----Shuichi Arakawa Point of View

'Captain, this is not good. Our leftist sisters in Arceny have been breached.

Back him up with a machine gun!　It's the enemy's territorial dragon force that's attacking us, isn't it?　I don't care if you use soft-iron bullets instead of rubber bullets, as long as it doesn't kill you anyway.

　The battle between the Ursna Empire and the Duchy of Raguire that began before noon was initially in Ursna's favor. However, when we attacked after crossing the border into the reconnaissance unit, the main Ursna unit was captured by the enemy's main force and attacked from high ground, which resulted in a devastating situation.
　Our power suit squad succeeded in rescuing the main unit at the last minute, but there was no time to properly regroup, and there was no choice but to retreat while continuing to delay and defend.

''Captain........this won't get us anywhere. I think it would be better to retreat completely once and regroup.

　The second in command, Lewis, makes a dirt-stained frown on his face and tells us what to do, but unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of time for that right now.

It's a good idea for Noah's group, but what about Ursna's guys?　I don't think they can keep up with the speed of our retreat, and if we start a full retreat with the left wing broken through now, it will be a total collapse... get out of the way!

　The soldier of the Duchy Army, who had been in front of him by pushing Lewis to hit him, is incapacitated by a single volley of rifle shots. The soldier who is hit by the barrage of rubber stun rounds is stunned by the impact of the bullets and the high-voltage electric current generated when the warhead is crushed, so he doesn't have to worry about getting up for the time being.
　I think it's impossible for him to act in combat because he was hit by a barrage of bullets from close range when he got up, but let's just think of him as lucky that he's not killed.

"Luis, I'm abandoning this line of defense. We will slowly retreat to the third line of trenches built by the Centipede tribe of the Corps of Engineers, where we will set up a claymore to stop the enemy's advance as much as possible. 　It's a filthy but effective trap.

Yes, sir.

　After seeing Lewis start to work, I communicate with the destroyer Orto flying overhead to check the current situation.

'Orto, do you read me?　The right wing retreats to the third line. What about the guys in Ursna?

"Currently, the Imperial Army has no organized defensive battle going on as the left flank has been breached. We are continuing to fire supportive fire, but it seems to me that it is only a matter of time before the left flank collapses completely.

　d*mn it!　We're the only ones who can keep the battle going in a decent way. If we burned down the enemy's front line with napalm bullets from Orto, it would buy Ursna time to retreat.......but I didn't think it would be this difficult to fight without killing. I light the cigarette in my mouth with the lighter I got as a birthday present from Gongju and inhale deeply before making my decision.

'Orto, I'll take full responsibility. Drop teargas on the left flank and the central position, we don't have an organized defense anyway, so I'll stop the enemy's advance with every ally.

Copy that ... 30 seconds to change the ammunition.

　After cutting the communication with Orto, he now opens the line to his subordinates scattered across the battlefield and yells into the microphone.

'All of you, drop your reinforced exoskeleton visors!　There's going to be indiscriminate tear gas bombs coming from Orto.

　While listening to the replies from my subordinates, I lowered the visor of my exoskeleton and laid down on the ground in preparation for the landing of the tear gas shells, and when I looked up at the sky, I saw Orto turning and aiming his main gun towards me. The next moment Orto's main gun is engulfed in flames and the battlefield is covered in white smoke with the sound of the tear gas explosion as it lands.





'Excuse me while I eat. We've finished identifying the wounded.'

Oh.

　After receiving air support for the tear gas from Ortol, we just piston-transported the Ursna's guys to the rear to reorganize our troops, with both troops in confusion. Perhaps confused by the power of the tear gas, the Principality Army also temporarily withdrew from the battlefield, and coincidentally, a ceasefire had been in effect since the evening.
　We used that ceasefire state effectively to rest and check on the wounded, but it seems that the whole check is over. I check the information displayed on the terminal Lewis gave me.

It's better that no one was killed. It's just lucky that no one died.

　On the screen, more than 80,000 of the 150,000 Ursna Imperial Army were listed as seriously wounded. If the lightly wounded are included, the number exceeds 100,000.......it's no exaggeration to say that the Ursna Imperial Army has already been wiped out. With a little over forty thousand left and five hundred of us Noah's reinforcements, it's a hopeless situation to defeat and break through the more than two hundred thousand principality troops.

