Chapter 478
It was late at night when the Thunder King, Liana de Granz, returned to Fort Mocna.
Charlotte watched from inside the headquarters as the paladins and priests returned to Fort Mokna.
As if there were survivors who somehow managed to find them, a lot of wagons were returning from the rear of the unit.
If they found survivors, they would escort them safely to Fort Mokna in a wagon.
Not all wagons were full of people, but some wagons had people on board.
and the foremost aft of the unit.
In addition, Liana de Granz, riding a white horse, escorts the troops from the rear until the end.
spearhead in battle.
In an escort, he takes charge of the rear.
Troops cannot help but respect a commander who always fights only in the most dangerous position.
Wagons loaded with survivors are unloaded at the refugee temporary housing area and moved under the leadership of unit personnel. After calming down the people who are trembling in fear and educating them about Edina to some extent, they send them on a transport fleet to Edina.
That is the alpha and omega of Fort Moke or forward base operations.
Harriet muttered blankly as she watched the survivors get off the wagon.
“still… … . Quite a lot.”
It was Liana’s job to go out on patrol and bring survivors.
In some cases, an external operation could be completed in one day, but in some cases, it took several days to go on a very long expedition.
It’s an environment where it’s hard to find survivors, and that’s why we’re considering relocating the base, but it’s true that we can still definitely find survivors in this neighborhood. However, the number is far too small compared to before.
I don’t know if Liana returned after being out on the mission for a few days, but the number of survivors she secured exceeded 20.
Those who are rescued from an impoverished life.
Even though they came to a safe place, Charlotte was still watching the survivors who were still trembling in fear.
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“What are you doing without a word?”
Upon returning to headquarters, Liana tilted her head when told that Charlotte and Harriet had been waiting until midnight.
“Whatever it is, wait a minute, wash it.”
Charlotte doesn’t have time left either.
We still don’t know what’s wrong with Fort Mokna, and in fact it may not be a big deal. It’s just that Liana might be involved in the matter, so I’m putting things aside.
That’s why you need to finish your business as soon as possible and return.
However, when the regent came to visit, Charlotte quietly watched as he went somewhere as if he had encountered something trivial.
‘Is it a fight? No, it can’t be.’
Scared to think of that, Charlotte shook her head inwardly.
Even during the Temple days, Charlotte was not very close to Liana. She was, so it wasn’t that she didn’t know at all.
Liana de Granz.
She is the daughter of the Duke of Grantz and has electrokinesis abilities that can be called the highest in attack among superpowers.
After the death of Duke Grantz, his ability has grown to a level that transcends several dimensions.
As far as Charlotte knew, Riana’s personality was on the side of big-heartedness, and she tended not to pay attention to small things. She knows that at this point she will hate the Empire and her feelings for him will never be good.
When Liana has something to say, she just does it.
He’s not the kind of person who tries to suppress the opponent with subtle spirit fights.
Liana de Granz is a very different kind of person from Olivia Ranze.
If Olivia Ranze makes a sarcastic remark that subtly ignores her opponent, Riana just says she doesn’t like it if she doesn’t like it.
So what you’re doing right now will just be something you do without thinking.
If it were Reinhardt who was here instead of Charlotte, he would have told me to wait because he would come after washing up.
Harriet was nervous because she didn’t know what was going to happen.
how much time has passed
Liana, who had changed from a light costume to casual clothes, came out into the drawing room.
Liana, as if she hadn’t eaten properly, put the plate of sandwiches brought by her adjutant on the table and began to mumble.
Taking a bite of the sandwich, Liana stares at Charlotte.
“So, what is it?”
Liana is straightforward from the start. It is a personality that is incapable of saying things around or pretending to be in favor when it is not there.
A person who is overly direct is easy to make enemies.
However, as a person with a straightforward attitude and straightforward actions, Liana always took the lead in battle.
In this special environment, Liana is also gaining the absolute trust of most of Fort Moke and the troops thanks to her attitude of acting like an angular person.
“I heard it’s difficult to find survivors, but it looks like there are still some left.”
Harriet silently watches as Charlotte rattles the rim.
Direct Liana.
Charlotte doesn’t bring the point right away.
Only Harriet, watching the situation, felt that the two were very different people.
Liana takes a sip of water and sighs.
“Not at all. It’s a little hard to say this, but should I say that the seeds are dry? efficiency goes down. That’s why I’m trying to move the base. You know that, right?”
“Yeah, I heard you’re trying to relocate your base to another port.”
“Why do you think Fort Mokna should continue to operate? Are there still survivors around here?”
At Liana’s question, Charlotte shook her head.
“No, you, the field commander, would be the most accurate. You must be right because you have seen and experienced things.”
“It’s just a prediction that more people can be rescued by actually moving the base, but I don’t know what that will actually be like. And to lay a new foundation, you’ll have to clear out the monsters around it. It’s dangerous, but you can’t just stay here.”
We need to save more people.
In line with Reinhardt’s tone, Liana was only trying to express her opinion and act accordingly.
People respect and respect Liana.
Liana is a person far from self-interest.
Liana’s decision to seek only the most dangerous places, abandon Fort Mokna, which can be considered safe enough, and take risks by creating a new base, is clearly far from her personal desires.
“How many people are in the refugee quarter now?”
“Well, I don’t know the exact number, but I think it’s probably about one hundred and fifty, including the people we rescued today.”
If you load them on the next transport and send them to Razak, they will become residents of Edina.
“On average, survivors stay here for a few days before being transported to Lazark?”
“Well, it doesn’t matter how many days the refugees stay, it matters when the convoy arrives every three weeks. If the convoy arrives here the next day with the survivors, it’s three weeks, if it arrives a week ago, it’s a week.”
