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Tower of Karma (Web Novel) - Chapter 8 The fall of Raconia
Chapter 8 The fall of Raconia
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“William-san! Good morning!”
“…You are already so energetic so early. Good morning.”
Karl looked at William, who had an annoyed expression on his face, with sparkling eyes.
“Oh, so you two are acquainted with each other? Then, you go take care of him.”
“Wha-!? But!”
Because of the sudden arrangement, William let a few words escape.
“Hm? Do you want to talk back, foreigner guy?”
Being glared at, William flinched. The other man was his superior, and also a second-rank civilian. There were many reasons why William couldn’t talk back.
“No, I understand. Come Karl, the place we were stationed at is to that direction.”
“Ah, yes!”
The superior officer was glaring at William and Karl as they left.
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William and Karl got to the position they were assigned to. It was at the higher floors of the fort, behind the archers. One could see from the distance the enemy army beginning to arrange themselves into a formation outside the fort, just as it has always been like. Exactly like the previous times, it was an attack that went in accord to the schedule.
“You are very unlucky. For you to have to stick with a hateable guy like me.”
Perhaps because of how bored William was, he spoke to Karl. Karl was being afflicted by the pressure of the silence. Noticing he was being talked to, his face became brighter. Having been spoken to, Karl decided to test the waters and ask.
“William-san, does the others not like you?”
Karl was looking at William with a blank face. It seems he didn’t understand why William had said that before.
“That’s right. This is because I didn’t know the scope of it at first.”
Karl tilted his head to the side, not understanding what William was talking about.
“No, perhaps it’s just that… It’s just that I didn’t expect there would be so many soldiers that were like that. I also underestimated the feeling of envy of humans.”
Turning his eyes away from the open-mouthed Karl, William looked outside the fort. Today wasn’t a battle at the field, but a defensive war, a battle you would shut yourself inside your castle and fight. William was looking at the army that was approaching towards the fort of Raconia.
“Hm, just the usua…. Isn’t there too many?”
The battlecries started to resound through the fort. And in response, the surroundings of the castle also begun to stir up.
“Rather than saying how many more they have, saying how many “times” more they have would fit better.”
Just like always, the sounds of war resounded. The idle mood was blown away from the Raconia fort.
Karl couldn’t keep his back straight because of the fear. His first battle was just yesterday, and was just a small skirmish. Compared to the army that they were facing today, it had been a very small scale battle.
“You are lucky, Karl-kun.”
Karl looked at William. The expression on his face…
“You will finally be able to have a taste of battle. You will be overflowing with it.”
Was a gruesome smile.
Today, the tranquility in Raconia was no more.
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The battle commenced. The battlefield was filled with corpses. There weren’t any troops remaining standing in front of the fort of Raconia anymore. There were many places that had ladders which allowed the invasion of enemy troops. Things like what squad you belonged to or where the spot you were assigned to was didn’t matter anymore. It was a clear defeat. It was nothing but an already lost battle.
“It isn’t that bad.”
With a smile on his face, William cut down the invading enemies. Comparing him to Karl was like comparing a baby and an adult; they were so apart that even comparing was presumptuous.
“It’s fine just like this. Yes, this is the best!”
William leisurely pierced his sword at the openings of the armor of his enemies. Tearing through their throats, the sword made the sound of wind being cut through. Being deprived of their throats, not even screaming was allowed to the enemies.
“I am really lucky.”
William kicked with all his strength a head that popped up from the ladder of an enemy that was climbing up to the fort. William watched the scene of the many other people falling together from the ladder one after another with a smile.
“Now then, I suppose I should keep slicing them up until the command of retreat is given.”
Jumping into the chaotic mob of made up of both forces fighting, William slaughered the enemy soldiers. He would evade the attacks when necessary, and sometimes use his allies as shields. That style of fighting that lacked any opening came from a different concept to the idea of battle in ranks and formations.
“”I am not like you, you bunch of worms! My practice partner is as giant as a fucking gorilla you would see in a circus. Besides, I am not like you that kept doing practice-swinging like retards. I used my head and trained my body with results in mind. To begin with, the world I am living is different from you brain dead worthless trash that are lower than insects.””
As to be expected, there was no way William could speak out those thoughts. Once he spilled them out, he wouldn’t be able to stop himslef fromdoing so anymore.
“”Hm, oh, isn’t Karl-kun still alive? Well, he looks like he is about to die though.””