Do you have any good news for us?

　I ask him a question as I hand back the terminal, and Lewis answers it while lighting a cigarette.

'Your son's fleet has taken Asti in five minutes without blood. The rest of Miki's troops have defeated the Linkdoble Imperial Army and are on the march.

　I'm not a novice when it comes to fighting, so I guess we're the professionals and we're stuck with it. I tossed the cold can of beef stew I'd finished eating and asked a question to my subordinates, who were eating their food with tired faces.

It's going to be dark soon.　For a little over 40,000, you can come up with a plan to destroy 200,000 enemies and march on.

We'll just use nuclear weapons to blow them up. In this world where there is no treaty, ask Miki-san to make one quickly and quickly, and then send it off with a zip.

　Everyone agrees, laughing at Jonathan's joke. I laugh at one point and then correct my question and ask the idiots again.

All right, all right, I'll change it. I'll change the content, a little over 40,000 is a magical idea that will allow you to defeat 200,000 enemies 'without killing' and march in.

　When I correct them and ask questions, my subordinates who had been laughing until then are silent and the only sound of chewing is the sound of food being eaten echoing through the tent.
　In the past, when we fought in Afghanistan, a series of small mistakes nearly destroyed our troops because of the situation we found ourselves in. As I was trying to think of a better way to boost these guys' morale, the entrance to the tent suddenly rolled up and a group of beauties walked in.

''Yes!　It's the Transportation Corps of the Faerie Tribe. We're too weak to participate in the war, but you can trust us with a warm meal!　Would you like some soup?

Ooh!

　The idiots who had been eating their food while lying on their faces in silence wasted energy the moment they saw the faerie tribe, taking out their plates and cups to get a warm meal and standing in line. I forgot──, these guys are basically simple. They're the kind of guys who would rush into the enemy's camp just to be cheered on by a beautiful woman.
　As I watched the idiots while lighting a cigarette, I felt foolish for thinking seriously about how to boost morale until a moment ago, when I noticed Coat peeking out from the entrance of the tent. Cort looked around inside and nodded in satisfaction before pulling his face back and hurriedly calling out as he turned to leave.

'Cote wait, could it be that you called the faerie tribe?'

''Yes. Not only the faerie tribe, but I've also asked the beautiful tribe of the Ursna army to go around the tents of each unit. The morale is low, so let's have the beautiful sisters revitalize it around here. By the way, Her Majesty Victoria has told me 'no touching', so please let me protect it.

　After saying that, Court walked away, 'I'll go check on the other tents. Normally it's my role to take care of those places, but it doesn't work out so well without Claire.
　When I returned to the tent with that thought in mind, my subordinates, who had changed from earlier, were exchanging ideas with each other.

The first thing that comes to mind is to have the Ursna forces attack the main body of the enemy from the flank while we deploy to the front and attack the enemy.

It's impossible. The principality, they understand we're not going to kill them, they're going to be crushed by sea.

"Then how about a night raid?　After dark, our modern equipment is better than theirs. If we can take down the enemy's main camp with a few men, the rest will be a matter of course.

　Hmm....a night attack. We can use night vision to bypass the enemy and enter the main camp, but we don't have the mobility to do so. If we use the suit, the enemy will hear us, and we'll need the help of Ursna's men. While working out the details with my subordinates who proposed the night attack, I took out from my pocket the list of Ursna's race composition given to me by Victoria.





----Claire's Point of View on board the Siren

　In the Siren's CIC, where the battle had ended, only the personnel on duty were performing their vigilance duties in the minimal light. I glanced at the watch on my wrist and saw that the time pointed to 19:00. It's already nightfall, and both the Northern Army to which I belong and the Kingdom Relief Army under Miki-san's command have already ended the large-scale battle.
　In such a situation, the special power suit brigade dispatched to the Ursna Empire - the unit I originally belong to - is still fighting with the Principality's army and is in an inferior position.

''Command, can you hear me?　What's the status of the Ghost Squad's war effort?

The fighting has now come to a temporary halt. The latest reports indicate that Ursna's forces have been wiped out, and that the Ghost Squad alone will attempt to defeat the Principality's forces.

