Don’t lie. If you tell too many lies, you might even believe your lies.
——Folk proverbs from the Britannian Empire.
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After watching the soldiers of the squad leave, Darlena turned her head and looked at the middle-aged man at her feet.
After the soldiers of this squad left, the middle-aged man's wife and son rushed over and hugged the middle-aged man tightly in his arms. At the same time, his wife and son looked at Darlene with fearful eyes from time to time.
Bathed in their fearful gaze, Darlena sighed lightly, then left the place and continued to walk towards Duke Qishuval's mansion.
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As soon as I arrived at the door of Duke Qishuwar's mansion, the pungent smell of medicine came to my face.
The mansion was filled with wounded people, and the wounded people lie all over the corner of the mansion.
A famous military doctor and the person who came to visit the disease walked back and forth between the injured and shuttled through.
This is not the first time Darlena has been here. Darlena visited Yara once two days ago, so she knew where Yara was, and Darlena walked straight to the third floor of the mansion.
Soon, Darlena followed the stairs to the 3rd floor.
However, as he walked towards the room where Yara was, Darlena passed a room where the door was not closed.
The room where the door was not closed attracted Darlena's attention.
To be precise, it should be someone in this room that attracted Darlena's attention.
Darlena found an acquaintance in this room.
"Lena?"
Darlena exclaimed, and quickly approached the room.
The acquaintance Darlena found in this room was her acquaintance in Delan's Undead Squad - Lena.
All the furniture in this room had long been emptied, and the floor was covered with blankets one by one, and the injured were lying on the blankets to rest and receive treatment from the military doctors.
Lina was sitting on her blanket at this time, looking at the sky outside the window, as if in a daze.
Darlena quickly walked to Lina's side, squatted down and asked her in a concerned tone:
"Lina, you were injured too? Where were you injured? Is it serious?"
Darlena said, looking up and down at Lena.
However, the more Darlena looked at her, the more strange she felt.
Because no matter how she looked, she did not find any wounds or bandages on Lina's body.
After Darlena finished speaking, Lina slowly withdrew her gaze that was cast into the sky outside the window and looked at Darlena beside her.
"Ah, it's Darlena, long time no see."
"Well, it's been a long time since I've never met you recently. I'll tell you why you haven't met you recently. It turns out that you were also injured and entered the injured camp. What? How about your injury? Where did you hurt?"
"Dalina..."
Lina did not answer Darlena's question.
Instead, he suddenly apologized to Darlena.
"Dalina...I'm sorry..."
"Hmm?" Darlena looked at Lina who suddenly apologized to her with a puzzled look on her face, "What's wrong? Why did you suddenly apologize to me? Did you do something that's sorry for me?"
I don't know if it's Darlena's illusion.
She always felt that Lina's eyes were strange at this moment...
It's unspeakable weird.
Lina's eyes seemed to be looking at her.
But it seems that I'm not looking at her...
"I told you before-the war we are engaged in is just, right?"
After hearing Lina's question, Darlena was a little stunned at first, and then quickly answered:
"Well, you did tell me before. You told me that the 'aura' offensive we are now in is just."
After capturing and slaughtering Ulan City, Dallena has not yet walked out of the shadow of massacre of civilians.
At that time, she felt very depressed. One night when she went to the bathroom, she met Lina who also came to the bathroom.
After meeting Lina by chance, Darlena confides her troubles to Lina.
After hearing her trouble, Lina told Darlena that the war we are currently engaged in is just, and she uses this to enlighten Darlena.
However, Lina's enlightenment was of no use, because Darlena felt that her enlightenment was inconsistent.
In the end, Lina's guidance did not have any effect. In the end, under the erosion of time, the shadow brought to Darlena by the massacre of Ulan City finally faded a lot.
Darlena didn't understand why Lina suddenly mentioned this matter again.
"I was actually lying to you... and also lying to myself..."
"Huh?" Darlena looked at Lina in confusion.
"The ‘Aurora’ offensive is just—I actually lie to you. While lying to you, I also lie to me."
For some reason, Lina's tone suddenly became a little more crying.
"Lina...what are you talking about?"
Lina suddenly raised her hands and covered her face tightly.
"When the superiors issued the order to massacre the city of Ulan and when I put my sword on the first civilian I was going to kill, I kept saying to myself: 'The war I am now is just, and what I do now is just'."
"Repeatedly and repeatedly to myself, 'The war I am now is just, and what I am now is just'."
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"If I hadn't kept saying this in my heart, I would have no way to wave my sword at the civilians with peace of mind..."
Lina suddenly tightened her hands covering her face.
She was very strong, as if she wanted to tear off her skin.
The voice became hoarse and hoarse.
Lina's current strangeness scared Darlena.
Darlena hurriedly held Lena's shoulders and said anxiously:
"Lina, what's wrong with you? Don't do this! You're so scary!"
However, Lina ignored Darlena and continued:
"The result was repeated so many times that I even believed it myself..."
"After repeating this sentence in my heart for thousands of times, I actually feel that the war we are currently in, our behavior of massacring civilians is just... It is more convenient and at ease to kill civilians..."
"I also started to preach to you, Darlena, telling you that the war we are currently in is just, and it makes you not need to blame and sad for the massacre of civilians..."
"Darlena...is this war we are going on now... really just?"
Darlena lowered her eyes and was silent.
Darlena did not answer this question from Lena.
Because Darlena didn't know what the answer to this question was.
Just as Darlena was thinking about how to answer Lena's question, Lena suddenly tightened her hands and fingers that were holding her face tightly, scratching blood marks on her face, and letting out a shrill wail.
Chapter completed!