episode_0305

The soldier wearing the armband shouted in an extremely urgent voice, as if appealing.

“There is news that the Serpina Army is advancing towards the Balharat Castle with 198,000 troops!”

what……?

There’s no way the Serpina Army will come.

Well, Hernando and Emma are doing their best to stop us… … ?

“What are you talking about! There’s no way they can invade us! Can’t you explain it clearly?!”

“Ma, it is as I said! How could I, how could I lie in front of your Majesty… … !”

“Go to Epinel.”

Yuuri said that.

“At times like this, we need to appease Emma and Hernando’s spirits even more. Don’t you know that they protected us? Don’t worry about it. We’ll win. So, instead of doing that here, go talk to Epinel about defense.”

He turned his head, closed his eyes again, and began to pray.

Perhaps Serpina also thought that she couldn’t continue to waste time like this, so she mobilized her troops and invaded.

But at least in Yuuri’s opinion, it couldn’t have been a truly wrong judgment. No, maybe it was Emma and Hernando who caused this situation!

Yes, the altar was also expanded enormously. All the money that could be spent was spent. The more it was expanded, the more the soldiers of Serpina’s army retreated before they could even form a front line, and as news came in, Yuuri became more and more confident.

That we are making the right choice now!

After we drive out Serpina’s army, let’s prepare for war again. If we succeed in securing the forces before the plague, we will fight Serpina once more. It’s okay if we have a wizard. We have Emma and Hernando, who always watch over us from above!

You stupid bitch. Our enemy, the enemy of the Academy. I will kill you with these hands, for the sake of Emma and Hernando, and for the sake of everyone who died before you… … !!

――Even at this moment, Yuuri’s faith was blind.

She wasn’t this foolish from the beginning.

However, due to a series of ‘wrong choices’, he lost the wizard, lost an excellent strategist, lost all his troops to a plague, lost two of his beloved friends, and the enemy who killed his friends was murdered by another woman who was like an enemy.

For an ordinary person, this is a result that has continued to make them crazy more than ten times.

Was it because he kept failing like that? At some point, Yuuri lost the smart side he used to have?

It wasn’t just that – right now, if she didn’t unilaterally believe in something, it would be difficult for her to even stand on her own two feet.

In fact, after barely surviving the war with the Chel Army and returning home, she had not been able to properly take care of her affairs. The only reason she was able to gain the strength to do something again was because her comrades who had died because of her wrong choices gave her a chance to repent.

And surprisingly enough-

From the moment I started to appease the souls of my colleagues who came out of my dream, miracles were happening!

How should I explain this? It feels like the magician who had already disappeared from my hands has returned to me! It feels like I am creating a miracle that no other scribe could do, with my own hands!

Yuuri felt that he was coming back to life. That was why he was obsessed. He firmly believed and believed that this was the only answer.

That’s why I close my eyes, block my ears, and communicate only with the dead.

‘Emma, Hernando. Just lend me a little more strength. Hold the heavenly path that will save us. Please. Please… … !!!!!!’

Please, please, please… …

Because I was dead, I could never reach that wish, so I just kept praying and praying.

* * *

That’s how, at that moment when Lord Yuuri continued to pray at the altar-

In the audience room, Epinel, who was leading the state affairs on her behalf, was talking to a soldier with a serious expression on his face.

“I’m sorry, but I’d like to ask for one more general briefing.”

“Yes! I will tell you again and again.”

The soldier wearing the armband regained some of his composure and then calmly reported the current situation to her again.

“The commander is Irene Juliette, and the deputy commander is Irian Al Kaski. The total force is estimated at 198,000… …but I have heard from some scouts that there is a rearguard.”

“The second wave?”

“Yes, that’s right. The information is that the troops themselves are coming in divided. And they seem to be coming in a strange formation. I heard that they are advancing while controlling every single step.”

‘What? Are you wary of what’s happened so far?’

In fact, no other reason came to mind.

So, does Serpina have some idea how our military is communicating with the sky?

There was Swen there too, so it wasn’t strange that he figured out the principle.

“What about siege weapons?”

