Counterattack (3)

[To the Saint.]

「The summer heat is boiling even beyond the bronze walls.

By the time this letter reaches you, I imagine the cicadas there will be in full song as well.

If cicadas have no connection to the Academy territory, then I apologize.

Around this western front, cicadas and crickets always run rampant this time of year.

Enough of that. Let me get to the point.

When I learned what that catalyst you sent had brought to this front, I simply could not stop myself from picking up a pen.

It has been a long time since I last wrote a letter, so please forgive any rudeness in my wording.

First, please accept my deepest gratitude in the name of the House of Hayrn.

Until just last winter, conditions on the front were far from good...