episode_0413

After returning, everyone fell asleep.

Afterwards, seawater hunting took place a few more times.

Of course, it goes without saying that the participants’ free time was reduced accordingly.

I ended up skipping training other than saltwater hunting.

This is because a seawater response manual had to be created.

I somehow made it thanks to the training director who gave me some leeway.

Most of the evaluations resulted in a confrontation between Isabelle and me.

But Isabelle never defeated me.

Not once, except when I heard something wrong.

Just like that, the graduation ceremony began to come to an end.

“Don’t forget. You are only half a knight.”

The face of the twenty-six-year-old knight who received Sohyeon’s rank insignia was filled with complex emotions.

“This year’s apprenticeship has an unusually large number of successful applicants, so two deputy centenarians will enter each centenarian.”

It was something that could not be helped.

If things were as they should be, half of them should have fallen.

“There are separate lodgings for drivers, so you will be sharing the same lodgings. For more details, check this table.”

The training director handed me a piece of poor quality paper.

The largest number of people were included in the security corps, those with relatively low evaluation scores were in the supply corps, and those with high scores were in the search corps.

Kailish and Susan are the supply unit.

Coober and Amilla are part of the search party.

Jean is a security guard like Sherry.

I am···.

‘Reconnaissance party?’

He is assigned to the scouting team along with Isabel.

If the search party is the ear that hears what is coming near me, the scout party is the eye that explores the enemy’s territory and understands the enemy’s true nature.

“Shouldn’t the reconnaissance party cross the Rhine River?”

“That’s right. It doesn’t mean you can’t swim, right?”

He pretends to be joking, but his eyes look like he’s really scared.

I just don’t understand.

Isabel is the daughter of a nobleman.

I don’t know which noble he is, but the price of his life is clearly different from mine.

‘You’re sending a kid like that out on a scouting expedition?’

“No.”

“If so, accept it. ···If you serve in the reconnaissance team, you might be able to make your wish come true.”

It was about his false nemesis, Uzurey.

“Yes. Thank you for your action.”

I handed the paper to the knights who were slowly starting to come in.

This is a place where the Cold War is in full swing.

The role of the reconnaissance team is bound to be heavy, and it is an easy place to make a mark.

It was the most dangerous place for Isabel.

Isabelle’s childish ambition was still shining brightly.

“Wow! It’s a scouting party like us!”

“Yes.”

“Do your best in the future.”

Isabel smiles brightly and holds out her hand.

It was difficult to find any other emotion in Isabelle’s smile, to the point where my worries seemed in vain.

‘There’s no way it doesn’t exist.’

I took Isabelle’s hand and shook it.

The eyes that were staring at me slowly slowly leave me.

‘It’s hard to deal with.’

─Thanks to the power, the brain is degenerating.

Humans are animals of communication, and as much swarming animals as ants.

For communication, we can accept and understand a lot of things, such as a person’s personality, eyebrows, corners of the mouth, corners of the eyes, nuances, gestures, etc.

This is why body language works everywhere and everyone has it.

But there was no need for that.

Even looking at Isabelle’s smile, it is impossible to know what it means or the complex mix of emotions it contains.

‘I only know primal, basic emotions.’

A part of my heart became cold.

If a day comes when I can’t read emotions, it means I won’t be able to communicate properly with anyone.

You need to stop accepting your emotions.

If you don’t, you’ll end up like Anne, who was like a gnat before she met me.

Isabelle’s face begins to look awkward as she waits for my answer.

“I envy you.”

The jewel-like green eyes widened as he tried to leave but was unable to do so.

“Yes?”

“I’m really jealous that you can smile and be sociable like that.”

It’s very difficult for me to read people’s facial expressions.

So I really envy you.

“It would be great if I could be like you.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“It’s nonsense.”

The discomfort I felt when I saw Isabel from before came from this reason.

When everything is over, let’s ask Seth or Edeline.

The uncanny ability to read people’s emotions will no longer be needed when everything is over.

* * * * * *

“I feel like throwing up.”

Amilla was sticking her head out of the carriage with a sign of arrogance on her face.

I’ve been in a carriage for a few days now.

We were crossing the Great Wall and heading to the border.

Most people adapted to the rocking carriage, but Amilla could not adapt to the carriage.

“Cheer up.”

I comforted Amilla, who was moaning.

I thought people who get motion sick would be motion sick for the rest of their lives, but that wasn’t the case.

” Drivers. Arrived.”

“──────!”

Amilla jumped out of the carriage without stopping.

Then he stretched and started panting as if he had lost all strength.

“Queu~ I survived―···!”

I put my luggage on my back and got off the carriage.

The place where the carriage stopped was so familiar that I became intoxicated with nostalgia.

It is full of hastily constructed wooden buildings that barely seem to block the rain, and the roads are all dirt.

There has been a lot of reforestation, and work tools and items are scattered everywhere.

It seemed so familiar that I felt like I was going to burst out laughing.

‘okay. This is the army.’

Poor environment! A disconnected society! You stepped there!

It is the Trinity.

The barracks themselves had an almost festive atmosphere.

Because people come, it means there are people who will go.

“···What is so fun?”

“It’s just that I remember old times.”

Anne, who had been sleeping on my shoulder, looked up at me at the sound of conversation, woke up, rubbed her face, and stood up.

