Chapter 312: …I Want to Know

Training advanced without incident. I sometimes answered the students’ questions, and at the end called out to the students not to break their condition and dismissed.

The students seem looking forward to it. I also said not to forget there is danger.

They probably do not leave the royal capital much. I do not not understand the buoyant feeling.

But if too buoyant and injured or condition broken it is pointless so cautioning is correct.

If saying attention is scattered, one... no three.

I turned my face to the backs of the students leaving the library, and looked at Relia, Tia, and Karinal with a side eye.

At first I thought only Karinal was looking at me, but casually without turning my eyes and peering at the look Relia and Tia also sometimes made hard faces and looked at me.

Maybe because they are princesses they have no pretense of caring about me and do not put it on their faces.

But when I was talking with other students I could confirm a figure looking at me in the edge of vision.

It also looks like a face with a worry... at times like this not oddly suspecting, honestly drawing out is correct.

I called out to the three trying to leave the library. They did not look surprised and smiled.

"Raide instructor. What is it?"

"If a night invitation I will accept."

"..."

"I will have the invitation next chance. More than that. Is there not something you want to ask me?"

Said that the three looked at each other, and started thinking with faces hard to say.

I did not urge words at the three’s look, and just quietly waited for the next words.

Guessed from the three’s expressions. Probably they want to hear about my past.

Adom King had told me beforehand they were investigating about me, but I do not know how far the three are investigating.

Only the possibility of attention scattered affecting the trip I have to avoid no matter what.

With the meaning of if caring please ask directly, I continue quietly waiting for the next words without urging.

After a while the three who had been consulting in a voice I could not hear, koso koso, turned serious faces to me and Karinal opened her mouth.

"A little... there is something I want to ask."

"Mm. Then let us change places. Is the instructor’s room fine? From looking at the look you do not want it heard around much?"

I smiled in a troubled way and spoke. The three quietly nodded. Next I turned my gaze to Erika waiting at the library door.

Erika was tilting her head and looking this way as if wondering. When I thought to approach and explain the situation Merii approached and talked to Erika.

After some conversation Erika who smiled wryly handed something to Merii, lightly waved one hand at me, and walked away.

Merii who came back told me Erika would wait at Fearea dorm.

I said thanks to Merii, took the three, and started walking toward the instructor’s room.

Arriving at the instructor’s room I invited the three in. Merii started preparing tea.

I urged the three to sit on the sofa. Relia and Tia sat. Karinal stood and waited behind the sofa.

Karinal can sit too, I muttered in my heart, smiled wryly, sat on the facing sofa, and spoke.

"So. What do you want to know?"

"That... the 382nd Infantry Unit, what the unit Raide-sama belonged to was doing... I want to know."

Karinal with a sorry expression said in a small voice. Relia and Tia also unusually showed sorry faces.

Karinal aside, Relia and Tia putting feelings on their faces is rare. If that much pent up I ended up thinking they should have asked me sooner.

I rubbed the back of my neck with one hand, let out a small breath, smiled in a troubled way, and spoke.

"You investigated well even to the unit name. For form I want no telling others. Okay?"

"Yes..."

"Thank you. Well... if explaining simply, independent unit is easier to understand."

"Independent unit...?"

To the three making suspicious faces I nodded while smiling wryly, and in reverse asked how far they investigated about me.

The three made sorry faces again, started talking hard to say, and told me potsu potsu.

Talked a little with Dalai and reached the annihilation record. The 382nd Infantry Unit roster has no seal. There are two 382nd Infantry Unit rosters and the first roster has no my name.

And Karinal asked Lord Rod and Lord Elvin, and was told how units are made when the country conscripts, etc. They told me honestly.

"Where to talk from... hard. First the first unit I belonged to was an adventurer-only unit as Lord Rod and Lord Elvin said. No record remaining is for that. You have guessed?"

I nodded back to the nodding three, smiled gently, and told them to hear easily.

