《Isekai Reporter》


 Prologue: A carreer path

    Back in high school, I used to want to be a news reporter when I grow up so I decided to participate in the school''s newspaper and photography arts club. At least that''s what I had decided to do before coming here.


    A few day ago, I woke up clueless of my whereabouts as I scan my surroundings and ponder about my weird military attire, I don''t remember wearing a JSDF uniform before. A library it seems and an old one to be exact. I make my way out of the door to a brightly shine front yard.


    The yard though had been covered mostly with fauna, but the military equipment was still visible even from afar. I looked around trying to find anyone that could tell me where I was? However, the place was dead quiet, quiet to a point that there were no birds nor animals could be heard. My calls for help kept echoing on and on with no responses.


    To be honest, that was the first time I felt isolated and alone. Though I''ve accustomed to the feeling of alone from silently sit in the corner at school, this new feeling of isolation is still new to me. I made me feel week, vulnerable.


    Acknowledging that I was truly alone, I then decided to tinker around with the military weapons and hardware that were present at the scene. Weapons such as assault rifles, handguns, revolvers and weapons were carefully stored in the rusted weapon cases, almost all of them were still in pristine condition and funny enough I even found a ceramic Kabuki mask, hidden under the stacks of what I could presume were HOWA type 89s from the markings on the guns.


    Merely touching the gun, I then turned to the hardware that laid adjacent to the guns. Rusted HAM radios with a few seemingly still working headsets and short range radios. After a quick inspection, I then decided to fix them since I''d been in the school''s communication''s club. Hopefully, I could use it to contact with other people was what I thought.


    I then spent like half a day, if my memory is still good enough, fixing the darn thing. Most of the circuits were either too corroded due to the humid weather or the acid from the battery units that the radios used. I wipe off the corrosion with the cloth scarf around my neck, using the machine oil from the cleaning kit to grease up the generator wheels and start the HAM radio.


    As the generator turned on, I noticed a peculiar object hiding behind the large generator. Upon closer inspection, I noticed it to be a skeleton of a soldier. It startled me at first but once I gathered myself, I turn to it and decide to bury him for a sake of courtesy.


    I carefully remove his dog tags from his neck, revealing him to be a part of the KP. I used to read news about their accomplishment fighting against the Chinese in the South East Asian Sea. After saying my prayers and paying my respect for him, I then returned to tinkering with the radio.


    At first, the radio gave me a static and recognizable sound of music playing, but as I try to tune into other channels, sparks started to fly out of the torn wires. And at that moment, the short circuit electrocuted me, leading me to become unconscious.


    ...


    As I came to, I saw that the scenery had changed. I was no longer in the library garden, but instead, my location shifted into what seemed to be a regular Japanese home. Seeing the interiors that were quite similar to my house, I then kind of concluded that I was back in Japan, in my home or at least someone''s home that I could ask to use the phone.


    The place earlier didn''t seem to be a hallucination or a dream though seeing how I was still clad in the JSDF uniform.


    "Sorry for the intrusion!"(Rynosuke)


    "Yes! One second please, I''m in the middle of making something, I''ll be with you in a second!"(...)


    Within less than a second, I got a response.


    "Alright! Then may I come in?"(Rynosuke)


    "Sure! But please leave your shoes on the shelves in the left please!"(...)


    I entered the living room of the house. It was a small room consisted of two wooden shelves, a sofa, a small coffee table and a large TV and a videogame set. Looks like a regular house after all. I sat down on the sofa and waited for the host to come and greet me.


    Not long after settling down to my seat, the host finally came to greet me. She was a young girl about my age, she wore a black sailor uniform and a white apron with a few still bright food stains seemingly from cooking. She carefully walked into the room, making almost none to no sound and slowly present to me a tray with a teapot and three ceramic glasses.


    "Ah sorry for making you wait. I made some matcha tea, please help yourself."(...)


    She then presented me with the cup and offered to pour some tea for me.


    "Ah thank you...Could you be so kind to tell me where am I?"(Rynosuke)


    After she give me my cup she then poured her own and signaled me to drink mine.


    "Please, drink it then we''ll talk."(...)


    I raised the cup up to take a soft blow to cool down the tea and downed a gulp of it.


    "This is delicious!"(Rynosuke)


    "Thank you!"(...)


    With one large gulp, I then downed the entire cup of tea.


    "Thank you for praising my tea. Now, please don''t freak out from what I''m going to tell you but...You''re in hell."(...)


    "Excuse me?..."(Rynosuke)


    I spaced out for a moment upon hearing that. She then continued.


    "But you''re not gonna be suffering a thousand year of pain. The reason I have summoned you here is that I have a request for you."(...)


    She then explained the situation to me. I was summoned here after my death due to a good virtue that I had. In the afterlife, god and demons work together to fight against Khaos, a being that spreads prejudice and chaos throughout worlds. Several worlds that were created by the gods had been destroyed by the influences of Khaos. She then explained my role, I and those that other gods managed to save from my previous world shall be sent to this new fantasy world where I and other chosen ones shall try to coexist with those from this world and repel Khaos''s influences.


    Following up with a few question on her request and briefing, I then reluctantly agreed to the request, with a condition that I would only play on the defensive. I stated that I didn''t want to see much bloodshed. She agreed, bringing out a calligraphy brush and an ink stone.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    She slowly grinded the inkstone in the ink dish with some water whilst constantly talking to me.


    "There will also be other apostles fighting on your side, but beware Khaos influence can infect anyone even angel guardians. Stay vigilant, trust your friend, but prepare to strike them down if necessary."(Kuucifer)


    With the ink had melted down onto the water, she then instructed me to lay down on my back, of which I obediently follow. I then waited patiently for what came after. Abruptly and suddenly, the girl lifted the two edges of my shirt, exposing my back, she stood up, raising her foot over the side of my butt and sat down on my leg.


    "Wh-What?!"(Rynosuke)


    "Hold still! I''m just gonna grant you a blessing from the demon kind..."(Kuucifer)


    She was surprisingly soft and light to be honest. Resting her soft and delicate hands on my back, she then started to make her strokes.


    "Cold!" (Rynosuke)


    "Stay still!"(Kuucifer)


    "Sorry, It''s not every day that I would get pinned on by a beautiful woman."


    I responded sarcastically.


    "..."(Kuucifer)


    She didn''t bother to return to that petty conversation, but rather focusing greatly on her work. And I could feel that focus carefully tracing over the spines and bones of my back, telling from the careful and delicate brush strokes she laid on me. Respecting her concentration and in order not to annoy her, I obediently laid in silence, waiting for her to finish. During that time, I fell into a deep sleep unbothered from the drawings she was putting on me.


    ...


    After a while, I came to, having to see no trace of Kuucifer and realizing that I was still in her home, I decided to have a look around the living room. I looked around on the shelves and was surprised to see the number of games and manga that she had. IT was quite a lot, much like the entire closet full of contrabands that "Kaichou" Mitsuha showed me last year when I had to write about the student council. As I stroll around the room, an alluring smell caught my attention. Upon following it, I found Kuucifer sitting across on the other side eating what I presumed from the smell of sweet soy sauce and flatbed look, an Onomoyaki?


    She scooped up a big spoon and stuffed it in her mouth swooning after every bite. So she''s a glutton eh?


    She continued eating, displaying what I could assume to be a secret to her, seeing how she carefully chewed and cut the pancake to not make any sound. Which kind of rooted another assumption of a second or third tenant living together with her.


    As I was drowning deep in my thoughts about the other role of the other tenants that might share this home with her, I accidentally leaned too much on the slightly opened door and fell down, surprising the gluttonous demon.


    Kuucifer let out an adorable yelp after seeing come crashing on the ground just across her table, following up with a soft choke. She quickly coughed it out and drink a cup of water before bashfully asking me to not tell this secret to any of her sisters while tending to my wounds.


    "KUUWAH!*cough**cough*! What...*gulp*...are you?"(Kuucifer)


    "I''m sorry! *Groan* Damn that was painful."(Rynosuke)


    Kuucifer walks over to my side, crouched her knee down to my level and grabbed my face.


    "You bruised elbow, let me have a look..."(Kuucifer)


    "I''m sorry... for spying on you..."(Rynosuke)


    "That''s really rude you know?" (Kuucifer)


    "Sorry...journalist instincts and habits..." (Rynosuke)


    "No... I understood that''s why I chose you to be my apostle, you have a keen eye for details and intelligence gathering. Other gods prefer more combat effective individuals, but to me having a sly fox that uses information in his favour is good enough for me." (Kuucifer)


    "You praise me too much." (Kuucifer)


    "Yeah I am, even after the Student council scandal I''m surprised that you are still able to stand tall." (Rynosuke)


    The conversation startled me, how did she know about that?!


    "You''re wondering how I knew about your evil deeds back in the old world? Easy, because I''m omnipresent and secondly I''m a demon, I keep track of all the evil deeds that my vassals ever did. You are not the first scumbag that have been seated in my home, so don''t get your hopes too high." (Kuucifer)


    "Well, I''m not gonna deny that. Ha...ha...I''ve done some screwed up shit during my school days, but I wouldn''t do it for personal interest you know? I only did it for her..." (Rynosuke)


    My eyes started to water this time, as I recalled the incident. Back in my old school, one of my acquaintances got into trouble and I had to swallow my own tears and guilt to get her out of it.


    "I am aware of your circumstances back then, that''s why I decided to make you my vassal. You have a good heart, I''m not gonna lie, but you are quite a coward." (Rynosuke)


    Guilty as charged since I was basically the one who usually grovel down under my oppressor''s feet to stop things from escalating into something worst. Followed up with her remark, I then comically commented on her love for the greasy Onomoyaki.


    "It''s better than a gluttonous goddess." (Rynosuke)


    Her face then burning up with a reddish hue as I refer to the food that she was eating earlier.


    "You...you...don''t you have any courtesy?! It''s rude to tell a woman that she''s gluttonous. It''s just my cheat day ok?! I don''t do this every day?!" (Kuucifer)


    A blatant lie I presumed, seeing how she stutters and how her eyes kept diverting away every time I tried to look her in the eyes.


    "Sorry for being rude but you shoulda know, I can tell if you are lying or not right? Seeing how your behaviour prior to me barging in tells me that you''ve been doing this for a long time and even more when your sisters are at home, aren''t you?"(Rynosuke)


    Her eyes started to water and as a young child, she started to throw a tantrum.


    "Hmp! I hate you! Idiot! Jerk! Enemy of woman kind..." (Kuucifer)


    "Stop! Ouch! I get it to stop!" (Rynosuke)


    I raised my arms up to cover my face from her punches and hits. As I leaned off more and more to dodge avoid her hits while raising arms up to counter her hits, she closed in, making the chair lean more and more increasing the level of balance I needed to keep to not falling down to the floor the second time.


    At this point, the chair gave way (from the excess amount of weight two people applied on it), leading me and Kuucifer plundering down on to the ground. We fell onto the ground, or rather onto my body to be honest (because a gentleman always shields a woman away from harm, though in this situation it was merely quite coincidental).


    During this incident, we both fell into quite an awkward situation as her hand accidentally touched my crotch while my face came buried into her breasts. And instinctively we both retracted ourselves, immediately turning around away from each other. An awkward silence atmosphere then surround us.


    "Sorry..." (Rynosuke)


    "Don...Don''t mind it, it was my fault..."(Kuucifer)


    I made an attempt to apologize but the awkward silence still followed up after our brief exchange of words. Until my belly started to growl.


    UUuuuuuuuuuuu...


    "Are you hungry? I still have so Onomoyaki batter left..."(Kuucifer)


    She pulled on my shirt, offering to cook me a meal. I was going to decline seeing how much trouble I had caused her, but in the end, I reluctantly accepted it (because my belly growled even harder and it was hurting my guts).


    "Wait a moment please."(Kuucifer)


    She then helped me to get seated and walked into the kitchen. In a quick moment, I could hear the "stzss" sound from the Onomoyaki batter hitting the oil. The aroma was enticing, truly fits the work of a god (in this case demon goddess), a smell of cabbage, Chinese leeks and bacon wrapped on together to create a wonderful smell (godly smell). Kuucifer then brought the dish out of the kitchen blank un-sauced before squirting a few lines of mayo, sweet Onomoyaki sauce and sprinkling a few pieces of bonito flakes on the hot steaming sauce, creating somewhat of a dancing octopus show for me before eating.


