High School Soldier
Is the name less worthy?

27 Days had passed since Team 12 was sent to the front line to guard the 21st Border Zone.

There was no assault nor any sign of movement from the nearby enemy forces, and as has become the routine of the team captain, Nio wrote down the activity report yesterday and two days ago casually while listening to some of his members who were doing their respective activities.

Since the beginning of the assignment to this zone, Team 12 had only experienced one battle, and there were no casualties or injuries, either, it was as expected of a team filled with elite soldiers and led by experienced captains.

“Letnan, there was a call from Captain Lee Baek Ho for you.”

Bima looks always put on a fierce face, even though he is not as everything imagined. He was the trainer of prospective Student Army soldiers in the Blitar Garrison, and earned the nickname ‘Muda Life Torture’ among prospective soldiers. ‘Temarah’ is the code name that Nio gave to the young man because it is considered more suitable and not too intimidating than giving him the code name ‘Checker’.

Nio put down his pen after the report from Bima he heard, and the two walked to one of the functioning tents where resources and communication with the central headquarters were located. Therefore, in this tent there is a series of cables and some cube-shaped objects that are storage of electrical power aka batteries.

Nio put the radio communication headphones on the right ear casually, and said a greeting with his direct superior.

“Good day Captain Baek Ho.”

“Happy day Nio. I hope you eat right there. Great job for 27 days, as always.”

Nio muttered that the way the man spoke was like mothers who were worried about their children following the peach at school. Nio could hear if his boss's workspace was busy enough, so there was the sound of some people shouting or grumbling.

True to his first impression, the Undead was the type of person who was calm and a little reserved for some reason. There were some team members who asked Nio to leave their greetings to Baek Ho.

“Letnan Nio, I will start with the departure of additional members for your team..”.

While listening to the conversation of Captain Lee Baek Ho and Nio who continued their exchange of words, Bima spent time in this place by trying to connect the communication signal of the 12th Team with the nearest border guard unit. This team needs to know about the conditions of the nearest border zone and communicate with each other.

Around the tent where Nio and Bima were, there were some members who made this place a gathering place. Nio was not at all bothered by the noise of the other members, but Bima's face showed an expression not ground with a noise from outside, like a time bomb that could explode at any time. Nio then gave a signal to Bima to hold back, but he also felt restless with Bima's emotions that looked less stable.

Others were gathering in tents or monitoring the situation with Hendra on a tree. And their cheerful voices could be heard from where Nio was.

If there were no calls from the center like now, Nio would prefer to spend time at his desk taking care of reports and other documents. Hassan occasionally talks about planning work tomorrow, and the other members occasionally interrupt them by singing in a strange voice, almost similar to the singing of a mentally ill person. The men's tent was like a headquarters that could function for all things, including Hevaz and Edera could use to work together to tempt Nio who was at work.

Nio, as the team leader seemed to have no objection to his members frequently harassing him, as long as they did not forget the main task of monitoring the border. He will remain silent even though his members throw some bullets to hunt chickens ‘purba’ or animals of this world that can be eaten, he said, of course they consulted with Edera and Hevaz in order to distinguish between edible and inedible animals. He will also order his members to fire several warning shots when he sees the enemy trying to get close to the border line, and he will beat his members if proven to hurt an enemy who does not try to do something that endangers this team member.

Seeing this peaceful atmosphere (but not for Bima who looks like she wants to shout to ask her friends to be quiet) Nio talks to Baek Ho while sipping coffee from the cup, which makes it Zefanya. The girl also made coffee from instant powder for Bima, but her main goal was still Nio.

As if to interrupt an important conversation between Nio and Lee Baek Ho, a cat voice sounded quite loud.

Nio was a little surprised to hear the sound of the cat, but he was second-guessing the cat owner.

“Is Miss Ilhiya there, Captain?”

“Oh, yes. It turns out that you know one of the officers of the Arevelk Kingdom's magical army, huh? In addition to Miss Ilhiya, Queen Sigiz is also here.”

“I've expected.”

At the place where Baek Ho was communicating with the Undead, Ilhiya seemed to want to say something to Nio to replace his queen who was seen standing with a blushed face. Ilhiya hugged the cat she found when she first visited Karanganyar, aka the cat ‘mantan’ stray cats who went up class became pet officers of the Arevelk witch army.

The existence of Ilhiya's pet cat that looks small was able to make Demihuman cat-eared (one of them Edera) restless. Because in this world there is only a Demihuman half-cat, the existence of the original cat brought directly from Indonesia is a new existence in this world, and the only one in this world. The demihumans were half-cat restless and thought their ancestors were real cats like the one Ilhiya had kept.

“Nona Ilhiya seems to want to talk to you.”

“Oh, let me talk to him.”

Not knowing how to put a radio communication headfree in his ear, Baek Ho is forced to help the girl to pair it. He was a little surprised when he could hear the voice of someone who was not nearby, and it was almost the same as the communication magic that the royal magicians mastered but with a more limited range. Ilhiya assessed if a small communication device in his ear did not have a distance limit if he wanted to use it.

