Kingdom 885 spoilers
Chapter 885 Title: Each One's Role
The chapter opens the following day at Chokutsu's headquarters, where news arrives of the fleeing army being spotted in the Genkyo region. Chokutsu orders an immediate advance. The same applies to Kainei and Fute's combined army, which is slightly further from the Genkyo region than Chokutsu's, but they too set out.
The same is repeated with Kotsuminha Ko and Bafouji's armies. Kisui also receives the news and says they will leave the west to Kotsuminha Ko and Bafouji, while he and his army, along with Batei, head east. He mentions that he doesn't find pleasure in chasing the weak and emphasizes his desire to finish the job and head north.
We see Qin's fleeing army crossing between two slopes, led by Karyoten. The soldiers imagine pursuers, but Karyoten reassures them that there are no pursuers, only ghosts, as the enemy is still far away. At the top of the slope, we see the horse pits. Someone is watching the movements of the fleeing army from a very ideal position... and there they are: Shin, Mouten, Aisen, Kyoukai, Denio, Sosui, and the rest.
A flashback begins: Karyoten's plan. The Zhao army is pursuing us by expanding the range, forming a wide net, determined to take Mouten and Shin's heads. Therefore, due to the vastness of the net they are trying to find us in, it is easy to penetrate a certain point of this net, but only with a large core force consisting of Shin, Mouten, Kyoukai, and a few others. Shin replies, "Then let's all split up and escape from several places in every direction." But Karyoten tells him that the smaller the number, the narrower the enemy's search net becomes. This is counterproductive, so any unit that is found is immediately and easily wiped out because it is small to begin with... The most important thing is to save Shin and his companions, and this is what the others have done and sacrificed for, those who surrendered in Kantan, as well as the Han forces led by Yokoyoko! Even the Gakuka sacrificed a lot in Kantan to save the crumbling Hishin... The soldiers tell Karyoten that in this situation she is also part of the unit that must be rescued along with Shin and the others, but they tell them that to attract the enemy's attention with the bait, it must be coordinated and under her leadership. No one else can fulfill this role, so she is determined to lead the bait and rescue the others.
Narrator: In order to rebuild the Hishin, Karyoten plays her part and is ready to sacrifice.
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