    "Itadakimasu!" (Rynosuke)


    I dug in, stunned by the amount of Umami that the dish presented, despite only made out of 5 ingredients exempting the sauces. Kuucifer giggled upon seeing my poor eating etiquettes, which in return, I blush up a little bit, wiped my face off the food bits and slowed down on my consumption.


    "It''s good...thank you...Goochisousamadeshita." (Rynosuke)


    We shared a few awkward looks in the eyes and getting flustered before a loud bell from the grandfather clock from outside the room echoed out into the room.


    "Oh dear!" (Kuucifer)


    "What is it?!" (Rynosuke)


    "You have to go, come follow me." (Kuucifer)


    She then grabbed my hand and pulled me out to the front door.


    "I''m sorry for the discourteous things I did today...hopefully I ask for your forgiveness." (Kuucifer)


    "It was my fault at first, please don''t be so harsh on yourself...Will I see you again? I wish to eat more of your cooking..." (Rynosuke)


    Her face then turned red after hearing my response.


    "...Y...yes...you will...thank you for today..." (Kuucifer)


    She grabbed my hands giving me a small gun then bowed down to greet me away. I holstered the gun, then unable to curb my emotions any more, I spontaneously hugged her...She had the smell of Vanilla, sweat and calming.


    "Wah!" (Kuucifer)


    "...I...I''m sorry..." (Rynosuke)


    Realizing how rude I was being, I jumped backwards, looking away from her.


    "...I''ll see you on the Cliffside..." (Kuucifer)


    We said our goodbyes, then I walked through the door and wake up in the library once more. This time, the drapes of the night sky had covered over the abandoned library.

 Chapter 1: Mission start!

    I smugly stated as I rushed to the objective.


    They drooled and drew their weapons.


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    ¡°Why the fuck should we listen to you?!¡± He shouted raising his m16 in the air all high and mighty. It wasn¡¯t even a second that another few followed his lead. Now, most of the kids in the camp were against me, having a distrusted attitude towards how timely my rescue was to their plans of breaking out of their captors.


    ¡°Safe point? You call this a safe point? This is basically an open building, we¡¯re basically sitting ducks! And this safe point of yours barely stood at the top of the bandits¡¯ camp.¡±(Nam Seung)


    ¡°Alright alright! I¡¯ll leave, I¡¯ll leave¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    I sarcastically provoke him, shoving the muzzle of the m16 to my head.


    This was incredibly stupid as what happened next was that three rounds of m16 burst fire shot through my cranium.


    Reloading the m16 with the last magazine, I was prepared for a final stand against these meatheads.

 Chapter 2: Killing strikes

    I started to levitate, the pool of blood and guts that were gushing out on the ground started to take humanoid forms. On my own body, similar things happened as well as half of my under torso was barely holding onto my spine. The soldiers formed from the blood and guts of the fallen, turned their backs against me and started to put up a defensive position towards the walls of the building. Their intimidating postures and appearances deterred the attackers for a few moments before the siege continued, starting with an arrow straight through my head. I fell backwards.


    Though it was painful as hell, I didn¡¯t die this time but rather the pain triggered something in me. An extreme rush of adrenaline combined with an overly violent blood lust overtook me; with the knife in hand and what¡¯s left in the m16, I rushed through the rows of brigands, shooting, ripping and tearing through the flesh of my foes. The ¡°zombies¡± followed my stead, growling and tearing through them as well.


    Now one would think that this was a scene from a horror movie or horror videogame, as decayed monsters with torn up limbs and faces tearing through the battlefront. Things got bloodied real quickly as my strike team of Frankenstein¡¯s monsters overrun the attackers. I got my fill of the fun too, as with extreme speed and agility, I quickly dispatched against the attackers. I even ripped a guy¡¯s head off and ate it like that one character from a Western comic I had read.


    The worst part of this battle was that the defenders kept mistaking me for enemies and kept shooting me with their guns. Though it only lasted for a few moments.


    ¡°Monster! Get away from me!¡± They yelled as the massacre continued.


    As the herd was starting to thin out, I slowly made my way back into the library. Of course, guns were drawn, but no shots were fired. The zombies also stood down too, they returned back to their defensive and guard positions.


    My body also started to heal as well. The rip from the stabbings and slicing earlier from the brigands were starting to weave together and in a short few minutes my wound healed and I was able to walk once again. As I walked through the crowd of injured children, all of their eyes were focused on me as I made my way to a wall where I could rest. I sat down with my back against the wall to take a short breather. Though I had chosen a quite crowded wall, hoping for their eyes to avert from my spot. It hadn¡¯t been an hour into my rest that I had to deal with that idiot again.


    ¡°Why are you all standing out like that? Kill it!¡± (Nam Seung) Nam Seung yelled as he took a Howa Type 89 from a kid standing nearby and pointed at me.


    ¡°Get out of here monster! We don¡¯t need you¡­¡± (Nam Seung) I stood up to his level and held the gun to my head once more. With a threatening look on my face and an intimidating glare, I said.


    ¡°Don¡¯t fucking point that thing¡­ahhhh¡­¡±(Rynosuke) I tried to sound intimidating but the high monotone voice I had, made it came out quite childish.


    The crowd surrounded us started to have ¡°pffts¡± sounds as they tried to quell their laughs.


    ¡°So what! My voice sounds like a girl so what?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I berated them. This was common back in school as even though people who came out of the JSDF advance commando courses looked like steroids filled macho humans, I wasn¡¯t. I was still small, young and innocent looking. What¡¯s worst was that my squeaky voice started to become higher since then.


    ¡°Back to the point! Until you can stop shaking like a wet dog, don¡¯t point that thing at me. Now! I need some volunteers, there are still some survivors out there and it¡¯s dangerous to wait for them to regroup, so who wants to have some fun?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I finish my scolding of Nam Seung and turned to another matter with an enthusiastic tone of voice hoping to rile up the winning spirits of those who had just survived the siege of more than a thousand brigands.


    No one answered.


    ¡°Anyone?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I asked once more to be sure, but my invitation was mostly brushed off. I couldn¡¯t blame them, most of these kids just barely started their training while I had been going on field missions and mock assignments for 5 years. So as to not waste any more time, I decided to proceed with my hunt for the survivors. I would prefer to let them go but seeing how many men they wasted trying to catch only a bunch of kids, and slave nonetheless.


    In history textbooks and literature I had learned during my time in the JSDF, almost no culture would risk nor waste a large number of men for a measly small number of slaves. What¡¯s more was that these guys were quite well equipped and worked tactically on their siege.


    I was afraid that their retreats were to regroup and or to rally more troops. I took the howa from Nam Seung, rack the slide several times to clear out the dust or mud that might reside inside and might jam the gun if I were to shoot it.


    ¡°If none of y¡¯all want to help, then go and hide. There are Humvee and transport trucks inside the library¡¯s left storage. Let the wounded ride the cars and the rest of you march! Use some paint or something to mark your way so that I could track ya. Prepare everything and move out at dawn. I won¡¯t ask too much of ya, just don¡¯t leave before I come back alright?¡± (Rynosuke)


    I gave them some overall instruction before vaulting the wall to begin my objective. Since I couldn¡¯t manage to persuade any of them to be my riflemen, so I guess CQC hand to hand combat would do. Plus I did have the abilities to call in ghouls no? The only thing that I need to be careful to not get my head cut off. Headshots sure, but if my head was to be cut off I would not be able to use any of my limbs and such.


    However, I didn¡¯t manage to get far before the kid I had saved before ran to the gate and asked to go with me. Which played a huge role in the change of plan that I later made.


    ¡°Nii-san! Wait for me!¡± The kid yelled out loud as he ran to me, holding tightly on his EBR.


    AN: I wish to specify that he is a boy despite how deceiving his look is¡­and his posture¡­ and that face. Anyhow his voice sounds deeper through the mask that most of these students had been wearing. This journal has been quite a chore to write and rewrite. Especially during the operations against the Grand Rile Empire.Stolen story; please report.


    ¡°Oh hey, you¡¯re that kid from earlier? Right?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Yes, sir!¡± He took off the mask to greet me revealing an incredibly feminine face that made me feel dumbstruck for quite a while.


    ¡°My name¡¯s Hideyoshi Yoshii. Rank: Corporal. I¡¯m a junior marksman of the National Police Agency SAT. Age 14! I¡¯ll be in your care!¡± (Hideyoshi) He bowed down and stated.


    The SAT? How the hell was this kid not covered in burnt mark, bruises and knife wounds? During my time in training, I¡¯d always either seen or heard of news or stories of the police force fighting riots instigated by the insurgents at neutral zones or having beaten off by angry mobs.


    Let just say that the police hadn¡¯t been that popular with the denizen since the 2023 Shibuya riot that later would lead to the mobilization of the entire JSDF to the district.


    Back to the report.


    The boy was of a slender build, he had quite a feminine face, a tomboyish short-cut and a soft monotone voice


    ¡°Alright! The name¡¯s Rynosuke Tanizawa, rank Sergeant of the 21<sup>st</sup> JSDF commandoes. Nice to meet ya.¡± (Rynosuke)


    After the introduction and a few casual jokes, we went on our way. Hideyoshi was quite fun to talk with, he told me that he was usually mistaken as a girl. Of which was reasonable to a certain degree, was quite relatable as my little sister, Kimiko, used to force me into that kind of clothes whenever we played house and mom would usually joke with an idea that ¡°her two daughters both look beautiful¡±. I found it to be good fun but it¡¯s not really my preference. He said that he had been coerced to wearing a few round girls¡¯ costumes when he was 14 for the unit¡¯s drills competition.


    If one were to look from afar, it would just look like two kids walking together casually talking together, two friends having a hike down a hill, as it would be if one were to ignore the background.


    It was fun for a brief moment, a time of innocence, a time without duty. Things soon ceased as we managed to reach the compound once more. And¡­my hunches were right. About 2000 men riding on stood tall with two figures standing in front of the formation. I would have preferred a few more people to form more fire teams than two guys.


    ¡°Medieval gear? Where are we?¡± (Hideyoshi asked)


    ¡°Not in Japan or anywhere else I¡¯m sure.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°OH! Like in those Isekai light novels right?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Isekai¡­Another world, light novels? What are those?¡± (Rynosuke)


    And this was the question that poked the hornet¡¯s nest. Though I am Japanese, I wasn¡¯t that knowledgeable of the Japanese Otaku culture as the Commando course forbid students from bringing anything that could distract them from their studies. This was one of the reasons why I clung on to the kid so much.


    We had a brief talk about the subject before coming back to the task. The boy had a Marksman EBR rifle which came along with an ACOG scope. I had preferred if the gun had a 4x scope, but beggars can¡¯t be choosers. I let him out on the plan, of which he assured me about his skills and said ¡°okay¡± with a thumbs up.


    We then waited for sunrise for a better shot.


    ¡°You see those two guys? Think ya can take them down from here?¡± (Rynosuke) I said, pointing at the two proudly dressed generals, idly walking around the compound


    ¡°Yes Nii-san, I can!¡±(Hideyoshi)


    He says as we got into position. Playing the spotter for this sniper, I then used the binoculars to assign enemies for him to shoot.


    ¡°You ready?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Yes, Nii-san!¡±(Hideyoshi)


    ¡°First target. The man with the dome helmet, drinking water behind the tent. 100 meters, wind speed 3.5 meters per second. Spotter ready.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Shooter ready.¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Weapons clear, fire at will.¡± (Rynosuke)


    He took a deep breath, held it and slowly squeezed the trigger. Because of the suppressed muzzle, we managed to take care of the first target without any of the enemies noticing.


    ¡°Next target. 200 meters, man in the red beret, same wind speed. Spotter ready.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Shooter ready.¡±


    ¡°Greenlight. Fire at will.¡± (Rynosuke)


    We screwed up with this one as the suppressor broke off from excessive use as the gun discharged.


    ¡°What the hell?¡±


    ¡°We are under attack. Defensive position.¡±


    They dismounted from the horses and raised their shields over their head. This was a sign that they might have known where we were shooting from.


    We didn¡¯t stay long for them to be able to spot us and rushed away from the camp, using the trees and bushes to cover our tracks.


    ¡°Run towards the trees!¡± (Rynosuke) I said as I took the boy by the hand and led him by the hand as we ran.


    ¡°Nii-san¡­Wait up! I can¡¯t¡­¡± (Hideyoshi)


    Though as we were able to rush to the bushes, I immediately felt something wrong as Hideyoshi was constantly tripping on his track and he was gripping quite tightly on his belly. Suddenly he fell down, gripping tightly on his belly and started yelling. However, as for us not to be discovered, I had to silent him up.


