chapter 19
19 – Let’s eat
Let’s eat
“Whoa-“
Ron exhaled a long breath, wiping the sweat from the tip of his chin with the back of his hand.
It’s the second day since I set out to find the main unit. As time passed, Gilbard became more and more irritable, as if his impatience grew, and most of his arrows were aimed at Somneri.
The passive attitude of Somneri, who claimed to be the weak, made it easy to fall prey to Gilbard, who liked to present himself. Whenever Philia looked at him from the side, Gilbard stopped getting nervous, but that didn’t stop his raging temper.
Even now, when Somneri drank water, they are arguing for saving drinking water.
But at least in terms of the amount she consumes, Gibbard drank more than she did, and everyone knows that.
Pilia didn’t want to believe that people’s true nature comes out when they’re having a hard time, but seeing him, she had no choice but to admit it.
Before starting training, the members met several times, and Philia thought Gilbard was not particularly competent, but he had a good personality and had a good sense of cooperation.
But when I look at Gilbard now, he’s so different that I wonder if his eyes are terrible.
‘I wonder if that word was a problem…’
Philia recalls what her academy principal, Selenas, said was her individual evaluation.
She doesn’t know how to score, but she at least knows that depending on how she solves problems, she’s more likely to get a higher score.
If you solve a problem, you get points. That was the problem.
The belief that she will get a good grade if she solves the problem with her own opinion. That belief was disturbing the hearts of her teammates.
Due to her greed for scores, Gilbard continues to oppose Philia’s opinion.
She doesn’t think Philia or her own opinions are all right.
For example, when she was trying to feed herself, she suffered quite a bit because of the immutable antipode forest, where the flora suddenly changed, and she couldn’t properly advance on the first day.
She thought she was still immature, so she tried to choose the best plan for herself among them by listening to as many opinions as possible. However, whenever Gilbard gives an opinion, he opposes it.
She thinks she has a reasonable objection, but she doesn’t come up with a proper solution of her own, and she just complains about someone else’s opinion.
Whenever he crushes other people’s opinions under the guise of logical criticism, Gibbard seems to be mistaken that he is getting high marks.
Most of the time Philia’s opinions are sarcastic without logic, and Somneri’s opinions forcefully ask questions and make them reverse themselves. Ron, the remaining member of the team, takes a step back and doesn’t express his opinion, as if he’s not interested in training, but when the results come out, he pretends to be wise.
Somneri is scared of Gilbard and won’t give her opinion unless Philia asks, so in the end only Philia who gives her opinion bumps into Gilbard every once in a while.
Philia originally had a bright and friendly personality, but as her training progressed, she too became stressed and her attitude hardened, and she somehow began to resemble her instructor Leyla.
The 8th team was able to find the main unit despite the sudden change to hot and humid terrain. It was the ball of Philia who took on the role of captain and guide to track her down.
“I found it.”
“Finally! I went round and round because of someone who couldn’t even find my way.”
Rather than praise her Philia for finding her main unit before her sundown, Gill Bard takes the lead past her with her majesty. Until now, she has been left behind because of her lack of stamina, but when the time comes for her to arrive, she steps forward first to catch the attention of the instructor and other hagwon students.
“Don’t break ranks.”
“Haa… You tell me not to do anything. Do you want to pretend to be the boss like that?”
“Captain is the role you gave me. So listen carefully. The Imperial Army you are proud of, don’t forget to value discipline.”
Seeing Philia assuming and preparing for all situations, she followed Gilbard, who often said that he was timid and small, and that the great imperial army was not like that, trying to win the recorder’s favor. Loose the expression
“Yes, yes- the great captain has to die first.”
As Gilbard lowered her head and spread her hands in the direction of the main unit as if guiding, Filia looked at the back of his head for a moment.
Ron, who always watches the two of them from behind, looks at them expectantly.
Lazy Ron hated training. He didn’t want to go into the military anyway, and he just wanted to go to the academy comfortably and graduate.
