High School Soldier
Choosing a neutral path

The car that Nio was driving stopped at the empty parking lot that was in the hotel that he was supposed to be staying at last night. The hotel is within the Forbidden Area, and is exclusively populated by Expeditionary Force soldiers. There are several hotels outside the Karanganyar City area that are used as temporary residence for soldiers before returning home.

Then, after a few steps walking in the parking lot, Nio was blocked by two soldiers. The two soldiers who were both Soldiers Two were new members of the Karanganyar Garrison, and some members were in charge of guarding hotels or inns inhabited by Expeditionary Force soldiers or guests from other worlds.

The two of them saluted according to protocol to Nio, and he felt that it was only the first time he had seen the two soldiers.

“What Are You Lieutenant Nio Candranala?”

“Ya, it's me.”

The two Main Force Commando soldiers smiled, and looked relieved after meeting Nio. The young man felt that the two soldiers had a strong aura despite being only 18 years old, like the one who had not completed Kopassus-style hell training for so long. Other people could describe the special forces soldiers as pressure, but to fellow TNI soldiers, Nio the gazes of the two soldiers in front of him were more like sharp gazes.

“You have been waiting for people named Sigiz, Edera, and..”.

One of the soldiers looked confused as he was about to continue his words, his friend was also seen only shaking his head when asked the other names of the people who were looking for Nio.

Nio realized that they did not remember the names of the otherworldly girls. Nio then smiled, but the two young soldiers took a step back. They felt that the pressure of people who had fought in another world was enormous, almost the same as the members of the special forces.

“Is there some other world women looking for me?”

“Ah... yes, that's what I mean.”

And after this, there were 5 girls running towards Nio and the two soldiers were. It made the two of them only speechless after seeing the otherworldly girls, while Nio only sighed deeply.

Meeting otherworldly girls was not Nio's plan after arriving at the hotel, he would rather sleep and prepare to become the President's aide at 1pm later than meet them.

Lux ran past Nio, and jumped from behind then hung on Nio's back with her hands wrapped around his neck.

And right after seeing this, the two soldiers in front of Nio said:

“Ehhhhhhh~~~!!!”

The shrill cries of despair from the two soldiers, which sounded almost similar to the man left behind by his lover.

Then, the other two warriors of the same rank as them both pulled and stayed away from Nio and the otherworldly girls. If looked closely, the two of them looked almost in tears after seeing Nio who was approached by beautiful girls with perfect body shapes.

It was an exaggeration to be envious of someone, but what happened to the two warriors was not a lie. For most men, being surrounded by women is a dream.

“What are you doing in front of Lieutenant Nio? Don't you know, he was a special forces member who managed to kill the enemy commander.”

One of the soldiers second friend who had been desperate said so, and made the two of them even more desperate with the facts mentioned.

“Tidaaaaaaaak~~~!!!”

Their faces now looked pale, and that was an exaggerated truth. Looking at the special forces members surrounded by many women, it made them both want to curse this world and shout his anger towards the people they met.

Nio just stood looking at the behavior of the two soldiers, and the sound of laughter was heard, and from the window of the hotel are seen soldiers laughing when they see their comrades both running in pursuit while shouting words so that they both understand, then comforting them both like victims of sexual violence.

Nio felt that this kind of scenery had happened before, when he was with Liben and Chandra escorting other world girls who for the first time visited Indonesia a few months ago. Not only Nio, Liben also recalled the Chandra's shared memories, and laughed after the two warriors' friends almost desperately calmed the two of them who had exuded an aura of gloom.

The reaction of the two of them being so excessive was a matter of its own for Nio. There were some people who set their eyes on Nio, and that gaze felt like Nio had been violent towards that resulting in mental injuries for the two soldiers.

“Let's go, Mr. Nio.”

The request came from Sigiz who was wearing the usual clothes the girl was wearing when going to an official royal event.

"Go? Where's where?"

“Circling your hometown until the time for the meeting arrives.”

Originally, Nio wanted to accept the invitation of the two of them, but he sensed there was an extremely powerful killing aura from behind him.

“Sister, do you and Lisa's sister want to accompany them around Karanganyar. I still have to prepare the necessary for the meeting later.”

Without a second thought, Nio could guess if the person emitting a killing aura from behind him was Arunika. Then, there is Lisa who just wants to see Nio and hopes to spend one day with the young man. But, it seemed like the two of them's plan to spend today with Nio was delayed, and had to accompany the otherworldly girls to get around this city.

