7th Regimental Officer

**7th Regimental Officer** is an unnamed regiment officer of the 7th Artillery Regiment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 7th Armored Division.

## Chronology

### Rodenius War Arc

At the Royal Capital, Jin-Hark in the early morning, Malpaneus saw something strange moving about four kilometers north by a telescope. He sensed something strange and focused his attention in that direction. Many of them had angular bodies with horns growing out of them, others looked like wagons without horses. They lined up in an orderly fashion, facing the direction of the capital. He ordered the watcher to connect him to the Defense Knight’s Orders with the magic transmitter. The watcher hurried to the communication room and reported it the Royal Capital Defense Headquarters that they identified a number of unidentified objects in a field about four points from the first wall on the north side.

The JGSDF 7th Division with the 7th Artillery Regiment was spread out about four kilometers from the northern walls of the Royal Capital. The regimental commander told a young officer that they needed to be discovered by the enemy through being too close was making him build up stress. The regimental commander pointed to a tower floating on the outer wall of the capital. The young officer spoke him that the mortars could reach them easily. The strength of the stone wall was unknown, and from the firing axis, if they shoot it with a tank cannons at this position, there’s the risk of damaging the town and the vicinity. If it use a high-angle howitzer shot or other projectile weapon, it might be possible to smash the tower and not damage the city. The regimental commander felt worried that they didn’t want to have civilian casualties. If it turned out that a civilian had been killed by a tank gun shell in the area, they would be in a lot of trouble. He moved one of his open-type tanks and Howitzers closer the distance to the wall. The young officer's action was thought of by the regimental commander, but the difference in strength was too great to be justified.

When the 7th Artillery Regiment had taken up a position about seven kilometers behind the tank unit, the regimental commander ordered to fire a shot at the tower that rose out of the city wall, which is two kilometers from their main position. The barrel of the JGSDF's Type 99 self-propelled 155-dish howitzer pointed upward at a gentle angle. The Type 99 howitzer erupted into fire, and the shell was fired with a roar. The shell flew high into the sky to shatter the watchtower. Malpaneus’ instincts suddenly began to sound an alarm. Malpaneus and the watcher were killed by a direct hit from a 155mm shell fired during a surveillance mission at the 17th Observation Tower.

After the cavalries of the 1st Cavalry were killed by light bullets from the machine gun of the JGSDF 7th Division on the battle, General Patagene and the military strategists were in a state of shock. General Patagene decided that they would have the entire heavy infantry deployed from the front gate and lure away the light bullets. The rest of the soldiers and cavalries would deploy from the other gates, which would be on their blind spot, spread out, and charge all at once.

When the Heavy Infantry Battalion arrived in front of the JGSDF 7th Division on the battlefield, JGSDF tank gunner shot them with the light bullets from a 50 cal machine gun, leaving only one Swallow with his magic shield unharmed. The regimental commander marveled at the sight of the Swallow, who was the only man able to block the light bullets and took a step forward. The young officer spoke to the regimental commander that it was a joke and he had never heard of a man's shield being able to block a bullet from a machine gun, even though it has an evasive maneuver. He had never heard of such a thing. The regimental commander believed that it might be a threat to their operation. He wanted to take that shield and study it. The bulletproofing process provided a great deal of protection. However, he had never heard of a man-portable shield being able to block a machine gun.

Suddenly, the Royal Capital Defense Force poured out from eight gates to defend the capital. Mounted knights, infantrymen, archers, and even mages all poured out of the gates and dispersed to meet their foes. When the regimental commander saw them coming to attack the JGSDF 7th Division, he thought they're switching to a strategy of attaching to tanks and shooting them down individually. He sent a message to the JMSDF destroyer *Izumo* for air support.

At the direction of the regimental commander, ten AH-1S Cobras attack helicopters began to take off the northern coast from the JMSDF destroyer *Izumo*. The attack helicopters fired multiple arrows of light at the capital defense knights. Lourian knights and cavalries continued to close the distance towards the enemy despite being subject to the bullets of light unleashed from the front, the intense rain of meteors being pummeled on them included Sawken.

After sunset, Captain Calcio and 2000 of his knights carried out the night attack, but thanks to Japanese night vision optics and flares, the assault was easily seen and destroyed. The Type 90 tank aimed at the main castle gate on the north side. The 120 caliber shells were automatically loaded, sighted, and ready for firing. At the regimental commander’s order, the gunner pressed the firing button. The shell ejected from the turret at a speed of over 1.6km/s. The castle gate blew up and destroyed. General Patagene and Chief Mage Yamirei gathered the remaining troops at the castle gate while JGSDF sent the 1st Airborne Brigade by helicopter over the Hark Castle and captured King Hark Louria XXXIV of the Louria Kingdom.

## Trivia

* 7th Regimental Officer only appears as a character in the light novel and manga, not the web novel; however, his name is unknown.