“See you later.”

She couldn’t answer, and as if Anne didn’t want to, she returned to the carriage with her classmates like a ghost.

Isabel’s eyes were fixed on Anne, who had disappeared through the wall, for a long time, and then they finally turned to me.

It was a disapproving look. Have something to say to me…

“Arrived! Get off!”

The coachman urges with an annoyed look in his eyes.

As he put on his military uniform and got out of the carriage, Isabel followed him.

‘I just have to last 6 months here.’

When that time comes, you will have the opportunity to kill Harold.

“Where should we go?”

The coachman, who was checking to see if any luggage had fallen into the luggage compartment, casts his gaze in this direction.

“The unit supply officer in charge will come out to meet you. You can wait here.”

The coachman fell in love with Isabelle at first sight.

He would spy on Isabel hundreds of times over the course of a few days and help her without anyone knowing.

The sorrowful look in their eyes at the end of their relationship after just four days seems strange.

“Do you think it will be very difficult to be the Deputy Chief of the Guard?”

Jean sits down on the rock next to me and looks up at me.

“The search team will take care of the search, and the guards will just stand guard and report. It’s not you who stands guard in the first place, it’s the soldiers who stand guard.”

“···That’s right.”

Come to think of it, this is the first time Jean has fallen out with Isabelle.

“The difficult thing is the search team. Because I will have to walk over the traps they have hidden every day.”

You will really roll around like a dog.

Surely someone under his command will die.

“···Isn’t the scout corps the one with the highest death rate?”

“Who do you think Nana Isabel will kill?”

“Okay. Don’t worry about those monsters. Because they don’t even know why they enlisted.”

Susan, wearing a turtle shell, approached, speaking sarcastically.

It seemed like only those who went to seawater hunting went there, and I also took care of those people.

Only six people.

Just for that reason, a wall was created with the existing personnel.

‘Not even the kids.’

I was dumbfounded so I just watched, and Isabel took the top spot.

He complained that he did not know how many drivers were ostracizing him.

In front of everyone listening.

Although this may be due to his young mental age, he looks like a 20-year-old adult.

Thanks to that, from that day on, my relationship with the other apprentice knights became completely estranged.

“Ah, I wish the Southerners wouldn’t be so damn annoying just during the dispatch period.”

“Me too.”

‘sorry.’

It’s definitely going to suck.

Because the monsters in the South know I’m here.

“Jean, shouldn’t you improve your relationship with Sherry?”

Everyone says they match up with people who are lucky enough to stick together, but not Jean.

Because I ended up pairing up with Sherry on my own.

Sherry showed quite a soft side when it came to interpersonal relationships.

Thanks to this, I am wandering around, not knowing whether I should become friends with Jean or with the nineteen knights who criticize us.

“Uh, huh?”

“You have to stay in the same unit for 6 months.”

I like sherry too.

Because it’s cute.

Jean nodded clumsily, got up from his seat, walked over to Sherry, and started talking.

Sherry began to worry between the other knights, who were looking at her with cold, reprimanding eyes, and Jean, who smiled warmly as she approached, but Jean quickly noticed her gaze and escaped.

“What are you doing?”

“Good job.”

Susan snorted.

“What on earth did that mean?”

Soon, several people wearing the Won rank insignia, a rank below Hyun, came, sat down in groups of twos and threes, and began calling out the names of the apprentice knights who were wasting their time.

“Susan de Heinel Deputy Chief, Deputy Chief Kailish de Wright, where are you?”

That’s the white commander of the supply unit.

She is a human woman.

“You didn’t forget what I said, right? If you don’t want to ruin the atmosphere, be sure to respect each other.”

“Okay.”

The two got up from their seats and left when the white leader called them.

Soon the white captain of the security guard came, and then the white captain of the search team came.

The chieftains came to visit the other apprentice knights and began taking them away one by one.

and···.

“···Why isn’t the reconnaissance team leader coming?”

The only ones left were me and Isabel.

I’ve been wasting my time for 20 minutes already.

“I guess I have to go find it.”

This is a unit that will withdraw after handing over to another unit that came up with us tomorrow.

In other words, this means that we will never have to see each other again in the future.

There would be no reason to become friends.

Even so, this kind of treatment was harsh.

“You all came to pick us up, right? But why aren’t you the only ones coming to pick us up?”

“Well, you might forget it, right?”

In the end, I had to go to the scouting party to inquire about the circumstances.

How far did it go that way?

“There! You are the apprentice knights who were newly transferred to the scout corps, right?!”

Two people wearing a Sohyeon rank insignia and a Jungwon rank insignia, not a crew rank insignia, were running towards us in a huff.

One was an apprentice knight like us, and the other was a non-commissioned officer who had put a stake in the army.

“Yes. That’s right.”

The Hosot male was Sohyeon, and the Terup female was the midfielder.

He’s tall.

“I’m sorry! Because I didn’t receive the handover properly!”

‘Taking over?’

Baek In-jang is a non-commissioned officer.

Why is Vice Baek In-jung, an officer, taking over it?

“It’s okay.”

For whatever reason, the position of Baek In-jang became vacant.

There is only one reason for that.

Campaign or warrior.

“Hmm! hmm! Welcome to the scout corps.”

The temporary chief of staff gave me an unwelcome greeting.