Chapter 65 – 6. Bruhlin Sniper Battle (5)
It’s dark.
The only thing that greets me in the pitch-black ward of the power-down ward is an emergency light composed of magic power. But if it’s not popular, it’s not like that again. You can hear it if you concentrate your mind and sharpen your senses. A voice groaning in fear and struggling in pain.
― Julich Renner and 15 of his subordinates report to the authorities.
There were sixteen gunners in all of Matan. They don’t put up sentries for sniping. The structure of Brulin Express General Hospital consists of 7 floors above ground and 2 floors below ground, and 3 elevators are placed in each ward.
Feininger said there are a total of six possible routes. The hallway and the stairs leading to it were said to be the one in the center. If so, how are they controlling the 3,800 hostages so that panic does not occur?
“It’s a booby trap…….”
In the blueprints I referenced when I received the report earlier, the basements of Alpha Building and Beta Building were connected. In short, the number of floors in this hospital is the same as their number. If that’s the case, it’s most likely that there’s one person waiting on each floor. Given the circumstances, it’s almost certain.
Cheeky.
Shotgun loaded. The noise was quite loud, but I didn’t mind. Even the brightest elves must have lost quite a bit of hearing now that they’ve gotten used to the gunshots and the death rage. Even if you hear it and come back, it’s okay if you respond. If it’s close combat, this one has the upper hand.
“Oh, it hurts…….”
“Be patient. Because Artur has gone to get some painkillers…… !”
“Head nurse, this patient’s bleeding won’t stop…… !”
Close. It becomes clearer as you take a quiet step. As if to silence the sound, the conversation of a medical staff comes into my ears. As an Amman pianist, even if my ears are sensitive, I am too defenseless. If Yulihina’s men were nearby, they would have heard all of this conversation.
So, so to speak, this is a gamble.
I ran towards the sound coming from the hallway on the first floor of the vast hospital. As I got closer, I checked the emergency room sign, barely swallowed my saliva, and threw myself into a small abyss. As soon as I opened the door, I was startled and subdued the orc woman who was about to scream, and whispered while covering her mouth.
“Don’t scream. Nod your head if you understand.”
The subdued woman nodded. I slowly removed her hand from her mouth. Judging from the fact that she was wearing a white coat, she was a nurse, so she wasn’t an enemy. I took a deep breath and introduced myself.
“I am Beatrix Adler’s fiancé, Jeong-Woo Seo.”
“…… How is His Excellency First Lady here?”
“I won’t talk much. I personally infiltrated to suppress the guys who occupied the hospital. I came here because I heard a sound on the way, so please introduce yourself.”
“I am Fiona Hasselwander, the head nurse on duty today from the emergency room at the Bruhlin Express General Hospital.”
She was a woman of outstanding beauty to the extent that she was more suited to being an actress than a nurse. But on the other hand, the reaction she just showed, and the fact that she didn’t feel intimidated while being held hostage, also gave a glimpse of the temperament needed for her job.
“Fiona Hasselwander, can you show me where the people are?”
“Yes, this way.”
The emergency room was covered with curtains on each bed. The only one standing guard was this orc nurse guarding the entrance.
I followed her guide and entered the deepest room. Inside, except for Fiona Hasselwander, the rest of the medical team was struggling with a patient who seemed to change their life at any moment.
“What happened?”
The medical staff gave me a suspicious look when I suddenly appeared. Soon after, they opened their mouths one by one, as if they were relieved to see the attitude of their head nurse. Coincidentally, most of them knew my face through media such as newspapers and magazines.
“We were working in the emergency room on the first floor of the Beta Building.”
“I thought it was fortunate that there were no patients in critical condition today.”
“However, a hostage situation suddenly occurred, and I escaped following the instructions of Dr. Artur, the doctor on duty.”
I synthesized the information in between explanations. It was clearly inscribed that this was the emergency room on the first floor of Beta Building, that the doctor on duty was Artur, and that the most important hostages had attempted to escape.
