Isaac

“Hm? What about Squad Leader Three? ”

After sending the children to surrender, the rest of the squadron was cut in half. Among them, the third platoon, which had the highest proportion of children, was less than seven, but only three arrived. Joonyoung asked, shaking his head with a bitter smile from the middle-aged sergeant who looks like the oldest in the platoon.

“A cannonball fell directly into the Battalion Trench. ”

“Tsk! What a punk. What about 2nd Platoon Commander? ”

“That's...... This time, a soldier who came in as a replacement got shot up, and the streetcar cannon went into the trench. ”

“Damn you. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die alone. ”

When Joon-young slapped his tongue so that it was not obvious, five or six soldiers picked up a man and showed up with a loud noise.

“It's serious.”

“Hehe, I've been beaten. ”

The sergeant was a military sergeant. His stomach was half full of black iron, spilling dark red blood. Sergeant Minwon Hu asked Joon-young when he did not see the 2nd and 3rd platoon commanders.

“What about the others? ”

“... went first. ”

“Khh, those bastards. ”

After a short speech, Sergeant Minho sprayed the troops and sat on his back in the trench. Joo-young asked as she frowned as if her abdominal injury was painful.

“Does it hurt?"

“It hurts like hell. ”

“What do you want to do? ”

“Hehehe, I feel sick enough to die, but I don't have the courage. After all, I am a Catholic. ”

“Is that so?"

Joon-young muttered quietly and pulled out his pistol from his waist.

Heave-ho!

The slide was pulled back and returned to its place, with Joon-young pointing a gun at the sergeant after complaining.

After complaining, the sergeant took out a bloody cigarette from his arms and asked for a cigarette. A lighter soaked in blood with trembling hands just burst into flames. A soldier quickly lit the Sergeant's cigarette after complaining. After a long sip, the sergeant grumbled after dropping his cigarette with a strong cough.

“Dammit! When I die, I try to die worth a cigarette, but I can't help it! ”

A soldier picked up a cigarette that fell to the ground and handed it back to the sergeant.

“Don't! When you die, die like me. ”

Junyoung said to Sergeant Joon-young, who smiled at the soldiers as if he had left a last will.

“But you know what? ”

“What?”

“Kanji is Japanese. ”

The sergeant, who was giggling at Joon-young's words, smiled and said to Joon-young.

“Phew... I've enjoyed our time together. ”

“Ah, I had fun too. ”

“Hehehe, I'll wait for you there first. ”

“I'll catch up with you soon. ”

Bang!

Joo-young put the pistol back in the holder. Satire and gunfire roar and scream in all directions, but only a gloomy silence surrounds Junyoung.

“Evacuate.”

“Where are we going? ”

Joon-young smiled at a soldier's question, pointing his finger at the rising dawn.

“We run towards the sun. ”

At his words, Junyoung stares at the squadron, his tongue blank.

“Tsu, the war has left the children in utter ruin. I don't even understand this kind of joke. ”

“ ……. ”

Even in life, Joon-young shrugged his shoulders in the eyes of his comrades.

“Let's go where the high lords are trapped. We should be safe there by now. Well, that's gonna be our grave, but we'd better live a second longer, right? ”

A gathering of military officers and commanders was at the foot of a hidden mountain that was surprisingly hidden when it was built. It was a mountain, like the back of a town, and there was a tunnel deep in the hillside.

The nameplate "New Energy Research Center" was attached to the entrance, so it seemed to be a research facility, not a military facility.

After Joonyoung and his squadrons retreated, the military chief looked at Joonyoung with a look of embarrassment. Since I gave the order to fight to the end while guarding my position, I've been reasonably retreating with my guards.

There was still a battle going on, and some high-ranking officers who had recently joined forces to shoot down insubordinate troops and runners, but the officers who had been with them since the beginning of the war shook their heads bitterly. Even though one soldier was sorry that he had abandoned countless infamous troops in the battle, he couldn't defeat them. In the end, he converted them into laboratory guards.

We had some suggestions to send him back to the front line, but he almost ran away again, so he cried overwhelmingly that the front would collapse, and we had no choice but to join the lab guards for a fight.

Even Joon-young did not retreat without thinking. It was a coincidence to hear rumors that the military is developing a new weapon that could turn the tide. I heard that information from the battalion commander who cared a lot about Joon-young. The battalion commander died in the middle of the battle, but only told him the rumors he secretly circulated among elite officers to give hope to the despairing Joon-young.

