The Adventure of the Boy With a Mind of a Middle-aged Man

Fortress City - Silke - Assembly Facility

(I wonder how long this life will last...)

The former staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Kingdom of Amulzes- Kai Rhodas exhales a deep sigh several times already.

Reclaim the exhausted Ladore territory in the raid of the undead and use it as a base for an imperial invasion. As a result of a freshly planned central government like the fire scene thief, Kai and the others were dispatched to the northern end of the country as Northern Expeditionary Forces.

Retrieval and branding, but this land of Ladore is not inherently of the kingdom, nor of the empire, but of the people of the mountains, the Ladorans. This is also nothing but cod (bullshit) based on the credibility (shimpy) that the kingdom once ruled.

The dancing of the Royal Army under occupation for hilarious reasons made Kai understand the nature of an ugly creature called a man.

He took the land from the Laddle people, he took the food, he even took the freedom.

They burn the books that the Raddles have kept, rob them of their hardware, take even the food they need to live, and transport them to their home countries.

Nothing is more troublesome than an army that has lost order. So, Kai repeatedly advanced to Wimp, who was his boss, the tightening of discipline within the army and the harsh punishment of those who violated it, but was never heard at all.

As a result, a variety of felonies, including murder, robbery and rape against the Raddles, are as uncontrolled and acceptable as ever.

The defeat of this Royal Army is, in a way, like the punishment given by heaven. You deserve it, so to speak. Especially since my boss Wimp's outdoors were so full of love, he didn't get any emotion whatsoever when he heard he was killed in the war.

Except for the fact that my colleagues and my men were murdered. If you don't hide your heart and make a monologue, there's not much to think about against Ladle.

But Kai is also a soldier. When it comes to war, people die. I know so much about that fact that I don't like it.

That's why I don't hold a grudge against being killed in the war per se. At least that's what I'm vowing to do.

In short, Kai has only one mission. With the pride of a general, one or more soldiers who had nothing to do with outrage are returned to their country. That's all.

Most of all...

(Must be hard)

It's easy to imagine how elusive that is in a dispute between states. Especially after all that outrage, it is more wrong to think that you can safely return to your home country.

And that's a fact that even one soldier housed in this mansion understands.

Nonetheless, there is also a reason why there is no despair in everyone's face.

Bourne! Bourne! Bourne......

All of a sudden, a clock hung on a pillar announces noon with its sound. Only senior public authorities, such as the executive branch, have introduced equipment to mark this time in the Kingdom. It's a matter of questioning sanity, such as putting him in such a prisoner's camp.

Therefore, the kingdom soldiers who were not familiar with the clock initially did not pay special attention. There is something unusual. I think it was recognition to that extent.

What changed was that presence that was already coming.

Ever since the clock went off, everyone is soaking up and looking at the door.

The door opens,

"Distribution."

A dozen men and women in white work clothes show up with large amounts of pots, baskets and vessels.

The soldiers' throats and bellies sounded neglected.

The same goes for Kai like that. I couldn't help but wonder about today's dedication.

(Salad and soup on bread today?)

After thirty minutes of lining up in the front row of the door, food is received and moved to a place where there are many tables in the corner of the room.

The place where Kai and the others were housed was a two-story building large enough to accommodate as many as 1,000 prisoners and still have surpluses.

Even when it comes to internment facilities, there is a dining room in the room with numerous tables for eating and a compartment for prisoners to sleep in, even multiple toilets. The ground floor is for men and the second floor is for women.

Most importantly, the ground and second floors are freely accessible, and traffic is not particularly restricted.

Because of the large facilities, the indoors should be quite cold by nature, but they lived in great comfort due to the blankets and clothes given to each person and the heating devices around which heat was released.

As she took to Kai's privileged seat, the table in the back corner, a colored black woman, who was a former colleague, held her right hand up with an uncontrolled smile.

She is Rosé, the only female officer in the Second Expeditionary Army.

Since we met face to face in a joint operation with the Second Army in the past, we have frequently drunk and talked about the army's stupidity.

When I got to the front seat of Rosé, I just entered the survey of today's dishes.

