High School Soldier
Do you want me?

It had been past midnight since the trial had gone awry, indeed no one would have expected that the Hero of Anger and his subordinates were saved when the punishment would soon be meted out on them. Everyone is of course surprised by the disappearance of the rescued captives, but the most surprising is still the action of Nio who can make a hero-level figure helpless. People were wondering about Nio's true figure as well as how strong he really was.

Meanwhile, in one of the inn rooms, Jonathan sat on the edge of the bed with Kambana asleep. She was deep in her thoughts regarding what Nio did on their ‘mantan’ best friend both.

Jonathan sees his best friend, Nio, beating up one of the strongest people the Alliance has like fighting with a punching bag. He still can't do anything to stop the young man – from endangering the hero and the Peace Army itself. He was afraid that bad things would happen to Nio after making the Angry Hero almost die. Jonathan goosebumps as Nio suddenly kicks Rio's head very strongly, and it could be that the hero's head breaks if he's still an ordinary human. The sound of Rio's head hitting the floor so strongly echoed, and continued to be heard in his mind until tonight. He could not imagine if he was in Rio's position, and he could feel what Nio was feeling when he thought of treating Rio like that.

He could imagine what Rio had done when attacking Iztok City, until he was battered and almost dying by Nio. Jonathan could feel the very deep hatred Nio had towards Rio when the Hero of Anger started to change since siding with the Alliance. However, he himself thought of starting to feel what Nio was feeling, namely anger and hatred towards the Alliance.

However, Jonathan felt he was not as strong as Nio and up until now was just an ordinary Student Army infantryman with a bit of special ability. According to him, if the event came back, and he was required to fight with a person like a hero, he felt that he would not be able to do what Nio did to Rio – who was an Angry Hero. Actually it was not something that he had to think about, but Jonathan felt he still had to think about how weak he was rather than the current Nio.

Jonathan feels that if the luck he has is too great, the fact is that he can be engaged to the queen's younger brother Yekirnovo Kingdom who is now asleep nearby. Meanwhile, he felt that Nio had no partner until now, precisely he felt that Nio was insensitive when there were dozens of girls and women glancing at him. Jonathan felt that the matter about the couple for Nio was none of his business. He only thinks of his position now, namely as one of the Expeditionary Force personnel sent back to a potential battlefield called ‘otherworld’. Jonathan was allowed to stay in Yekirnovo as proof that Indonesia had established an open relationship with Yekirnovo with evidence of a soldier they were engaged to the country's younger sister queen.

Because of this Jonathan felt he would not develop if he continued to accompany Kambana, meeting with the nobles of the Kingdom of Arevelk government, while he did not have much training time.

As he pondered about it, he heard the sound of the dragon's screech and the flapping of its wings that were not loud enough, and all the innkeepers were not bothered by the sound. Jonathan stopped thinking about the thing that was weighing himself down, and slept beside Kambana who suddenly hugged him a moment after he had enveloped her body.

Outside the inn, a wind dragon handler belonging to the Arevelk Kingdom air force orders his mount to fly after picking up someone. This kingdom had two hundred wind dragons, that number was including very large considering the type of wind dragon was extremely rare and famous for being extremely powerful. The dragon handler did not dare to look back in honor of the person his queen ordered to pick up.

Meanwhile, Nio was seen clinging tightly to the waist of the handler controlling his dragon mount. He did not think that the fantasy animals he was riding could fly at high speed when the night air was cold. But, she only wore her hoodie and her daily uniform pants as well as flip-flops to protect her from the cold of the night. On the other hand he did not dare to reject the call of a queen who ruled the country called Arevelk, because he had received an award from Sigiz.

Nio thought that his duties would be more and more after receiving the award from the Kingdom of Arevelk – which allowed him to circle the country at will without thinking about borders, Black Zones, or anything like that. He had received an award that made his status equivalent to a high noble, even higher than his current rank. Meanwhile, he and members of his 12th Team received a promise from Suroso in the form of a salary increase of five hundred thousand rupiah. In addition to the promised raise, Nio and his minions get a reward of ten pieces each ‘Valiki’ for Nio's subordinates, and twenty Valiki for the person who managed to cripple the Hero of Anger, Rio.

Valiki is the highest value in the financial ranks of the Kingdom of Arevelk, which is a pure gold coin with a mixture of super rare precious metals of this world. The diameter of the money is about twenty centimeters with a thickness of ten coins five hundred rupiah stacked. Valiki value is equivalent to one hundred common gold currencies called ‘Kalip’, so it could be said that Nio's subordinates had obtained a thousand pieces of gold and he himself obtained two thousand pieces of gold with just twenty pieces of Valiki.