“Mr Nio, by the way the cat I got from your country turned out to be very useful. He hunted almost every day the bully beasts that ruined the palace's foodstuffs. He caused the pests in the food storage room of the Cloud Palace to decrease by a great deal. All the pests that are obtained and then eaten by him, is it natural?”

Hearing the words of Ilhiya who keeps cats ‘otherworld’ makes a little smile on Nio's lips. It feels strange if there are otherworldly people who keep animals ‘otherworld’.

“Who is the cat's name?” Nio tried asking before entering the real conversation.

“Olog.”

“Where did you get that name, what are the words of this world language? I haven't heard it.”

“What name is less worthy? I thought it was a good name even though it meant nothing.”

It seems that the name does not exist in the language of this world, and may be a new word added to the dictionary. But the inventor of the word must determine its meaning in earnest.

“Then, what do you want to talk about?”

Ilihiya looked at Sigiz's face telling her to speak, but the girl asked her queen why it wasn't she herself who was talking to Nio. Sigiz replied that Ilihiya only needed to say a message from him to Nio, and if Nio asked he only needed to answer “Sigiz was not present”.

“Ummm. 3 more days there will be ceremony celebration ‘Year Changeover’. Then, you will be a guest to celebrate the ceremony in the Cloud Palace. This is a direct invitation from His Highness Sigiz, so you have no right to refuse it!”

Sigiz gave his two thumbs up when he saw Ilhiya was very totality in carrying out orders. Lee Baek Ho who has not mastered the language of this world can only look at the innocent face of Ilhiya who spoke to Nio, and choose to work on some documents that have a deadline for submission today and tomorrow.

Lah kok maksa, that was how Nio thought about the invitation Ilhiya said.

Nio put up like a thinking person (though all he had in mind was how this world person celebrated another world, The Undead of Life seems to have found the answer to that compelling invitation.

Lee Baek Ho asked for more headfree that Ilhiya still uses after crossing the agreed deadline. Meanwhile, Sigiz uses his authority as the leader of a country to prevent Baek Ho from seeking to request the means of communication.

Instead of making Sigiz frown and the relationship that had been made with Arevelk was fractured just because he forced to ask again for his communication tools, Baek Ho kicked his chair and occupied it again. Sigiz, who saw the North Korean contingent soldier was upset, smiled as if he had won.

“What happened?”

Ilhiya's face looked puzzled, and took off the headfree in her ear that seemed to be cut off by the 12th Team's signal.

“Is there a problem, Miss Ilhiya?”

Sigiz looked at the North Korean with a suspicious look, but he saw that Baek Ho had not done something that caused the communication between Ilhiya and Nio to be cut off suddenly.

After all, the communications tower has not been fully built, and relies on emergency signals if you want to communicate with personnel carrying out missions outside the headquarters, of course with limited signal range as well.

The two girls then came out of the Reconnaissance and Battle Corps staff room after learning their communication was cut off suddenly. Their gloomy faces were the concern of the entire man in this room, as it did not hide the beauty of the two of them at all. Even Lee Baek Ho was almost fascinated with Sigiz and Ilhiya, but got rid of his delusion after remembering his son and wife at home and Nio's closeness with them.

Sigiz felt that at least the news that Nio was invited to the Cloud Palace had been conveyed, and that the matter received or not by Nio was nothing to worry about. But he remained worried about the young man and his team after the connection between the two of them was cut off, and imagined if the enemy suddenly attacked the team's camp.

Shortly after Sigiz and Ilhiya walked out of the room and only a few meters from the entrance, Baek Ho's face revealed a grinning smile. He retrieved the communication tool again and asked the communications staff to connect it with the interrupted 12th Team signal.

“Why did the connection suddenly disconnect? What happened, Bima?”

Bima checked again whether the signal of this team with the center was still connected or completely disconnected suddenly.

“Already connected again, please try.”

Nio installed a communication device after Bima connected the signal to the central headquarters, and could hear the voice of his superiors.

“I'm still connected to Nio, right?”

“Yes, you are still connected to me, Captain Baek Ho.”

Nio gave him a half-hearted answer after his connection was severed for a while, and looked at Bima who was visibly trying to keep the signal connected. There are quite a lot of buttons whose functions are not too understood, but Bima looks very skilled in communication affairs.

His superior then said once again that Team 12 would get additional members, and Nio was still the captain of this team. An additional 8 members were on their way to the 21st Border Zone, carrying additional vehicles and logistics.

According to Lee Baek Ho, Team 12 was the only Reconnaissance and Battle Corps team with the fewest members. Only that team consisted of 12 people, while the other team numbered between 20 to 24 members.

Meanwhile, Nio preferred a bit more qualified members, due to the easier setup that came from his experience of leading a squad. However, having more members in a team has several advantages, one of which allows dividing the team into two groups, where one group is on patrol along the lines of the 21st Border Zone and the other group secures the camp and takes care of other things, then the task can be done in turn.

Both connections were then cut off after Nio got word that additional members would arrive in 3 hours.

