CH 66

Forced rescue operation

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Perhaps because he was suddenly called by Camilla, Levic looks pale.

He went in front of Camilla's desk, where Rondal left and was vacant, in an upright and immovable posture, and asked.

"Camilla-sama, you called for me?"

"Yes, I called you because I have something for you to do, but well, don't be so nervous ..."

With a smile on Camilla's face, it looks like Levic's shoulders drooped.

"So what do you need me for?"

"Yes, I was asked to hear the story about the actual battle the other day, sorry I know you're busy."

"N, no, it's not a problem, please ask me anything."

I don't know if this knight named Levic was the ringleader, but there is no doubt that he is at least a party to reporting lies to Camilla.

Perhaps because of that, when he was told to talk about the actual battle again, his facial expression seemed to be strong.

"That's right ... First of all, can you talk again about encountering the orc mages?"

"Yes, it was a while after lunch break was over and we started exploring in the afternoon ..."

Levic talked about how the slaves were wiped out, and they felt danger and withdrew, with occasional memory-seeking gestures.

Of course, this story was all fake, and in fact we used sleeping pills to put them to sleep and rescued my classmates in the meantime.

But Levic tells as if it really happened.

Camilla occasionally asked questions and nodded many times to praise him for responding flexibly to the crisis.

Rondal's complexion looking at Cmailla is gradually turning pale.

"I see, not only more than 20 orc mages, but at least 10 more orc mages set up a pincer attack."

"Yes, if it were only the first twenty, we could have commanded and the slaves could have annihilated them, but we were confused at being struck from behind ... sorry."

"No, even though you were in such a situation, you didn't make any sacrifices, so Levic, your skill is great."

"I'm sorry ... but I'm sorry to say that it's painful to receive your praise because I let the slaves be annhiliated ..."

"Well ... but the value of life is different between slaves and you knights. Remember that it is in the interest of Resenburg that all of you return safely."

"Yes, I'll keep it in mind."

Camilla changed the topic of the conversation a bit while looking at Levic, who bows his head in a stern posture, as if he had a stick on his back.

"By the way, Levic, the fifty slaves you brought, were they all eaten?"

"You're saying, was there a survivor ...?"

"Yes, it seems that you were also forced into a confused situation, so maybe you haven't confirmed the deaths of all of them?"

"That ... that ..."

It seems that Levic's head got lost when he came here.

It seems that they decided a story where everyone died in a back-to-back conversation with his companions, but when he thought about whether he could confirm the death of everyone in the situation where they were caught by orc mages, he was wondering how best to answer.

"Levic, it was a confusing situation with a pincer, even if you couldn't confirm everyone's death, it can't be helped ... how was it?"

"Hmm, I'm sorry, we were caught in a confusing situation and I'm not sure if the fifty people were all preyed on."

Upon hearing Levic's words, Camilla nodded strongly, and Rondal sighed involuntarily.

"Camilla-sama, excuse me, why is Rondal present?"

"Yes, why is Rondal present ..."

When Camilla explained why, Levic opened his eyes and glared at Rondal.

"Levic, don't think you were scorned by Rondal!"

"Camilla-sama, but ..."

"The number one reason Rondal questioned your report was that he was suspicious of the behavior of those training in the annex. So what we should think about now. What is it?"

"Is that ... the survivor of the fifty ...?"

Camilla nodded with satisfaction at Levic's answer.

"Yes, if they were to come back alive from the Devil's Forest and look for opportunities, it would surely be an obstacle to us. What should we do?"

"Confirm their whereabouts? And then lure and arrest them?"

"Lenient! That's too lenient, Levic, the remnants will be annihilated as soon as they are found!"

"Hii! I'm sorry!"

Camilla also summoned Rondal to the front of the desk and ordered the two in line.

"Okay, if they survive, it's the slave's duty to appear immediately and return to the original squad. It's outrageous to escape and rebel against us. Get rid of them!"

"Yes!"

"The problem is how to get rid of all of them. Even if one person is kept alive, they may become the downfall of Resenburg in the future ..."

"Camilla-sama, I think it's better to lure them out all at once."

Rondal began to talk about his theory to Camilla who was thinking.

That aside, this may also be a strategy Gert was thinking of.

"Currently, we do not know the whereabouts of the surviving slaves. Then, in order to avoid the risk of missing them, I think we should search for the whereabouts and the number of survivors, and then annihilate them all together."

"Well, surely the first thing to do is to understand the current situation. Then Rondal, did you forget anything?"

"Huh? What are you saying ...?"

"The youngest teacher you noticed. Shut him down. You can blame him, pull out all the information he has!"

"Yes! I understand!"

"Levic, go and see, and as soon as you get the information, make a subjugation plan and report it!"

"Yes! I understand!"

