High School Soldier
85. Visit to Kingdom of Arevelk 2

28 September 2321, 13:52 WIB/1914 Luan Empire, noon.

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“Sheyn!”

“A-father? What's up?”

Sheyn frantically stopped walking when she heard Bogat call her. He planned to attend the meeting that was conducted today.

Today, the Empire held a meeting to determine the future war. After the great defeat which the umpteenth time was re-experienced by the military of this country, all the nobles were tired of giving their opinions to the war.

The entire noble who was about to enter the meeting room, looked at Bogat with a cold gaze and walked past him. Sheyn realized that, but Bogat seemed not to notice her frustration.

“Do you have any plans for the next war?”

Sheyn is also tired of facing her war-crazed father, although lately he has always suffered a great defeat.

There are two kinds of fools in the world: the fool who realizes his folly. Then the next fool thinks they're smart. Bogat was a fool who thought his decision was wise, another said he was too stupid.

“If you intend to destroy the Empire, do not involve me.”

In most cases, the eldest child has a claim to continue the government. But Bogat did not comply with that tradition, although he was appointed Emperor because he became the first child. Bogat wanted his only son to be his successor, but Rantz had died in battle not long ago.

“If I win this war, I will make you the successor to the throne.”

Sheyn did not look tempted by the words of her father, even she said it was no different from a barking dog. The country is in danger, it makes no sense to announce a successor to the throne now.

One more thing, Sheyn felt if Bogat's attitude towards her changed very quickly. Where previously Sheyn's physical and abilities were often insulted by Bogat and Rantz, now his father behaves as if he never did.

“I don't need that, I just want this country to make peace with the forces of the ruler of Gate.”

Sheyn just left her father who wore a foolish expression in front of the meeting room. Sheyn's calm and logical words can't even clear Bogat's head which only contains the desire to defeat the TNI.

When he realized something, Bogat's head was now filled with various possibilities.

Bogat suddenly realized that the Empire was closer to peace, without going through the path of war. That means, the Empire surrendered to the TNI's home country without a path of violence, or he prefers to call it ‘path of struggle’ even though it was in vain. Bogat's plan to defeat the army would have been futile if peace had been truly realized thanks to Sheyn.

“The squad is a weak enemy, as long as it does not fight it directly.”

Bogat had little information about the Gate's ruling force, but Sheyn seemed to have enough information. In this world, information is one weapon enough to destroy a country.

One of the military nobles who supported the war approached Bogat. They then chatted for a moment before reaching the core of the conversation.

“How many slaves from the home country of that team do we get?”

“About 100 slaves, Emperor. We have divided the slaves that were obtained when attacking the green forces' home country with allied countries.”

A clever fool is a very dangerous person, it can be seen from the look in Bogat's eyes full of evil plans.

If the plan really goes, Bogat thinks that the Imperial forces can defeat the TNI. By utilizing the slaves obtained from the TNI's home country, Bogat will destroy the army in the next war.

Or in other words, they would provoke the TNI using the slaves.

“I have also received word that the troops of Arevelk Kingdom are on their way home. We have prepared an army to ambush them, Emperor.”

Bogat did not expect if his generals could think so far, of course he welcomed this decision with a warm smile.

Moments later Bogat and a military noble who spoke to him entered the meeting room. Dozens of nobles who were still split into these two factions had long waited for the Emperor who was supposed to abdicate due to many failures.

Sheyn, who was standing in front of the nobles, saw the look in her father's eyes full of devious plans, which allowed for another war against the TNI.

Sheyn thought that she should be careful in choosing a stance so that peace with the TNI's home country could be realized, of course without military intervention. However, being the successor to the throne was a troubling thing, but this girl tried to get rid of it all the way and chose to focus on peace.

**

It was only a few more days' journey to reach the border between the Luan Empire and the Arevelk Kingdom.

It was actually not a good idea to bring this many entourage in enemy territory. But, at least after the defeat of the Empire, they would not do anything to this large entourage. But who knows?

The command center ordered 10 cruisers to head for the Kingdom of Arevelk, including Team 1. Of course, the vehicles owned by the squads make the group even more magnificent. They were in the group behind the Sigiz army, the drivers adjusted the speed of the vehicle to the speed of the Royal troops traveling mostly on the wagon.

They set out with Sigiz's men, not knowing the route to go. Actually, the TNI does not need to hesitate to pass through Nagara airspace on this continent, after all, they also do not understand this. However, the limited equipment was the thing that hindered obtaining a map of a region other than the Luan Empire and its immediate region.

The rover squad 1 was at the forefront, close to Sigiz's whereabouts. On one of the vehicles, the atmosphere was very awkward, even Liben's hand holding the steering wheel was unceasingly trembling. While Nio and the others could only sit still without being able to joke like when carrying out a mission.

“Do you guys no music can play, this atmosphere is very boring know!”

Sucipto sitting on the bench next to the driver does not hide his boredom at all. Although he was almost 50 years old, he liked music that many young people liked, such as soldiers who hitchhiked this vehicle. That means, he is the oldest person in this vehicle.

