Chapter 21.5

Chapter 21.5 is a special chapter of the Combatants Will Be Dispatched manga.

Summary
While coming back from the royal library, Alice meets a old man sleeping seated. The old man awakens and confuse Alice with his grandson. Alice wants to depart, but the old man start to tell stories about his time as soldier, in which Alice doesn't believes. The old man then tells about a poisonous insect called Scorpion Bee that gave trouble to the army. Alice get interested and asks where she could find it, and the old man shows a dead one to her, after making a rapid movement with his hands, eating it afterwards. Alice asks if they are poisonous, and he answer the stomach gets stronger with age.

Alice wants to tell Tillis about the insects, but the old man tells they live on the Darkwood, and that one must had come from a bag he stole. After offer not tell anything in exchange of bees, Alice asks about the bag and the bee, and the old man says he did "this and that", and the bee was his snack. Alice agrees tell anything, and while reflecting she needs to investigate the Darkwood, while remember Six wants to recruit that old man to their unit, and that might be a good idea after all.

Characters by Appearance

 * Alice Kisaragi
 * Alexandrite Galvenier
 * Princess Tillis (Mentioned)
 * Combat Agent Six (Mentioned)
 * Rose (Cameo)
 * Grimm Grimoire (Cameo)