Everything Was the Imperial Army's Doing!

(The second update is here; the third will be released at 22:00.)

After settling on their next course of action, Theresa swept her gaze around with a fierce expression.

"There are seventy-three survivors in total. From now on, everyone must completely forget about this explosion. We've always been conducting guerrilla warfare in the hill country. We've always been fighting the Imperial Army!"

"Do you all understand?"

"Understood!" came the resolute reply.

"Good. Contact the 104th Division Headquarters. Tell them we discovered signs of withdrawal and are awaiting support. Then we march!"

Thus, under cover of night, the group quietly left the cave where they had been hiding and returned to the Fire Hills Area through a winding, twisting passage.

Stumbling through the dark passage, Theresa gave one last look back at the half of the sky stained red.

Starting tomorrow, who knew how far this matter would escalate.

Major, I brought the brothers... and we survived.

Theresa's figure finally disappeared into the shadows.

At the first light of dawn, the incident in the Fire Hills Area finally began to spread!

The units stationed at the various mining sites began receiving the news, and the contents left them too shocked to calm down.

Especially when the senior officers began contacting division headquarters, only to receive notices that communication had failed.

They finally began to vaguely believe the intelligence report—

The division commander had been killed in an Imperial Army sneak attack!

Thus, the news was reported upward layer by layer, eventually becoming an extremely credible version of events.

The Fire Hills Area had come under Imperial Army attack. The 104th Division's stationed forces had been annihilated. The 149th Division had suffered devastating losses, and Division Commander Colonel Kunton had been shamelessly ambushed by the Imperial Army during the evacuation, dying