    ¡°Shh!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I was scared half-death as the soldiers ran past us


    ¡°They are still here! Keep looking!¡±


    Seeing the danger of being spotted from staying in cover, I decided to run. However, Hideyoshi was exhausted, he was breathing heavily and upon looking down, I saw that his stomach was bleeding through his armour. The wound from before?


    ¡±Hideyoshi? Your stomach¡¯s bleeding¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry Nii-san¡­*cough*¡­¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Shh¡­don''t talk or it¡¯ll hurt more.¡± (Rynosuke) I took off my bandana and wrapped it around his stomach.


    ¡°Listen¡­Our plan failed. I¡¯m gonna carry you back¡­the mission¡¯s complete.¡±(Rynosuke) I continued.


    ¡°But¡­I¡¯m too heavy and the guns too¡­¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°We¡¯ll lose the guns if necessary, and I can carry you and the two guns.¡± (Rynosuke)


    Finishing my sentence, I hoisted Hideyoshi over my shoulder and carefully manoeuvre through the bushes. Though it hurts as hell crouching like this, I managed to work through it.


    ¡°Ready?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Go! Nii-san!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    I then rushed through the bushes, while constantly keeping my head down. This was kinda hard to manoeuvre with, but I still managed except for a few trips and falls. We managed to reach the top of the first hill, before being spotted.


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    ¡°Nii-san leave me! Save yourself!¡± (Hideyoshi) Hideyoshi yelled out loud as I slowly went down the steep hills.


    ¡°Shut up! Shut the fuck up! I¡¯m not losing anyone else you hear me? You are going to come with me and is gonna teach me all that otaku stuff that I have always heard of!¡± (Rynosuke) I yelled out loud as I went down to the hills.


    But how misfortunate, I tripped and as we fall, both I and Hideyoshi rolled down to the foot of the hill, crashing against the huge rock down below. And because of this, we both groaned loudly which alerted the enemies down to our location. I dragged Hideyoshi to cover as it started to rain down their arrows.


    ¡°You alright?¡± (RYnosuke)


    ¡°I¡¯m fine Nii-san¡­*cough*¡­I¡¯m fine¡­¡±(Hideyoshi) He replied as blood started dripping from his mouth.


    ¡°Shit! You¡¯re not fine you¡¯re not fine at all!¡± (Rynosuke) I said as I hastily put pressure on his wound.


    I had lost focus at this point, and so an enemy managed to sneak behind us and gave me a jab of a lifetime. I managed to overpower him though. However, at this point, there were many rushing down the hills with their swords and shields ready.


    I took the guns and laid down suppressive fire towards the bandits, but they didn¡¯t falter and though my bullets manage to pierce their shields, they seemed to not care and continued pushing. Running out of options and hoping for just pure luck, I yelled out loud for the kids defending the library, hoping that they hadn¡¯t left and would come to help us.


    ¡°Help! For god¡¯s sake help!¡± (RYnosuke)


    It didn¡¯t take long before the m16 and the EBR ran out of ammo and I was forced to use the USP. Both wounded and exhausted, I said.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry man...I¡¯m sorry for letting you die like this.¡± (RYnosuke)


    ¡°It¡¯s alright¡­*cough*¡­Nii-san¡­Don¡¯t be sorry Nii-san...I¡¯m glad that I was able¡­to meet you¡­Thank you for being my friend¡­¡±( Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Hideyoshi!¡± (Rynosuke)

 Chapter 3: Alliance.

    With Hideyoshi out cold, barely alive from the wound he suffered and I also barely had any bullets left. Upon my last mag, I yelled at the top of my lungs.


    ¡°For fuck¡¯s sake! Can someone help us? You worthless pieces of shits. You''re gonna leave your friend to die like this? You''re gonna Hideyoshi to die like this?! Fuck you! I¡¯m gonna kill all of you when I come back!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I continued with the suppressive fire till suddenly, the gun went click!


    Out of ammo¡­ and the brigands were starting to pour through the safety line I had marked. This was quite a predicament, as even though I had strength, speed and such, it would work way better in a stealth scenario. As I was working on a plan to not die and live like a monstrous ghoul again, a brigand suddenly jumped atop of me and pinned me down by the neck while others surrounded us.


    ¡°Ohh¡­I thought we were fighting some tough and powerful knights. But I didn¡¯t think that we would be fighting two little girls. Hahaha.¡±


    He continued, breaking open my collar buttons.


    ¡°Oh, you are those aristocratic adventurers eh?¡±


    He then moved his hand down to my chest. I tried to break free and resist his advances.


    ¡°Hey hey¡­hold still!¡±


    He tried to hold me down, tightening his grip on my neck and using his second hand to reinforce his grip. Thanks to that I managed to grab my knife and jabbed it in his face.


    ¡°I¡¯m a fucking boy are you serious?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I yelled at the screaming bastard that dared to touch me as now squirming in a pool of his own blood.


    Seeing that I had fought off one of their own, they began to shift their attention from my incapacitated friend and turned to my side. With their sword drawn, they started to come at me. And one by one I struck them down with my blade.


    ¡°Come at me! Come get a piece! Come get a piece of the Psycho!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I yelled as I raised my weapon to them. I had fought with father using Bokkens and batons when I was a kid. This was the reason why I was called the Psycho, I had always insanely good with blades and blunts especially in the department of brutalizing scum of the earth insurgents.


    I took the baton from Hideyoshi¡¯s belt and use it along with the knife to deter the enemies away. Jumping here and there, dodging slashes after slashes and using my all to fight them off. Even using my teeth to bite the wrist of one of the brigands who charged at me with his sword drawn high.


    However, I was still overwhelmed, five of the spearmen rushing behind their dead comrades rushed at me and impaled me through the bodies of the fallen.


    ¡°Nice trick¡­assholes...but I¡¯m far from done here.¡± (rynosuke)


    I pushed my torso up over, tearing away the lower part with the strength of my limbs, I then lunged at one of the bastards that had skewered me earlier.


    ¡°You! Succumb to my will! Pay for your sins! Rot!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I remembered saying this, a chant, a prayer, an accusation. After this chant, instinctively, I bit off his face and with my mouth elongated, I swallowed the piece of skin whole. It still makes my skin crawl remembering that day. The day when I massacred thousands of men with ghouls of hate and anger.


    ¡­


    I fainted shortly after the fight and later when I woke up, I was in the library with medical equipment strapped on to me and tended by the medic Rina from earlier.


    ¡°Rina-san right?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Eh! You¡¯re awake?¡± (Rina)


    No matter what happened, I couldn¡¯t forget that piercing scream and that death stroke face when three m16 rounds shot through my skull.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry for making you watch such an insightful sight earlier.¡± (Rynosuke)


    I sat up, stretching the wires and tubes that had been jabbed inside me.


    ¡°Oh, wait¡­where is Hideyoshi?¡±(Rynosuke)


    ¡°Hide-yoshi?¡± (Rina)


    ¡°The SAT boy I had with me.¡± (rynosuke)


    ¡°Oh¡­he¡¯s resting, he lost quite a lot of blood you know? But why were you the only one who was cut up?¡± (Rina)


    ¡°It¡¯s a long story.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ...


    After waking up to Rina, she explained to me why I was back in the library. After I left, two groups were formed with Nam Seung and mostly the Korean army cadets voting to leave while the JSDF and a few of the International cadets voting to stay and wait for me.


    ¡°Thank you for not leaving us. It¡¯s not that I needed help, but I did screw up and made Hideyoshi bleed half to death.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Hmm? He was fine. He didn¡¯t bleed that much. He fainted from stress.¡± (Rina)


    ¡°Really?¡± (Rynosuke) I asked her, raising high an eyebrow.


    ¡°Now for your condition¡­What are you?¡± (Rina)


    She says, pointing at the cut between the upper and lower torso of my body. I remembered it to be quite a painful experience.


    ¡°It¡¯s just an old scar from my first assignment¡­If it¡¯s not such an inconvenience, I wouldn¡¯t ask you not to pry much into it¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°It¡¯s just that when we found you, your body was in two parts, but both were still as functional as they could.¡± (rynosuke)


    ¡°What do you mean?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Your body¡­it was still functional, vitals were fine, and blood pressure was still alright too. That wasn¡¯t even the strangest thing, your body suddenly healed miraculously when we put it together without stitches or anything.¡± (Rina)The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    ¡°Then what¡¯s all these IVs, plasma and even this heartbeat monitor?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You know what these are?¡± (Rina)


    ¡°Yeah, I read a lot of first aid books during my time in training.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°But how?¡± (Rina)


    ¡°Plasma is usually used to stabilize patients who lost a lot of blood, albeit me. When you found me, I was cut in half and so even though my blood pressure was normal and my body was still vitalized, right?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Yeah¡­but?¡±(Rina)


    ¡°Plasma is usually used to help blood cells circulate easier. As a precaution, because you had assumed that I lost quite a lot of blood, I figured that after I healed up, you poked that needle into my veins as a precaution in a case of a possible cardiac arrest, because¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°I don¡¯t trust medical equipment.¡± (Rina)


    ¡°True, you¡¯re still a cadet and these equipment seems to be of the last decade or so, thus their results can be deceiving at times.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You¡­you¡¯re not a normal JSDF grunt aren¡¯t you?¡± (Rina) she asked while glaring at me.


    ¡°What if I said I wasn¡¯t?¡± (Rynosuke)I smugly come right back at her and would have extended our ¡°staring contest¡± for more than a dozen second, but an unexpected guest interrupted us.


    ¡°Nii-san!¡± (Hideyoshi) He yelled, running towards me in a tearful manner¡­and accidentally head-butt my lower abdomen too.


    ¡°Nice¡­to see you too¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I rub his hair while trying to not yell in pain as it hurts getting head-butted like that.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry Nii-san¡­*sniff*¡­I¡¯m sorry for almost getting you killed.¡±(Hideyoshi) With sparkling tearful puppy eyes, he looked up and apologized.


    ¡°It¡¯s alright¡­but! Don¡¯t you dare, and I mean it, go on a mission when you¡¯re injured.¡± I said, pinching the two cheeks of this puppy and stretching it.


    ¡°Ow ow ow ow¡­tdhat hurrrlts Nii-shan stahp!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You learned your lesson yet?¡± (Rynosuke) I released the two swollen cheeks and said.


    ¡°Ahm sowwy Nii-san! Ahm sowwy!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    This was one of the many hilarious experiences that I had during the first few months with these guys. Nevertheless, I let go of his cheeks.


    ¡°You¡¯re so mean Nii-san¡­owwww¡­ ¡± (Hideyoshi) He said as he gently rubbed them.


    ¡°It¡¯s an extreme pain in the ass to carry an incapacitated teammate, you know?¡± (Rynosuke) I said, kneeling down to Hideyoshi¡¯s side.


    ¡°I¡¯m glad you¡¯re safe¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I continued, hugging him tightly and patting him on the back.


    ¡­


    I then sent Hideyoshi away to gather some gears and weapons while I had a short conversation with Rina, I had wished to thank her for staying behind for me and Hideyoshi. Even though our wounds weren¡¯t life-threatening, it was still better to have a medic patching up than to die.


    ¡°Hey Rina-san, thanks for vouching for us¡­and staying behind for us as well.¡± (Rynosuke) I said buttoning my shirt and buckling up my pistol belt.


    ¡°Ah no no no. I just only patched up your wounds, Captain Junior is the one that gave out the orders.¡± (Rina)


    ¡°The middle-aged woman I had helped before?¡±(Rynosuke)


    ¡°Shsh! Don¡¯t¡­¡± (Rina)


    ¡°Eh? Why?¡± (Rynosuke)


    I raised an eyebrow and within less than a second of my question, I was assaulted, no I mean pounced on. Assaulted seemed to be too much of a word to describe her action upon me. The proper word would be ¡°lovingly squeezing me half to death¡±.


    ¡°hggh! Rina! What¡¯s wrong with this woman?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Arara¡­You can¡¯t call me middle-aged you know¡­¡± (Julia) She said as she started to choke me with her overly large bear hug, suffocating me with her large pair of breasts.


    ¡°I¡¯m just only 22¡­you know¡­¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Julia-san¡­don¡¯t, he just wakes up you know?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°He just woke up so what? Relax. I¡¯m just testing him...¡± (Julia) She then pushed me in deeper as she finished that statement.