"It doesn't matter if you make a false report if you dispose of all the remnants, it's fine!"

"Yes! I'll get on it right away!"

Rondal and Levic, who salute Camilla, both look at each other.

"Hmm? What's wrong ... What's this drowsiness ..."

"Camilla-sama, this is ..."

"This is the mysterious thing from at that time ..."

Camilla, who was skeptical, sank her upper body to the desk, and both Rondal and Levic fell to the floor as if they were collapsing.

[ The operation has started, Kent-sama. ]

[ Yeah, Furudate-sensei will not be able to tolerate much torture, so let's start all at once rather than have the plan come out! ]

[ Roger that! ]

Before Camilla and the others moved, I decided to move first.

The three of them were given sleeping pills, so they shouldn't wake up for a while.

Then the secretary who heard the noise and the knight who was guarding the door were put to sleep, pulled into the office and locked the door.

I tied the limbs of the ones who were asleep just in case.

I moved with Zae and the others to the teachers and tried to put the three knights to sleep and rescue them, but there was a problem here as well.

"Hey, you guys, what's wrong, hey, be firm!"

The two knights slept lightly, but Gert didn't fall asleep.

Apparently, he had an irregular night shift yesterday, so maybe ht took something like a smelling drug to keep him awake during today's work.

[ My King, should I annihilate him? ]

[ No, call Fred quickly. ]

Gert ran towards the building, laying his fallen companions on the ground.

The other knights may wake up if medicine is used.

[ Kent-sama ... what is it? ]

[ Fred, it didn't work on Gert, can you somehow incapacitate him without killing him? ]

[ OK ... leave it to me ... ]

At the same time as I asked Fred, Gert ran out of the building.

As Fred came out of the shadows to greet him, Gert stopped.

"A black skeleton ... who is it!"

Gert put the parcel he was holding on the ground, and while pulling out his sword, asked who Fred was.

Of course Fred couldn't answer aloud, so instead he pulled out his jet-black twin swords and held them, and Gert changed his grip on his sword.

"Gert Stahl, belonging to the 4th knights order of Resenburg ... Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my body, return, return, return and become my power, strengthen! Come on!"

Perhaps he realized that Fred wasn't an ordinary enemy, Gert proudly declared his name, chanted physical strengthening, and rushed in.

From his serious of actions, Gert rushed quickly as he looked like a serious and capable knight, and for a moment it seemed as if Fred had been cut.

However, it was only Fred's afterimage that seemed to be cut, and Gert was easily knocked down by a sword handle dropped on the back of his head.

Fred quickly and tightly tied him up, squeezed him into the second floor of the building and locked it.

"Teachers! We were noticed by Resenburg, so I moved the operation forward, we'll escape! Zae get the carriages ready!"

When Gert collapsed, I went and called the teachers to the warehouse.

"Kokubu, they noticed ..."

"It means that Furudate-sensei was too noticeable, so get on quickly. Oda-sensei, please sit on the coachman's stand and pretend to be manipulating Zae. The other teachers sit inside the cover so that they cannot be seen. Please hide."

Since we're running in the city during daytime, it is unavoidable that Zae will stand out, and if there is a person who is manipulating it, it should be considered as a tamed monster.

Fred opened the gate while preparing the carriage.

"Zae, you know the way, right?"

"Don't worry, My King."

"Then, bring the teachers to the garrison and I'll go back and guide my classmates."

"I understand."

"Fred, let's go back!"

Leaving the teachers to Zae, Fred and I returned to the garrison.

Art and the others are giving sleeping pills to the knights, but the garrison was in turmoil.

"Hey, what's going on, why are they sleeping?"

"Hey, what are you guys doing ... uh ... what ..."

"Wow, this is ... Hey, isn't it dangerous?"

"Isn't it better to run away?"

"Stupid, where would you run away to ..."

If this happens, I don't care about the order.

I went out and called out loud.

"Everyone, gather at the training ground for each class and hurry up!"

"Oh, Kokubu, you were alive!"

"Where did this ghost come from?"

"I'm not a ghost, the first five and the latter fifty are all alive. Everyone hurry up and get together!"

"Hey ... yeah, he's gone ..."

After calling on everyone to meet, I moved to the examination room.

I gave Erna a sleeping pill and caught her as she collapsed, and called out to the chairman.

"Yuika, the schedule has changed, let's go!"

"Kent! Kent, Kent!"

The chairman left the obaa-san she was treating, and hugged me.

"The situation has changed, so we're going now."

"Understood, I'm always ready!"

[ Kent-sama ... put the knight on the table to sleep ... ]

Hearing Fred's news, I hold the chairman's hand, jump out of the examination room and run to the training ground.

"Ah, Saint-sama ..."

"That kind of thing ... what's going on ..."

