Chapter 139 – NTO-001
Netoru, who was sitting and leaning next to Karen, suddenly looked at the outer wall on the other side, which had been broken in the aftermath of the previous battle.
Through the broken outer wall, he could see the outside.
The night is getting deeper.
I don’t have a watch, so I don’t know how much time has passed, but it’s difficult to stay outside the unit like this.
Everyone else must have noticed by now that there was a commotion in Karen’s room.
Broken door. Messy room. Of course, no one would be embarrassed to see it.
Besides, tomorrow is sortie day. By now, Rien must be groaning alone, thinking hard about what to do with this situation.
But that didn’t mean I couldn’t force Karen to go back to the unit right away.
Turn her head to the side.
“·······”
Karen, who has been closely attached to the four Toru since before her,
He buried her face in her lap and was sobbing. Karen’s incessant crying had been going on for several minutes.
Was Karen such a tearful child? The Karen Netoru knew was always a girl with a bold personality.
But what about now? It looked like it was broken, like one of her gears was missing. Seeing that pitiful appearance, Netoru managed to swallow a heavy sigh.
Netoru doesn’t know exactly what happened between Karen and Natsuo.
She carefully asked what had happened, but Karen gave no answer. She said she didn’t want to talk
But···. Considering Karen’s outfit, which was so disheveled that her underwear was exposed when she first found it…
Could it be that Natsuo was trying to rape Karen?
If that’s the case, she understands Karen’s inability to speak her language to some degree. It wouldn’t be easy for her to say that she was raped from a woman’s point of view.
Even Karen’s neck still had a handprint that was supposed to be Natsuo’s.
What the hell was Natsuo thinking when he did this?
Moreover, it is not in the bag. If Netoru doesn’t find Karen’s room just in time, even if she succeeds in raping her, she has no choice but to be found out by others due to her location.
Or did she even have something to stop her from raping Karen?
·····As of now, we do not know the answer.
Netoru looked back at Natsuo. Currently, Natsuo is lying on the floor in a state of fainting. In my heart, I wanted to bind his limbs with something hard so he couldn’t move, but there was nothing useful.
I thought about tying her up with clothes, but considering the pain that came from the area where Natsuo had hit her, if I tried to tie her hands and legs, I would break them with my strength.
“Netoru…”
Then Karen, who had been whimpering next to her, pulled Netoru by the hem and called out his name. She also lifted her head, which had been buried in her lap before she knew it.
Perhaps because she was crying all the time, Karen’s black eyes were shaking pitifully when her eyes met.
A silent, unspoken request.
“Ah···. Sorry.”
At Karen’s request, which she felt in her eyes, Netoru smiled bitterly at her and stretched out her hand again.
Netoru’s hand soon landed gently on Karen’s head.
“Huh···. Keep petting me like that…”
As he stroked her hair, Karen again buried her face between her knees.
At first, she felt sorry for her barely holding back her cries, so she carelessly stroked her hair.
But Karen seemed to like it quite a bit. She had been like this ever since.
“…By the way, Karen. How long do I have to do this?”
“Until I am satisfied.”
It’s an odd request. But when the girl with tears in her eyes asked her, she couldn’t refuse.
Leaving aside the coupling partner, what should I say about this…
It just felt like taking care of a normal little girl. Well, in a way, I don’t think there’s much difference between her.
How long have you been like that?
Dark night. Karen, whose whimpers had finally begun to subside, spoke her words in a despondent voice.
“…Have Netoru ever been betrayed by someone?”
“Betrayal···?”
“Huh···.”
“·······”
Betrayal… Netoru closed her eyes and thought. Not a very welcome word. Netoru, who had been lost in thought for a long time, replied in a dry voice.
“Well. I’ve never been hurt, but I’ve never been the other way around.”
“······What?”
Was it something she hadn’t thought of? Karen raised her head, and she looked at Netoru with surprised eyes.
Perhaps because she was crying all the time, her bunny-red eyes blinked several times in confusion.
Maybe this wasn’t the answer Karen was looking for. Because she had just been betrayed by someone she trusted.
“… What are you talking about?”
“Have you heard of it before? The story that I was in the 1st Independent Task Force.”
“Huh···. Know···.”
“I betrayed the members of the 1st Task Force’s last mission.”
“…You betrayed the unit members?”
At Toru’s words, Karen pursed her lips. She had to say something, but she didn’t know what to say.
