My Desertion Would Be Faster Than Heros' Obsession

Adding Childcare To Apocalypse Is a Genre Overload

Life as the youngest is always like X.

Even though my colleagues died and I started my military career with a new mindset, and I changed my specialty a while ago and trained, my military life doesn’t change, and I still want to desert.

‘I can’t even desert because of the magic, but XX…’

The only thing I feel fortunate to be possessing this body is that my memories of my previous life are not perfect.

‘It’s usually difficult to think about family.’

The only thing that came to mind about my previous life was about the environment of the place called ‘Earth’, the contents of this novel that I possessed, ‘Four Crazy Obsessed’, and finally my original name.

‘Where do I think of that?’

If I hadn’t even remembered the name of the previous world, I would have felt completely lost in this world. So my original name was a very precious memory for me.

Sometimes, when this world is like X, before I go to sleep, I fall asleep repeating the original name in my head. Of course this world was like X every day.

“Is that the end of the laundry?”

“Yeah.”

I put the laundry in my hand into the basket Aquila was holding. Now, all I have to do is hang these and I’m finally done with today’s laundry.

“Hand.”

Saying that, I reached out to Aquila with my two red hands in the cold water.

Aquila put his hands on top of mine without saying a word. Immediately, I felt a warm warmth in my hands.

Aquila likes to do these types of things, and by doing so, he wanted to confirm that I was alive.

“Guys, have you done the laundry?”

At that moment, Ishina appeared in the laundry room. We quickly released our hands and took a standing position.

“…Have you done it?”

Ishina, who always maintained a friendly smile, had a very suspicious-looking smile as he just saw us holding hands.

‘That’s roughly because of you, my stomach is boiling, but it’s the expression that I’m going to put up with for now.’

“Yes, we are done.”

“…It was because my hands were cold.”

I quickly added, before misunderstanding that he harbors some impure feelings between us.

“Okay… Of course.”

Saying so, Ishina looked at Aquila with his green eyes. Aquila kept his calm expression as if nothing had happened.

“… Come on, let’s go hang the laundry.”

It’s been three months since the dragon subjugation situation ended. Aquila and I, while living as the youngest, decided to somehow survive every day and be discharged from this place.

During that time, we became quite close with the 89th division Ishina, who was our opponent.

This is because all of the 86th to 88th units above us died and there were no survivors, and the two seniors in the 85th division had their personality broken.

Of course, it’s probably because of this X-like army that their humanity was ruined, because I feel my mouth is getting rougher day by day. No, but XX, how can you survive without swearing in this XX place?

Anyway, Ishina, who played the role of male lead #3 and the sweet villain in the original, was actually a really good senior.

No matter what kind of plot he had for the heroine Darlene in the novel, in reality, Ishina was just an angel who was always trying to help us without scheming and working hard to do what he had to do.

“By the way, it’s already been three months since you enlisted.”

“Oh, yes.”

“Are you having a hard time these days?”

“Hah…”

When I smiled awkwardly, Ishina looked at me and also smiled.

Okay… Ishina was only one rank above us, but there was no reason not to have a hard time…

“The military is always the same…”

“Right… .”

While Ishina and I had a tearful conversation, Aquila quietly hung the laundry next to us.

“Do you also know new recruits are coming soon?”

‘Ah, finally.’

Moved by those words, I almost shed tears, and Aquila, who doesn’t usually change his expression, raised the corners of his mouth.

Again, this crazy army had a whopping eight years of service and received new soldiers every three months.

So, we had to be the youngest for three months until new recruits came in.

“…I hope good ones come in.”

“What do you think makes them good?”

“Well… That’s obvious.”

Ishina rolled his green eyes softly, and he smiled.

“It’s more about personality than ability.”

“But here, if you don’t have the ability, you will die, won’t you?”

“Which is why I hope they have the ability to survive and have a good personality.”

“Oh…”

I sympathized and nodded by myself.

But in fact, I already knew who would come.

To be exact, I knew “one of the recruits who must be included and must survive.”

Original male lead #4. Caron.

Caron was the “cute younger man” among the four classic male leads.

Despite his seniority over Darlene, he always showed a cute appearance, and at the same time, he became popular with readers for his rough change behind Darlene.

It is roughly the personality of “I’ll tremble in front of the female lead, but I become a crazy man if someone else touches her”.

‘Because Caron was one rank below Aquila in the original work.’

Since Caron is cute and gentle, he is probably close to the “good recruit” Ishina wants! It won’t be hard at all to deal with him!

Thinking that in a few days, I would get out of this crazy youngest life, so I hung the laundry while humming. Aquila and Ishina looked at me with an expression saying that I was in a really good mood.

* * *

“Saruvia, is the soap refilled in the bathroom?”

“Oh, yes! I checked it!”

Upon entering the dormitory, as always, a cold-faced Yuri asked me a question.

But now I knew that Yuri didn’t hate me.

Yuri’s cold attitude was like her basic attitude. Above all, because she calls me Saruvia now instead of “new recruit”!

“Hey, Saruvia.”

“What?”

For some reason, Yuri talked to me first, so I looked at her with my eyes shining.

Yuri’s black eyes were lively instead of her usual dead eyes. She leaned toward me with a look that seemed to tell me even an interesting story.

“Do you know this?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Why aren’t there any problems with your face here?”

Oh, I realized what she was trying to say.

In fact, this unit is not properly divided into female and male troops, and we always trained or lived together, but we slept separately.

‘Come to think of it, why was no one interested in this face?’

When I was possessed by this body and lived in an orphanage, I used to admire myself looking in the mirror every day. Saruvia was really pretty, like a fairy who just came out of a fairy tale.

However, since entering this border defense force, no one has responded to my face at all. Rather, only my colleagues had difficulty adapting to my face, and my seniors really regarded me as a stone on the side of the road.

“Is there a reason?”

Yuri made a somewhat sad face at my question and briefly nodded her head.

“April alone contributed about two hundred percent to that.”

“April?”

Speaking of April, I think she’s the craziest X in our unit.

Contrary to her angelic appearance, April was a human being who was open to tormenting others.

“Yeah… Everyone developed a phobia of women thanks to April…”

“Ah…”

I couldn’t help but nod my head. I get it…

It’s not that April worked hard for the other girls, it’s just that because of her craziness, everyone gets PTSD every time they see a girl…

“Especially me, because of April, I became more afraid of women with a small body and gentle impression…”

“Aha, so…”

I remembered the seniors who were terrified to see me when we met in the dark hallway, and then sighed only after checking their faces when I got closer.

At that moment, the door to the dormitory banged open. Yuri and I were startled.

“Guys, would you like to come and see this?”

“April?”

Yuri and I walked over to where she was standing, smiling broadly. She pointed to the doorknob of the dormitory.

“What do you see this as?”

“…Are you talking about the doorknob?”

“There’s fingerprints, fingerprints!”

“Ah…”

“Whoa, guys. You didn’t even listen when I told you to keep the dorm clean.”

‘No XX, you got fingerprints on it because you came in by the doorknob. So what are you going to say to us?’

April, the really crazy X.

Of course, contrary to our hearts, our mouths moved steadily.

“Sorry!”

“You shouldn’t have done anything apologetic in the first place, right? Bang your head.”

‘XX.’

Yuri and I thought as we put our heads side by side on the floor with empty eyes.

‘I don’t know if that crazy X is a villain or a hero…’

* * *

D-2830 days after discharge.

Finally, three months have passed since my enlistment, and it is the day when a new recruit comes in!

“I hope he’s someone kind.”

Ishina spoke in a voice that seemed to be eagerly desired next to me.

Then Aquila, who had been sticking to silence, opened his mouth.

“…I hope he’s someone who knows what he’s going to do.”

Moving to the entrance of the unit, there was a cart in the distance.

‘Ugh, PTSD…’

I still can’t forget the shock and fear of that day…

Meanwhile, the platoon leader, who came to the unit with a recruit, somehow had a mysterious look on his face.

Ishina, Aquila, and I pretended to trim the lawn of the sergeant and secretly looked at the carts.

“Platoon leader, I’ll guide from now on.”

Plato walked to the platoon leader and said, then the platoon leader added in a voice that seemed embarrassed.

“Oh, there’s a delivery before that. There’s only one recruit this time…”

“Yes, I heard it from the headquarters.”

“Yeah, but I think the recruit needs some adjustment period. You’ll have to help me a lot.”

“What’s wrong with you? Can I check it out first?”

Elliott beckoned the recruit to get off in the cart.

“Caron is the only new recruit.”

I waited for Caron to get off the cart with a pounding feeling. I can finally see all the original male characters.

Then I realized something strange.

‘Wait, why was Caron so gentle in the original work?’

In the original work, Caron was always depicted with a hazy smile. And the reason is…

‘He said he lost his memory in an accident before joining the army.’

That’s why Caron was often inexperienced in basic areas compared to his peers, and because Saruvia helped him, Caron of the original work regarded Saruvia as his own sister.

Soon, a boy with brown curly hair and brown eyes got off the cart with a smiling face.

“What is it?”

Once again, it was a “smiling face.”

What’s the problem?

Think about it. Who enlists into the army with a big smile as if they were forced to join the military and this situation was fun?

My face turned white on its own and my body trembled.

Plato, who saw Caron’s appearance, asked the platoon leader with a white face like me.

“Hey, is he crazy?”

“It was written on my personal information that there was an accident a while ago, but it seems that the reason was not discerned…”

So, Caron lost his memory and joined the military in an excessively pure state.

The faces of Ishina and Aquila next to me also turned white side by side, and I wanted to protest against the world again.

Can I come to the military like that? Violation of human rights, XX…

* * *

The current atmosphere of the unit was the worst.

It wasn’t a big problem that there was only one recruit this time.

The survival rate of the border defense forces was extreme. Therefore, our unit was not particularly suffering from manpower shortages.

However, if the one new recruit who came in this time is someone who can’t distinguish himself, there will be some problems..

“Right, he lost his memory due to a fire accident before joining the army?”

Commander Chris asked with a frown. All of the platoon members were after hearing an explanation from the platoon leader about what happened before enlistment.

According to his explanation, when he came to his senses, the house where he lived one day was burned, and all his family members were killed.

And he said his memory was not intact due to the aftereffects of the accident, and he seemed to have forgotten some of the basic common sense.

“Yes, and he volunteered to be enlisted.”

Commander Elliot replied in a calm voice.

Chris and Elliot were the platoon’s only two commanders, and they did not participate in training and intervened only when they went out to subdue the platoon or when something important happened to the platoon.

And Chris seemed surprised by Elliot’s “resource enlistment.”

“Volunteer enlistment?”

“Yes, he applied because he had no family and no place to go. Even though the magic of the contract has not yet been expressed, the situation seems to have been accepted by the Border Defense Force.”

“Sigh…”

Chris, who understood why Caron came all the way here even though his memory was not intact, sighed. Yeah, it must be frustrating. But more than that…

‘XX… I want to go to the bathroom…’

All the commanders complained about the situation, and all the private soldiers could do was sit calmly and watch their faces because they were too nervous.

I’ve been sitting in the same position for hours, so I’ve already lost the feeling of my legs, and I want to go to the bathroom, but I can’t even say I want to go, XX.

‘Oh, the weather is good for leaving the military today…’

When the corporals stood for a long time in front of the commanders, maintaining a passionate rest posture, we were finally ordered.

“Training will go as originally planned.”

April looked determined, but the other seniors behind her looked hesitant.

“Do you have any complaints?”

“It’s not…”

They were wary of each other like people spinning bombs, and eventually Louise opened his mouth.

“Hey, Chris. I don’t know if he can train as originally scheduled. Won’t he need some time until his memory is fully recovered?”

“Really? What if he doesn’t remember for the rest of his life? If you want to let the recruits kill you, you can do that.”

Chris responded with an attitude that seemed to be nothing.

“I’m going home, so it doesn’t matter. Anyway, that recruit… I think he won’t last more than a year.”

When I heard that, I somehow felt a strange feeling.

Yuri said that to me. Most of the girls who came in here die after not enduring a year anyway, so it’s better not to get attached to them for no reason.

‘I was treated the same as Caron.’

As the image of me three months ago overlapped with the appearance of Caron I saw earlier, I began to feel a sense of similarity.

‘Besides, losing his memory was similar to me.’

Because I also almost lost my memories of the original world. I’m glad that Caron didn’t forget his name as much as I did.

…Thinking about it, how did Caron survive in the original?

Even in my opinion, it was unlikely that Caron, who seemed to forget even basic common sense and felt no fear, could safely survive the monsters.

He couldn’t get through it completely by force alone, since he was relatively young.

Unlike the usual enlistment when contract magic is activated between seventeen and nineteen, Caron volunteered to enlist at the age of 16. Although they were only one year apart, Caron was also smaller than Aquila.

He didn’t look strong, nor did he look smart.

One of Caron’s lines that I saw in the original passed through my mind.

“Saruvia was my everything. She was the only family in my life.”

Unlike the other three original male protagonists, the feelings that Caron had for Saruvia were actually more like those of a sister than a ‘first love’.

…I think I can understand why Saruvia in the original took care of Caron so much.

‘If I leave him alone, am I even human? XX.’

How could anyone not help a new recruit, whose memory is not perfect, suffer like this in the military?

So I decided to help Caron, to survive.

“I think I will be able to help him adapt enough.”

“Yes, April. The reason?”

“I enlisted at a relatively young age, but I have adapted well and have survived until now. On the other hand, if the memory is not perfect, we can help enough to just adapt. Besides, the platoon commander told us to help him adjust, so we can’t violate the order.”

“Hmm… April, at what age did you enlist?”

“I enlisted as soon as I turned 16.”

“You mean the recruit will adapt well and survive?”

“It’s up to him to do it himself, but for now, I’ll try to help as much as possible.”

So, right when I had made up my mind, I heard the conversation between Chris and April…

For some reason, April has been making a sad expression since before. It seemed that she was sympathizing with the new recruit’s immature appearance, reflecting on her past self.

By the way, having just joined the military when you turned 16 and adapted to the military, April must be a great person too…

‘I’m sorry, Caron…’

If April decided to help… I can’t imagine how it’s going to be…

Your seniors will help you survive, so maybe I’ll just comfort you well.

* * *

“The training is hard…”

Watching Caron’s week-long training progress, Ishina, who was wiping his sword next to me, murmured in a worried voice.

“It really is.”

I nodded my head next to him and agreed to what he was saying.

“Oh, I left the mop back there. I’ll bring a rag and come.”

“Alright.”

Ishina got up from her seat, and I glanced at Caron, who was training at the training ground.

It was the same training as we did, but because there were no other recruits, Caron was training alone. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

It must have been incredibly lonely to be training alone, but in a way, it was fortunate that there were no other recruits to be held jointly responsible for one’s own faults.

Suddenly thinking of my dead mates, I bit my lip.

‘Carl, Linia, and…’

No, let’s not think about it for nothing. To survive here, you have to forget everything.

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“Oh, no.”

Aquila looked into my face and asked, so I shook my head. He had a very good eye.

“Aquila, what do you think of the recruit?”

“…I don’t really think about it.”

“Ah~ Still, he’s our successor!”

When I put my arm around his arm and begged him to say something, he moved his lips together as if contemplating what to say.

“…I don’t think he’ll be able to live long.”

“Even if he trains hard?”

“It was the same when we trained too hard.”

“Ugh, actually, the dragon in our time and the first-class monsters in Ishina’s time were special cases. From the first subjugation, there was no need to meet a first-class monster.”

In fact, in the original story, Aquila and Caron were quite close.

As with most reverse harem novels, Aquila and Winter, who competed for Darlene, did not have a good relationship.

And Caron was the only one who was attached to Aquila with a smile on his face.

Of course, it could be because he took on a role similar to Darlene’s younger brother rather than a rival in love.

In any case, given Aquila’s personality, it is said that he could not have left his successor Caron dead, at least not at the time of the past in the original work.

“Then, Aquila, do you have no intention of helping your successor?”

“How can I help?”

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“Well~”

“… Do you want him to live?”

“Yeah, I think it will hurt a bit if he dies.”

“…Okay, just don’t make that face.”

Aquila raised his hands and wrapped them around my face, which was tearful. As the warm warmth touched my face, my muscles spontaneously fluttered and relaxed.

“Guys…”

As soon as I heard Ishina’s voice coming back from behind, Aquila quickly lowered his hand.

“You could be misunderstood if you act like that…”

“Oh, it wasn’t like that!”

I smiled back to Ishina, trying to get over it, and Ishina raised the corner of his mouth and nodded his head.

“Yes, Saruvia. Of course you didn’t mean it.”

Then he turned his head to Aquila and asked in a soft voice.

“Is that right, Aquila?”

“…”

‘Are you on good or bad terms’

I normally thought that Aquila and Ishina got along well, but sometimes Aquila seems to be harsh with Ishina.

‘Ah, did you ever sense Ishina’s inner dark personality?’

He may have noticed that unlike his friendly appearance on the outside, he was a hard-hearted human on the inside! Although it is the original secret!

Thinking I’ll have to ask Aquila about Isina later, I diligently brushed a sword in my hand.

* * *

Plato beckoned to me, and I ran to him as quickly as I could.

Next to Plato, Caron was sitting in an upright position with his back straight.

“Hey, the week of training for new recruits is over, so he has to learn how to work in the army. You take him and show him how to wash his clothes.”

“Alright.”

It’s the first time in my life that I’m taking on the role of a senior, so my heart is thumping. I’m finally escaping the life of being the youngest. As I beckoned him, Caron followed me with twinkling eyes.

There was no one in the laundry room.

“Hello, Caron. I’m 390 Saruvia. Aquila and I are in the same unit.”

“Ah, hello!”

“Do you know who Aquila is? He has dark hair and scarlet eyes, and as you may have seen in the basic swordsmanship training last time, he has a fire attribute aura.”

“Yes. Yes! I remembered it!”

Caron, who I was worried about, was able to communicate well unexpectedly. He responded well to my words with his eyes twinkling, and with his brown curly hair and eyes, he seemed like a cute puppy.

There was nothing to be concerned about, except for his overly bubbly personality.

For now, as far as I can see, Caron seems to be familiar with his basic common sense.

‘How the hell can the seniors push around such a cute kid?’

After teaching him how to do laundry, I stroked Caron’s hair.

‘…Oh, you’re taller than I thought.’

It was embarrassing that I had to stretch out my arm to stroke his hair, but it didn’t bother either of us.

As I put my hand on his head, Caron smiled brightly. It was like a dog that didn’t care about people at all.

“Are you having a hard time these days?”

“Um, it’s still better than the outside.”

What came back was an unexpected answer.

“…What?”

“Yes, I can have a full meal here too! It’s comfortable and warm to sleep in!”

‘…Was he homeless?’

It was fortunate that Caron didn’t seem to be having such a hard time with the border guard life.

‘At least there won’t be an incident like desertion…’

Anyway, in the original, he played the role of male protagonist #4, so he also had a pretty strong boy mentally.

I sighed in relief, thinking that Caron would be able to easily adapt to this life.

I mean, if only I hadn’t heard someone screaming alone in the laundry that night…

On the way to and from the bathroom in the middle of the night, I heard someone scream in the laundry room, and I stood there for a long time with my half-awake eyes.

‘No matter how you think about it, it sounded like Caron.’

Damn it, it must have been burdensome to suddenly fall into an unfamiliar environment and adapt to it in a chaotic state with an incomplete memory.

‘…After all, it would be better for me to just comfort him.’

It might be better for Caron to let him cry alone like this. For him, I must be one of the burdensome seniors.

But, if a new recruit leaves in the middle of the night and finds out he was alone in the laundry room…

‘It will become X. Together they become X.’

As a creepy feeling ran down my spine, I went straight into the laundry room without hesitation.

“Sa, Saruvia?!”

Surprised to see me, Caron jumped and jumped as if he had seen a ghost, and his already crying face turned into a more melancholy one.

“Shh, be quiet.”

Hiccup!

Charon was now startled and started hiccuping, covering his mouth with his hand, but to no avail, his body continued to shake.

When I first heard Caron cry, it was just that he was a little pitiful, and I felt that he would be destroyed if the seniors found out.

Caron’s face was drenched with tears, and his eyes and cheeks had turned red.

“Caron, come here.”

“Yes!”

He ran toward me with a terrified expression on his face.

I stretched out my arms and hugged him tightly.

Caron looked nervous as to what I was going to say to him, but as soon as I held him still, I felt the tension in his body release.

‘…He’s taller than I thought.’

It looked like I was being buried by Caron, but I kept holding him anyway.

…By the way, does Caron not know how big he is? I think I’ll suffocate if I stay like this for a long time.

“Cry for a second and stop quickly.”

“Ah…”

As I tried to comfort him, tears began to flow from Caron’s eyes.

“Sniff…”

“…There’s no benefit in holding it all in, you’ll get used to the hard things.”

I didn’t ask him why he was crying, but I could hear a continuous sniffle in my ear.

“Sniff…”

“You can rely on me. Of course, if you act weird in front of other seniors, you’ll die, but you can make some mistakes in front of me.”

