The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress: Volume 4 [Complete] by SOW

Author:SOW
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 5: Third Unit

Five hours had passed since the Schutzstaffel started the attack on the development bureau. It had breached the front gate and Schutzstaffel soldiers were attacking, furiously and repeatedly. The security guards were resisting boldly under Sophia’s leadership, but suffered many deaths and injuries. Finally, high-speed combat vehicles had destroyed over half the vaunted bulkheads and pushed Sophia and her guards back near the deepest part of the bureau.

“Take thaaat!!”

With a fierce boom, Sophia herself fired the Gerlitz, with shells striking the center of a looming Kentaur combat vehicle.

“More shells!”

Sophia thought she could finish the Kentaur off with one more blast. She ordered the weapon reloaded in a hurry, but Sariya responded in a pained voice.

“We don’t have any more!”

“Argh!”

The new weapon, of which Daian was so proud, had indeed performed excellently in combat, but it was still just a prototype. The Gerlitz was unprecedented as a weapon, but it could only hold a limited number of shells, so it couldn’t withstand a long battle.

“We have to abandon this position! Lower the bulkhead, plant explosives, and plug the corridor with rubble! At least we can buy some time!”

Sophia ordered retreat and kicked aside the useless Gerlitz.

“Bury this in the debris! It’s useless!”

So far, Sophia and her guards had just been able to hold off the two Schutzstaffel companies surrounding them. However, faced with successive waves of reinforcements, the situation had grown dire.

“Let’s go, Sariya!”

“Y-Yes, Ma’am!”

The only consolation was the high morale of the security guards. Most of them had fought under Sophia since the Great War and had long military experience. Sariya, however, was a new soldier, recruited just one month ago.

The Schutzstaffel had instigated the fight, but Sophia’s stubbornness was partially responsible for this battle. Retreating was an option out of concern for the lives of the soldiers.

“You’re unlucky... Sorry to involve you in this.”

“Don’t talk like that, Major!”

Sariya, answered Sophia’s concern with a smile that didn’t suit the situation.

“But... you just joined the military.”

Sariya was about twenty years old. This battle was unfortunate for her since she finished her training after the end of the Great War.

“Uh... no. I joined twelve years ago.”

“Oh. That’s surprising... What?!”

Sophia almost let the answer go, but then she barked at Sariya in surprise.

“More than ten years?! You’ve been in since the Great War?! Are you kidding?! That’s longer than me!!”

“Um, I’m type three.”

“Oh!”

Sophia cursed her own thoughtlessness as she watched Sariya dip her head in embarrassment.

Sophia hadn’t merely made Sariya say it out loud. She had grimaced when she heard the words “type three.”

“Twelve years... So you were about eight years old?!”

“Yes...”

In Wiltia’s military system, type-one soldiers were volunteers and type-two were draftees. Type-three soldiers had lost their parents or were abandoned and then culled and trained from a young age.

Sariya’s youth must have been far from happy. Sophia’s response amounted to treating her with pity.

“Oh, but don’t worry! I’m thankful to the military! I was about to die and they put me in the hospital. After that, I was physically unfit, so they let me work at a national factory.

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