章 327: Assignments

"Five more minutes before the fast ones come," Norbert reported right as all the girls finished touching the grass.

"Direction?" Mathew asked, done with distributing the weapons amongst his party.

"They are coming from the north," Norbert replied.

"Huh?" Mathew shook, turning his head towards the officer with a slightly confused expression on his face. "Shouldn't they be…"

"Approaching from North-west instead?" Norbert cut into Mathew's words, guessing what the young man was about to say. "That's what I expected too, but they moved west at first and only started going directly towards us once they could do so in a straight line."

"And that's how they can reach us so quickly," Mathew muttered in response, only for his eyebrows to twitch a little. "No, they will be here even faster!"