I immediately headed back toward Milham Castle. Since Lilia could handle the current battle by herself now that the enemy forces had already been thinned out considerably by our attacks, I figured I could leave her there for the time being without having to worry too much about things suddenly falling apart. Still, walking away in the middle of a battle when I was supposed to be one of the commanders wasn't exactly something I could call proper, especially when there were still plenty of things happening on the battlefield that could potentially go wrong, but this was one of those situations where I needed to put some things ahead of military etiquette.
Considering the possibility that Sakai might actually die, I wasn't willing to take any chances.