“I see.”
Charlotte nodded at Liana’s words. She was silent for a moment, as if something were preoccupied with her thoughts.
After thinking about something, Charlotte asks again.
“How many people were on the last convoy?”
“well? I think it was about eight hundred.”
“And before that?”
“hey.”
Liana narrowed her eyes at Charlotte’s question.
Charlotte looks at Liana without changing her expression.
“What are you going to do?”
“… … what?”
Liana glares at Charlotte, not hiding her displeasure.
“Isn’t that something I don’t need to hear? It’s a number anyway, it’s all written in the report, so why did you come all the way here to ask about such a small number?”
Liana puts down the sandwich she was eating and crosses her arms as she glares at Charlotte.
“Tell me the main point. what? Why are you here?”
At the stare of Liana’s enemy, Charlotte stares at Liana.
“Hmm… … .”
The reason Charlotte bothered to ring the rim was to see the other person’s attitude toward herself. whether friendly, hostile, or neutral.
However, he couldn’t stand the rim of those few words and asked directly.
Liana is direct and doesn’t even like herself. She realizes that she is right.
“According to my calculations, I have a feeling that Fort Mokna is charging more food than we actually need.”
“… … what?”
“It has been like that for quite some time. I think it’s been like that since a little less than a year ago.”
Liana’s expression hardened at Charlotte’s words. Harriet looked at Charlotte and opened her eyes wide.
With a few glances at the papers, Charlotte knew how long Port Mokna had been overcharging for food.
Fort Mokna’s food needs are basically two thousand people.
And the number of survivors living here determines the need for additional reserves of food needs.
For about a year now, Port Mokna has been overcharging for food.
“Meals are a major issue, especially combatants who are about to go into battle should eat as full as possible and eat quality meals. Until now, Edina’s situation was also there, so she was only getting the minimum supply, and now she was just trying to make it easier for her to eat. Is this such a big problem? To the extent that you have to come here and ask? Do we have to hear from you that we, fighting on the front lines, suffered a little too much?”
At the bitter words of Liana’s enemy, Charlotte nodded quietly.
“Yeah, I thought you would say that.”
“… … what?”
Liana’s expression hardens terribly at Charlotte’s nonchalant words.
Liana is straightforward. That’s why, many clues are shed in words.
Charlotte has already got a clue.
“I understand that you were aware of this problem and acknowledged that it was what you ordered.”
Only then did Riana realize that she had been pulled in by Charlotte and bit her lip.
Clues tend to spill out between words, and Charlotte had to be good at picking them up.
And Riana had no talent for that kind of thing.
“okay. I did that. so what is that Is that such a big deal?”
“You wanted to provide better quality meals to boost the morale of the soldiers, right?”
“okay.”
“Isn’t that what it is?”
“… … what?”
Charlotte calmly and calmly begins to explain.
“You said that you provided a lot of food to boost the combatants’ morale, but to do so, you must have tried to provide a high-quality diet rather than a high-quantity diet. So I would have had to ask for more meat and processed goods. But what you charge more than you need is not meat or processed meat, but very basic items like flour.”
“… … .”
“You wanted the quantity of the meal, not the quality of the meal.”
Liana de Granz’s expression is getting more and more hardened.
Charlotte calmly explains with an expressionless face.
Watching it, Harriet felt a heavy feeling as if something was stuck in her throat.
Liana said she was trying to improve the quality of her meals.
However, according to Charlotte, the quantity of meals increased, but the quality did not.
Charlotte doesn’t tell everything she knows from the start.
Waiting for the opponent’s mistake, and as if he waited, he puts forward another fact that he knows and pushes the opponent.
Grab the opponent with the words of the opponent.
“I just thought it was important to feed her to her stomach because Edina was in trouble. Meat is hard to find, so I’m going to fill up the amount with basic food… … .”
“Previously, food supplies were supplied by calculating the necessary nutrition of combat troops and calculating the amount of food for two ordinary people. So there is no reason to supply more flour or rice. I couldn’t even eat it all. No matter how much they binge eat, the troops in Fort Mokna can’t consume the overcharged ingredients in the first place.”
-bang!
Liana slams the table violently, glaring at Charlotte.
– Pajik! Paperweight!
A light flashed from Liana’s forehead, and she glared at Charlotte with bloody eyes.
“What do you mean?”
Charlotte still looks at Liana with a calm expression.
“Simple. There were actually more mouths to feed here than Edina reported.”
“A lot… … Dany?”
Harriet’s question felt an ominous premonition.
“… … .”
Liana’s silence.
Charlotte continues.
“A few days or weeks. They had to feed them somehow, so they needed more food, but for some reason they didn’t reach Edina. In fact, many of the survivors who were here never made it to Fort Mokna. That’s why we were charged more for food than we actually needed. That was the amount that people who were not documented had to eat.”
Liana is silent at Charlotte’s words.
“you.”
Charlotte asks quietly.
“What did they do?”
“… … .”
“What did you do with the people who should have come to Edina but couldn’t?”
Liana is silent as she glares at Charlotte.
How long was the silence?
Charlotte knows that Liana is far from her personal desires.
Then overcharging for food would have been necessary.
If you bother to hide the reason and tell lies, it must be because you need to lie.
It must be because there is a truth that cannot be said.
Liana had a hard expression on her face and slowly opened her mouth.
“… … Killed him.”
“What, what?!”
Harriet was startled by Lianna’s words that broke the silence.
“I couldn’t put Edina in danger anymore.”
“… … .”
Charlotte nodded quietly, as if she had expected it.