　His chest tightened at the information. Will my troop mates be able to get through the Duchy's army safely?　I'm not sure if they are able to manage information and maintain the morale of the troops without me and Ellis before that. I've been listening to the radio transmissions of the Ursna Front without permission while worrying about such things, but for the last two hours there has been no radio communication at all.
　Perhaps they are taking a break or reorganizing their units, but.......I feel lonely that the friends I've always fought with are now fighting away from me. It's not that I'm unhappy with the current situation of being assigned to the Sirens, but I hope you'll see more sighs leaking out.

'Con!'

What?

　I'm sorting through the information on the Ursna Front sent to me by the command center on my terminal when I suddenly turn around in surprise when Kon-chan calls out behind me. After confirming that I've turned around, Kong-chan shows me a communication card she carries around her neck and writes some words on it.

'Are you worried about your fathers?'

Yes, I worry about my troopers fighting far away from home.

　In response to my reply, Kong-chan thinks for a while, wagging her cute tail, and then shows me the letters again, writing them down.

'I have an idea. You have a mobile device for me that your mother made before, can you use it to send me to the Ursna front?

　What the hell are they going to do about it?　To be honest, I don't think it would change the war situation even if Kong-chan went to the rescue. But somewhere in my heart, I have the hope that she will be able to do something about it. After staring at Kong-chan's face, I decide to use the mobile device exclusively for her with the authority given to me.

'I've given orders from the terminal to prepare the mobile device. You're going to help everyone in the squad, right?

　Conn stretched out her chest as best she could with her small body before she took the paper in her mouth and hugged me. The paper she handed me had a smiling description on it.

'Leave it to me!　I show Master what a great guy I am. People usually say that master is the only one who is great, but I'm a great dragon too!

　I began to walk towards the Siren's stern, where the mobile device was at the ready as I gently stroked Kon's head, trying desperately to keep up with her small body.




'How are you doing, Con?　I'm sure you're getting good oxygen, but aren't you suffering?

CON!

　I put Kong inside the mobile device, put a special helmet on her face and then check whether she can breathe properly or not, she replied with a wagging tail, there seems to be no problem in the feeling of Kong.

　Even though it is a mobile device, the mechanism of the device itself is not much different from that of a cruise missile, there is simply a space for Kong-chan to get into the center of the warhead that is filled with oxygen cylinders. There is no concept of landing, and after the missile disintegrates by the release device at 100 meters above the target, Kong-chan falls to the ground without a parachute.
　This is the method adopted by Gong-chan himself, who asked for extreme simplification of the device, saying, "From about 1,000 meters, it's a little painful, but I don't mind if it falls to the ground.

''Kon-chan, will you give this to the captain?　It's my idea of a troop reassignment chart, but I think it might be useful.

Conn. Conn.

　I pat Kong-chan, who hugs the paper I gave her carefully and squeezes it to her chest, before closing the lid and securing the bolt. As I operate the launcher a little further away, I start a countdown so that Kong-chan inside the missile can predict the impact of the launch through the earpiece microphone attached to her ear.

'Five seconds to launch, four, three, two, one, launch!

　The mobile device accelerated in seconds to a maximum speed of Mach 12, which no human being could withstand, and immediately disappeared from my sight and flew over the horizon. After confirming that the missile was flying smoothly on my terminal, I sent a message to the captain fighting in the Ursna field.

'Captain, do you read me?　This is Claire. Conn is currently on his way there as a reinforcement, and I've also given him a troop reassignment list for your help.

　While communicating with the captain, I wished to the "three moons" floating in the night sky that those little cute dragons on the missiles would save my troopers...




---- Shuichi Arakawa's Point of View ----.

You want the Ants and the Arcenies?

Yes, sir. The cooperation of those two species is essential to the success of the night raid.

　We had come to the Ursna Army's main tent, where Her Majesty Victoria was located, to request cooperation after we had worked out the details of the night raid operation. The centaur soldier who was guarding the tent was surprised by our sudden visit, but he quickly led us into the tent so we could have our strategy meeting without wasting time.

I don't mind, but what is the purpose of this?　Noah will be far better equipped and his troops far more skilled than the concubines.

'No, you all have special skills that we do not have. First of all, we would like to have the Ants carry us on their backs to the enemy lines, but are there any species of Ants that have a stronger bite and thicker body armor than us?

Hmm, you mean the Fire Death Ant. They're few and far between, but they're here on this battlefield.

　 I think it's comparable.

