Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Volume 1 by Yoshiki Tanaka

Author:Yoshiki Tanaka
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4215-8763-9
Publisher: VIZMedia
Published: 2016-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

IV

The imperial military’s Iserlohn Fleet had been roaming about the corridor’s obstacle- and danger-filled interior seeking the enemy.

The communications officers had been hard at work trying to raise the fortress, and at last, turning pale, they called for Commander von Seeckt. Having eliminated the persistent jamming waves, they had finally restored communications, but what they had received from the fortress was a transmission saying, “A mutiny has broken out among the men. Requesting assistance.”

“A mutiny inside the fortress?” Von Seeckt clucked his tongue. “Can’t that incompetent von Stockhausen even control his own men?”

Von Seeckt’s feelings of superiority were being tickled by the polite request for aid. When he thought about how this would leave his colleague indebted to him in no small measure, he felt delighted all the more.

“Putting out the fire at our feet has priority. All ships, head back to Iserlohn immediately.”

“Wait just a moment,” someone replied to von Seeckt’s order.

The voice was so quiet as to cast a pall of gloom over the bridge, and yet it riveted the entire room. When von Seeckt saw the officer who had come out before him, an expression welled up on his face of open hatred and opposition. That salt-and-pepper hair, those deathly pale cheeks—it’s Captain von Oberstein again!

“I don’t recall asking your opinion, Captain.”

“I am aware of that. If I may, however?”

“… What do you want?”

“This is a trap. I think it may be better not to return.”

Von Seeckt was silent for a long moment.

Without a word, the commander drew in his lower jaw and glared hatefully at an unpleasant subordinate who said unpleasant things in an unpleasant tone of voice.

“It appears to me that every little thing you see is a trap in your eyes.”

“Excellency, please listen.”

“That’s enough out of you! All ships, come about and head for Iserlohn at combat velocity two. This is a great chance to put those space moles in our debt.”

His broad back moved away from von Oberstein.

“Small men who are full of anger but have no true courage are not worth talking to.”

He spat those words with cool contempt, and von Oberstein turned on his heel and left the bridge. No one tried to stop him.

After stepping into an exclusive elevator that reacted only to the voiceprints of officers, von Oberstein began to descend through the massive ship, equivalent in size to a sixty-story building, heading toward its lowest level.

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