“Looking at them gathered here, the escape attempt seems to have failed.”
“Yes, the patient here was originally not this serious. But while we were running away, we got hit and stopped…….”
Compared to beds, the number of patients was small. If that made me feel gloomy, it wasn’t like that either. Perhaps the patient here bleeding profusely was on the lucky side. Originally, there must have been a lot of patients who suffered from large and small illnesses in this beta-dong emergency room.
“What about me?”
Even in the isolated situation, the nurses who were holding on firm are silent.
“Is everyone dead?”
“Yes…….”
An excellent sniper is exceptionally powerful in defending a stronghold. It is also common for a single gunner whose location is unknown to block the advance of a single battalion. For Julich and his violinist, this hospital is completely alone.
Oppressed by fear and bound as wounded.
Truly a sniper It’s not a waste to be called the magic bullet shooter. I wondered how they managed to tie up 3,800 people with only a few at most, but that’s possible. But aside from that, there are still questions that remain.
That’s right, when he first occupied the hospital, he must have killed many hostages. It is hard to imagine that the panic-stricken people in the tumult would have attempted to escape in an orderly manner.
But, what next?
How did you control it after that? They didn’t even put up guards at the front door and windows in preparation for being sniped in reverse.
The number of hostages is about 3,800. There is no way that not a single person in that number will fail a second attempt. Then it must be that the magic bullet shooter has a means of detection that I am unaware of.
“Hasselwander, I will ask you one more question.”
“Please speak.”
“I didn’t even see a dead body on the way here, why?”
“When I failed to escape, I was threatened to bring all the bodies inside. After that, I had people deliver it to the morgue.”
I get it roughly. Forbidden requires brutal power. The magic bullet shooter would have increased his abilities with the corpses of the dead.
“Have you tried to escape more since then?”
“We don’t have. I just saw people from the second-floor surgery side dying while climbing down the window with an improvised rope.”
“How can these guys who don’t even know where they hide…….”
Chills ran down my spine. Only then did I belatedly turn my gaze to the emergency room window. One wall was entirely made of glass, and the curtains were drawn, but that was all. How many types of magic detect enemies. Even more so, how many of them were buried like land mines.
“A booby trap?”
I did pay attention. But can you be sure you didn’t step on a single booby trap by the time you got to the emergency room?
No way!
I just thought I was lucky. But that wasn’t it. They’ve been keeping an eye on my movements!
“Get away from the power window!”
Fiona Hasselwander was bewildered. Centered around her, so were the rest of her nurses. When he suddenly saw me screaming, he just put on a bewildered expression.
Bang, Tata Tang!
And the magic bullet shooter did not miss the opportunity.
Clink!
The window shattered before I had time to explain. Almost simultaneously, bullets rained down. It was a regular bullet, not a magic bullet, but that alone was already threatening enough. Because of that, everyone in the room became a beehive.
“Kyaaaaah!”
“Su, chief nurse!”
“Sister! Sister! Wake up!”
Fiona Hasselwander collapsed with a hole between her brows. The patient who said the bleeding would not stop died of shock, and the other nurses similarly died or collapsed with gunshot wounds. Only three or four people were lucky enough to survive.
…… No, the successive shots made it clearer.
Bang, Tata Tang!
I was the only survivor. The gunners’ salvo instantly killed all who were trying to preserve their lives in the emergency room.
What does it mean that I alone survived in this room with one wall entirely made of glass?
“The Prince of the East?”
In the dark emergency room, the curtains were drawn as the wind fluttered through the broken windows. The direction in which the bullets rained was from an unspecified number of people located in the ward opposite.
“Damn it, that was it…….”
I realized when I heard a voice behind me. There wasn’t just one magic bullet per floor. Of course, each floor must have a gunner in charge of it. But they are one and yet they are many.
“I am Mattheus Corporal of Magic Gunnery.”
