Reincarnation Monarch
Episode 426: Differences of Views
Calmis began to speak in a pompous and quiet manner.
"... I knew that control wouldn't work. In other words... it was well known that our army was also harmed..."
Gaius frowned and narrowed his eyes like needles to stare at Carmis.
"You mean you thought it wouldn't matter if thousands of allies died... you out-of-the-way bastards!
"Say anything. But I'll tell you what, the dead accompany the battle. There is no such thing as a battle where there are no dead in your own army. In that sense, the Battle of Esta, like all the battles of the past, unfortunately just says that there have been casualties..."
Then Gaius disputed without getting his hair in.
"That's a trick. Indeed, the dead are attached to the battle. But I didn't call you outdoors because I let the dead out. Because letting the dead out on their own soldiers used a must-have weapon. Don't get me wrong."
"... that's a disagreement. The battle doesn't make sense if you win. Even if it was a weapon that could cause damage to its own forces, if it was a weapon that could do several times as much damage to its enemy forces, then it was only natural to use it. Besides... there was a chance that my army would not be harmed..."
"I mean, if you're lucky enough to control it, there's no damage to your own army, and if you're unlucky, you say there's damage? I'm not kidding! Luck, your allies didn't kill you!
"You have no choice! That's what soldiers are for in the first place, isn't it? Any strong man will die lightly if he is unlucky, and vice versa. And that's... the battlefield. It's not beautiful."
"No, you're not. Life and death sometimes depend on bad luck on the battlefield. This is certainly true. But what I'm saying from now on is that we don't normally use weapons that don't hate (or hate) the fact that the dead are in our own forces. You guys did it. You shot your allies in the back. I blame you for that. I'm not talking about general theory on the battlefield."
"... what you're saying is still beautiful. A nation... a war must be won."
"The war has to be won. We should never have a war that we know we're going to lose... that's true indeed. But! If we don't fight the war in the first place, we won't lose instead of win. Yet you have waged war! It trapped Raydom and broke the long-standing equilibrium between the two countries! You used a must-have weapon to make sacrifices to your own soldiers! What do you call this without calling it an off-road job!
"... equilibrium can be broken sooner or later. Be sure to... Then we should break it from here before the enemy breaks it. Otherwise we will be around the back, and then there will be damage to our own people! Didn't you!?"
"That's a trick, too! Totally...... uh, say it - say it. We're not talking about eggs first or chickens first, are we?
Gaius scratched his head with such a bump and groan that he realized he had a slight admission to Carmis' story.