on the Royal Army. I don't know if the Royal Army will use the fort or break it down, but either way the Royal Army will put soldiers in the fort. Even though it's crushed, the coalition has laid a line behind the fort, and it hasn't broken the confrontation yet."

The Royal Army, which has suffered less damage than the pulling tripartite, makes the choice to enter the fort, even in the sense of regaining its position. Although an incomplete fort, it is because the fort is easier to protect than to attack.

"What are you going to do with letting the soldiers into the fort?

Mr. Popols asks.

"They set fire to the fort"

"Give me a fire!?"

"Originally, that fort said that only the outer walls are made of stone, but the interior is made of wood and various finishes are loosened to make it easy to burn and spread. I mean, the fort is an oversized coffin built just to trap and burn down the general of the Royal Santa Mana Army."

The enemy soldiers we came across were the wizards and their escorts who were placed to light the fort after the Royal Army entered the fort.

After seeing the Royal Army enter the fort from this point of sight, he said he was supposed to approach the fort and set it on fire with [fire magic] and fire arrows.

Of course, it's hard to get this unit alone to turn the firehand around the fort. Similar troops are scattered across the fort, which is supposed to set fire to the fort corrugated with signals.

"Ma, wait! The Coalition's aim should be to invade Santa Mana and rob the northwest of the barn zone of food! such as burning a fort, which is a bridgehead for this purpose…"

"Once the Royal Army has been cleaned up, the coalition can break into Santa Mana without any minor resistance. Drop Fort Lanzrack, whose defense is diminishing with the troopers, and you'll do anything where this fort is gone. The supply line from the country may grow, but it doesn't matter when it comes to the fact that the country is originally short of food"

"What..."

Mr. Popols complains.

I know exactly how that feels. If you make a mistake, it's an abandonment operation that could be ruined.

Think of it, this castle-building fort itself was in a subtly inconvenient place as a stepping stone to the invasion of Santa Mana. In the first place, we should have just attacked because we had opened the canopy, but it was strange in itself that we had been building a fort for a long time.

"Huh, the other warrior's working."

Julia crushed it with an indescribable look.

True, that's just the dawn of civil war all year round, and I'm going to think of a ploy in hand.

"So, what do you do? Mr. Ice... it wasn't, Mr. Alfred."

Julia says.

I feel that the delay at the end of the conversation is getting worse because I have forgiven you a little bit.

"Marquis Ferguson is bouncing the three sides. That's what I'd call a brave, resolute, ringing mammoth."

"Brave and resolute? Isn't that a hog rush mistake?

I can only laugh bitterly at Julia's opinion, which is sharp everywhere. [M]

"Julia is indeed right in this case. Perhaps Marquis Ferguson, at his disposal, will lead the main unit in pursuit of the coalition. And let the Allied forces lure you into that fort..."

"The enemy can only read the character of this general."

Mr. Popols snapped.

You're probably right.

"I wish I could give Marquis Ferguson a message explaining the enemy's operations, but we are now protruding to the enemy. I gave you the order once, but I don't know if I'll make it..."

When I said it, the Squad Leaders shut up with a tough face.

"Don't look like that. It's okay. We have an operation."

"Operation, is...?

Ask the squad leader if I can snort. [M]

"I'm going to burn the enemy fort first. Marquis Ferguson will never put a soldier in a burning fort."

My words made me laugh. [M]

"Nevertheless, there are enemy soldiers around the fort now. It is extremely difficult to jerk it off and set fire to the fort. If I could, it would be in the form of targeting enemy soldiers after they have barely made their way through the fort..."

"By then, the Royal Army might be starting to enter the fort."

"... that's what I'm talking about"

Often, silence descends on the spot.

"... if my magic could light a fire somewhere away?

Julia, who suggested so, is asked by Mr Popolus.

"Mr. Julia, on your own, aren't you going to be quenched soon?

"Um, yeah. If we could get near the fort, we'd be able to see the old man, 'cause there's still coalition troops around the fort."

Julia said that and silenced herself with a difficult face.

For a while there was silence on the spot.

