High School Soldier
59. Preparation for the victory parade

16 August 2321, 09.11 WIB.

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Very shocking news spread all over the world, but most of the news was good news for this war. Everyone in the world celebrates this news with happiness.

The entire otherworldly army scattered all over the world began to retreat and re-enter the Gate. So that there is no other world army left in this world, except for other world troops who become prisoners.

Before the treaty to free the captives took place, the captives were not yet able to be released and returned to their origin. That means that all countries in the world if they want to return the captives must make a treaty with the host country.

In general, the world is at war with several countries on a continent located on another world. That means, hostilities are still going on and wars can erupt at any time.

But when this news spread, all people in this world seemed to have forgotten this devastating war.

Most news reports state that the enemy re-entering the Gate marks the end of the war. It was indeed not wrong, as the entire enemy force had entered again the Gate.

The spread of this news, coincides with a week after the order to clean up enemy troops in Indonesia. But the enemy forces in Indonesia cannot enter the Gate which is on the north coast of Java Island. Because the Gate was guarded by the TNI Main Force which was equipped with heavy weaponry and very complete.

They had to hide in some parts of Indonesia. That is good luck for the enemy forces, as the TNI Headquarters stated that the official purge stopped a week ago.

During the seclusion in the forest and other places that are rarely passed by humans, the enemy troops can not get out or they will be killed by the TNI. Forests do not provide much food, except for leaves that are either edible or not.

The enemy troops hiding in Indonesia can only surrender to their current condition. In the forest there is not much food, but if they come out the hiding place TNI troops will find and kill them.

The TNI Headquarters realized that there were very many enemy troops hiding in the country, according to estimates, the number of enemy troops hiding reached tens of thousands.

But they stopped the cleaning. If it continues when the decision has been made, the country's military would be considered a war crime.

The TNI Headquarters has also received news if there is an other world army in one of the areas in the Karanganyar Garrison. But the troops have been guaranteed not to belong to the country that is at war with Indonesia, until finally the troops get permission to settle temporarily with supervision.

Supervisory team is formed from troops in the Garrison, the minimum number of members is 30 soldiers with the Commander of one of the Bintara in the Company.

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This morning was the beginning of a bright day. Not-too hot, it was very fitting for the soldiers to do the exercises and such.

After the spread of good news, the atmosphere at the camp became different. Soldiers seem to get very excited while doing the exercises. Although Sigiz's army had also heard the news that the rest of the world's forces had retreated, they had not intended to return to where they came from.

Once every few hours, jets and helicopter gunships passed over the campground. This is more commonly called a patrol. The sound of the jet engine is very loud because it does fly low, making dragons and wyverns belonging to Sigiz troops not calm.

A dictionary book containing languages from another world had arrived at the supervisor team's camp. This book is compiled by foreign language experts owned by Indonesia, although some words from other world languages there is no meaning of ‘officially’ in Indonesian.

In addition to the camp of the supervisory team, the troops who are still in the underground city also get a dictionary book, and must master the basic words first.

Supervisory teams are still performing their respective duties, although their main task remains to keep an eye on Sigiz's troops who have not returned to their home world.

Although there was a watchdog team that never took their eyes off them, the Sigiz troops did not feel disturbed or anything like that. Instead they try to invite communication, maybe they also want to test the ability of other world languages of the members of this supervisory team.

Ever since the otherworldly dictionary books arrived, the entire army of the watchdog team trained hard to remember the everyday speech of otherworldly languages. Including Nio who had mastered some otherworldly sentences.

“I feel amazed with your country linguist,” said Ivy who saw Nio was learning another world language.

“I also feel like it.”

Continuous learning definitely made the soldiers feel saturated. They are all mostly still teenagers, of course if faced with the name ‘learn’ will feel lazy and synonymous with boring activities.

Including Nio who can not continue to learn other world languages, because the work that has piled up has been waiting for him.

Nio then leaves Ivy to continue the work that is piling up every day. Ivy only said to Nio with encouraging words.

The team members mostly do self-training, such as martial arts training and running around campsites. Sigiz's army also followed the habits of the soldiers of Company 406, because they also could not mediate themselves without doing anything.