    ¡°Check mate!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Huh?!¡±


    I mumbled, moving my hands down to her hips, sitting on my toes and moving myself to position, I then managed to get on top of her and pinned her down.


    However, because I was using too much of my strength I managed to rip out one three of the buttons locking up her shirt, exposing her breasts and underwear. Rina though was energetic, she was now glaring at me with murderous intents.


    ¡°Wait!¡± (Rynosuke) As I was trying to explain my actions to Rina, Hideyoshi suddenly came in.


    ¡°Nii-san! I made you some food! Wha¡­wha¡­what are you doing Nii-san?!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Wait! It¡¯s not what it looks like! You''ve seen it right? Rina?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡° I saw nothing¡­¡± (Rina) She looked away in disgust.


    ¡°Nii-san how could you?!¡± (Hideyoshi) And so things end in a really awkward note.


    ¡­.


    After explaining and prostrating myself to three of my friends as an apology. The girl name was Julia Bron Junior, born in Japan and was a student of the JSDF cadet academy before being invited to Russia to take part in the Spetsnaz Special Forces training program. After 2 tours in Ukraine, Julia finally came back to Japan to teach the joint class of JSDF and ROK¡¯s army.


    She explained why Nam Seung was let to do what he, please. The ROK class representative had been opposing her methods for a long time and have been telling his classmates and comrades to be opposed to her teachings. This prompted his uprising and taking half of the company to himself.


    What came next was the interrogation of one of the lieutenants that they managed to capture as the enemy forces withdrew. I was there as an interpreter as Julia-san and none of the guys in my squad could understand that captive.


    We suspected that we weren¡¯t the only cadets got taken by their kingdom alone, thus leading up to the slave uprising against the Rile kingdom.


    I was later invited to be an interpreter for Julia-san''s interrogation. The man was holding back pretty well against Julia-san''s brutality and Rina-san''s operations on his body. In the end, we managed to get him to talk. The man was then let go.


    Basically, children had always been a valuable resource in the Rile kingdom. These men had been ordered out by the kings to capture children of nomads and merchants as they cross these land to fulfil the demands.


    Note: This was prior to to the Rile Kingdom uprising, thus no immensely immoral actions were to be carried out at this point.


    ¡­


    ¡°Hey Julia-san, Is it fine to let that man go? I thought Russian Spetsnaz were notorious for killing prisoners to not leak information.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°I¡¯m not like those in the Spetsnaz, I was born here. My mother was American and my father was Japanese, though I was taught to kill, I still follow my mother¡¯s teachings.¡± (Julia)


    ¡°And those are?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Fight when you need to, but remember that your enemy also has a family to come back to.¡± (Julia)


    She said, wiping the sunglasses that she had on hand.


    ¡°I do not kill out of spite nor for pleasure. I choose who and what to kill, not following orders nor hunches. Now suit up and prepare to move out!¡± (Julia) She continued, gazing at the medics and cadets preparing themselves to move out with the remaining gears and weapons.


    I suddenly had a hint from Kuucifer as well. Down in the basement storage of the library, there were a far better cache of vehicles and weapons untouched and undusted by the times.


    ¡°How did you know about this place?¡± (Rina)


    ¡°I don¡¯t, just a hunch. Now grab whatever you need and let¡¯s roll.¡± (Rynosuke)


    We took the weapons and gears, though the company Julia now led were only medics and logistics cadets, several of them were experienced enough to consider combatants.


    We took everything and got outside of the Library, where Julia then suggested a plan of action for us to follow through.


    My objective at the beginning was to build a strong enough army. Though Kuucifer didn¡¯t give any further information, I had considered for us to be fighting a large amount of opposition soon. The plan was to ask these kids to join me, but with this number would do shit against the enemy that the number that I had hypothesized. The plan now called for Nam Seung and his merry band of brothers. Though Nam Seung was greatly opposing us and more specifically me, Julia suggested that we should try to make up and that we would be safer in numbers. In which I agreed.


    ¡­


    ¡°Oi dorogoy, give me the SVD.¡± (Julia) Julia asked me, pointing to the Dragunov sniper rifle next to the assault rifle rack, of which I complied.


    ¡°That thing¡¯s vintage. I thought Spetsnaz now prefer the Vintorez special sniper rifle.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You know why my students call me Balalaika?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°No. You¡¯re very good with the Balalaika musical instrument?¡± (Rynosuke) I responded sarcastically.


    ¡°Yeah, and this is my instrument.¡± (Julia) she pointed to the SVD rifle.


    Later I understood what she meant as in a shooting exercise with Hideyoshi, she fired the rifle with extreme precision that it broke a tape-marked piece of twig off the tree branch. Though I had worked as a spotter on various ops and assignments, none of my partners had ever shown this level of skill. Such precision, such grace and such focus.


    ¡­


    Anyhow, we loaded up everything and followed the tracks that Nam Seung¡¯s company had created when they left, hopefully, to make up and join forces for a better chance of survival.

 Chapter 4: MIA

    About 6:00 am according to the synchronized watches that turned on as we exit the basement garage, we were cruising along the hill as the sun started to rise up.


    While others were sitting tucked up at the other side, presumably too scared of me, or rather scared of the monster I could become. I could sense their septical looks, their jealousy and their unsettling glares. I had experienced these stares before. During the ride, a cocky looking one started to close into my end of the APC.


    ¡°Is it true that you¡¯re a JSDF commando?¡± (Cadet) He cockily asked.


    ¡°Yeah so?¡± (rynosuke)


    ¡°I thought those guys are usually macho, loud and huge as fuck?¡± (Cadet) He joked sarcastically, noting my overall looks and voice.


    ¡°Hey wanna know a trick I learned when getting caught?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Sure?¡± (Cadet).


    I then take off the vest I had on and unbutton my shirt. Then in a seductive gaze and voice, I said.


    ¡°Hey, Nii-san you wanna have some fun?¡± (Rynosuke) A technique I had learnt during my infiltration mission to one of Shibuya¡¯s prostitution rings.


    ¡°Come on~ would onii-san want a kiss?¡± (Rynosuke)


    I moved in, pushing my two hands behind flaunting my bare flat chest towards the ogling idiot in front of me. Unable to contain his excitement, the buffoon then slowly move his hand into my chest. While the idiot was having the best and only time of his life, I stealthily move my hand behind my back to the stilettos knife on my back pocket.


    With one last seducing call, I said.


    ¡°Since you¡¯re such a gentleman Nii-san, here¡¯s your reward~¡± (Rynosuke)


    I feigned closing in to give him a kiss. However, as the kid closed his eyes, I used the heel of the knife and give him a jab in the neck, instantly knocking him out.


    Though I should have killed the kid for daring to touch me, instead I commended this boy for daring to approach me like that, so I put the stilettos into his pocket as his friends drag the guy back to his seat.


    The reason for that display was kinda to make a point to not cross me under any circumstances available and that I could pretend one when I¡¯m not. So to say I¡¯m a two-faced backstabbing scum bag if needed. I further putting a deeper pin into this point with a statement.


    ¡°I¡¯m not your friend, I saved Y''all for my mission needs you all to be alive that¡¯s why if any of y¡¯all try to renegade, and I¡¯ll slice ya down without hesitation.¡± (Rynosuke)


    I did this without the surveillance of Julia-san, of course,/, she wouldn¡¯t have even tolerated me being in this ragtag platoon if she heard me saying that. And to my surprise, instead of shaking in fear or disgust, I was then met with a barrage of laughter and cheers.


    ¡°Oh man! That was great! I¡¯ve never seen anyone acted so professionally like that before!¡±


    ¡°Yeah! It was like you were like those spy ladies from the movies that we had to watch at school!¡±


    Things went on, one of them even spouted out that this idiot had fallen to similar trick by Rina-san before.


    ¡°Anyway, do what you must man. We¡¯re with ya till the end. We owe you our lives after all. Just please consider not killing Nam Seung, he had quite a lot on his shoulder before coming here.¡±


    This made me reconsidered my thoughts as these people were weird or fucked up enough to ignore my threats and even commending me on honey trapping one of their friends. These were really weird people.


    ¡­


    Not long after our departure, we came across a rundown village adjacent to a lake and a large forest. As we were both tired and dehydrated, Julia-san suggested that we should stay here and rest for a few hours to replenish our stamina and strength. Plus the village though looked abandoned and run down, still had a sort of a small foundation good enough for us to put up tents and to even make a last stand against brigands if we were to be assailed against again.


    ¡°Take some of the water to cook some food and replenish the coolant on the car generator. You! You! Set up sniper positions on the top of that bell tower. You! Bring the weapon cases out and set up barricades around the perimeter of the village. Rina! Set up a medical tent in the middle of the town. Rynosuke- boya, sorry for asking you this but can you go and get us some sort of game? This amount of MREs I doubt would be able to feed anyone. It¡¯s not too much trouble da?¡± (Julia)


    ¡°It''s fine, but I¡¯ll need Hideyoshi though. He¡¯s better with the rifle than I do.¡± (Rynosuke)


    She authorized the requested and after we both prepare our gear and equipment, we set off to the forest to hunt. Before going away, I told Julia to be vigilant of the area as I was suspicious and was sure that someone or something was stalking us in the shadows. After that, I departed.


    ¡­


    I managed to find a few berries and roots that were similar to those of burdock, beets and wild potatoes on the way through the forest. Later we set up a nest on a nearby river, hoping to be able to catch a dear or a wild hog off guard and safely shoot it down with a headshot.


    ¡°Nii-san, when did you enlist?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Hmm?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Don¡¯t get me wrong, I saw the way you fight, it was more experienced than any other cadets that I¡¯ve ever seen. But how long have you been in the JSDF? Why did you even join the JSDF in the first place?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Hmm¡­ About 6 years or so¡­ My parents were killed during the North Korean invasion of Hokkaido in 2044. I joined the JSDF to provide for my sister as the orphanage was too run down and provided too little for us siblings.¡± (Rynosuke)


    I moved my head away from the binoculars for a moment and lay down with my chin on my hand and continued.


    ¡°My sister was exceptional, she managed to get the International Prize for Biology and Keio Medical Science Prize</a> by the government, while I hadn''t managed to achieve anything in my elementary years. Since our parents have gone, I thought I should be the one to take care of her. I took the initiative of enlisting us both to the Japanese national schools. With the dead that one of us have to be enlisted into combat and the other can stay home. We had a pretty great pension too. About 500000 yen a month. That¡¯s more than a normal adult wage, so I took the offer and joined the JSDF earlier than most.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Oh¡­so that makes sense, normally we would have to joint through the National police agency to have a head start in the career but that¡¯s really convenient no?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    Convenient¡­yeah convenient, convenient my ass! Not many knew about this but the JSDF junior cadet program was a paedophile den. The ¡°FATHERS¡±, our C.Os were pretty much horn dogs for young prepubescent boys and girls. They used the guise of commending or punishing students for their depraved sex acts.


    If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.I tried not to think about it much as this was a new day and Hideyoshi gave me enough trust as I could to stand tall and continue my day.


    ¡­


    ¡°Hey! Look! Something¡¯s in the bushes.¡± (Rynosuke) I whispered to Hideyoshi as he quickly adjusted his sniper rifle to zoom into the bushes.


    ¡°Assuming to be fast targets, 100 meters, wind speed none. Greenlight, fire when ready.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Roger.¡± (Hideyoshi)


    I was confident at Hideyoshi''s marksmanship as the kid was able to take out two of the targets that I listed out the day prior with two clean headshots. If I were to compare Hideyoshi with the partners that I had worked with before, I would work with this kid any other day.


    ¡°Take it out with one shot and I¡¯ll give ya some great Ohaw tonight.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Ohaw?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°It¡¯s an Ainu cuisine. You¡¯ll love it. Now focus.¡± (Rynosuke)


    Hideyoshi zeroed into the target area as the bushes started to rustle more violently.


    It came out. A figure with a tethered hood came out of the bush, looking confused and was panting violently.


    ¡°Wait! It¡¯s human.¡± (Rynosuke)


    But Hideyoshi pulled the trigger and though at first, I thought he had killed that person. To my surprise, he didn¡¯t. He was aiming for the thing still rustling in the bushes. After the first shot, the beast came out staggering on its four legs. At a closer look, I saw that he laid a perfect headshot and it was a perfect kill.


    ¡°Move in!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I yelled as both of us hustled to the downed civilian.