Karl was desperately swinging his sword, but it was obvious his moves were amateurish. The enemy soldiers weren’t too much of a threat themselves either, but despite that, Karl was still so weak to the point that dying was just a question of time to him.
“He-help!”
He was asking for help to his surroundings, but as expected, nobody reacted to his calls. They didn’t have the spare time to pay any heed to him. Everyone was too focused on keeping themselves alive. As nobody reacted to his pleads, the spear of a enemy grazed right at Karl’s cheek. Karl fell down and soaked himself in piss. Right in the verge of his death…
“So-some-body.”
At that instant, William’s and Karl’s eyes met. It was only an instant; it was a momentary meeting.
“”As if anyone would be helping you. After all, you too lived a happy life, did’´t you? You had a family, warm food to eat, a soft bed to lie on, and also, and also…”
William turned his eyes away from Karl. This was equivalent to a death sentence to Karl.
“Dieeeeeeeeeeee!”
The enemy soldier, a soldier from Ostoberg, was also putting his life at risk. He should also have a family. A family he was supposed to love, to protect. He was here fighting in order to… protect his family.
“Eeeehhhhh!?”
The spear was sent flying into the air. It wasn’t just the spear. The arm that was holding it was also sent flying as the blood scattered around. The spray of blood covered the soldier’s sight. He didn’t understand what had just happened to him. The soldier didn’t have the time to figure what happened, but…
“Die.”
He understood that he was going to die.
His head flew. So that the blood gushing from his neck wouldn’t spill at them, William kicked the headless corpse away from them.
“What… am I doing?”
William couldn’t believe what he was doing. His hand was trembling. He wasn’t trembling because he had killed someone. He was trembling because he had saved someone. He saved a human that was unrelated to him. He saved a young man that looked to be fortunate, to be happy, and whose character didn’t match this place of war. He couldn’t believe it.
“”For an instant. Just for an instant, the face of that man overlapped with his face. That red haired pampered boy.””
The red haired youth he had killed with his own hands. The man whose existence he stole. There it was his face; with an expression full of resentment, it smiled as it called for him, mumbling the name “Norman”.
“Ah, aaahh, William!”
Being overcome with emotions, Karl started to cry. He clinged himself to William and cried, even forgetting to add any honorifics. He continued to mutter words of gratitude. William looked at Karl with a cold look.
“It wasn’t that big of a deal… Can you stand up?”
William extended his hand without looking at Karl’s eyes. There was no way he could let the expression he was making now be seen. He couldn’t let it be seen by anyone, not even by Kail or Havella.
“Thank you, William. …Ah, -san.”
Remembering to add the “-san” at the last moment, he forcibly added it at the end.
“You can call me just by William. You should prepare yourself to leave here soon.”
“Eh, but is it fine for us to leave our position?”
William casually killed several of the approaching enemy soldiers in one sweep, and then, turned his eyes to Karl. His expression has already gone back to his calm one now. He wasn’t seeing the illusions of “himself” anymore.
“It is not that it is fine. It’s just that everyone that would reproach you for doing that has already died.”
William remembered using his superior as a shield in order to escape from a enemy’s pike a few moments ago. Admittedly, that was something he did in the heat of the moment, but it had been necessary.
“”To begin with, the most important for me to do in this already lost battle is to have as many high ranking officers die as possible. The ones still alive… I need to get enough of them to die so that I get automatically promoted.””
Getting carried away and dying in an already lost war was de epitome of idiocy.
“”Well, this guy should have its own uses. I will end up losing my motivation to keep protecting him if I don’t think of him this way.”
William looked at Karl’s face, which now had a stupid expression on it. Karl had finally recalled about the embarrassment of having wet himself and now was blushing. He was acting very carefree even though they were still right in the midst of a war.
“Let’s go. If you don’t want to die, follow me.”
“Ye-yes!”
Having Karl following after him, William went down the fort. Since they wanted to escape, it was natural that they needed to go down and through the northern gate. It was very obvious to see that the two were running away. Because of that, their desertion could become an unnecessary burden for them to deal with later on.
“”I need to get out of here… I won’t be part of the massacre of this boring as shit place.””
Looking behind him, William sighed.
“”Ha, really, what am I doing?””
Behind him was Karl, who was following him with sparkling eyes.
At that day, the fort of Raconia had fallen.