I patted his back slowly as if soothing a child. Only then did I feel that Caron’s crying gradually subsided, as if the tension had eased a little.

“Ah, the youngest, have you finished crying now?”

It was a playful remark, but Caron stiffened up like a really surprised person. When I felt him being more embarrassed for no reason, I patted his back and pulled away.

‘…Oh.’

In the original work, the reason why Caron regarded Saruvia as the only family in his life was simple.

Because he had never had a family in the first place.

‘Just like a lot of archons.’’

I was jokingly treating Caron like a child, but was Caron actually treated like a child?

If Saruvia had been a human being with minimal affection, she would never have been able to ignore her successor Caron.

And I think I’m going to take the path of the original Saruvia now.

‘Oh, my. Our cute youngest.’

In the meantime, I sincerely patted Caron on the back.

‘This feels like parenting.’

Caron was only a year younger and taller than me, but he always felt much younger because of his poor memories and bright personality.

In addition, among the childcare materials, there was a story in which the heroine did not have a baby, but took care of the young baby when she married the cold-blooded Duke, the baby’s father.

‘Wow, I can’t believe I’m the heroine of childcare like this. But I didn’t know I’d be in the military.’

The genre would be too much to add apocalypse and childcare into the military.

‘Is it real that there’s no romance in the meantime?’

“Our youngest, let’s go in now, okay?”

Of course, I will continue to take care of Caron.

‘The crazy people of the Adolf Empire have given our Archon’s human rights as dog food.’

What I felt after joining the army was that it was amazing that this country was running in good shape!

Of course, the defense system, which I thought would be systematic, was actually very sloppy.

I always admired how this country was running properly. If we were to go on a group strike, this country would be over as of that day.

I complained over and over again about this bloody border defense force system and soothed Caron, who stopped crying.

“Youngest, do you think you can sleep well there?”

“Ee… I can sleep now!”

“Yeah, because some of the monsters catch humans who don’t sleep until late. We have to go to bed quickly because we are in the mountains.”

“Oh, I don’t believe you!”

But Caron’s pupils were shaking really anxiously, so I had to put strength on the muscles around my mouth to hold back my laughter.

“Pfft! Yeah, go home and sleep. Okay?”

“Okay, I got it!”

And when I entered the women’s quarters, a cheerful voice rang in the dark room.

“Saruvia, were you out just now?”

“I went to the bathroom…”

“Really? But you just opened the door so loudly that I woke up.”

Even without looking at it, I could guess what expression April was making. Oh, that crazy punk is starting again.

“Hit your head. Start.”

Banging my head on the cold floor in the middle of the night, I recalled again that just because I had a replacement, being younger than my seniors was not over.

‘XX, let me live first.’’

* * *

“What’s up with that?”

When I entered the laundry with a large amount of laundry, Aquila looked behind me and gave me an uncomfortable look.

“Huh? What?”

“Look at his eyes.”

Caron was following me with a sparkling gaze.

Caron’s eyes were fixed only on me, without paying attention to Ishina or Aquila, who was already in the room.

“What do you mean? He’s still a kid.”

“We’re only a year apart. “If a monster is younger than you, won’t you still kill it?”

“Hey! How can you talk like that? He’s listening!”

When I slapped Aquila’s arm lightly, Aquila pouted a few times and eventually sighed.

I put my lips in his ear and whispered so that Caron wouldn’t hear.

“He’s having a hard time even if he pretends to be bright on the outside. Last night, he was crying secretly in the laundry room, so I comforted him.”

“…Do you think such a weak person can survive?”

“Why? You said you’d help me last time!”

“Sigh… Can you afford to take care of someone?”

At the moment Aquila was about to say something to me, Blair and Topio, the 85th trainees, entered the laundry.

Aquila and I closed our mouths.

Those two seniors are becoming similar to each other because they are the same age, and their personality has been broken in pairs. In the meantime, Ishina, Aquila, and I were always on caution near them.

“Hey, XX. What is the recruit doing?”

“Oh, I’ll make you work.”

When Blair opened his eyes fiercely as he looked at Caron behind me, Caron pulled himself closer to me as if he was scared. 

‘These punks, there’s no such thing as sympathy even for recruits.’

The silent laundry continued for a long time.

‘Why does it feel like there is no end to the laundry?’

I would rather live dirty, but the military always asked for a dust-free floor and spotless laundry.

Finally, after all the laundry was done, Blair and Topio left the room first. I roughly threw the last laundry I had in my hand into the basket.

“Ishina, I’ll hang the clothes with Caron”.

“Oh, really? It’s okay to do it together. Won’t you need more hands?”

“I’ll go.”

Aquila’s voice cut right in.

“Why? You don’t have to come.”

Then Aquila’s expression was distorted.

“Didn’t you say you don’t like to do difficult things?”

“Still, I can’t be immature in front of the youngest.”

“Now you don’t need me?”

“Ugh, when did I say that? Are you upset?”

When I put down the laundry basket and naturally folded my arms around Aquila’s arms and spoke with a charming tone, Aquila had a more relaxed expression than before.

‘Apart from taking care of Caron, I should keep paying attention to Aquila.’

Anyway, I always need Aquila, but if I don’t express it, he will never know.

“Then let’s go together, okay? Now, listen to this.”

As I pushed the laundry basket forward, Aquila took it with a satisfied look on his face.

As we were walking together, he seemed to be feeling a little better. I suddenly remembered that I had left a rag in the laundry room.

“Oh, I left a rag back there.”

“Shall I bring it?”

“No, I’ll bring it! You can go first!”

Anyway, it was necessary to make them friendly even by forcing them to spend time alone.

Leaving Aquila and Caron working alone, I quickly ran back to the laundry room.

* * *

(third person pov)

“Hey…”

Aquila, who was watching Saruvia as she ran away, opened his mouth.

“Yes?”

Caron, who looked frightened by Aquila’s fierce eyes, quickly replied.

Unlike his colleague Saruvia, Aquila seemed not to like Caron from before, so Caron was frightened.

“Why did you cry yesterday?”

The question Aquila asked was of a kind that Caron did not expect. Caron blinked and replied in a plain voice.

“I was reminded of my family.”

“…I thought you said they passed away. Do you still have memories?”

“Yes, there’s a little left. I heard that both of my biological parents died because of the monsters while serving as officers in the Border Defense Army. But I was thinking of my adoptive parents who raised me.”

“It must be sad.”

Aquila replied in a voice that seemed to be of no interest, but Caron continued to talk.

“My adoptive parents kept hitting me and making me do housework. But one night, there was a fire in the house.”

“…Is there a fire in the accident?”

“Yes, that’s right. So…”

Caron said in a very innocent voice.

“I have suffered under my adoptive parents for a long time, but I regret why I couldn’t think of setting a fire myself earlier. No matter how much I think about it, I think the life of the Border Defense Force is much better. It was so unfair, so I cried.”

Aquila’s face as he looked at Caron instantly displayed a light of vigilance. His eyes, which had always been calm, were now giving off a fierce atmosphere.

“What’s wrong with you?”

Looking at Caron answering as if his remarks were nothing, Aquila realized the meaning of “Caron is incomplete” that Saruvia had said.

He was incomplete.

To the point where he didn’t know what was right or wrong.

‘Did he lose his memory and ethics?’

No, that can’t be it.

Just because he lost his memory, he couldn’t just forget his ethics that much. Perhaps he was originally a person with those tendencies.

However, because people found him strange, they seemed to think, “He originally had ethics and even lost it due to the accident”.

In other words, Caron was mistaken for his unethical way of thinking, which was originally unethical.

‘…Oh well, it should be fine.’

Aquila, who had been contemplating, opened his mouth.

“What do you think about Saruvia?”

Caron’s eyes were sparkling at the question.

“Saruvia is so good! She’s so kind and sweet. If I had an older sister, it would be her!”

“Okay.”

Aquila looked into Caron’s eyes and spoke.

“Remember what you just said.”

When Caron, who did not understand the meaning, tilted his head, Saruvia was seen running back. Caron’s face suddenly brightened, and Aquila let go of his expression as if nothing had happened.

Aquila then whispered in a small voice that Saruvia could not hear.

“As you said, think of her as your real sister. Then I’ll always help you too.”

“Okay…?”

* * *

When I returned to Aquila and Caron, their mood was more relaxed than before.

‘They seem to get along well.’

Feeling elevated, I hung the laundry on the clothesline, showing Caron where to put the clothes.

“Now, from now on, can I do it alone?”

“Yes, you can!”

While hanging the laundry under my gaze, Caron exclaimed as if he had remembered something.

“By the way, Saruvia. I have a question.”

“What?”

“Where does our unit belong? The platoon leader told me, but I haven’t been able to memorize it yet…”

In fact, it was enough to confuse our unit affiliation. It took me a while to memorize the affiliation of our unit, even as I belong to the side with excellent memorization skills.

“Now, we are part of Alpha Squadron, 18th Company, Cledor Mountain Battalion, 108th Mountain Brigade, 72nd Special Operations Division, Border Defense Command.”

“…Can you say that again?”

“…Just memorize the alpha platoon of the 18th Company of the 72nd Special Operations Division.”

“Yes, I understand…”

Caron answered.

I could fully understand his feelings. I felt the same way when I heard the full name of my unit from Ishina.

“Any more questions?”

“Ah, I don’t know the seniors well… I am confused.”

“You haven’t memorized all the faces yet?”

As soon as I first came to this unit, I couldn’t memorize the faces of the other first-class or trainees, but I memorized the faces of the corporals who practiced the ‘Violence and fear alone save us all’ education with incredible speed. But Caron was still having a hard time with it.

“Listen carefully.”

“Yes. Yes!”

As I began to explain what was necessary for him to adapt to the unit, Caron’s eyes twinkled.

“First of all, April, 69th division. She’s the only woman among the Corps, the oldest and uses a plant-based aura… Please be careful. Don’t trust her appearance. Just don’t stand out. No, just avoid her.”

My voice, which started quietly, became more and more desperate. Caron, who doesn’t know much about April yet, nodded his head while giving me a puzzled look.

“70th division, Louise, has long hair. He’s very good at swordsmanship and is more quiet.”

“Aha…”

“The 72nd division are Leon and Brave. Leon is very playful. Brave is an expert in violence and fear. Both of them are characterized by a touchy attitude, not by your fault, but by their nature.”

“Oh…”

“Lastly, the 74th division, Plato. You have to be careful because he is the busiest and always tired. But he’s not such a bad guy, well, he’s the most normal compared to other corporals…”

“Ah.”

“There’s no one who doesn’t nitpick about useless things. All you have to do is do your job well and make no mistakes. Of course, I can’t help but make mistakes.”

“What happens if I can’t do my job?”

“You’re not asking because you don’t know, are you? Only violence and fear will save us all.”

When I responded in a light manner, Caron looked terrified. That was cute, so I patted him on the shoulder again.

* * *

And after a while, we all knelt with our heads down. My knees were numb, but I couldn’t budge.

“Hey, who is the bastard who broke the blade? Did you not receive any management training?”

‘What kind of jerk took care of his blade like that?’

I was swearing inside, and somehow I found Caron’s pupils shaking opposite of me.

‘I’m screwed…’

Yes, the process of making mistakes and being robbed is the process that all recruits in this unit will go through.

‘But he’s my successor…’

“Hey, turn yourself in.”

When Leon shouted in an agitating voice, and Brave had an angry face next to him, I finally decided.

‘XX, I’m just going to be robbed…’

Yeah, I’ll just hit your head, or clean up the training ground endlessly, or get hit neatly…

As soon as my right hand was about to be lifted little by little, I turned my head in surprise at the feeling that the person right next to me was moving.

Aquila was raising his right arm with an unknown expression.

“I think I made a mistake.”

“Oh my.”

Surprisingly, Aquila took the lead in place of Caron.

After a while, after the situation is cleared up. I was clinging to Aquila and chattering.

“Did you change your mind?”

“What?”

I said, looking into his scarlet eyes.

“Yeah, you didn’t mean to take care of Caron at all, so what’s up?”

If it were usual, first-class soldiers would have said to Aquila, “What’s wrong with you?” But there was nothing much to say if they guessed that Aquila, who doesn’t make mistakes well, was at the forefront.

“But is it fortunate that it ended like this?”

Instead of shaking off other men with solidarity responsibility, only one Aquila was robbed, so it seems that the work ended small.

Caron, who is currently in his dormitory, may be restless at the thought that Aquila was robbed by his mistake.

“You said he was like a kid.”

“Huh?”

Aquila looked down at me and said in a small voice.

“If you think he’s like a child, I’ll think so too.”

“Huh?”

“Just think of it as parenting practice.”

“Aquila…”

I held him tightly with my arms open with a voice that I was touched.

“If I don’t take care of it, it’ll die, so what can I do?”

“Yes, yes. I am really touched.”

From then on, Aquila really seemed to have accepted Caron as someone he should take care of.

‘I can see why Caron followed Aquila in the original story.’

For Caron, his opponents, Aquila and Saruvia, were like family.

Even Caron, who was unfamiliar with Aquila at first, quickly got used to him and smiled brightly in front of us.

From the beginning, Caron liked to laugh a lot, but because of the nature of the place called the Border Guard, he usually had to suppress his personality.

‘No matter how you look at it, it feels more like raising a dog than a successor…’

* * *

“Come on, get ready to go out to subdue regular monsters.”

It has become a time for the army’s subjugation that comes regularly every two weeks, and I have now packed my belongings with the hands I’m used to. The regular monster subjugation takes place for 1 night and 2 days, so I had to be sure to pack enough luggage for all situations.

But today, my condition was the worst.

‘X-like Mother Nature, XX… .’

No, if you have possessed a special race called Archon, shouldn’t the author give Archon the setting that there is no such thing as Mother Nature’s Day?

The body of Saruvia that I possessed was a blessed body without pain that day, but when I roll around in the cold mountains, pain that was not there is bound to arise.

“Obviously, traces of the second-class monster Hydra were found here, but why can’t we see it?”

“As it is the spawning season, it seems that they have become sensitive to the surrounding environment and have disappeared.”

As the company commander muttered with a look of disapproval, one of the commanders of Gamma Platoon gave an answer.

“Hmm… You’re right. So, what do you think we should do?”

“Right now, they are not attacking humans first, so I think it would be better to cancel this subjugation and return to each platoon.”

“…I think it would be better to eradicate the Hydra to the end.”

“Yes, we wait for the Hydra to appear. We can’t let it multiply here.”

‘The answer has been decided, XX.’

When I listened to the commander’s words and looked tired, theyr finally gave orders to each platoon.

They seemed to have decided to camp near the terrestrial hydra’s habitat.

Of course, camping near the monster’s habitat was a stupid act as if asking to kill themselves, but the hydra’s land during spawning season is extremely sensitive to any danger and they’ll usually never attacks first.

If humans were to camp around their habitat, they would show up to escape instead of attacking them.

Each platoon that received the order also began to move quickly.

“Can I set up the tent?”

“…Then it’ll take too long to wake up. The hydra is quick, so it will run away in the meantime.”

“Oh, then do I sleep on a cloth on the ground?”

“Yeah, do that.”

‘XX. Why, on a day like today?’

Sometimes, when the situation is urgent, instead of sleeping in a tent, you have to sleep on the bare ground. A sleeping bag is warmer, but it is inconvenient to crawl out of it.

Because it is a mountain, it is a time to experience the worst quality sleep because of the chill coming up from the ground and the back being stiff.

Usually, when we’re in the mountains, we get covered with soil, so we don’t care about the gender of the person next to us at all.

“Come on, don’t forget to get up right away when an emergency is approaching, and now everyone, go to sleep!”

Elliot’s order fell, and I crawled into the cloth serving as a blanket.

Just to the left of me was Aquila, and to the right was Ishina. As soon as I lay down, I heard a quiet breathing sound from Ishina as if he had fallen asleep quickly.

‘XX, I want to leave the military. I’ve always wanted to desert, but I want to desert more intensely today.’

I frowned while holding my lower stomach that was hurting. It was really the worst.

I wanted to curl up by turning my body to the side, but of course, the sleeping posture in the border defense group is tight.

It was awkward at first, but now I can’t sleep without looking at the sky head-on.

“Ugh…”

I clenched my teeth tightly so as not to make a sound, and moved my hands around under the blanket to somehow disperse the pain.

Then, something hot was caught in my hand. I grabbed it reflexively tightly.

I already knew that this was Aquila’s hand.

“What’s wrong?”

Turning his head slightly sideways, he whispered in a small voice that would not be heard by his seniors.

“It’s warm.”

“Not that. Are you sick?”

Even in the dark, only Aquila’s scarlet eyes were seen.

Whenever he looked at me with those eyes that showed no expression and accurately caught my condition, sometimes I felt an unknown feeling.

“Yes.”

“Do you want me to hold your hand?”

Aquila didn’t ask where it hurt, but that alone made me guess that he knew everything.

The hand holding me was hot. It was a sense of contrast with the cold air on the floor coming up from the back and the cold air that touched my neck and face out of the blanket.

Eventually, I pulled one of his hands down onto my lower stomach.

“Is it there?”

“Yes.”

As the heat began to circulate over my stomach, the pain immediately felt better.

“Good night.”

“You too.”

Our conversation was enough for that.

It may seem strange to others, but we were each other’s only company, we only wanted each other’s survival, and we were each other’s everything.

“… Guys, I’m not sleeping.”

I heard Ishina’s voice from my right, and we both shut our mouths at the same time.

‘… It must have sounded a little strange.’

Ishina, I’m sorry…

* * *

“Here comes the land hydra! Wake up!”

As soon as I heard the voice, I jumped up at a bullet-like speed.

The ability to get up as soon as I heard the sound of “wake up” was the same ability that other troops had. Anyone can have it in a month of military service.

It was dawn when the sun was just rising. Since the sun rose on one side and it was still night on the other, the sky from the dense forest of trees had a mysterious blue color.

It was rather fortunate that some view was secured because it was not at night at all.

‘XX, I think PTSD will come after recalling the invisible forest.’

“1 minute, 2 minutes! Ready!”

I had a gun in my hand that I had left at my bedside. This was also the result of adapting to military life.

“Ugh.”

When I smelled something like a fishy snake, I grabbed the gun in an accurate posture while frowning.

A disgusting red snake with nine heads.

The original Hydra is a first-class monster that is difficult to access because it lives in water and its poison remains in the places where it passes, but fortunately, the “land hydra,” a variant of Hydra, did not have poison.

However, caution was needed because every time you cut off a neck, two more necks would appear.

“Winter! Aquila! Take turns and stand in the middle!”

Aquila was able to stop the neck from growing anymore by destroying the cut-off spot with a fire-related aura, and Winter could prevent regeneration by freezing the cut-off spot with his ice-based aura.

“You’re cutting the throat! People in the second squad protect Hydra’s other heads from attacking Winter and Aquila! April! Support!”

The platoon leader’s order was issued, and Winter and Aquila took charge of the left and right sides, respectively.

“Hey!”

At the same time as April turned one of the heads that tried to attack Aquila using a plant-based aura, other troops joined forces to protect Aquila and Winter.

People other than Winter and Aquila shouldn’t cut the Hydra’s heads.

“Hey! Get it together! Don’t cut the head!”

When one head was cut by a regular troop, two heads sprang out of the spot.

Topio, the person who made two heads rise up due to the mishandling of the aura, made a face that said he didn’t know what to do.

“Shooter! Aim for the eyes! Attack!”

This time, a company commander’s order was heard.

Because the shooter was ordered to shoot, the surrounding troops naturally avoided themselves. There was a possibility that they could be hit by the scattered bullets.

I calmly took my breath and lifted the gun at the Hydra.

“You punk, what kind of trouble am I going to go through because of things that you did?”

Come to think of it, I’m upset again. I wouldn’t have to be doing this in the Border Defense Force if that person hadn’t cut off a neck by accident!

I have to keep a calm attitude when shooting, but unfortunately, the life of the Border Defense Force has made me angry day by day.

I pulled the trigger with burning eyes.

Pang!

Along with the loud shot, drops of blood splashed from Hydra’s eyes as it tried to attack Winter. The Hydra, who not only lost its eyesight but also suffered a terrible head injury, twisted around, and Winter quickly wrapped itself around the ice and cut the Hydra’s neck.

“Saruvia, good job.”

Lewis, who was right to me, praised me in a calm voice, and I gained confidence in the words.

“Okay, XX, search everything while you’re at it.”

The more I grabbed the gun, the more anger I felt against the monsters was boiling, and I shot at the Hydra with full of anger.

Not only me but also other troops responded skillfully to the Hydra.

Winter and Aquila cut off the heads, and the other troops used their aura to prevent the rest of the Hydra’s heads from approaching Winter and Aquila, and I shot at its eyes to make it lose its sight.

Boom!

Finally, the Hydra’s body, which lost all nine heads, fell to the ground.

“Well done! First class! Get rid of the dead body!”

“Saruvia, you worry too much. You’ve become strong enough.”

Altair, who had listened to my swordsmanship concerns, smiled and approached me.

