"Yes, he was wrong, so let me tell you what the person who was let go looked like."
With that said, Bahram raised the data pad.
"Her name is Susanna. She is 27 years old. Her parents are both miners. When she was 19 years old, both died due to a mining accident. At the age of 20, she married her husband, a fisherman named Marvin. She was pregnant with a daughter but she was three years old.
He died of illness at a young age, and his husband lost an arm a year later because he wanted to catch a poisonous eel and crocodile, an ornamental fish that was relatively valuable in the upper levels of the nest city.
The old fishing boat passed down from Marvin's grandfather was taken away... There are no records after that, except for sporadic records from the Sheriff. Marvin became a drunkard, and Susanna sometimes had to work as a prostitute in order to support the family.
"
After Bahram finished speaking, everyone fell silent.
Glancing at everyone, he smiled bitterly and threw the data pad onto the ammunition box aside.
"Look, in just a few lines, it is a helpless and miserable life."
With that said, Bahram jumped down from the ammunition box, walked past Boban Haas, faced the recruits and said in a deep voice:
"Then let me ask again now, do you think Haas was wrong now?"
New recruits, you looked at me and I looked at you, but no one answered for a while.
Bahram turned around and looked at Boban Haas.
"Haas, tell me, are you wrong?"
Haas pursed his lips and was silent for a moment, then said loudly:
"Report sir! I was wrong!"
A smile appeared on Bahram's face, he nodded, and turned to everyone.
"Yes, Hass was wrong. He made a mistake that no warrior, soldier, or Astartes can make! We are the will of the final judgment, the angels of death's punishment, and the unswerving execution of orders.
and weapons of mission! I believe someone must have told you that when the knife falls, no matter whether it is an alien or a child below, there should be no hesitation! Because we are just knives! What I am facing is the most terrifying thing in the galaxy.
Enemy, any slackness will have disastrous consequences! It may even endanger the survival of hundreds of millions of people!"
He paused for a moment, his gaze no longer limited to the new recruits, but also the veterans.
"But, but, there will always be something that holds our sword at critical times. Some people think it is mission, some people think it is oath, some people think it is loyalty, and some people think it is discipline... But I think, in fact,
It's all one thing, one thing we had before we became Astartes, when we were as fragile as ants like them, it's called humanity."
Bahram then tapped Haas on the shoulder.
"He made mistakes that he should not have made in any of his current identities, but he did not make mistakes as a human being!"
As he spoke, Bahram's tone suddenly became a little heavy, and the faces of those dead hungry people still lingered in his mind.
"Sometimes, as members of the Astartes, we must do things that may disgust us under other circumstances. We also often face moral dilemmas. Instructor Thor once taught me that even if the current
Killing is right, but it must also be done with uneasiness."
At this time, Li Lin suddenly spoke.
"Isn't this very hypocritical?"
Bahram nodded.
"Yes, this is very hypocritical, but such hypocrisy allows us to hold our own knife at all times and prevent us from falling into the abyss that only leaves blood and pain."
After saying that, he clapped his hands.
"Haas, but you still have to accept disciplinary punishment."
"Yes, I accept, sir!"
"For the next whole year, you will take off your armor and be responsible for the company's logistics work together with the regiment's servants. All your treatment will be the same as that of a servant."
This was a very severe punishment, but Haas still straightened his back and didn't look away.
"Yes, sir!"
"By the way, there is one more thing."
Bahram summoned a servant, and then took from him a piece of parchment with the emblem of the state religion on it.
"I decided that I should tell you that the poor woman named Susanna's ending was... After inspection by the nun, she and the child in her belly showed no traces of being contaminated by the power of chaos. After that, she will be under the care of the church.
Give birth to that child, but she will also have to do a lifetime of hard labor in the monastery farmland to atone for her betrayal of the Emperor's faith, and her child will also be sent to a distant church nursing home, where he will become
An orphan who never knows who his parents are will most likely grow up to become a priest who will serve the Emperor his entire life."
After speaking, he rolled up the parchment and stuffed it into Haas's armor belt.
"The ending is not a happy one, but it is the best result that you have achieved for them with all your efforts. It may still make you feel guilty."
Haas lowered his head slightly, with guilt in his eyes just as Bahram said.
He smiled and patted the recruit on the shoulder.
"Then become a better warrior with this guilt. A year later, I hope to see a better you on the battlefield."
"Yes, sir! I will!"
Bahram nodded, looked at the team, and said loudly:
"Disband!"
When the new recruits dispersed, Sabrin came to Bahram's side with a heavy expression on his face.
"I don't object to your decision, but...it will increase the psychological burden on the soldiers."
Bahram sighed softly and raised his head to look at the increasingly clear night sky. The black smoke after the burning of the dead had gradually dissipated, just like their insignificant lives.
"Some burdens in the heart are not necessarily a bad thing. If the soul is too light, it will float to an unreachable distance."
"I think sometimes you just have too much burden on your heart. Even though you are not very young, you still talk like an old man."
"Really? A few days ago, I went back to my home. I have not yet become a warrior's home... In fact, I always had the opportunity to go back, but I didn't dare. It wasn't until then that I mustered up the courage. However,
When I opened the door of the old hut, there was no one inside. In fact, I had known for a long time that my parents were deceased and my sisters were all married."
As he spoke, he smiled bitterly.
"I don't know what I want to go back to find, but the furnishings of the house are exactly the same as when I went back, without any changes. Even the furniture has been repaired countless times and has not been replaced with new ones... The Chapter Leader said
, he had already said hello to the local chiefs to be kind to the families of the soldiers. I also know that my parents’ life should not be too bad. They did this to wait for me and wait for me to go home, fearing that I would forget what home is like.
, I climbed into my small bedroom, which was exactly the same as when I left it that night. In the box beside the bed, I found the letters that my parents and sister had left for me over the years. They would write to me every year.
, they wrote to the last moment of their lives, but they didn’t send it, not even a single letter.”
Bahram suddenly rubbed his face, and Sablin vaguely saw tears in the corners of his eyes.
"Ha, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I hugged that box and cried for an hour that day. I even regretted my original decision. Maybe this is the reason why I will never be as good a champion as Robin."
Sablin patted him on the shoulder.
"To borrow your words, let's become a better warrior with this guilt."
At this moment, a servant hurriedly came over.
"Sir, the fleet has an urgent call."
Bahram took it and glanced at it, then handed it to Sabrin. When the other party saw it, he suddenly lost his voice and said:
"Ah, the Chapter Master is back!? Didn't he say that he went to the Imperial Fist Mountain Formation for something important? Why so fast?"
"Who knows, I'll call everyone to gather right away, we're going back."