First off, thanks for the TL. I was worried I would never get a chance to read the end of this.
But as to this chapter: Anechka’s death felt weird to me. I understand the overall message that war is hell and people die randomly in war and isn’t that a shame, but her death felt so much more brutal than everyone else’s.
In this chapter all the people who died, except Anechka, have what I would call muted fatal wounds. Anechka’s headshot, on the other hand, is brutal. I don’t recall another moment in the series where we see such brutal image of death. (We have seen brutality in the war of course, but not a moment of a brutal death like this.) And it feels off. This chapter, and the story as a whole had already put in the war is hell and brutal. It did it in ways that stayed true to the tone of the story.
Anechka’s headshot feels like brutality for brutality’s sake, and not serving the tone or any further purpose beyond showing a brutal scene. If she had to die, it should have been similar to the other characters deaths. Not a random brutal scene that feels different from basically every other death scene I remember the story having.
Edit: I will allow that I don’t remember every death scene, and with so many chapters missing I can’t exactly check. So if it turns out there was an equally brutal death scene I just forgot, that would placate some of my feelings, though I still maintain it feels so different from every other death in the chapter it still stands out as weird to me.