The two of them had not expected earlier if today Nio would get a job that did not match his salary. Work related to the future of Indonesia's relations with Arevelk and Yekirnovo is difficult and complicated, considering the political views of the other world are quite different from this world.

Then, the existence of otherworldly girls is a challenge for Arunika. He was only worried about Nio if he forgot the answer that this girl had been waiting for. For Lisa, maybe she looked at Nio as much as Arunika, she did not look at Nio as just her best friend's sister. Then, Nio's priority to his work is too big, so there is little time together. But it is a risk to Nio's choice to become a soldier, he and the closest people to Nio must be ready not to meet for a long time, with the risk of a very big job.

Arunika and Lisa quite understand the reason Nio asked them to accompany the otherworldly girls around this city. After all, after today there is still tomorrow until it is time for Nio to return to his job.

But, however, their presence in Indonesia at this time will cause a lot of problems if without military or police escort. And the reason they invited Nio was that he was a reliable soldier to just escort some girls.

Sigiz and Sheyn are the leaders of a country that must get a high level of security, and Indonesia will get a big and complicated problem if something happens to them both. Then, if the two of them chose to be escorted by hundreds of cavalry soldiers who were brought to Indonesia, it would only create a stir. Lux, Edera, and Zariv can be said to be able to be both of their bodyguards, but their status in Indonesia is VVIP, and their security is still prioritized.

Escorting an official guest was no trivial task, even when thinking about it made Nio want to escape alone. If he wanted to, he would hide in the place where it was most difficult to get him found. However, the huge task on this day left him unable to do just that, and he could not get out of the Forbidden Area without a clear purpose.

Then, there could be some countries that send their people, and are wandering around the Karanganyar City area, or even around the Forbidden Area. It could be that the task of the people of the foreign country is to forcibly take some guests from the other world, and that is something that the government and the military must prevent at all costs.

“How about we go back to our respective places.”.

All the girls accepted Nio's invitation by force, as long as Nio's invitation made them not far away from the young man. After all, the place where the other world girls stayed was not far from the hotel where Nio was.

Nio walked behind the girls, while ignoring the envious gazes of some male soldiers and hotel staff.

Arunika turned her head back to make sure that Nio was still nearby, then slowed down her path a little to walk beside her. Nio looked towards the side, where Arunika was walking beside him with a face that looked happy even though it was not very shown. She herself was very happy when she finally had time with her brother, even though the time was limited.

Then, Nio suddenly stopped his steps and let the girls continue walking while talking about a topic. Arunika who was beside Nio also stopped her steps, and looked at Nio's face that looked wary of something with confusion.

Then, Arunika looked in the same direction as Nio, which was to one of the power poles in front of the hotel. He saw only a few white feathers and a pigeon flying around the cable that was propped up by the pole.

“What's up?”

Instantly, after Arunika asked like that, the thing Nio saw disappeared.

Previously, there was a person whose gender was not yet known sitting in the cable row. With two wings on his back, perhaps that was what caused the person to be able to balance up there. But the question is, why can the person survive while sitting for a while in the row of high-voltage electrical cables?

Nio who realizes that this is one of the fantasy phenomena does not want to think much, and considers if the person perched on the cable is one of the guest bodyguards from another world. Well. because Nio has also seen a lot of absurd things that only exist in fantasy novels, he said, so consider the sight of people sitting on PLN's cable is part of the absurd.

Nio realized that his brother would not believe it if he saw someone sitting on the power cord smiling and answering the girl's question, “No… hope the meeting ends well like today's weather is very sunny.”

**

Previously, Nio left the girls in the hotel's dining room on the bottom floor of this hotel for them to have lunch. Although it made them upset that Nio did not come to lunch with them, but his promise that would catch up with them after doing something made them a little calm.

Nio walked in the hallway of the hotel room, looking for his room number. There were some people who looked at Nio with suspicious gazes, but some of them looked at Nio with usual because they had previously seen a soldier who also brought a woman into his room.

When Nio was still patient to find his room number, Liben who was walking with Ivy greeted him and made a stop to answer his greeting.

Nio who saw Liben holding Ivy's hand looked at the young man with a suspicious look. Meanwhile, Arunika only thinks with the actions that Nio will do against her in the hotel room later.

“You guys... won't do anything right?”

Nio's words really sounded suspicious of Liben if he did something like before.

Previously, if Chandra had not reported Liben's actions towards Ivy to Nio, surely the young man would have to take responsibility and their marriage both went ahead of the original plan.

Ivy tried to defend Liben, and make a woman behind Nio as such an excuse.

