High School Soldier
I thought it was just me

When he arrived at the training ground, Rio saw some of the Alliance's special heroes and knights already there, chatting with each other or training early. Rio decided to spend some time by doing the exercises himself, so he raised his magic assault rifle.

As he did a few shots, he felt a knock hitting his back and he stumbled a few steps forward. He managed not to fall, but the pain in his back that radiated all over the body was felt after the impact. He frowned as he looked at who was doing this to him, and looked at Baron and Arunak, and both of them wore irritating expressions.

Although he is a ‘mantan’ special forces soldier, Rio still has some weaknesses, including being insensitive with attacks directed to the back of his body. That was why, ever since the training began, Baron and Arunak took several chances to use Rio's weakness. The two of them did this on the grounds of eliminating Rio's weakness, and the rest took advantage of his weakness.

“What are you doing, Rio? You said you were a TNI soldier? Come on, you're really not like that.”

The baron laughed out loud, as if what Arunak said was a funny reality.

“I don't think I mind helping you, Hero Furious..”.

“It seems like a good idea..Friends, you better thank us for using some time to help a weak warrior like you.”

They both embrace Rio's shoulder, and take him to an inconspicuous place. Most people see it, but they pretend to see nothing.

“Oh, you guys don't need to waste time on me,” Rio tried to resist, even though it only made them both annoyed.

After Rio said that, loudly and quickly Baron slid his fist towards his side body. Then, Rio managed to repel the attack despite having to sacrifice his rifle as a shield. Baron and Arunak have continued to do harsh things to him since his weakness was known. While it is natural for teenage boys with hormones in turbulent puberty, it is not easy for people who have to bear the brunt of losing their postwar sanity.

Although there was nothing Rio could do but endure, all he could do was continue to endure to the end.

Eventually, the two of them managed to take Rio to a remote corner of the training ground that no one could easily see. A moment later, Rio felt something hit his back again. Arunak had smashed his sword sheath, and was met with another attack.

The baron then released some fireballs to Rio. Since the impact of the attack he had just received was impossible to make him bounce back, Rio by the side rolled to the side, and could barely dodge any of the flying fireballs. However, Arunak had expected Rio to dodge, so he released some hail of ice arrows towards him.

A few icy arrows scratched Rio's cheek right after he woke up, which made him grimace in pain.

The magic they both cast was a safe magic for a hero, but it was fatal when it came to ordinary humans. The reason Rio was able to dodge a few attacks was the ability of his warrior, which was combined with the ability of the hero he received.

“I said once again, are you really a soldier?” suddenly the Baron was in front of him, and quickly aimed a kick towards Rio's stomach. He desperately tried to fend off the kick with his rifle, while leaving some ‘granat’ where Baron and Arunak stood. The grenades were actually just fire magic, but had almost the same damage impact as hand grenades.

After the second ‘granat’ exploded, the bullying between heroes who were under the guise of joint training ended. Rio bit his lips, cursing his own weakness. He should have fought back, but there were some people who were too smart to take advantage of his weaknesses, including Nio.

He always gave up when cornered into a situation that seemed like it would turn into a very bad fight. And that attitude is what makes him always get a strong reprimand from the coach, or even from Nio himself. Some may consider it natural, but as a soldier it is an act that shows its weakness.

**

In a castle specially inhabited by the nine heroes…

Since three of the nine heroes were women, they slept in a single room with separate beds. Their beds were as comfortable as those of the nobles, and some of the room decorations were as mood enhancers. Everyone in this room took care of each other's weapons meticulously, and let the afternoon sunlight that entered the room from the window.

Beautifully glanced towards the window, only to see the sun that was about to set completely. The day that was soon night only showed how much time the heroes spent training and taking care of each other's weapons.

Actually the weapons belonging to the heroes do not need any maintenance at all, the weapons are very strong and sturdy. Since they had little god power, then they had the ability to repair each other's weapons automatically. Even if the strings on the arrow bow belonging to Indah were broken, the sword eyes belonging to Sakuya were broken, and Kalle's staff were split in two, then their power would automatically be absorbed into the weapon and immediately improve themselves.