It was - unexpectedly - Mr Popolus who broke that silence.

"Lord Alfred. I have one thing to do."

"Strategies?"

"It's..."

Mr Popols explains the measures.

That was a pretty nasty measure... but in return for a successful outcome, it would be considerable.

I made a decision.

◆

- In front of the fort.

A number of bonfires had been set ablaze in the faction of the Union of Lords of the Southern Kingdom of Sonorat.

We - me, Julia and Mr. Popolus - approach for the biggest of those bonfires.

You don't hide yourself, you go straight ahead.

"- Stop! Who is it?

Whose voice did the watchman stand in front of the curtain stand when he saw us?

It is Mr Popols who answers this.

"I see it as a curtain building for the Sonorat army, is that correct?

"Yes... what about you?

"I am a stubborn traveler, my name is Popolus"

"If you have munitions, you're on time."

"No, it's not business we're here this time."

"Not business? What the hell are you talking about? Behind you is... an escort adventurer."

A soldier observes me and Julia in a frigid way and crushes like that.

Yes. Now I am unpacking the Royal Santa Mana Army and wearing the equipment of the defeated Sonorat Army soldiers instead. The Sonorat army has not been able to unify its equipment due to prolonged fighting. If you show this gear all over the dirt, you won't be suspicious to say you're an adventurer. Of course, the troop chapter is only dropped beforehand.

… It is unlikely that I, the commander of the scouts and deputy secretary of the main unit, would go out in front of the enemy.

but the surviving scouts knights were not accommodating with all the "knights" who were aligned and loyal. I decided to go out myself because no one was fit for a job that would demand an add-on like this one.

Besides, I find it tempting to just wait in the back while letting Julia and Popolus, who are not knights, do something dangerous.

"So, merchant. What are you doing here? Sooner or later, the battle against the Royal Army of Santa Mana will resume, and even if you're fluttering around a place like this, you'll wind up dead."

"General Sidnam's soldiers have called me to order me to deliver the order to my troops... The traveler would not have received such a request, but the general's soldiers were very upset, not to say no..."

"Why you guys? There 'll be a conductor, won't there?

"Come on, we don't know, from the mouth of it, it seemed like he was asking for the same thing by grabbing someone else who wanted to go through."

"Then why don't the others show up here?

"Well... there are Santa Mana knights out around here, or..."

"They captured me, or...

If so, is the enemy trying to cut off our contact? I heard the enemy commander is not the type to manipulate...

... No, I can't help thinking about it right now. I want you to give me the order and the dots. "

Mr. Popols took the "order" out of his nostalgia and gave it to the soldiers.

I can't help it, but Mr. Popols' hands are shaking slightly.

but fortunately the soldier seemed to have taken it for nervousness and received the order without looking concerned.

- This order, of course, was forged.

According to Mr. Popols,

"Sonorat is confused. He is a cute person, such as personally proprietary to the road and collecting 'tariffs' by calling it a customs office. There are a few lawless lords who say they will take up the goods without any cost, for example by accepting the materials.

That's why there are forged orders coming and going from Sonorat to Sonorat. I know you suspect it's counterfeiting even at the precinct, but 'up there' still seems scary, and I'm not telling the merchant with the order that I can't.

Plus, if you ask the right muscle to look for it, you'll even get tools for counterfeiting. Not even a formal order would be enough to forge a simple order in time of war. "

That was it.

It's unlikely in the Royal Army of Santa Mana, but since the Union of Southern Lords is also a group of incoming gatherings, there are circumstances that make it difficult in themselves to discern authenticity if you are brought with you an order of a lord other than your own.

The soldier, oh, my God, opened the order on the spot and started reading it.

That means this soldier wasn't just a lookout or anything, he was probably a soldier in that capacity.

When you look at the fact that even soldiers who are supposed to be officers wear crude gear, you know exactly how difficult the Allied forces are.

The soldier is staring at the order with a difficult face.

Here's what's written in the order.

- Operation abort, cage in a fort under construction and wait for reinforcements.

"- Merchant. Is this really from General Sidnam's soldiers?

"Yes, of course."