Silence without doing anything, for soldiers is a boring thing, although some people still need the name ‘ does not do anything’. If every day did the same thing, it would indeed saturate.

Supervisory team members make a portion of the exercise during the supervision task. This exercise was also followed by the entire Sigiz army which only numbered 20 soldiers.

No one would mind if those otherworldly forces joined in this drill. As long as Sigiz's troops did not do anything suspicious, they were happy to train together.

“Nio, there is a call from Captain,” said Rio who is in charge of communication with the headquarters.

Nio then stopped writing things down, and received a communication device that had a design like a landline. But the device has a narrower range, and the signal is very difficult to track.

“Nio here, what is it?” ask Nio.

Connected with the commission, Herlina just wanted to ensure the presence of the supervisory team. It was the rutunity that Herlina almost asked Nio.

Even Nio had looked bored with Herlina's question that only discussed about Sigiz's army. His eyes showed a tired man listening to the same words.

Nio suddenly kept the communication device away from his ear, as there was someone shouting at the communication connection.

“Why…? Why can you enter Herlina's workplace?” said Nio with a panicked tone and a confused face.

Rio was instantly startled as well, then just shook his head and continued the work.

It was Arunika who just entered Herlina's workplace in order to communicate with Nio.

Nio also did not know if her brother had such a trait. Arunika is indeed a brave person, but not to do such an embarrassing thing.

Arunika only asked Nio the news, after not returning to the underground city long enough. Although it has only been running for 2 months less, but Arunika feels that time is running very slow.

Nio answered her brother's questions one by one patiently and a forced smile. That was because Arunika continuously gave such questions without giving Nio a chance to answer them.

Nio suddenly fell silent as Arunika asked a question.

“Yes, he didn't ask about you anymore sister.., or maybe not since then.” replied Nio with a face and a flat tone.

Ever since she heard the question from Ivy, Arunika looked extremely anxious. Because otherworldly people are like in fantasy stories. Arunika thinks that they have magic that can see one's secrets, and the biggest secret that she keeps from Nio is almost revealed.

Arunika then returned the means of communication to Herlina. After that Herlina said a few words to Nio.

“Oh yes, for the independence ceremony tomorrow. Is there a special agenda?” ask Nio.

Herlina then replied, if tomorrow there will be a victory parade in the center of Karanganyar City after the ceremony. Nio and some of the soldiers will be included in the celebration, the rest will continue to carry out surveillance duties.

That means, Nio will return to the underground city with the team members who followed the victory parade. Surely the event was temporary, and after the event was over Nio and his team members would return to supervising duties.

Nio did not break Herlina's words, he seemed to accept the order with pleasure because he could stop for a moment from continuing to see hundreds of papers piling up on his desk.

For the members who will follow the victory parade, Nio is free to choose who will follow the event. If not selected, the entire team will definitely volunteered for the victory parade instead of keeping an eye on the troops who have no idea what their true purpose is.

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The preparations for the victory parade were already seen on the streets of Karanganyar city center. Some volunteers put up some decorations on the road guardrails and street lighting lamps.

Preparation for the victory parade is actually not only done in the Karanganyar Garrison, but the entire Garrison in Indonesia. Because this devastating enough war had already stopped, so it was well worth celebrating.

People from the suburbs also took part in the preparations for the victory parade, as they felt it was also appropriate to witness this event.

Indeed, there is nothing prohibiting if people from the suburbs to come, especially the general public. But for some parties, one of them high-level society considers if people from the suburbs are things that must remain on the outskirts.

It was an open secret of this country that even the world did not know about. Because at this time, the system that sort of ‘kasta’ differences is repeated again. I don't know what happens if this secret is revealed to the world community that has already considered if the Indonesian people as people who do not discriminate with each other.

“What Nio will also follow the victory parade?” ask a child from the outskirts of Karanganyar.

She is a girl who looks to be in her 10s. From his clothes alone it had been seen if he was from the suburbs.

I don't know what Nio did until he looks quite famous among the suburban community.

His mother replied, “Hopefully yes.”

A middle-aged man who is also from the suburbs connected, “Nio must join the victory parade. Because he is the hero of a fringe society like us.!”.

Some people seemed to agree with the man's words, such as hoping that Nio would be in the front row during the victory parade.