Chapter 60.1
Orc Hero Story
The woman found in the dragon’s lair looked at Bash and Zell with suspicion, her body trembling and shaking.
“Poor thing, she’s completely terrified…”
“That seems to be the case…”
It happened all the time on the battlefield. It was especially common among new recruits who had been lucky enough to survive a fierce battle. Amidst the screams, blood, and chaos, the guy to your right suddenly died engulfed in flames, the one to your left with an arrow piercing his eye socket, the one in front split in half, and the one behind was already gone by the time you realized it. You no longer knew what was happening. You ran and hid, trembling and praying not to be found, but you were so terrified that you couldn’t move an inch.
Even brave and insensitive orcs sometimes experienced that. Of course, if something like that happened to an orc, they would be laughed at for being cowardly.
Bash didn’t have that experience. But one of his fellow warriors did. He had seen a warrior cry and scream that he didn’t want to fight anymore. At first, Bash, along with the others who were with him, felt indignant, saying, “What a cowardly thing for an orc warrior.”
But Bash had lived long enough on the battlefield. So he learned a few things along the way. They returned to the battlefield. They were not the kind of people who were allowed to leave the fight just because they had cried themselves to sleep, but they chose to fight the enemy again, instead of being executed deep in the village. And on the battlefield they returned to, they fought bravely and died. Not to die trembling and begging for their lives, but to die fighting bravely.
Therefore, Bash had no intention of laughing or ridiculing the demon woman before him. After a while, this woman would return to her former self and fight bravely again. All the orcs who had fought in the past knew this. That’s why, even if they laughed at a frightened guy and considered them cowardly, they didn’t kill them on the spot for being a disgrace to the orcs. It happened all the time. Really. And the opponent was a dragon. It would be more unusual if this didn’t happen.