There was some awkward silence in the air, and although the "sizzle" of torches and the clashing of various objects were constantly heard, there was no human exchange.

After saluting the shrine maiden, Narumi and other high-ranking samurai temporarily retired due to the need to gather the remnants of the army, and did not stay where they were. And Henry, who originally planned to retire due to the scene to avoid suspicion and other reasons, was asked by the shrine maidens to stay nearby.

"Safety. ”

This was the explanation given by the weary shrine maidens, and the sage only replied with silence and did not get to the bottom of it. On the one hand, the information he needed was roughly available through observation, and on the other hand, it was not the best time to speak.

Yajiro, Kaleva, Mira, and some of the equally exhausted samurai all stayed nearby. About fifteen minutes earlier they had fetched the torches and a series of lighting equipment and tried to keep the light around, and after a while, after the battle, they went into the woods and brought more companions, the newcomers in relatively simple costumes and carrying some boxes.

The open box was full of all kinds of tools and medicinal materials, and although it still looked like there were many, whether it was the boxes stained with blood and scratches or the various dirty bandages, they all silently told the story of what happened to this group of people.

The oni god who was hit by the spear fell to the ground and fell into a coma after the battle, and it took considerable effort for the shrine maidens to remove her armor and place it around.

Mila standing next to Henry only noticed in the full light that the armor was covered in various scars, as well as the surface of the unclothed female ghost's body—which, along with a series of other marks, led her to glance at the sage, who nodded slightly, confirming Mira's suspicions.

Because the proportions of limbs to the head are larger, even if she is two meters five tall, at first glance it is only a female ghost who is about one meter seven in the proportion of a human being, and after falling into a coma, she is completely a girl who has fallen asleep peacefully just by looking at her face - the premise is, of course, that the actual size cannot be judged from a distance.

But below the head, where the skin is relatively intact, the body that was originally surrounded by armor has scars that can only be described as heroic. Dense scars are all over the forearms, outer thighs, and abdomen. Judging by the location of many of the wounds, it was clear that they had been pierced through gaps in the abdomen of her armor by an opponent who was not as tall as her - the scars were both dark and light, meaning that they were not all recent.

Compared to the huge oni gods, the shrine maidens, who looked like dolls in a girl's bed, handled quietly and skillfully in the firelight, many of them carrying out some operations with rune paper, while others tried to pull out the spear that Mira had pierced into.

This is really an extremely embarrassing scene, and the Luo'an girl, who originally felt that she was helping the teacher, wanted to find a crack to get into after her mind calmed down - because if you think about it, isn't the ghost god she stabbed down the benefactor who saved her life in Taizhou in the first place.

It's just that at this time and then, although the reason is still not clear, it is certain that the other party wants to kill him before he falls unconscious.

The shrine maidens were obviously aware of this, too, so they didn't overly bother the culprit duo who caused serious injuries. That being said, they don't just give a good look.

It is often said that there is such a thing as helping relatives or not, but few people can really do it. Especially this is a small, apparently close-knit group. Even the great witch who was now politely asking for Henry, who was obviously the squinting eyes of the leader, indiscriminately fell a divine thunderbolt the moment she saw someone defeat the ghost god.

They don't care if it's right or not, if their own people are attacked, then protecting their allies and killing the enemy is the most important priority.

Nominally a presence serving the gods, but in reality the force on display, the composition of the team, and the skillful way of dealing with wounds - Henry squinted at the weak-looking witch and pulled out the blood-stained broken spear without changing her face, and then reached out for the person next to her to hand over the hemostat.

"It's like there are a dozen teachers, and I shudder a little. Mila, who was also watching the witches, exclaimed in the language of Avenella - although the analogy seemed strange even to Henry, the Lady of Loan did detect something correctly.

He pulled out the broken gun and examined the inside of the wound, after which another person handed over a red-hot iron rod and inserted it without hesitation to cauterize and stop the bleeding.

"Shhh

"Requiem incense is running out again. She glanced at the incense burner next to her and said this, and Mira realized that the familiar smell turned out to be something that Archie had lit earlier.

After the hemostasis was completed, the wound was re-stitched, and Mira's charge did not reach enough distance after all, and the spear in her hand was only used by the infantry, not the three-meter-long cavalry of the Rigal knights. The combination of grinding guns did not bring out the maximum lethal effect, which seemed unsettling before, but now it has turned into a blessing.

Well-treated wounds can mostly recover within a few days under the strong self-healing ability of the Oni God Clan, and after the witches who treated the wounds went to rest before finishing their work, the other people led by the great witch came over and formed a circle.

They were singing something in an ancient language that didn't seem to be contemporary Japanese, and as if they were going to fight it, Terutsuki kept coming up with the red runes she had used in her previous fight with Henry, and even opened her eyes and half-sat up at the end.

