Beneath the bright, radiant sunlight, it was freezing cold, with icy winds howling.
[Swish! Swish!]
Two black afterimages appeared one after another before Lelei and Cato, accompanied by sharp rushing sounds.
Meanwhile, Itami Youji, the "protagonist," was still crouching behind them beside Kanahira Army's corpse.
In truth, their little "main cast" should have included a female elf named Duga Luna.
But judging by the current situation, something had clearly happened to her.
Besides that,
Around Itami Youji stood ten soldiers armed with Type 64 Automatic Rifles, dressed in green camouflage uniforms and tactical vests.
Two women and eight men, all members of the Third Recon Team.
There was no need to introduce the men one by one.
As for the two women,
One was Kuribayashi Shino, twenty-four years old.
She had short coffee-brown hair and amber-brown eyes.
She was petite and pretty, with an unexpectedly voluptuous figure.
Her current rank was Second Sergeant, equivalent to an Army sergeant.
She had an exceptionally cheerful, lively personality and was passionate about all kinds of combat techniques.
She hoped to find a man as strong as herself.
She was highly skilled in close-quarters combat and could kill with a bayonet without changing expression, suffering no psychological pressure afterward.
That was something many modern soldiers found difficult to do.
The other was Kurokawa Mari, twenty-three years old.
She was a stunning beauty with long dark-purple hair, deep-blue eyes, and a height of one meter ninety.
Her rank was also Second Sergeant.
A graduate of the Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital, she was a medical worker qualified as a nutritionist.
At that moment, she too was crouching beside Itami Youji, watching the two figures that had suddenly appeared with a wary expression.
"Who are you people? Why are you attacking us?!"
Itami Youji stood up and