“Ah…”

I felt the heat in my hand because I was holding the gun a while ago. It feels like the heat has spread all over my body, so somehow I don’t think I can think rationally.

‘I feel anger the more I hold the gun.’

Altair, who saw my strange eyes, made a strange expression, and soon returned to his usual smiling face and beckoned to his colleague Winter.

“Hey, I heard you advised her to hold a gun”.

“Yeah.”

“I knew it. I knew it. You were only watching Saruvia when we were training last time. Why are you acting like a senior to her?”

‘Winter was watching me the whole time?’

After a few months in my head, the positive circuit began to work again.

Is this the development of the ropan?

‘It must be that Winter keeps looking at me for no reason, helps me more and more, and eventually realizes his own heart and falls in love!’

I looked at Winter with great anticipation.

“I just did what I had to do. It is difficult to manage incompetent children when they become corporals… It wasn’t hard for me to guess what her talent is.”

…Ah, what is ropan?

As the development of ropan in my life began, I expected that this damn real army would change to the original ropan army in the style of the original female heroine, but it’s still XX.

Then, Aquila walked over to me, wiping his sweat-drenched forehead from the heat generated by her Auror.

“Saruvia.”

“Good job, Aquila!”

“Come here for a second.”

“Why?”

As I followed Aquila, Aquila spoke only after a little distance from Winter and Altair.

“Look for Caron. It looked like he had been scratched by a stone.”

“What? The youngest is injured?”

I checked the appearance of Caron in the distance, and rushed to him.

‘By the way, Aquila is now taking good care of Caron.’

Well, that’s great!

* * *

(third person pov)

While Saruvia was holding Caron from afar, Altair asked Winter in a playful voice.

“Hey, what’s going on? You’re interested in your successor?

“Interest… I’m supposed to look closely at all the troops.”

Altair cut off Winter’s answer and asked again.

“I mean, you’re originally a perfectionist who looks at all the troops, but you never show it. Why did you advise her to shoot first? It’s like you already know it was better for her.”

“If I had let her keep using the sword, she would have died sooner.”

Winter calmly replied to Altair’s interrogation.

However, Altair did not give up. He still stared at Winter and asked.

“I know you’ve observed Saruvia, but why are you trying to hide it from me? Hey, it’s just us, so you can be honest. We’ve been friends for several years. Can’t you tell me?”

At that, Winter hesitated for a long time and finally opened his mouth.

“Eyes.”

“Huh? Eyes?”

“Her eyes were different from other successors.”

Winter recalled Saruvia’s eyes looking at him.

Usually, Winter’s successors were afraid or awkward around him. When Winter talked to them first, they would often look at him with a fearful look.

But Saruvia was different.

Sometimes, when Winter sweated and trained or was shouted at by his seniors, Saruvia looked at him with a look of no fear at all, which was somewhat absurd.

Winter, quick at everything, couldn’t have missed that look.

“She seems to be a rather bold type.”

Winter speculated that Saruvia is the type who doesn’t find her seniors difficult to deal with at all, or is fearless about everything.

It was natural for him to pay attention to Saruvia, even if her gaze bothered him.

As a result, Winter was able to discover Saruvia’s talent.

“Is that an enough answer?”

“Well, okay…”

Winter, who glanced at Altair, who answered cheerfully, spoke in a low voice.

“So. This isn’t your point. What’s the point?”

“Oh, to the point. That’s right.”

Altair, who turned into a serious look, muttered.

“…Was there something in Saruvia’s eyes earlier when she was shooting? I see that gaze every day from April.”

Winter remained silent.

Saruvia’s face, holding a gun in her head, came to mind.

Altair was also quick to notice.

Saruvia’s golden eyes usually had a soft and sweet atmosphere, but when she lifted the gun, her gaze looked as if she would kill everyone right away.

“…It seems like she’s going crazy day by day.”

“See? I told you so. Although she’s my successor, we don’t know how she’ll turn out, so we have to be careful all the time.”

Altair’s voice that said so contained sincerity.

Winter thought the observation of Saruvia was over in advising her to hold a gun, but he somehow felt that he should keep an eye on her in the future.

* * *

(first person pov)

D-2739 days before discharge.

Since then, my military life has been quite smooth.

Of course, the words “military life” and “smooth” cannot coexist, but the recent daily life has not been very bad.

A normal daily routine in which people fight, being disciplined together under joint responsibility if anyone makes a mistake, train from morning to evening, and take charge of all kinds of chores.

Of course, not long ago, my senior, Canon from the 84th division, was killed by a second-class monster, but it was not surprising that a person was dying here. It would be good if one person died during five months.

“Caron, you know your junior position will be replaced, right?”

“Oh, I remember now!”

“Oh, I thought our youngest would be the youngest forever. Oh my, it’s already been 3 months…”

It’s already been three months since Caron joined the military. Today was the day when Caron, who survived safely without dying, will receive his first replacement.

“I’m not sure if he’ll be able to act like a senior.”

Caron, who always smiled, couldn’t have pretended to be dignified because he was in front of his successors, but I think it’ll work out somehow because I took good care of Caron.

“I’m taking an hour off today! If you’re done with your military service, take a rest on your own!”

At Louise’s rest order, which fell after 50 laps of the training ground, I let water flow through my bloody throat and wiped my mouth.

“I guess we’re resting because it’s the day of the recruitment.”

An hour of rest, even if it didn’t seem like a big deal, was desperate in this hellish border defense force. I headed to the dormitory with a happy face.

“We didn’t have any laundry left. Did you clean the training ground?”

“Oh, Blair. It’s all done!”

Pls read only at pink muffin tl

“Really? Then you can really rest.”

Blair, a trainee who had always longed for his successors, also looked happy to confirm that he had nothing left to do.

“Nap! I’m going to take a nap.”’

I should heal my body and mind, which have been worn out by this hard training, with a nap.

When I opened the door of the dormitory trying to hide my excited face, there was a girl I had never seen before.

“…Huh?”

“Saruvia, she’s a new recruit. Help her organize her luggage and get her the right size clothes.”

“Oh! Yes, I got it.”

It was a female recruit!

The recruit, who tied her red hair down to both sides, was scared by the unit’s atmosphere, so her eyes were moist and her body was stiff with tension.

“What’s your name?”

“I’m Re-Reina!”

“Really? Nice to meet you, Reina. I’m Saruvia, and I’m two divisions above you.”

With that said, I seemed to reach out one hand to Reina. Reina shook hands awkwardly with a gesture that clearly showed tension.

“You can use my left side for your place. Would your clothes be about the same size as me?”

“Well, it seems that…!”

“I’ll bring you some necessities. Hang in there.”

At the thought of a female recruit coming in, I was quite excited. There were too few women in this unit!

The fact that she is still the youngest in the women’s dormitory is quite inconvenient. Because it is always my responsibility to run the errands in the dorm.

‘Still, she’s my successor, so I have to take good care of her.’

Yuri beckoned to me as I was giving things to my successor without any sign of bother. She looked like she was dissatisfied.

“Yuri?”

“Saruvia, be careful.”

Yuri, with dark circles falling down under her eyes, had a tone that showed exhaustion and annoyance.

“I told you. Don’t get too attached.”

“Ah, although…If I take good care of her…”

“You’re already taking care of one of your successors, think about having to take care of another.”

Yuri cut my answer like a knife with a cynical expression.

Yuri still didn’t recognize Caron, so she didn’t call him by name.

“Don’t get too close, take your time and watch slowly. Until you are sure, think of her as a child who is about to die.”

I made eye contact with April, who was smiling while looking at us from her seat. As always, she remained silent with an unknown expression on her face.

“…I will keep that in mind.”

I said that to Yuri, but I didn’t really mean to be rude to that successor named Reina.

‘Since we are all a strong race in the first place, wouldn’t we be able to survive if we just made an effort?’

Yeah, I thought so…

* * *

Exactly a week later, I realized that having more successors isn’t always a good thing.

Unlike the seniors who have adapted to the military, more successors who have not yet adapted to the military come in. It meant that the number of unit members who would take on the responsibility of the regiment increased for me.

After a week of training, the recruits are now training with us.

There are a total of four new recruits this time. He said it was not a lot or a little, it was just an ordinary number. Three men and one woman.

And whenever new recruits dropped out of training, we struggled together.

‘XX, I can’t afford to take care of them.’

It’s hard for me to keep up with the training too, and there’s no way I can especially take care of the new recruits.

On the other hand, Reina was not particularly weak in her skills, she had quick movements.

Nevertheless, Yuri was still skeptical of her. She had an atmosphere that she would not recognize until she survived the subjugation several times.

‘No, but Reina works hard, so she will be able to live… That’s right, she can live…’

After thinking about that, I finally let out a deep sigh.

In the end, contrary to my initial promise, I couldn’t actively help Reina, and I wasn’t even sure that Reina would survive.

“The atmosphere these days… It seems really bad.”

As I sighed, maybe I felt something, Caron said in a low voice as we were pulling weeds out of the parade ground together. Then Ishina answered in a calm tone.

“Originally, it’s like when the new recruits get used to it for the first time. You don’t feel it, but it must have been that way in the beginning when you guys started training.”

‘How can you be so calm?’

He also seemed like a person who was in charge of the character of ‘kindness on the outside’. I don’t blame anyone even if I take joint responsibility, so I should learn Ishina’s attitude like that.

‘No, maybe you’re thinking of getting rid of the recruits inside of you?’

Come to think of it, how would I know the insides of him, who is a ‘villain inwardly’? I looked at Ishina with a slightly suspicious look.

Meanwhile, Ishina’s words that it is normal for new recruits to be shy, Caron kept his mouth shut, but unexpectedly, Aquila spoke quietly.

“I don’t like new recruits.”

“What? Aquila?”

I opened my eyes and looked at Aquila. Because Aquila was originally someone who did not express his likes or dislikes.

Not only me, but also Caron and Ishina looked at Aquila in amazement.

“If you say so, is there a big problem? I thought they weren’t good enough. Are they really that bad? Or did they make a mistake in front of you?”

“It’s not like that.”

Aquila stuck to silence again and brought up something I hadn’t even thought of.

“One of the recruits has gray hair.”

“Oh, I remember! What was the name?”

“It’s Gray.”

“Aha, what a name.”

“Gray, what’s wrong with him?”

Aquila, who was listening to Caron and I take turns talking, replied.

“His eyes were arrogant.”

“Huh?”

“Of course, I can understand because of the military, but his eyes were uncomfortable.”

“Why? Do you think he’ll talk back to you?”

“They were telling me that I was crazy.”

I nodded at Aquila’s fierce scarlet eyes.

Aquila rolled his eyes to the right without saying anymore.

“Ah.”

Since Caron always smiled and there is only one division difference, there was a possibility that Aquilia would think of the new recruit a little arrogant.

However, Gray’s attitude in the army could have been a problem.

“I won’t let him go if his eyes look arrogant next time.”

“What are you doing?”

Aquila looked at me.

At the moment, Blair, who had just come out of the building, beckoned us recklessly. His hand movements made it possible to guess that an urgent situation broke out.

Having been aware of the months of military service, we rushed to Blair.

Blair’s face, who called us, was white. It was already an ominous face color.

And the moment I heard him, I had no choice but to curse once again that my world was not a ropan.

Because Blair said as follows.

“Emergency! April summoned all recruits and those above them to the base”.

XX, I don’t know what it is, but I know something huge has happened. Just kill me.

* * *

‘XX, please send me to ropan. Obsessive men are okay too, so please let me escape from this world. I’m confident I can change my taste and enjoy obsession…’

As I followed Blamir into the building, I wondered what the hell this world was going to be like.

No, in common sense, the name Saruvia, coral-colored hair and golden eyes, is not a ropan-style name and appearance.

The world view in which the people called Archon and monsters appeared was also typical fantasy.

‘Then why apply the real military to this world?!’

‘XX.’

Gatherings were arguably the worst in military culture. Because it was the starting point of something vicious. The worst of them all…

‘All recruits and those above them.’

This did not end with the person who made the mistake or the trainees, but it was a declaration that they would wipe us out one after another, starting with the distant seniors.

‘What the hell did the new recruit do?’

Even the assembly that April, who is an expert at driving people crazy, has already made me want to desert.

As soon as I entered the space where the seniors were standing in a row, I instinctively took a step back as soon as I sensed the air, but I had no choice.

‘It’s different even in the air…!’

This chilly air is suffocating! Even if Winter wears an icy auror, the temperature won’t drop this much!

‘Someone please save me…’

As I stood in line with the seniors in prayer earnestly inwardly, there was a hint of wonder on their faces as to why they were doing this.

‘Which one of the new recruits really had an accident?’

The faces of the four recruits were all full of tension, making it difficult to find the culprit, but by checking the direction of April’s gaze, who had gathered the troops, I was able to quickly find out the cause.

Maintaining her pretty smile, April had her eyes fixed on Gray, whom Aquila had said had ‘cheeky eyes’.

XX, after all, his view was not wrong!

As I stiffened in this suffocating air, April’s mouth finally opened. Curving her eyes, she smiled with a so-called ‘devil smile’.

“Repeat what I said earlier, recruit.”

“…No.”

Gray answered in a somewhat sarcastic tone. As soon as we heard his answer, all of the seniors had goosebumps all over their bodies and began to examine April’s mood.

“Hey, what do you mean, no? Do you want to die?”

Leon spoke harshly to Gray, but due to April’s gaze, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut afterwards.

Gray kept his pride down and his mouth shut, but his complexion darkened as he sensed what the matter had grown too.

“Okay. Recruit, what did you say earlier?”

‘…Is that Winter now?’

It’s really amazing to feel the temperature drop even though there were a lot of people.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…! Please forgive me just once.”

Gray, who seemed to protect his pride, finally pleaded in a terrified voice. He didn’t seem to be able to stand it any longer.

“Why? Say what you said with your own mouth again.”

“Sorry…! I must have gone crazy.”

I got a feeling

Gray, who only looked at April’s face thinking that she was easy, must have insulted her. That XX.

‘If you judge people only by their outward appearance, you’ll be hit in the back of the head.’

“Hey, I can’t help it. Until you speak again with your own mouth, your seniors must return to the training ground with you.”

April said so and put her hand on the shoulder of her right successor, Louise.

When Louise, who was always calm, showed a rotten expression toward Gray, Gray had no choice but to open his mouth with a weeping voice.

“I, I, I… asked if April’s classmates were all dead because they were weaker than April…”

At the same time, there was a chilling silence.

‘Are you crazy?’

First, the problem was that Gray, who was just a new recruit, dared to ask a question to April, the most senior officer among the corporals.

‘At the time, I didn’t even dare to make eye contact with April, but it’s hard to believe that such a person without a concept exists.’

Second, that was a statement that ignored April’s abilities. It must have been a mockery of how weak April’s motives were.

Third…

‘They didn’t die because they were weak.’

All the members of the unit here now, most of them had at least one person who died in their division, and even if not, there was a successor or senior who died.

All the members of the unit were living with their dead colleagues in the corner of their hearts, and vowing to be discharged by surviving and getting their share…

Gray’s words were enough to provoke emotions beyond anger in everyone.

“You crazy…”

Plato muttered in a voice that rarely held anger.

‘Plato said all six of his comrades were dead.’

“…Is there something wrong with your head?”

Leon and Brave, who were rough from the beginning, spoke in anger-filled voices.

“… I think we have to start all over again.”

Louise, who was always calm, seemed to be firmly determined this time.

“Huh, really. What’s wrong with the new recruit? They probably haven’t gotten used to the unit yet.”

Whether the other members of the unit were angry or not, he said that with a pitiful expression in his brazen tone as if he was playing April.

The more April spoke, the more the air in this room felt like it was going down by one degree.

“It’s all your fault for not helping the recruits adjust to the unit well…”

‘XX.’

It’s already getting ominous. It’s already getting ominous!

April is crazy X.

I desperately wished April would just beat up her successors, but she has never done that.

Instead, that crazy X made people suffer in all sorts of bizarre ways.

“Guys, get stronger! You can do it!”

And so we were scouring the ground in the middle of the night on pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.

Yes. This is one of her favorite methods of human torture: “throw a metal bead over the pebbles and let them find it.”

‘Why the hell did God even give that crazy X creativity?’

Combining her crazy personality with her creativity, she had a tendency to do crazy things in all sorts of creative directions.

Either way, I just wanted to desert.

Finding an iron bead on pebbles doesn’t sound like a big deal from the name alone, but it’s quite difficult.

In our unit, there is a place where cobblestone is spread widely, and the amount of pebbles is so large and the range is vast.

In addition, the size is similar to that of an iron bead, and the iron bead thrown by April is slightly rusted, so the degree of brilliance under the light is the same…

‘XX… It would be better to just run through the training ground all night long.’

Archon’s strong physical abilities have helped me survive hard training, but it doesn’t help me squat down and scour the ground like this.

As I sat squatting, my body ached, my fingertips scraping the stone-covered ground tingled, and more than anything else, my eyeballs felt like they were about to fall out. Now I can’t tell if these are pebbles on the floor or my eyeballs.

‘What the hell does this have to do with helping new recruits adjust?’

The poor recruit, wrongly caught by the crazy X, was now scratching the ground with weeping eyes. The gaze of the seniors who looked at him as if they were going to kill him was an added bonus.

‘Original male leads, what are you going to do?’

The male protagonists, who were so powerful in the original, were now scratching the ground together next to me.

No, as a human being, how could the original author give the male protagonists such a past?

As always, Ishina was searching the ground with a sincere face. Why are you so diligent? Can’t you just show us your dark side at times like this? Even if it’s dark, you can’t do dark things to our distant senior, April, right?

On the other hand, Caron had blank eyes as if he had gone crazy, so I massaged his shoulder well.

He was looking at the ground with eyes that Aquila would kill the pebbles.

‘Normal ropan males send such gazes to other men who flirt with the female lead…’

I swallowed my tears and searched hard on the ground.

Alright, at a time like this, find an iron bead and go to sleep. I was exhausted and wanted to lie down on this stone floor right now.

Then, someone’s hand flashed over our heads.

Everyone looked at the hand shining under the moonlight.

An iron bead was found!

“W-Winter…!”

Winter was holding the single iron bead he had finally found over his head.

His expression, as always, was so cold that it didn’t suit this situation at all…

“Winter! I knew you could do it!”

“Awesome, Winter!”

His comrade Altair rushed to Winter with thrilled eyes. Another colleague, Yuri, looked at the iron bead with sweet eyes like someone in love.

‘After all, Winter is said to be a perfectionist, and he’s also perfect at things like this…!’

In our Alpha Platoon, Winter was a symbol of perfectionism. No, beyond the Alpha Platoon, Winter was a famous perfectionist within the army.

Other platoons also referred to Winter as ‘the one who can do everything in Alpha Platoon’.

He’s got it all, and he’s finally found the iron bead!

I usually thought he was hard and rude, but today he looked so cool that he kept his expressionless expression even after finding it!

Like other seniors, I looked at Winter with thrilled eyes.

No one else is needed!

The crown prince’s political power, who ascended the throne at a young age but is not inferior to nobles at all?

Or the position of the northern archduke, which has a deep history and special ability and is the highest family in the empire?

Or a young genius wizard, who has no supportive family but has risen to the highest place with only one skill?

The pleasant wealth of the upper extremist who led the continent’s trend and accumulated the most wealth on the continent?

Those are not the things that look cool to me right now! What excites me is the ability to find a metal bead among pebbles and end this hell! This is the ability of the ropan male lead candidate!

Faster and more accurate than excavators, excellent eyesight and sensing ability to beat even beasts! I really think I can fall for Winter at this moment…

“Gosh, Winter is so cool…”

“Cool?”

“But it’s really like that…”

“That’s just… That’s what you think is cool?”

“What do you mean, ‘that’? It’s all thanks to you that we can sleep right now.”

At this moment, Winter was the best male lead…

* * *

‘It’s been a really long day.’

After a hell of a day, I trudged with Yuri and opened the door to the dormitory. Reina has yet to come in, who seems to have lost her mind.

Fortunately, April fell asleep, and the lights were off.

“Saruvia.”

“Yes?”

As soon as I heard April’s voice, I fumbled and stiffened my body reflexively.

My eyes, accustomed to the darkness, found April’s light green eyes. In the dark, her eyes were shining strangely.

“Were you tired today?”

“Oh, never.”

“Pfft, you’re lying.”

April laughed in the dark. She looked like a crazy person, so I couldn’t move with nervousness and looked carefully.

Yuri was already lying under the blanket even though she looked at me with pity. She’s saying it’s not her business to get involved now.

“You think I’m X, don’t you?”

April’s voice asking like that was so clear and beautiful.

“No! Never! Never!”

Of course she was like X. However, if there is common sense in me, no matter how X she is, I will not say that she is X.

When I denied with all my might, April stopped laughing as if she had lost interest.

“Hmm, really?”

“Yes, definitely not!”

Then April’s light green eyes shone in the dark, and soon she muttered in her unique high voice.

“Oh, and. If you act like an angel, you’ll die first, right?”

After saying that for an unknown reason, April buried herself under the blanket again.

I didn’t know why April suddenly said so.