Sometimes, after getting the luxury awards and gifts, soldiers from the country who are paid with ‘paper’ wonder after getting such a big prize, “Can we move country and become warriors here?”.

When Sigiz decided to give the 12th Team such a large reward, the nobles suddenly acted in panic.

“Your Majesty... Don't you think giving these otherworldly people ten and twenty Valiki is so excessive?”

However, Sigiz calmly replied, “About that, if there were no troops of Mr. Nio, would this city be able to survive. The enemy is said to have weapons similar to those of Indonesian, Korean, and Russian forces. With our current strength, the capital could have been captured by the enemy.”

Most high-ranking nobles had only one to four Valiki, while the lower nobles mostly had none of the Valiki but averaged between five hundred and five thousand Kalipti.

“Not that amount can buy a part of this country?”

Nio who heard that sentence was of course so shocked that his two hands holding the sack with the contents of twenty Valiki trembled violently, and inwardly said, saying, “Have I made this country almost fall poor?”. Meanwhile, he saw his subordinates smiling widely as they held large pieces of gold without any guilt.

“Not fifty Valiki is our one year budget equivalent, even exceed.”

Once again Nio said inwardly, “Gawat, I really made trouble with just this money. Maybe it's better I just return it, then my subordinates alone get the reward.”

All the possessions of the nobility of this country, if they were collected and made into Valiki, then there would not be five hundred Valiki. And thinking of giving twenty otherworldly warriors ten and twenty Valiki respectively to their commanders, the entire nobility wondered, “How big is the home country of Nio and his army?”

When viewed from the technology of this world, especially the Kingdom of Arevelk, they might still be mining gold and other metals by hand, using traditional hoes and shovels. Even with the help of monsters and half-monster humans, and their still very traditional mining methods, the total amount of gold and other precious metals would be around less than ten thousand tons per year.

In addition, even Arevelk itself has not found new mines and new ways of managing mines in the country.

That way, it could be said that Valiki was the most valuable value of money of the Kingdom of Arevelk. Meanwhile, Sheyn gained new knowledge about determining the value of currency in his country that still uses ordinary currency.

If the Kingdom deliberately produced Valiki as a 12th Team present, it would cause inflation and make the country's spending difficult. It will also affect the value of other money. Fortunately, Sigiz gave Nio and his subordinates gifts from his own family's possessions, and without taking from the state's treasury. So things that are feared such as inflation or more severe things can be prevented.

If Valiki owned by all members of Team 12 brought back to Indonesia with the same value of about a thousand pieces of gold, the, where on average one piece of gold in the Kingdom of Arevelk weighs a hundred grams, then they sell it there, the largest gold producing countries such as America, China, and others, and the EU and other nuclear power owners are most likely to launch their nuclear weapons into Indonesia. Because twenty Indonesian soldiers had made the gold market fall freely, and the whole world economy collapsed as a result of them selling Valiki.

Even if there was a chance of the Alliance giving up, and they would compensate for the damage they had done, Nio thought he could ask them for damages equal to one million Valiki – if the Alliance member countries had the same kind of monetary value as Valiki. Nio only followed the example of neighboring and allied countries after the battle. If there is a possibility that the Alliance will surrender, Indonesia can ask the Alliance to provide compensation in accordance with the damage they have done in Indonesia. Of course, the compensation will be used and given to the families of war victims, in addition to compensation for ammunition, labor, food, fuel TNI when fighting with other world nations, and the soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Alliance's first raid on the Expeditionary Force.

But, Nio thought that the Alliance would not easily give up, and that was a annoying thing.

When Nio imagined what would happen if he sold one Valiki and its impact to the world, the wind dragon handler told him that he had already arrived in the courtyard of the Cloud Palace. Then, a female servant Demihuman approached him and asked Nio to follow him to meet Sigiz.

**

Elsewhere, Sigiz should have fallen asleep tonight, but he had not drowned into dreamland and was sitting on the balcony of his room which was in one of the towers in the Cloud Palace.

There was no way he could sleep if the situation was like this, namely the saving of the Hero of Anger from the punishment he had inflicted on the man.

He had decided the punishment for the Hero of Anger and his subordinates was to be buried in half of the body leaving only the chest to the head, then the people will stone the Hero of Anger and his subordinates until they die. The punishment is the same as the method of capital punishment called ‘rajam’, while in this world such punishment is called ‘jiza’. The method will cause the convicts to be tormented due to the continuous stone placement, and only stop until they die. Arevelk gave jiza sentences for people convicted of killing more than fifty civilians without weapons. While the Hero of Anger and his subordinates had killed seventy-eight of his innocent citizens.