If made that sorry the talking me also ends up feeling sorry I told. The three looked at each other and smiled in a troubled way.

"The adventurer unit at that time was annihilated leaving me. The 382nd Infantry Unit that was there also was annihilated as in Cados Count’s annihilation report. Well. Without checking that the captain and Taylor were surviving was unexpected though."

"What happened that the two units were annihilated?"

"Because Cados Count attacked the enemy using ally units as decoys."

"Such..."

I answered the question Relia made as if representing the three. The three were dumbfounded.

Dice Fort at that time was under fierce attack from the enemy country. When we were used as decoys was the worst.

What is strange here is why even the regular unit was used as decoy? I think.

The talk changes a little but among us adventurers there are ones called misses among nobles who take command.

Why miss is simple. Famous for treating adventurer units roughly so miss.

Cados Count is famous as a good noble on the surface, but from us adventurers he was a big miss.

The country is not stupid so attaches a regular unit as monitor, but that was the 382nd Infantry Unit and for Cados Count it was only in the way.

"Cados Count, well did various things. Have you been to the underground prison of Dice Fort?"

"No..."

"Try collapsing the wall. Many who he treated unreasonably will come out. Though as expected I think they have become bones, and now the war is over I do not think the country will dig up on purpose. After all Cados Count received from the country the evaluation that made Dice Fort impregnable."

At the look of the three who fell silent I smiled wryly.

For them who are princesses and guard knights, they probably did not think their own country’s noble was doing such things.

I muddied with the word unreasonable, but actually torture of prisoners with no need, rape of female prisoners, humiliation.

The closed space of the fort, and stress from war, Cados Count and the others were releasing with that.

Of course the country does not recognize such treatment of prisoners, and taboos it.

But it is wartime, and personnel cannot be lost carelessly.

And also done in Cados Count’s territory so the country closed its eyes.

The 382nd Infantry Unit attached for monitoring being annihilated there was no choice but to close eyes is more correct though.

What Cados Count who thought it was as planned miscalculated was delivering the annihilation report even though the captain of the 382nd Infantry Unit and Taylor were surviving.

Thereby the 382nd Infantry Unit came under no one’s command, and could become an independent unit that moves as it likes.

Well. It was thanks to the captain and Taylor’s skill...

No~. It was really hard.

Cannot rest at the fort, and big injuries and cannot move satisfactorily.

What we did first was borrowing wound medicine from the Magic Bags of comrades who had run out of strength.

After that to not assign adventurer units to Dice Fort we contacted the royal castle in secret, went to check the look of adventurer units assigned to miss nobles in other places, on the way helped allies caught in the enemy country’s plots, sometimes rescued without enemy or ally relation, quite stimulating days.

To begin with the captain’s training is too spartan.

True there were many lacking parts in us, but if done poorly it was harder than when fighting.

I finished talking to the three while remembering, smiled with a troubled face, let out a small breath, then said to the three making painful faces.

"A rough explanation, but this is what the 382nd Infantry Unit was doing. Hard things, sad things of course there were, but as I talked before there were fun things too. So I do not want you to make that face."

Relia and Tia lowered their faces. Karinal lowered her face looking hard and frustrated and shook, puru puru.

Maybe timing the end of the talk Merii set tea for the number of people on the table. I turned my face to Merii, smiled, and said thanks.

Merii smiled in a troubled way and slowly shook her head sideways.

I drank a mouthful of the brewed tea, wet my throat, and from the three turned my gaze a little to the ceiling and soaked in memory.

From here I do not mean to talk, but this is what happened when I reincarnated.

When I noticed my whole body hurt and blood was coming out. Maybe because forcibly synchronizing memory and thought and knowledge I was also attacked by intense headache.

And when synchronization ended and I looked around, the corpses of comrades piled... what remains most in my memory is fishing in the comrades’ Magic Bags to borrow wound medicine.

Already... an experience I do not want to do twice...