The Saga of Tanya the Evil - Volume 02 - Plus Ultra by Carlo Zen

Author:Carlo Zen
Language: spa
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

GARRISON OF THE 203RD BATTALION, BATTALION HQ

It had crystallized into something pure and tranquil…a madness that had precipitated as a faintly black sediment, then festered and condensed.

Those nightmarish eyes seemed to invite insanity into everything they fell upon. It was all you could do to resist the bewitching gaze if it landed on you.

“Your orders, please, Colonel.”

Lieutenant Colonel von Lergen exhaled lightly and finally drew air into his lungs again. Sunlight streamed in through the window.

It seemed a warm day for winter, but his body felt like it was enveloped in cold.

The reason was simple—the incarnation of madness before his eyes.

“Major von Degurechaff, you’re being transferred.”

Preparations were under way for a large operation on the Rhine front—planned and drafted with an unprecedented amount of leverage from Major General von Rudersdorf, deputy director of Operations, and the support of Major General von Zettour.

So they needed reinforcements.

And they would need support for those reinforcements.

Of course, as a bit of an obnoxious errand, there was a court-martial waiting for her at Central—a formality. After all, though she hadn’t realized it was a neutral country’s boat, she had sunk a Commonwealth submarine as a suspicious vessel in an unfortunate accident. That said, it would be a court-martial in form only.

“Of course, I can’t say it won’t be a bother…but it’s really mostly a formality. I’m expecting your best.”

“…So this’ll be a chance to redeem my reputation?”

But the little major before him didn’t make an effort to understand any of that. Apparently, she was taking the unofficial transfer orders he’d shown her as bad news. Maybe she was also a bit nervous about the trial.

She had a warped sense of responsibility, but the thought of being called to account made her shiver. A mere major had to take responsibility for everything. He had a strange feeling that something more horrifying than chilly air was blowing through the room. Or maybe like he had been hurled into the fissure separating normal and abnormal.

“You succeeded in locating the enemy unit. It’s not your fault.

Nobody was asking any more than that of you.”

“I had our sworn enemy right in front of me, and I let them get away. Next time, next time, I’ll get them for sure.”

His intercession didn’t accomplish anything. But the words weren’t just for show.

That her unit had located the enemy at all in those horrible weather conditions was impressive. They had also dealt some damage to the enemy marine mages.

Even if the results were not perfect, there was probably only one person who didn’t acknowledge them as acceptable.

“Major?”

“Don’t worry. I won’t repeat this mistake. I swear to you that it won’t happen again.”

But that person wouldn’t acknowledge anything less than perfect.

Horrifyingly, her frame of mind seemed to be a combination of bloodlust and patriotism molded into the form of a soldier’s psyche.

Rather than a soldier, she was more a doll shaped like one.

The words she repeated over and over, practically delirious, exuded a strange urgency.

One time—just one time—she had gotten merely satisfactory results, and this was her state.

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