"Shhh The Great Witch glanced at Henry here, maybe this was what the safety measures mentioned earlier, but fortunately the situation did not deteriorate, they continued to chant and finally took out the straw rope that Henry and his party had seen at the shrine in the past, tied it to Terutsuki's body, and splashed it with some water with the branches and leaves with bells.

The clear water, which seemed to resemble the concept of the White Church's holy water, disappeared on Tetsuki's skin with a "sizzle-" sound, and in response, the ominous red marks on her body gradually faded and eventually faded.

"Whew-ha-" The already scarred shrine maidens raced against time to deal with it after the arduous trek, and when it was finally over, they were all slumped to the ground and unable to stand up.

The samurai who fled in the previous battle scattered far away, and Narumi and the others rode for about half an hour, but there were still 6 ashigaru and 2 samurai missing.

The dull thought on their faces made the high-ranking samurai stiffen their faces and say nothing, originally they thought that even if they were well-trained, brave and determined, they only lacked actual combat experience, but under the real terrifying threat, the instinct to flee displayed by these people was a complete slap in the face.

In the face of bandits before, with the advantages of equipment and all aspects, you only need to give full play to the results of your training and win without any major problems. But this time, in the face of a sudden crisis, when the head of the Ashigaru group commanding the town was hit by a key blow, the Ashigaru underneath, who were very lacking in both morale and actual combat experience, immediately dispersed.

This behavior in turn affected some of the samurai, and although the situation at the time was indeed more reliable than evacuating from the battle, it was clear that the direct escape without Narumi had not yet given the order was more due to cowardice than tactical guidance.

8 people are missing, 3 killed, 4 seriously injured and 3 lightly injured.

With a face-to-face effort, the confidence of the warriors was shattered by the blow of the blunt weapon of the Oni God Clan. The people who were hit directly except for Henry were all dead, and the 4 seriously injured Ashigaru were standing in the front row and were hit by a sweep at the same time, Ashigaru's weaker armor caused them to have insufficient resistance at all, and the arms and shoulders that were hit were all comminuted fractures, and even with the protection of the carcass, the ribs on that side were also broken or bruised.

But unlike these seriously wounded, who were carefully cared for, the remaining lightly wounded were treated with extreme indifference, for all three were wounded by throwing themselves off their horses or fighting their comrades in a panic as they fled—yes, all three were samurai, and the seriously wounded were ashishi.

"Shame, shame, shame. The great god sighed three times, and then fell silent.

The samurai who shouted and scolded the ashigaru spinelessly the loudest before were probably the first wave to turn around and run. Although most of the people who fled in terms of numbers were still Ashigaru, Ashigaru was at the forefront and fled only after the formation collapsed, but these people fled on horseback without even making contact with the demons.

The courage cultivated in childhood may make them appear majestic and calm on weekdays, but when there is a real threat to life, it is often those who always talk about honor and bravery on weekdays who are the first to show cowardice.

The guy who needs to express himself verbally and belittle others to show that he is brave and tall, his words and deeds have already exposed his inner perception of his lack of determination.

It's because he's not really good at it that he keeps trying to make people think that he's such an existence by belittling others.

Henry looked at this scene coldly, this was a farce that he had already seen strangely, whether it was in Rigal or in the country of the moon, but this kind of existence was always indispensable to all the warrior attendant class.

It occupies the best resources of the society, grows up under the cultivation of good teachers, and has the best equipment.

But human nature is still difficult to change.

The big waves wash the sand, just like the saying that there is no advanced skill among excellent swordsmen, only basic skills that are perfectly displayed under pressure. It's one thing to fight unequally, but in the face of a real threat to your life, you can still keep your cool thinking and not succumb to your instinct to escape, and you can make the most of your equipment and training after polishing.

In order to achieve elite.

Ordinary samurai may be considered elite compared to civilians and even Ashigaru, but in the military class of Wajin, they are still very tender compared to these calm and calm shrine maidens in front of them.

But the elite doesn't mean that they will always win—the sage looks at the witches, and happens to meet the squinting great.

The other party was stunned for a moment, and then smiled slightly bitterly: "I owe you an explanation for this oolong." ”

Narumi and the others leaned over in silence, and the oni fell into a peaceful sleep after everything was taken care of. The injured Ashigaru also stabilized their injuries with the help of the shrine maiden, and the deceased was covered with sackcloth, and the head of the Ashigaru group and the samurai Nobukatsu, who died the worst, poked out the torn flesh and bones, and the two samurai who helped them collect the corpse took a closer look at it with the light of the torch and couldn't stop vomiting.

Both sides have their own losses, so it's kind of wiped out - only a naïve enough guy would really think so.

If it weren't for the identity of the shrine maiden, the samurai would definitely not give up like this. At the same time, there were many people on the witch's side who were angry because Henry had injured their companions, but after all, the two sides were still allies, so all this was revealed in a strange and awkward silence.