“Hey, don't we do like anime figures isekai?”

Beautiful and Kalle immediately directed their confused gaze to Sakuya who said so. One of them both answered the question of the Japanese girl.

“Like anime? Isekai? What is that stuff?” kalle said with a confused face.

“Hah?” Lovely just showed a confused expression like Kalle without saying anything.

“Ya... anime, have you never seen Japanese animation, read manga or light novels?”

Lovely and Kalle looked confused by Sakuya's words, and Lovely jumped into the question, “ Looks like I've heard of the one whose name is ‘novel lightly’. After the news that the Expeditionary Force will be dispatched to another world, our soldiers queue up in bookstores to buy light novels and comics imported from Japan.”

“Hah?!” Sakuya almost cried out in surprise.

Imagining TNI warriors aspiring to buy light novels with fantasy genres in order to add knowledge about their fantasy world can make Sakuya almost laugh. It turns out that the JSDF is not much different from the TNI when war with other worlds, the military of both countries both need something that can increase their knowledge of other worlds. That is why since the war occurred until they were summoned to this world, there are still some TNI and JSDF soldiers who aspire to buy manga or light novels, because they have been addicted.

(JSDF: Japan Self-Defense Force, or Japan Self-Defense Force is an armed force in Japan established after the Japanese occupation by the United States post World War II)

However, Kalle who comes from Finland felt that what the Indonesian and Japanese military did to increase knowledge about the fantasy world was quite funny. Because you can see the fantasy life of Japanese comics and light novels, why does Indonesia bother to explore this world and research everything that exists?

“Forgot that.. Now what I think about our fate now is almost the same as the main character in the isekai anime. We are called to this world, but it is not our will. After that, there's a group of countries that want help from the power of our heroes. But, what we get after exerting all our abilities is just an insult.”

“Truely too, should the war be over after Indonesia takes control of the Holy Land. But the Alliance is precisely igniting a much bigger war and dragging us, the heroes, into the flames of war.”

Thinking of the words of Sakuya and Kalle, Indah thought about the fate of the person that some of the Alliance's higher-ups called ‘previous hero’. Did they also get treated like us when they did not win the war? That's a wonderful question about the fate of the earlier heroes who were called long before their time.

If the heroes summoned during the time of war between the Alliance against Indonesia had direct combat experience, of course it was not a difficult thing to give victory to the Alliance. Unfortunately, the heroes who had direct combat experience were only the Angry Heroes and Regret Heroes, namely Rio and Gurion who came from Israel.

Lovely said with a gloomy face as it remembered with Nio's face after their first meeting since he was called as a hero, “I also feel so.”

Kalle and Sakuya nodded in agreement.

These three girls feel very unlucky to have been part of a group of war enthusiasts who refer to themselves as ‘Alliansi’. The three of them then spoke on a free topic, one of which was about men.

Meanwhile, in a room inhabited by male heroes...

This place is on the bottom floor of this castle, precisely the room of the male heroes is in the basement. Just like the female heroes, they also cleaned their weapons from dust after being used to practice self-reinforcing.

But, the situation between the male heroes was not like the female heroes who could calmly discuss the talks they liked. After dinner, Arunak (a hero from Thailand) alluded to the strength of the Indonesian military if pitted against the power of all heroes.

“As I told you before, if the relief forces do not come, we can defeat the Indonesian troops that are in this world.”

“Yah... The power of the TNI is not as strong as you can see..they are only strong at sea, but somehow in the air and land.” Baron's remarks sounded like supporting Arunak's statement.

Theodore, who was from the United States who had great military power, was not happy with the words of Arunak and Baron just now. However, Baron and Arunak nodded in agreement as if their expressions were all true.

Gurion who was cleaning the blade of the sword using the special cloth provided only bowed down, and tried not to get involved with the dangerous talk of the Hero of Lust and the Hero of Hate.

The Enraged Hero, Rio, saw the empty magazine, but with the magic it possessed made Rio not worry about running out of ammunition. However, he still could not rely on his magic assault rifle when fighting, even though it had killed several Expeditionary Force soldiers. Then, regarding the talk of Arunak and Baron alluding to the power of the TNI, the action Rio chose was to remain silent.

