The mayor of Karus calls on the captain of section three to tell him what's going on. He's got a message for the captain: the town has run out of women and children, and there's no one to take care of them. Uh-oh. The captain says that he and his men are on a mission to kill a big soldier. The mayor says that's fine, because it was their duty to kill the soldier, and the captain was fine with it. He says that if he'd always loved the captain, he wouldn't have done it, but now that he's on the front lines, he thinks it's a "very special" thing to be a soldier and an officer together.