Do Your Own Revolution-Chapter 136

#136

Bang-! Bang-!

The battlefield was covered in flames everywhere.

The young Republic army officer serving as company commander was sprinting through the devastated wheat field while firing his pistol wildly.

His target was an Imperial mage who was fleeing from him.

After a brief chase, one of the randomly fired bullets pierced through the man’s back.

“Argh?!”

The Imperial mage collapsed to the ground before he could defend himself.

With his magical power depleted and the side effects of magic bullets piling up, symptoms of Magical Power Exhaustion had set in.

“Got you-!”

“Damn, never thought I’d get shot in the back by a Republic dog…!”

The man sneered as he lay face-down.

Seeing this, the Republic army officer’s face contorted with unrestrained rage.

A mage wearing the rank of Corporal.

That one person had thrown his entire platoon into a pit of fire.

“I-it’s over! You Imperial devil!”

He couldn’t let his guard down.

His opponent was a mage who could deflect bullets with his bare body and kill people with a gesture.

Though his gun hand was trembling uncontrollably, the officer forced himself to steady it as he shouted.

“I-I am Republic Army Second Lieutenant Michael! I’ll kill you myself and avenge my platoon members who died by your ha-hands…!”

“Shut that mouth.”

The man spat those words and screamed at him while coughing up blood as if poisoned by gas.

“What right do you bastards have to say such things?! Do you even know what you Republic scum did to us?!”

It was Republic soldiers who raped his mother during the war ten years ago.

It was also the Republic who crushed his father’s head with an axe.

They were the ones who stomped his three-year-old sister to death with their military boots.

They were the ones who threw his childhood friend, whom he’d promised to marry when they grew up, into a pit of fire!

They were the ones who burned down his hometown that, though poor, had been happy!

All of it was done by you Republic bastards!

“I’ll never forgive you. I’ll kill you all. Every last one of you Republic vermin, without leaving a single one…!”

When he first awakened his magical power, he saw it as a kind of divine oracle.

That he had been given a chance to avenge his family.

That the reason he survived was solely for that purpose.

“You people…!”

As he was screaming at the enemy before him—

“Ugh, urgh…!”

When he saw the face of the officer who had shot him in the back, he felt all his strength drain away.

“…Ha, damn it all.”

Even being generous, the officer couldn’t be more than mid-teens.

Officer my ass.

He was just a child soldier.

“Kill me.”

Having been poisoned by gas, there was no hope of survival anyway.

No, perhaps he thought this was for the best.

Kill because you were killed, die because you killed.

After rushing forward endlessly like that without stopping, he had finally grown tired.

‘Maybe… it’s time to rest.’

“Six hundred and seventy-four… Damn. Couldn’t even reach my goal in the end.”

He’d hoped to kill at least a thousand before facing his family, but to end in a place like this…

As he closed his eyes thinking that, the sobbing boy officer barely managed to aim his pistol.

Just as his trembling hand was about to pull the cold trigger—

“I-I…!”

BOOM–!

A massive steel foot simultaneously crushed both men who had been facing each other.

A reflection on revenge. The first glimpse into an enemy’s inner world.

The two soldiers, each carrying their own stories, vanished in an instant, leaving behind only scraps of flesh scattered on the ground.

Though tragic, it wasn’t particularly unusual.

Isn’t this what war is, after all?

– Ah…

And on the plains strewn with similar pieces of flesh.

Standing alone on the mountain of corpses was a giant steel colossus woven from armor plates and mechanical devices.

Pshhhhh-!

Boom- Boom-

A massive body over 10 meters tall.

Mechanical sounds emanated from it, along with heat and steam spurting from various places.

The red light beaming from its head kept darting around as if searching for something.

– Eugene… Lorentz…

A name flowed from the speakers embedded throughout the machine.

Perhaps everyone living in the Republic would know that name.

Eugene Lorentz.

The name of the one who had dragged the Republic into the abyss of war and shattered its heart.

– Eugene… Eugene…!

A light of rage flickered in the giant’s red eyes.

The root cause who had massacred him and his comrades, and left him to fall into the secretary general’s clutches.

And Marshal Kalinin, who should have reformed the Republic and ushered in a new era.

The one who had driven his father to death…!

– Where are you! Eugene—!

KUOOO-!

The horrifically distorted voice shook the plains as it unleashed directionless rage.

The intelligence and dignity of his living days were gone, leaving only a god of destruction filled with vengeance and fury.

Behind his back as he roared at the sky, dozens of airships painted the heavens.

Around his feet marched thousands of armored infantry in black reinforced suits.

The black army marched east, wreathed in poison gas and chemical weapons.

It was the Westraine Republic’s 8th Guards Army, the ‘Black Star’ Corps.

***

“Hmm~ Hmm hmm~”

In a Republic airship crossing the southern plains.

After briefly watching the Black Star Corps marching east, the humming man turned his full attention to a coffee pot brewing in the corner of the table. ṛаŊÔᛒЁṣ

Drip drip-

The man poured hot water over the coffee grounds in the filter.

After meticulously preparing two cups of coffee, he admired his creation before offering one to the person sitting across from him.

“The mobility test was successful. No witnesses remained, and the performance was beyond excellent.”

“…Excellent? You can say ‘excellent’ after witnessing that scene?!”

In contrast to his relaxed expression, the face of the man sitting opposite was twisted in anger.

Below the airship lay the Republic’s wheat fields, stained with flames, corpses, and poison gas.

Lieutenant General Rodion, commanding the southern front, shouted with a trembling voice at the man who had brought the coffee.

