episode_0071

A few days after being served strawberry cake the week before training in the cold weather, I sat down with Bryn and Free the night before training and talked to them.

“Our princesses~ It seems like mom will be busy with school for the next few days starting tomorrow so it will be hard to come visit her… Can you wait for her without crying?”

Until now, we have sent schedules that allow each person to do their own thing, whether it’s studying, resting, or going to bed early after the regular routine for the day is over, but all of that was just a consideration to ensure that the cadets have the minimum physical strength to safely undergo cold-weather training. .

During the few days of cold-weather training, the children will have to pitch a tent and sleep in a mountainous area or plain where the winter wind blows rather than in a comfortable, heated accommodation, and naturally, the children will be at home anxiously waiting to see when their mother will come. It will be difficult to come to see you, so you should tell us at least a day in advance.

‘If I use the teleportation artifact that Hannah gave me… I think I could secretly move from the tent to this house at dawn when everyone is asleep and take care of the kids for a while…’

My classmates are training hard in the cold weather far away from their precious families, and it would be a pity for me to go out on my own to take care of the children.

Even if they actually do that, unlike before, when they ate dinner at the officer’s cafeteria and came home after work, they would only be able to see the children’s faces very late at night or early in the morning. According to the schedule announced to the cadets, they would be able to see the children’s faces very late at night. Because training is organized until the end of the day.

Bryn, who heard this situation from me, answered in a brave voice.

“Don’t worry! Bryn is all grown up! I will take good care of my younger brother even when my mother carries me!”

It seemed like she was deliberately raising her voice louder to ease the burden on her mother, but she was so cute that I ended up pinching her cheek without realizing it.

I’m not the only one who does this, but it seems like anyone who sees a cute baby wants to touch the baby’s soft cheeks. It seems that the little fat on the baby’s cheeks has magic that modern science can’t explain. Is it? I do not know.

I asked this while holding Bryn in my arms and smiling happily as she rubbed her cheeks to feel the warmth of my fingers for a little longer.

“Oguogu~ Is our Bryn all grown up? How old are you this year?”

Then, Bryn raised his fist with his right hand, spread his index and middle fingers, and spoke confidently.

“Two pictures!”

“I see~ Our Bryn is two years old this year~ But since she’s all grown up, she doesn’t need mommy’s kisses, right?”

“No! no! The more you kiss, the more you get tighter!”

When asked if she needs a kiss from her mom, Bryn shakes her head left and right quickly and vehemently denies it. Even though they are smarter than other kids their age, babies are still babies.

After giving Bryn lots of kisses and reading her a story to help her sleep comfortably, the first morning of cold weather training… no, dawn.

Normally, I would wake up around 6 o’clock, canter, and eat, but today I had to wake up much earlier, change into my training clothes, and gather at the parade ground. After we all gathered together and listened to an instructor briefly reciting the training schedule that we had already heard several times, the group members gathered together and began training.

Go to the training site fully equipped, unpack your luggage, set up a tent to use during the training period, then take out a bowl of food to heat up and eat combat rations made with 20th century technology.

Leading a well-stocked ship, he went to the frozen ground in the winter and dug trenches, which were the cause of tens of thousands of people dying while advancing several kilometers during World War I using only human power without the use of heavy equipment.

Discuss how to break through the trenches we built with our own hands with minimal casualties.

Break through an area consisting of a trench, a barbed wire fence, and a model mine at a full sprint.

Conversely, try to crawl over a dusty dirt road without making as much noise as possible.

Enter the guard post with a rifle loaded with live ammunition and pretend to be on guard duty. If someone comes, pretend that nothing has happened, pretend with a serious expression and ask the other person to use a secret slogan to identify the enemy.

Although I did a lot of things, it wasn’t difficult at all. It’s not because I’m good at it, but it’s largely thanks to the magic artifact that Hannah secretly gave me.

Do you know what makes cold weather training the ‘second’ hardest thing for people training in cold weather? It’s the cold.

Astrakhan, where we are located, is on a warmer side compared to the Soviet-Finnish front up there, but that doesn’t mean there are many people who can endure the cold that follows us around 24 hours a day without being invited. Elysia and I were able to be completely free from General Dong’s threat thanks to Hannah’s anti-cold artifact, but it may not be due to other motives.

‘My classmates are shivering in the cold, and I feel guilty for trying to stay warm just the two of us… What’s the point? ‘I have to live first.’

Even if that’s the case with Elysia, I have winter inside my stomach, so I need to stay warm to protect winter. There is no way that facing the sub-zero cold directly would have a positive effect on the health of the pregnant woman and her fetus.

And just because there were other classmates besides us, that doesn’t mean they were thrown out into the cold without any protection. They are also given a magic artifact that helps them maintain body temperature, although it is not as good as what Hannah made, and although it was made for the winter of Western Europe, it will not be cold enough to kill them since they are covered in winter training clothes.

If the ‘second’ hardest thing in cold weather training is enduring the cold, what do you think is the ‘most’ difficult thing? This may be an unexpected answer, but he is a person like me.

Even if you have been steadily improving your physical strength since the entrance ceremony, in cold weather training situations that force you to expend much more energy than usual, even the most patient people can’t help but become nervous, and forget about it and make a small mistake to a fellow student next to them. The moment you commit, unity may be broken.

This is not a society, but a military academy, an extremely closed environment where you have to see each other face to face for several years until the graduation ceremony. When something like that happens, you can’t fist bump in front of the instructors, and when you try to reconcile, you’re reluctant to each other, so it’s awkward until the end. It will remain in between.

Controlling oneself perfectly at every moment to prevent such things from happening is a factor that makes people more difficult than the cold.

In fact, this is not limited to cold weather training, but is a general story that can be applied anywhere where many people gather. Whether you are a sociable person who likes to socialize with many people, or a closed person who is reluctant to even share blood with your family, you can’t help but agree with this statement.

If there are a lot of people around you who think, ‘It wouldn’t be a waste to give up my life for this person!’, you will be able to survive even in a battlefield full of bullets rather than a cold training ground, but the only people around you are either Marshal Cheolcheon or each other. If someone else is not interested in your existence, you will not feel comfortable even if you are in a mansion where you can eat good food and sleep in a good bed.

‘There are research results that show that people who are isolated from their surroundings, whether on the battlefield or in society, are more likely to be exposed to PTSD, but I don’t want to become a victim of bullying.’

For your information, I was worried that I would have less time alone with Elysia or that my relationship would be discovered, so even though I didn’t become very close with my fellow classmates, I built a relationship to the point where we could recognize each other and say hello.

Living as strangers for four years has the problems mentioned above, and there is no guarantee that there won’t be another case like the gray-haired female instructor who took advantage of my weaknesses and tried to get me sexual favors by going around as a gang and openly appealing that we are close friends. .

‘It’s not like it’s just 4 years at the military academy, and even after graduation, while working at each other’s posts, we may become connected and go on operations together… so we need to get to know each other.’

In addition, in the entrance exam, I received a perfect score on the written exam, but I did not receive a perfect score on the practical exam because my physical strength was not extremely excellent, and I passed with only excellent scores. After crossing the threshold of the military academy, I have stood out moderately in every theory class ever since. My classmates’ evaluation of me would be roughly as follows.

‘Other than the pink-haired girl who always hangs out with me, I’m not really close to other classmates, but I’m not overly shy, and I’m good at studying, so I think it’s a good person to get to know.’

As long as we can maintain this position in the future, I don’t think there will be any major difficulties.