I Was Sent to an All-Female Frontline Unit to Get Rid of Some of the Trouble, but the Most Beautiful Girls Who Are Rumored to Hate Men Love Me So Much That I Have a Hard Time at Night

Chapter 39: Counterattack (4)

“H-Hey, what was that just now…!?”

“An explosion…!?”

“That was an incredible magic power!!”

While the soldiers of the Granzenia Kingdom Army, standing a little away with the brown-haired man, shouted in surprise, the smoke from the explosion cleared.

I saw the brown-haired man, badly damaged, lying on the ground.

“D-damn it… W-what is going on… You’re supposed to be a non-combatant, so why can you use that kind of magic…?”

“…Non-combatant?”

I felt confused by the man’s words, which sounded like he was trying to stand but couldn’t.

What did he mean by non-combatant?

I didn’t understand well, but I spoke exactly what I was thinking.

“I’m not a non-combatant. I am a trainee of the Luvankrum Empire’s military.”

“W-what…? A trainee…!?”

“Yes.”

When I answered, the man, breathing hard, spoke strongly.

“D-don’t lie so obviously! We already checked that in recent battles, you were protected by Elena Endyheart and the other women right there! Or do you mean the Luvankrum Empire’s strongest forces just protect some trainee? That can’t be true!”

“…That’s correct.”

The strongest force of the Luvankrum Empire’s military.

The strongest unit of the Luvankrum Empire’s military.

For such people to be so kind to me, just a trainee, is normally impossible.

“But… they are all very kind, so they treat someone like me kindly— and I want to become a person who can protect those people.”

“Ugh… hahaha! You want to protect your comrades? Haha! Don’t make me laugh!”

Maybe he recovered just a little during the conversation.

The brown-haired man got on his knees, caught his breath, and laughed.

“I’ll teach you something special since you’re still a trainee. Soldiers win if they survive, no matter how many comrades get hurt! Caring about comrades is useless!”

“That’s wrong! Soldiers fight for something important or something they want to protect! I will keep believing that and live as a soldier!”

Just like everyone in this front-line unit fights thinking about each other.

When I said that, imagining all of them,

“…You’ll keep believing that?”

The brown-haired man muttered, smiling bitterly.

“You won’t have a future! Forget one-on-one fights!! Hey! You all!! Attack this kid together and show him reality!! Hahaha!! This is the end!! Now I will crush your comrades!! Even if you watch from the afterlife, you’ll regret your weakness as your precious comrades are destroyed—”

Before he finished speaking,

“Spiral Whirlwind Spear, Spiral Lance!”

I felt very strong magic power from where Elena was a little away.

When I looked there—

“Guaaaaahhh!”

“Gwaaahhh!!”

“D-defensive magic—ugh!”

“It pierces—ahhh!”

There, Elena’s Flame Lance, Water Lance, Frost Lance, and Lightning Lance spun like a spiral.

About a hundred enemy soldiers near there fell to the ground in an instant.

“E-Elena…!”

I was amazed at her quick decision and powerful magic.

Elena looked at me and winked once.

“Thank you!”

Now, only the brown-haired man in front of me was left.

When I faced him again, he turned pale and said,

“N-no way! A hundred, just like that, in an instant…!?”

When I was at magic school and the military base,

I heard many times that the strongest force of the Luvankrum Empire’s military had incredible talent.

I’ve watched Elena, Sephia, and Norn fight so far, and I believe they have that talent.

But after meeting them directly, I felt all three and the whole strongest front-line unit shared this:

They all cared for their comrades in the same unit and worked hard in training, wanting to protect them.

I want to become like that too and someday be their strength—when I thought that,

“Now, the plan changes, but if I can beat the two who made fun of me, it doesn’t matter!! You all!! The fifty soldiers must have decreased by now! Stop holding them off and come to me! Then, defeat these two—”

He said this and turned back to the battlefield, which was supposed to be three thousand versus fifty.

“Charm, deadly poison Venom!”

“Uwaaaaaahhh!!”

“Y-you too!? We are allies!”

“Men other than Finn are beasts wearing human skin, so words won’t work, right? Of course, not you either—Charm!”

Norn overwhelmed the enemy soldiers.

And, of course—

“Frost Rain!”

“I-it’s freezing rain—aaaahhh!!”

“Guaaahhh!!”

“Gwaaahhh!!”

The others also fought together as I had seen earlier…

Before I noticed, the enemy soldiers were reduced to several hundred.

Still, these several hundred were surrounded by the others, so this battlefield was almost won.

When I thought so, the brown-haired man shouted loudly.

“Y-you must be kidding!! We have three thousand! Three thousand losing to just fifty…? I can’t accept that!!”

He shouted, barely stood up, stumbled, faced me, and said with a twisted expression.

“The forest was destroyed, so the view to the Luvankrum Empire’s front-line base got better. We found the non-combatants; everything should have been perfect!! So why… damn it, why did this happen!?”

“The forest… Do you mean the forest I destroyed there?”

“Ah! Yes! Recently destroyed forest, there is only that one here—wait…? Did you just say you destroyed it?”

“Yes.”

I nodded and answered, and the man stepped back two steps, turning pale.

“T-that huge, powerful magic… That magic is yours!?”

“Yes.”

Then, the man stopped moving with his mouth open.

But after a while, breathing hard, his face turned angry like he lost his mind, and loudly to me,

“Aaahhhhhhh!! Everything… everything is your fault!! Die here!!”

He said that and charged at me with a fist.

In that moment, I closed my eyes once.

And I remembered what the man in front of me said earlier.