My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

"Master, ahem... I, I know a place with a lot of food and weapons and equipment. It's enough for you to use for a long time. As long as you let my family go, I will take you there."

The Minotaur laughed out loud when he heard what Count Kars said.

Then he slapped Count Karls to the ground again.

The people in the room saw Count Karls's appearance through the broken door and shouted to come out, but Count Karls just stopped them.

Then he stood up again.

"I know I have no room for negotiation, but if you kill me, you won't get anything except these women... No, right?"

His body was shaking with fear and his words were intermittent, but they gave people a sense of firmness.

"Heh." Upon hearing this, the Minotaur snorted coldly, and then he ordered the soldiers who were breaking into the door to stop.

"Okay, but let me make it clear first. If you lie to me, not only you, but also your wife, children, your entire family, and all the residents of the city you rule will suffer because of you!"

"I swear, I won't lie to you. If I lie to you, my body will be torn into pieces." Count Carls said this and gestured to the sky.

"Okay, then you lead the way." The Minotaur pointed to a guard at the door of the Earl's mansion. "Take them with you. If they report back that they found nothing, you will die."

"I understand. I certainly wouldn't dare to lie to you."

……

On the other side, students from the Imperial Academy were advancing towards the city of Kars.

When the news of the fall of Kars City reached Orson, he immediately dispatched a troop to rescue. The Imperial Academy also believed that Kars City, as the capital of the Earldom, had great strategic significance and set its sights there.

Olivia and Elsa led students of the warrior and mage classes respectively. At this moment, when the two led the students to the city of Karls, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

The city of Kars had been engulfed in flames. At the city gate, dozens of dead bodies were hung in the air with an iron chain tied to them. The bodies were curled into a ball, which was horrifying to look at.

Although the students had been to the battlefield, most of them couldn't help but vomit after seeing such a brutal scene.

The orcs here have withdrawn.

They learned in advance that the human army was coming, so they burned the place down, leaving nothing for humans.

Olivia and Elsa, who were in the lead, looked at each other and walked into the city.

In the city, there was at least one corpse hanging on the door of every house.

The deaths of the corpses were extremely tragic, and many of them were tortured to death.

"This place... is simply..." Olivia walked on the street, constantly looking around with a frown on her face.

"Hell on earth..." Elsa's body trembled slightly as she tried to suppress her emotions that were about to explode.

As members of the royal family, everyone here was once a citizen of the empire and a member of the people under their rule.

But at this moment, as the ruling class, I am unable to protect these people...

This made Elsa very uncomfortable.

For the first time, she felt so powerless.

Walking through the city square, the two came to the Earl's Mansion in the city center. At this moment, the once magnificent Earl's Mansion had turned into ruins. In the Earl's Mansion, there was a person hanging outside each window, and there were more than a dozen corpses lined up at the door, as if welcoming their arrival.

Looking at this disgusting and absurd scene, the two felt for the first time what it felt like to be blinded by hatred.

Chapter 6: Aftermath and Settlement (K)

Count Kars still failed.

Although he told the orcs about the warehouse outside the city where the supplies were stored and successfully helped the orcs get the supplies they wanted, when he followed the orcs back and saw his family members who committed suicide due to being tortured by the orcs, all he felt in his heart was the anger of being betrayed.

He rushed towards the tauren leading the team in a rage, wanting to seek an explanation from him, but before he took a few steps, he was knocked to the ground by the orcs.

"Do you want to know why?" the Minotaur said, looking at Count Karls.

"Because, we noble orcs, have no need to conclude a so-called agreement with lowly humans like you." The minotaur laughed loudly. "You are such a lowly person, not even worthy of carrying my shoes, and you dare to make conditions with me?!"

Count Karls' eyes were bloodshot. He suddenly felt powerful and broke free from the restraints of several orcs. He rushed to the Minotaur, took out a dagger from his arms, and stabbed the Minotaur.

The Minotaur didn't react for a moment. Although he tried to dodge, he was still blinded in one eye.