"... any possibility of disguise by the Royal Army of Santa Mana?

My heart jumps to the careful words of the soldier.

"We have come from the Sonorat side to preach the streets. Even if it wasn't under General Sidnam's command, I don't think it was the Royal Santa Mana Army."

"... is that so? The adventurers of the escort behind you, what city do you belong to?

All of a sudden I'm stuck with answers to questions that fly.

In the meantime, Julia,

"It's Phono City now, but until last year, I was in Golhata."

Answer.

Okay, with that answer?

I got anxious.

"Indeed, Golhata is the garrison of the Union of Southern Lords. It will also be difficult for adventurers to do their activities. There may be moves to conscript adventurers if the war situation gets worse.... you hated it and escaped."

"Me and Al are newlyweds. I'm sorry for the Golhata people who took care of me, but can't do anything dangerous..."

Julia said, taking my arm as she dyed her cheeks and stroking her own lower abdomen with her other hand.

... I was stunned and sweaty when I understood the meaning of the gesture.

The soldiers also saw how Julia was doing,

"Oh well... these are the times when we have to take care of our newly born lives. I left my wife and young children in my hometown..."

"You must be worried about that."

Mr. Popols hammers.

"No, it had nothing to do with you guys...

Stay put, the war situation seems more complicated than expected.

I was supposed to trap the pig in a cage and cook it round, hurting him on three sides. I can't seem to hear from you. Is the fort a failure? Then I can also nod that such means have been used to give instructions for retraction….

No, not if you're lost. We have to start retreating immediately.

Anyway, thanks for the hard work - see "

That's what I'm told. They give me four gold coins.

Sonorat gold coins are less valuable in evil casts attached to evil casts, but still worth about ten pieces in Santa Mana silver coins.

That's all they accepted as beneficial work.

However,

"... why, four?

Julia asks me the same question. [M]

"One for each of you.

Including those who are still in your stomach. "

That's what the soldiers say and laugh nicely.

The innocent grin stops the three of us moving.

"Oh, thank you. Good luck."

The first Mr Popols who returned it to me managed to reply that way.

"Oh. Be careful that way, there's still Royal Santa Mana Army nearby, and the coalition should be killing us."

He was intimidating at first, but he was a really good guy.

We give back the acne to abandon our guilt and leave the Allied camp behind.

It was not long ago that we returned to the point where we encountered enemy troops and were able to rendezvous safely with the other knights.

From this place on the ridge, you can see the fort well.

It was found that the coalition, which was laying a formation in front of the fort, gradually pulled up into the fort.

"Safe, you've fooled me."

Mr Popols says with a complicated look.

"Yeah, I'm sorry... but it's war"

I responded with a dark look. [M]

I don't hate to scam between battles - but the fact that enemy soldiers are also people with families waiting for their return to each was a fact I wanted to forget while I was fighting.

"It was Sonorat who fought this battle.... Let's go."

I say to cut off the sweetness of my own heart, and go down the mountain towards the fort.

"Julia, can we go from here?

"Yeah."

Rarely few words, but the deception of enemy soldiers in an earlier act may still be pulling the tail.

"... that's what I made you do. You're not responsible."

"Yeah, that's what I decided to do. - So I'll make it to the end."

When Julia says so, she slowly takes a deep breath and then draws the magic letters into the universe.

The number of magic characters is - four, five, six... seven!?

"Bo (Flame Yo), Bo, Bo (All Te), Bo, Bo (Burning Pay U), λ, λ (Whirlwind Totalized SE)"

Julia's face performing a chant she had never heard was serious.

Apparently, the control of the surgery is not complete, and there is a flaming wind blowing around Mr. Julia that was out of control.

Julia's hair stirred and swayed by the flaming wind and the contour of her face neighborhood taken by the flames.

- It wasn't just because of the enormous amount of magic overflowing from Julia that I fell in love with Julia, who was desperately trying to control her technique.

"- Flame Storm!"

Mr. Julia's magic is complete.

A fireball similar to "Fireball" slips from Julia's hand into the gap between the fort's walls.

The next moment, behind the walls, red lotus flames blew out.