“She's my sister, I just want to talk to her.”

Nio answered Ivy's question calmly, but he saw Liben's eye gaze that kept seeing her brother ever since they met in the hotel corridor.

“You already have Ivy, so my brother don't you embat also.”

Nio then passed by Liben and Ivy, and moments later found his room number.

Meanwhile, after hearing the remark from Nio, Ivy gave a sharp look to Liben. The young man felt that apologizing was definitely not going to be enough, and chose silence when Ivy started with his scolding.

The voices of people who sounded dislike of Nio who brought a woman into the hotel room sounded simple to each other. It made Nio want to shout as loud as possible if the woman he brought was his brother, and not a woman who can be hired for a certain period of time. The situation got worse when Nio locked the door of the room, and made some people talk about it.

This situation made Arunika feel if Nio would do the thing he had in mind. He could even imagine if Nio had bought a safety device when the two of them would do just that. If that happened, he could do nothing and stick with the situation.

Arunika did not mind if her first man was Nio, but the feeling also felt a little strange if the two of them actually did so, especially in the middle of the hotel rooms filled with bachelor soldiers.

The room is only illuminated by sunlight coming out of the window that is blocked by curtains, so the dim atmosphere makes the shadow Arunika more wild.

Moments later, Nio came out of a small room called the dressing room. He was only wearing daily uniform pants and a plain grey t-shirt. The clothes that Nio was wearing were not at all identical to the thing that Arunika imagined, she did not even see Nio changing clothes.

Arunika's thoughts about what Nio will do to her are only her dangerous imagination. If Nio could guess what she was thinking, her relationship with him would definitely fall apart.

Nio then stood so close to his body that he could see every scar on Nio's skin. The young man's skin was rough and unkempt, while his curly hair was as messy as ever. The young man had panda eyes, a tall body with muscles that could continue to grow with skin that was getting darker than the last they met. Even so, Arunika still feels that Nio's skin is still brighter than the soldiers from Papua who passed him earlier. But, Nio was still shorter than the other male soldiers. But, he had already grown much taller than before becoming a Student Army soldier.

Arunika who has been with Nio for more than 10 years feels that the smell of his body is still the same, and that is what makes his heart racing quickly.

Some of the sharp object incision scars on Nio's left hand are proof that he was earnest in carrying out his goal of protecting Arunika. The girl thought that she would let Nio do anything to her as the payment had fiercely protected her, even that was a forbidden thing in their sibling relationship.

“Ya.”

And that was the first word Nio had said since entering the hotel room with her brother. But, to say that it took a long time for Nio to gather his courage.

He still remembers Arunika's statement of feeling when he became a member of the Expeditionary Force and will soon be sent to another world. Nio was annoyed with his thoughts that only kept on remembering his brother's words, but eventually he had a relationship with Indah.

However, the unfortunate situation messed up Nio's relationship with Indah, where the two of them were in a hostile camp, and made them not meet for a long time. Nio was not sure if his relationship with Indah would continue if the war still occurred until the time that had not been expected. Then, there must have been some people in the Alliance who were interested in Indah, and made Nio unable to reclaim her.

Her relationship with Indah made Nio slightly forget her brother's previous feelings, and when reminded of that Nio thought he had betrayed Arunika.

Nio only knew Arunika when she was 6 years old, precisely after her father married her sister's mother. At that time, he was still a child who knew nothing but snacks and fighting. Nio assumes that Arunika was his biological sister until he was 19 years old, but not with the girl.

Nio's father and stepmother wrote a secret, and they gave Arunika, then 16 years old. They both felt that Arunika had been able to keep this great secret. Where should he tell the secret if Arunika was not his biological sister when Nio was 20 years old. Then, the secret was revealed before the time came because Arunika was worried if Nio had another woman.

Then, tomorrow is June 4th and on that day Nio will be 20 years old. He knew Arunika was a good sister, and understood the difficult situation after both of their parents died in a work accident.

By the time Nio heard that he and Arunika were not siblings, plus the girl expressed her feelings for him, that was when Nio realized the power of a woman who could keep a big secret for that long, as it was, and there are rarely women like that.

Although this is not the right time, but Nio has answered Arunika's statement of feeling.

The two of them were in silence and a dimly lit room, and Nio felt the situation was uncomfortable. His heart was beating much faster than when he had fought in the previous war, it was only an Arunika in front of him.

“What are you talking about? It's not clear..”.

Nio felt it was obvious if what was said was that it was not at all clear what the subject and description were.

“A-I just answered the feeling statement that sister used to say.”

