High School Soldier
Guessing the President's head

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After that meeting ended with Hayvan Kingdom becoming a new member of the Guild officially.

President of the Republic of Indonesia, Surya Roso Asmoro –, abbreviated as Suroso –, held its first diplomatic meeting with King Lobo. They were in a meeting room in a building that was established by an Indonesian contingent on the outskirts of Iztok City. Not many people live in the region, citing limited access, but, even though Indonesia and its allies from the other world did not bother about the distance to the city center from the suburbs thanks to their steel carts and iron dragonflies.

The three bodyguards Lobo brought were a lion-headed Beastman full of passion and experience, a rabbit-eared Demihuman male warrior, and a female servant with bird wings on his back. They are sure Suroso and his aides will be fascinated with what otherworldly people call ‘fantasy’ creatures.

“Sorry to keep you from resting, His Majesty the King of Indonesia.”

When hearing Lobo mention the name of Suroso with the rank of ‘raj’, Nio spoke, “Please call him President Suroso, His Excellency Lobo.”

“What did you say, Nio?” Suroso does not understand the meaning of Nio's words, he has not learned the language of this world further so it must require the ability of a translator from Nio.

“I just told King Lobo that Indonesia is led by the president, not the king. In addition, it seems he has trouble pronouncing the name of people from other worlds, Mr.”

“Do not make our potential allies feel uncomfortable, yes?”

Suroso's meek rebuke made Nio only able to nod. He could understand why the people could admire Suroso so much despite being a young president, although not a few parties who had made his name dirty and reduced electibility in the upcoming election.

“Sorry, I don't seem to be used to this atmosphere yet.”

What Lobo meant was a situation where he had his first state meeting with a leader from another world. The self-esteem that people have from a nation in the world that is coincidentally connected to this world. He had previously thought, “If Indonesia has a very brutal armed forces, it seems like their leader is not much different.”

But, Lobo's view immediately collapsed after seeing if the leader of another world nation called Indonesia was a young man who should be the brother of the bodyguard behind him.

“Happy to meet you, Your Highness Lobo. I'm Nio Candranala. I'm ready to cooperate with you.”

Nio's introductory remarks contained elegant, no-nonsense words as complicated as most military nobles who each introduced themselves had to say excess or other trivial things that were a waste of time.

Lobo could understand why there were two queens who admired him – besides the green-clothed warrior was a foretold Hero of Hope. He had the look of an experienced teenage warrior, evident from the sheer number of wounds and his attitude.

“You!” Lobo suddenly let out a snatch, which did not seem to scold the three guards.

“Good. I am Tsov, General of the Hayvan Kingdom ground troops,” said the lion-headed Beastman.

According to the information, Hayvan Kingdom is very dependent on its army in the event of a battle. The lack of a fleet of sea and air forces them to take advantage of all the advantages, namely that the majority of soldiers have the ability in silent and fast close combat. Fighting in the forest and enclosed places is their expertise, with the main tactic of attacking quickly and closing the enemy's movement by cutting off the path of arrival of aid or killing important targets belonging to the enemy.

“I asked for permission to introduce myself.It's nice to meet you. I am Iuvar, special infantry commander of Hayvan Kingdom. Sorry if my words sound nervous. This is all because of a fake female servant that I met a while ago,” said the rabbit-eared Demihuman man.

Hearing the words of the rabbit Demihuman, for no apparent reason Nio seemed to turn his face away like he was avoiding something. He realized, ‘ fake’ female servant Iuvar meant was Ardi who he ordered to be a sissy for a while for the sake of the Presidential escort mission.

“I'm a winged race man, Mosca,” said the bird-winged female servant was brief.

It turned out that the winged girl was indeed just an ordinary servant, so thought Nio and the Paspampres around her.

He had a perfect slender body, perhaps for the sake of maintaining his mobility while flying in the sky. Although they had seen similar races in comics or fantasy novels, the Paspampres members around Nio muttered how beautiful Mosca was. Nio does not deny it, the girl has a female look of fantasy world that all adherents of a strange religion named ‘otaku’ expect.

But the Envoy Goddess of Death and the God of War who were currently sitting in one corner of the meeting room could not be ignored, especially her beauty that made many men envious of Nio who was not too perfect to approach many beautiful girls.

Then, Lobo started a conversation:

“I want to know what Indonesia wants to do against the Alliance, Mr. Suroso.”

