When it was completely dark, searchlights lit up one after another inside St. Limen fortress, sweeping over the Geya Alliance lines.
Although the searchlight bulbs were often shot out, the Sun Kingdom side would immediately replace them with new high‑wattage bulbs, to keep the enemy from sneaking into the fortress under cover of night.
"Sir, are you sure this is fine? I keep feeling a chill down my back."
A woman's voice came from a shell hole 300 meters below the fortress.
"Shut up."
The shell hole fell silent.
"Don't paint there too… this is so embarrassing…"
"..."
"Sir, you're groping your female subordinate under the pretext of the mission, that's a court‑martial offense—uwu~ I was wrong."
In the pitch‑black shell hole, the little assistant, her whole body smeared with mud and her eyes especially bright, poked her head out and swept her gaze around.
"No enemies found, sir. Sir?"
The little assistant tilted her head to look—Su Xiao was already gone.