From here we can only partially see what's going on inside, but Mr. Julia's magic seems to be raging inside the walls and burning into wooden buildings. From the fort you can hear anger and screaming.

"... cum"

"Mr. Julia!

"So, it's okay...... but maybe I can't do magic anymore. Hmm, I knew it was still incomplete..."

Julia seems to have run out of MP with her now seven-character activated grand magic.

It was incredibly powerful... but that's incomplete?

"Enough! Come on, join Mr. Popols, join the main unit!

I hold Julia in my arms and give instructions to the surrounding knights.

There should be no more Allied soldiers around.

We re-prioritized our rendezvous with the main unit and ran all over the mountains with our confused forts on our backs.

◆

So much less, we were able to rendezvous with the main unit led by Marquis Ferguson.

The main unit was in the midst of preparing to launch a chase when it saw the enemy fort burn.

It seems that the fierce general intends to truly rush into the fortress where the fire has reached.

I can no longer say anything.

I rush into the curtain hall where the Marquis Ferguson is located and report back as soon as possible.

"This strategic goal of destroying the fort has been achieved.

Staying here any longer is not only pointless but dangerous. "

The purpose of this expedition was to prevent the invasion of Santa Mana by the Union of Southern Lords of Sonorat.

The Allied forces are no longer a threat than they were thus crushed by the measures of the final death.

With food distress in the background, it could force you to attack Santa Mana, but that should be easy to bounce back if you concentrate on Fort Lanzrack. Because the coalition doesn't have enough food to keep the fort under siege.

Meanwhile, the Royal Army of Santa Mana has been drastically cut in numbers on the pull tripartite.

I don't know how many soldiers were put up in an earlier fire attack, but once they settle down, they'll be back to five minutes or even a disadvantage on the numbers.

We should pull here to the Santa Mana border and rearrange the formation to stop the coalition attacking us.

but

"Don't be ridiculous! You're telling me to get cocked so far and miss them! You have no pride as a samurai, half-elf!

The fierce general's head still seems to be boiled down with humiliation caught by the pulling tripartite.

I'm not going back to Santa Mana until I fulfill this snowflake. I can even see through that readiness.

"… I am here now, not as an elf, but as a general of the Kingdom of Santa Mana.

What I'm saying is an objective situational decision.

I repeat, retreat!

"Come on now!

If the enemy recovers from the mess, this one will be at a better disadvantage!? "

Julia, who owed me a shoulder, shouted at me like that. [M]

"Shut up, little girl! Besides, with your magic, we can take them out!

"Hey, who reduced the army that was 30,000 to half by catching the positive motion of child deception? It must be you, Marquis Ferguson!

Let's put that aside and make the situation that my men worked so hard to rebound for their 'pride'!?

At the end of the sentence, there are too many bugs at any cost to rely on the power of "Adventurer Fushii" and "Little Girl"!

"Gu... Ko, here... Ku, Ko, Ko..."

Ferguson dyed his face bright red with anger - as it were, he fell to flip.

"Here, Marquis!

The Marquis' closest samurai rushes over and supports the Marquis where it is at stake.

The Marquis was white-eyed with bubbles blown out of his mouth.

On the spot, it was painful - funny silence flowed, depending on what you saw.

The gaze of those who were there seemed unexpected, but moved around dizzily… Eventually, he settled down to a point.

One thing - yes, unfortunately it's about me.

Indeed, now that the Marquis Ferguson has fallen, it is I who have the highest rank on this occasion.

No, in the first place, even though I was treated like a famous man, I am also a deputy officer in the military this time.

It is difficult that we are the ones who caused the Marquis to fall, but the story that leads there is witnessed by everyone present here.

Though only the Marquis' closest samurai is staring at me with a bitter face.

I coughed and said.

"- Retreat. Get ready!

- Thus we returned to the Kingdom of Santa Mana.

On the road, I got a tremendous chase from behind, but also managed to get through thanks to Julia.

We went into the Lanzrack and consolidated our defenses, but the coalition turned back without enclosing the fort.