All the members who were sitting on the back bench could only look at each other, they did not dare to act just like that just because Sucipto wanted to listen to music.

Sucipto sounded humming cheerfully with the tone of the favorite song of the teenagers, it makes the soldiers look put on a slanted smile. Soldiers may be stressed because the level of boredom is too high.

“Peltu Nio, I see you are quite fluent in this world, how long have you been practicing?”

“Ready! I learned this world language since the dictionary book was shared.”

“Wah! That's a very short time.”

Nio thought that he had received too much praise, including from the President. He felt a little guilty towards his members who might rarely be praised. Though he got a lot of achievements because of the help of his colleagues in Companies 406 and 32 first.

Achievement is just achievement, that's what Nio thought. The soldier will win, get the prize and the lover. But in reality, not all soldiers get a reward thanks to his struggle. Because they could have fallen and taken home in a crate wrapped in a red and white flag accompanied by the sad wails of his colleagues. From these words, the pay the soldiers received was very cheap.

Given that, it makes Nio feel homesick with the underground city and its residents.

The other world is full of great, amazing, and dangerous things that have never been seen in Indonesia. Nio did not want to die in this world, even though his life had always been the same. But he thinks his life is not worth enough, because he has to protect the only family he has. Being a soldier is the last option.

“Peltu Nio! I called you from earlier! What are you daydreaming about?”

“Si-ready! Im sorry. I was really daydreaming earlier.”

Sucipto continued to watch Nio's behavior sitting right behind him. As Nio began to sink into daydreams, he immediately snapped at Nio to wake up. If you continue to daydream, Nio may not be the focus of his work.

“Are you okay, Commander?”

Chandra looks worried about him, all the members of the Squad who ride this vehicle also looks like that. Nio had never liked a situation like this, where there were many people who were worried about him, as if he was a very important person to those people.

Liben then tells Nio that Sigiz is riding his horse right in front of the vehicle they are riding in, and codes him to stop.

Sucipto ordered Nio to approach Sigiz after the vehicle stopped. With a heavy heart Nio came down from the back door of the vehicle, I don't know what his heart was until Nio's face became flat.

“Tuan Nio, can you tell your commander if we will set up camp.”

Nio simply replied with a nod and walked back to Sigiz who looked astonished by Nio's attitude today.

Now that the day has begun to afternoon, marked by the sky that has turned orange, the color of the sky in the morning is also orange but different from the color of the afternoon sky.

The entire army lowered the logistics and set up tents on the field in the form of pastures. The grass that grew was not very tall, it made the soldiers not need to trim it first before setting up the tent. Moreover, this meadow was full of the necessary nutrients the horses belonged to the troops.

Nio was seen to continue to pay attention to his smartphone, even though all members of the 1st Cruiser Squad were having fun. He saw a photo of Arunika with him during his promotion ceremony. Nio imagines the activities of Arunika and the members of Company 406 in the underground city of Karanganyar City.

If Karanganyar time is now daytime, they must be practicing shooting and others. If at night, maybe the soldiers are doing night activities that often make them have to stay up late.

“Did you miss your sister?”

Sigiz suddenly appeared and made all of Nio's comrades silent, their faces suddenly becoming annoying from seeing Nio close to a beautiful woman. While the soldiers were female, they looked envious of the perfection Sigiz possessed.

Nio realizes that, and hopes that if they do not know Sigiz's true age even though outside he looks still in his 20s.

“Of course, it feels like a long time here.”

Sigiz noticed that the object was rectangular and very thin, like it was made of glass and gave off light.

He was certainly not surprised by the technology that the TNI troops had, or rather he tried not to be surprised. He tried to understand this, that the world civilization of TNI origin is very far from this world.

“1 More days we will enter the territory of Arevelk Kingdom. When you arrive at the capital, you can rest your mind in the hot spring.”

Nio murmured in his heart, “Indeed here is Japan until there is a hot spring bath?”

“Ya, I look forward to it.”

Nio tries to understand this world, if this world is almost the same as the background of novels and fantasy comics, some things may be differentiating. However, Nio thought that the world was too amazing with various things that can only be seen in fantasy novel illustrations.

When leaving the homeland and entering another world that is very foreign, it was initially very difficult for these TNI soldiers. Most of them must have had very valuable people there, and had to be forced to leave to carry out tasks that might be very dangerous.

However, not only one or two people experience something like that. Almost all TNI soldiers here experience the same thing, that's why they entertain themselves by familiarizing each other who have the same feelings.

However, a rumbling sound turned the originally happy atmosphere into tense.

“Attacks, Imperial troops with thousands will ambush us..!!!”

After hearing the screams of one of the Royal soldiers, Nio left Sigiz to board the armored vehicle with the members of the Squad.

Sucipto ordered all his subordinates to prepare weapons, and prepare for battle. Sigiz's army did the same, but drawing up a line would take a long time. Then, the entire combat vehicle drove out of the encampment to face the Empire's army of thousands.

The TNI soldier, who was feeling sad from remembering family and friends in the home world, gave off a cold aura and was ready to slaughter the Imperial army again.

This battle would be short-lived, so no soldiers were worried.