Chapter 461: Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
"I caused someone’s death."
A long and thick silence filled the room as everyone stared at Charles with mixed emotions. Atlas, especially, was shocked upon hearing this.
"What?" Atlas scoffed in disbelief. He couldn’t believe what he had just heard.
"It was back when I was in the military," Charles explained, before providing the full details.
During Charles’s last mission — a joint operation involving skilled soldiers — a full-blown fight broke out after a long-standing tension. To prevent the rebels from fleeing the land, Charles issued an order for an on-site kill.
The rebels had already taken down quite a few soldiers, but the latter hadn’t yet captured the leader of the rebel group.
With that order in place, it was war.
Gunfire echoed in the air, and bombs resonated intermittently. The cries for help and shouts of battle blended together, with even the fallen troops’ silence adding to the dreadful atmosphere.
As the enemy fell back and the soldiers advanced fiercely, their morale at an all-time high, they were unaware that the last group they were pursuing so fiercely included innocent victims. When the final showdown between the forces and the rebels concluded, the soldiers emerged victorious.
After the mission was declared a success, Charles stayed behind for the cleanup. To his surprise, the next day, while assisting his men, they found the body of a young lady around eighteen years old.