Isekai Tensei – Kimi to no Saikai made Nagai koto Nagai koto

Chapter 75: Raising and dropping

The enemies are gigantic and large in number. The outcome of challenging them with simple hand to hand combat is plain as day.

No matter how many great, powerful people there are, the quality of the armies is different.

Against the brutal and strong demon army corps, most of the new soldiers in humanity’s side are fighting in their first battle right now, in this defensive battle.

However, I wonder why?

Those guys are scared to die, but they aren’t just staying frightened.

Every single one of them are showing expressions that say they’re going to do it.

“Now, soldiers of the prideful humanity’s great allied forces, goooooo! Most of you are new soldiers, but that doesn’t have any connection with the outcome of this battle! That’s because, from the moment you became soldiers, you became the treasure of humanity! Deadly swords for your country! And, my comrades who I hold absolute trust in!” (?)

“““““Ooooooooooooooooooh!!””””” (Soldiers)

“Crush the only eyes these cyclopes that shamelessly appeared have, and carve your thoroughly tempered fangs of humanity into them!” (?)

“““““Oooooooooooooooh!!””””” (Soldiers)

There’s a man that looks like a general. He has bright red swept black hair, wild eyes, and a countless number of scars on his face, giving the impression of a veteran.

“Ku~, general Sokushi sure is getting fired up~.”

“Yeah. The fact that he stayed in the capital was a blessing in disguise.”

“Uoooo, the princess is fighting! We can’t just stay scared!”

“It is my ambition to devote my body to humanity!”

“Both of you, you’re going too forwards! This is a defensive battle! If we just hold on until reinforcements come, it’s our win!”

“I’ll smash those big ass things with cannons!”

The never-ending yells of humans and sounds of bombardment.

Among them, there are even guys that sprung at the cyclopes without being afraid of the difference in physique.

“I knew it! Although these guys have amazing power, their movements are dull! We can do this!”

“Alright, Barts killed the commander of a group! All that’s left is the small fry that lost their commander! Mow them down!”

“Okay, seventh unit, depart!”

“Eighth unit, depart!”

Against the cyclopes that show the threat of their destructive power by relentlessly breaking buildings, humanity splendidly responded with a coordinated attack with their numbers and power.

New soldiers? That doesn’t matter. Those guys were thoroughly tempered through a long time of training.

“Earth magician unit! Take away their footing!”

“Ice magician unit! Seal their movements!”

“Wind magician unit! Take away their vision!”

“Flame magician unit! Exterminate them!”

The paved ground splits, extremely cold icicles impale the cyclopes’ limbs, tornadoes cover the enemies’ vision, and finally, a huge lump of flames drop onto them.

“We shot theeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!”

“Alright, take that you damn monsters!”

“Don’t underestimate humans!”

They’re strong. If there’s anyone that thinks soldiers are just a waste of tax, they should look at this.

Small people are defeating large enemies. It’s so classic and makes you feel refreshed.

“Agigigigigigi.” (Cyclops)

“Huh? My body, no move?” (Cyclops)

“Huuuuuurts.” (Cyclops)

The cyclops race’s huge bodies and power are certainly incredible.

However, the intelligence they possess isn’t that high.

Of course, there are humanoid halves like Ragaia among them and higher kinds that have outstanding intellect.

Otherwise, making a country wouldn’t have been possible.

However, most of the cyclopes attacking the capital right now, are ordinary soldiers.

As long as they don’t get caught by the enemy, although they’re new soldiers, those guys can handle them fine, since they are trained soldiers after all.

――― They can do it!

All of humanity watching this probably thought this strongly.

However, at that moment, an ominous voice resounded throughout the world.

“Myyy, how strong, yeah~, awesome. Well~, I guess it’s fine, right?” (Mackey)

It’s from Mackey Mouse, who’s relaxing on an elevated place like a spectator.

I don’t know what his bare face looks like since he’s wearing a costume, but at the very least, he doesn’t look surprised.

On the contrary, he keeps talking in a way that sounds like he has a faint smile.

“They haven’t passed through the carnage, but they’ve gone through training and have high morale. In this kind of situation, defeating the head is probably the easiest, but their general is awesome too. She’s on par to prince Ragaia~.” (Mackey)

“Eh~, what should we do, Mackey. At this rate, the cyclopes are just going to be pitiful~.” (Maney)

“Kufufufu, no problem, Maney-chua~n. I told you, didn’t I? There’s a difference in the quality of the armies.” (Mackey)

What is it? What’s he talking about?

At that moment, Ura, the only one among us that have experienced war, noticed something.

“Hmm? Wai-, wait a minute!” (Ura)

“Ah? What’s up, Ura.” (Velt)

“Well, er, although humanity’s great allied forces are continuing a steady advance, they are protruding in front too much!” (Ura)

Protruding in front too much? I look up at the reflection while thinking that, and it certainly seemed like it.

“Alright! I can’t lose to you guys either!”

“Yeah, let’s have a race to see who defeats the most!”

“Sounds good~, then let’s bet our dessert on it!”

After she said that, I realized it too.

In the first place, this battle is a defensive battle.

They just need to continue protecting the capital and wait for reinforcements to come.

However, looking at the soldiers on the reflection, their thought of ‘protecting’ changed to ‘defeating’.

The commander immediately realized this too. Seeing this situation, Shalt was shocked.