Is it a problem that I tried to take care of my juniors even though I didn’t have time yet?

Or is it annoying to see someone helping others even a little?

…Well, I couldn’t understand the meaning, but I think the answer is not to think in the military. I shouldn’t have a headache because of this.

I glanced at April, who had troubled me all day.

‘How on earth is there no guilt even after making people suffer so much?’

Will I change like that when I become a corporal? Well, we won’t know until time passes.

‘But how long do I have until becoming a corporal? 3 years and 5 months?’

XX, it’s such a distant future. Don’t think about useless things and just sleep calmly..

* * *

D-2700 days before discharge.

A month has passed since then.

The 92nd recruits died with burns all over their bodies.

The second-class monster “Ridian” had a habit of causing a huge explosion to kill the enemy when it died, but the recruits who could not memorize that fact did not flee.

They might have survived if they had moved even a little faster under the instructions of their seniors, but unfortunately they couldn’t.

And the fact that the recruits died meant that Reina, who I had been trying so hard to take care of, also died.

“…Oh, I’m going crazy.”

In front of the 92nd division annihilation, I covered my head with both hands.

“Didn’t I tell you not to.”

Next to me, Yuri said in a calm voice. I looked at her indifferent eyes, clenched my teeth, and gripped my gun even tighter.

Yeah, I don’t know which of my successors will die anyway, so I don’t need to take care of them in advance, right? As April said, if I saw the death of the successor I cared for, my mental state might go out and get caught up in death.

That’s probably what she meant when she said, ‘If you act like an angel, you’ll die first.’

I might have to go crazy sometimes if I want to get out alive…

Of course, it was after more successors came in that I fully understood April’s meaning.

#1. The Secret of the Original 『Four Crazy Guys Are Obsessed With Me』

~tl/n: this is what happened in the original work of the novel Saruvia possessed in that she doesn’t even know herself.~

(3rd person pov)

“Put the gun down.”

“Winter?”

Somehow, Winter, passing through the shooting range with anxiety, ran straight there as soon as he saw Darlene holding a huge gun.

To avoid the accident, he called Darlene in a small voice so as not to surprise her, but Darlene opened her eyes wide and looked back at Winter. The gun was directed to Winter.

“Wait, Darlene. Don’t move, stay still. Don’t even nod.”

“What’s wrong?”

Even though Darlene was trying to calm down, contrary to Winter’s intention, Darlene looked more anxious.

‘What the hell, who in the world gave Darlene a gun. Guns must be well managed.’

Winter himself may die if the gun is fired as it is. No matter how strong a human being is, death cannot be avoided if a gun penetrates the vital point.

And shooting by mistake, considering Darlene’s past moves, it was possible enough.

Winter, who finally succeeded in approaching Darlene with a careful step, snatched the gun from behind Darlene. Darlene faltered for a moment as the heavy gun went down from her shoulder.

‘I’ve been saved.’

Winter left the gun safe in its original position, and looked at Darlene with a stiff look.

“Why were you holding a gun?”

A sober human could not have let Darlene hold a gun. If you are an unprecedented adviser of this unit and a legendary troublemaker, you will be in a shooting rampage.

“Ishina asked me to shoot it! Surprisingly, guns might be better than swords!

Winter has now decided to give up pointing out her words, which are a mess.

Instead, he only frowned at the fact that Ishina recommended Darlene to shoot.

‘What was Ishina thinking about?’

“Can I not shoot a gun?”

Winter glanced at Darlene’s orange hair at her tearful voice.

‘Of course, aside from the fact that if you give Darlene a gun, you don’t know how many people around will die in her accident…’

“No.”

Winter could never see Darlene holding a gun.

“As expected, I’m not good enough…?”

“…No, guns are dangerous. I’m saying this for you.”

Yeah, this was also for Darlene.

As Darlene got out of control from gradually resembling Saruvia, Winter could no longer predict how she would behave.

‘Whoa, okay… I shouldn’t compare.’

What sin is there to resemble?

However, the more Darlene was in front of him, the more uncomfortable he felt, so Winter turned around and went out to find Ishina. He was going to ask why he gave Darlene the gun.

Soon after, Winter could find Ishina with Aquila in the corner of the building.

“Ishina.”

“Oh, Winter.”

Isina saluted lightly. Winter asked right away.

“You recommended a gun to Darlene?”

“Ah…! Yes, I did.”

“Why? If you give Darlene a gun… Couldn’t you have guessed what was going to happen?”

At those words, Ishina gently rolled his eyes with a shy expression. He seemed to have guessed at what would happen.

As Ishina evaded his answer with a smirk, Aquila entered their conversation.

“Winter, did you stop Darlene?”

“Yeah, I told her never to pick up a gun again.”

“Oh, thank you. I should have told her that.”

Pls read only at pink muffin tl

Yeah, probably the most difficult thing about Saruvia’s death is how Aquila is handling it. Even though he doesn’t usually express himself much, when he sees Darlene holding a gun, he will have no choice but to think of Saruvia.

‘…But it’s weird these days.’

In fact, Winter couldn’t understand Aquila these days.

Caron is chasing Darlene. Well, it must be because of Saruvia. Caron regarded Saruvia as his own sister and family, so he must be looking for traces of her in Darlene.

However, unlike Caron, who has a sense of inexperience in everything, Aquila is well aware that Saruvia and Darlene are different people.

Winter had no idea that Aquila, whom he thought could not live without Saruvia, would soon change his mind and fall in love with Darlene.

Ishina opened his green eyes and raised one of his hands.

“After using the gun for a long time, the calluses on her hands, the developing arm and shoulder muscles, the leg muscles… There will be things like that. Now she was going to develop those things by letting her touch guns. That way, when Saruvia comes back later, she can easily adapt to that body.”

Winter squinted his eyes at the incomprehensible words and looked at Ishina and Aquila in turn. Aquila, on the other hand, seemed to fully understand Ishina’s words.

“I’ll bring her back after I’m discharged anyways.”

He looked at them with his scarlet eyes.

“After I bring her back, she’ll be in my arms. She won’t have to do any hard work anymore, just has to be quiet at home.”

“Well, with Saruvia’s personality, she can’t just stay quiet at home. She’ll have to run around periodically.”

“It’s okay if she takes it well. If she ever wants to hold a gun again… Then we could go back and let her hold it again. Since it’s Archon’s body, she’ll develop muscles soon anyway.”

“…Saruvia’s personality is closer to ‘violence and fear’…”

Winter couldn’t understand the conversation between Aquila and Ishina at all.

‘Aquila, I thought you must have forgotten Saruvia.’

He seems to be in love with Darlene lately, and he doesn’t even mention Saruvia at all, so Winter thought he was only struggling when Saruvia just died and thought Aquila was fine now.

Aquila, however, clearly referred to Saruvia again.

…If Aquila wasn’t in love with Darlene, then what the hell was Aquila doing to Darlene?

“Aquila, I have a question for you.”

Winter said in a voice hardened with tension.

“Why are you being so nice to Darlene these days?”

“That way, when Saruvia comes back, I can take good care of her.”

Aquila answered in a very calm voice.

As he replied, Aquila recalled the moment he had not long ago when he hugged Darlene in a dark cave.

‘…It’s still a little hard to hug in a place like that, but I’ve gotten used to the feeling to some extent.’

Aquila then thought of Saruvia’s reaction when she returns if she doesn’t let herself get used to it.

Meanwhile, Ishina shook his head as he looked at Aquila. When she was with them, it was always Ishina who got stuck in between.

“Saruvia is coming back, what do you mean?”

Meanwhile, Winter, who still did not understand the conversation, looked directly into Aquila’s scarlet eyes.

“No way…”

Winter understood.

“Aquila you… Did you make a deal with dark magic?”

No matter how dark magic was, bringing the dead back alive could not be done easily.

It was possible with only one ingredient. It’s almost impossible to get that one ingredient, so no one has been able to do it.

“The heart of the Black Dragon.”

The heart of the first-class monster, the Black Dragon, which they had slain a while ago.

Winter remembered when Aquila was in charge of disposing of the black dragon’s corpse. Then maybe…

“Aquila, you have the heart of a black dragon.”

Winter took a step closer to Aquila with his face turned white in astonishment.

“You-you intend to bring Saruvia’s soul into Darlene’s body.”

At those words, Aquila opened his scarlet eyes and stared at Winter. Even though the eyes were obviously hot, it was somehow cool, and for a moment Winter felt goosebumps all over his body.

“Why? The body is the same Archon, the age range is not much different, the gender is the same, and above all, the appearance is not much different, so it’s the best body. Besides, there was an agreement with Darlene.”

“Why did Darlene agree on that? No, more than that, you…!”

“Saruvia may complain a little at first, but it’ll be okay if I comfort her well.”

Aquila imagined Saruvia being annoyed with her new body.

Saruvia is weak against hot things, so hugging her whenever she is annoyed quickly relieves her anger and calms her down.

While Darlene’s soul escapes, Darlene’s body will look dead for a while, so she can disguise herself as dead at that time and take her body out of the unit when she is discharged from the military.

Saruvia will wake up from the house Aquila will buy in the capital. Knowing that she has returned and that her life as a border guard is over, Sarvia will naturally try to accept Aquila himself.

There was no other option in Saruvia’s life than Aquila. Just as Aquila loved Saruvia, of course Saruvia loved Aquila.

“You’re really crazy.”

Winter said, gently closing his cold blue-gray eyes.

The moment he saw Aquila’s eyes, he could tell. Ever since Saruvia’s death, Aquila has been completely crazy.

“Isn’t that what Saruvia used to hear every day?”

Aquila smiled at one end of his mouth, recalling how Saruvia was called to her successors.

He didn’t mean to let Saruvia go in vain like this. All of Aquila’s daily life was always around her.

There were still many daily routines he couldn’t do without Saruvia.

He got his love for the first time too.

They could definitely be a family, and it was time to do things together that they had never experienced in life.

Saruvia’s life and his own life were too wasteful to end in the military like this.

Therefore, Aquila decided to correct everything.

Saruvia will regain everything she should have enjoyed and what she should have had.

They will drink cocoa together in the snowy winter, have her put on a pretty dress and kiss her, and in the spring, they’ll pick flowers and put a flower crown on each other, love, and lovw again…

“So, Saruvia will be brought back.”

* * *

Four years later, as soon as Darlene suddenly opened her eyes at his house, which Aquila had decorated according to Saruvia’s taste, the words she said were as follows.

“Oh, XX.”

Upon hearing that, Aquila could be sure that this woman lying in front of him was Saruvia, not Darlene.

The magic was a success.

“What is it?”

As if not knowing the situation, Saruvia squinted as she looked around.

“Saruvia.”

“I can’t remember clearly. Where am I?”

“Saruvia.”

“Where are you?”

“…Saruvia.”

“Why are you making me mad?”

Aquila grabbed Saruvia’s hands and laughed like crying.

It was Saruvia. Really, it was her.

When Aquila suddenly grabbed her hand and collapsed on his knees on the floor, Saruvia looked embarrassed.

“Hey, what happened? It’s frustrating, so hurry up and talk.”

Aquila loved her sweet voice and, on the other hand, her blunt and rough tone.

“In the end, you… Do you remember what happened?”

“Oh, that’s right. I thought I was dead. But I’m alive? Is this a hospital? I don’t think it’s a unit.”

“…You were dead.”

“What?”

“So to revive you, I…”.

Instead of ending his speech, Aquila hugged Saruvia tightly, but suddenly Saruvia jumped up from her seat and strode in front of the mirror.

“Hey, get out of my way. It feels weird right now.”

“Saruvia, don’t be too surprised. That was the best body I could find.”

Saruvia, standing in front of the mirror, went silent for a moment.

“Hey! You crazy punk!”

Her scream rang out in the house.

* * *

After explaining the situation to Saruvia, Aquila sat still and waited for her answer. He, of course, naturally held her hands in case she ever abandoned him and ran away.

Saruvia accepted the situation surprisingly calmly. So far she was what Aquila had expected.

“Yeah, okay. I understood.”

She said in a calm voice as Saruvia reclined her body in a chair.

“Well, when I close my eyes and open my eyes, four years have passed and it’s good to be discharged. By the way, what about Caron? I think it must have been very difficult for the child because I died.”

“…I took good care of him. Caron will be discharged in two months.”

“I’m glad he’s alive. By the way, did you say you took good care of Caron?”

“… You called it parenting practice.”

“Yeah, well done.”

Saruvia nodded her head sympathetically.

“Come to think of it, it’s really frustrating that I didn’t get her 3,000 mark in the end, even after all the hard work.”

“My money is yours anyways.”

“That’s right.”

I don’t know if it was the influence of someone else’s body, but today’s Saruvia looked more dazed than usual.

He naturally raised his arms around Saruvia’s waist and pulled her into his own arms. Saruvia raised one of her eyebrows, but as the warm heat began to flow through her body, she quickly relaxed her expression and melted away.

“Hey.”

Saruvia opened her mouth while Aquila held her in his arms.

“Yes, tell me.”

“Still, I don’t have a gun, so it’s very awkward.”

“You have nothing to fight now, so why?”

“My anger only increased because of the border guards. Besides, when I get angry, actions speak louder than words.”

“It’s okay, I’ll make sure you don’t get mad.”

“Okay, I think having a shotgun at home would be a little more comfortable. Can I just buy it from the weapon shop? They sell it for hunting.”

“If you stay here, I will go.”

“Aren’t we going together?”

“You can stay here.”

Aquila got up to go out to buy a gun for Saruvia.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand Saruvia’s feelings very much. Even though he was discharged from the military, he had his own sword at home.

It wouldn’t be bad to put weapons at home, as there are times when monsters come down to the village very often. Saruvia won’t use the weapon, but that’ll be how she feels comfortable.

“Saruvia, I’ll be back. Don’t go anywhere.”

“Where would I go?”

Clank clank.

Inside the house where Aquila closed the door, Saruvia alone remained quiet.

She began to check everywhere in the house with a unique indifferent look.

‘Door, window… Oh, there’s a back door here too.’

While Aquila was away, Saruvia, who finally looked all over the house, was able to affirm.

‘I was expecting it from the beginning…’

“Oh, Aquila.”

All entrances were locked from outside.

“You punk, I’m imprisoned right now.”

* * *

When Aquila returned home, he found Saruvia sitting on the sofa. Saruvia seemed to have adapted perfectly to this house.

“Are you feeling better now? Is it still awkward?”

“It’s okay except I’m angry when I look in the mirror.”

Aquila put a long shotgun on the table.

“It’s the same kind you used to use. Check it out, and if there’s no problem, I’ll put it in the cabinet.”

“Oh, I was holding a gun until I died…”

Saruvia loaded a bullet inside a shotgun.

Clank clank.

“Why does it feel like it’s been so long since I’ve held it? Anyways, there was a four-year gap.”

Saruva, who grabbed the gun, grumbled.

“Who owns this body? I don’t have any calluses on my hands. I don’t think it’s going to be convenient to shoot.”

“You won’t be able to shoot from now on, will you?”

“Sit down. I have something to say.”

When Saruvia beckoned to come closer to her, Aquila went to the seat opposite her and sat down.

The question Saruvia raised while looking straight into Aquila’s eyes was as follows.

“But if I’m locked up, won’t you have any break time alone?”

“Pfft! Cough, cough! What?”

A loud cough popped out of Aquila’s mouth.

“It’s good to live with you, but wouldn’t it be hard for me to stay with you 24 hours a day?”

“No, wait, wait.”

He thought the flow of the conversation was strange, so Aquila raised his hand and covered Saruvia’s mouth.

“…You noticed I locked you up.”

Aquila stared at Saruvia with his quietly sinking scarlet eyes. Saruvia opened her mouth again with a unique way of speaking.

“That’s not something you do alone. I don’t mind most of the time, but I think we need to discuss it in advance.”

…Aquila realized that he didn’t think of it properly. Yes, even if he thought he got used to Saruvia’s way of thinking, some things always surprised him about her.

“I locked you up just because I was afraid you would leave me. It wasn’t impure… Not on purpose.”

“Hey, based on common sense, if I leave you here and run away, you think I can go somewhere? I’ll be homeless on the streets. If I’m here, I’ll do well, and it’s better to be in good custody.”

Aquila was momentarily speechless at Saruvia’s answer, but he soon asked her calmly.

“So you’re going to stay here?”

“Aren’t you going to marry me anyway?”

“…Why did you think that again?”

“You said that you took care of Caron earlier as a parenting practice. You think I don’t even know what you mean? Just openly XX me and say that you want to XX…”

“Okay, let’s be quiet for now.”

Aquila covered her mouth again. As his hot hand reached the corner of her mouth, Saruvia became meek.

As soon as Aquila’s hand fell, Saruvia spoke again in her sweet voice.

“I can do everything with you.”

This time Saruvia grabbed Aquila’s hand first.

“If you want to keep me, it’s fine. I can really do anything with you.”

Saruvia said, giving strength one word at a time.

“From the beginning, I only had you, and you only had me. So you can do whatever you want.”

Aquila smiled with one corner of his mouth up. Yes, this one right in front of him was Saruvia, whom he loved.

“But honey.”

Clank-

When he heard the sudden reload, Aquila got up from his seat and looked up at Saruvia, who was standing looking down at him.

She was standing while holding her gun in a familiar posture.

“Why is it natural for you to touch this body? There must have been a separate owner of this body, so why is it natural?”

… Ah. Aquila realized he had made a mistake.

Again, Aquila expected Saruvia to be annoyed in the direction of “Why are you calling me from this stranger’s body?”.

Sadly, this time, the direction Saruvia chose to annoy him was in the direction of “What was your relationship with this body owner?”

“XX, honey, do you really want to die? Whose body did you take and put me in?”

Aquila didn’t know whether he should be happy that Saruvia had to use the nickname ‘honey’ for him now, or should he be sad because he had a premonition that that nickname would only pop up when Saruvia was upset.

“…I tried to adapt. Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll be nervous.”

“No, XX, why are you adapting? Hey, where the hell did this body owner’s soul go? And how did you adapt to this body owner, huh? Tell me.”

“Wait, I think you’re misunderstanding, so let me explain.”

Aquila raised his hands and said.

“First of all, an agreement was reached with the owner of the body.”

“What?”

“Originally, the owner of the body agreed to bring another soul into the body.”

“What are you talking about? What kind of kid would agree with that?”

When Saruvia opened her eyes fiercely and looked at Aquila, Aquila took out a letter from his arms. Saruvia snatched it up and opened the envelope with suspicious eyes.

“This is a letter from the original body owner to show you. She wrote down a few things she asked you to do.”

“What kind of crazy person…”

However, Saruvia’s expression, which quickly passed through the contents of the letter, hardened.

She read the letter slowly from the beginning again and muttered in a low voice.

“Hey, Aquila.”

“Yes?”

When Saruvia called his name in a low voice again, he replied in a tense voice.

“No can do. I need to put my soul back in place and build a new body.”

“A new body?”

“Yeah, I think the owner of this body was kind of crazy too. I’ll explain that later. Is a new body impossible?”

“No, it’s not impossible… It’s just that you need to catch several dragons and recreate your new body with black magic again…”

“There’s a way. Then let’s do that.”

Aquila did not refute her words. If his Saruvia wanted it, he could do as much as she wanted.

“Okay, shall we take it slow?””

Saruvia said with a smiling face, holding the gun again.

“I’m not angry yet because you said nonsense that you’ve adapted to this body.”

“Saruvia, let me explain again…”

“I don’t need an explanation, and I don’t care if you do it slowly or quickly, but until I get back to my original body, you can’t even touch it, let alone having us get married.”

“…I’ll ask the black magician to do it tomorrow.”

Even though she was threatening with a gun, Aquila was going crazy because Saruvia was lovely.

“Saruvia, can I lock you up?”

“Hey, you’re just making excuses because you’re afraid I’ll run away.”

“I’m not.”

“If you want to do that, do that. But know that if you show a little familiarity with this body while I’m still in it, the bullet will fly right away.”

However, Aquila even enjoyed Saruvia’s threats. It was a little strange, but Aquila seemed to be able to accept anything Saruvia really did.

* * *

“Ishina, Aquila seems to have succeeded in that spell.”

“Ah.”

Ishina nodded at the words brought out by Winter, who came to his peaceful home after being discharged from the military.

“Aren’t we going to meet together?”

“Haha, Winter…”

Ishina smiled softly.

“I know you are busy preparing for ‘That Work’.”

“If that’s the case, I think we’ll be able to succeed soon. Before that, if I take a little time to meet Saruvia, I think I will be able to gain energy.”

“Okay… I suffered a lot to help Aquila bring Saruvia back too.”

Saying that, Ishina’s eyes softened.

“But we’ll have to put off going to see Saruvia again a little later. For now, the two of them just met, so I don’t want to go see her right now…”

“Why?”

“They are crazy in pairs…”

Ishina shook his head as he recalled how hard she had been in the past.

Saruvia prided herself on being a str

Adding Childcare To Apocalypse Is a Genre Overload

Life as the youngest is always like X.