The result was that I was a useful actor in destroying enemy fortifications and returning the Expeditionary Army safely.

It wasn't until a little later that I realized my status had two names: Castle Drop.

The Marquis Ferguson was held responsible for forcing the knights and soldiers who marched in vain to die, and after being surrendered to the Count, he was to hide, and his territory was also to be greatly shredded.

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"- So, who's Mother Julia?

"Since then, I've been sending requests for nominations in the city of Phono. In doing so, naturally..."

"Naturally, if your father was making a nomination request, that would be a convict, wouldn't it?

"Yeah, well..."

Dad Alfred cheeked like he was in trouble.

"It was hard after you announced your marriage. The Adventurers' Guild is starting to make a scene that nobles have taken our idols."

"What's going on?

"They picked the best adventurer in the guild and made him do a mock fight and admit it"

"... you do it, Dad"

He's usually a calm father, but was he an out-of-the-box carnivorous boy?

Daddy Alfred said the siege fight at night was his own......

"... Ed, have you thought about something weird right now?

"Huh? Yes, no..."

When I'm out of sight and deluded,

"What are you talking about?

Julia, my mother came.

"Oh, that's when Julia and I met."

"What? Talk about when you asked for a nomination?

"No, Golhata Battle's..."

"But the first time we met was when you asked for a nomination, right?

"What are you talking about? It was decided when Golhata."

"... hey, don't you remember?

"What?

"I got a nomination request from Al a long time ago, didn't I? I was a runaway adventurer when Mr. Canaan was still alive."

"Were you... If so, maybe the nomination request was made by telling the Alliance to nominate a promising new adventurer."

"That's what I mean. It was a request to escort Al, his wife and David from Phono City to Wangdu."

That's what my mother says, hands on my cheeks to miss the old days.

"You have a knight, and you hire an escort adventurer?

When I ask,

"The city of Phono has a lot of work to do during the harpy season, but the other seasons are subtle. So, in a way like Ed's" utility, "you make that kind of request for new adventurers. Even for me, it would be a good opportunity to meet adventurers in the field.... Plus, taking a bunch of escort knights will jump the cost of staying in Wangdu. For that matter, an adventurer can hire just a return reward."

That's how my father explains it.

"Hmmm...... then, how was your father from your mother?

"It feels like a good couple, and I admired you. Al and Kanan were kind to adventurers."

"We used to do adventurers under false names in cadet school, too. I'm going to find out a little bit about the adventurer's struggle."

"But that's why I was surprised when I was in Golhata. Requesting directions in war is a job that Alliance high-ranking adventurers don't like. But I remembered Al, so I thought I'd take the request. But when I went to the crime scene, I was surprised to have an elf that felt so cold. I was surprised again when I found out that Mr. Elf was Al."

"... right"

"It seemed like people had changed. I had also heard that they called me your princess of ice, but I didn't even know about Mr. Canaan, so at first I thought he had become great and changed.

But I was relieved to see that he was making too much of an hired adventurer and caring for the knights under his command, knowing that he hadn't changed. So... well, I wanted to help this guy. "

Julia's mother dyed her cheeks a little and said so.

"When I think about it, I feel like I can also use the Flame Storm (Firestorm) that I was in the process of developing... I tried it and it was the first decent success. Back then, the controls were still sweet and not suitable for action..."

"Huh...! Wait a minute, Julia. That said, the Flame Storm was..."

"Yeah, it was bump production."

My father stopped moving as he opened his mouth so much that his jaw was about to fall.

"So, but then Julia said, 'I think I'll see you when I get close to the fort.'"

"Yeah, so you said you think you can (...), right? I thought you trusted me because Al confidently said," I got it. "

My mother is intuitive, so if she thinks she can do it, maybe she can, but from an elaborately thought-provoking type of father, it would be like being pointed out the dangers of the bridge that she has now crossed.

My father had hardened to freeze as it was, so the spear training ended as it was.

"Well, it's not Alfred the Ice Frost, it's Alfred the Ice Statue."

So my mother showed me her face... but you did.

- In this way, the second year of awesome in Wang Du was instantly over, and I was already three years old.