At that moment, what Berléans had said before crossed Karen’s mind. Yes, Toru said she was the sole survivor of the 1st Independent Mobile Unit.
······The sole survivor.
It’s obvious, but it’s not a light name. The unit was wiped out, but he came back alive alone.
But to be able to betray the members of the unit on such a last mission… Of course, only negative thoughts come to mind rather than positive ones.
Did he betray his unit members in a dangerous situation?
So did you survive alone? So······.
With so many thoughts running through my head.
Karen, who had been staring blankly at Netoru’s face for a while, made a determined face. Karen said she wanted to know about Tohru. Come to think of it, she knew very little about this guy.
And above all else, the Netoru Karen knew was never the kind of person who would go behind others.
“…Netoru. Tell me what you did.”
“Isn’t that a very interesting story?”
“But, tell me.”
Karen tugged hard at the hem of her dress. Like she wouldn’t let go unless she let herself know.
Now, this is a very old story. Netoru smiled bitterly as he recalled the memory of that day.
I hope I will tell someone about this.
But she wondered if she would be okay with Karen.
If it’s the Karen that Tohru knows, she won’t brag about it.
* * *
Soon the sun is setting. A long time passed. We had to move before the sky darkened.
However, the 1st Independent Task Force was unable to move.
It was because there was a platoon that hadn’t arrived yet.
Standing on the cliff, the troops stared blankly at the end of the horizon. Hoping for someone to appear on the other side where the sunset is setting.
But in the end, none of them showed up. All you can see is the roaring fire in the aftermath of the battle in the distance.
Black ash rises up into the sky in smoke. The darker the sky, the more intense the light produced by the flames. With time, the flames gradually grew in size.
. . . And there are members of the unit who have not returned.
“Leader···. Give up now. No matter how you look at it, it seems like the 3rd and 4th platoons have been wiped out. You couldn’t even contact me in the first place?”
“······Know. But I don’t know if it is. “
Task Force 1’s mission was to kill the queen hiding in the nest.
Of course, it was not an easy task. Rather, a heinous mission with a high probability of failure. The responding unit was also not suitable, so there were only bad conditions.
But in the end, the queen died.
The 1st Independent Task Force managed to break through the bugs’ defenses and infiltrate the nest, decapitating her queen without the aid of a commander.
However, as a result, the damage to the unit was enormous. More than half of the troops died. Considering that all of them were veteran pilots with great skills, I could see how dangerous this mission was.
Is that why? The mission was successful, but it was hard to find anyone happy among them.
It was only natural that many of the unit members who had shared the joys and sorrows of the past few years had died.
The other platoons that succeeded in joining were also in poor condition.
There was even a platoon where the platoon commander died and only the youngest couple in the platoon managed to return.
…I won’t go into detail.
He probably survived because he was the youngest member of the platoon. Considering the disposition of the platoon commander and the members of that platoon, it is not difficult to guess.
Really. It’s a mess.
Netoru looked up at him, feeling his tired spirit. He seemed to be feeling better now, but suddenly the nape of his neck started to feel hot, as if it had been burned.
Netoru looked at the genital soldier he was controlling.
The side part of the armor protecting the cockpit was broken, and the interior was clearly visible. It was because of the bullet.
I was really lucky. If I made a mistake, I could have exploded right in the cockpit.
Anyone could see that the holy cavalry that Netoru was piloting was currently incapacitated. Not just the cockpit. The left arm of the genital cavalryman was torn so badly that no trace of it could be found, and the holy blood was flowing, and his leg was half broken and dragged here.
In terms of a human, his limbs were completely destroyed. It’s a miracle that he somehow managed to get here.
Maybe···. From now on, you will have to move together while being ridden by another person’s sexual cavalry. If I dragged something like that, it was obvious that it would only get in the way of movement.
“Leader. What are you going to do now?”
“…How to do it. Now we have to cross the border of the Holy Empire. Anyway, there is no hope here anymore.”
“Are you really going to be okay? I might not be able to come back.”
“Then let me die with this country? In that case, it’s better for us to escape on our own. Wouldn’t it be better to fight where there is hope?”
“Hope… Are the rumors really true? Can you really believe that?”
“I don’t know···. But you have to believe it…”
The captain, who was slurring his words, murmured.
──That bastard’s hero.
And then it was.
“Captain. I have something to tell you.”
Netoru, who had been quietly thinking for a while, opened his mouth.
Hearing that voice, the captain looked back,
Netoru said while staring at her face clearly.
“I don’t think I can go.”