Even though my colleagues died and I started my military career with a new mindset, and I changed my specialty a while ago and trained, my military life doesn’t change, and I still want to desert.

‘I can’t even desert because of the magic, but XX…’

The only thing I feel fortunate to be possessing this body is that my memories of my previous life are not perfect.

‘It’s usually difficult to think about family.’

The only thing that came to mind about my previous life was about the environment of the place called ‘Earth’, the contents of this novel that I possessed, ‘Four Crazy Obsessed’, and finally my original name.

‘Where do I think of that?’

If I hadn’t even remembered the name of the previous world, I would have felt completely lost in this world. So my original name was a very precious memory for me.

Sometimes, when this world is like X, before I go to sleep, I fall asleep repeating the original name in my head. Of course this world was like X every day.

“Is that the end of the laundry?”

“Yeah.”

I put the laundry in my hand into the basket Aquila was holding. Now, all I have to do is hang these and I’m finally done with today’s laundry.

“Hand.”

Saying that, I reached out to Aquila with my two red hands in the cold water.

Aquila put his hands on top of mine without saying a word. Immediately, I felt a warm warmth in my hands.

Aquila likes to do these types of things, and by doing so, he wanted to confirm that I was alive.

“Guys, have you done the laundry?”

At that moment, Ishina appeared in the laundry room. We quickly released our hands and took a standing position.

“…Have you done it?”

Ishina, who always maintained a friendly smile, had a very suspicious-looking smile as he just saw us holding hands.

‘That’s roughly because of you, my stomach is boiling, but it’s the expression that I’m going to put up with for now.’

“Yes, we are done.”

“…It was because my hands were cold.”

I quickly added, before misunderstanding that he harbors some impure feelings between us.

“Okay… Of course.”

Saying so, Ishina looked at Aquila with his green eyes. Aquila kept his calm expression as if nothing had happened.

“… Come on, let’s go hang the laundry.”

It’s been three months since the dragon subjugation situation ended. Aquila and I, while living as the youngest, decided to somehow survive every day and be discharged from this place.

During that time, we became quite close with the 89th division Ishina, who was our opponent.

This is because all of the 86th to 88th units above us died and there were no survivors, and the two seniors in the 85th division had their personality broken.

Of course, it’s probably because of this X-like army that their humanity was ruined, because I feel my mouth is getting rougher day by day. No, but XX, how can you survive without swearing in this XX place?

Anyway, Ishina, who played the role of male lead #3 and the sweet villain in the original, was actually a really good senior.

No matter what kind of plot he had for the heroine Darlene in the novel, in reality, Ishina was just an angel who was always trying to help us without scheming and working hard to do what he had to do.

“By the way, it’s already been three months since you enlisted.”

“Oh, yes.”

“Are you having a hard time these days?”

“Hah…”

When I smiled awkwardly, Ishina looked at me and also smiled.

Okay… Ishina was only one rank above us, but there was no reason not to have a hard time…

“The military is always the same…”

“Right… .”

While Ishina and I had a tearful conversation, Aquila quietly hung the laundry next to us.

“Do you also know new recruits are coming soon?”

‘Ah, finally.’

Moved by those words, I almost shed tears, and Aquila, who doesn’t usually change his expression, raised the corners of his mouth.

Again, this crazy army had a whopping eight years of service and received new soldiers every three months.

So, we had to be the youngest for three months until new recruits came in.

“…I hope good ones come in.”

“What do you think makes them good?”

“Well… That’s obvious.”

Ishina rolled his green eyes softly, and he smiled.

“It’s more about personality than ability.”

“But here, if you don’t have the ability, you will die, won’t you?”

“Which is why I hope they have the ability to survive and have a good personality.”

“Oh…”

I sympathized and nodded by myself.

But in fact, I already knew who would come.

To be exact, I knew “one of the recruits who must be included and must survive.”

Original male lead #4. Caron.

Caron was the “cute younger man” among the four classic male leads.

Despite his seniority over Darlene, he always showed a cute appearance, and at the same time, he became popular with readers for his rough change behind Darlene.

It is roughly the personality of “I’ll tremble in front of the female lead, but I become a crazy man if someone else touches her”.

‘Because Caron was one rank below Aquila in the original work.’

Since Caron is cute and gentle, he is probably close to the “good recruit” Ishina wants! It won’t be hard at all to deal with him!

Thinking that in a few days, I would get out of this crazy youngest life, so I hung the laundry while humming. Aquila and Ishina looked at me with an expression saying that I was in a really good mood.

* * *

“Saruvia, is the soap refilled in the bathroom?”

“Oh, yes! I checked it!”

Upon entering the dormitory, as always, a cold-faced Yuri asked me a question.

But now I knew that Yuri didn’t hate me.

Yuri’s cold attitude was like her basic attitude. Above all, because she calls me Saruvia now instead of “new recruit”!

“Hey, Saruvia.”

“What?”

For some reason, Yuri talked to me first, so I looked at her with my eyes shining.

Yuri’s black eyes were lively instead of her usual dead eyes. She leaned toward me with a look that seemed to tell me even an interesting story.

“Do you know this?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Why aren’t there any problems with your face here?”

Oh, I realized what she was trying to say.

In fact, this unit is not properly divided into female and male troops, and we always trained or lived together, but we slept separately.

‘Come to think of it, why was no one interested in this face?’

When I was possessed by this body and lived in an orphanage, I used to admire myself looking in the mirror every day. Saruvia was really pretty, like a fairy who just came out of a fairy tale.

However, since entering this border defense force, no one has responded to my face at all. Rather, only my colleagues had difficulty adapting to my face, and my seniors really regarded me as a stone on the side of the road.

“Is there a reason?”

Yuri made a somewhat sad face at my question and briefly nodded her head.

“April alone contributed about two hundred percent to that.”

“April?”

Speaking of April, I think she’s the craziest X in our unit.

Contrary to her angelic appearance, April was a human being who was open to tormenting others.

“Yeah… Everyone developed a phobia of women thanks to April…”

“Ah…”

I couldn’t help but nod my head. I get it…

It’s not that April worked hard for the other girls, it’s just that because of her craziness, everyone gets PTSD every time they see a girl…

“Especially me, because of April, I became more afraid of women with a small body and gentle impression…”

“Aha, so…”

I remembered the seniors who were terrified to see me when we met in the dark hallway, and then sighed only after checking their faces when I got closer.

At that moment, the door to the dormitory banged open. Yuri and I were startled.

“Guys, would you like to come and see this?”

“April?”

Yuri and I walked over to where she was standing, smiling broadly. She pointed to the doorknob of the dormitory.

“What do you see this as?”

“…Are you talking about the doorknob?”

“There’s fingerprints, fingerprints!”

“Ah…”

“Whoa, guys. You didn’t even listen when I told you to keep the dorm clean.”

‘No XX, you got fingerprints on it because you came in by the doorknob. So what are you going to say to us?’

April, the really crazy X.

Of course, contrary to our hearts, our mouths moved steadily.

“Sorry!”

“You shouldn’t have done anything apologetic in the first place, right? Bang your head.”

‘XX.’

Yuri and I thought as we put our heads side by side on the floor with empty eyes.

‘I don’t know if that crazy X is a villain or a hero…’

* * *

D-2830 days after discharge.

Finally, three months have passed since my enlistment, and it is the day when a new recruit comes in!

“I hope he’s someone kind.”

Ishina spoke in a voice that seemed to be eagerly desired next to me.

Then Aquila, who had been sticking to silence, opened his mouth.

“…I hope he’s someone who knows what he’s going to do.”

Moving to the entrance of the unit, there was a cart in the distance.

‘Ugh, PTSD…’

I still can’t forget the shock and fear of that day…

Meanwhile, the platoon leader, who came to the unit with a recruit, somehow had a mysterious look on his face.

Ishina, Aquila, and I pretended to trim the lawn of the sergeant and secretly looked at the carts.

“Platoon leader, I’ll guide from now on.”

Plato walked to the platoon leader and said, then the platoon leader added in a voice that seemed embarrassed.

“Oh, there’s a delivery before that. There’s only one recruit this time…”

“Yes, I heard it from the headquarters.”

“Yeah, but I think the recruit needs some adjustment period. You’ll have to help me a lot.”

“What’s wrong with you? Can I check it out first?”

Elliott beckoned the recruit to get off in the cart.

“Caron is the only new recruit.”

I waited for Caron to get off the cart with a pounding feeling. I can finally see all the original male characters.

Then I realized something strange.

‘Wait, why was Caron so gentle in the original work?’

In the original work, Caron was always depicted with a hazy smile. And the reason is…

‘He said he lost his memory in an accident before joining the army.’

That’s why Caron was often inexperienced in basic areas compared to his peers, and because Saruvia helped him, Caron of the original work regarded Saruvia as his own sister.

Soon, a boy with brown curly hair and brown eyes got off the cart with a smiling face.

“What is it?”

Once again, it was a “smiling face.”

What’s the problem?

Think about it. Who enlists into the army with a big smile as if they were forced to join the military and this situation was fun?

My face turned white on its own and my body trembled.

Plato, who saw Caron’s appearance, asked the platoon leader with a white face like me.

“Hey, is he crazy?”

“It was written on my personal information that there was an accident a while ago, but it seems that the reason was not discerned…”

So, Caron lost his memory and joined the military in an excessively pure state.

The faces of Ishina and Aquila next to me also turned white side by side, and I wanted to protest against the world again.

Can I come to the military like that? Violation of human rights, XX…

* * *

The current atmosphere of the unit was the worst.

It wasn’t a big problem that there was only one recruit this time.

The survival rate of the border defense forces was extreme. Therefore, our unit was not particularly suffering from manpower shortages.

However, if the one new recruit who came in this time is someone who can’t distinguish himself, there will be some problems..

“Right, he lost his memory due to a fire accident before joining the army?”

Commander Chris asked with a frown. All of the platoon members were after hearing an explanation from the platoon leader about what happened before enlistment.

According to his explanation, when he came to his senses, the house where he lived one day was burned, and all his family members were killed.

And he said his memory was not intact due to the aftereffects of the accident, and he seemed to have forgotten some of the basic common sense.

“Yes, and he volunteered to be enlisted.”

Commander Elliot replied in a calm voice.

Chris and Elliot were the platoon’s only two commanders, and they did not participate in training and intervened only when they went out to subdue the platoon or when something important happened to the platoon.

And Chris seemed surprised by Elliot’s “resource enlistment.”

“Volunteer enlistment?”

“Yes, he applied because he had no family and no place to go. Even though the magic of the contract has not yet been expressed, the situation seems to have been accepted by the Border Defense Force.”

“Sigh…”

Chris, who understood why Caron came all the way here even though his memory was not intact, sighed. Yeah, it must be frustrating. But more than that…

‘XX… I want to go to the bathroom…’

All the commanders complained about the situation, and all the private soldiers could do was sit calmly and watch their faces because they were too nervous.

I’ve been sitting in the same position for hours, so I’ve already lost the feeling of my legs, and I want to go to the bathroom, but I can’t even say I want to go, XX.

‘Oh, the weather is good for leaving the military today…’

When the corporals stood for a long time in front of the commanders, maintaining a passionate rest posture, we were finally ordered.

“Training will go as originally planned.”

April looked determined, but the other seniors behind her looked hesitant.

“Do you have any complaints?”

“It’s not…”

They were wary of each other like people spinning bombs, and eventually Louise opened his mouth.

“Hey, Chris. I don’t know if he can train as originally scheduled. Won’t he need some time until his memory is fully recovered?”

“Really? What if he doesn’t remember for the rest of his life? If you want to let the recruits kill you, you can do that.”

Chris responded with an attitude that seemed to be nothing.

“I’m going home, so it doesn’t matter. Anyway, that recruit… I think he won’t last more than a year.”

When I heard that, I somehow felt a strange feeling.

Yuri said that to me. Most of the girls who came in here die after not enduring a year anyway, so it’s better not to get attached to them for no reason.

‘I was treated the same as Caron.’

As the image of me three months ago overlapped with the appearance of Caron I saw earlier, I began to feel a sense of similarity.

‘Besides, losing his memory was similar to me.’

Because I also almost lost my memories of the original world. I’m glad that Caron didn’t forget his name as much as I did.

…Thinking about it, how did Caron survive in the original?

Even in my opinion, it was unlikely that Caron, who seemed to forget even basic common sense and felt no fear, could safely survive the monsters.

He couldn’t get through it completely by force alone, since he was relatively young.

Unlike the usual enlistment when contract magic is activated between seventeen and nineteen, Caron volunteered to enlist at the age of 16. Although they were only one year apart, Caron was also smaller than Aquila.

He didn’t look strong, nor did he look smart.

One of Caron’s lines that I saw in the original passed through my mind.

“Saruvia was my everything. She was the only family in my life.”

Unlike the other three original male protagonists, the feelings that Caron had for Saruvia were actually more like those of a sister than a ‘first love’.

…I think I can understand why Saruvia in the original took care of Caron so much.

‘If I leave him alone, am I even human? XX.’

How could anyone not help a new recruit, whose memory is not perfect, suffer like this in the military?

So I decided to help Caron, to survive.

“I think I will be able to help him adapt enough.”

“Yes, April. The reason?”

“I enlisted at a relatively young age, but I have adapted well and have survived until now. On the other hand, if the memory is not perfect, we can help enough to just adapt. Besides, the platoon commander told us to help him adjust, so we can’t violate the order.”

“Hmm… April, at what age did you enlist?”

“I enlisted as soon as I turned 16.”

“You mean the recruit will adapt well and survive?”

“It’s up to him to do it himself, but for now, I’ll try to help as much as possible.”

So, right when I had made up my mind, I heard the conversation between Chris and April…

For some reason, April has been making a sad expression since before. It seemed that she was sympathizing with the new recruit’s immature appearance, reflecting on her past self.

By the way, having just joined the military when you turned 16 and adapted to the military, April must be a great person too…

‘I’m sorry, Caron…’

If April decided to help… I can’t imagine how it’s going to be…

Your seniors will help you survive, so maybe I’ll just comfort you well.

* * *

“The training is hard…”

Watching Caron’s week-long training progress, Ishina, who was wiping his sword next to me, murmured in a worried voice.

“It really is.”

I nodded my head next to him and agreed to what he was saying.

“Oh, I left the mop back there. I’ll bring a rag and come.”

“Alright.”

Ishina got up from her seat, and I glanced at Caron, who was training at the training ground.

It was the same training as we did, but because there were no other recruits, Caron was training alone. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

It must have been incredibly lonely to be training alone, but in a way, it was fortunate that there were no other recruits to be held jointly responsible for one’s own faults.

Suddenly thinking of my dead mates, I bit my lip.

‘Carl, Linia, and…’

No, let’s not think about it for nothing. To survive here, you have to forget everything.

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“Oh, no.”

Aquila looked into my face and asked, so I shook my head. He had a very good eye.

“Aquila, what do you think of the recruit?”

“…I don’t really think about it.”

“Ah~ Still, he’s our successor!”

When I put my arm around his arm and begged him to say something, he moved his lips together as if contemplating what to say.

“…I don’t think he’ll be able to live long.”

“Even if he trains hard?”

“It was the same when we trained too hard.”

“Ugh, actually, the dragon in our time and the first-class monsters in Ishina’s time were special cases. From the first subjugation, there was no need to meet a first-class monster.”

In fact, in the original story, Aquila and Caron were quite close.

As with most reverse harem novels, Aquila and Winter, who competed for Darlene, did not have a good relationship.

And Caron was the only one who was attached to Aquila with a smile on his face.

Of course, it could be because he took on a role similar to Darlene’s younger brother rather than a rival in love.

In any case, given Aquila’s personality, it is said that he could not have left his successor Caron dead, at least not at the time of the past in the original work.

“Then, Aquila, do you have no intention of helping your successor?”

“How can I help?”

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“Well~”

“… Do you want him to live?”

“Yeah, I think it will hurt a bit if he dies.”

“…Okay, just don’t make that face.”

Aquila raised his hands and wrapped them around my face, which was tearful. As the warm warmth touched my face, my muscles spontaneously fluttered and relaxed.

“Guys…”

As soon as I heard Ishina’s voice coming back from behind, Aquila quickly lowered his hand.

“You could be misunderstood if you act like that…”

“Oh, it wasn’t like that!”

I smiled back to Ishina, trying to get over it, and Ishina raised the corner of his mouth and nodded his head.

“Yes, Saruvia. Of course you didn’t mean it.”

Then he turned his head to Aquila and asked in a soft voice.

“Is that right, Aquila?”

“…”

‘Are you on good or bad terms’

I normally thought that Aquila and Ishina got along well, but sometimes Aquila seems to be harsh with Ishina.

‘Ah, did you ever sense Ishina’s inner dark personality?’

He may have noticed that unlike his friendly appearance on the outside, he was a hard-hearted human on the inside! Although it is the original secret!

Thinking I’ll have to ask Aquila about Isina later, I diligently brushed a sword in my hand.

* * *

Plato beckoned to me, and I ran to him as quickly as I could.

Next to Plato, Caron was sitting in an upright position with his back straight.

“Hey, the week of training for new recruits is over, so he has to learn how to work in the army. You take him and show him how to wash his clothes.”

“Alright.”

It’s the first time in my life that I’m taking on the role of a senior, so my heart is thumping. I’m finally escaping the life of being the youngest. As I beckoned him, Caron followed me with twinkling eyes.

There was no one in the laundry room.

“Hello, Caron. I’m 390 Saruvia. Aquila and I are in the same unit.”

“Ah, hello!”

“Do you know who Aquila is? He has dark hair and scarlet eyes, and as you may have seen in the basic swordsmanship training last time, he has a fire attribute aura.”

“Yes. Yes! I remembered it!”

Caron, who I was worried about, was able to communicate well unexpectedly. He responded well to my words with his eyes twinkling, and with his brown curly hair and eyes, he seemed like a cute puppy.

There was nothing to be concerned about, except for his overly bubbly personality.

For now, as far as I can see, Caron seems to be familiar with his basic common sense.

‘How the hell can the seniors push around such a cute kid?’

After teaching him how to do laundry, I stroked Caron’s hair.

‘…Oh, you’re taller than I thought.’

It was embarrassing that I had to stretch out my arm to stroke his hair, but it didn’t bother either of us.

As I put my hand on his head, Caron smiled brightly. It was like a dog that didn’t care about people at all.

“Are you having a hard time these days?”

“Um, it’s still better than the outside.”

What came back was an unexpected answer.

“…What?”

“Yes, I can have a full meal here too! It’s comfortable and warm to sleep in!”

‘…Was he homeless?’

It was fortunate that Caron didn’t seem to be having such a hard time with the border guard life.

‘At least there won’t be an incident like desertion…’

Anyway, in the original, he played the role of male protagonist #4, so he also had a pretty strong boy mentally.

I sighed in relief, thinking that Caron would be able to easily adapt to this life.

I mean, if only I hadn’t heard someone screaming alone in the laundry that night…

On the way to and from the bathroom in the middle of the night, I heard someone scream in the laundry room, and I stood there for a long time with my half-awake eyes.

‘No matter how you think about it, it sounded like Caron.’

Damn it, it must have been burdensome to suddenly fall into an unfamiliar environment and adapt to it in a chaotic state with an incomplete memory.

‘…After all, it would be better for me to just comfort him.’

It might be better for Caron to let him cry alone like this. For him, I must be one of the burdensome seniors.

But, if a new recruit leaves in the middle of the night and finds out he was alone in the laundry room…

‘It will become X. Together they become X.’

As a creepy feeling ran down my spine, I went straight into the laundry room without hesitation.

“Sa, Saruvia?!”

Surprised to see me, Caron jumped and jumped as if he had seen a ghost, and his already crying face turned into a more melancholy one.

“Shh, be quiet.”

Hiccup!

Charon was now startled and started hiccuping, covering his mouth with his hand, but to no avail, his body continued to shake.

When I first heard Caron cry, it was just that he was a little pitiful, and I felt that he would be destroyed if the seniors found out.

Caron’s face was drenched with tears, and his eyes and cheeks had turned red.

“Caron, come here.”

“Yes!”

He ran toward me with a terrified expression on his face.

I stretched out my arms and hugged him tightly.

Caron looked nervous as to what I was going to say to him, but as soon as I held him still, I felt the tension in his body release.

‘…He’s taller than I thought.’

It looked like I was being buried by Caron, but I kept holding him anyway.

…By the way, does Caron not know how big he is? I think I’ll suffocate if I stay like this for a long time.

“Cry for a second and stop quickly.”

“Ah…”

As I tried to comfort him, tears began to flow from Caron’s eyes.

“Sniff…”

“…There’s no benefit in holding it all in, you’ll get used to the hard things.”

I didn’t ask him why he was crying, but I could hear a continuous sniffle in my ear.

“Sniff…”

“You can rely on me. Of course, if you act weird in front of other seniors, you’ll die, but you can make some mistakes in front of me.”

I patted his back slowly as if soothing a child. Only then did I feel that Caron’s crying gradually subsided, as if the tension had eased a little.

“Ah, the youngest, have you finished crying now?”