    ¡°You alright?! Hideyoshi! take my gun and cover us.¡± (Rynosuke) I rushed in, tending to he/she as Hideyoshi took point of the perimeter.


    While tying up the civilian¡¯s wound, I took a few quick looks at the beast we had taken down. It was huge, hairy and more or less looked like a wolf without a scalp.


    Suddenly a larger beast of the same kind jumped out of the bushes and roared loudly.


    ¡°Nii-san! We gotta go! You done?¡± (Hideyoshi) Hideyoshi shouted as he laid down several shots at the approaching enemies. The gun barely did any damage as Hideyoshi¡¯s bullet barely bounced off the beast¡¯s bare scalp.


    ¡°I¡¯m done! Come on!¡± (Rynosuke) I shouted as I carried the wounded on my back.


    ¡°What¡¯s the plan Nii-san?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°We run back to the camp and hopefully the machineguns can take it down¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°That¡¯s it? The gun we have now can easily take them down. My EBR can¡¯t since it¡¯s too bulky to use but your AR would do great against that thing!¡±(Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Uhm¡­ I know that¡­it¡¯s just that I forgot a second magazine!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°How the hell could you even forget the extra mag?¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Eh¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    I kinda zoned out when thinking of some delicious deer meat that I hadn¡¯t reload the old magazine I had earlier and barely found out just earlier.


    ¡°I just forgot¡­Sorry.¡±(Rynosuke)


    ¡°You¡¯ve gotta be kidding me!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡­


    ¡°Hideyoshi, give me the EBR and leave the AR. Here catch!¡± (Rynosuke) I requested him while also throwing the wounded to his arms.


    ¡°Nii-san! What the! Ooof!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    Though that was a spontaneous effort, Hideyoshi and I managed to do the exchange. I was now holding the two rifles and he was holding the wounded.


    ¡°Hideyoshi! I¡¯ll take care of the monster. Bring her back to our camp for medical treatment. At the count of three, you break left and I¡¯ll break right alright?¡± (Rynosuke) I said as I prepare to throw the m16 at the coming beast.


    ¡°But Nii-san.¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°No buts. One!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You¡¯ll die.¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°Two! Ready!¡±(Rynosuke) I swung my hand to prepare the throw.


    ¡°Three! Break!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I swung the gun violently, let go and as planned, the gun hit the creature on the top of its head. It stopped for a moment to rub the wound off its head and taking advance of the situation, I laid down several more shots with the EBR at the beast which did almost no damage though this gun used 7.62mm rounds. I kept firing until the gun ran out of ammo and in the end, had to result to my bayonet to fight the beast.


    With the EBR and bayonet combined together, I managed to make a spear and was now facing off the rabid beast.


    With a few hard thrusts, I managed to get the beast in its neck and nose. However as I went in for another thrust, the beast suddenly lunged up and bit off my arm.


    Though was not as painful as being disembowelled several times, the shock from extreme blood lost kinda rendered me quite useless against the beast. Natural, if one were to get his arm chopped off during an emergency situation, an equivalent amount of adrenaline equal to a 5-ton train should wake the body up and within that few minutes let it able to make some vital decisions. And what did I do you may ask?


    I threw a punch at the beast¡¯s head...Who cares that it wasn¡¯t smart. I had lost the spear and was about to either go berserk or faint. IT¡¯s fine if I were to go berserk as I could easily fight the beast ¡°mano a mano¡± you know? Or ¡°monster a monster¡± but if I were to faint and or die, I would risk being eaten or worst the beast might find its way back to our camp. I knew conventional arms weren¡¯t going to do the trick, so if the latter were to happen, I¡¯m sure that my entire company would be wiped out in a single minute.


    While struggling to stay in and out of consciousness, Kuucifer¡¯s voice called out to me.


    ¡°You deserve a break.¡± (Kuucifer)


    And within a blink of the eyes. I found myself greeted with a calming image of Kuucifer standing in front of her house calling to me, welcoming me once again.


    ¡°Geez, come inside you¡¯re a mess.¡± (Kuucifer)


    Chapter 7:


    ¡°Hi, boss. What¡¯s the occasion?¡± (Rynosuke) I asked shuddering from the dreadful glares of my retainer.


    ¡°You¡­idiot! I¡­I¡­¡±(Kuucifer) She clenched her fists as I bowed my head down to receive any form of punishment she might have in mind.


    ¡°I made some food¡­We¡¯ll talk after the meal.¡± (Kuucifer) She then turned and headed inside. Somehow, she didn¡¯t have that furious aura nor the violent intents that she had during our second and third meeting. It might be because of something¡¯s wrong with my mood reader, but I had felt sadness or even more pain coming to her words. Though I didn¡¯t want to bother her much so I obediently followed her to the dining room where I was treated with a small feast of a grilled salmon fillet and miso soup.


    The meal was surprisingly decent despite I expected Kuucifer to have given me some sort of a shit meal to teach me some sort of lesson, but her spontainiousity didn¡¯t surprise me. She was overall hard to guess.


    ¡°Why?¡± (Kuucifer) She stuttered, gripping tighter on the pair of chopsticks.


    ¡°Why are you always trying to shoulder everything on yourself?!¡± (Kuucifer) She scolded me and pounded violently on the table, knocking the soup bowl over, spilling over the table.


    ¡°¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I kept silence and continued my meal.


    ¡°Answer me!¡± (Kuucifer) She stood up, lunged over the table, took a grab of my shirt and started shaking violently demanding for an answer.


    ¡°Ne¡­Have you ever seen anyone with their bowels falling out as you carry them?¡±(Rynosuke) I put down my utensils and said.


    ¡°Have you ever stood with your friends and in the next minute, they die in front of your eyes?¡± (Rynosuke) I stood up from my chair and grabbed her by the arm.


    ¡°Have you ever woken up from your sleep to the sight of your bloodied friends¡¯ faces? Well? Have you?!¡± (Rynosuke) I then shoved her against the wall.


    At this point I was furious, not because of her grabbing my shirt, not because of the constant berating that she was showering me with, but rather the stupid question of why I had continuously tried to contain the situation myself, despite failing another after another after another. One of the reason for this to happen so continuously was that I was older than most of these police cadets. Secondly, I could not keep seeing comrades, those once in a while I could trust and manage to teach me something dies.


    As I was about to continue, I noticed a tear dripping down her face and decided to back off.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry¡­¡±(Rynosuke) I backed off and fell on my knees.


    ¡°I¡¯m broken¡­ You shouldn¡¯t have chosen me. After all, I¡¯m just another expendable grunt¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°No, you¡¯re¡­¡± (Kuucifer) She wiped off the tear on her cheek and rub my hair over my ear.


    ¡°Then what am I? I have nothing to fight for.¡± (Rynosuke) I stuttered in tears as a familiar memory grazed my mind.


    ¡­


    ¡°My sister is gone, I thought¡­*sniff*¡­I thought¡­I could protect her¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    I had come back to Hokkaido from Yokohama when I was injured in combat, though my C.O didn¡¯t really prefer it, seeing how their favourite toy wouldn¡¯t be in their greasy shit stained hands for a week or two. I was ready to cook again, to play house with that girl again, though I guessed she would have matured from playing with dolls and plastic cutlery and more or less visit the grave of my family once again.


    ¡°Who am I to protect? What orders should I follow?! Fight Khaos? Who the fuck is Khaos? Should I save my comrades or let them die?! Tell me!¡± (Rynosuke) I then slumped down, crying on Kuucifer''s lap.


    ¡°Fight for me¡­¡± (Kuucifer) She mumbled, raising my face and continued.


    ¡°Your sister, her soul is pure¡­She can have a new life here¡­So fight for me. Save those kids for me¡­Live for me¡­¡± (Kuucifer) She then moved in closer and gave me a passionate kiss.


    The feeling, I couldn¡¯t describe it by word, so foreign, but somehow so sweet, somehow so addicting¡­ So soft but also so sharp as the hardened chapping of her lips embedded to mine, so sweet but so slimy. As we wrestled in the echoing cavity of our mouths, I could feel the sloshing sounds of our saliva, splashing around our two snakes mingled, strangling each other in a pure state of ecstasy.

 Chapter 5: Crazily stupid

    At this point, we were acting basically on our animalistic instincts, breaking off from the kiss. I found my head in a somewhat dreamy, hazy state. My hands and my body was moving against my own will, moving my hand over the straps of her apron, I slowly untie the cute little bow tie that she had tied on her back to hold in place the apron.


    ¡°No¡­ we can¡¯t¡­¡± (Kuucifer) she stuttered while shaking slightly from the stimulation.


    Ignoring her whimpers, I proceeded. However, before I could continue, a violent slide of the door accompanied by a loud greeting startled us. A woman seemingly in her 20s with a messy blonde lot of hair came in donned in an American ACU uniform with a familiar face that I had seen somewhere before, She came in staggering around with a half-asleep face.


    ¡°Kurumi! I¡¯m home early Gimme food¡­¡±


    ¡°Jiu-nee, I¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°You bastard! What the hell do you think you¡¯re doing to my little sister?!¡± (Jiu-) She yelled as she rushed in, blades and gun raised high, preparing to butcher the beef out of me.


    ¡°Give me one, no two reasons why I shouldn¡¯t butcher you here and now?¡±(Jiu-) she said with bloodshot eyes.


    ¡°Jiu-nee, stop! You¡¯re scaring him!¡± (Kuucifer) she said, vainly trying to hold back the rabid wildcat in front of me.


    Though I wasn¡¯t that scared at this point, seeing this sight reminded me of one of the Russian novels I had read before. A father comically chased around his daughter¡¯s fianc¨¦ with a shotgun because of him making an inappropriate advance towards her.


    ¡°Aye¡­easy¡­I was just going to reciprocate her feelings. It was purely innocent¡­no?¡±(Rynosuke) I claimed with a poker face.


    ¡°Hmm? You call it innocent? Then how do you explain the stretch of her uniform¡¯s shoulder.¡± (Jiu-san) She pushed in harder with the gun on my head and things sorta stayed like for a while.


    ¡­


    Later after the incident, I and Kuucifer would be told to Seiza in the common room in front of this fearsome general. Her name was Jiulia Bron, the senior, her daughter has been the one leading our battalion. Though bearing almost no resemblance in personality nor method, with a stern look and a strong voice, she addressed me.


    ¡°Now you two. Explain yourselves.¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Question!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Shoot!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Why is your name Jiulia while your daughter is Julia!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Classified. Next! Explain yourselves!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Question!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°What is it again?!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Why did you call her Kurumi?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°It¡¯s her nam¡­¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Nee-san!¡± (Kuucifer) Kuucifer interrupted her right before she said ¡°name¡±.


    I was quick to catch onto the situation, for some reason or something, I guessed they could not disclose their name. Though I had a question, I decided to ask it on a later date.


    ¡°Nee-san! Let¡¯s stop this already! I came on to him, he is the boy that I had told you about for the last 20 years.¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°Twenty years?!¡± (Rynosuke)If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.


    ¡°Yes! Twenty years! I¡¯ve been watching your soul since before you were born.¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°Wait¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    After hearing that, a funny thought came across my mind.


    ¡°Don¡¯t tell me! You¡¯re into young boys?!¡± (Rynosuke) I said, comically scooting away from her.


    ¡°You¡¯re misunderstanding! Nee-san, tell him that I¡¯ve never had a lewd thought about him the entire time.¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°I don¡¯t recall anything¡­¡± (Jiulia) she said, turning her head away with a disappointing look.


    ¡°Nee-san!¡± (Kuucifer)


    This felt strangely familiar.


    ¡­


    We then explained ourselves for the highly suggestive scene from earlier. I had only just following the flow and Kuucifer though came on to me at the beginning, I was the one that escalated the situation. Though we were scolded heavily for our misconducts by Jiulia, things came out peacefully as she started eating and indulging in a ¡°cold one¡±.


    ¡°Japanese food¡¯s the best! Japanese beer¡¯s the best! You have outdone yourself again Kuru¡­I mean Kuucifer.¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°And you, boy, a god can¡¯t have a relationship with their apostle, so you both get a grip. I know young love is seductive, and Kuucifer, you¡¯ve been waiting a long time, it¡¯s still not the time yet. He¡¯s still not ready.¡± (Jiulia) She stopped eating for a moment and told us off.


    ¡°And you boy. I¡¯m surprised that you managed to survive that 5 years in the commandoes. You throw away your life carelessly and without hesitation too¡­¡±(Jiulia) she sarcastically tauntedand mocked me of several aspects of my methods and break downs.