“If they want to have a peace discussion, I will gladly accept it. I have no intention of continuing to fight with them, many of our young soldiers are willing to abandon the joys of adolescence in order to take up arms. However, our armed forces cannot be prohibited from not fighting for the sake of guarding the country and its people.”

“Before the war, it looks like your country is very peaceful. The world is full of instability. As we speak in this safe haven, there may be villages looted and destroyed by the Alliance forces, and no one knows when we can stop them for good. The promised Great War period might make the Alliance act that way. The Alliance actively seeks a loophole to continue fighting and fighting, under the guise that Indonesia is the enemy of this world and carries out a noble mission in the form of seizing the Holy Land.”

“Even in such a situation, the Indonesian troops in this world can only be made as a martial army. Defending ourselves and the country and its people from the threat of the Alliance is their duty, our fighting men. In an increasingly unstable world, that is all I can give. I don't want the soldiers toil endlessly like cattle, sacrificing for war for nothing. Many families have lost their heads and children in battle, we cannot allow that to happen again despite the increasingly threatening war.”

Without a second thought, Suroso let his mouth talk about his feelings. Since being given the task of leading the country, Suroso has been desperately trying to avoid heavy losses due to the war, saving the country he led from the crisis.

Lobo seemed confused by Suroso who spoke as if to love the people was an act that must be done by a country. But it was a natural thing he thought after a moment of thought. It was the thing that made him wonder, but he had no thoughts about maintaining the self-esteem of the citizens.

“That, the decision you took, right?” ask Lobo.

“Yes. However, it was the decision of the founders of our country.”

Adjutant Suroso looked at Lobo with an intimidating look, but he was sure that all three of his bodyguards were doing the same. If he returned asking another stupid question, he would only show a pitiful side of her.

“Tuan Suroso,” says Lobo. “I don't know what Indonesia's true purpose of this event is. In the end, the main purpose of your troops here is to protect the country and its people, right?”

After Lobo said that, a number of Demihuman warriors jumped from the window, whereas there were several teams from Group 1 guarding around this meeting place. Did the Hayvan Kingdom plan something from this meeting, as it appeared that a Demihuman warrior was carrying a sack on his shoulder.

(olog note: Paspampres has four Groups. One of them is Group 1 which serves to escort the President and his family. Each group has about 4 detachments)

“I'm not sure you'll spare the Alliance after seeing this,” said Lobo in an agitated tone, fearing that the Suroso guards would attack his bodyguards.

A Hayvan Kingdom soldier opened a sack that appeared to contain something heavy. A number of Paspampres members inside the meeting room prepared their respective weapons hidden behind black suits. A member of the Paspampres contacted teams outside the meeting room to tighten guard, not even allowing Arevelk to interfere.

Nio was shocked wordlessly as he looked at the contents inside the sack. However, all the members of the Paspampres in the meeting room directly aimed their respective pistols and mitraliur pistols at all representatives of Hayvan Kingdom after learning that in the sack was a person.

“Hold!” Nio asked all the Paspampres not to shoot anyone in this room.

The person in the sack is still breathing, indicating he is still alive. When he saw the man in his 25s had the characteristics of Indonesian people in general, Nio tried to resuscitate him.

“You're alive?”

He patted the man on the cheek, then the black-haired man raised his head with a somewhat surprised face. Shortly after, Mosca walked up to the man who had been removed from the sack, then rubbed his head like he was doing something to him. That made Nio and all the members of Group 1 Paspampres in the meeting room on standby.

“I'm from TNI. Are you Indonesian?”

When the man heard the words Nio – who could not name himself came from the TRIP Corps because it was not too famous – the man immediately stood up and hugged Nio. He must have suffered so much, that was how Nio thought, and that thought filled him with strength. He calms the man who said many words “Thank you, thank God!” and “Did you come to save me?”, then walk near Lobo with the carambit ready in his left hand.

Actually Nio and all the Indonesian contingent people in the world did not get a rescue order for citizens who were kidnapped by the enemy when the war was still going on in the world of origin. However, once he knows there are Indonesians suffering here – for the umpteenth time – Nio is confident the troops will act soon. Nio and the entire Paspampres in this room had one thought in common, which was to prepare for battle. If there was someone who tried to block Nio from approaching Lobo, they were sure to see something unexpected.

Thus, Nio walked up to Lobo unhindered, and let the Group 1 Health Detasamen take care of Indonesian men.