**

A fortress was built about 5 kilometers from the border line between the territory of the Holy Land which was controlled by the troops of ‘the other world’. The fortified fortress with a 5-meter-high wall with several balistas on it made it one of the most magnificent structures that the Luan Empire had besides the Emperor Palace and the bridge that spanned the largest river in the continent this, as well as being a natural trench to defend the palace from enemy invasion.

However, since the Indonesian forces arrived and retaliated against their actions over the previous war, there were several ships that had large cannons on them (tankboats). The weapon belonging to the Indonesian forces passed in the Turku River at a speed exceeding their warship, and it fired several shots that destroyed several sides of the palace and military base near the capital until it was almost destroyed with a large explosion produced by cannonballs on the ship. It was one of the results of a bombing operation before the Expeditionary Force returned to Indonesia, and left the Sea and Water Unit in this world for a while until renamed the Peacekeeping Force Marine and Water Unit (when the Expeditionary Force was withdrawn, an AL TNI soldier left behind in another world nearly destroys the Imperial capital of Luan with a nuclear weapon transported on a destroyer).

After all, with the technology possessed by the countries of this world, the 30-meter tall fortress and bell tower had become the grandest building. With a fort between 4 and 8 meters high, and then weapons and archers on top, they would have a strong defense. The number of fortifications in a country is also a symbol of a country's strength.

For now, let's change the story.

In one of the rooms in the front fortress of the Luan Empire aka this Alliance, there were five people who seemed to be the commander of this front-line stationed army. That is, they are placed in the territory directly opposite the enemy territory (Guild).

The room is lit with several medium-sized candles. In order to maintain the strength of the fort, the rooms were deliberately not equipped with some kind of window. If you want air to enter the room, you just need to open the door to feel the cool air. However, the door is always closed tightly if there is an important meeting or meeting, so the person inside must hold a sultry until the meeting ends.

However, their humiliating defeat when 400 cavalry planned to storm a small army of enemies guarding the border ended in failure. Only 98 soldiers managed to save themselves and were able to return injured due to unexpected resistance from their small opponents. The resistance given two ‘ iron’ floats made the army almost destroyed, up to 98 soldiers had to desperately to save themselves from the unreasonable force of the enemy mounts.

The defeat haunted the minds of the five army officers in this fortress, each of them had a grim expression on their faces that was approaching an angry expression mixed with despair.

The Alliance's unreasonable orders made them lose quite a number of soldiers. But some are also one of the army officers in this fort who only send 400 horsemen rather than mobilize all their strength which amounts to 5,000 soldiers.

They were very sure that the fortress they defended could not be penetrated by anyone, but that belief soon disappeared and was replaced with feelings of anger and confusion.

The Alliance was the greatest power in the world since they declared that they would destroy the enemy force's home country, return the Holy Land to the Luan Empire and conquer Yekirnovo to be Luan's territory again. They possessed tremendous military might and immense wealth emanating from their six member states, with the Luan Empire as the largest power-owner among the other member states.

Even a child would know that that was the reason the Alliance Army was feared by countries on other continents.

Now, the troops in this fortress are again receiving a message to attack back the enemy forces guarding the border. Their alias must come back against the enemy that defeated them in the first fight a few days ago.

This army only had human soldiers and no monsters. Monsters or Demihumans who had lower intelligence than humans were treated like war horses.

“Only with three ‘steel cart’ and ‘cloak iron’ they almost destroyed the troops we sent.”

The Alliance officer who was from the Empire of the Sirds got a response to his remark with the gloomy faces of the other four officers.

“Good news, only ten people became enemy captives,” replied the Alliance officer who came from the Kingdom of Salodki.

In this world war, the fewer soldiers one had that died or became enemy captives, the better. If good fortune accompanies the captives, they are most likely sold into slavery, but if bad luck approaches the captured soldiers will end up executed.

“We also do not know the winged figure that helps the enemy small group. Is he a messenger of gods or something?”

“God's permission? Has the person foreseen already descended?”

The officer from the Luan Empire laughed and said, “Hahahahah ~ there is no way the person foretold has come down. But, if he goes down, maybe he's one of the nine heroes.”

Sighing, they recalled the conditions when the nine heroes who served the ‘kabur’ Alliance from the battlefield when the relief force for the enemy arrived and defeated their 300,000 soldiers. However, still they are grateful for the help and knowledge provided by the nine heroes, because thanks to them the Alliance managed to kill thousands of enemy soldiers.

The five officers again discussed the main topic, the order to attack again the enemy group they had faced before.

“All we need is to send all the soldiers in this fortress. What is the difficulty of killing an enemy group member who has a steel wagon?” other officers responded to the words of the officer from the Kingdom of Biez while imagining their troops who have ‘baja’ cart.

“Their weapons seem to be stronger than before, maybe that's what makes the small group beat 400 of our soldiers.”

The fortress standing near this border line was a very dangerous frontline, where hundreds of their soldiers were killed. Now, with the rest of their soldiers, they must fight an enemy group they have not yet defeated.

Moreover, if their large numbers were able to defeat a small number of enemies, it would be an overwhelming victory that they could dedicate to the Alliance.

That way, they prepare all the strength to attack the enemy's small number.