“That… …looks like it wasn’t prepared at all.”

“What?”

“Really. I don’t know the exact reason, but… … .”

There must be a reason for every action.

So, there must be a clear reason for not preparing weapons, building a strange formation, and deliberately dismembering the troops and advancing one after another.

“… … Okay, I understand. What about Anima?”

That day, after my last conversation with Anima-

She was forced to stay in a separate room for a while, putting aside her love affairs.

If he wanted to stop her, he could have stopped her as many times as he wanted – but Epinel was hoping that this would be an opportunity for Anima to cool her head.

Because it was not difficult to see that Yuuri would not accept her claim in the current situation.

“That’s… …I went to tell you the news, but you were out of the office.”

“What? Where did you go?”

“I know that too… … .”

I wondered if she had to be away at this particular time, but when I thought about it calmly, it didn’t change the fact that just because she was there, there was no way to come up with a good solution.

“Okay. First, put a soldier around and tell Anima this news as soon as she returns. I’ll prepare for battle right away. ”

“Yes, I understand! Are you staging a sit-in?”

“No.”

“Then… … ?”

Epinel is lost in thought for a long time.

I have to do it here.

Yuuri is already late, and Anima has left. If I’m going to do something, I have to do it myself, with my own hands.

There must be a compelling reason.

In Serpina’s military travels… …there must be some part that I have not noticed.

… … Within, Epinel spoke with a solemn tone, his eyes shining.

“It’s a surprise attack. We predict the enemy’s position and launch a surprise attack on their waist. ”

* * *

Epinel led the bulk of his available forces and positioned himself midway along the line of advance, laying an ambush.

‘I’m not sure, but… … The fact that they’re deliberately dividing the soldiers and forming a formation is likely a means to block communication with the heavens. If that’s the case, then I’ll just destroy it… … !’

At first glance, the inference seemed valid, since the miracle that had seemed to bring salvation every time at such moments did not occur.

It will probably go as planned. I can’t imagine that they would choose a surprise attack instead of a siege with less than half the enemy’s total force.

In a normal situation, even if a surprise attack succeeded, the battle situation would not have changed. Even if it had succeeded, it would only have disrupted the enemy’s formation, and there would have been no way to reverse the difference in troop strength.

‘If I can somehow manage to confuse the Serpina Army, I will be able to communicate with the heavens again and create a miracle!’

I knew that this was a ridiculous inference if I thought about it calmly.

Even so, the miracles that Epinel witnessed actually occurred before his eyes.

Serpina’s behavior is such that she never does anything useless.

The existence of a ‘wizard’ who has already appeared on the continent.

Swen, a man with a history of performing miracles through communication with the heavens.

Incomprehensible behaviors such as not preparing weapons while conducting a siege, maintaining meaningless distances, and focusing on unnecessary order.

All those obvious ‘facts’ were pointing in only one direction.

Then, even if it doesn’t make sense, isn’t that the right answer?

But unfortunately――

Waaa …

“What, what is it?!”

This is not the shout of our allies. This is… … !!

“Eww!”

“The enemy! It’s the enemy!”

A hail of arrows was raining down on the ambush-stricken friendly forces.

‘You noticed the ambush?! Why?’

That can’t be true.

If she had noticed the ambush from the beginning and sent troops this way, wouldn’t the formation she had established and the gaps between the soldiers just collapse?

Then, a miracle should happen?

No matter how much Epinel reasoned in his head based on the idea that ‘when all possibilities are excluded, the only thing that remains is the correct answer, no matter how inexplicable it may be,’ the formula did not apply.

――Unfortunately, her intelligence wasn’t 100.

* * *

Turn the clock back –

“We use their gaze in reverse. With that, we can arrive at the ‘most efficient’ method. ”

“Using the gaze in reverse? What does that mean?”

I smiled at Serpina’s words and said:

“That is, you just have to show them a miracle.”

“A miracle?”

“Yes. A clear miracle that cannot be explained by logic, stopping the Serpina Army.”

I said so and smiled at Serpina.

A smile more shameless and confident than ever.

“With that, the Aesir Army will self-destruct.”