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Oni 18 – A sea of corpses

I hadn’t expected the aftermath of the battle to be so bad The basic work is over, and I’uess it’s due to ue is not too bad However,

This is because the work that I a, is verify the list of the war dead and to prepare compensation for the bereaved families The 8th Army that I command, has a considerable number of casualties More than half of those who died was because I forcibly set the them into a semi-suicide attack Every time I look at the list of names, it seems like I can hear voices of their bitter resentment towards me

Additionally, there’s the scenes of the bereaved fa to the recovered corpses To them, I have to speak words of condolences that I don’t feel in ht to do so I drove them to near certain death, so I have to be the cruel coivable for me to immersed in sentis, I deter the work in the aftermath of the battle The fort at the battlefield was destroyed by er any strategic value in occupying it There’s no use in occupying what is now just a pile of rubble However, the corpses of the casualties frooods and materials inside the fort had to be collected If they’d been neglected then battlefield looters would have carried it all off At the tioods and materials were rendered useless, but fortunately there were soed, so those could be collected

What orse than anything, was the retrieval of the corpses The ones in charge of retrieving the corpses were naturally the survivors of the 8th Army and the recently hired personnel Most of them were acquaintances with the deceased There werethe corpse of an acquaintance, they would stop work and start crying aloud in grief

Such scenes, were the result of my actions I was almost lost for words Nevertheless, I could not si laborers, “stop crying and get working” Towards those who looked towards er Overpowered by that glare, they could only hide their faces in subroup who never had any kind of relationship with , they never had any loyalty towards me at all Then, after I drove them towards almost certain death and they lost many comrades in arms, that turned into hostility and fear Into hatred at the irrational deaths However, they couldn’t oppose loomy conclusion

Currently, I aeneral who rules his subordinates with dread The hteousness doesn’t even exist However, this is the path that I chose There is no way that I can turn back now

With a heavy sigh, I get up from the chair in my private room At this time today, there is a conference of the assembled commanders

I leavethe way, I unexpectedly happened to cos」

We both exchange a short greeting Merazofis-san is an attendant of Sophia-san In addition to that, since I becas as the ht be a calm person who doesn’t make idle talk, but his mood seems unusually heavy Most likely he is in a depressed mood for similar reasons to me His usually pale complexion, looks to be particularly pallid today

Without pause, we both proceed to the conference roo the door to the conference roo, already seated there in a similarly heavy mood is Commander Darado However, he looks to be ued Unlike Merazofis-san and I, Commander Darado is a normal demon His status values are likewise low Most likely, on top of the fatigue built up during the war, the afterue

「Hrm Merazofis-dono and Wrath-dono huh」

His voice also lacks his norued