It's bad for the people of the city who rely on the chairman, but I'll get her back, because the chairman is my chairman.

My classmates began to gather one after another at the training ground.

Tsuo and the others who pulled out the carriages from the direction of the warehouse approached as well.

"Wow, it's a monster! There's a monster!"

"It's bad, mages, anyone who can use magic, shoot."

"Wait! Those lizardmen are on our side, so don't shoot!"

Tsuo and the others who heard my voice also stopped and did a knight's salute, so it ended without becoming a panic.

"These lizardmen, the black kobolds, and the metallic skeletons are my genus, so don't worry, they're allies!"

I let everyone know by yelling, which seems to be the loudest I've ever yelled.

"We will prepare six carriages, so everyone group up by class so that we can ride smoothly!"

The knights fell asleep around the training ground, and my classmates were still confused because they could not grasp the situation.

From the entrance of the garrison, the carriage pulled by Zae came in.

"Teachers, hurry up, this is the list of students left in each class and a pen, match them up and leave when you get confirmation."

I handed the lists to the teachers and asked them to check that no one was left behind.

[ Kent-sama, we have completed securing the drawbridge. Anytime is OK. ]

[ Thank you, Basten, please handle the carriage now. ]

"Wafu, Kent-sama, all the knights who were patrolling have fallen asleep."

"Thank you, Art, keep an eye out for the rest of the knights."

The plan has changed significantly from what was originally planned, but thanks to the efforts of all the members of my genus, I feel that things are going well so far.

However, my anxiety has been squeezing me this whole time, my back is sweaty and my stomach is tied in knots.

"Kokubu, all three groups are ready."

"I have two sets."

"Start from the same class, cross the drawbridge for the time being and move to the entrance of the forest."

"Okay, we'll go ahead."

The carriages started to move one by one, and cheers came from inside.

"Wow ... I'm free, I'm free!"

"I did it, I thought I'd die!"

"Ugyaaaaa! I did it!"

The bridge is just a stone's throw away, but it would be great if the people in the city who came to the medical office were watching with anxious expressions, and if possible, be quiet ... that's impossible.

When I hear everyone's happy voices, I feel that the results of my efforts will take shape, and I feel like screaming.

I can't deny that I was alert in such a situation, but I couldn't react at all to the shock that suddenly struck from my back.

"Eh ...?"

A blood-stained sword grows from my stomach.

Recognizing that it was a sword, as soon as I found out I was stabbed, a burning pain pierced the heavens, and blood overflowing from the wound flowed from my abdomen to my left thigh and fell.

"Ahhhhh ..."

"You're the mastermind you bastard, serves you right, don't look down on Resenburg."

When I turned around, the knight who I thought had fallen asleep raised his upper body and thrust a sword at my back.

The face is familiar to me, Paul, who used to beat up Funayama with a wooden stick.

"It's impossible for me to suddenly fall asleep and leak and wet myself ... I thought there was something wrong with it. So I tried carrying medicine I was aware of, it went as I expected ..."

At the mage's training ground, I put a sleeping pill to stop the girls from being beaten, but I didn't think he was such a smart guy.

"Igiiii ... gafu, gefu, gefu ..."

As the sword was pulled out slowly by Paul, something warm flowed in the back of my throat.

When I cough it out of my throat, bright red droplets scattered.

I shouldn't forget my original intention, but I don't want to remember the pain of being eaten by goblins.

I couldn't stand and collapsed on my knees.

[ Bastard, I won't forgive you! ]

I saw Reinhardt swinging up his beloved sword Gram with an angry expression.

"No! Gaha ... Don't kill him! Gofu, Gobu ..."

[ Guuuu ... ]

Reinhardt clenched his teeth so hard that I thought his back teeth would break.

Paul, who has a jet-black sword swung down to his face, falls on his backside and leaks from just the wind pressure.

"Fred ... tie him up, go ... put him somewhere ..."

"What are you going to do you bastard, are you being compassionate? Don't screw with me, kill me!"

Fred moved in front of the screaming Paul and made him faint, and then he quickly tied him up, and carried him into the warehouse.

I put my hands on the wound on my back and abdomen and applied self-healing so the blood stopped immediately, but I felt like I was deprived of my physical strength.

[ Reinhardt ... Lend me a hand ... help me up ... ]

Reinhardt silently held me up.

Fortunately, my classmates were obsessed with getting into the carriages and didn't seem to notice this turmoil.

When I saw the sixth carriage start moving, my consciousness began to grow cloudy.

When I saw Ayako-sensei running in a panic and half-crying, while my consciousness began to grow cloudy. I was so weak that I thought I would depart for heaven as it was.

I instructed Mart and the others to carry Ayako-sensei to a nearby carriage, and I let go of my consciousness.