Moreover, at least he had slightly lightened the burden on his mind after giving the people involved in facing the enemy who attacked the city all of a sudden a deserved reward. As a result, almost the entire territory of his kingdom asked to invite these people to their territory. Of course Sigiz refused on the grounds that guest safety was the most important thing of all. However, what made the headlines was someone who was able to injure a hero so bravely, even though that person was still injured as well.

Sigiz was frustrated when he found out that Nio was injured when he faced an enemy who suddenly attacked the capital, so he thought giving credit to the young man was not enough. In addition, some high-ranking nobles in his government advised him not to only give the young Indonesian officer an award at the level of ‘Lariq Sudor’. At least they wanted Nio not to ask for rewards after risking his life while facing the Hero of Anger.

Everyone knows if fighting a hero must be with the same strength as the strength of the hero being fought. But, Nio has debunked the myth, and managed to injure the Angry Hero – one of the strongest heroes of – with ‘blank hands’. Although in the end he had to receive treatment because the injuries he suffered were quite severe. Later, Nio received the ‘Lariq Sudor’ award from the Kingdom of Arevelk and was given to the queen directly.

Sigiz's chamber balcony was quite high up from this floating landmass, about twenty meters away, so that he could see the capital and nearby territories. He drank the best tea that was a gift from the North Korean government and snacks obtained from the minimarket that stands in the Special Region of Indonesia in the New World. She likes good biscuits and pastries that are often served on holidays or such, occasionally she also enjoys instant noodles on the advice of someone who is an instant noodle maniac.

The clothes Sigiz wore tonight were quite revealing, with the thighs clearly exposed. White leather-covered thighs reflect the light of two moons belonging to the planet of this world, and make it look shiny. The chest of the clothes also did not cover the entire part, and the large mountain hemisphere was clearly visible.

Sigiz has obtained some information about Nio – from the cooperation of ‘underground’, and of course not all information about Nio can be given to him. Thanks to that, he learned that Nio was appointed an officer at a fairly young age, around twenty years old, when most young officers were appointed when he was twenty-three to twenty-five years old. In addition, information about Nio's favorite is the thing that makes him dress openly like that, although he does not know the term ‘film mature’ which is Nio's favorite in addition to instant noodles and cold coffee. However, other personal information is very confidential, so Sigiz only gets ‘less obviously’ information like that.

Sigiz continued to flip through the thin book that contained several pages of information about Nio that had been converted into the language of this world.

**

Meanwhile, Nio was walking with a rabbit-eared Demihuman female servant.

“(Bersin)!”

“Master, are you unwell today?”

“No-tida, there may be people talking about me.”

**

One of the palace towers where Sigiz leads the country looks very bright and beautiful, although only illuminated with thousands of small and large candles in all corners of the room. Some witches have lit up some important rooms with ‘light’ magic, but it only lasted a few hours before turning dark again.

Nio can see a lot of luxury goods and furniture that are on display, and may be expensive if sold in Indonesia.

In fact, palace visitors like Nio had to be interrogated first by the palace guards before being able to enter the palace. However, ever since he arrived at this place, not a single guard had blocked Nio's steps as he walked proudly in the circular hallway of the palace tower.

Once he saw some realist paintings hanging on his way to the room where Sigiz was, he guessed that the paintings were the leaders of the earlier Kingdom of Arevelk. Several guards coming from the elite Arevelk forces stood guard, and were more organized than before.

Nio still did not know what Sigiz planned on him when it was still midnight like this, his premonition was so bad that his stomach was nauseous even though the atmosphere of the room was very beautiful. However, he saw the waiter walking in front of him occasionally looking back, and smiling sweetly as if something was about to happen to him. Since this was such an important part of her etiquette and courtesy, she could not possibly refuse a request from a queen to meet her, even at night. Nio felt he still had to endure until this was over, even though Sigiz would do something very dangerous to him.

Then, when the servant stopped in front of a door, Nio was forced to follow him. After that, Nio let the maid open the door that was somehow the room behind it, Nio only imagined that behind the door was the throne room or something.

Even though he tonight wanted to go to sleep immediately and did not want to receive a call from Sigiz, he felt he could not get angry or relaxed for now.

Usually, he would only wake up in the middle of the night when there was a sudden attack signal or his trainer suddenly doused the entire barracks with ice water. Actually, he wanted to sleep until tomorrow morning because that was the time for the 12th Team to return to base as the last troops returning from Arevelk Kingdom. After all, it's too late to have a meeting with a queen.