However, even if both sides avoid talking about the casualties caused by the conflict, the root cause of this conflict is still on the side of the shrine maiden.

"With your abilities, most of you already know about it. The Great Witch was scarred and tired, but her tone was still calm.

"Attacked. Yajiro spoke, uttering a simple judgment that anyone could make behind this scene when they saw it. And Henry and the others, who had better eyesight next to them, could see more - the vast majority of the more than 100 witch troops they met in Taizhou at that time were ghosts and gods, and the witches who were supporting did not have an absolute advantage in numbers.

At this moment, there are more than a dozen shrine maidens with a ghost god in front of them, and they deviate from the avenue, and with the effect of requiem incense, the reason why they ran to the vicinity of the Hayato village is already clear as if they were written on paper and shown to you.

"We were ambushed. The Great Shrine Maiden nodded and confirmed Yajiro's point of view: "In order to break through, Terutsuki and they used the power of the forbidden to turn into Aragami at the cost of reason. ”

"Originally, the price was only to be weak for a period of time later, and only need to use tranquilizing incense to suppress it to maintain reason. The Great Witch's eyes suddenly dimmed: "But the other party seems to know about it, and he is staring at the logistics under the attack of the frenzied ghosts." ”

"In the end, although we managed to break through at a relatively small cost, we also lost our medicine and lacked the means to suppress the absurdity. Although it has rushed back to Xinjing from the main road, the road is still almost out of control. It was also under these circumstances that the merchants I met on the road learned that there were villagers in the mountains and forests who planted requiem incense ingredients. So I changed lanes to buy it, but on the way to the moon. She paused here and took a deep breath before continuing.

"Probably the last memory before losing her mind, she still retains the instinct to find herself, so she came here to get the requiem incense, but also-" The Great Witch opened her eyes, and her narrow Danfeng eyes looked at the sleeping Tetsuki with a soft gaze.

"If not, if you don't stop it. She looked back at Henry, and stopped talking.

"Whew-" The culture of the people finally made the Great Witch give up the inquiry, she sighed, and turned her head to Narumi again: "The rest of us are still waiting for us on the main road, but Your Excellency can also see that this is the case. She glanced down at the other shrine maidens, who were scarred by the fact that they had apparently traveled through the dense forest in pursuit of Terutsuki.

"I know it below. Narumi lowered his head: "Requiem incense will be purchased by us and the villagers." ”

The samurai leader respectfully led the others to leave, and although the Great Shrine Maiden's explanation explained the reason, it did not mean to solve the consequences, and asked them for more assistance. In the case of Rigalese, there would probably be discontent, but in the strict and unified country of Tsuki, Narumi accepted it without any resistance.

The collective is higher than the individual, and the concept of "country" is higher than the "family" of the Qingtian samurai.

The top troops who went out for the reunification of the country encountered this kind of thing, although the casualties caused by this oolong to the samurai were not insignificant, but since the other party took the initiative to explain the nature of goodwill, they were still entangled in this aspect, that is, as the lower ranks, these samurai did not know how to lift.

After a brief explanation, the air fell into an awkward silence once again as Narumi retreated.

The problem becomes complicated, so in the end, you have to back down and clean up your own business. What Narumi thinks in his heart, Henry, Kaleva, and Mira, who were born in Rigal, probably can't really know.

Rarely, the girl of Roan misses the simplicity and purity of the battle. There are only allies and enemies, and there are not so many complicated entanglements.

If this opponent is really just a demon, all you need to do is kill it. But for now, without mentioning how to explain to the Hayabusa clan, the seriously injured Ashigaru alone cannot be effectively treated in this kind of barren mountains and mountains.

Although it was more of a self-proof idea at first, the Hayato mountain people who wanted to help them accepted the request to exterminate the demons, but in the end, they ended up in such a nondescript end.

But it is not necessarily right to say that it is not acceptable, because the well-trained and well-equipped samurai have suffered heavy casualties in the face of the demons, and if they do not do it, they are afraid that Archie's village will be completely destroyed.

They make a choice, and they have to bear the consequences.

Not every choice will get the most perfect result, or nine times out of ten, it will not be satisfactory.

Mira looked back at the shrine maidens who were all sitting on the ground resting, she had judged something from her battlefield instincts cultivated as a mercenary when she was in Taizhou, but no one believed her.

But looking at these scarred shrine maidens, she couldn't shout heartlessly, "I said it a long time ago." "to prove how good your judgment is.

The scars on Terutsuki's body are not only those left recently, as an elite unit, they may have known that they would be in an ambush.

It's just still.

It is necessary to move forward.

"The country. She asked her teacher in the language of Avenella, and the sage looked down at the girl Roan, her eyes as bright as they had been at the beginning, as if she could always see the source of the problem.

"This country is not. ”

"Are there no soldiers available? ”