Hannoic War
Cut stomach (part 13)

"When does a war end? That's when a side wins"

- Lelouch vi Britannia

A cut stomach

"We have to accept a ceasefire and a peace agreement, this is our chance to rest from the war and stabilize the country" said Mr Faudav of the Garuman family, speaking to the finance minister.

"Mr Faudav is right, they are exhausted and so are we, this is an opportunity" said Mr. Cherralas, a great priest of the old god Auris who does not even remember his own age.

"Victa is more chaotic and exhausted than we are, Mr. Toran has returned from his northern exile against the Dwarves and he will stabilize his power again by way of fighting the senate" ,said Regio while holding a letter containing news of the coming of Taitus keDalmatia, "the Senate is indeed divided now but soon they will unite and fight Toran again to put Victa in even greater chaos."

Chelarras then fell silent for a moment thinking about something but then he turned his head towards Regio with a serious face.

"I mean our master will accept the truce first but not the peace treaty and wait for our opportunity to attack?" asked Chelarras.

"That's right" Casca said quickly and smiled as he took something from his clothes, "The Victa is divided with the nations they conquered."

Casca then shows a knife with a strange pattern carved on it.

He then put it on the table and all of Kounsil near the table could see.

"Is this Mr Casca?" asked Frudarr.

"This is a sign and a message" Casca replied with a smile.

"Message?" said Regio.

"Yes, when viewed from his tattoo is a distinctive pattern of the culture of the people of Regarda in the southwest who conquered Victa about 50 years ago" said Casca.

"I mean sir? This is the sign that the Regarda resistance group will rebel against the Victa for us?" Chelarras said.

"Well right, master priest" , smiled cunningly Casca, "the Regarda rebellion will be in the southwest."

Casca said while putting a chess pawn on the table.

"Then political turmoil by the senate" said Casca, putting one more chess pawn on the table, "these are two great pawns of opportunity that we can use gentlemen" ''She smiled cunningly.

Chelarras then swallowed his saliva.

While the Regio only has an uncomfortable face and teach Casca.

*Always..always this person is like that, I never knew what that person was thinking since childhood*, thought Regio.

Casca then grinned wider.

"It's a...chance.." ' said Casca.

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"Are you all right?" said Charla, tying a bandage on a soldier's thigh to stop the bleeding on his forehead.

"Let's be fine." said the soldier limply.

Her thigh was injured with a large wood splinter and although it had been removed by Charla it seems that the infection had already spread.

And sometimes Charla is forced to do what she does not like is cut the patient's body parts.

Their moans and how they ask that they do not want to be disabled.

Charla hates it and wants to heal every patient until they are completely healed.

"Agh!"

"Water! The water! I need water!"

"Look! Buk up! Blood out!"

Troops grew as more troops were wounded.

The wounded were being treated more and more as troops moved across the border, a hospital in the town of Ballerius with a capacity of only 250-300.

While some troops who stopped by the city of Ballerius increased the number of troops wounded in this hospital to thousands.

"How many more were injured?" asked Charla to one of the hospital's nurses.

"I don't know buk, maybe there are about 700-1000 more" said the nurse.

Charla only taught this number, he had treated more than 3,000 patients within 4 days.

"Good, the amount is quite a bit" Charla said firmly.

Then the troops walked over and with chatter brought them.

"Haha! You know how brave he was at the battle of Volaria field" said a soldier.

"Ha! Volaria field battle was not famous bro" said another soldier.

The noisy soldiers were quite disturbing to the patients. Even so they seem to want to visit patients who are their friends.

"We ask sister yuk where is the fucking guy?" asked one soldier, another soldier-friend.

"Don't you think there's only one name in the world, if we ask the sisters, we'll be confused" said the soldier.

"So, are we here for free?" said another soldier.

Charla noticed the group of soldiers, she quite disliked their presence which bothered other patients.

"What group of family soldiers are they from?" asked Charla to confirm to the nurse beside her.

"If that were true, they were the army of the family of Garius that the general Lord Vesius left here.because the lord general of Vesius was commanding his own hunting of bandits" ,the nurse said in a weak-sounding voice.

"He's commanding the bandit hunt himself? It was only fitting that he could be friends with Vespasian" Charla said, smiling, "So? Who is in charge of the Garius family's army here?" asked Charla once again to the nun.

"Yes-which I heard she gave command of one of the nobles of the Merald family" said the nun.

"You don't know his name other than he's from the Merald family?" Charla said.

"I-he's buk ma-sorry I don't know" said the nurse nervously.

Then a soldier was heard running with his armour making a loud noise.

"Oi! You people! General Vesius has come!" called a soldier who shouted to his friends, "You vanguard troops are not you!? You are told to march to greet the general of Vesius!"

"Oi Rerarr aren't you a vanguard trooper? If I'm not bro" said one of the soldiers to his friend.

"Oh yes! Jesus!" said the soldier as he ran quickly.

Their steps were heard between the hospital and quite noisy.

*Just the guy was being talked about.*, Charla thought in her heart.

"Suster wait a minute, I'm going out" Charla said, then stood up.

"ah! B-good buk" said the nurse weakly, "wait! Where are you going buk!? A buk?"

and soon Charla steps away from the hospital remembering something she wanted to talk about with her uncle Tairar.

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The owl flags fluttered and troops with silver armours stepped in with their horses.

Then one by one the vanguard troops lined up neatly welcoming their generals.

While some prisoners were accompanied by troops, namely Pruasarr Bee.

"We were in a meeting with other nobles, and we went to the capital" Vesius said from afar with the sound of his horse's footsteps.

"My master this is a direct order from your father, we must immediately lead to the capital" said Wale seen he walked beside Vesius who was riding a horse.

"I've told you how many times Wale, if I don't go in touch with other nobles about this war then I will offend many powerful families in Victa" Vesius said as he got off his horse.

His stomach was fat and big enough that he needed to be taken down from his horse with a box and a few servants.

Soldiers lined up to greet him.

But Vesius paid no heed to the marching troops welcoming him and went straight into the gates of the city.

"Yeah!!!" the cry of one of the little folk surprised many.

Then in front of the housing right in front of the gate where Vesius was walking.

People are watching something.

"What is that?" asked Vesius, "why is that?"

Then Vesius who got off his horse approached the crowd and followed Wale from behind.

"Surge! Young master of the Garius family is passing by!" said one of the Vesius soldiers.

The peasants and the common people also moved aside and were eliminated by the soldiers.

The crowd stepped aside and Vesius managed to pass through despite some common folk bothering him.

When Vesius got to the place where the crowd noticed he was then surprised until it repeated.

Tairur Ohara died with his armour cut off and his stomach filled with blood flowing.

His eyes were dead and empty, as was his dead body.

Then Charla also appeared to break through the crowd of corpses.

Charla came out of the hospital while she was walking and saw a small crowd of people on the street watching something, she came straight here.

"Uncle!" , cried Charla with a spoonful and immediately kneeled to look at her corpse.

Vesius and Charla knew the man.

Tairur is Charla's favorite uncle, Tairur has been good with his niece since childhood and spoils Charla.

While Vesius himself knew Tairur as a person who married Vesius' aunt which was a marriage alliance between the two families.

Tairur was also good enough for Vesius even though in his eyes he was a weakling.

But his death makes the two men pretentious and shocked, they see the semblance of the dead body of Tairur.

His death will shake Victa and the entire family in Victoria.