Instantly Arunika stood on her feet, and her face flushed a little even though her heart was happy after knowing Nio had not forgotten his words.

However it is not wrong Arunika has told the secret that their parents made, because he was only worried if he could not say that anymore if bad things happened to Nio during his time in the other world.

“I'm so confused what to call you..”.

Arunika's words clearly indicate that they both accept each other. Arunika confusion can be understood because of the age of those who are adrift 6 years. If the man is older than the woman, he can call her with the call ‘Dek’ while the woman can call him with ‘Mas’ in front of his name. Hearing Arunika who wanted to call out to him with such a call made Nio hold back a laugh.

Then, Nio felt that the two of them had been in the room for too long, and he looked at the time on his watch. Nio's eyes widened after seeing the time that the watch he had shown after officially becoming a Student Army soldier.

Though there was an important meeting that Nio had to attend as an aide and representative of the Student Army, but he was confused by the call Arunika meant.

“Sial, I'm late.”

Although the reason Nio was a fact, there was a feeling that it was sacrificing something important. As young people, they want to do what lovers do, and Nio is not a workaholic. Then, Nio gets rid of his dirty thoughts, or there will be a case of sexual crimes that drag him down, and who becomes his own brother who is now his girlfriend.

However, if he did not come to the meeting now, perhaps he would have been fired from his job and returned to a bleak life.

**

Meanwhile, outside the room in which there are Nio and Arunika…

The people walking in the corridor of the hotel looked at the astonished 6 women standing near the door of the room inhabited by Nio, with the addition of a woman. Fortunately, not many people knew that Nio had brought a woman into his room. And most importantly, Liben and Ivy didn't say anything about it, or they got dragged along.

It seemed that the six girls did not care about the people looking at them the same as looking at the peepers. Even the hotel staff in charge of monitoring the security of the corridor where Nio's room was located through the surveillance cameras only shook their heads while calling the security officer. However, all security officers who would immediately crack down on the actions of the six girls were actually blocked by several Sigiz and Sheyn bodyguards who wore full metal armor inside the hotel.

The number of escort soldiers inside the hotel was around 60, and they were assigned to deal with the security officers who might just drive the six girls away eavesdropping. Of course the view of the otherworldly warriors inside the hotel was puzzling, and some people took their photos on a whim.

People who saw 5 otherworldly girls with the addition of Lisa wondered, “Are they really the queen and her bodyguards?”, “What are they doing here? Eavesdropping?”, “Not them girls who are close to Lieutenant Nio?”

Hearing the last words, Lisa looked worried. Even he was more worried about women from other worlds than Arunika who had become Nio's girlfriend. So far, he had received anything regarding Nio as long as the young man kept his eyes on him.

The good news, there is no debate between the six girls after Nio and Arunika become lovers. But instead, they look the other way around, with Sigiz and Zariv smiling happily, Shyen and Lux smiling as necessary and almost closing in on a small smile, while Edera and Lisa do not know should smile like them or cheer.

If Nio knows the action of the six girls, it will be difficult to say, “They are my air” or “They are my friends”. Maybe Nio can try other options, for example, “They are all my girlfriends”, but after that he will soon receive a military subpoena.

Teaching people from the other world the ways and customs of this world, especially Indonesia, seems like an uphill task. But, as an ordinary teenage boy, he certainly had an imagination where he had many beautiful women of good stature.

“I'm glad Mr. Nio and his brother officially became lovers.”.

Sigiz said that with a happy-looking face, and an almost identical expression Zariv showed.

“Your Highness, why are you happy Nio and her brother became lovers? Isn't that forbidden?”

Lisa who does not know the language they use can only be silent, then Sigiz asked Lisa to answer his question. He was surprised when what Sigiz asked was the relationship between Nio and Arunika's brothers.

“Ya.. they are both indeed not blood brothers..”.

Lux's heart was shaken after hearing Lisa's statement translated Sigiz.

“Then, why do you look happy, Your Majesty?”

“Because I'm going to be Mr. Nio's second wife, or just be his concubine is enough. Ah~ imagining it just makes me impatient.”.

Hearing Sigiz's words that sounded like a mental disorder, Lisa stood staring blankly and with a pale face. She doesn't believe what Sigiz says that sounds like the girl's greatest ambition to be Nio's second wife or concubine.

Lisa doesn't want to say something that might upset the other person's pleasure, nor does she lie about her feelings with Nio, and thus he chose the neutral path rather than taking the aggressive path like Sigiz and those otherworldly girls.