His only pleasure was waiting for Philia and Gilbard to fight. There is an employee who records, so it won’t take place until a duel, but if possible, they wanted to punch each other and fight.
So when Gilbard comes back angry with Philia, I try to encourage him little by little by pretending to comfort him. Anyway, since Selenas, the head of the academy, has released the poison to test cooperation, he himself is only helping with the training process. The only idiots who don’t know the meaning are Gilbard and Somneri.
‘Are you angry? Are you going to explode?’
To Ron’s dismay, Philia explains in a calm voice.
“There is only a unit that is presumed to be the main unit. Unless confirmed, approach with caution.”
Ron, who had expected an emotional battle, looked at the back of Philia’s head with a look of disappointment.
Gibbard raises his head and looks up in amazement.
Seeing Philia, who is still looking down with a calm expression, he makes a dissatisfied expression on her, but he doesn’t say anything and moves to his seat, the furthest back of her.
“Don’t be too angry. I’m just playing my part.”
‘The role you want.’
As Ron pretends to be friendly and pats him on the shoulder, who has other thoughts behind him, Gilbard speaks softly to him.
“That b*tch must make a mistake while conducting so frustratingly. The bowl is too small. I’m not the commander, so I have to change it.”
“To whom?”
“There are people that suit you. Someone like you or me. I have an idea.”
Until now, I had endured the feeling of vomiting, and I had finally paid off. Ron arrives and nods at Gilbard’s words to see him separately.
‘This is why I can’t hate fools.’
A smile spreads across Ron’s expressionless face as he walks in front of Gilbard.
When Team 8 arrived at the headquarters, Philia looked at the bulletin board when she saw more people than she expected. She was also writing her notes on the bulletin board in the order she arrived here, and she approaches Layla.
“You’ve arrived. Report how many pairs you have.”
Although she is an academy student in charge, Philia stands upright and reports to Layla, who tells her to report the same as everyone else.
“This is group 8 of Class B.”
“B-8. We arrived on the 23rd. How did you find the main unit?”
“We searched for traces centered on the water source. Since the main unit is assumed to be 10,000 in training, we expected that even if we set up the headquarters in a far away place, we would inevitably find drinking water at the water source.”
“That’s a good opinion. However, since training is easy to omit or miss details, even if you do it like a real battle, keep the training situation in mind. Commanders must keep all conditions in mind at all times.”
As Leila said, the main unit, which is assumed to be 10,000, actually has only 10 employees. Of course, drinking water can be carried around, and the first trace Philia found was another group who had the same idea.
I was able to find the main unit with a little luck, but I would have missed it if I was wrong because the detail that 10,000 people get drinking water was omitted.
“Thanks for the advice.”
“You’ve worked hard for two days. You won’t be training until tomorrow morning, so take a good rest. You can use the fire today.”
Among the academy students who had to go on a night march after sleeping on the first day, none of them believed the words straight away, but they still get some comfort.
The sun goes down before I know it as I set up my tent and prepare a meal.
Philia worried with her worried eyes for the three-set who hadn’t arrived yet. Contrary to her worry the other day, she arrives healthy, but this time things are so bad.
She also lost her food as she had already consumed her stamina. She may be running late for her food, or her exhausted three-setter may drop out.
In fact, Layla has been contacted that there is a dropout from the group with pure mages. Whenever her academy staff comes up to her, she listens anxiously to her, but luckily she hasn’t heard her name yet.
But she only has a few hours left. Layla, who is checking the time by looking at a pocket watch the size of her palm, and Philia, who is looking at the gloomy forest, bit her lip with her nervous eyes.
In particular, the sudden change of climate was too great. In the hot and humid climate, even walking took away one’s stamina, which was quite an ordeal for those who had trained in physical strength.
Her stamina keeps draining and the ground is soggy and bumpy, making it difficult to walk. Large old trees, bushes that rise above your knees, and slippery moss slow you down and take away more stamina.
