This chapter was a pain. Curse your Berserk for giving people false expectations of battles during the middle ages! Quick everyone move to the right! *one week later* NO! They've dodged everyone to the left now! *two weeks later* Yes! Attack! *two minutes later* The battle has ended! We will now wait vigilantly for six months and then go home!
Year 7445, Month 8, Day 8
It was in the middle of April.
The family of the lord of Myuze village even down to the women and children were killed in front of the villagers(Since they're the lord, if they reside there then their assets are confiscated, and unless they're from a considerably influential family a ransom is meaningless. And then, it was just a matter of them not being from an influential family), the remaining living members of the defense unit are employed as workers for the combat engineers and a register is made of them all as war prisoners.
When I tried retorting to sister how Rozural said something like, "The battle itself was suppressed around the end of May" this morning she said "It's just talk while stopping in restaurants on the way back. Since you never know who might be listening, we cover up the things we talk about outside." And then also said, "Make sure you cover it up when you talk about it outside for another six months or so as well. Rozural as well." I wonder if the schedule for a battle that's already ended is really that important of a point? No, I guess it's proof of the training given to the true knights of the first knight group huh?
After that a governor was dispatched and until they finish organizing the troops to occupy the village again they kept Devas in check while keeping an eye on things. The defense army that was believed to be sent by Devas Kingdom to both Myuze and Karuhe villages entered Karuhe village and after that didn't show any sort of movements towards recapturing it, then one month after that while leaving a slightly large defense unit it was confirmed they had started withdrawing. Around almost the same time negotiations for ransom started up.
Those whose ransom was successfully paid were released and then around the end of June the first knight group that sister belongs to started returning in order. The war prisoners whose ransom wasn't paid are pulled along when the second knight group returns to it seems they're still on hold for a short while longer. Supposedly it seems there was a few of the knight ranking who were permitted to be mounted included so I can hold my hopes high. I don't intend to leave the position of head slave to Zulu so easily but there's no guarantee I would be able to confirm an even greater level of loyalty on top of being superior.
It seems that sister who was in the unit on the right-wing only knows the general movements of the Webdos Knight Group that was in the left-wing unit but it seems she wasn't interested in anything other than whether or not there was any damage to the Bakuddo village dispatch unit.
Obviously, she didn't even know about the existence of Kuro and Mary. She sure is a useless sister although it's not like I had told her about them before hand(It might have been fine to mention it before she departed last year but I didn't want to bother sister who's a true knight anymore than needed), so this is nothing more than me making complaints. From the start older brother is familiar with Kuro and Mary and they were in the same left-wing unit so sooner or later I should get information on their end as well.
In any case it's good that sister and the people from Bakuddo village were all safe. I'm a bit worried about Kuro and Mary but since it was an invasion strategy that ended in success against a village the chances of them being taken prison are close to zero. In the first place since Kuro and Mary are both Free People they should still be in their third year as squires. If I were to state my own wishful observations then they'd probably have been deployed in one of the supply units as guards for Webdos knight group and been on the battle field with the feeling of a field trip. No, it's not like I know though.
The casualties for Robert's side this time was about 40 people and about 50 seriously injured. Though I say that there were only about 10 people who suffered injuries serious enough to urgently put their lives in danger and within a few days after the enemy surrendered sister fully healed them it seems. It seems that the largest number of casualties were infantry members of the second knight group that was in the central unit.
In comparison the casualties on Devas side supposedly exceeded 100. The number they captured as prisoners was around 400. Among those over 200 were seriously injured to the point of not being able to move so it's a great victory. It seems they managed to capture around 200 prisoners from their supply units. Since horses and cattle can't easily be used on Orth the number of people in the supply units is considerably high. Of course, it's not as if there are no horses or cattle used for the supply units but obviously they're confiscated.
Since I was able to hear the general summary, I congratulated her on her return once again and excused myself from the first knight group's headquarters.
I returned to my company and while I was killing time playing with Anna and Hanna, Zenom returned carrying various smoked meats. He shared a bit of them with me and I found something unusual. Analogue cheese made from soy. It seems to have the name {Kazotto}. Since bread exists, yeast is known but the yeast for even something like this had been discovered? When I tried eating it, just as expected from something smoked, it had a {smokey} fragrance and was quite literally cheese.
While Miduchi and I were showing admiration for the smoked analogue cheese and it was just as Basutoral and the others returned, after letting him have a bit he started persistently questioning Zenom on where he bought it. It seems he thought of mixing it into the sausages. It seems Basutoral went to buy the pig's bowels to use as sausage casings and a saw. Since the structure of a meat mincer is simple I taught him as far as I could remember but it seems he intends to make one. If you were to draw a design of knives like cross shaped shuriken that revolve around or a plate with lots of holes in it then make a request from a blacksmith they might be able to make it.
The problem is the roll part but I told him if no matter what he can't make it to let me know. It might become practice for the spell {Transmute.Rock.To.Mud} but doing that is really exhausting. I can put in the effort to make the parts for a gun but I'd like to be pardoned from concentrating several hours just for the sake of making the roll for a meat mincer, if you intend to make it into a business then it would be more convenient to have someone else other than me manufacture it as well. But in the end, I feel like I'll have to make the first one.
Around evening we returned to Boil Manor with the three who had reserved seats on the public carriage to Baldukk.
Year 7445, Month 8, Day 10
These greedy fellows.
Something like that is already obvious.
We're just going to take a look at it.
No, just confirming what's going on with the passages.
I guess it's fine if it's just Gwine and I huh?