The Branded Female Fencer

"I'm not tired of being with Alfie."

"Don't you? Rosetta."

"Yes, yes, Airy loves Alfie."

"Hey, what do you say!

Rosetta and Aerial are the ones to talk about it without a scratch. They were currently having a conversation looking down at the demons' nest under their eyes. From the rocky skin, which is a little high, they stand looking down at the intended rock hole. Behind this follows some of the new mercenaries. They are their captains.

"If Lisa's right, I guess there's a demon king in there"

"Oh, according to information from the Arnelian Church, it looks exactly like a bunch of recently formed demon kings."

"A demon king is just a trinket, isn't it? It's like the Alliance hasn't even asked me to crusade yet. I hear Alphilis negotiated it with Miriazal and said they were going to crusade."

"In Alfi's calculations, I guess it's like replacing an exercise or something"

Answer as Aerial looks at the demons roaming downstairs. There are two oaks downstairs that should be said to be watchful. But one of them is asleep, and one of them looks around restlessly. That would not be any kind of watch. I wish I could have imagined it was a gathering of miscellaneous fish, even if those who had no experience in combat saw it.

Rosetta and Aerial laughed all the time as they watched such demons. Maybe he decided it was a battle with some relief.

"It's going to be a good fight as a battle for the regiment. You rarely see such a bunch of little things."

"But Arnelia Church is grasping. When a crusade request comes to the Alliance, they say there's a lot of it already after one village is crushed or something. However, I hear that this time the village crops will still be roughed up. That's all I'm asking, and you know how safe this fight is."

"That would mean the Arnelian Church's information network is amazing. Nevertheless, at some point, Airy has become more familiar with the public opinion."

"You're going to live as a mercenary, study for granted. Humans are environmentally adaptable creatures. I have my stomach bracketed around there, too."

"It's love for Alfi that an unworldly airy would say that. Shit."

"I'll say that again."

Aerie and Rosetta were joking but carefully scouting. Would it have been a moment since we started watching already? The number of demons entering and leaving the rock hole was three, all of which were species in the shape of human beings said to be subhuman.

When they finish looking at their gear, appearance, and behavior, Rosetta and the others quietly lag behind and start discussing with Hiccup.

"Enough reconnaissance?

"Oh, it'll be enough. Lisa's right."

"So, how do we attack, Aerie?

"According to Lisa, there's no big guy. Number of trinkets from 20 to 30 at best. If only the Demon King and Rosetta would deal with it, it would be nothing more than this reconnaissance force."

"But Alfie's orders are only reconnaissance, right? He said we'd all fight. Wouldn't it be right for you to obey the adults here?"

"Oh, I obey Alfi's orders. Whatever it takes, it's our captain. Now, as instructed, let's go back here once and for all."

That's how when Aerial silently urged other mercenaries with their hands, they obeyed Rosetta and Aerial greatly. They also know so much about their strength that they don't like the fold of their entrance exams. In the mercenary world, where power relations determine almost everything, few, even women, tried to turn against them.

It was Alphilis they fanned with their chief, and the interest of the new joiners was more focused on what Alphilis was really like than this battle. It is very important for mercenaries to know who their leader is. It is no exaggeration to say that mercenaries moving with gold are more important to their lives than honor and battle results, and that the future fate can be roughly grasped by how the captain handles their affairs.

The journey to this battlefield was very steep. The mercenaries selected were all knocked up in an emergency convocation the next morning when Alphilis was contacted that there would be another convocation in the near future because they had returned. Half an hour until the hastily jumped mercenaries assemble at the location of the mercenary regiment in Alphilis only wearing them. There was already a set of prepared combat equipment, food, from which the mercenaries rushed to follow during Alphilis's order to pick out what they needed now.

And running the horse for three days. Alphilis introduced himself to the future goals, objectives, precautions, and so forth, and in doing so he arrived in the woods where he intended. The mercenaries initially obeyed without understanding, but each was given the opportunity to talk to Alphilis during the march. The sentiments many of them had for Alphilis during that conversation were:

"Someone I'm not sure about"

That was it. Because Alphilis doesn't seem to think about anything, and he really thinks about different things, and it usually seems easy and delicate. I wondered if I didn't have the knowledge because I honestly admire the mercenaries' stories, but the truth is that the depth of that knowledge was far beyond the mercenaries' understanding. Although Alphilis is simply an honest, extra-looking person, and the best educated person of our time, there is no way that mercenaries in general have ever discussed it with anyone of such an educational standard as the royal nobility. They only rarely felt a person named Alphilis.

And when they returned to Alphilis, Alphilis summoned the humans he had appointed this time as platoon leader. Rosetta, Aerial and Daron are members of Ancient Ginseng. Lisa is a sensor, so she puts it aside, and Renatica and Tasha are easier to use if you let them act alone. Emerald couldn't seem to command someone such as a leader, so Alphilis had it beside him, and he wanted it.

Further new members had selected such persons as Lloyd, Grapheth and Milnay as their new captains. This is based on background, actual exam scores, etc. Lloyd knows Rosetta and ranks top of B as a mercenary, and Grafez seems to be a man who was originally a platoon leader in the Knights. Milnay comes from the martial arts family, but every woman has mercenaries everywhere to train martial arts. He said he couldn't even go home until he gave him some name as a mercenary.

The platoon breakdown is about 10 to the main unit directly led by Alphilis. Later it is a platoon of around six. Alphilis was willing to come to the battlefield in this formation. And Alphilis tells the team captains.

Continued