“El….Amado….”


    Hmmm? Why am I hearing noises…


    “Elri…Bohd….Amadov”


    Wait, this feels familiar.…


    “ELRIK BOHDAN AMADOVICH!”


    “GAHHH?!”


    I jumped back out of surprise


    “WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOZING OFF RIGHT HERE”


    “Huh?”


    The confused me , barely regaining my sentience , looked around


    “Woah cant believe this guy”


    “Yeah, how could he not listen when Sergeant Loudmouth is speaking”


    “He must be deaf or something”


    These people…. I AM deaf for fuck’s sa…huh?


    Looking around me , all I see are people in military attire , and looking at myself, I''m also wearing one.


    “WHATTTTTT??!!”


    I couldn''t contain my confusion and uneasy feeling , and my voice echoed throughout the training grounds. Me trying to recollect and process what is happening , got distracted by the sudden whisperings of the cadets all around me , as that added to my confusion , it wasn''t long until i realized why when i turned around and met face to face with an imposing figure .


    “ELRIK BOHDAN AMADOVICH, AS PUNISHMENT FOR DISRESPECTING ME , YOU ARE NOW REQUIRED TO GET DOWN AND GIVE ME 200 AND RUN 50 LAPS AROUND THE TRACK RIGHT THIS INSTANT”


    All my confusion and uneasiness was immediately squashed , as i was facing what some would say is the end of the world, as cold sweat trickled down my forehead to the edge of my chin , i am met with Sergeant Dedic’s furious face who looks like he’s about to kill me for taking a big fat shit on his front office , although i''m sure that will be the least of my concerns if it does happen . In response to the matter at hand , all I could do was smile awkwardly while quivering in fear and hope to survive the impending doom.


    .


    .


    .


    “Fuck , im exhausted , that fucking loudmouth is crazy for giving this kind of punishment to a first year cadet”


    As my body ached, mainly my calves, quads and chest , I walked back to my quarters which were situated on the second floor of Block B.


    ‘If my memory serves me right, i just have to walked through this path in front of the training ground and it should be past the assembly square’


    While walking said path agonizingly in pain , I recollected my calm and analyzed the current situation.While running those 50 laps around the track , I''ve been looking around my surroundings and even checked the date and my cadet badge number . With all this information , I came to a conclusion.


    ‘I can’t believe this, but i’m really back at the first day of my military service,sigh’


    With this in mind , I tried to come to every possibility I could.


    ‘Could this be a dream? I doubt it , since everything feels too real. Then what is this, a simulation, but i''m pretty sure i spent my dying moments with my family already , and i know they are not the type of person who will trap me in something like this’


    At that point my imagination was already going wild. I even came up with the possibility that my death was faked , and I''m an alien or abducted by one. But in all seriousness, I was just trying to do anything to ease the pain i felt especially in my legs.


    ‘Holy fuck it hurts so fucking much, whose idea is it to make the running tracks 1 kilometers instead of the standard 400 meters, that almost quadruple of the standard length, i had to run fucking 50 kilometers because of this!’


    As I was in my thoughts, I came to the realization that I''m back to being young again , and my physicality was no longer comparable to that frail old dead man I once was , albeit still not in my peak physical prowess. I also came to the realization that it was already late into the night , as I quickly walked to my quarters while enduring the continuous muscular pain just so I could get a good night''s rest.


    This military grounds contains 4 blocks , Block B is behind the assembly grounds, Block C is to the right , Block A is to the left and Block D is situated behind Block C .Each blocks contains 3 levels and each levels contains 4 rooms and in each rooms there are enough space to contain the sleeping quarters of up to 10 cadets and this doesn''t include the female cadets , but we don''t talk about those since its prohibited to meet with them anyways , regrettably .


    If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    “Let’s see, B-6, B-6….there it is, home sweet home!”


    Unable to wait to be in the embrace of the worn and torn bed provided by the government , I slammed the inward-opening door open , which thankfully did not woke up the other cadets as it was already half past 10 , i jumped into bed only to be met with a somewhat uneven bed surface with no bounce back from the dead springs , but as of now i couldn''t care less , i just want to rest . I was so tired that I considered sleeping past assembly hours but after what happened today , I figured it wasn''t a wise decision . And so , I closed my eyes and wished that I would have a sweet , sweet dream …


    “Well if it isn''t ‘Mister I got screwed on the first day’”


    ‘%!?%!!’


    Annoyed that someone interrupted me just when i was entering the


    1st stage of the sleeping cycle , i rose from my bed and turned my head to glare at the figure with a balanced and well built body , being at an attractive height of 6’2 , a roman-shaped nose and typical european eyes with hazelnut colored irises , together you get a face that any girl would fawn over. Oh , and can’t forget a fully shaved head which sadly is the only thing we have in common.


    “Piotr you fucking bitch”


    “Woah what''s with the crude language , what did I do?”


    “What do you think? Awaking me from my precious sleep cost a great price , how about i get two free punches to that playboy looking face of yours”


    “Dude , you literally just layed on your bed for a few seconds, it can''t be that serious”


    Upon hearing that, i can''t help but clench my fist ,gritting my teeth


    while barely holding back the urge to punch that stupidly good looking face


    “You wanna try 200 pushups and 50 kilometers running?Please ,


    my treat”


    “Ahaha, i''ll pass”


    I swear to god , one day i’ll definitely get a good punch in


    “Anyways , trivial matters aside”


    This motherfucker….


    “You sure did a good job leaving a memorable first impression on the Sergeant , bet he’ll keep an eye on you now”


    I scratched the back of my head in annoyance


    “Tch , i didn''t meant that back then , i was startled , a lot of things happened in such a short while, i couldn''t help it”


    “Yeahh, same for me , it really gets to you when it''s your first day enlisting into the military, a lot of the cadets look imposing at first , but I settled into it already , haven''t you?”


    “Huh, oh ,oh yeah, same for me , haha…”


    Piotr Zenlenskyy , my childhood friend who has always been with me since young , has decided to follow me into enlistment …or was it the other way around ? It''s been 8 decades since then so I wouldn''t remember , and this is our first day in this military grounds . Piotr’s facial expression is as if he feels something fishy about me , and he’s not wrong , right now I''m 81 years younger , back when I was 18 years old . I looked down on the floor , deeply concerned about my current situation .


    “Look man, if you need help with anything , just tell me , i’ll see if i can do something”


    “Ah yea sure , oh sorry bout just now, i''m just tired”


    Piotr responded with a thumbs up as he walked to his bed which is situated on the opposite side of mine , the second bed away from the front door. I lied down again , hands behind my head pressing against the hard pillow ,thinking of the events that have happened to me so far.


    ‘As far as i remember, i passed away , that i''m certain of , the memories i made with my family definitely has not been fake , and now i''m back to when i''m young again , if this is a dream it has certainly been the realest dream i had so far , but if it isn''t…could this be … but i only ever read fiction novels and comics about it , but this is the only logical conclusion i can come to so far, I had -’


    “Oh yea , Elrik , not to be rude or anything but you should maybe take a shower, you kinda stink”


    Being so deep in thought and exhausted at the same time made me forget about the fact that I forgot to shower , and now that Piotr had reminded me , I definitely smell of blue cheese and pickles that have been dunked in shit , kinda stink is an understatement .


    “Your right, my bad”


    I took the stuff I needed and went to the shower block which is situated just past Block D , went to one of the shower heads and turned on the tap . While the water was trickling down my shampoo lathered body , I had a thought.


    ‘This, I definitely regressed. This is a regression!’