Joon-young didn't know the details either. However, it was a groundbreaking study, and the Japanese children who received the information were also aiming for the results of the study, so they were only pressuring the military until the results came out without carelessly touching the research facility. If the rumor is true, Joon-young had decided to retreat from the beginning, presumably because the study had reached its completion stage by now.

“Phew, I need to know that my country is persistent. ”

The battle, which began at dawn, continued as the sun went down and the dark night came. Saturn's bewilderment continued to sound like music, and the dizzy dance son-in-law of a grenade was embroidering the night sky like a club's psychic.

“Can I have one, too? ”

“Hmm?"

There was a long-haired intelligent beauty who wore Dr. Black Horn-rimmed glasses, wearing a white doctor's gown, who had come to watch the battlefield as if she was sitting in a burning box on top of a guard post building. The slightly uneasy impression of not resting properly was that both eyes were covered only by the fatigue of the whole world.

“Have a seat.”

Joon-young pushed his butt to one side of the box, and the woman sat next to Joon-young and asked him to give her cigarettes. Joo-young lit a fire and the woman snorted cigarettes like it was her first time smoking.

“Khh! I don't know what's so good about this poisonous and harmful stuff. ”

“I don't know when I'm going to die, but it's harmful. ”

Joon-young said, the woman looked at his face and smiled when she applied it.

“Hehe! You must be the master sergeant. ”

“Yes? Do you know me? ”

“Of course. There's a lot of talk among researchers about a squadron leader who fled with a squadron. Most people think they're cowards, but strangely enough, that's what the military people do. ”

In the woman's words, Joon-young shrugged his shoulders without a word. She looks at the battlefield dazed, wondering if she has anything else to say. She just smokes a cigarette with him. Joo-young asked the woman who was long groaning but did not quit cigarettes to the end.

“That's why research doesn't work. It's not easy to build a weapon that will reverse the tide. ”

Joon-young's words made the woman's eyes turn cold and stared at Joon-young.

“Where did you hear that? ”

Joon-young smiled and said, with a mixed gaze on the woman's boundary.

“Well, it's the same context that led the squadron away. ”

At the words of Joonyoung, the suspicious eyes of the woman were unravelled and a self-mixed smile was raised when applied.

“Hehe, I see you've heard the rumors. Well, if it wasn't for that kind of hope, we wouldn't have made it this far. ”

“Looks like your research didn't go well. ”

“Do you know it's a rainbow project? ”

“Isn't that a pretty famous mystery? I think they even did a Philadelphia experiment. ”

“That's right. That's what we've been working on since before the war. Hehe, it was a study that had no chance of success in the first place. Nuclear fusion has barely reached the experimental stage of commercialization of space mobility techniques that would appear in SF novels. It can't be done. Huhu, do you know why the Japanese have been advising surrender so suddenly? The principal fled with the results of his research. When the Japanese realized that they had been bluffing, they no longer had a reason to look after us. There is no hope. Even if I'm not lucky enough to die, I'll be locked up in a lab and exploited for the rest of my life and die alone……. ”

Joon-young looked around, embarrassed by the crying woman's voice. There was no one on the roof but the woman and Joon-young, but I couldn't hold her crying.

A sniper from the Ranger's side of the battlefield ran away from the battlefield because he wanted a woman in a situation where he could be sure to keep an eye on her and the woman through Scope. Meanwhile, a sniper's bullets furious at a woman or a runaway runaway sniper can't say a word about blowing his head off.

“Do you know that death is imminent? ”

“Prepare to die and fight, and you will live; if you want to live, you will die. Isn't that what General Lee Sun-Shin said? ”

“Yes. It's originally from a Chinese typographical book, which, by the way, doesn't work in this era, just until the time when we were fighting with spear knives. ”

“What does that mean? ”

As she wiped her tears as if she was interested, Joon-young smiled and said.

“Those who run around trying to live in confrontation with each other and expect nothing more than luck. It's easy prey to the enemy, so you can kill it easily. But when I see men fighting to the death, I avoid it because I might die trying to kill him. Because the enemy is not a machine, so it's safer for me to kill those who want to die with me than to kill those who want to die or get hurt. ”

This is a silly interpretation, but the woman nods, thinking it makes sense. For a moment, Joon-young felt cute. To hide her insides, she took out a cigarette again, bit her mouth, and lit a fire.

“But it doesn't really work these days. Even if you're prepared to fight and die, one bullet from a distance won't hurt you, and you can't tell if he's running for his life or not. Who in the world would make an infantry charge these days? Once the artillery fires, the plane bombs, the trains push through, and the infantry just clears the battlefield. ”

“So what's the point? ”

The woman tilted her head and asked if she couldn't understand the meaning of what Joon-young said.