    This in turns pissed me off so much that I sprang up from my seat and slammed the tale, trying to intimidate her.


    ¡°Listen here, ma¡¯am! You don¡¯t know me¡­You might be experienced as a soldier, but you don¡¯t know what I¡¯ve been through! What I¡¯ve done¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I growled at her, angered at the rude remarks that she had taunted me with, but before I could finish my sentence, she shut me down and continued.


    ¡°Is that so? Loss of friends, holding their guts in your hands, your beloved dying while you¡¯re away? Do you think you¡¯re the only one struggling with PTSD?! Get in line kid!¡± (Jiulia) She shouted, punching so hard that it created a large dent on the table.


    Though I was still angry at her taunting remark from earlier, I could not find the guts to respond to her scolding.


    ¡°You¡¯ve signed up to be an adult when you joined the Commandoes! Grow up!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Nee-san¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°And furthermore, you¡¯re immortal and can¡¯t die but with everyone down, you¡¯re fucking hurting Kuucifer here!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°What?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°The mental capacity of a god is affected when their apostle commits either a sin or like in your case use your ¡°berserk¡± form.¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Nee-san, he doesn¡¯t need to know about this, I¡¯m¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    Kuucifer tried to speak out but was then quickly interrupted by Jiulia who left her seat to come over Kuucifer side and in a comical sense, I managed to catch a sense of what the term ¡°yuri¡± was.


    Jiulia came over to Kuucifer side and in an awkward struggle, tried to remove the girl¡¯s top. Though for the sense of decency and since I was of the opposite sex, Kuucifer decided to kick me out of the room after kicking me in the face and calling me a lecher.


    ¡°You can come in now¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    On her queue, I came in and was frightened by the sight before me. A large black mark ran from top to the tail bone of Kuucifer''s back.


    ¡°What the fuck?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°This is what happens to us when you abuse your powers¡­and it¡¯s painful as fuck!¡± (Jiulia) She shouted jumping up and down, criticizing the recklessness of my action. Things like ¡°Are you a masochist?¡±; ¡°Are you crazy?!¡±; ¡°Are you stupid?¡±;¡­etc. She was so frantic and erratic that to a point that she even ripped open her shirt and exposed the mark that her daughter gave her to make a point.


    ¡°Nee-san!¡± (Kuucifer) Of which triggered Kuucifer to jump in and cover this shameless woman. The looks in her face were priceless at that time.


    ¡°Nee-san! Cover yourself! You¡¯re drunk!¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°Let him see! *hic*!¡± (Jiulia)


    Though Kuucifer tried her best and did manage to cover the indecent parts, I still managed to sneak a peek or two. Her mark was more defined and seemed to be more like a scar than a mark.


    ¡°My daughter endured a whole afternoon of beating and torture, jumping in and out of death to protect those kids and this is what I get. *hic*¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°That so?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Eyup! But the difference between your boss and I is that I can endure this pain¡­¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Ma¡¯am!¡± (Kuucifer) Kuucifer interrupted her.


    ¡°Shut it! I¡¯m not going to stand by and let a kid like you endure the pain!¡± (Jiulia) She shouted and later downed another ¡°cold one¡±. This silenced Kuucifer in her tracks.


    ¡°Oi! Boya! It about time you leave. 5 more minutes and that clock rings, stay safe, take care of yourself and also¡­ *gulp* Give that idiot of a daughter of mine a good scolding!¡± (Jiulia) In one gulp, she down an entire can of Sapporo.


    ¡°Kuucifer, see him out!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°Yes, nee-san!¡± (Kuucifer)


    She took a paper bag lying outside of the room and in my way out, gave it to me.


    ¡°Some gifts for the long-distance traveller¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    ¡°What is it?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You¡¯ll see. Till we meet again¡­darling¡­¡± (Kuucifer)


    And in the end, with a goodbye kiss, I was sent away, presumably into the beast''s stomach as the last time I hit the bucket in the middle of battle.

 Chapter 6: Captain Julia Bron.

    ¡°Nii-san!¡± (Hideyoshi) A longing and saddened voice filled my head as the blurry vision around me started to come clear.


    I found myself back in the camp, with the huge crowd of kids surrounding me and a tearful Hideyoshi punching shuffling me hard by the chest.


    ¡°I¡¯m up! I¡¯m up! Geez! Would it kill anyone to let me sleep some more?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Oiya Oiya, don¡¯t be so cold-hearted, the boy cared for you, you know?¡± (Julia)


    ¡°She¡¯s right you know?¡± (Rina)


    Another familiar voice entered the scene, I looked to the left to see Rina, intensely focusing on patching up my arm. It was quite strange, as the beast bit it off along with the EBR spear. However, I brushed it off as Rina managed to use the medical equipment and made me a new arm I guessed.


    ¡°So I figured that you all managed to take down the creature?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Da! But the beast was extremely injured, presumably from fighting you? I mean, boya you managed to hold it back thirty more minutes for your partner to come back with the civilian.¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Really? I thought I did horribly with losing an arm and barely done any slices and chops onto its body¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°You¡¯re really strong Nii-chan!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    ¡°What do you mean? I lost against the beast no?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Well you did and you gave me quite a pain in the ass problem to take care of, but you did manage to make it easy for these untrained idiots to take them out.¡± (Rina)


    Rina taunted the cadets, in which many retaliated.


    ¡°I didn¡¯t see you helping!¡±


    ¡°Yeah!¡±


    ¡°True, but I was the one that patched up those burnt wounds and slide cuts because you idiots didn¡¯t hold the gun properly, wasn¡¯t I?¡± (Rina)


    She responded holding up and warding her scalpel to intimidate the lot.


    ¡°Enough! Let¡¯s eat, I¡¯m hungry!¡± (Julia)


    ¡­


    I was quite disappointed today till I looked in the contents of the paper bag Hideyoshi said I had with me when they found me. I looked inside to find quite a lot of things ranging from foods and drinks to knives and blunts, furthermore a cleaning kit for guns and at the bottom was a key. The foods stuff were used to make food and the weapons were issued to the cadets in case of low ammunition, however for the key, I couldn¡¯t see any use for it at the time so I decided to store it in my vest.


    Thanks to this, though we didn¡¯t manage to get any game, the root vegetables stored on my vest was later mixed with a few cans of corned beef from my paper bag I took from the APC, tomato sauce packets and crackers to make a stew.


    Though it wasn¡¯t that good, it was still palatable enough for me to finish one bowl of it.


    Since Rina was focusing on patching up the wounded and the newly acquired civilian, she was absent during lunch. So after finishing my portion, I decided to bring her some food as well, complimenting her on the amount of work and effort she had been doing for the last 3 hours.


    I put everything in an insulated Tupperware and brought it to the medic tent. Thanks to the tip by Kuucifer from before, we managed to get quite a lot of medical equipment, cooking utensils and so on. This explained how we managed to stay well fed and store food on our journey before getting to D9.


    ¡°Rina! Take a rest and eat!¡± (Rynosuke) I said, peeking through the covers of the tent.


    And to my surprise, the girl I brought back had woke up on her sick bed.


    ¡°Ah¡­You¡¯re here now. Come here Ryno, I need your help.¡± (Rina) she said, signing me to her seat while the patient held tightly on her hand, silently glaring at me.


    She was a young girl with blonde hair, a slender build and ruby eyes.


    ¡°Alright¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I put down the container on the table and sat adjacently to the bed.


    ¡°She doesn¡¯t understand Japanese or English¡­and seeing how you could understand and interrogate that man from earlier, may be you can help me with this girl.¡± (Rina) Rina asked me.


    ¡°What do ya need me for?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°The wounds she had seemed to not from the beast we took down¡­Judging by the cuts and the bruises she received, she must have been tortured. Pretty much, similar to Julia-san¡­¡± (Rina)


    ¡°Rileland¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    The situation now got more interesting, as this girl could lead us to their nearest camp and from that, we could easily avoid ambushes and sudden encounters.


    ¡°Ryno, the girl is still shaken from the incident¡­so do your best¡­¡± (Rina)


    Rina then let go of the girl¡¯s hand, ensured her to me and then left the tent.


    ¡°Right¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I said as I turned the chair backwards to make a stand for my notebook. Looking at the poor girl, I saw that she was still shaking, so I tried to console her.


    ¡°You¡¯re fine, you¡¯re fine. I¡¯m not gonna hurt ya.¡± (Rynosuke) I said.


    ¡°You¡­you understand me?¡±


    ¡°Yeah¡­I pick up languages pretty quick, so yeah.¡± (Rynosuke)


    After hearing me say so, she immediately grabbed my hand off my note book and pleaded.


    ¡°Pleases Sire! Please help us!¡± She said, gripping tightly onto my hands.


    ¡°We¡¯ll do our best, now may I have your name? And what¡¯s seems to be the problem?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°My name is Karen Welcroft¡­We were attacked by bandits¡­*Sniff*¡­they tortured us¡­*Sniff*¡­¡± (Karen) Karen stuttered in her tears as she retold the events.


    ¡°How did you escape?¡± (Rynosuke) I continued as I wrote down on my notes.


    ¡°At night when they were starting to pick out the girls to use, I managed to get away.¡± (Karen)This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    ¡°Then you remember the way back to your village no?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°I do¡­*Sniff*¡­I do¡­¡± (Karen)


    We continued with a few more questions. Though most of them were about the crimes of what this band of bandits had done to her village and not about flanking routes of any advantages, I had found more hatred towards that empire and their crimes of supporting looting militias and brigands. However, seeing that she was a little too tired, I then decided to end the interview.


    ¡°Alright. Well that¡¯s enough for today. Please rest. I¡¯ll make arrangements we¡¯ll move in out as soon as we¡¯re ready.¡± (Rynosuke)


    I said, bowing her good bye and with the information I had gathered, I consulted Julia-san.


    ¡­


    ¡°Julia-san!¡± (Rynosuke) I called out to her as she was finishing up with the gun safety lessons for the greenhorns.


    ¡°Ah, dorogoy, what¡¯s up?¡±(Julia)


    ¡°We need to talk¡± (Rynosuke)


    I then proposed the plan to liberate the village from the bandit occupation. Though our ammunitions and weapons were low and our numbers of fighters were little, I did managed to convince her to come over and liberate the village with the help of the dead pan heroine of course. Rina vouched for me and my decision to liberate the village.


    ¡°Julia-san, we should help the poor girl. After all, we were attacked by the same people, so shouldn¡¯t we help them out?¡± (Rynosuke) I said.


    ¡°I understand what you¡¯re saying boya, but doesn¡¯t it feel suspicious to you?¡± (Julia-san)


    ¡°Julia-san, what¡¯s so suspicious? Its human lives we¡¯re talking about. The girl we found was barely alive, she was bruised and cut by them, and if Ryno hadn¡¯t intercept the beast at its path it might have killed her.¡± (Rina) She stood up and said.


    ¡°Settle down Rina. We need to think this through first.¡± (Julia)


    ¡°She¡¯s right Rina-san, we don¡¯t know anything about this girl. I vote we should send a small unit to recon and report what they see. I¡¯ll even volunteer if it comes to it.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Boya are you alright in the head? I¡¯m not gonna let you go on a mission with all those wounds. You¡¯ve done enough dorogoy.¡±(Julia) She signed.


    ¡°What if I bring someone with me? I mean I feel fine, I can carry a 4 kg M16 and two extra magazines with a side arm and two extra mags and can still run.¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°No¡­I won¡¯t allow it.¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Right. Then a fight then?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Va?¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Back in the commandoes, I had to fight with those like me to get enough food to get through the day. So?¡± (Rynosuke) I said, standing up to stretch.


    ¡°You can¡¯t be serious. There is no way I¡¯m gonna fight one of my students.¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Well fortunately I¡¯m not your student, so are you going to fight me or no? Because I¡¯ll be damned if I neglect a cry of someone in need!¡± (Rynosuke) With a strong slam on the table I then made my point.


    ¡°Once again¡­I can¡¯t fight one of my students!¡± (Julia)


    ¡°How so? I thought combat cadets have to start practice hand to hand combat with their teachers daily, so why can¡¯t you fight me?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Ah it¡¯s because¡­¡± (Rina)


    As RIna was about to say something, she was then interrupted by Captain Julia who jumped across the table to interrupt the girl.


    ¡°Oi! He doesn¡¯t need to know about it! Ahahaha¡­¡± (Julia) she brushed it off with a pretentious laugh.