“Wha-, the battle formation is crumbling! What are you doing, everyone! You’re going out too far! Quickly return to your positions and commit to defence!” (Shalt)

However, Shalt’s voice didn’t reach them. Their positiveness from the enthusiasm and their thoughts that said, “even I can do this,” made them come out too forwards.

What if this was a trap that the enemy made?

“Nu-, wait a minute! Which unit just jumped out right now!” (Sokushi)

The general called Sokushi at the back of the capital realized this abnormality slower than Shalt, who’s in the front line.

“The, the tenth, eleventh and even the archer unit on the walls went out!”

“What was that! Who gave those instructions! Call them back immediately!”

“Those guys are probably moving on their own! Oi, everyone, return quickly! If everyone goes out like that―――――”

And by that time, the enemy’s arrows had already reached.

“Gyaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Gepua!”

“Gah!”

At that time, the screams of humans could be heard in the capital.

The thing is, their voices and figures were all reflected from the beginning to end.

“Kukuku, what stupid humans.” (High Cyclops)

“They thought they could win a war with just momentum.” (High Cyclops)

The cyclopes there were different to the huge cyclopes swarming the capital.

Their bodies aren’t that different to humans. They’re even wearing armour and helmets, unlike the huge ones that have bare upper bodies.

Single eyes you can see from under the helmet, fearless smiles and hoisted swords that are dyed with red from sucking up the blood of the human corpses in front of them.

“Wha, you are, hi, high cyclopes! How did you come this far!”

Several hundred soldiers of the High Cyclops race surrounded the headquarters where the general was taking command. They’re human-sized, armed and have outstanding intellect.

“Bastards, when did you!” (Sokushi)

Sokushi, who’s full of anger, sends bloodlust to them, but the High Cyclopes stayed calm.

“Kukuku, every single one of them are getting motivated to do stuff~, but the defences in their headquarters is virtually empty.” (High Cyclops)

“Hah, what are you doing trying to attack, when you’re supposed to be defending. What foolish humans.” (High Cyclops)

It’s something that even I knew.

War is about killing the general.

“Don’t underestimate me, you damn one-eyes! My strong sword that I used to rampage around the Divine Being Continent with, will not be destroyed by schemes from bastards of your level-!” (Sokushi)

“Hahahahaha, who cares, you elderly small fry clinging to his glory in the past!” (High Cyclops)

Against general Sokushi that slashes at them, one High Cyclops comes to the front. In his hand, he’s holding a huge, thorned metal rod that doesn’t suit his physique.

Underneath his armour, I can see bright red skin.

However, in the next moment, not only his skin, even that High Cyclops’ armour becomes dyed in red.

“Shaaaaaaaaa!”

A water fountain of blood spouts up high.

Only a human’s lower half remained there.

“Kukuku, however, you had a pretty good spirit, old geezer. Let your meat become bird feed, and act as nourishment to the world.” (High Cyclops)

Human flesh drops down.

That’s the man that was inspiring humanity and the young soldiers just before.

“Ge, general Sokushi!”

“Uooooo, you bastards!”

His close aids that were next to the general jumped at them with anger, but all of them were cut, crushed, and died.

Among them, the red High Cyclops that killed the general raised his fist and made a declaration.

“General Sokushi of humanity’s great allied forces has been defeated by the vice chief of the one-eyed demon group, Redrock!” (Redrock)

The reflection being shown on the sun doesn’t just give the world hope.

It also shows despair at the same time.

“Wha-, really! Our headquarters was destroyed!?”

“The general! Was the general defeated? No, no way!”

“Tha, that asshole monster! Damn it, what are we going to do without a general!”

“What happened to princess Forna?”

“Princess Forna is in a one-to-one fight against Ragaia! Wait a minute, what are we supposed to do without a commander!”

The death of the general flowed throughout the whole of the capital.

The young soldiers that were originally jumping out in high spirits were in intense agitation and confusion. The enemy didn’t let go of that situation.

“Now, the enemy soldiers are just soldiers that lost command! My prideful cyclops brethren! Trample the foolish humans!” (Redrock)

““““““Buooooooooooooooooooo!!!!”””””

At that moment, completely different to a few minutes ago, all the brave war cries the humans raised disappeared entirely, and instead, the screams of people whose fighting spirit was broken, resounded throughout the world.

“Damn it, re, reorganize order! Quickly gather the remaining unitgyabuhebua.”

“Co, commander! In a back street like this! Damn it, how dare you do that to commanubeau.”

From then on, it was just hell.

Cyclopes found confused soldiers one after the other, trampled them, smashed them, and then,

“Sto, stop it! Le, let me go! Let me go! Noo, nooooo, I don’t want to diepeku.”

The humans they caught were simply torn in pieces.

In Asakura Ryuuma’s age, mosaics or restrictions would be on that gruesome sight, but unfortunately, everything was live broadcasted and had no such thing.

“Ahhyahyahya! Man~, the Maakai Demon Kingdom seriously awesome~! The moment humanity thought they had hope, they broke it from the roots. Maney~, do you know what they call this?” (Mackey)

“U~nn, Maney~ doesn’t know~.” (Maney)

“The answer is~, raising and dropping.” (Mackey)

That was the moment a merciless war started.

TL Note: Just going to note that Sokushi (the general’s name) means instant death.