The Branded Female Fencer

Hall of Return (Instead), Part 21 - Unexpected Trap

"Oh boy. All the same hallways from earlier. Haven't you been walking for half an hour already?

"Dafan (roughly) yes. I've already traveled as far as walking all the mansions. Weird in here."

Aristotle, who was silent, also finally spoke out when Lisa and Renatica were anxious to walk as if to a hall without progress.

Everybody, pause.

"Is it a break"

"Let's do that for once. I walked through it earlier. Everybody's gonna snap like this."

Then I'll take care of the watch.

"Please, Luna"

Renatica took no time off and went on watch. Lunatica herself wondered how useful her watch would be in this hall, where she had no idea what was best.

The knights go to one break with their armor on. Everyone was mouthing portable food and drinking water from a water bottle. Some of them take a nap. Sometimes even just a little sleep can make you lose your mind.

But only Aristotle called Lisa nearby and asked for her opinion.

"Lord Lisa, what's the situation around you?

"I'm sorry, but you should honestly not expect me to. There is a fairly strong bond in this. Even Lisa isn't able to straighten out the sensors quickly and easily. Or if you fly a sensor, you're not coming home. You get the feeling of being sucked into some space itself. For example, does it feel like walking on wet ground?"

"I see... we have sensors, and we have sisters and monks who are good at evil spirit sensing again, but they say there's no such thing as a reaction. It's like walking in a thick mist surrounded by enemies. Now this one goes first."

"Sounds like you should settle early. Mental fatigue is worse than physical"

As Aristotle put it, Lisa was also severely drained again. Alphilis always imposes tough training on the mercenaries, but her theory was that "if we were to assume a fight, we would need three times tough training than a fight". Alphilis argues that if mental burdens and adverse conditions also overlap in various practices, depletion will proceed at ten times the normal rate.

There were times when Lisa honestly wondered if she would do that, too, but I see Lisa seemed convinced that it wasn't enough to do double the amount of training Alphilis had imposed in such a situation.

Lisa explores the nostalgia to see if she brings the example objects.

"(I carried it with me just in case, but I haven't had any experience using it in action yet... given the recoil that followed, I hope it will be like using it. You must have used it once)"

Lisa sighed and asked a little about Lunatica watching. Still no change in her condition. The danger seemed imminent so far. Lisa also decided to take a nap once. Because I don't know when I'll be able to sleep next.

And how much did you sleep? Lisa woke up feeling a hot pain in the back of her left hand.

"Pain... what?

"Good, I'm awake"

In front of me is the colour of Lunatica, relieved to see how Lisa happened. When Lisa looked at her left hand with an indefinite focus of her vision, there was a scratch there thinking Renatica had hurt her.

"Ugh... what's this?

"Soon after my first watch, everyone fell asleep. I wondered if I was too tired, but it's unlikely that all the soldiers so resilient would sleep. I was also attacked by a very strong drowsiness, so I thought this was strange and ran over to Lisa, but I wouldn't wake up shaking or hitting her. I thought I was sorry about that, but these things."

When Lisa's head became clearer and clearer, the Temple Knights did hang around there in total. Also, Lunatica's thighs showed signs of stabbing him with a knife. Lisa's consciousness awakens completely.

"I see, was the attack already started? I didn't know you were going to flick with your hands, not directly."

"What do we do? Do you want to wake them all up on a flip?

"Let's get you out of Aristotle and Sister. If the others don't wake up, even the enemy will come at a time like this..."

The anxiety that Lisa was about to say was already centered. Lisa's sensors caught a large number of enemies. All of us. I can see you approaching this one at a slow rate.

"Luna. It can be diverse and forceful, so I'll beat them all up!

"Oh."

Renatica and Lisa were to run around trying to wake everyone up before the enemy arrived.

"Are you cleaned up?

"Yes, without delay"

Belliache and the soldiers left outside were finishing the sweep of Ibiltrento. There were about 20 left outside. I'm somewhat anxious about it as a force of war, but at least it doesn't seem like it's the kind of face that hangs on to normal evil spirits. Belliache, reassured, turned his head about what he would do in the future.

"Well. I'd like to hear your views on what we should do now. As far as I'm concerned, I think we should build a base here and wait for the main unit to return, how about that?

"I agree. Originally, backup support was our mission."

"But wouldn't it be better outside the 'castle' if we were to build a base?

"So how do you respond when things get like going inside this' castle '? Lord Lana is inside, isn't he?

"But inside the 'Castle', that's dangerous. In our absence of a nuclear force, it can happen. Besides, most of us lack direct combat capability. If you're Trent, you can retreat, but if you have more enemies, you're very brittle, right?

That's what I'm saying.

Belliache had also assumed, but the indicative opinions have presented various shapes that do not crack and show cohesion. Every proposal was both correct and incorrect. Belliache resented himself for not being a regular temple knight, haunting his head. If one is trustworthy at a time like this, it will be possible to sum up the opinions of the moment, whatever the case may be.

But it was an unexpected person who brought the discussion to a conclusion.

Continued