“My orders were to halt the enemy vanguard’s advance and defend our positions! I never once ordered you to turn the southern breadbasket into that state!”

Lieutenant General Rodion’s eyes were fixed on the plains that had turned pitch black.

The Republic’s golden breadbasket, rippling with wheat.

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These mother-like wheat fields that had sustained the flesh and bones of the Republic’s people had now transformed into a land of death filled with only ashes and poison.

“And if that wasn’t enough, our own forces that entered first were caught in that giant’s bombardment! Not to mention the civilian groups that were evacuating! Do you even know how many died because of this experiment or whatever it is of yours?!”

“About 4,000 infantry who were retreating in defeat, and approximately 20,000 civilians who were evacuating nearby. I received accurate reports.”

“And knowing that, you dare to sit here so casually…!”

“But you see.”

The man cut off the Lieutenant General’s voice with a plain tone and said, stretching his mouth into a wide smile.

“Isn’t it much better than losing to the Empire?”

“…What did you say?”

What nonsense was this?

After killing 20,000 retreating allied troops and civilians, he’s saying it doesn’t matter because we didn’t lose?

“If the front line gets pushed back, it would have been land lost to the enemy anyway. Rather than letting the Empire take the eastern breadbasket, it’s much better to just destroy it…!”

Grab-!

Unable to contain himself any longer, Lieutenant General Rodion rose from his seat and seized the collar of the man sitting at the head of the table.

“Doctor Lavrenti. You really…!”

Lavrenti Kravchenko.

Minister of Science for the Westraine Communist Party and at the same time, the secretary general’s loyal dog.

A mad scientist who had conducted all manner of inhuman research under the protection of the secretary general.

Seeing Lieutenant General Rodion glaring at him, the doctor smiled slightly and slowly opened his mouth.

“Two minutes after deployment to the battlefield. That steel giant carrying the Republic’s hero annihilated the enemy’s vanguard—one Special Magical Power Unit battalion and an infantry division.”

Complete annihilation without leaving a single survivor.

What occurred in those two minutes wasn’t a battle, but rather a one-sided massacre.

“The Colossus is the hope that will save the Republic, General. If used well, it could recover our collapsed front lines and change the entire course of the war!”

“Madness. How can a weapon that can’t even distinguish friend from foe and kills its own citizens save the Republic…!”

As he was denouncing this, suddenly.

Lieutenant General Rodion’s face turned pale as he processed the doctor’s words.

“Did you say it’s carrying the Republic’s hero?”

“Oops, what a slip of the tongue.”

The doctor stuck out his tongue playfully.

Seeing this, Rodion hurriedly looked at the Colossus walking on the ground.

The secretary general’s trump card, given in this desperate situation after the capital’s collapse.

A steel giant adorned with golden decorations and the Republic’s symbols.

And the human-sized coffin embedded in its center…!

Click-!

The pistol drawn from the Lieutenant General’s holster pointed at the doctor’s forehead.

“You, what the hell have you done?”

“What do you mean?”

“Petrenko! What the hell did you do to him, damn it…!”

The Lieutenant General’s hand gripping the pistol tightened.

These people were truly the Republic’s cancer.

Vermin who treated citizens’ lives as tools and were trying to destroy the country in their mad pursuit of power!

“Kalinin was right. We should have killed you lot long ago!”

“But, it’s too late now.”

It should be about time for the drug to take effect.

The moment Doctor Lavrenti added those words, Lieutenant General Rodion’s vision turned red.

“…?!”

“The coffee was quite excellent, wasn’t it? Wouldn’t you agree, Your Excellency?”

“You bastard…!”

Though he belatedly realized it was a trap, it was already too late.

Crack, crack-!

His arm began twisting and transforming grotesquely.

Seeing this, the Lieutenant General’s eyes filled with despair.

“In the coffee… Monster transformation solution…!”

“Farewell, Lieutenant General, Your Excellency.”

As the transformation that started from his arm reached his face.

Doctor Lavrenti looked at the Lieutenant General and opened his mouth with a bright smile.

“The Republic will remember you as a hero.”

“Ugh, ugh…! UWAAAAAH—!”

It took mere seconds for the scream to turn into a monster’s roar.

And a few more seconds for the monster that was once a Republic general to be reduced to powder by Armored Infantry machine gun fire.

In that brief time, the commander of the Southern Army Group vanished from the world.

All that remained was the office covered in monster fluid, and Doctor Lavrenti brushing off his hands in disgust.

– Doctor.

“Number 2?”

And at the same time, a voice flowed from the communicator placed on the table.

A report had come in from Agent 2, their spy infiltrated into the Empire.

– Buckenheim’s side provided information. Eugene Lorentz and the elite Special Magical Power Unit are heading toward the southern front.

“Oho.”

The reason why the magic nobles had handed this information and troops to him was clear.

It must mean they too would take action the moment Eugene was eliminated.

Buckenheim’s side says they’re sending a ‘guest’ your way soon to ensure the operation goes smoothly.

“To think they’d send even their precious high knight, they must be quite worked up.”

No better than dogs in heat.

Thinking this, the doctor turned off the communication with a kindly smile.

“Doctor.”

“Ah, yes.”

When the armored infantry who had eliminated Lieutenant General Rodion called him, he adjusted his glasses and spoke with a friendly smile.

“When our guests arrive, guide them to my office first.”

His narrowed eyes were directed at where Lieutenant General Rodion had been standing just moments ago.

“Since I’ve gotten my hands on some quality coffee beans, it would only be polite to serve our guests as well.”

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