And so the days unable to depart for war dragged on.
The perplexed state I was in suddenly came to an end.
For Toko san had come all the way from the capital city herself.
“Well, well, gentlemen, that must have been quite a struggle!”
“Toko san!?”
“It seems even Suzuha nii had a hard time with his first war! But no need to worry anymore!! Now that I, the Queen and a great magic-user, have arrived, those pathetic troops will all be reduced to a sea of flames—”
“She’s here! Toko san is here! With her, we can win!”
“Heh…!? Oh, Suzuha nii, you shouldn’t welcome me so enthusiastically. Even I would get embarrassed by such an exaggerated reception—”
“Anyway, Toko san, we’ll be counting on you to hold the fort!”
“—Eh? Wait, Suzuha nii!? What is going on here!?”
At that time, there was no way we could have imagined that Toko san would come barging out of the castle, breathing heavily, saying, “If it’s a large army, then it’s my turn as a magic-user! I also want to repay the debt of you saving my life, even if just a little!”
We had asked Toko san to stay behind and hold the fort, and then marched out feeling upbeat.
5
Of course, the national border was blockaded, but when we showed our sincerity, they gladly let us in.
Specifically, Suzuha and Yuzuriha-san kicked down the stone outpost of the border guards who refused to let us in with a single kick, sending it crumbling.
After that, when Suzuha calmly said, “Shall we do the same to you soldiers of the enemy nation?”, they let us through without incident.
It felt like we’d seen some terrible intimidation,
but then again, since a declaration of war had been issued, it was only a natural warning, not a threat. Probably.
After crossing mountains and forests for several days, we were now looking down on the plain where the enemy soldiers were gathering from atop a cliff.
Before our eyes, an appalling number of soldiers swarmed the plain.
It was quite a spectacular sight.
“Just as Kanade’s information said. It really does look like there are about a million soldiers there.”
“Indeed.”
“Brother, upon observing from here, the soldiers’ equipment seems haphazard. The possibility of them being a hastily assembled force seems high.”
“Look over there. That must be their main camp…about twenty kilometers away from here.”
“Yes.”
The enemy soldiers had gathered, but they didn’t seem to have received the order to march yet.
That said, since there was only a narrow mountain path leading to Margrave Lohengrin’s domain, even if the order was given, they could only move in an orderly fashion.
“There seem to be quite a few supply troops too. But of course, they won’t last until the end of the war.”
“Brother, what are supply troops?”
“They’re the troops that transport food and such. Once they run out, they’ll have to procure supplies locally. In other words, they’re ready to pillage once they cross the border.”
“Brother, you know everything! As expected!”
“Well, you’re supposed to be attending a knight academy, so why don’t you know…?”
When I gave him a stern look, Suzuha seemed puzzled, while Yuzuriha-san quickly averted her gaze.
As the student council president of the Royal Academy for Elite Female Knights, she seemed to have her reasons.
“Hey, more importantly! Do you think our original plan will work?”
“It should be fine.”
Though calling it a ‘plan’ is a bit much – it’s just me charging into the center of the enemy army and causing havoc. Or can we even call that a plan?
Well, the other members do have their roles.
Yuzuriha-san’s role is to prevent Lord Callandor, the enemy’s supreme commander, from escaping.
“By the way, Yuzuriha-san, have you spotted Lord Callandor?”
“I’ve confirmed the presence of him, his son, and his brothers at the very back of the enemy’s main camp. If they attempt to flee, I’ll subdue them without killing them and capture them.”
Suzuha and Kanade’s role is information manipulation.
“Suzuha, Kanade. Can you handle it?”
“No problem at all. We’ll spread the word that it was Brother alone who took down a million soldiers.”
“Information manipulation is a maid’s basic skill.”
“Unyu~”
“…Unyu-ko too.”
Just in case, I brought Unyu-ko along, but she’s already become accustomed to hanging limply like a weird puppy on Kanade’s head. Maybe I overthought this.
“Well then, shall we get started?”
