Chapter 71
Richard patted Ka’s shoulder, asking her to leave. “Let’s go.”
Ka stared at Sophia fiercely before she yelled, “Just wait for it—this isn’t over yet!”
With that, Ka dashed out of the room hastily while Richard and X left along with her.
Just as they reached the door, Richard suddenly turned around. He looked dearly at Sophia, who was
busy tidying up her belongings. In a sincere voice, he said to her, “Sophia, it isn’t necessary for you to do
such a thing. You should know that we’re to the point of no return.”
As soon as he finished his sentence, Richard left while holding X’s hand in his.
Sophia had been busy tidying her stuff that had been scattered all over the ce; she did not even take
a nce at him. It was only until Richard had left when she finally cussed in silence. “Are you crazy?”
On the other hand, Nathan did not utter a single word. Nheless, he was clearly upset with the dull-
looking expression he had put on.
Sophia gently touched his head as sheforted him. “Everything’s alright now; I’m sure that they will
be punished!”
Michael once told her that there were cameras everywhere in the barracks, including the female’s dorms;
there would be a female instructor monitoring the situations at any given time. Therefore, they knew best
about everything that happened in the barracks. Despite that, they never spread a single word about it
since it was ssified as a military training secret; the Fletchers were probably the only ones who knew
about it.
For instance, the instructors were clearly aware of who had ced nails into Sophia’s shoes, as well as
who had hidden the ne in Sophia’s backpack.
However, everyone would not agree to installing surveince cameras in the women’s dormitories.
Regarding the matter of Sophia stealing the ne, everyone seemed to have guessed what had
actually taken ce.
It was absolutely impossible for Nathan to steal Ka’s ne, Sophia probably would not do so as
well. After all, she was in control of the most important resource at the barracks—iced watermelon.
Even if the otherpanies were willing to offer her luxury watches and diamonds in exchange for her
watermelon, she would not ept their offers. Thus, she would definitely not steal her ne!
Thinking about the grudges between Sophia and the Harpers, it was not that hard to figure out what had
actually happened.
Everyone was taking their own guesses, but none of them dared to point it out in public.
Nheless, Ka was hoping to make an issue out of this matter in order to drive Sophia out of the
barracks; she would definitely not give up easily. During their training drills at night, she had asked the
drill instructor of the 23rd Company to punish Sophia regarding the ne incident again.
As expected, the instructor refused to do so.
Kapletely ignored Richard’s dissuasion as she went over thepanymander and brought
up the matter directly to the battalionmanders.
The battalionmander pretended to investigate the matter and responded to Ka’s request. “We’ll
talk about it after the military training!”
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Ka nearly went mad. She became unreasonable and went straight to the regimentalmanders!
She had been causing trouble since that night until the next day; Ka had even skipped training that
morning. She continued to annoy the regimentalmander in hopes that he would punish Sophia.
Nheless the regimentalmander’s answer was the same—he had asked her to wait until the
military training ended.
As a result, Ka was not able to achieve what she had wanted. Additionally, she was punished by the
instructor and had toplete a 3000-meter running drill together with 200 sit-ups because she had
been absent from training.
“She’s the one who stole my ne, so why is everyone taking sides with her?”
Themanders were passing the buck for the matter Ka had brought up to them. She was even
punished for it, which put a chip on her shoulder as she started to make a scene during training.
Sophia had been caught red-handed for stealing her ne, but why wasn’t anyone punishing her?
On the contrary, she ended up being the one getting punished instead!
The morning session of military training was taking ce at that moment. Everyone underwent training
obediently except for Ka, who kept yelling and crying at the instructor. “I’m not convinced! She was the
one who had stolen the ne, so why have you punished me?”
The drill instructor of the 23rd Company remained expressionless as he said, “It is the duty of a soldier to
obey orders. You’ve only got two choices—it is either you follow as I say or leave!”
Ka felt wronged and started weeping tearfully. She immediately turned into a shrew right on the spot.
“I won’t run! It’s not my fault!”
Richard immediately urged her right after seeing Ka’s erratic behavior. “Calm down, Ka. Just follow
the instructor’s orders and don’t fight back!”
He was someone who had gone through military training. Therefore, he knew the dark side of military
training; he had taken the initiative to lead this team just to supervise Ka. Richard knew without doubt
that she had an extremely stubborn personality, and no one could stop her once she was strong-willed
about doing something.
Ka was not willing to ept the oue. In order to set this all up, she had missedst night’s dinner
and starved the entire night. She had to find someone to ce the ne in Sophia’s backpack, and
even had to bribe a couple of students to be witnesses. She was initially confident that she would
be able to drive Sophia out, but what had gone wrong?
Sophia was just an ordinary civilian; she did not have any background either. Why was everyone
protecting her?
She didn’t even manage to get rid of her after having put nails in her shoes. She was a tough one to
knock down indeed!
Richard kept on persuading her before he had finally gotten Ka to start running her 3000-meter drill.
Everyone was training while they watched over Ka as she ran around the synthetic-rubber sports
track in circles. The weather was scorching hot because the sun was hanging in mid-air, and she started
to totter as if she was on the verge of copsing.
Contrarily, the 49th Company was under the shade. They were taking a break as they enjoyed the iced
watermelons Sophia had offered them. At the same time, they watched as Ka passed by right in front
of them. Quite a number of them were pointing fingers at her before they started mocking at her. Ka
felt like she was running naked, and both her eyes reddened in an instant—especially when she had
embarrassed herself in front of Sophia, who was just sitting there while enjoying her watermelon.
Sophia, I promise to ruin your reputation one day!
Ka ruthlessly cursed Sophia in mind.
Sophia was eating her watermelon as she watched Kaplete her rounds on the track
expressionlessly. No one knew what she was pondering about.
All she wanted was to get a high score in military training. Don’t me her if you get in her way of
achieving her goals!
Since Ka was a young mistress, shecked physical strength. All of a sudden, she dropped to the
ground while running. Richard then hastily picked her up before sending her to the infirmary.
In the infirmary, Ka had woken up to find herself on the receiving end of an intravenous drip. Sheid
down still and did not bother to budge an inch the whole day. She only wanted to go home and did not
want to stay back at the barracks for a second longer.
However, if she left the barracks, she would lose a huge amount of credit.
Nheless, whenever she shut her eyes, she would see Sophia mocking her with a piece of
watermelon in her hands. She was anxious to shred thetter into pieces!
At noon, X came over to take care of Ka during lunchtime.
She happened to see her best friend, Ka, weeping in tears as she hugged her. “What went wrong?
She was the one who stole my ne, but why is everyone ming me instead?”
X did not know what the problem was as well. Although Ka was not very smart, a n as such was
quite foolproof.
The parents of the students who had pointed Nathan out as the thief all worked under thepany of
the Harpers and the Huffs, which meant that those students would definitely obey Ka’s orders.
Moreover, no one else was there when the incident had taken ce; their usation of Sophia
instructing Nathan to steal was definite.
Why had her ns not seeded?
It must’ve been because of Ka’s poor acting skills; the instructor must have seen her through. In that
case, she deserved to be punished!
Xforted Ka and said, “Ka, you have to stay strong. If you aren’t able to persist, you’ll
embarrass yourself in front of everybody!”
Ka sobbed twice, and her tears trickled down unwillingly. She became extremely upset whenever she
recalled the smirk on Sophia’s face.
She had to get rid of her from the barracks at all costs!