He roared and knocked Count Karls away, then took out his giant axe and turned him into a puddle of sauce.

He couldn't understand why a weak human, after seeing his means and power, did not choose to surrender to him, but chose to retaliate against him. So he ordered all beasts to

He took action and wanted everyone in the city to be buried with his blind eye.

After that, the city of Kars became a living hell.

……

Not long after the massacre, the Minotaur who was preparing to continue his advance received a letter from the rear, asking him to retreat with his troops. Although he didn't know why, considering that his troops had achieved such great results, the Minotaur didn't think much about it and slowly retreated with his troops and supplies.

Because they were carrying a large amount of spoils, the army retreated very slowly, so it wasn't long before they were caught up by human pursuers.

The ones chasing them this time, besides the student army of the Imperial Academy, there were also the Black Army who came on orders.

Although the relationship between Duke Antica and Count Kars is not good, the people here are innocent. Anyone who sees the tragic situation in Kars City will not show mercy to this orc army.

The orc army was still wondering why the humans who were defeated on the front battlefield dared to counterattack. Facing the pursuers, they did not panic, but formed a normal battle formation and waited for the enemy's charge.

The Tauren, the leader of this orc army, stood at the front of the team.

Then, at the moment the two armies came into contact, the Minotaur was killed by the black army soldiers.

His body fell to the ground and was trampled by the soldiers, turning into a pool of beef sauce just like Count Karls.

In this battle, the students of the Imperial Academy fought particularly hard. They were all filled with anger towards the orc army and used fighting to vent their emotions.

Olivia, who was usually very calm, also went crazy in this battle. She fought her way in and out of the orc army, and at least a hundred orcs died at her hands.

These orcs were stunned by this fierce offensive. They had no idea why this human army was so full of hatred towards them, and why their previous advance was so smooth. In their view, all humans were wimps who would collapse at the slightest touch, so why were they now slaughtering them like livestock?

Yes, this is no longer a battle. This is a one-sided massacre of the orc army by humans.

Some orcs who reacted tried to escape, but the humans behind them chased them faster than they could.

Humans' desire to kill them is stronger than their desire to survive.

In the end, no one in this troop was spared and all died at the hands of the pursuing troops.

But what is quite regrettable is that in this pursuit, because the students of the Imperial Academy were also blinded by anger, they only cared about venting their emotions during the battle without rationally analyzing the battle situation. Several students were seriously injured. Fortunately, the teacher in charge of the assessment discovered them in time and rescued them, otherwise they would probably have become the first group of student soldiers to die in this war.

"So, Your Highness, you now understand why I said before that it is quite difficult to achieve peace."

Orson also heard about the tragic situation in Karls City in the rear, and he brought the disaster assessment team and the aftermath team to the Earldom of Karls overnight.

When he arrived, there was no one in Kars to deal with the aftermath.

"Yeah." Lilia looked at the scene at the city gate with a pale face.

Anyone who sees this tragic scene will hate the perpetrator to the core.

"We are not qualified to forgive on their behalf. Similarly, if the orc families have lost their loved ones because of us, we will not ask them to forgive us." Orson said this and walked into the city alone.

He just frowned the whole time and showed no symptoms of discomfort.

Behind him, the team responsible for the aftermath had begun to take down the hanging bodies and prepare to transport them together to build a cemetery belonging to the entire city of Kars.

Arriving at Count Karls's mansion, Orson sighed.

"Why bother? You're picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons, and you're making your subjects pay for your crimes. You're a short-sighted frog in a well." As he said this, he blamed Count Karls for his short-sightedness, and at the same time, he seemed to be blaming himself for not discovering these situations earlier.

When Orson arrived here with the recovery team, they met several soldiers who were running away on the way.

From them, Orson learned the reason.

They were not the so-called border garrison troops at all, but just a group of peasant soldiers temporarily gathered together. Before joining the army, they didn't even know each other.

However, Count Kars asked them to firmly declare that they were a regular army with military training and would not cower even when facing orcs.

Isn't this simply bullying honest people?