It was a playful remark, but Caron stiffened up like a really surprised person. When I felt him being more embarrassed for no reason, I patted his back and pulled away.

‘…Oh.’

In the original work, the reason why Caron regarded Saruvia as the only family in his life was simple.

Because he had never had a family in the first place.

‘Just like a lot of archons.’’

I was jokingly treating Caron like a child, but was Caron actually treated like a child?

If Saruvia had been a human being with minimal affection, she would never have been able to ignore her successor Caron.

And I think I’m going to take the path of the original Saruvia now.

‘Oh, my. Our cute youngest.’

In the meantime, I sincerely patted Caron on the back.

‘This feels like parenting.’

Caron was only a year younger and taller than me, but he always felt much younger because of his poor memories and bright personality.

In addition, among the childcare materials, there was a story in which the heroine did not have a baby, but took care of the young baby when she married the cold-blooded Duke, the baby’s father.

‘Wow, I can’t believe I’m the heroine of childcare like this. But I didn’t know I’d be in the military.’

The genre would be too much to add apocalypse and childcare into the military.

‘Is it real that there’s no romance in the meantime?’

“Our youngest, let’s go in now, okay?”

Of course, I will continue to take care of Caron.

‘The crazy people of the Adolf Empire have given our Archon’s human rights as dog food.’

What I felt after joining the army was that it was amazing that this country was running in good shape!

Of course, the defense system, which I thought would be systematic, was actually very sloppy.

I always admired how this country was running properly. If we were to go on a group strike, this country would be over as of that day.

I complained over and over again about this bloody border defense force system and soothed Caron, who stopped crying.

“Youngest, do you think you can sleep well there?”

“Ee… I can sleep now!”

“Yeah, because some of the monsters catch humans who don’t sleep until late. We have to go to bed quickly because we are in the mountains.”

“Oh, I don’t believe you!”

But Caron’s pupils were shaking really anxiously, so I had to put strength on the muscles around my mouth to hold back my laughter.

“Pfft! Yeah, go home and sleep. Okay?”

“Okay, I got it!”

And when I entered the women’s quarters, a cheerful voice rang in the dark room.

“Saruvia, were you out just now?”

“I went to the bathroom…”

“Really? But you just opened the door so loudly that I woke up.”

Even without looking at it, I could guess what expression April was making. Oh, that crazy punk is starting again.

“Hit your head. Start.”

Banging my head on the cold floor in the middle of the night, I recalled again that just because I had a replacement, being younger than my seniors was not over.

‘XX, let me live first.’’

* * *

“What’s up with that?”

When I entered the laundry with a large amount of laundry, Aquila looked behind me and gave me an uncomfortable look.

“Huh? What?”

“Look at his eyes.”

Caron was following me with a sparkling gaze.

Caron’s eyes were fixed only on me, without paying attention to Ishina or Aquila, who was already in the room.

“What do you mean? He’s still a kid.”

“We’re only a year apart. “If a monster is younger than you, won’t you still kill it?”

“Hey! How can you talk like that? He’s listening!”

When I slapped Aquila’s arm lightly, Aquila pouted a few times and eventually sighed.

I put my lips in his ear and whispered so that Caron wouldn’t hear.

“He’s having a hard time even if he pretends to be bright on the outside. Last night, he was crying secretly in the laundry room, so I comforted him.”

“…Do you think such a weak person can survive?”

“Why? You said you’d help me last time!”

“Sigh… Can you afford to take care of someone?”

At the moment Aquila was about to say something to me, Blair and Topio, the 85th trainees, entered the laundry.

Aquila and I closed our mouths.

Those two seniors are becoming similar to each other because they are the same age, and their personality has been broken in pairs. In the meantime, Ishina, Aquila, and I were always on caution near them.

“Hey, XX. What is the recruit doing?”

“Oh, I’ll make you work.”

When Blair opened his eyes fiercely as he looked at Caron behind me, Caron pulled himself closer to me as if he was scared. 

‘These punks, there’s no such thing as sympathy even for recruits.’

The silent laundry continued for a long time.

‘Why does it feel like there is no end to the laundry?’

I would rather live dirty, but the military always asked for a dust-free floor and spotless laundry.

Finally, after all the laundry was done, Blair and Topio left the room first. I roughly threw the last laundry I had in my hand into the basket.

“Ishina, I’ll hang the clothes with Caron”.

“Oh, really? It’s okay to do it together. Won’t you need more hands?”

“I’ll go.”

Aquila’s voice cut right in.

“Why? You don’t have to come.”

Then Aquila’s expression was distorted.

“Didn’t you say you don’t like to do difficult things?”

“Still, I can’t be immature in front of the youngest.”

“Now you don’t need me?”

“Ugh, when did I say that? Are you upset?”

When I put down the laundry basket and naturally folded my arms around Aquila’s arms and spoke with a charming tone, Aquila had a more relaxed expression than before.

‘Apart from taking care of Caron, I should keep paying attention to Aquila.’

Anyway, I always need Aquila, but if I don’t express it, he will never know.

“Then let’s go together, okay? Now, listen to this.”

As I pushed the laundry basket forward, Aquila took it with a satisfied look on his face.

As we were walking together, he seemed to be feeling a little better. I suddenly remembered that I had left a rag in the laundry room.

“Oh, I left a rag back there.”

“Shall I bring it?”

“No, I’ll bring it! You can go first!”

Anyway, it was necessary to make them friendly even by forcing them to spend time alone.

Leaving Aquila and Caron working alone, I quickly ran back to the laundry room.

* * *

(third person pov)

“Hey…”

Aquila, who was watching Saruvia as she ran away, opened his mouth.

“Yes?”

Caron, who looked frightened by Aquila’s fierce eyes, quickly replied.

Unlike his colleague Saruvia, Aquila seemed not to like Caron from before, so Caron was frightened.

“Why did you cry yesterday?”

The question Aquila asked was of a kind that Caron did not expect. Caron blinked and replied in a plain voice.

“I was reminded of my family.”

“…I thought you said they passed away. Do you still have memories?”

“Yes, there’s a little left. I heard that both of my biological parents died because of the monsters while serving as officers in the Border Defense Army. But I was thinking of my adoptive parents who raised me.”

“It must be sad.”

Aquila replied in a voice that seemed to be of no interest, but Caron continued to talk.

“My adoptive parents kept hitting me and making me do housework. But one night, there was a fire in the house.”

“…Is there a fire in the accident?”

“Yes, that’s right. So…”

Caron said in a very innocent voice.

“I have suffered under my adoptive parents for a long time, but I regret why I couldn’t think of setting a fire myself earlier. No matter how much I think about it, I think the life of the Border Defense Force is much better. It was so unfair, so I cried.”

Aquila’s face as he looked at Caron instantly displayed a light of vigilance. His eyes, which had always been calm, were now giving off a fierce atmosphere.

“What’s wrong with you?”

Looking at Caron answering as if his remarks were nothing, Aquila realized the meaning of “Caron is incomplete” that Saruvia had said.

He was incomplete.

To the point where he didn’t know what was right or wrong.

‘Did he lose his memory and ethics?’

No, that can’t be it.

Just because he lost his memory, he couldn’t just forget his ethics that much. Perhaps he was originally a person with those tendencies.

However, because people found him strange, they seemed to think, “He originally had ethics and even lost it due to the accident”.

In other words, Caron was mistaken for his unethical way of thinking, which was originally unethical.

‘…Oh well, it should be fine.’

Aquila, who had been contemplating, opened his mouth.

“What do you think about Saruvia?”

Caron’s eyes were sparkling at the question.

“Saruvia is so good! She’s so kind and sweet. If I had an older sister, it would be her!”

“Okay.”

Aquila looked into Caron’s eyes and spoke.

“Remember what you just said.”

When Caron, who did not understand the meaning, tilted his head, Saruvia was seen running back. Caron’s face suddenly brightened, and Aquila let go of his expression as if nothing had happened.

Aquila then whispered in a small voice that Saruvia could not hear.

“As you said, think of her as your real sister. Then I’ll always help you too.”

“Okay…?”

* * *

When I returned to Aquila and Caron, their mood was more relaxed than before.

‘They seem to get along well.’

Feeling elevated, I hung the laundry on the clothesline, showing Caron where to put the clothes.

“Now, from now on, can I do it alone?”

“Yes, you can!”

While hanging the laundry under my gaze, Caron exclaimed as if he had remembered something.

“By the way, Saruvia. I have a question.”

“What?”

“Where does our unit belong? The platoon leader told me, but I haven’t been able to memorize it yet…”

In fact, it was enough to confuse our unit affiliation. It took me a while to memorize the affiliation of our unit, even as I belong to the side with excellent memorization skills.

“Now, we are part of Alpha Squadron, 18th Company, Cledor Mountain Battalion, 108th Mountain Brigade, 72nd Special Operations Division, Border Defense Command.”

“…Can you say that again?”

“…Just memorize the alpha platoon of the 18th Company of the 72nd Special Operations Division.”

“Yes, I understand…”

Caron answered.

I could fully understand his feelings. I felt the same way when I heard the full name of my unit from Ishina.

“Any more questions?”

“Ah, I don’t know the seniors well… I am confused.”

“You haven’t memorized all the faces yet?”

As soon as I first came to this unit, I couldn’t memorize the faces of the other first-class or trainees, but I memorized the faces of the corporals who practiced the ‘Violence and fear alone save us all’ education with incredible speed. But Caron was still having a hard time with it.

“Listen carefully.”

“Yes. Yes!”

As I began to explain what was necessary for him to adapt to the unit, Caron’s eyes twinkled.

“First of all, April, 69th division. She’s the only woman among the Corps, the oldest and uses a plant-based aura… Please be careful. Don’t trust her appearance. Just don’t stand out. No, just avoid her.”

My voice, which started quietly, became more and more desperate. Caron, who doesn’t know much about April yet, nodded his head while giving me a puzzled look.

“70th division, Louise, has long hair. He’s very good at swordsmanship and is more quiet.”

“Aha…”

“The 72nd division are Leon and Brave. Leon is very playful. Brave is an expert in violence and fear. Both of them are characterized by a touchy attitude, not by your fault, but by their nature.”

“Oh…”

“Lastly, the 74th division, Plato. You have to be careful because he is the busiest and always tired. But he’s not such a bad guy, well, he’s the most normal compared to other corporals…”

“Ah.”

“There’s no one who doesn’t nitpick about useless things. All you have to do is do your job well and make no mistakes. Of course, I can’t help but make mistakes.”

“What happens if I can’t do my job?”

“You’re not asking because you don’t know, are you? Only violence and fear will save us all.”

When I responded in a light manner, Caron looked terrified. That was cute, so I patted him on the shoulder again.

* * *

And after a while, we all knelt with our heads down. My knees were numb, but I couldn’t budge.

“Hey, who is the bastard who broke the blade? Did you not receive any management training?”

‘What kind of jerk took care of his blade like that?’

I was swearing inside, and somehow I found Caron’s pupils shaking opposite of me.

‘I’m screwed…’

Yes, the process of making mistakes and being robbed is the process that all recruits in this unit will go through.

‘But he’s my successor…’

“Hey, turn yourself in.”

When Leon shouted in an agitating voice, and Brave had an angry face next to him, I finally decided.

‘XX, I’m just going to be robbed…’

Yeah, I’ll just hit your head, or clean up the training ground endlessly, or get hit neatly…

As soon as my right hand was about to be lifted little by little, I turned my head in surprise at the feeling that the person right next to me was moving.

Aquila was raising his right arm with an unknown expression.

“I think I made a mistake.”

“Oh my.”

Surprisingly, Aquila took the lead in place of Caron.

After a while, after the situation is cleared up. I was clinging to Aquila and chattering.

“Did you change your mind?”

“What?”

I said, looking into his scarlet eyes.

“Yeah, you didn’t mean to take care of Caron at all, so what’s up?”

If it were usual, first-class soldiers would have said to Aquila, “What’s wrong with you?” But there was nothing much to say if they guessed that Aquila, who doesn’t make mistakes well, was at the forefront.

“But is it fortunate that it ended like this?”

Instead of shaking off other men with solidarity responsibility, only one Aquila was robbed, so it seems that the work ended small.

Caron, who is currently in his dormitory, may be restless at the thought that Aquila was robbed by his mistake.

“You said he was like a kid.”

“Huh?”

Aquila looked down at me and said in a small voice.

“If you think he’s like a child, I’ll think so too.”

“Huh?”

“Just think of it as parenting practice.”

“Aquila…”

I held him tightly with my arms open with a voice that I was touched.

“If I don’t take care of it, it’ll die, so what can I do?”

“Yes, yes. I am really touched.”

From then on, Aquila really seemed to have accepted Caron as someone he should take care of.

‘I can see why Caron followed Aquila in the original story.’

For Caron, his opponents, Aquila and Saruvia, were like family.

Even Caron, who was unfamiliar with Aquila at first, quickly got used to him and smiled brightly in front of us.

From the beginning, Caron liked to laugh a lot, but because of the nature of the place called the Border Guard, he usually had to suppress his personality.

‘No matter how you look at it, it feels more like raising a dog than a successor…’

* * *

“Come on, get ready to go out to subdue regular monsters.”

It has become a time for the army’s subjugation that comes regularly every two weeks, and I have now packed my belongings with the hands I’m used to. The regular monster subjugation takes place for 1 night and 2 days, so I had to be sure to pack enough luggage for all situations.

But today, my condition was the worst.

‘X-like Mother Nature, XX… .’

No, if you have possessed a special race called Archon, shouldn’t the author give Archon the setting that there is no such thing as Mother Nature’s Day?

The body of Saruvia that I possessed was a blessed body without pain that day, but when I roll around in the cold mountains, pain that was not there is bound to arise.

“Obviously, traces of the second-class monster Hydra were found here, but why can’t we see it?”

“As it is the spawning season, it seems that they have become sensitive to the surrounding environment and have disappeared.”

As the company commander muttered with a look of disapproval, one of the commanders of Gamma Platoon gave an answer.

“Hmm… You’re right. So, what do you think we should do?”

“Right now, they are not attacking humans first, so I think it would be better to cancel this subjugation and return to each platoon.”

“…I think it would be better to eradicate the Hydra to the end.”

“Yes, we wait for the Hydra to appear. We can’t let it multiply here.”

‘The answer has been decided, XX.’

When I listened to the commander’s words and looked tired, theyr finally gave orders to each platoon.

They seemed to have decided to camp near the terrestrial hydra’s habitat.

Of course, camping near the monster’s habitat was a stupid act as if asking to kill themselves, but the hydra’s land during spawning season is extremely sensitive to any danger and they’ll usually never attacks first.

If humans were to camp around their habitat, they would show up to escape instead of attacking them.

Each platoon that received the order also began to move quickly.

“Can I set up the tent?”

“…Then it’ll take too long to wake up. The hydra is quick, so it will run away in the meantime.”

“Oh, then do I sleep on a cloth on the ground?”

“Yeah, do that.”

‘XX. Why, on a day like today?’

Sometimes, when the situation is urgent, instead of sleeping in a tent, you have to sleep on the bare ground. A sleeping bag is warmer, but it is inconvenient to crawl out of it.

Because it is a mountain, it is a time to experience the worst quality sleep because of the chill coming up from the ground and the back being stiff.

Usually, when we’re in the mountains, we get covered with soil, so we don’t care about the gender of the person next to us at all.

“Come on, don’t forget to get up right away when an emergency is approaching, and now everyone, go to sleep!”

Elliot’s order fell, and I crawled into the cloth serving as a blanket.

Just to the left of me was Aquila, and to the right was Ishina. As soon as I lay down, I heard a quiet breathing sound from Ishina as if he had fallen asleep quickly.

‘XX, I want to leave the military. I’ve always wanted to desert, but I want to desert more intensely today.’

I frowned while holding my lower stomach that was hurting. It was really the worst.

I wanted to curl up by turning my body to the side, but of course, the sleeping posture in the border defense group is tight.

It was awkward at first, but now I can’t sleep without looking at the sky head-on.

“Ugh…”

I clenched my teeth tightly so as not to make a sound, and moved my hands around under the blanket to somehow disperse the pain.

Then, something hot was caught in my hand. I grabbed it reflexively tightly.

I already knew that this was Aquila’s hand.

“What’s wrong?”

Turning his head slightly sideways, he whispered in a small voice that would not be heard by his seniors.

“It’s warm.”

“Not that. Are you sick?”

Even in the dark, only Aquila’s scarlet eyes were seen.

Whenever he looked at me with those eyes that showed no expression and accurately caught my condition, sometimes I felt an unknown feeling.

“Yes.”

“Do you want me to hold your hand?”

Aquila didn’t ask where it hurt, but that alone made me guess that he knew everything.

The hand holding me was hot. It was a sense of contrast with the cold air on the floor coming up from the back and the cold air that touched my neck and face out of the blanket.

Eventually, I pulled one of his hands down onto my lower stomach.

“Is it there?”

“Yes.”

As the heat began to circulate over my stomach, the pain immediately felt better.

“Good night.”

“You too.”

Our conversation was enough for that.

It may seem strange to others, but we were each other’s only company, we only wanted each other’s survival, and we were each other’s everything.

“… Guys, I’m not sleeping.”

I heard Ishina’s voice from my right, and we both shut our mouths at the same time.

‘… It must have sounded a little strange.’

Ishina, I’m sorry…

* * *

“Here comes the land hydra! Wake up!”

As soon as I heard the voice, I jumped up at a bullet-like speed.

The ability to get up as soon as I heard the sound of “wake up” was the same ability that other troops had. Anyone can have it in a month of military service.

It was dawn when the sun was just rising. Since the sun rose on one side and it was still night on the other, the sky from the dense forest of trees had a mysterious blue color.

It was rather fortunate that some view was secured because it was not at night at all.

‘XX, I think PTSD will come after recalling the invisible forest.’

“1 minute, 2 minutes! Ready!”

I had a gun in my hand that I had left at my bedside. This was also the result of adapting to military life.

“Ugh.”

When I smelled something like a fishy snake, I grabbed the gun in an accurate posture while frowning.

A disgusting red snake with nine heads.

The original Hydra is a first-class monster that is difficult to access because it lives in water and its poison remains in the places where it passes, but fortunately, the “land hydra,” a variant of Hydra, did not have poison.

However, caution was needed because every time you cut off a neck, two more necks would appear.

“Winter! Aquila! Take turns and stand in the middle!”

Aquila was able to stop the neck from growing anymore by destroying the cut-off spot with a fire-related aura, and Winter could prevent regeneration by freezing the cut-off spot with his ice-based aura.

“You’re cutting the throat! People in the second squad protect Hydra’s other heads from attacking Winter and Aquila! April! Support!”

The platoon leader’s order was issued, and Winter and Aquila took charge of the left and right sides, respectively.

“Hey!”

At the same time as April turned one of the heads that tried to attack Aquila using a plant-based aura, other troops joined forces to protect Aquila and Winter.

People other than Winter and Aquila shouldn’t cut the Hydra’s heads.

“Hey! Get it together! Don’t cut the head!”

When one head was cut by a regular troop, two heads sprang out of the spot.

Topio, the person who made two heads rise up due to the mishandling of the aura, made a face that said he didn’t know what to do.

“Shooter! Aim for the eyes! Attack!”

This time, a company commander’s order was heard.

Because the shooter was ordered to shoot, the surrounding troops naturally avoided themselves. There was a possibility that they could be hit by the scattered bullets.

I calmly took my breath and lifted the gun at the Hydra.

“You punk, what kind of trouble am I going to go through because of things that you did?”

Come to think of it, I’m upset again. I wouldn’t have to be doing this in the Border Defense Force if that person hadn’t cut off a neck by accident!

I have to keep a calm attitude when shooting, but unfortunately, the life of the Border Defense Force has made me angry day by day.

I pulled the trigger with burning eyes.

Pang!

Along with the loud shot, drops of blood splashed from Hydra’s eyes as it tried to attack Winter. The Hydra, who not only lost its eyesight but also suffered a terrible head injury, twisted around, and Winter quickly wrapped itself around the ice and cut the Hydra’s neck.

“Saruvia, good job.”

Lewis, who was right to me, praised me in a calm voice, and I gained confidence in the words.

“Okay, XX, search everything while you’re at it.”

The more I grabbed the gun, the more anger I felt against the monsters was boiling, and I shot at the Hydra with full of anger.

Not only me but also other troops responded skillfully to the Hydra.

Winter and Aquila cut off the heads, and the other troops used their aura to prevent the rest of the Hydra’s heads from approaching Winter and Aquila, and I shot at its eyes to make it lose its sight.

Boom!

Finally, the Hydra’s body, which lost all nine heads, fell to the ground.

“Well done! First class! Get rid of the dead body!”

“Saruvia, you worry too much. You’ve become strong enough.”

Altair, who had listened to my swordsmanship concerns, smiled and approached me.

“Ah…”

I felt the heat in my hand because I was holding the gun a while ago. It feels like the heat has spread all over my body, so somehow I don’t think I can think rationally.

‘I feel anger the more I hold the gun.’