“I don't know why you can get a citizen of our country. I hope you tell me everything, with details,” Nio accidentally pressed the end of his words.

On the other hand, Suroso sighed when he saw his guards overreacting to scare the Hayvan Kingdom soldiers inside the meeting room. But, when the two saw that his citizens had been kidnapped and suffered in this world, he could not stop them.he smiled bitterly as Nio suddenly acted without his orders, saying, and then ask a question that sounds polite, but is filled with threats.

“What is your plan so make me talk about ‘rakyat’?”

“No. My goal is to tell you that we found people who speak strange language that was used by you when talking to your bodyguards.”

“Find?” ask Suroso question mark.

Even so, Suroso did not want the trust he had just built towards Hayvan Kingdom to collapse just because of one person. The two leaders should be able to separate personal feelings from the interests of the nation.

“Yes. Our border guard warrior found a man, it looks like he escaped from the direction of the Duiwel Empire. But when our soldiers asked questions, the man spoke in a strange language. She always speaks “Indonesia, my home is in Indonesia” using your country language, so.”

“So he tried to escape from Duiwel Empire, one of the Alliance member countries, until finally accidentally entered the territory of Hayvan Kingdom?”

“True.”

The three main bodyguards of Lobo stood frozen, in front of them was a group of soldiers who looked extremely strong escorting an ordinary citizen.

On the other hand, Lobo has said all things honestly. He was fully aware that fighting Indonesia would only make Hayvan Kingdom disappear from the map, and buried deep in his desire to fight alongside the Guild to fight against the oppressor named Alliance.

“Maybe there wasn't just one kidnapping victim caused by the Alliance. But, why don't you give up some citizens to prevent unnecessary conflict?”

The question of the lion-headed Beastman warrior, aka Tsov made Nio glare at him.

“You think being too fond of the people is a sad weakness?!” Nio asked in a loud tone, accompanied by a terrible angry expression that made Tsov, Iuvar, and Mosca tremble.

“Negaramu, Indonesia, may love his people too much. Such high trust in one or two people who have the potential to betray is a bad thing, and leads to huge losses. The people are sharp sword-eyes, while the government and military are only weak sword-handles. All that needs to be done to destroy a force is to break the sharp sword. In fact, the invincible army could not escape unscathed when the sword eyes were shattered, even though they had run to exhaustion for the sake of a beloved life. Once a country's strength was depleted, no matter how powerful they were, that power would be destroyed by those who managed to break the sword's eye. It is an unshakable fact since the past.”

Suroso then replied when Lobo and his people were threatened by Nio's and Paspampres' gaze, “Indeed, our country does have that terrible weakness. The TNI is trained to defend our country from all forms of threats. Do I need to show them my skills?”

“What do you intend to fight until the end,” Lobo asked Nio.

“Of course, because I am part of a country tool called ‘warri’. My country has survived a history of bloodshed, bad and unjust leadership, peaceful times of peace, until the war comes again as it is now. Wings hope, the role of the TNI in this war does not eliminate one or two countries in this world. Peace agreement is not a reason to stop fighting, it is just the beginning for a new war.”

Nio replied, because he realized that Lobo wanted to know the true power of his homeland.

“No one can go against Indonesia”, that's how Lobo thought about one of the Guild members.

Although Indonesia never wanted to go to war, circumstances forced the TNI to do its job. If Indonesia wants to do so, the TNI has moved from the beginning to the rest of the world to crush the Indonesian enemy one by one, spreading hostility far greater than just fighting against the Alliance. and if that happens, the Great War Period comes early, with the battlefield being this world with the main enemy of Indonesia and all its allies.

“If you could say that, wouldn't you refuse peace talks if the Alliance wanted it?”

“Indeed. So, please prepare yourself for the dire consequences if the Hayvan Kingdom betrays the Guild,” Nio replied with a gaze full of bloodlust.

“Alright, I trust Indonesia as our ally, and all Guild members. It's natural for you to try to threaten us. Do you think the Hayvan Kingdom dares to do such a disgusting deed?”

Nio replied, “I hope you already know the answer.”

Then everyone shut up.

Nio forces his brain to guess the contents of Suroso's mind about the next course of action for the TNI in this world. Nio began to worry if he would not get another vacation ration because of his President's order after knowing there were so many Indonesians kidnapped by the enemy.

In essence, Nio was worried about the contents of Suroso's head that were hard to guess.