Saying that, I took the twenty-meter-long greatsword Yuzuriha-san handed me and threw it straight into the center of the enemy camp.
“”Wha—!””
Suzuha and Yuzuriha-san gasped, but I paid no heed.
“Let the war begin….”
And with that, I leapt off the cliff towards the enemy.
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6 (Yuzuriha’s Perspective)
Before Yuzuriha’s eyes, a great storm was raging.
Not a natural storm, but an artificial one.
Yet precisely because of that, it ravaged Lord Callandor’s army with an intensity never seen in nature, trampling them into a hellish state.
At the center of the storm was a single young man.
Swinging a greatsword over twenty meters long, he indiscriminately blew away any enemy soldiers within range with sheer physical force – a very embodiment of unreasonableness.
“…As much as I hate to say this after making him do it, isn’t Suzuha-kun’s older brother a bit too…cheat-like? I mean, his combat ability is just off the charts…”
“For the ‘Killing Goddess’ with the nickname you have, Yuzuriha-san, that’s quite something to say.”
“Hey, hey, I’ve never been anywhere near that ridiculously overpowered state!”
“I’m sure Brother thinks the same about himself.”
“if you say so. …… “
Still, Yuzuriha felt there was a vast difference between her own strength and Suzuha’s brother’s – a gulf as large as that between the moon and a potbelly.
“There’s no way I could do that, but maybe you could if you really tried hard, Yuzuriha-san?”
“No way I could either…well, if it was just for five or ten minutes, maybe, but to keep up that windmill-like intensity until a million soldiers are taken down?”
“Yeah, you’ve got a point. And that’s Brother holding back.”
“…Holding back? How so?”
To Yuzuriha’s eyes, he seemed to be spinning at full force,
the blade itself invisible from the sheer speed.
Naturally, a tremendous tornado had formed with Suzuha’s brother at the center, and not a single arrow from the hail of projectiles fired from outside the blade’s range made it through to him, all losing momentum.
“Look closely. I don’t think he’s actually killed a single one of those soldiers.”
“What!?”
“It may not look like it with how dramatically they’re being blown away, but the soldiers sent flying dozens of meters into the air were still twitching when they hit the ground. Probably looking at about three months’ full recovery.”
“How is that even possible!?”
“Most likely—Brother is channeling his secret healing magic through the blade.”
“Ah…!”
“It defies common sense, but then again, it is Brother we’re talking about.”
Yuzuriha was well acquainted with Suzuha’s brother’s healing magic.
After all, it had saved her life countless times.
The power of that healing magic was unbelievably potent.
It had revived her from a near-death state when the right arm of the white-haired vampire impaled her torso, and when a dagger pierced Toko san’s heart.
“I’ve never heard of such a thing…but if it’s Suzuha-kun’s older brother, I suppose it’s possible?”
“No one else could do it, that’s for sure.”
Suzuha’s hypothesis was truly astonishing, but it was the only explanation for the scene unfolding before them.
Yuzuriha confirmed it with her own eyes.
The enemy soldiers who were dramatically blown away were undoubtedly still alive.
Despite half the enemy force – some five hundred thousand soldiers –
being downed, she couldn’t find a single corpse.
As Yuzuriha stood dumbfounded by the overwhelmingly gentle violence,
Suzuha and the maid Kanade had vanished without her noticing.
“Ah…! Right, the plan…!”
Hurriedly focusing her gaze, Yuzuriha noticed that Lord Callandor and his men were clearly getting restless.
Judging from their behavior, she determined it was only a matter of time before they attempted to flee.
It seemed she would have to move soon to ensure not a single one escaped.
“Still, for this to be the fate of those foolish enough to oppose my partner…”
A shudder ran through Yuzuriha’s body as she hurried off to carry out her mission.
*
The battle later known as the Battle of Callandor Plains, named after the location, was over in a mere two hours after it began.
The forces deployed were Lord Callandor’s one million one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred soldiers against Margrave Lohengrin’s a measly four.
Yet the result was a complete victory for Margrave Lohengrin’s forces.
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