Altair, who saw my strange eyes, made a strange expression, and soon returned to his usual smiling face and beckoned to his colleague Winter.

“Hey, I heard you advised her to hold a gun”.

“Yeah.”

“I knew it. I knew it. You were only watching Saruvia when we were training last time. Why are you acting like a senior to her?”

‘Winter was watching me the whole time?’

After a few months in my head, the positive circuit began to work again.

Is this the development of the ropan?

‘It must be that Winter keeps looking at me for no reason, helps me more and more, and eventually realizes his own heart and falls in love!’

I looked at Winter with great anticipation.

“I just did what I had to do. It is difficult to manage incompetent children when they become corporals… It wasn’t hard for me to guess what her talent is.”

…Ah, what is ropan?

As the development of ropan in my life began, I expected that this damn real army would change to the original ropan army in the style of the original female heroine, but it’s still XX.

Then, Aquila walked over to me, wiping his sweat-drenched forehead from the heat generated by her Auror.

“Saruvia.”

“Good job, Aquila!”

“Come here for a second.”

“Why?”

As I followed Aquila, Aquila spoke only after a little distance from Winter and Altair.

“Look for Caron. It looked like he had been scratched by a stone.”

“What? The youngest is injured?”

I checked the appearance of Caron in the distance, and rushed to him.

‘By the way, Aquila is now taking good care of Caron.’

Well, that’s great!

* * *

(third person pov)

While Saruvia was holding Caron from afar, Altair asked Winter in a playful voice.

“Hey, what’s going on? You’re interested in your successor?

“Interest… I’m supposed to look closely at all the troops.”

Altair cut off Winter’s answer and asked again.

“I mean, you’re originally a perfectionist who looks at all the troops, but you never show it. Why did you advise her to shoot first? It’s like you already know it was better for her.”

“If I had let her keep using the sword, she would have died sooner.”

Winter calmly replied to Altair’s interrogation.

However, Altair did not give up. He still stared at Winter and asked.

“I know you’ve observed Saruvia, but why are you trying to hide it from me? Hey, it’s just us, so you can be honest. We’ve been friends for several years. Can’t you tell me?”

At that, Winter hesitated for a long time and finally opened his mouth.

“Eyes.”

“Huh? Eyes?”

“Her eyes were different from other successors.”

Winter recalled Saruvia’s eyes looking at him.

Usually, Winter’s successors were afraid or awkward around him. When Winter talked to them first, they would often look at him with a fearful look.

But Saruvia was different.

Sometimes, when Winter sweated and trained or was shouted at by his seniors, Saruvia looked at him with a look of no fear at all, which was somewhat absurd.

Winter, quick at everything, couldn’t have missed that look.

“She seems to be a rather bold type.”

Winter speculated that Saruvia is the type who doesn’t find her seniors difficult to deal with at all, or is fearless about everything.

It was natural for him to pay attention to Saruvia, even if her gaze bothered him.

As a result, Winter was able to discover Saruvia’s talent.

“Is that an enough answer?”

“Well, okay…”

Winter, who glanced at Altair, who answered cheerfully, spoke in a low voice.

“So. This isn’t your point. What’s the point?”

“Oh, to the point. That’s right.”

Altair, who turned into a serious look, muttered.

“…Was there something in Saruvia’s eyes earlier when she was shooting? I see that gaze every day from April.”

Winter remained silent.

Saruvia’s face, holding a gun in her head, came to mind.

Altair was also quick to notice.

Saruvia’s golden eyes usually had a soft and sweet atmosphere, but when she lifted the gun, her gaze looked as if she would kill everyone right away.

“…It seems like she’s going crazy day by day.”

“See? I told you so. Although she’s my successor, we don’t know how she’ll turn out, so we have to be careful all the time.”

Altair’s voice that said so contained sincerity.

Winter thought the observation of Saruvia was over in advising her to hold a gun, but he somehow felt that he should keep an eye on her in the future.

* * *

(first person pov)

D-2739 days before discharge.

Since then, my military life has been quite smooth.

Of course, the words “military life” and “smooth” cannot coexist, but the recent daily life has not been very bad.

A normal daily routine in which people fight, being disciplined together under joint responsibility if anyone makes a mistake, train from morning to evening, and take charge of all kinds of chores.

Of course, not long ago, my senior, Canon from the 84th division, was killed by a second-class monster, but it was not surprising that a person was dying here. It would be good if one person died during five months.

“Caron, you know your junior position will be replaced, right?”

“Oh, I remember now!”

“Oh, I thought our youngest would be the youngest forever. Oh my, it’s already been 3 months…”

It’s already been three months since Caron joined the military. Today was the day when Caron, who survived safely without dying, will receive his first replacement.

“I’m not sure if he’ll be able to act like a senior.”

Caron, who always smiled, couldn’t have pretended to be dignified because he was in front of his successors, but I think it’ll work out somehow because I took good care of Caron.

“I’m taking an hour off today! If you’re done with your military service, take a rest on your own!”

At Louise’s rest order, which fell after 50 laps of the training ground, I let water flow through my bloody throat and wiped my mouth.

“I guess we’re resting because it’s the day of the recruitment.”

An hour of rest, even if it didn’t seem like a big deal, was desperate in this hellish border defense force. I headed to the dormitory with a happy face.

“We didn’t have any laundry left. Did you clean the training ground?”

“Oh, Blair. It’s all done!”

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“Really? Then you can really rest.”

Blair, a trainee who had always longed for his successors, also looked happy to confirm that he had nothing left to do.

“Nap! I’m going to take a nap.”’

I should heal my body and mind, which have been worn out by this hard training, with a nap.

When I opened the door of the dormitory trying to hide my excited face, there was a girl I had never seen before.

“…Huh?”

“Saruvia, she’s a new recruit. Help her organize her luggage and get her the right size clothes.”

“Oh! Yes, I got it.”

It was a female recruit!

The recruit, who tied her red hair down to both sides, was scared by the unit’s atmosphere, so her eyes were moist and her body was stiff with tension.

“What’s your name?”

“I’m Re-Reina!”

“Really? Nice to meet you, Reina. I’m Saruvia, and I’m two divisions above you.”

With that said, I seemed to reach out one hand to Reina. Reina shook hands awkwardly with a gesture that clearly showed tension.

“You can use my left side for your place. Would your clothes be about the same size as me?”

“Well, it seems that…!”

“I’ll bring you some necessities. Hang in there.”

At the thought of a female recruit coming in, I was quite excited. There were too few women in this unit!

The fact that she is still the youngest in the women’s dormitory is quite inconvenient. Because it is always my responsibility to run the errands in the dorm.

‘Still, she’s my successor, so I have to take good care of her.’

Yuri beckoned to me as I was giving things to my successor without any sign of bother. She looked like she was dissatisfied.

“Yuri?”

“Saruvia, be careful.”

Yuri, with dark circles falling down under her eyes, had a tone that showed exhaustion and annoyance.

“I told you. Don’t get too attached.”

“Ah, although…If I take good care of her…”

“You’re already taking care of one of your successors, think about having to take care of another.”

Yuri cut my answer like a knife with a cynical expression.

Yuri still didn’t recognize Caron, so she didn’t call him by name.

“Don’t get too close, take your time and watch slowly. Until you are sure, think of her as a child who is about to die.”

I made eye contact with April, who was smiling while looking at us from her seat. As always, she remained silent with an unknown expression on her face.

“…I will keep that in mind.”

I said that to Yuri, but I didn’t really mean to be rude to that successor named Reina.

‘Since we are all a strong race in the first place, wouldn’t we be able to survive if we just made an effort?’

Yeah, I thought so…

* * *

Exactly a week later, I realized that having more successors isn’t always a good thing.

Unlike the seniors who have adapted to the military, more successors who have not yet adapted to the military come in. It meant that the number of unit members who would take on the responsibility of the regiment increased for me.

After a week of training, the recruits are now training with us.

There are a total of four new recruits this time. He said it was not a lot or a little, it was just an ordinary number. Three men and one woman.

And whenever new recruits dropped out of training, we struggled together.

‘XX, I can’t afford to take care of them.’

It’s hard for me to keep up with the training too, and there’s no way I can especially take care of the new recruits.

On the other hand, Reina was not particularly weak in her skills, she had quick movements.

Nevertheless, Yuri was still skeptical of her. She had an atmosphere that she would not recognize until she survived the subjugation several times.

‘No, but Reina works hard, so she will be able to live… That’s right, she can live…’

After thinking about that, I finally let out a deep sigh.

In the end, contrary to my initial promise, I couldn’t actively help Reina, and I wasn’t even sure that Reina would survive.

“The atmosphere these days… It seems really bad.”

As I sighed, maybe I felt something, Caron said in a low voice as we were pulling weeds out of the parade ground together. Then Ishina answered in a calm tone.

“Originally, it’s like when the new recruits get used to it for the first time. You don’t feel it, but it must have been that way in the beginning when you guys started training.”

‘How can you be so calm?’

He also seemed like a person who was in charge of the character of ‘kindness on the outside’. I don’t blame anyone even if I take joint responsibility, so I should learn Ishina’s attitude like that.

‘No, maybe you’re thinking of getting rid of the recruits inside of you?’

Come to think of it, how would I know the insides of him, who is a ‘villain inwardly’? I looked at Ishina with a slightly suspicious look.

Meanwhile, Ishina’s words that it is normal for new recruits to be shy, Caron kept his mouth shut, but unexpectedly, Aquila spoke quietly.

“I don’t like new recruits.”

“What? Aquila?”

I opened my eyes and looked at Aquila. Because Aquila was originally someone who did not express his likes or dislikes.

Not only me, but also Caron and Ishina looked at Aquila in amazement.

“If you say so, is there a big problem? I thought they weren’t good enough. Are they really that bad? Or did they make a mistake in front of you?”

“It’s not like that.”

Aquila stuck to silence again and brought up something I hadn’t even thought of.

“One of the recruits has gray hair.”

“Oh, I remember! What was the name?”

“It’s Gray.”

“Aha, what a name.”

“Gray, what’s wrong with him?”

Aquila, who was listening to Caron and I take turns talking, replied.

“His eyes were arrogant.”

“Huh?”

“Of course, I can understand because of the military, but his eyes were uncomfortable.”

“Why? Do you think he’ll talk back to you?”

“They were telling me that I was crazy.”

I nodded at Aquila’s fierce scarlet eyes.

Aquila rolled his eyes to the right without saying anymore.

“Ah.”

Since Caron always smiled and there is only one division difference, there was a possibility that Aquilia would think of the new recruit a little arrogant.

However, Gray’s attitude in the army could have been a problem.

“I won’t let him go if his eyes look arrogant next time.”

“What are you doing?”

Aquila looked at me.

At the moment, Blair, who had just come out of the building, beckoned us recklessly. His hand movements made it possible to guess that an urgent situation broke out.

Having been aware of the months of military service, we rushed to Blair.

Blair’s face, who called us, was white. It was already an ominous face color.

And the moment I heard him, I had no choice but to curse once again that my world was not a ropan.

Because Blair said as follows.

“Emergency! April summoned all recruits and those above them to the base”.

XX, I don’t know what it is, but I know something huge has happened. Just kill me.

* * *

‘XX, please send me to ropan. Obsessive men are okay too, so please let me escape from this world. I’m confident I can change my taste and enjoy obsession…’

As I followed Blamir into the building, I wondered what the hell this world was going to be like.

No, in common sense, the name Saruvia, coral-colored hair and golden eyes, is not a ropan-style name and appearance.

The world view in which the people called Archon and monsters appeared was also typical fantasy.

‘Then why apply the real military to this world?!’

‘XX.’

Gatherings were arguably the worst in military culture. Because it was the starting point of something vicious. The worst of them all…

‘All recruits and those above them.’

This did not end with the person who made the mistake or the trainees, but it was a declaration that they would wipe us out one after another, starting with the distant seniors.

‘What the hell did the new recruit do?’

Even the assembly that April, who is an expert at driving people crazy, has already made me want to desert.

As soon as I entered the space where the seniors were standing in a row, I instinctively took a step back as soon as I sensed the air, but I had no choice.

‘It’s different even in the air…!’

This chilly air is suffocating! Even if Winter wears an icy auror, the temperature won’t drop this much!

‘Someone please save me…’

As I stood in line with the seniors in prayer earnestly inwardly, there was a hint of wonder on their faces as to why they were doing this.

‘Which one of the new recruits really had an accident?’

The faces of the four recruits were all full of tension, making it difficult to find the culprit, but by checking the direction of April’s gaze, who had gathered the troops, I was able to quickly find out the cause.

Maintaining her pretty smile, April had her eyes fixed on Gray, whom Aquila had said had ‘cheeky eyes’.

XX, after all, his view was not wrong!

As I stiffened in this suffocating air, April’s mouth finally opened. Curving her eyes, she smiled with a so-called ‘devil smile’.

“Repeat what I said earlier, recruit.”

“…No.”

Gray answered in a somewhat sarcastic tone. As soon as we heard his answer, all of the seniors had goosebumps all over their bodies and began to examine April’s mood.

“Hey, what do you mean, no? Do you want to die?”

Leon spoke harshly to Gray, but due to April’s gaze, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut afterwards.

Gray kept his pride down and his mouth shut, but his complexion darkened as he sensed what the matter had grown too.

“Okay. Recruit, what did you say earlier?”

‘…Is that Winter now?’

It’s really amazing to feel the temperature drop even though there were a lot of people.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…! Please forgive me just once.”

Gray, who seemed to protect his pride, finally pleaded in a terrified voice. He didn’t seem to be able to stand it any longer.

“Why? Say what you said with your own mouth again.”

“Sorry…! I must have gone crazy.”

I got a feeling

Gray, who only looked at April’s face thinking that she was easy, must have insulted her. That XX.

‘If you judge people only by their outward appearance, you’ll be hit in the back of the head.’

“Hey, I can’t help it. Until you speak again with your own mouth, your seniors must return to the training ground with you.”

April said so and put her hand on the shoulder of her right successor, Louise.

When Louise, who was always calm, showed a rotten expression toward Gray, Gray had no choice but to open his mouth with a weeping voice.

“I, I, I… asked if April’s classmates were all dead because they were weaker than April…”

At the same time, there was a chilling silence.

‘Are you crazy?’

First, the problem was that Gray, who was just a new recruit, dared to ask a question to April, the most senior officer among the corporals.

‘At the time, I didn’t even dare to make eye contact with April, but it’s hard to believe that such a person without a concept exists.’

Second, that was a statement that ignored April’s abilities. It must have been a mockery of how weak April’s motives were.

Third…

‘They didn’t die because they were weak.’

All the members of the unit here now, most of them had at least one person who died in their division, and even if not, there was a successor or senior who died.

All the members of the unit were living with their dead colleagues in the corner of their hearts, and vowing to be discharged by surviving and getting their share…

Gray’s words were enough to provoke emotions beyond anger in everyone.

“You crazy…”

Plato muttered in a voice that rarely held anger.

‘Plato said all six of his comrades were dead.’

“…Is there something wrong with your head?”

Leon and Brave, who were rough from the beginning, spoke in anger-filled voices.

“… I think we have to start all over again.”

Louise, who was always calm, seemed to be firmly determined this time.

“Huh, really. What’s wrong with the new recruit? They probably haven’t gotten used to the unit yet.”

Whether the other members of the unit were angry or not, he said that with a pitiful expression in his brazen tone as if he was playing April.

The more April spoke, the more the air in this room felt like it was going down by one degree.

“It’s all your fault for not helping the recruits adjust to the unit well…”

‘XX.’

It’s already getting ominous. It’s already getting ominous!

April is crazy X.

I desperately wished April would just beat up her successors, but she has never done that.

Instead, that crazy X made people suffer in all sorts of bizarre ways.

“Guys, get stronger! You can do it!”

And so we were scouring the ground in the middle of the night on pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.

Yes. This is one of her favorite methods of human torture: “throw a metal bead over the pebbles and let them find it.”

‘Why the hell did God even give that crazy X creativity?’

Combining her crazy personality with her creativity, she had a tendency to do crazy things in all sorts of creative directions.

Either way, I just wanted to desert.

Finding an iron bead on pebbles doesn’t sound like a big deal from the name alone, but it’s quite difficult.

In our unit, there is a place where cobblestone is spread widely, and the amount of pebbles is so large and the range is vast.

In addition, the size is similar to that of an iron bead, and the iron bead thrown by April is slightly rusted, so the degree of brilliance under the light is the same…

‘XX… It would be better to just run through the training ground all night long.’

Archon’s strong physical abilities have helped me survive hard training, but it doesn’t help me squat down and scour the ground like this.

As I sat squatting, my body ached, my fingertips scraping the stone-covered ground tingled, and more than anything else, my eyeballs felt like they were about to fall out. Now I can’t tell if these are pebbles on the floor or my eyeballs.

‘What the hell does this have to do with helping new recruits adjust?’

The poor recruit, wrongly caught by the crazy X, was now scratching the ground with weeping eyes. The gaze of the seniors who looked at him as if they were going to kill him was an added bonus.

‘Original male leads, what are you going to do?’

The male protagonists, who were so powerful in the original, were now scratching the ground together next to me.

No, as a human being, how could the original author give the male protagonists such a past?

As always, Ishina was searching the ground with a sincere face. Why are you so diligent? Can’t you just show us your dark side at times like this? Even if it’s dark, you can’t do dark things to our distant senior, April, right?

On the other hand, Caron had blank eyes as if he had gone crazy, so I massaged his shoulder well.

He was looking at the ground with eyes that Aquila would kill the pebbles.

‘Normal ropan males send such gazes to other men who flirt with the female lead…’

I swallowed my tears and searched hard on the ground.

Alright, at a time like this, find an iron bead and go to sleep. I was exhausted and wanted to lie down on this stone floor right now.

Then, someone’s hand flashed over our heads.

Everyone looked at the hand shining under the moonlight.

An iron bead was found!

“W-Winter…!”

Winter was holding the single iron bead he had finally found over his head.

His expression, as always, was so cold that it didn’t suit this situation at all…

“Winter! I knew you could do it!”

“Awesome, Winter!”

His comrade Altair rushed to Winter with thrilled eyes. Another colleague, Yuri, looked at the iron bead with sweet eyes like someone in love.

‘After all, Winter is said to be a perfectionist, and he’s also perfect at things like this…!’

In our Alpha Platoon, Winter was a symbol of perfectionism. No, beyond the Alpha Platoon, Winter was a famous perfectionist within the army.

Other platoons also referred to Winter as ‘the one who can do everything in Alpha Platoon’.

He’s got it all, and he’s finally found the iron bead!

I usually thought he was hard and rude, but today he looked so cool that he kept his expressionless expression even after finding it!

Like other seniors, I looked at Winter with thrilled eyes.

No one else is needed!

The crown prince’s political power, who ascended the throne at a young age but is not inferior to nobles at all?

Or the position of the northern archduke, which has a deep history and special ability and is the highest family in the empire?

Or a young genius wizard, who has no supportive family but has risen to the highest place with only one skill?

The pleasant wealth of the upper extremist who led the continent’s trend and accumulated the most wealth on the continent?

Those are not the things that look cool to me right now! What excites me is the ability to find a metal bead among pebbles and end this hell! This is the ability of the ropan male lead candidate!

Faster and more accurate than excavators, excellent eyesight and sensing ability to beat even beasts! I really think I can fall for Winter at this moment…

“Gosh, Winter is so cool…”

“Cool?”

“But it’s really like that…”

“That’s just… That’s what you think is cool?”

“What do you mean, ‘that’? It’s all thanks to you that we can sleep right now.”

At this moment, Winter was the best male lead…

* * *

‘It’s been a really long day.’

After a hell of a day, I trudged with Yuri and opened the door to the dormitory. Reina has yet to come in, who seems to have lost her mind.

Fortunately, April fell asleep, and the lights were off.

“Saruvia.”

“Yes?”

As soon as I heard April’s voice, I fumbled and stiffened my body reflexively.

My eyes, accustomed to the darkness, found April’s light green eyes. In the dark, her eyes were shining strangely.

“Were you tired today?”

“Oh, never.”

“Pfft, you’re lying.”

April laughed in the dark. She looked like a crazy person, so I couldn’t move with nervousness and looked carefully.

Yuri was already lying under the blanket even though she looked at me with pity. She’s saying it’s not her business to get involved now.

“You think I’m X, don’t you?”

April’s voice asking like that was so clear and beautiful.

“No! Never! Never!”

Of course she was like X. However, if there is common sense in me, no matter how X she is, I will not say that she is X.

When I denied with all my might, April stopped laughing as if she had lost interest.

“Hmm, really?”

“Yes, definitely not!”

Then April’s light green eyes shone in the dark, and soon she muttered in her unique high voice.

“Oh, and. If you act like an angel, you’ll die first, right?”

After saying that for an unknown reason, April buried herself under the blanket again.

I didn’t know why April suddenly said so.

Is it a problem that I tried to take care of my juniors even though I didn’t have time yet?

Or is it annoying to see someone helping others even a little?

…Well, I couldn’t understand the meaning, but I think the answer is not to think in the military. I shouldn’t have a headache because of this.