As a result, Orson learned about the widespread practice of empty-handedness among border earls.

In this regard, Orson could only express helplessness.

If you were an earl in the interior, with no military pressure, you could just collect a small salary without doing anything, since, after all, the war is unlikely to come to you.

But you are an earl on the border, and the Duke allocates large sums of financial funds to the border every year to help you ease the financial pressure and form border defense forces.

As a result, instead of forming an army, they enriched themselves.

As a result, when the war came, not only the civilians but also themselves suffered.

There is really no foresight at all.

The empire is made up of a group of people who are carnivores. No wonder some people always say that the empire is going to end.

According to this situation, if it continues to develop in this way, with the slightest external pressure or internal chaos, the empire will indeed be doomed.

It can only be said that the orcs are still too weak. Their size is not even one-tenth of the empire. If the orcs had a quarter of the empire's size, the empire would have been finished with this group of useless lords who have no ability and are more arrogant than anyone else.

After all, it was because of the empire's previous policies that did not allow nobles to annex each other, which made the small nobles lose their sense of crisis and naturally began to give up.

After all, even if he performs badly, he still has the support of the royal family.

This empire does need a large-scale reform.

"Oh." Orson thought so and sighed.

Obviously, he just wanted to train Li Te well at the beginning, but then he started to play badly. However, he is now more and more aware of the heavy responsibility he shoulders.

Even though he can't see some things, it doesn't mean he can let go of them without any worries.

"This city should be used as an immigration city after the war. The residents of nearby villages and towns that were not severely affected by the disaster can be relocated to the city. Those who can't make it in the western part of the empire can also come here. The barren land is waiting for them to develop."

Orson said this and started discussing with the official in charge of the aftermath behind him.

"By the way, in your opinion, what would be the best positioning for this city in the future?"

"Will it continue to be the central city of the Earldom of Kars, or will it become a satellite city of nearby large cities that were not affected by the disaster?"

Lilia was a little confused as she looked at the two people who had already started discussing post-war issues.

"Are you already thinking about what will happen after the war? Shouldn't the most urgent task be to deal with the bodies of the deceased?"

Although rationally speaking, the dead cannot be resurrected, but what Orson showed was a little too inhumane.

Not only was there no trace of sadness on his face, but even his actual actions seemed like he was discussing the division of the spoils after the war.

"But when I first came in, I had someone take care of the aftermath." Orson had a strange look on his face. "I know the people here have a hard life. They have paid taxes to the lord all their lives, but they are still being defrauded by the lord when they die."

"You should have heard what we talked about before. This incident was completely a man-made disaster. It was all caused by Count Karls and those counts who were paid for nothing."

"After a person dies, it is a blessing to have someone to collect his body."

Having said this, Orson sighed again.

"Lady Saint, I know you may not have experienced such a tragedy, but don't forget that there were many people like me who were born in a similar hell on earth. We are alive today and will definitely not forget what happened back then."

"We still have to look forward. This city will still be inhabited in the future, and maybe it will become a big city. What we are doing is helping the city recover quickly, and it is also for the sake of future generations."

"Okay..." Lilia nodded after hearing that.

Orson has already thought of a solution for this matter. He plans to write a letter to Lucius tomorrow to identify all these earls who are drawing salaries without doing any work.

The Duke's annual financial grants to the border earls will be cancelled and replaced by permanent troops.

If the border between humans and orcs still exists in the future, the Duke will set up a border garrison directly under the Duke and directly station them in the territory of the border earl.

At least it is much better to control the army in our own hands than to let others draw empty salaries and cause suffering to the people.

As for the soldiers who escaped, although their behavior is understandable, they should also be judged.

No matter in which era, deserting the battlefield is not encouraged.

……

Another half a month passed. During this half month, humans attacked everywhere and drove the orcs' army out of human territory and drove the orcs back into the depths of the desert.

And today, a celebration banquet will be held in the border city of Phoenix.

From the time Orson took over as the front-line commander to now, in more than a month, the attacks from the orcs have been resolved, which is much stronger than when Lucius was there.