'Now, then, the Alkeny, are there any races among the Alkeny that spin a strong yarn?　We need your help in tangling our enemies in a thread to neutralize them. If we're right, as we've imagined, their bodies are speckled with yellow and black...

So it's Queen Alkeny then, with only two men on the battlefield, right?

No problem.

　Okay!　It seems that the Dame Spider is also subhumanized. They're the kind of species that build large webs on Earth where even birds are entangled in strings and preyed upon, and they'll easily neutralize at least one platoon of the enemy. I told Her Majesty Victoria that the operation would begin in two hours and asked her to gather the Ants and the Arcenies near where Noah had set up his tent before I left the main Ursna tent.
　As I was operating my arm terminal to gather my men and explain the details of the operation, I received a transmission from Claire for the first time in a long time.

'Captain, can you hear me?　This is Claire. Conn is currently on his way to you as a reinforcement, and I've given him a troop redeployment list for your help.

　Wait, what did Claire just say?　Why is Con coming?

'Claire, how does Con get here?　Before that, though, that guy is smart, but he'll only be able to use magic to turn stone into metal. You're useless.

''Kon-chan told me to leave it to you because he had an idea, so I ejected it from the Sirens with a mobile missile. Besides, it's your pet, Conn-chan?　I'm sure she can handle it.'

　 Since that Gongju is carefully nurturing it, maybe it has some special skills other than metal refining. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get the best out of it, but I don't want to lose my confidence as a professional if I have to worry about even a small dragon.

''A missile will be arriving over you in a few minutes. Conn-chan will descend directly to the ground from the sky, so please collect it.

Yes, sir.

　I checked the expected point of arrival of the missile that Claire had sent to the terminal and headed off to collect the con with A and B, two idiots I hadn't seen lately who had been picking on Imperial soldiers in their spare time.





　As we waited at the point where we were supposed to reach, we saw a fireball coming towards us from the west. I'm sure that's the missile Conn is riding on, I activated my night vision goggles and watched the sky above me as the missile disintegrated right above me and Conn flew out from inside.

"Orai ... orai ... orai ... orai ... orai ... Another minute ago?

　Muttering to myself, I try to grab Kong as if I were catching a baseball fly. Through the night vision goggles, Kon seems to have seen me and is flying towards me in a straight line, using the small wings on his back to cut through the wind. He curled up in my arms and dropped down with a thud, looking around with a scurrying look, and then let out a cry.

'Kong!'

　It's like 'Long time no see!' I couldn't help but smile at the sound of his voice. Kon handed me a piece of paper that he seemed to be writing on inside the missile and then jumped down to the ground and started to look at the sky, so I tried to read the content of the writing with some doubt in my mind.

'I'm here for reinforcements. I have an idea, can you leave it to me?　And on the back of this piece of paper, you'll find the troop reassignment chart that Claire has come up with.'

　Con's idea, well, even if you let him do something, it won't be worse than the current situation, which is the worst situation. When I said 'I'll leave it to you' to Conn, who judged that and was still looking at the sky, Conn replied with a wagging tail.
　As I sat there and looked at the rearrangement chart that Claire had come up with for a while, Con suddenly roared loudly into the sky.

'Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!'

　The sound of his voice startles me and I stand up, and Con trots over to me, wagging his tail in satisfaction, and comes up to me before pulling the card out of his neck and showing me how to suck on it.

'Please hug me,'

　When I hugged him as the card said, he stopped moving while staring at the northern sky, I looked at the northern sky as well as Kon, but there was nothing but stars twinkling there. A minute passed and there was no change in the sky, five minutes passed and there was no change in the sky. 10 minutes passed and I was trying to talk to Kon in my arms when I was lost for words because of the change in the sky. A nanika similar to the 'magic circle' used by Ursna's people appeared in the northern sky.

"Captain........what is that?

　Stupid A will ask me questions, but I won't know what to do if you ask me a question like that!　Con in his arms is happily wagging his tail furiously. What the hell is going on with that thing?　As I was thinking about this, the magic circle increased in number and filled the northern sky.

''Something is coming out of the magic circle. ''A dragon?　Captain, a dragon is emerging from the magic circle. Seriously?　Are all the dragons coming out of that one?