Ever since he and the summoned heroes decided to help the Alliance, Rio felt that if Indonesia had declared it would fight all the enemies of Indonesia in the other world, it included the heroes. That means, the three heroes from Indonesia, namely Indah, Rio, and Baron have been considered as enemies, the worse is the traitor.

Rio was hoping to get a normal room, without having to share one room with two people who always took advantage of his weaknesses.

“It is possible that Indonesia cannot last one week if it is at war with Thailand.”

The whole eyes of the people in this room were rounded, not because of what Arunak said. However, it was Rio's actions that made them very surprised, to the point of setting up a series of spells if Rio did something reckless towards Arunak.

With a face that held back anger, Rio almost slashed Arunak's neck with his fighting knife. Meanwhile, Arunak was seen trembling after what Rio did to his words just a moment ago.

“You better shut up. We're all here heroes, we've all let go of our ties to the homeland. We may have been labeled as traitors in our own countries. So, do not talk about all the things about each country.”

**

After the transaction with the house seller is completed, and Nio manages to get his target house, Nio and Arunika plan to visit their new house after a short tour of the park.

No charge to enter this area, making Pancasila Park as an alternative place for cheap entertainment. This place becomes the center of the crowd most visited by young people who are dating or families who spend the night on weekends. Some people who came from outside Karanganyar City were seen taking pictures in front of Soekarno-Hatta statue and garuda statue, which looks beautiful when exposed to the spotlight. In some areas, there are children's games for rent, and that makes Arunika remember the childhood of Nio.

The young man beside him was now very much different when he was a child, Arunika considered that Nio was now much more reliable than before becoming a soldier.

At night, there will be more and more young people who are hanging out, dating, or just buying snacks sold on the side of the road, one of the young perpetrators who are dating is Nio and Arunika himself.

Nio was just walking behind Arunika, who should have been happy with their first date. Because the two of them often visit this place, either when coming home from school or vacation, so according to Nio this place still looks the same. Although he thought that way, there were some minor changes around the park, including work on repairing the sidewalks around the park.

Nio looked at his brother, aka his girlfriend who occasionally glanced at him who was walking behind the girl. But, Nio considered if Arunika did that to make sure if she was still behind him, and not wrong people.

Arunika is a beautiful woman, and belongs to the type of woman he likes. Arunika is relatively slightly tall, but much shorter than Nio, about 160 centimeters in height.

When walking in an area where there are many men, Nio hastened his steps to be next to Arunika. Some of the men who look like they are teenagers are heard to give words of temptation to Arunika. Nio saw that among the men, there were several teenage women who smoked. It made Nio sliced, as well as relieved that not only was he a youngster smoking.

(olog note: anjir is also the Nio.).

The place where there are quite a lot of teenage boys with their women feels quite lonely and dark, dark, so they look calm when doing various things as long as there is no Satpol PP conducting raids in this park.

“Comeback.”

“Ke new home right?”

Arunika simply nodded, and lowered her head to avoid Nio's gaze. The two of them keep walking to the car that Nio rented parked, but Nio curbed his curiosity with his brother, aka his girlfriend who lowered her head, and like avoiding eye contact with him

While walking towards their parked car, Nio stopped in front of one of the electric poles standing on the sidewalk. Nio looked at one of the brochures attached to it, and contained a job opening from a company. Arunika who saw Nio standing still in front of the power pole then approached him out of worry.

Nio read the name of the company that opened the job vacancy, but the name of the company only made Nio sad. Later, Arunika also reacted similarly to Nio after reading the company name section. It was the same company where their parents died from a work accident, even the positions listed on job vacancies were the same as their parents when working.

The company had experienced a decrease in labor due to work accidents that befell both of their parents. But, who would have thought if the company quickly rose, and restarted into a large textile company in Indonesia.

“Come, I can't wait to see the house my boyfriend bought.”