I can’t imagine that she, a pure mage, will come through her harsh terrain and climate.
She lights a fire to show her location at the end, probably out of consideration for the academy students, but it’s much harder to get through this terrain at night.
“Finally arrived!!!!”
As if telling her to put an end to her futile worries, three-set jumps out through her bush and raises her hands high as they draw her V. Her confident posture and her loud voice make everyone pay attention to her.
She was a philia who laughed at three sets full of strength, but there were questions that followed along with her laughter.
‘Why am I full of energy?’
It would be nice if her friend Se-se-se wasn’t having a hard time, but it was something I didn’t understand. She came with a hard time herself, but she is running around brightly like a child who came out even though her physical strength is lacking.
Not only Philia, but also other academy students are curious about the three-set, who don’t look tired.
“Get out of the way, get out of the way. The King is coming.”
Waving at the academy students in front of her, the three three made their way. She seems like she’s not a king and looks like a servant girl paving the way for someone behind her.
The academy students look at the person who comes out through the bushes after him.
“Huh? Oh, how are you?”
As everyone is paying attention to herself, a flustered Zeroa awkwardly greets her and comes out. She must have had a hard time because of her dirty clothes and poor posture, and all the students at the academy thought that was not the king.
Aria follows him. She was always clean and tidy, but like Zeroa, she was soaked in dirt and sweat, and a look of tiredness pervaded her face.
But her beauty doesn’t disappear. Although he had a tired face, his eyes with strength and a noble and dignified posture made him look like a warrior who had overcome hardships, and for some reason he looked sharp.
If the academy was a flower on the cliff, now it is a dangerous lioness.
“She’s not a goddess… She’s a queen…”
“I’m tired…”
As each of her mutters and cheers for her queen’s return, she shouts that she is not three, then gets down on one knee and holds out her hands toward her bush.
Lai, who came out last, meets the eyes of the academy students.
“What are you looking at?”
As soon as she arrived, she was taken aback by the argument, but Philia had no time to question it. It was because of the load he was carrying on his back.
The academy students also stare blankly at the deer on Rai’s back.
As if it was decapitated cleanly at once, only traces of the blood flowing down the deer’s jaw remain. On the way here, the academy students often saw wild animals, but they did not even think about catching them.
With no mana or bows, animals were the bread of the picture, and when the presence of people increased in the forest, the animals became extremely vigilant and ran away even if they were far away.
“As for this man, a shovel is a javelin, no, a throwing shovel? Oh, I don’t know! Anyway, he is the king of hunting who caught a deer tens of kilometers away with a shovel! Uh-huh, get back! The king is coming, you dare!”
Although Sesset’s words were exaggerated, he had to acknowledge Rai’s ability to kill a deer with only a shovel.
“Be quiet.”
When Layla approaches and scolds her, the three sets immediately run away to Rai’s side. Standing tall on her deer, Rai smirks at Layla’s face.
“Is the light on? Why didn’t you use it yesterday?”
“It is a training to see how it behaves when the given conditions are small. Now, it is a measure to reduce the dropouts.”
“It’s shameful. Our leader cursed a lot.”
“No. I never did.”
When Rai said it openly, Sesset shook his head quickly with a serious face. Layla doesn’t care what he says, reads the log that Brown shows her, and receives a business-like report.
When Cesset finishes her report, Layla says exactly the same line she did to her Philia, without a single misspelling, and then she sends 7 trillion.
Everyone’s attention is focused on Lai carrying a deer and the triumphant three-set strolling among the academy students.
“Pili-ri-ri-reel~~!!”
As soon as she sees Philia, who is already resting in her place, Cesset runs to her and hugs her. As Philia affectionately stroked her hair, Sesset smiled and said,
“As expected, Philia arrived early. I…”
“Don’t play, work, slave.”
When Lai speaks from behind, Cesset jumps up and she runs to him and pitches her tent. She is called a slave, but as if she has no complaints at all, she is excitedly pitching her tent.