When Nio lifted his head and looked around, the first thing he saw was that he was in a room that was quite spacious even though it was on a tower. Then, on one side of the room there is a bed complete with pillows and blankets that are ten times the size of the large bed in the barracks, and maybe the bed can accommodate up to twenty people. Surprisingly enough in a room this wide there is only a bed.

However, Nio wondered regarding the presence of mosquitoes in this palace. Though in the Holy Land the presence of mosquitoes ‘otherworld’ is very disturbing, and more troubling than Indonesian mosquitoes.

There are three windows and a large door in this room that connects the only balcony in this room, and makes it possible for the owner to enjoy the scenery in the wild, and on the balcony there are chairs and tables complete with dishes.

In that chair there was someone.

He heard a crisp sound from the biscuits the man had eaten, as well as a brownish-colored liquid indicating the drink was tea. A woman was soaking in the moonlight, and enjoying the view outside.

“Why hasn't he come yet?~”

The person spoke in a sensual tone, and sounded very seductive.

The person's cheeks were flushed, the legs were so slender and smooth that it looked like they were getting expensive treatments at the best salon.

The one sitting there was the one who called Nio to this tower, Sigiz.

He was not wearing the state attire or the usual attire he wore for the meeting, but Sigiz was wearing a very revealing outfit. But Nio believes that the clothes are the usual clothes of this country, and have nothing to do with other things. The girl's long brownish-colored hair swayed in the wind, and the entire skin on her body was clean. When Nio noticed Sigiz, he felt that he was spying on a young girl who was having fun alone. However, since he was a teenager who dreamed of being able to see the nice body of the perfect girl, he noticed Sigiz so eagerly. That way, Nio's attention had been confiscated, and it was never released.

However, as soon as Sigiz noticed Nio's whereabouts in his room, his pupils instantly turned lewd. She groaned softly and sweetly, and her sharp eyes stared with an adult gaze towards Nio's eyes. He was already waiting for this opportunity, and using the guise of ‘ had an important meeting with Nio’ to do so ahead of the other girls.

No man can resist Sigiz's will even though he will give his body to an ordinary man as well as a young officer. Because Sigiz was nervous, he felt his moans were unable to make Nio bright’ang.

“Well, I'll do it,” for Sigiz it can be used as proof if he is serious about his feelings for Nio, even if it is only used as a gift.

However, he did not know the proper choice but to do so and something that could make Nio unapologetic had already helped Arevelk in dealing with the enemy until his body was injured. As the queen, she had been getting a lot of pressure from her father and some people to immediately look for a man and have a successor. But she has rejected hundreds of proposals from other country leaders or high-ranking nobles of neighboring countries, she does not want to get married for political reasons.

According to him, surrendering himself to the person he loves is not a bad thing, but it shows how serious it is to love the person he loves. Although Nio was not a noble or an iron knight that most girls dreamed of, but the young man's excesses were neatly recorded in Sigiz's mind, making him fall in love as if heaven had sent him down. Especially he was the one who was designated as ‘the one who was foretold’ by the divination handed down by the gods of this world. With evidence of the descent of an Envoy and declaring himself a personal servant, it has been strengthened if Nio is ‘people who predicted’ that will help one of the two groups of this world in the future.

Sigiz planned to tease Nio with his ‘elk’ body and dull the young man's senses with his scent. His every move seemed to say, “Do you want me? Do you want to have me? I will give my body to you, but if you want it, you must give yourself to me.” and others. He would tease Nio until the man gave up then fell in his arms, and then the two of them would do warm and scrumptious things on the fragrant bed.

Sigiz placed both of his palms on Nio's chest, then rubbed them gently. Nio's bewildered face added to Sigiz's desire to immediately push the man into bed, his body getting hotter even though outside the night air was cold enough to wear thin clothes like Sigiz was wearing now. Then, her delicate index finger stroked the scar on the left side of Nio's neck, and felt Nio stiffen a little because of that. Nio realizes he is in danger, but his legs refuse his orders to move to escape from a dangerous monster called ‘female’.

In both physical and personality, Sigiz is really the woman of Nio's dreams, even beyond his shadow. But, the thought of the young man said another, for there was a woman who had filled his heart. However, his eyes said otherwise, he could not take his eyes off the beautiful body of the woman in front of him. Then, his legs betrayed him, and was unwilling to accept the order of retreat from his mind. Not infrequently, actions are not like what is thought, even very many people who ignore feelings and choose direct actions without thinking.

“Sorry, Queen-,” Nio's words came to a halt when the index finger on Sigiz's right hand touched her mouth, as if ordering her to shut up.

