The Metal Military Academy
Chapter 32: The Debate of Shujin

“OK. Now, does anyone want to advance forward to—.”

Not yet Damar finished asking, a junior held up one hand, offering himself to advance forward.

“Do you want to introduce yourself? Go ahead,” said Damar friendly.

Junior who was a young man started to step forward. During his walk, several juniors were able to whisper to each other and give a less pleasant look.

Nadia was astonished and confused when feeling the ambience around started to be awkward as the junior in question advanced.

“Why is the atmosphere so tense like this, yes?”

After successfully calming himself from the attacks of Ardan's million charms, Chrysanthemum returned flat with his trademark innocent gaze.

“Entah. Maybe it has something to do with the advanced junior this time,” said Krisan flat while resting his black strands of hair.

Nadia was silent a thousand languages, her blue eyes were looking forward again. I don't know why he felt so uncomfortable with this kind of atmosphere. He was afraid something less pleasant would happen.

The junior was now standing in front of the other juniors. Ardan who currently chose to sit on the chair had noticed the junior's physical appearance.

The junior is a young man with a short body of Damar, black hair, and wearing a uniform from his home school. That dark-eyed gaze looked flat, slightly sharp as if it was less interested in this situation.

“Include yourself,” Ardan command flat. For some reason, Ardan felt less interested in being friendly towards this young man with a cold aura.

His expression still remained flat, pausing for a moment before he finally introduced himself with a tone of voice that was no less flat as well.

“My name is Shujin Ra’, 18 years old. And I am from the Republic of Han-bashio, from East Banua.”

“East China, yes...? Worth it,” muttered Ardan.

The reason, the average population of East Banua has a closed nature and very maintain privacy. In contrast to the population of Southeast Banua as in Ranjaya State which is known to be open and friendly to anyone.

“If in the countries of East Banua, your name is behind your march, right? It should be Ra’ Shujin.” Damar read the tab data. “But because you have to follow the policy at Milderan Academy, your clan and your name must be reversed.”

“If for the matter of name policy, it is not a problem,” said Shujin. “What is the problem here is the behavior of the Taruna-Tarunis in this academy.”

All of the juniors were immediately made tense by Shujin's statement, even Damar was a bit overwhelmed by the shock of hearing it. However, Ardan was still sitting quietly listening.

This time, Ardan's behavior was not as usual. More silence and attention.

Shujin shook her head, then returned staring intently at all of them with a piercing eye-lightening.

“I'm sorry to enter this ridiculous military academy.”

This time, all the students in Group 17 were successfully infuriated by Shujin's words, especially from his cold and haughty attitude as if he was much better than them.

“He really sucks...!”

“Emang since the beginning is like that person.”

“Tadi, we want to invite friends with him, but he himself threw away his face haughtily while leaving without saying anything. Arrogant from birth, I guess.”

Nadia felt even more awkward when she heard the juniors whispering to each other in anger. True what they all said, that young man named Shujin was too cold, and it made anyone so upset with him.

“Kris, the atmosphere is a little tussle.”

Shujin continued, “The name of this academy is ridiculous because the Taruna-Taruni’ it is not firm. How could the first day of the Orientation Event be filled with just stale jokes and fun? Very unreflective of a soldier!”

“On this first day, you should be doing hard training, discipline! There is no such thing as joking, fussing, and all sorts of things. Waste time! Such things even prove to all Ribelo that Milderan Academy is the deprived Space Military Academy ever built by the Ribelo.” Government

Damar unconsciously tightened his fist. Behaving coldly like before has irritated many people, especially to the point of insulting their beloved academy.

“Too often have fun will only make you forget that the reality of this world is bitter, painful! There are a lot of people out there suffering, and you guys here are having fun, laughing over their suffering.”

“This is the picture of Space Warriors who are known to carry out heavier tasks than other types of soldiers? You are nothing more than a human who likes to whine under the armpits of the government.”

“If you are indeed soldiers, true soldiers, then show your firmness! Show me that you guys are really tough soldiers! Not silly like this.”

The juniors of the Group of 17 were already about to shout at Shujin, but their intentions were clouded when they saw Ardan raise his one hand, giving a warning to remain silent.

Shujin stared flatly at Ardan who was currently still sitting on the chair and instead put on a thin smile, but his silver-eyed gaze looked sharp.

“Have you spoken, man? Go ahead, back up ahead. This stage I give you fully so that the voice of your heart will be issued all,” satirical Ardan. “Do not hold.... If you hold it, it could be a mental illness.”

Damar's fist so squeezed seeing Ardan started to make a sound. The glasses boy started to smile. He believed that Ardan could definitely face a cold young man like Shujin.

“Heh.” Shujin grieving, “.... This is the reply of a coward if it has been flooded with facts.”

“I'm a coward or you're a fuss?”

Shujin glared at Ardan. The orange-haired young man with somewhat tan skin was apparently even making fun of him casually.

“Haaaah..”.

Ardan got up from the chair, walked over to Shujin, stood right in front of the slightly shorter young man while holding his hands across his chest to make the muscles on his wrist stand out.

“Listen, the juniors here are already smart enough to discern which ones are true and false statements. You think insulting the Taruna-Taruni here and vilifying our academy will make you look right? In fact, you have not even 24 hours here, have directly branded this academy as a dregs academy. Truly ‘wow mindset!’ even almost equaling God,” circus Ardan.

Shujin began to silence a thousand languages upon hearing Ardan's sarcasm. He was anxious to rebuff, but his tongue was a machete.

Ardan continued, “There are some points I want to break here, whether this fits with the mindset of others or not, because everyone has a varied mind. To be sure, my goal here is to want to straighten your brain a little. That's also if your brain isn't as hard as steel and ice, because you're.”.

“This is a Student Orientation Activity, the goal is clearly only for the introduction of the academy environment as well as socializing with new friends. It's natural that we look happy, so as not to be awkward and the juniors feel comfortable here. If you want to practice hard, there will be a time when the school year has opened. You can practice and serve as much, to drain lives also hit!”

“You call the reality of this world bitter, it is indeed true! Is clear! Absolute! In fact, there are many people out there suffering. But it's out of our reach. We don't know the fate of the other creatures that are out there. If we knew, we would gladly extend our hands to help them. However, sorry, we are not God who can know and immediately move to lighten the burden of others, while we also have our own burdens.”

“That's why we have fun. We are indeed soldiers who are required to be firm, disciplined, and nurturing. But there are times when we are saturated, stressed with all sorts of burdens that we bear. We need entertainment, even if it's as simple as chatting about the silliness of our childhood, sitting around the campfire singing together, even just just gotong royong while laughing together has made our saturation as soldiers disappear.”

“We are humans, living creatures, not robots let alone killing machines without conscience. Our job is to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but that doesn't mean we have to throw away our empathy by being strong, cold, and whatever.”

All of the Group 17 juniors were immediately bowed to hear all of Ardan's statements.

What Ardan said was true. They are indeed soldiers who are required to be firm in carrying out their duties, but they still have a heart and mentality that must be maintained so as not to lose their humanity.

They were educated to become warriors who could protect the entire planet, not monsters that liked to slaughter other creatures.

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