Saga of Tanya the Evil (幼女戦記)

My eyes!

Medic! Someone get me a medic!

It's no good! The reinforcements are just a random group of mages!

A mage?

What are you doing, Visha?

We can't provide air support anymore!

What are the platoon commander's orders?

Sh-She cannot allow us to retreat.

We are to continue delaying the enemy till the end.

Believers, have faith in the Lord's blessings.

For the Lord will not abandon us.

Give me the power to destroy the enemies of the Fatherland.

An explosion spell...

If you have time for idle chatter,

spend it doing all you can to survive.

Platoon Commander?

We are soldiers.

If the brass tells us to do something, we do it.

Second Lieutenant Tanya Degurechaff.

Amidst the downpour of shells and bullets,

she flew high and nobly.

Like a fairy of the battlefield.

In a cursed world, always engulfed in the flames of war,

there was a nation known as the Empire.

Its vast military and industrial power made it virtually synonymous with victory.

It possessed a large number of brilliant military minds and mages,

but it was surrounded on all sides by strong potential enemies.

For this reason, its military formulated Plan 315,

wherein border forces carried out delaying actions in all theaters,

buying time for a highly mobile, concentrated main force to travel

to each area and defeat the enemy there.

At least, that was the plan.

Unified Year 1924, Imperial Capital Berun

Imperial Strategic Headquarters

What is the situation in the Rhine theater?

When will the main force be deployed there?

Vice Director of Strategy and Operations Lieutenant Colonel Erich von Rerugen

Movement from the northern areas is being delayed.

Deputy of Strategy and Operations Brigadier General Kurt von Rudersdorf

We must adjust the rail and ship schedules,

so the deployment will take another two weeks.

We must pull back the lines even more?

The western industrial areas will be endangered.

We don't even have enough reserves to send reinforcements.

We've been caught totally off-guard.

From the start, a major offensive against the Entente Alliance was a mistake!

If we'd kept ourselves to a limited mobilization...

We were the ones who failed to convince

the higher-ups that they were wrong about the Republic's not mobilizing.

Vice Director of Strategy and Operations Brigadier General Hans von Zettour

Plan 315 is no longer viable.

Since our attempts to delay the enemy aren't working,

we'll have to move to a mobile defense, right?

But that will be difficult, given the state of the Rhine theater.

Our forces are depleted and exhausted, so it's beyond their capacity.

We've already grabbed every spare soldier we could to send there.

That will buy some time.

I suppose it helps to have a talented contemporary, huh?

Isn't that statement premature?

What?

Reports say we've lost over half the units we've deployed.

They say the Rhine theater is now a living hell.

Imperial Army 205th Assault Mage Company Platoon 3 Commander Second Lieutenant Tanya Degurechaff

Enemies sighted on the ground, two o'clock.

Artillery spell.

Fire!

R-Right!

Platoon 3 Member Corporal Viktoriya Serebryakov

It's coming from above!

Damn the bastards!

Die! Die!

Platoon 3 Member Corporal Harald von Vist

Take this...

You Republican bastards!

Platoon 3 Member Corporal Kurst von Walhorf

Artillery...

Take out the artillery.

Come with me, Harald!

Roger!

Both of you corporals, get back here.

Our mission is to delay the enemy via flanking attacks.

Let us go, please.

Now's our chance!

Your chance to what?

Get back here!

This is an order!

Take this!

All right!

Did you see that, Commander?

We'll keep going and crush the artillery!

Too tired to eat, huh?

Force it down if you have to.

You won't last otherwise.

They say the 202nd and 203rd Companies were wiped out.

I volunteered to come to the front lines.

And now I've gotta work for that lieutenant?

Platoon 3, of the 205th.

Your captain is calling you.

We're being sent back home?

I would say you're getting off lightly.

Be grateful.

The army has no need for officer candidates who disobey orders.

But we were trying to take out the artillery!

You know how many of our infantry they took out, don't you?

Is that all you have to say?

An army is an organization.

And organizations are nothing without rules!

Dismissed.

I... I refuse to accept this!

I volunteered to come to the front lines!

My only choices are victory or death!

Me, too.

I agree with Corporal Kurst.

A man of the Empire is expected to be brave!

Then you're saying you'll disobey your superior officer's orders again?!

Lieutenant!

I'll take your opinion under advisement.

But you'd best be prepared to face some punishment.

Corporal Serebryakov,

Imperial Army 205th Assault Mage Company Commander First Lieutenant Ihlen Schwarzkopf

is something wrong?

Sch... Lieutenant Schwarzkopf!

Um, I don't see Corporal Kurst or Corporal Harald.

That's right.

You were in their class, weren't you?

They've been transferred to the rear as of today.

To the rear?

Yeah.

They must be standing by in a pillbox now.

This was at the suggestion of Lieutenant Degurechaff.

I heard they made her angry.

Y-Yes.

I was sure they'd be harshly punished...

I see.

They're being sent to the rear, where it's safe.

If you're wearing that uniform, contribute to your country.

The Empire doesn't have resources to waste on weak soldiers.

R-Right.

Corporal Serebryakov!

Yes?

Call an emergency meeting.

Bad news, everyone.

Our 403rd Mage Company suddenly encountered

and entered combat with two companies of enemy mages.

And they can't use artillery because the observer mages were targeted,

meaning they can no longer spot the shells.

Enemy observer-hunters?

Oh, right.

You've encountered them in the north, Lieutenant Degurechaff.

And I never want to go through that again.

We will leave immediately to rescue the observers.

Any questions?

We can perform a delaying action,

but rescuing them will be difficult.

Even with that Type-95?

I can still fight, but Corporal Serebryakov is at her limit.

I don't want to be the kind of incompetent who goes to rescue someone,

only to lose them and her soldier.

Company Commander, I volunteer for this!

I volunteer for the rescue mission!

Stop.

You can't do it.