I glanced at April, who had troubled me all day.

‘How on earth is there no guilt even after making people suffer so much?’

Will I change like that when I become a corporal? Well, we won’t know until time passes.

‘But how long do I have until becoming a corporal? 3 years and 5 months?’

XX, it’s such a distant future. Don’t think about useless things and just sleep calmly..

* * *

D-2700 days before discharge.

A month has passed since then.

The 92nd recruits died with burns all over their bodies.

The second-class monster “Ridian” had a habit of causing a huge explosion to kill the enemy when it died, but the recruits who could not memorize that fact did not flee.

They might have survived if they had moved even a little faster under the instructions of their seniors, but unfortunately they couldn’t.

And the fact that the recruits died meant that Reina, who I had been trying so hard to take care of, also died.

“…Oh, I’m going crazy.”

In front of the 92nd division annihilation, I covered my head with both hands.

“Didn’t I tell you not to.”

Next to me, Yuri said in a calm voice. I looked at her indifferent eyes, clenched my teeth, and gripped my gun even tighter.

Yeah, I don’t know which of my successors will die anyway, so I don’t need to take care of them in advance, right? As April said, if I saw the death of the successor I cared for, my mental state might go out and get caught up in death.

That’s probably what she meant when she said, ‘If you act like an angel, you’ll die first.’

I might have to go crazy sometimes if I want to get out alive…

Of course, it was after more successors came in that I fully understood April’s meaning.

#1. The Secret of the Original 『Four Crazy Guys Are Obsessed With Me』

~tl/n: this is what happened in the original work of the novel Saruvia possessed in that she doesn’t even know herself.~

(3rd person pov)

“Put the gun down.”

“Winter?”

Somehow, Winter, passing through the shooting range with anxiety, ran straight there as soon as he saw Darlene holding a huge gun.

To avoid the accident, he called Darlene in a small voice so as not to surprise her, but Darlene opened her eyes wide and looked back at Winter. The gun was directed to Winter.

“Wait, Darlene. Don’t move, stay still. Don’t even nod.”

“What’s wrong?”

Even though Darlene was trying to calm down, contrary to Winter’s intention, Darlene looked more anxious.

‘What the hell, who in the world gave Darlene a gun. Guns must be well managed.’

Winter himself may die if the gun is fired as it is. No matter how strong a human being is, death cannot be avoided if a gun penetrates the vital point.

And shooting by mistake, considering Darlene’s past moves, it was possible enough.

Winter, who finally succeeded in approaching Darlene with a careful step, snatched the gun from behind Darlene. Darlene faltered for a moment as the heavy gun went down from her shoulder.

‘I’ve been saved.’

Winter left the gun safe in its original position, and looked at Darlene with a stiff look.

“Why were you holding a gun?”

A sober human could not have let Darlene hold a gun. If you are an unprecedented adviser of this unit and a legendary troublemaker, you will be in a shooting rampage.

“Ishina asked me to shoot it! Surprisingly, guns might be better than swords!

Winter has now decided to give up pointing out her words, which are a mess.

Instead, he only frowned at the fact that Ishina recommended Darlene to shoot.

‘What was Ishina thinking about?’

“Can I not shoot a gun?”

Winter glanced at Darlene’s orange hair at her tearful voice.

‘Of course, aside from the fact that if you give Darlene a gun, you don’t know how many people around will die in her accident…’

“No.”

Winter could never see Darlene holding a gun.

“As expected, I’m not good enough…?”

“…No, guns are dangerous. I’m saying this for you.”

Yeah, this was also for Darlene.

As Darlene got out of control from gradually resembling Saruvia, Winter could no longer predict how she would behave.

‘Whoa, okay… I shouldn’t compare.’

What sin is there to resemble?

However, the more Darlene was in front of him, the more uncomfortable he felt, so Winter turned around and went out to find Ishina. He was going to ask why he gave Darlene the gun.

Soon after, Winter could find Ishina with Aquila in the corner of the building.

“Ishina.”

“Oh, Winter.”

Isina saluted lightly. Winter asked right away.

“You recommended a gun to Darlene?”

“Ah…! Yes, I did.”

“Why? If you give Darlene a gun… Couldn’t you have guessed what was going to happen?”

At those words, Ishina gently rolled his eyes with a shy expression. He seemed to have guessed at what would happen.

As Ishina evaded his answer with a smirk, Aquila entered their conversation.

“Winter, did you stop Darlene?”

“Yeah, I told her never to pick up a gun again.”

“Oh, thank you. I should have told her that.”

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Yeah, probably the most difficult thing about Saruvia’s death is how Aquila is handling it. Even though he doesn’t usually express himself much, when he sees Darlene holding a gun, he will have no choice but to think of Saruvia.

‘…But it’s weird these days.’

In fact, Winter couldn’t understand Aquila these days.

Caron is chasing Darlene. Well, it must be because of Saruvia. Caron regarded Saruvia as his own sister and family, so he must be looking for traces of her in Darlene.

However, unlike Caron, who has a sense of inexperience in everything, Aquila is well aware that Saruvia and Darlene are different people.

Winter had no idea that Aquila, whom he thought could not live without Saruvia, would soon change his mind and fall in love with Darlene.

Ishina opened his green eyes and raised one of his hands.

“After using the gun for a long time, the calluses on her hands, the developing arm and shoulder muscles, the leg muscles… There will be things like that. Now she was going to develop those things by letting her touch guns. That way, when Saruvia comes back later, she can easily adapt to that body.”

Winter squinted his eyes at the incomprehensible words and looked at Ishina and Aquila in turn. Aquila, on the other hand, seemed to fully understand Ishina’s words.

“I’ll bring her back after I’m discharged anyways.”

He looked at them with his scarlet eyes.

“After I bring her back, she’ll be in my arms. She won’t have to do any hard work anymore, just has to be quiet at home.”

“Well, with Saruvia’s personality, she can’t just stay quiet at home. She’ll have to run around periodically.”

“It’s okay if she takes it well. If she ever wants to hold a gun again… Then we could go back and let her hold it again. Since it’s Archon’s body, she’ll develop muscles soon anyway.”

“…Saruvia’s personality is closer to ‘violence and fear’…”

Winter couldn’t understand the conversation between Aquila and Ishina at all.

‘Aquila, I thought you must have forgotten Saruvia.’

He seems to be in love with Darlene lately, and he doesn’t even mention Saruvia at all, so Winter thought he was only struggling when Saruvia just died and thought Aquila was fine now.

Aquila, however, clearly referred to Saruvia again.

…If Aquila wasn’t in love with Darlene, then what the hell was Aquila doing to Darlene?

“Aquila, I have a question for you.”

Winter said in a voice hardened with tension.

“Why are you being so nice to Darlene these days?”

“That way, when Saruvia comes back, I can take good care of her.”

Aquila answered in a very calm voice.

As he replied, Aquila recalled the moment he had not long ago when he hugged Darlene in a dark cave.

‘…It’s still a little hard to hug in a place like that, but I’ve gotten used to the feeling to some extent.’

Aquila then thought of Saruvia’s reaction when she returns if she doesn’t let herself get used to it.

Meanwhile, Ishina shook his head as he looked at Aquila. When she was with them, it was always Ishina who got stuck in between.

“Saruvia is coming back, what do you mean?”

Meanwhile, Winter, who still did not understand the conversation, looked directly into Aquila’s scarlet eyes.

“No way…”

Winter understood.

“Aquila you… Did you make a deal with dark magic?”

No matter how dark magic was, bringing the dead back alive could not be done easily.

It was possible with only one ingredient. It’s almost impossible to get that one ingredient, so no one has been able to do it.

“The heart of the Black Dragon.”

The heart of the first-class monster, the Black Dragon, which they had slain a while ago.

Winter remembered when Aquila was in charge of disposing of the black dragon’s corpse. Then maybe…

“Aquila, you have the heart of a black dragon.”

Winter took a step closer to Aquila with his face turned white in astonishment.

“You-you intend to bring Saruvia’s soul into Darlene’s body.”

At those words, Aquila opened his scarlet eyes and stared at Winter. Even though the eyes were obviously hot, it was somehow cool, and for a moment Winter felt goosebumps all over his body.

“Why? The body is the same Archon, the age range is not much different, the gender is the same, and above all, the appearance is not much different, so it’s the best body. Besides, there was an agreement with Darlene.”

“Why did Darlene agree on that? No, more than that, you…!”

“Saruvia may complain a little at first, but it’ll be okay if I comfort her well.”

Aquila imagined Saruvia being annoyed with her new body.

Saruvia is weak against hot things, so hugging her whenever she is annoyed quickly relieves her anger and calms her down.

While Darlene’s soul escapes, Darlene’s body will look dead for a while, so she can disguise herself as dead at that time and take her body out of the unit when she is discharged from the military.

Saruvia will wake up from the house Aquila will buy in the capital. Knowing that she has returned and that her life as a border guard is over, Sarvia will naturally try to accept Aquila himself.

There was no other option in Saruvia’s life than Aquila. Just as Aquila loved Saruvia, of course Saruvia loved Aquila.

“You’re really crazy.”

Winter said, gently closing his cold blue-gray eyes.

The moment he saw Aquila’s eyes, he could tell. Ever since Saruvia’s death, Aquila has been completely crazy.

“Isn’t that what Saruvia used to hear every day?”

Aquila smiled at one end of his mouth, recalling how Saruvia was called to her successors.

He didn’t mean to let Saruvia go in vain like this. All of Aquila’s daily life was always around her.

There were still many daily routines he couldn’t do without Saruvia.

He got his love for the first time too.

They could definitely be a family, and it was time to do things together that they had never experienced in life.

Saruvia’s life and his own life were too wasteful to end in the military like this.

Therefore, Aquila decided to correct everything.

Saruvia will regain everything she should have enjoyed and what she should have had.

They will drink cocoa together in the snowy winter, have her put on a pretty dress and kiss her, and in the spring, they’ll pick flowers and put a flower crown on each other, love, and lovw again…

“So, Saruvia will be brought back.”

* * *

Four years later, as soon as Darlene suddenly opened her eyes at his house, which Aquila had decorated according to Saruvia’s taste, the words she said were as follows.

“Oh, XX.”

Upon hearing that, Aquila could be sure that this woman lying in front of him was Saruvia, not Darlene.

The magic was a success.

“What is it?”

As if not knowing the situation, Saruvia squinted as she looked around.

“Saruvia.”

“I can’t remember clearly. Where am I?”

“Saruvia.”

“Where are you?”

“…Saruvia.”

“Why are you making me mad?”

Aquila grabbed Saruvia’s hands and laughed like crying.

It was Saruvia. Really, it was her.

When Aquila suddenly grabbed her hand and collapsed on his knees on the floor, Saruvia looked embarrassed.

“Hey, what happened? It’s frustrating, so hurry up and talk.”

Aquila loved her sweet voice and, on the other hand, her blunt and rough tone.

“In the end, you… Do you remember what happened?”

“Oh, that’s right. I thought I was dead. But I’m alive? Is this a hospital? I don’t think it’s a unit.”

“…You were dead.”

“What?”

“So to revive you, I…”.

Instead of ending his speech, Aquila hugged Saruvia tightly, but suddenly Saruvia jumped up from her seat and strode in front of the mirror.

“Hey, get out of my way. It feels weird right now.”

“Saruvia, don’t be too surprised. That was the best body I could find.”

Saruvia, standing in front of the mirror, went silent for a moment.

“Hey! You crazy punk!”

Her scream rang out in the house.

* * *

After explaining the situation to Saruvia, Aquila sat still and waited for her answer. He, of course, naturally held her hands in case she ever abandoned him and ran away.

Saruvia accepted the situation surprisingly calmly. So far she was what Aquila had expected.

“Yeah, okay. I understood.”

She said in a calm voice as Saruvia reclined her body in a chair.

“Well, when I close my eyes and open my eyes, four years have passed and it’s good to be discharged. By the way, what about Caron? I think it must have been very difficult for the child because I died.”

“…I took good care of him. Caron will be discharged in two months.”

“I’m glad he’s alive. By the way, did you say you took good care of Caron?”

“… You called it parenting practice.”

“Yeah, well done.”

Saruvia nodded her head sympathetically.

“Come to think of it, it’s really frustrating that I didn’t get her 3,000 mark in the end, even after all the hard work.”

“My money is yours anyways.”

“That’s right.”

I don’t know if it was the influence of someone else’s body, but today’s Saruvia looked more dazed than usual.

He naturally raised his arms around Saruvia’s waist and pulled her into his own arms. Saruvia raised one of her eyebrows, but as the warm heat began to flow through her body, she quickly relaxed her expression and melted away.

“Hey.”

Saruvia opened her mouth while Aquila held her in his arms.

“Yes, tell me.”

“Still, I don’t have a gun, so it’s very awkward.”

“You have nothing to fight now, so why?”

“My anger only increased because of the border guards. Besides, when I get angry, actions speak louder than words.”

“It’s okay, I’ll make sure you don’t get mad.”

“Okay, I think having a shotgun at home would be a little more comfortable. Can I just buy it from the weapon shop? They sell it for hunting.”

“If you stay here, I will go.”

“Aren’t we going together?”

“You can stay here.”

Aquila got up to go out to buy a gun for Saruvia.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand Saruvia’s feelings very much. Even though he was discharged from the military, he had his own sword at home.

It wouldn’t be bad to put weapons at home, as there are times when monsters come down to the village very often. Saruvia won’t use the weapon, but that’ll be how she feels comfortable.

“Saruvia, I’ll be back. Don’t go anywhere.”

“Where would I go?”

Clank clank.

Inside the house where Aquila closed the door, Saruvia alone remained quiet.

She began to check everywhere in the house with a unique indifferent look.

‘Door, window… Oh, there’s a back door here too.’

While Aquila was away, Saruvia, who finally looked all over the house, was able to affirm.

‘I was expecting it from the beginning…’

“Oh, Aquila.”

All entrances were locked from outside.

“You punk, I’m imprisoned right now.”

* * *

When Aquila returned home, he found Saruvia sitting on the sofa. Saruvia seemed to have adapted perfectly to this house.

“Are you feeling better now? Is it still awkward?”

“It’s okay except I’m angry when I look in the mirror.”

Aquila put a long shotgun on the table.

“It’s the same kind you used to use. Check it out, and if there’s no problem, I’ll put it in the cabinet.”

“Oh, I was holding a gun until I died…”

Saruvia loaded a bullet inside a shotgun.

Clank clank.

“Why does it feel like it’s been so long since I’ve held it? Anyways, there was a four-year gap.”

Saruva, who grabbed the gun, grumbled.

“Who owns this body? I don’t have any calluses on my hands. I don’t think it’s going to be convenient to shoot.”

“You won’t be able to shoot from now on, will you?”

“Sit down. I have something to say.”

When Saruvia beckoned to come closer to her, Aquila went to the seat opposite her and sat down.

The question Saruvia raised while looking straight into Aquila’s eyes was as follows.

“But if I’m locked up, won’t you have any break time alone?”

“Pfft! Cough, cough! What?”

A loud cough popped out of Aquila’s mouth.

“It’s good to live with you, but wouldn’t it be hard for me to stay with you 24 hours a day?”

“No, wait, wait.”

He thought the flow of the conversation was strange, so Aquila raised his hand and covered Saruvia’s mouth.

“…You noticed I locked you up.”

Aquila stared at Saruvia with his quietly sinking scarlet eyes. Saruvia opened her mouth again with a unique way of speaking.

“That’s not something you do alone. I don’t mind most of the time, but I think we need to discuss it in advance.”

…Aquila realized that he didn’t think of it properly. Yes, even if he thought he got used to Saruvia’s way of thinking, some things always surprised him about her.

“I locked you up just because I was afraid you would leave me. It wasn’t impure… Not on purpose.”

“Hey, based on common sense, if I leave you here and run away, you think I can go somewhere? I’ll be homeless on the streets. If I’m here, I’ll do well, and it’s better to be in good custody.”

Aquila was momentarily speechless at Saruvia’s answer, but he soon asked her calmly.

“So you’re going to stay here?”

“Aren’t you going to marry me anyway?”

“…Why did you think that again?”

“You said that you took care of Caron earlier as a parenting practice. You think I don’t even know what you mean? Just openly XX me and say that you want to XX…”

“Okay, let’s be quiet for now.”

Aquila covered her mouth again. As his hot hand reached the corner of her mouth, Saruvia became meek.

As soon as Aquila’s hand fell, Saruvia spoke again in her sweet voice.

“I can do everything with you.”

This time Saruvia grabbed Aquila’s hand first.

“If you want to keep me, it’s fine. I can really do anything with you.”

Saruvia said, giving strength one word at a time.

“From the beginning, I only had you, and you only had me. So you can do whatever you want.”

Aquila smiled with one corner of his mouth up. Yes, this one right in front of him was Saruvia, whom he loved.

“But honey.”

Clank-

When he heard the sudden reload, Aquila got up from his seat and looked up at Saruvia, who was standing looking down at him.

She was standing while holding her gun in a familiar posture.

“Why is it natural for you to touch this body? There must have been a separate owner of this body, so why is it natural?”

… Ah. Aquila realized he had made a mistake.

Again, Aquila expected Saruvia to be annoyed in the direction of “Why are you calling me from this stranger’s body?”.

Sadly, this time, the direction Saruvia chose to annoy him was in the direction of “What was your relationship with this body owner?”

“XX, honey, do you really want to die? Whose body did you take and put me in?”

Aquila didn’t know whether he should be happy that Saruvia had to use the nickname ‘honey’ for him now, or should he be sad because he had a premonition that that nickname would only pop up when Saruvia was upset.

“…I tried to adapt. Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll be nervous.”

“No, XX, why are you adapting? Hey, where the hell did this body owner’s soul go? And how did you adapt to this body owner, huh? Tell me.”

“Wait, I think you’re misunderstanding, so let me explain.”

Aquila raised his hands and said.

“First of all, an agreement was reached with the owner of the body.”

“What?”

“Originally, the owner of the body agreed to bring another soul into the body.”

“What are you talking about? What kind of kid would agree with that?”

When Saruvia opened her eyes fiercely and looked at Aquila, Aquila took out a letter from his arms. Saruvia snatched it up and opened the envelope with suspicious eyes.

“This is a letter from the original body owner to show you. She wrote down a few things she asked you to do.”

“What kind of crazy person…”

However, Saruvia’s expression, which quickly passed through the contents of the letter, hardened.

She read the letter slowly from the beginning again and muttered in a low voice.

“Hey, Aquila.”

“Yes?”

When Saruvia called his name in a low voice again, he replied in a tense voice.

“No can do. I need to put my soul back in place and build a new body.”

“A new body?”

“Yeah, I think the owner of this body was kind of crazy too. I’ll explain that later. Is a new body impossible?”

“No, it’s not impossible… It’s just that you need to catch several dragons and recreate your new body with black magic again…”

“There’s a way. Then let’s do that.”

Aquila did not refute her words. If his Saruvia wanted it, he could do as much as she wanted.

“Okay, shall we take it slow?””

Saruvia said with a smiling face, holding the gun again.

“I’m not angry yet because you said nonsense that you’ve adapted to this body.”

“Saruvia, let me explain again…”

“I don’t need an explanation, and I don’t care if you do it slowly or quickly, but until I get back to my original body, you can’t even touch it, let alone having us get married.”

“…I’ll ask the black magician to do it tomorrow.”

Even though she was threatening with a gun, Aquila was going crazy because Saruvia was lovely.

“Saruvia, can I lock you up?”

“Hey, you’re just making excuses because you’re afraid I’ll run away.”

“I’m not.”

“If you want to do that, do that. But know that if you show a little familiarity with this body while I’m still in it, the bullet will fly right away.”

However, Aquila even enjoyed Saruvia’s threats. It was a little strange, but Aquila seemed to be able to accept anything Saruvia really did.

* * *

“Ishina, Aquila seems to have succeeded in that spell.”

“Ah.”

Ishina nodded at the words brought out by Winter, who came to his peaceful home after being discharged from the military.

“Aren’t we going to meet together?”

“Haha, Winter…”

Ishina smiled softly.

“I know you are busy preparing for ‘That Work’.”

“If that’s the case, I think we’ll be able to succeed soon. Before that, if I take a little time to meet Saruvia, I think I will be able to gain energy.”

“Okay… I suffered a lot to help Aquila bring Saruvia back too.”

Saying that, Ishina’s eyes softened.

“But we’ll have to put off going to see Saruvia again a little later. For now, the two of them just met, so I don’t want to go see her right now…”

“Why?”

“They are crazy in pairs…”

Ishina shook his head as he recalled how hard she had been in the past.

Saruvia prided herself on being a strong person mentally, but they tortured her mind where she acted in strange ways in strange places.

“They are both just crazy people. For the time being, the madness is sure to reach its peak… I hope they can live peacefully as crazy people…”

ong person mentally, but they tortured her mind where she acted in strange ways in strange places.

“They are both just crazy people. For the time being, the madness is sure to reach its peak… I hope they can live peacefully as crazy people…”