The Branded Female Fencer

"What can I do for you, Alphilis!

"Surrender, Milnay. You're no longer going to win. This fort was completely besieged. The castle is completely overwhelmed too, you'd better surrender. You don't have to make any more sacrifices."

"Hmm, bullshit! You're the ones who are being hunted down. Don't think this fort's gonna fall that easy, huh? If we survive until reinforcements arrive, we win!

Soldiers on the walls shouted as they responded to Milnay's words. Apparently, they have a lot of morale over the walls. For mercenaries to command, they're probably putting it together well.

Alphilis, however, had made a remarkable observation. Soldiers in this fort, like their clients if Cowen is right, should have about half the collected soldiers from this surrounding city. Also slightly different from the client was that the fort is of considerable importance to Vesel, so there are about half of the dispatchers from the centre. A contingent from the centre would also have a lot of people and professional servicemen in that capacity. That's exactly what Alphilis was after.

"What's up, Alfie? He's very motivated, isn't he?

"Sure, if you endure until reinforcements arrive, you win over there. But..."

Alphilis ignored the exuberant castle soldiers and spoke something to the line next door. Rhine rounded his eyes at first when he heard the words of Alphilis, but he left right off the spot when he heard the subsequent explanation and was convinced.

Alphilis, on the other hand, closed his eyes with his arms on and stood up on the spot. Its grandeur was strangely creepy, and the castle soldiers gradually quieted down. Milnay thought I'd tell him off even the grudges he was banished at that time, but how things went so strangely that he watched Alphilis somehow silently. Neither could Milnay's moral inadvertent firing of arrows against an enemy who showed no will to engage. In that regard, I still had to say that Milnay was sweet. I forget that I am a mercenary. Milnay didn't understand that if he was compelled to do anything, it would be mercenaries.

After a while, the line returns. But now Blackhawk, other mercenaries, and regular soldiers were with him. At last, the soldiers of Weasel were ready to attack the castle, but the Alphilis were all ready for dinner at the same time. The cauldron and the large pot are brought in one after the other, and the rice is made with the work to which I am accustomed. And it came to pass, when the castle soldiers were taken away, that before their eyes the Alphilis began to eat their rice with dignity. It was so luxuriously all-you-can-do that it didn't thread the amount of rice. Some of them even drink alcohol.

Turning them back, Alphilis left them unaltered. Despite the soldiers' exuberance as they picked meals with their mouths, Alphilis' voice was well heard by the castle soldiers.

"... as soon as we pick our meals, we drop the castle. There are some soldiers of our clients here, I will not condone them. Fort Salamo in Clia was thoroughly hit by Vesel, so let me clear my grudges"

"Well, so when this castle falls so easily..."

"It's not a matter of falling or not falling easily. We said" drop "this castle. We're not stopping until we drop this castle today, we're not stopping.

Plus, we have all the Blackhawk crew here. Have you ever heard of a castle they couldn't drop because they were so powerful? You should think about it. "

Milnay blued with a toothpick at the words, and Vesel's soldiers looked at each other. I've certainly never heard of Blackhawk failing to make a request. They were never actively hired as an offense by some faction, but the request has always come through in any desperate situation.

The anxiety began to spread to the soldiers that when that happened, this castle would soon be dropped as well. There Alphilis utters a tone of silence.

"Wait about half an hour until their meal is over. Think carefully of the castles by then, all of them. Fighting us is really a good idea.

If you surrender, don't guarantee your life. "

"... hey, I'm kidding! Who will surrender and surrender? Reinforcements..."

By the time Milnay finishes saying something, Alphilis tells him he's pissed off.

"Reinforcements are not coming. At least in a day or two."

"How did that happen?"

"There are already measures in place. Draw conclusions based on that too - oh, catch the commander there when you surrender. 'Cause if we don't, we won't even be able to put together a story."

"Well, that's the way it goes."

Milnay denied the words of Alphilis, but did realize that some hostility had been directed against him.

And it came to pass, when she saw the hostility, that she had already been reckoned with.

Continued