"You're doing it again..."

Ignoring Rose's words like heartbreaking, Kai opens the bread.

"Are you chopping the loaf and baked bread in two and pinching the ingredients there?"

Something like smoked meat, vegetables, and a strange yellow mass emerged.

"What is this?

Put the yellow chunk in the chisel mouth and chew.

"Huh!?"

I can manage to suppress the sourness that spreads in my mouth and the soft feeling of mouth relief that makes me feel like I'm going to raise my voice unexpectedly.

Close the bread with your trembling hands, sip, and cheek.

"Beautiful ~ flavorful!!!"

He stood up uncut and was barking in a gutsy pose.

Sitting naggingly in the gaze of bizarre and reproach directed at Kai from his surroundings, he starts putting bread in his mouth when he deflects his posture.

"What do you think they're going to do?

When the time of bliss is over and the spoon is placed in the tray, Rosé asks with a strange face.

"Extraordinary measures until the surrender of the prisoners. That's what you said."

A man who appeared to be the representative of the Laddle people politely proclaimed so.

Initially, everyone was whispering (whispering) about the content of the temporary measures, but the meal carried three meals a day in a row gradually stopped even talking about it.

"It's too overcrowded for a temporary situation. This meal is as good a substitute as any nobleman would eat."

"Have you forgotten my original path of hope? I know more than you do."

The dishes served every day didn't have the same menu, they were always different. Besides, they were all so delicious that their cheeks fell off.

"That's not all. Drinking water is free, and the toilet is complete. Besides, I even came gender-specific."

There are only a few buildings with toilets in the room. If it were a prisoner camp, none would be equal. Fecal urine is drooling, and it is normal to have to live with a face full of smell and uncleanness. Give me more than one toilet in the camp room, and besides, it's not weird if I give it to men and women just like the room. You don't even know what it's like to think about what they're after.

"I can't imagine, but maybe there's no big reason"

"Huh?"

Rosé frowned and raised her feverish voice.

"Think about it. In a way, is it worth the generosity of the invaders, the merchants, this time?

International condemnation will not be gathered for the treatment of prisoners unless it is also abused. Regardless of if you're just a senior officer, there's no great benefit to just being seen with a strange eye for even generous soldiers.

"In other words?"

Rose urges me to answer when I put my arms together.

"At least for the new lords of the land, it's natural for the prisoners to do so."

"A new lord...... but was it King Mountain Wise?

"Oh, that's what the Raddle soldiers said."

Mountain Wise King...... The legendary Mountain King supposedly leads the Raddles in this land. Though abused in the fort of Arkhroy, the Raddles believed the fact without exception. People want to get into something as bad as they do when they're in trouble. It's not as rare in the occupied territories, and Kai wasn't even considered at all until the Expeditionary Army was wiped out this time.

"You're the legendary hero king who guides the ladle prophesied just a thousand years ago. This is ridiculous. Are you sure they're taking it?

"I can't even laugh at you. Most importantly, there are too many incredible things to do this time."

"That insane material..."

I guess I've seen that weapon straight away. Chirose's complexion is stained with earthiness.

But Rosé hasn't actually been pointed at that one. So I can't feel the horror until that despair.

A range several times the bow and the tremendous power that penetrates even the iron armor. Above all, when smoke and bursting sounds, the lives of our compatriots are lost. That fact makes you lose the courage to take a weapon in front of that one.

That must be an excavated material from the ruins. And it can't be that number of people are equipped with materials as standard.

There is only one fact to be guided. They independently developed and weaponized the materials excavated from the ruins.

The material excavated from the ruins is just God's heritage. The idea of creating one's own is not for the Kingdoms. Because it is impossible.

There's no way the Raddles can imitate that in an occupied situation of living or dying.

Look, the possibility of a third party who made it come up, right?

"And we lost. All we have to do is make it happen."

Because we've already done something to them that we can't argue with if they kill us all.

"So is that. Well, suppose you can rest your body for a short time."

Raise the end of the mouth, and Rosé also stands up with a tray.

"Do that. If you don't, you'll be here soon."

Kai also raised his heavy hips.