Arunika said that with a reddened face, with the aim of driving away the sadness in the hearts of the two of them. Meanwhile, Nio was a little surprised after Arunika said that, but she who is now Arunika's boyfriend is a fact.

“Sabar bit...”

**

At one of the places in the hotel's gathering room where Nio was staying for a while.

The few people present in this place directed their confused gazes at the six girls who glanced sharply at a girl they found from inside Nio's room. But, the girl seemed not to be bothered in the slightest with Sigiz and Zariv's sharp glances at her, and still drank the iced tea Lisa ordered for her.

Meanwhile, there were a few men directing their lewd glances towards the girl. The open clothes that the girl was wearing was a huge matter, so it was not wrong for the six girls to suspect her of being in Nio's room.

Edera and Sheyn did not know the girl in front of them at all, having never even seen her. Lux was also the same as them, yet she still had a calm expression despite her heart being very curious about this girl's relationship with Nio, as the six of them found her inside the room that Nio inhabited.

The girl has the physicality of Nio's ideal type of woman, and looks like a mix of East Asians with Westerners. But, the girl with Sigiz has a similarity, which lies in their chest size that does not make sense for Indonesians.

The existence of the girl in Nio's room was questionable, since there was absolutely no one who knew the movement of the girl in this hotel. Even the footage on surveillance cameras showed no movement of the girl, and only the usual activities of the hotel occupants were visible.

The bodyguards Sigiz brought were also not to blame for the escape of this girl until she could be inside Nio's room wearing her revealing clothes. According to Sigiz, this girl could use simple teleportation, or open an imperfect Gate for herself. It was a reasonable possibility, compared to climbing from the ground floor to the fourth floor.

Then, flying is easy for a witch, but magic energy that is completely absent in Indonesia makes it almost impossible to do. Unless the witch has a pair of wings.

“Do you have wings, and fly to Mr Nio's room, then go inside through the window?”

Sigiz asked like that in an interrogator-like tone, but his face still showed great suspicion towards the girl he was questioning.

After drinking iced tea from a straw and putting back her glass on the table, the girl replied, “True, I have wings, but I used teleportation to get into my master's room.”

Lisa who did not understand what the girl was saying could only shut up and chew on ice cubes. Meanwhile, after the girl answered Sigiz's question, the five girls sat looking as if they had just stepped on a landmine.

“You said he was your master?!”

Lux's sudden voice was very high making everyone in this place turn towards him, even some security officers almost call the police. Lisa is of course also surprised by Lux who suddenly screams, and makes her more curious about what the girl says to make otherworldly girls sculpt.

Lisa tries to ask Sigiz, but he is asked not to be surprised if he is very curious about what the girl is saying.

“Queen Sigiz, so what did he say?” Lisa further forces Sigiz to tell her the truth.

“She said that Nio is her master.”

“Master, is there still a master relationship with his servant in this day and age?”

The reaction given by Lisa was not expected at all Sigiz, the girl was still wondering with the intention of saying Sigiz and nagging herself.

Then, the residents of the hotel next door, namely Herlina and Dina, came with the intention of meeting Nio and giving some gifts. The two of them changed their goals after seeing Lisa and the otherworldly girls.

“Why them?” Dina wondered with Edera and Sheyn sitting around staring blankly, and Lisa nagging herself with an obscure topic.

The girl then turned her head towards Herlina and Dina, then smiled towards them like when she met the six girls who found her in Nio's room.

After seeing the beautiful face of the girl who was smiling towards him and Dina, Herlina seemed to know what caused the six girls to come to this.

“What is she one of the girls of Nio?”

The question came from Dina, and she looked limp after seeing the perfect beauty of the girl who could rival Maudy Ayunda, Raisa, even Sigiz.

“Hopefully not,” that is the answer Herlina gave to Dina's previous question.

“Greetings, I am Hevaz, my master's personal servant whom you called with Nio. So, I am Mr. Nio.”'s personal servant

“She can speak Indonesian~~~!!”

Meanwhile, Edera grew pale and muttered, “Kukira only I am the personal servant of Mr. Nio.”.

**

(hevaz illustration, image source pinterest)