“I know, you already have Miss Arunika, don't you?”

“Why do you know, do you have any magic reader feelings or thoughts? Do you have a special agent spying on me every day?”

Hearing Nio Sigiz's reply only smiled faintly, yet remained seductive.

“That's all wrong, Mr. Nio. I know, the main one in your heart is Miss Arunika. You know, I don't carelessly choose a partner, and you exceed the requirements to be my partner. Even if you're going to make me second, third, or whatever it is I don't care. As long as you accept me too, I'll be very happy, so..”.

Nio's mind is partly centered on Sigiz speaking as if he wanted to propose, but his other thoughts are reminiscent of scenes in Japanese fantasy novels and comics he's read, with predictable endings. Well, he wouldn't be surprised by what Sigiz would say after this, because Nio thought Sigiz would ask him to be a lover.

In addition, she feels passion for the adult movie star she once watched is nothing with the passion Sigiz has that is very hot and tempting.

“... let's get married and have a descent –.”

Just when Sigiz was convinced he had won the battle with his heart and embarrassment when he said that line, HT's ringing and loud tremors bothered him.

It was probably called by the term ‘plot twist’. It was like pouring a bucket full of cold water over his head, and all Sigiz's efforts were in vain.

“What is it?” sigiz asked with a flat face but his cheeks remained flushed because it held the desire for him and the shame that spread throughout his body.

After that, Nio explained to Sigiz what HT is.

“Basic useless objects that do not know how to choose the right time and place.”

Angry and annoyed Sigiz walked away from Nio and sat on the edge of his bed, but Nio apparently chose to come out of his room while talking to someone through the small black object. He bit the pillow until it almost came out, then rolled around on the mattress like a child while grumbling and cursing all the technology that made him fail to get Nio's heart.

Outside the room that had made him tormented, Nio said in his heart, “I am happy”. He did not hear what Sigiz said at the end of his sentence, so he did not know what purpose Sigiz had asked him to meet in the girl's room. After her breathing was under control, she took HT in her hoodie pocket, and spoke to the person who contacted her, Hassan. He was told that the pick-up helicopter was ready to depart, and he asked Nio to return immediately and leave for the headquarters on time.

**

Arunika does not plan to rest at all even though she has just returned from another world, and watched her former sister who is now her lover – Nio, fighting with enemies who attacked Iztok City suddenly. He himself was not surprised by the surprise attack made by the enemy, but seeing the battle from another world was a new thing for Arunika, Lisa, and Nike.

After the battle was over, he saw Nio was injured but did not harm the man. He had seen Nio injured many times, both in training and fighting. She actually dislikes a bad ending, and she hopes her relationship with Nio ends that way just because the man is serving on a potential battlefield called ‘otherworld’.

Arunika's only friend during Nio's stint is Lisa, whom Nio asks to stay with her. Of course she happily stayed with Lisa, even though it did not treat the loneliness in her heart. He knew that a soldier would only get a very short leave of absence, and not worth the assignment of months or worse than years.

He could not help but feel sad and lonely, and only the photo when Nio took a picture with him during the ceremony of the promotion of all Expeditionary Force soldiers some time ago on the background of his cellphone which became a reduction in the sense of longing for the existence of Nio. However, the existence of the dozens of women he thought were interested in Nio was a hurdle he could not ignore.

Unfortunately, the existence of two queens from another world he knew named Sigiz and Sheyn is an impossible hurdle for him to cross. The status between her and the two women was too far away, and the chances of the teacher losing to the queen was huge considering the average otherworldly female was quite beautiful and attractive in his opinion. In fact, if you have to fight the two of them so as not to snatch Nio from him, for Arunika it feels prostrate and kiss the feet alone is not enough to prevent being taken from him. Such shadows kept haunting him, but he realized Nio still thought of him as a big brother and not a lover even though the man had already accepted his feelings.

“Why don't you finish your breakfast immediately? What are you thinking?” ask Lisa who sat together at the dinner table.

“Ti-no. I'm just worried about the two queens who seem to be very interested in Nio.”

“Yeah, I think they're both impossible rivals anyway. I myself felt it impossible to get Nio from both of them.”

Arunika almost spouts her food when Lisa says it, and of course Lisa is very surprised by Arunika's over-stretched attitude.

“K-k-k-ka-you like Nio?”

“I know she's yours, but your relationship is still a couple. So, there's no harm in me trying to snatch it from you, right?”

“So this is a declaration of war, nih?”

“Of course, I hope you prepare yourself.”

However, all Arunika can do from this world is pray for Nio's safety so that he can return alive, even though their relationship is less clear.

**

It's a real picture.