Kochugunshikan- Boukensha Ni Naru - Raw Chapter 51.2 - Read Next Chapter 52.2 Apr 2026

"No." Lyra stood, pulling him up by the arm. "It's called 'The Rearguard Learns to Let Others Hold the Line.' And you will hate every moment of it."

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But duty, he had long learned, was a ledger written in blood, not gold.

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She snorted, but her hands trembled. He noticed. He always noticed.

It wept .

Helm said nothing. He looked past her, toward the distant glimmer of the next chamber — the entrance to the Sunken Sanctum. Their true objective. The artifact that could end the seasonal ghoul tides. Worth any cost. He noticed

And for the first time in twenty years, Helm did not step forward to meet the blow alone.

"Five caltrops, Helm. Against forty-seven feral beasts."

"Ara… you're bleeding again." Lyra's voice cut through the ringing in his ears. The elf knelt beside him, her fingers already glowing with faint restoration magic. "Your left side — third rib. Cracked, not broken. You'll live." So good that even now

"The artifact is in the center," Helm said, consulting the map they'd taken from the brood mother's corpse. "But the guardian —"

That was the curse of his old life. Rearguard Commander of the Fifth Legion. His job had never been to win. It had been to last — to measure victory in minutes gained for others to flee. Every formation, every false retreat, every calculated sacrifice. He had been very good at it. So good that even now, stripped of rank and nation, he could not stop being what he was: the shield that no one saw until it broke.

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The dust had not yet settled on the Corridor of Broken Spears.

"Will face us ." Gunther hefted his axe. "Not just you, tactician. Us. The whole party. The one you keep trying to protect by pushing yourself into the dark."