Taking it for granted that she caught her deer when food was scarce, Philia sets her eyes on the other two.
Zeroa and Aria are just sitting there doing nothing. Since we have just arrived, there are many things to do, such as preparing for camp or grooming the deer we hunted. In particular, Team 7 had to prepare more than others because most of the equipment was thrown away.
But the two are resting without doing anything. Zeroah seemed to be watching her because it was uncomfortable for her to rest alone, but she said that and she didn’t move.
Even though it took a lot of stamina to come this far, the two of them were so exhausted that they couldn’t hide it. As a pure mage, Sesset should have felt that way, but as the two of them were tired and Sesset was full of energy, the academy students predicted what Team 7 was up to.
‘Two people… No, Arya moved the three sets instead.’
It was unimaginable from the image of Arya that she usually saw at her academy, but she had no answer other than that. When she reported, what she heard was that she had gone far past the main body to high terrain in order to find her foothold.
She gave it a shot, but it consumed so much of her stamina, which is how Philia just shook her head. She’s so far into the high terrain that her stamina doesn’t allow her to dare to attempt it unless she’s a confident Joe.
But Article 7 did it. Even while carrying a pure mage on his back, he went on a forced march.
That was possible thanks to Rai throwing away most of the items in his backpack on the first day. Philia was interested in her, whether she expected this and abandoned her, or if she changed her behavior to suit the situation she had abandoned.
In any case, it produced results even with three sets of pure mages. Currently, there are only three groups, including the seventh group, that include pure mages among the groups in the main base. Fifteen out of eighteen had either dropped out or hadn’t arrived yet.
Philia didn’t like him when she first saw her rai.
I don’t like the expression vulgar, but when I look at his light words and actions, sometimes the word vulgar comes to mind.
I hate the appearance that is not like a lecturer that combines badness and freewheeling.
She came into the class without knowing whether she was in charge or the burden, and was humiliated. In her first lecture, she gave an irresponsible, do-it-yourself lecture without any explanation.
She was so shocked and disrespectful to herself as well as she was. She was such an unbearable philia that her face blushed just thinking about that day.
But she has no choice but to acknowledge his skill.
She ruined her first lecture and received feedback from her academy students and immediately gave a good lecture and was recognized. His performance in training is a skill that anyone can recognize.
She is a great instructor who deserves to be in the academy. She can only thank Rai for completely denying what she said the first time.
Deep in her thoughts, Philia, who was developing a liking for her Rai, raised her head at the smell of her stimulating her appetite, and she saw Rai crouching down, staring at her with a smirk. .
“Hey, instructor? Really?”
“I have to, man. It’s time to brag.”
Zeroa, who was far away, asked in a trembling voice, but Rai answered without looking behind her.
In his hand is the chubby hind leg of a deer that has been browned. Not only Lai, but all 7 members are raising their legs one by one.
They were looking in different directions around the tent, showing off their thick deer thighs everywhere.
Arya was sitting in her right position, looking at her legs with her hands, and Cesset yelled at Rai to get started quickly as her saliva drooled.
Receiving the eyes of the academy students who are mixed with many emotions such as absurdity, embarrassment, and jealousy, the 7th group bites the meat at the same time.
“hehehehe-!!”
Having eaten her meat, the three-set raises her head high in the sky and makes her incomprehensible noise.
Even Zero Ah, who was embarrassed by the sharp gaze, trembled with her eyes closed with her thrilled expression. As for Arya, she hasn’t changed much, but she eats faster and faster.
And then Rai and Philia’s eyes meet.
Unlike the other three, he doesn’t have a thrilled expression, but the sight of him chewing on venison while making eye contact without saying a word is more upsetting.
A smile forms on Philia’s face. Her little twitching corners of her mouth are the point.
As expected, I can’t accept this man.
She thought positively for a moment, but she was a foolish Philia.