“Matheus, why didn’t you kill me?”
“You don’t deserve a peaceful death like that.”
Matheus, who was in charge of the 1st floor of Beta Building, manipulated the scope. Caught behind me, I had to have a conversation without even checking his face. I couldn’t use echolocation, but I could guess the distance when I heard the sound.
Twenty steps from turning my back. The margin of error is around five steps.
“It would be a pretty disadvantageous choice for a sniper to show up like this?”
“If it was going to be good or bad, I would have shot and killed him long ago.”
“What do you want?”
They must have been locating me through booby traps from the moment I sneaked into the room. Matheus, who was the closest gunner, would have relayed the news via radio, and the troops waiting in the building opposite would have come out of the window and opened fire in unison.
“We will take you down.”
Matheus spat out in a trembling voice.
“I will subdue you from the front and bring you despair. After a bloody battle, I’ll make you crippled, and I’ll stick a lead bullet between your eyebrows. I will hit you, tear you up, and kill you! That’s what we want!”
Elizabeth was just a bait. Conversely, not setting up a sentry for fear of being shot is just an excuse. The reason why the front door was wide open was to welcome me from the beginning, and even among single-minded prisoners, not taking their lives is for revenge.
…… Called.
“Turn around, look us in the eyes!”
I slowly turned around. So I faced the sight of a short elf, one head shorter than me, spilling the Jade Tower. The guy with veins protruding from his body and his face distorted into a ferocious face was now raging furiously.
“The 15 men under Captain Julich Renner, a magic bullet shooter from the 0th Corps of the Bernhardt Army, challenge you to a duel!”
Matheus tore off my dog tag and threw it at me. It was not a glove in shorthand, but the meaning of the action was very clear.
Request a duel according to royal etiquette.
“Come on, Seo Jeong-woo.”
Red aiming points shimmered in the dark emergency room. When I counted the number in an instant, there were five. Most of the gunners on the ground in Alpha East were aiming at me.
“The moment it moves, it starts.”
Matheus announced that the sniping starts from my movement.
“Fiona Hasselwander was not guilty of anything.”
“Therefore?”
I furrowed my brow and yelled at him.
“Everyone here is innocent!”
“So what!”
“Did you accept the withdrawal into your body? How the hell are you different from the demons out there in the Extinct Land? Did you want to kill me even by eating cold blood and rotten flesh? Shamelessly even though you started?”
Matheus raised his hand to the sky. When I showed no signs of moving, I tried to signal my comrades who were aiming at this location.
“At least I can comfort the spirits of my family who were taken to the torture chamber of the Extinct Lands…… !”
There was no room for conversation. Reluctantly biting my lip, I put my finger on the trigger of the shotgun. I wanted to expect Franz’s support fire, but I didn’t have enough time to infiltrate here.
“The male prostitute of the Führer, the eagle owl of the black orchestra!”
Time passed very slowly. It was vague, like a kaleidoscope that I had already experienced. I had to protect myself from those who were leading me to my ruin.
“It’s a duel!”
Matheus lowered his hand. At the same time, he detonated a flash grenade in my armband at the same time. Intense flashes filled the emergency room in Beta-dong, and belated explosions completely paralyzed hearing and balance.
“Kuh…… !”
In the midst of everyone’s sight loss, I threw myself into the place where he was and shouted.
“Come, yes!”
Bullets rain Pain is felt, but mild. Not a gunshot wound.
The accident seemed to be intact, so life was saved, and the finger on the trigger was also snapped easily, so there was no problem.
Pia was still a moment that was hard to tell apart. The shooters of Alpha Dong, who looked into the room through the scope, were also paralyzed and unable to fire a follow-up shot. However, I closed my eyes tightly and quickly regained my sight, kicking off the floor in sight and running.
“Let’s stick together!”
After advancing to the corridor, he aimed the gun at the inside of the emergency room without hesitation, and it was soon fired.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Alright, let the battle begin.