　How is that even possible with all the ranting and raving from the idiot B?　The number of magic circles in my field of vision has already exceeded several hundred. A black dragon emerged from the largest magic circle among them, flying leisurely through the air to us and landing in front of us. The black dragon bows its head to the ground and assumes a posture as if in submission before addressing Kong in his arms.

'I am honoured to be here as you see fit. We are honored to be here, and by your command, all of our dragons have come to this land.

Con!　Cone, cone, cone. Conn?

'Ha!　You are too good to be true. I'm afraid, then it's fine if you want to lend our help to the Alliance.

　The black dragon that had been talking to Kong raised his head and spoke to me, looking at me.

I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work. What do you want me to do?

　While the dragons in front of me were talking to me, I could see from the sky that countless other dragons were landing in our vicinity. As I froze, unable to keep up with such an unusual development, Kon dexterously picked up a newly written piece of paper with his tail and showed it to me.

'Come on, it's time to fight back!

　I looked at the paper and huffed to myself. After gently nudging Kon, who was gradually becoming more and more like Gongju in terms of the scale of his work, I informed my subordinates over the radio that the start time of the night attack operation would be moved up.





---- Duchy of Raguire soldier Viewpoint----

　As I was eating, I noticed that the noise around the tent suddenly became noisy and asked the archers running nearby what was going on.

What's the matter with you?　Why are you in such a hurry?

"Idiot!　Didn't you ever see the sky in the north?　The dragon hordes have metastasized.

　A dragon?　Those lizards must live in the northern continent and other places with strong magic where humans cannot enter. There's no way they would migrate to a place like this, they were probably just mistaken for dragons when a sub-dragon flying dragon species migrated.
　After snickering at such a stupid archer's guy, I was about to return to the tent to continue eating dinner when a "dragon" fell from the sky.

"Gulululul,

　The dragon in front of me snaps its throat menacingly as it looks at me, then slams its tail to the ground. With that single swing, the ground caved in and my armor, which I had taken off and placed there, crumpled and rolled to my feet.

''Uhhhh!''

　They'll kill you if you don't let them!　Feeling in danger, I run as fast as I can while running towards the direction where the main force of the knights have pitched their tents. Desperately running, I climbed over the fence of the heavy-armored knights' encampment and entered, and in the middle of the fallen knights was 'Despair' reigning in the middle of the fallen knights.

'Are you also going to challenge me?　It's a bit of a pain in the ass to take it easy so you don't kill him.

Oh, no, I don't know why the Marvelous is here.

　There is only one black dragon in this world. It is a triple-S rated dragon, the Black High King Marvelous, which reigns supreme over all dragons. Even the brave men and women were unable to defeat the dragon in the past, but now the white dragon fell in front of me while I was stunned, feeling a lukewarm feeling between my legs.

It's a good thing that the humans over there are overwhelmed. You've done a great job," he said. By the way, what's that dirty human you're peeing on?

I don't know. I thought he was a brave man who challenged me, but he just glanced at me and pissed himself. The knight who fainted there was much fiercer than the one who fainted.

　The white dragon that calls Marvelous "you" is definitely his twin, the White Queen Rylin. She is a double S-rated dragon, and literature is replete with accounts of nations destroyed by her wrath.
　 I was prepared to die while feeling the overwhelming difference in power, when Marvelous spoke to me with a trash-looking gaze.

I'm not going to let you get away with this, human. We, the Dragon People, will assist the Alliance. Quickly!　If you mess around, I'll eat you alive.

Heeeee?

　I started running as if rushed by Marvelous, and after picking up the guy from the archers who was shitting and sitting down as well on the way, I caught the fleeing horse and ran away as fast as I could towards the front line fort where the defenders were stationed.






　In the middle of the night, the leaders of the Linkdoble Empire and the Duchy of Largile, who were feeling a sense of despair after hearing the information of the 'defeat of the Allied Forces', were thrown into confusion when they heard the information that two soldiers of Largile's army had informed them.
　The next morning, the news that the Dragon Clan, led by the Black High King Marvelous and the White Queen Lirin, had officially declared themselves hostile to the allied forces was sent from the mouths of the castle workers to the civilians in the castle, making it impossible for both countries to ignore the citizens' calls for an early ceasefire.

　In the meantime, the Capus Kingdom and the Lycurgus Kingdom, which are insisting on an all-out war, finally begin to move towards the overthrow of the allied forces.