    Despite the effort of Julia trying to stop her from continuing, that effort was proven futile as Rina stood up, walked over to my seat and continued.


    ¡°NO!¡± (Julia) Julia yelled out loud as she tried to cling onto the lab coat of Rina, but it didn¡¯t slow the girl down one bit as she leaned over my ears and told me the whole story.


    Though at first, I managed to keep a poker face and a sly smirk, I soon lost my composure and busted out laughing while Julia bent over the table, muttering with her hair drooping over her head.


    ¡°Hahaha! What?! Holy shit! Ahaha!¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°This is overreacting at its best, dank and stupid, but I¡¯ll savor it.¡± C (Rina) Rina said, leaning against the wall, observing the comedy scene in front of her.


    ¡°Your all-powerful captain was beaten by that kid Nam Seung?! You¡¯re kidding right?!¡± (Rynosuke) I continued laughing until I coughed out blood.


    ¡­


    After an hour or two after our discussion and me mockingly laughed continuously at the captain, Julia slammed the table and accepted to spar with me, close quarter combat only. We both took the baton and got into the cross road main area of the village. Suddenly, we were then surrounded by her groupies.


    ¡°Dorogoy would you get off my case if I win?¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Fight me first then we¡¯ll see.¡± (Rynosuke) I said, twirling around my baton.


    ¡°Fine then¡­¡± (Julia) She said, throwing her baton to the side and continued.


    ¡°In true Spetsnaz fashion and more or less the Crimson Beret in the Crisom Beret training, I¡¯ll take you down in three minutes. Comrades please synchronize your watches to count down to three minutes.¡± (Julia)


    Responding to Julia¡¯s request with an inhumanly synchronization of turn on their watches, as if they were her puppets, being twirled around by this stoic puppeteer. Anyhow, though I was distracted by their behavior, I still kept my smug and arrogant smirk.


    Well at this point, I was a douche. I was still arrogant, smug and especially ignorant. I didn¡¯t know what came over me and made me acted like that, that day. Though my image of her being a strong and capable leader was shattered after I heard Rina¡¯s story. Julia couldn¡¯t bring herself to hurt nor fight the Korean group as they had experienced quite a large trauma in their home battlefield. So when Nam Seung revolted at her methods and assaulted her, the only thing this woman did was parry moves and dodge his attacks. However, with one misstep of her parry, the brat managed to knock her off her balance and made her fell face first on the ground. Quite pathetic at that point actually, as if it was me, I would have punched the kid into a pulp and make him do my ¡°Pleasure duties¡± for the C.Os.


    She started out lunging at me with her arms opened up, trying to grab me by the waist. I dodged left, grabbing the shoulder of her right arm and pushed her down to the ground face down while the kids around us cheered for their teacher.


    ¡°Julia-sensei! Fight on!¡±


    Or


    ¡°You can beat him!¡±


    And with a few over-enthusiastic boys and girls shouting slurs at me.


    ¡°You faggot! Why don¡¯t you pick a fight with man?!¡±


    Or even more insulting and ungrateful, some even said.


    ¡°Hell! We¡¯d have stood with a better chance if we were to walk out with Nam Seung we wouldn¡¯t have to take care of your reckless ass!¡±


    That sentence sorta pissed me off a tad bit which I redirected to beat the living hell out of Julia.


    Gripping tighter on the baton, I went for the offensive, landing several strikes on her head, torso and leg.


    ¡°Put up a fight! Damnit! Here I thought I was about to fight the famous fighting styles of the Red beret Spetsnaz¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I said while sadistically beating her to a pulp.


    Though we were both wearing full gear comprised of harnesses and shock vests, the pain from a 4kg baton would still be felt to our bones.


    ¡°Shut it!¡± (Julia) She came back to her feet, turning around and yelled at them.


    After getting back into a defensive posture, she continued.


    ¡°This is between me and him¡­Cheer for us but don¡¯t scowl us Understood?!!¡± (Julia) She ordered them.


    ¡°Ma¡¯am yes ma¡¯am!¡± OF which they responded in unison, this still creeps me out till now.


    However, it¡¯d gotten better as I had understood that it had been one of her powers being an apostle an all. I¡¯ll go through the extent of her power ¡°leader¡¯s calling¡±. More on that later on, but basically now we were in a standstill with the same things that Rina told me, but this time she took more hits than parried them.


    ¡°Come on! Fight!¡± (Rynosuke) I shouted at her in frustration and rushed in to land my next hit.


    This was a grave mistake on my side, as she took my openness of swing the baton to grab my hand and pummeled me on to the ground.


    ¡°Now for the AK!¡± (Julia) She said,


    ¡°Huh?!¡± (Rynosuke)


    She then grabbed my wrist and with a hard turn, she broke open my grasp of the baton and pushed it down to my neck while keeping her knee on the lower joint of my left arm.


    ¡°O-Ow! Don¡¯t think you¡¯ve beaten me yet!¡± (Rynosuke)


    Though I had say this to her and had been trying my best to get up from her grip.


    ¡°Dude you¡¯re done just give in.¡±


    ¡°Yeah just accept defeat...¡±


    The spectators said,


    I was pretty pathetic at this point, crying and kicking my legs up and down, persistently telling her that she hadn¡¯t won yet since she hadn¡¯t managed to break my nose or break my teeth.


    ¡°No! I¡¯m never gonna surrender ya hear me?! I¡¯m gonna fucking live!¡± (Rynosuke)


    Julia then pushed down harder to the joint, pressuring the spot to lead me to give up. However, those who had been working alongside or had been following my orders for the last 5 years would know that I¡¯d rather be crippled before I admit surrender.


    So as she pressured my joints deeper, I turned to the other side, completely dislocating the joint and pushed her onto the ground, using the reaming strength I had left as well as my body weight to force her down on her face.


    ¡°he¡­he¡­I win¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    At this point, I was pushing myself way too much, seeing that I didn¡¯t sleep, carried quite a large amount of people on my back today and just ate, so the amount of adrenaline left in my body had mostly depleted. This in turns led to me fainting after 5 seconds of riding on top of Julia¡­.


    Pathetic.

 Chapter 7: Ruthless; Kuucifer how mysterious are you?

    The original plan was to wait for nighttime when the guards were lax and we would be able to take them down with low risks of casualties on both sides, but a painful headache stroke me on the frontal lobe of my brain.


    ¡°Ryno-nii¡­¡±


    ¡°Help me¡­¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m scared¡­¡±


    ¡°Kei!¡± (Rynosuke) I shouted her name with a growl which startled the men and made the guards shone their reflective lights on our position.


    ¡°Dude what the hell?!¡±


    A few of the guys responded to my outburst with telling me with shut up and get down. However, I ignored all of it as the calls for help from my sister became more and more clear. This led to me accidentally had an overflow of emotion and turned ¡°berserk¡± unintentionally.


    At this point, I instinctively cocked the m16, wrapped the sling around my right hand and on my left, I gripped tightly on the bayonet. As I finished my preparation, I stood up and scanned the target destination. A large amount of brigand started to line up in front of our positions. They had noticed our positions and had lined up with their guns, swords and bows ready.


    ¡°Listen here, children! We are quite impressed that you managed to injure one of our best man, some of you will be punished for that if we catch you so just come out and we¡¯ll ease up on the intent alright? Do it for your families¡­¡±


    A man atop of the horse dressed in a vintage looking suit of armour said to us. Since they were about 5 meters in front of us, Julia started to panic, before I revealed myself and came in front of the man.


    ¡°Oh good. We have a smart one. We welcome you, child.¡±


    He continued spurting out many more obscenities before asking someone to come up and take me back.


    One of his men then came over to my position and tried to take my hand before I used the knife on my left, slashing across his face, more specifically across his eyes. The smug looking leader now looked at me with a feeling of fear and disillusioned. My body was on autopilot back then and I started to cut down the weeds that were in front of me as they started to crowd around me.


    With one hand I squeezed the trigger of the m16 on burst. Oh, how beautiful the sounds of the metal mechanism clanking to each other to then reach a sudden crescendo of three small ¡°tat tat tat¡± noises. Ah music to my ears as they fell down, groaning from pain and bleeding to death.


    Their leader then retreated after seeing his men fell down under my hands, leaving the rest to deal with me. However, I managed to catch up to him by jumping atop the brigands¡¯ heads and with one precise shot, I hit him by the shoulder and hurled him over his horse. The horse startled from the sudden fall of its master sudden movement hurled its master onto the ground and ran off into the forest. At this point, I had managed to kill more than a few dozen and was making my way to him. Others had also started firing their weapons at the stragglers and was slowly advancing stacking up behind the APCs and transport trucks.


    ¡°Do not spread out you hear me?! Take cover behind the APCs! Now advance! Da vai da vai!¡± (Julia) She said sprinting around firing her Rex Revolver at the enemies and occasionally switching to the SVD to engage archers and riflemen up on the walls.


    Like a fiery thunderstorm, we mercilessly rained our wrath of lead and copper upon these scum of the earth. With the support of my comrades, I managed to move through the battlefield without even a scratch and reached the leader who was limping away on his rolled ankle, gripping tightly on his bullet hole.


    ¡°Please¡­Please don¡¯t!¡± He begged, scurrying down to my feet as I reloaded my weapon.


    I raised my hand, pointing the m16 to his head, as I was about to squeeze the trigger and execute the shaking grunt in front of me, I was then stopped by Hideyoshi. The boy had jumped in front of my nozzle and tried to push away the gun.


    ¡°Nii-san! Snap out of it!¡± (Hideyoshi)


    Though there was a very very strong temptation for me to shoot through Hideyoshi and killed the shitface in front of me as in the visions I saw earlier, this was the shit face who had been abusing the slaves, especially my sister.


    ¡°Move¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I said, snapping the gun back to the position of the scum¡¯s head and intimidated Hideyoshi.


    ¡°Don¡¯t do it!¡± (Rina)


    ¡°She¡¯s right Dorogoy! We can use him as a bargaining chip!¡±(Julia)


    Though I was quite content to kill the piece of shit right then and there, another headache punched me right in the brain and leave me to twirl around in a painful fever. I lost my bloodlust and fell flat on the ground.


    ¡­


    I arrived at the boarding house, opened the door and walked in however, this time it wasn¡¯t Kuucifer, but rather Jiulia-san.


    ¡°Oh¡­About time you show up you lil runt! What the hell took you so long?!¡± (Jiulia)


    Like a brutal drill sergeant, she then addressed me at my first step through the door, followed up with a barrage of berating.


    ¡°God damn you¡¯re slow!¡±


    ¡°You think you¡¯re a psycho? I¡¯ve seen more fucked up shits than you jackass! Move it!¡±


    ¡°Lift your legs before I fucking break them!¡±


    In which I replied.


    ¡°Those were quite intimidating quotes and lines from a basic drill sergeant handbook¡± (RYnosuke) I said sarcastically as I slowly walked through the door.


    ¡°You¡­You!¡± (Jiulia)


    She got flustered and tried to grab me by my neck, but I managed to parry her grasp successfully and pushed her against the wall.


    ¡®Wha¡­kuggh!¡± (Jiulia)


    Mind you that this situation kinda looked risqu¨¦ as Jiulia was wearing an undershirt with her combat coat loosely draped over her shoulders.


    ¡°The lone wolf want to play? How cute¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    This was one of the many ways that I managed to gain superiority amongst my either lustful comrades. Though I usually pushed a knife or a piece of debris against their faces.


    ¡°Oh ya¡­You haven¡¯t changed a bit¡­¡± (Jiulia)


    Jiulia smugly said as she fell down, taking me with her and with a sudden turn of events, her knee was on my stomach and she managed to cross both my arms together against my neck.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    ¡°ugh!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I fell down on my back as she tossed me around with her tight grip and at that moment, I saw a glimpse of the past.


    ¡­


    ¡°Hgh! *Smash*¡±


    ¡°Come on! I know you can do better!¡± (Jiulia)


    Jiulia was talking to an unknown soldier, seems to be in his teens and from the look of his camouflage, I guessed that it was during the starting age of the child soldier profession.


    The first traded blows against each other using a pair of rubber knives but later switched on to no weapon, mixed martial art style grappling. At this point, the boy had screwed up the counter for an Aikido grab and was thrown right on the ground on his back with a knee on his stomach.


    ¡°Come on chump, you¡¯ve taken on bigger grunts than me. What gives?¡± (Jiulia)


    The boy at this point was panting profusely but still continued.


    ¡°Again!¡±(Jiulia)


    And time after time the boy tried to no avail, he could not knock this woman to the ground and with every try, he would be the one fallen to the ground. After about 20 plunges down the rubber mat, Jiulia called the day off and began talking to her assistant.


    ¡°We¡¯re done for today.¡± (Jiulia)


    She walked to a corner of the room and quietly whispered to her assistant. Though the conversation was far away from where the kid was sitting, the boy still managed to make out what they were talking about by reading their lips.


    ¡°The boy¡¯s a total wreck¡­I mean, he has good techniques but the kid can barely fight against a woman, how the hell did he manage to knock out three of our guys?!¡± (Julia)


    ¡°Muscle memory? Fight response? I mean we did find him extremely dosed up on drugs and adrenaline. Or maybe our guys were feeling fatigued from assailing the compound.¡±


    ¡°Anyhow, he isn¡¯t gonna be in my NOMAD crew¡­¡± (Julia-san)


    As soon as he heard those words, the boy went into a full berserk mode which led him to use the plastic butt of the rubber knife and knocked Jiulia by the neck.


    ¡°Ow what the hell?!¡±(Jiulia)


    Then he proceeded with pushing her against the wall with his bare strength.


    ¡°Kid stop!¡±


    The assistant, on one hand, holding her files and tablets and the other tried to pull the kid away from Jiulia.


    ¡°So the wolf finally comes out of its cave eh? ¡­How cute¡­¡± (Jiulia)


    Jiulia then took a deep breath, kicked her legs to the front and slid down under the boy¡¯s grasp and kicked him off to his knees.


    The boy who was pretty much exhausted at this point fell down and things started to turn black. However, before he could black out, Jiulia came by him, crouched down and said.


    ¡°Welcome to the Nomads¡­runt¡­¡± (Jiulia)


    At the end of this sentence which then concluded the flashback, I then woke up in the common room once more with a drunk Jiulia, dressing scantily and was laughing profusely as she watched some sort of program on the TV.


    ¡°Kurumi! Make me some Karaage!¡± (Jiulia)


    ¡°She¡¯s not here¡­¡± (Rynosuke) I said as I made my way to the kitchen.


    ¡°But since I have nothing to do and you¡¯re as drunk as a skunk, I guess I should really practice cooking some more once in a while.¡± (Rynosuke)


    The reason for me doing this was that I kinda wanted to be validated by Jiulia-san and I had always loved to cook, whenever I have home leave after weeks of training and/or injuries that we cadets would receive that require nation hospital treatments, I would return to my dear sister to make her bento to bring to her university. Thanks to those visits that I had managed to be able to stay sane for quite a while in the field.


    ¡­


    ¡°Alright, let check the ingredients¡± (Rynosuke) I said to myself while looking through the fridge.


    ¡°Though it had been quite long since I last made Karaage, it can¡¯t be that hard right?¡± (Rynosuke)


    I then scrambled through the fridge to get the ingredients. Kuucifer had stocked the fridge with quite a lot of food and ingredients, which was clustering so much to the point that I had to take out individual items to be able to reach the chickens.


    Ingredients:


    <ul>


    <li>Chicken breasts or thighs(preferably deboned)</li>


    <li>Sake and Mirin(for marinade)</li>


    <li>Buttermilk or yoghurt (for marinade)</li>


    <li>Sweetened soy sauce (for marinade)</li>


    <li>Flour</li>


    <li></li>


    <li>Ginger</li>


    </ul>


    Procedure:


    - Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces for quicker cooking time and also quicker marinating time.


    - Add 2 small tbs of Sake and Mirin, 200ml of Buttermilk and/or yoghurt and 3 tbs of soy sauce and leave to marinate for 10 minutes. During that time prepare the sauce for dipping.


    - Saut¨¦ the ginger till caramelized, then add the soy sauce. Then leave to cool till serving.


    - After 10 minutes take out the chicken, shake off the extra marinate liquid and drench through flour and fry in hot oil for 10-15 minutes.


    - After frying, drop directly into the sauce, drench and quickly take out to retain the crispiness.


    - Garnish with chopped chives.


    ¡®General Jiulia! Your food is ready!¡± (Rynosuke)


    I said as I walked back to the common room, a dish of chicken in hand. Though I was expecting a drunken Jiulia-san in her drunken state praising me for my good food, I was then presented with a very disappointing scene.


    ¡°Jiulia-san? Ah, ¡­she¡¯s asleep?¡± (Rynosuke)


    Jiulia-san fell asleep while I was cooking and this was kind of a letdown as I was kinda looking forward to having a talk with her but meh¡­


    Later after cleaning up the kitchen, I strolled into the common room to fiddle around with the TVs and bookcases that were in the common room. I managed to find quite a lot of books and among the stuff, I managed to find a few light novel books and manga that Hideyoshi talked about before. I was quite surprised at the amount of manga and light novels I had managed to dig out of the shelves. Though I had never touched nor know anything about these sort of stuff, I remembered a few years in my primary that people went out rioting because our government had banned or prohibited something relating to the arts of Japan.


    ¡°So these are the forbidden arts of Japan¡­I¡¯m kinda shocked.¡±(Rynosuke) I held up one of the books and sarcastically said.


    Among the mangas and the novels, there were quite a few lewd and explicit picture books and eromangas.


    ¡°Kuucifer¡­mysterious and listless as always¡­¡±(Rynosuke)


    In context, Kuucifer to me at this point was pretty mysterious and kinda hard to read. She had video games and books messily thrown around in the common room when we first met, had been sneakily eating a lot of fat greasy food and had been acting like a diligent little sister. The second time, she acted cold and silent and though she did show a lil bit of the cutesy caring side, she was still colder than the previous time. On the next visit, though she was even quieter than before I was shown with a lot more affection and attention, she even gave me quite an unforgettable sensual experience. Though it was interrupted by the arrival of General Jiulia, it was quite memorable for me, seeing how much of a fake love performance I had to make back in the Commandoes. Anyway, this stuff wasn¡¯t what I had assumed she would have in her shelves.


    The picture book was pretty subtle and wasn¡¯t that shocking as to be banned. There were hints of perversions and lewdness, but nothing too overboard. Other than that, Most of the manga were romance comedy or tales of overpowered students with extremely not likely gifts from gods arriving in another world to fight evil or some shit like that. ¡°Well, that¡¯s really similar to my situation¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    I had a sarcastic thought about the subjects of the novels and manga and later continued with the reading.


    Though I was sarcastic at first, was later hooked on the stories and the characters that were created in these stories. Though they seemed childish and over the top, these fantasies managed to let me experience the peace and romance of the world that I had never seen before.


    ¡­


    I spent a few more hours reading the manga while eating the Karaage that I had made for Jiulia. As I reached out to take out another manga, I accidentally hit a black book in the back of the shelves, knocking it down and opened on its back.


    ¡°Hmm? A picture book?¡±(RYnosuke)


    This piqued my interest as in any boarding house I had visited, family pictures and portraits had always been hung up for the travellers, the renters to see. However, this place didn¡¯t have any, which felt strange for me. Intrigued by the picture book, I moved in to take a look.


    On the first page was a group photo of Kuucifer, Jiulia and three more people I had never seen before. Two of them were twins of Russian/ European descent and another was a military doctor in South Korean military fatigues. Their faces were so foreign, so bizarre, but somehow so homely, so¡­ seductive. Then at that moment, an overly pleasurable surge coursed through my body as if I had been drugged. The feeling was similar to the feeling I would get when I was drugged Blue Sky [*], then I started to experience these flashes.


    [*]Blue Sky: An illegal aphrodisiac made from various drugs.


    Everything in a sudden felt, so steamy, so claustrophobic, so fleshy¡­so pleasurable. The glimpses shown in those flashes showed the women in those picture in the most skimpy and inappropriate outfits, touching me, pleasuring me all over.


    ¡°We¡­are forever¡­yours only¡­¡±


    They said between the consecutive moans and thrusts.


    As I was rising up to the crescendo of the scene, the damned clock rang.


    ¡°Crap! Kid! Ya gotta go!¡± (Jiulia) Jiulia-san suddenly sprang up and in a continuous motion, buttoned up my jacket, rolled up my sleeves, put me in my boots and kicked me out of the door.


    ¡°Puh!¡±(Rynosuke)


    ¡°Cya kid, happy travels. Oh, wait! Hold on!¡± (Jiulia)


    She suddenly ran back to the house then to present me with a computer chip,


    ¡°Here! Your next objective¡­and tell Julia¡­I said hi.¡±(Jiulia)


    Of which I turned back towards her, with my two feet together, I then raised my head high and gave her a salute.


    ¡°¡­pfft! Oh, you¡­¡± (Jiulia) She said as she saluted back.

 Chapter...: The idiot

    We were assaulting a pillbox erected on a street of a shithole somewhere. It was quite a shitty day for me since a few hours earlier, I had been pumped full of Bluesky and ploughed by three of the old perverted C.Os. During the walk to the mission site, I was quite depressed, I couldn¡¯t even think of Kei at this point. I was more or less a dead man walking, ready to die as soon as the first gunshot or to an explosion of hand grenades. However, at this time, my partner who had been comforting me till now suddenly started a conversation.


    ¡°My father was a barman ya know?¡± My companion started.


    ¡°Hmm?¡±(Rynosuke)


    ¡°Yeah, I used to live on a street like this, people would pay a shit ton of money to go to maid caf¨¦s and Idol shows.¡±


    ¡°What are those?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°What is what?¡±


    ¡°Maid caf¨¦s and Idol shows, what are those?¡±(Rynosuke) I asked him, raising an eyebrow.


    ¡°Eh¡­for Idol places, I don¡¯t really know, those are really adult places that I wasn''t allowed to go, but the onee-sans at the maid caf¨¦s were really nice, they gave me napkins every time I walked by, would sometime make me food and babysit when my dad¡¯s not home.¡± He said.


    ¡°That so?¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°Come on man, show some sort of emotions or something. Why keep the poker face all the time?¡±


    I stayed silent.


    We went on a little bit further before reaching a heavily blockaded pillbox with barbed wires and machine guns. This was kind of difficult to flank as the road was basically blocked off and if we were to use the buildings it would be quite dangerous since the places around us were very unstable. A single explosion would bury us under the rubble.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    The plan was to slowly make our way to the pillbox and satchel charge the place. However, some smartasses decided to jump the gun. One of the group behind us with a sniper decided to take out a few of the guards guarding the top and trenches of the pillbox. The gunshots alerted the insurgents and within a few seconds, their miniguns started to spin their barrels, wiping almost everyone in our battalion in a few minutes. I was about to get my head blown off for trying to toss a charge into the pillbox. I ran through the trenches in front of the pillbox and got in range to throw a c4 before almost getting shot by one of the insurgents handling the lower paths of the pillbox.


    ¡°Hey! Ryno! Move!¡±


    My partner shouted as he tackled me to the side,


    ¡°What the hell were you thinking?!¡±


    He then started to berate me.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry¡­I¡­¡±(Rynosuke) I stuttered for a few moments before getting a slap on the cheek.


    ¡°You¡¯ve survived more fucked up shit, pull yourself together! You still have a sister at home for fuck sake!¡±


    ¡°But¡­¡± (Rynosuke)


    ¡°No buts ya hear me?! Stay alive till the end you hear me?!¡±


    He then threw a smoke grenade and pushed forward in my stead, with a knife in hand, he rushed forward to stab the guy in the neck. Jumping off the wall of the trenches, he elegantly used his knives and Beretta 93fs handgun. As commandoes, we had always been trained in close quarters and that meant, pistols, single-handheld shotguns or double-barreled sawn-off. Though assault rifles were used from time to time, but mostly on medium engagement distance. If we were to face an enemy head-on.


    My partner was one of the first generations of Cadets to face the battlefield and damn! He got skills. I wasn¡¯t that impressed of his flamboyance and arrogant smiles when he slit the throats and stabbed the faces of the insurgents as I moved into the set the charges, but now looking back to it, it was kinda crazy.


    ¡°Ryno! Satchel! Now!¡±


    Following his orders, I then tossed a c4 satchel into the openings of the pillbox, he then tackled me to the ground, as I pressed the detonator and blew the pillbox sky-high. As the dust settled, several of our guys then started to move in and took down what was left of the insurgents.


    ¡°Idiot¡­¡±


    He said as we both emerged from the rubbles and limped back to the remnant of our battalion.