Twenty minutes later.
“Have these bastards gone crazy?!”
There were only ten minutes left, but there were only four people in the training ground.
Axion, Ilya, plus Yosar and Lennox.
Lennox was still yawning and groaning from muscle pain, as if he had not yet fully awakened from his sleep, while Yusar seemed completely healthy, just like Axion.
Elijah's anxiety grew.
If Keisha showed up and saw this sight, a veritable hell would break loose.
Since things had come to this, she had no choice but to drag them out by force.
I entered the palace annex.
•
"I can't get out!
Ahhh!"
"Ah, I want to go home!
Please let me go!
Ha ha ha!"
“I can't move my body!
I feel like I'm going to die……”
The 46 young men were refusing to go out to the training ground, making a huge mess while wailing loudly.
“Ah, you hopeless fools…….”
Ilya looked at the unit members in front of her while muttering obscenities.
They seemed to have suffered a strong psychological shock from yesterday's training.
Even in her previous life, there were young men who would complain like this as soon as they entered the first training camp.
But that was a rare level, where perhaps only one person would appear in the entire unit, if any!
In the Republic of South Korea, where she lived, military service was a patriotic duty, so most conscripts were well aware of this fact.
Therefore, most of them were resigned to their fate with expressions like cattle being led to the slaughterhouse.
But in this empire, where military service was not the law, these pampered young men raised in luxury were quite different.
“Ah!
Mom!
Dad!
Save me!
I want to go home……Ahh!”
One of them clung to Elijah's military pants, while his tears and snot flowed profusely.
Wait, I'm not your mother or father…….
Elia felt nervous and anxious.
There are only five minutes left.
She had to drag them to the training ground and finish the preparations for the awakening examination in any way possible.
‘Ah……I can’t even get a chance to help from the original novel on this matter.’
Elijah frowned.
In the original novel, scenes such as the wake-up examination on the first day were deleted entirely.
Because readers who wanted reverse harem romances were not expected to like the details of real-life military life.
'No particularly interesting events occurred during the awakening scan either.'
But now that the novel was her life, she couldn't ignore it.
At this very moment, the time for the morning examination was approaching.
No way.
She clapped her hands forcefully towards the members of the unit who were wailing, and shouted:
“Guys, everyone pay attention here!
Listen to me!”
The unit members looked at Elia with their eyes extremely red, so she shouted towards them in a bright voice:
“I just heard from Commander Keisha that he will give you one last chance to discharge!”
Upon hearing the word “demobilization,” the eyes of the unit members trembled violently.
A glimmer of hope appeared on their faces.
“H, is this really true?”
Elia nodded and continued speaking.
“Yes.
He said that unit members who finish morning training correctly will be discharged.”
“H, is this real?”
“Yes.
But if you don’t get out to the training ground quickly now, everything will be considered as if it never happened.”
Upon hearing the word “as if it had never happened,” their faces turned pale.
“Then wouldn’t it be better to get out to the training ground as soon as possible?”
Soon, the unit's members began moving around crazily.
"Hello!"
“Get away!
Let me out first!”
“Let's get out quickly!”
They quickly rushed outside.
Illya looked at their backs as she muttered.
“Tsk tsk, they seem so desperate.”
To fall for such an obvious lie seemed stupid, but for those weak little masters, it was a matter of life and death.
Anyway, the trick worked, which is a relief.
Illya was about to exit the palace annex, breathing a sigh of relief.
“Oh!”
Behind her back, a shout of admiration was heard, as if to say, “Not bad at all.”
“I came just in case, but you're doing a good job.”
When she turned her head, Yousar, who had entered the palace at some point without her noticing, was giving her a slight smile.
When did he get here?
Yusar glanced at the exiting unit members and then continued speaking.
“It is an effective method.
However, considering the condition of these young men, none of them will succeed in passing Keisha’s training, so your lie will never be exposed.”
As expected of a sly protagonist, he has it all figured out.
This was true.
Illya, of course, had that in mind when she made that lie.
“Elijah, your way of working is somewhat similar to mine.”
Should I take this as a compliment?
Elia pushed him from his back and said:
“What are you doing here?
Get out quickly too.”
But Yusar did not move at all, he turned towards her and then bowed slowly.
His handsome face moved closer until it was very close to hers.
Yusar whispered in her ear with a captivating voice:
“Because there is something I really want to give you.”
His breath tickled her ear pleasantly.
Elijah suppressed her heartbeat, which began to beat without her control, and asked him:
“……Do you have to whisper like that this close?”
Then Yusar nodded.
“Yes, because none of the other guys should ever find out.”
He gave her a slight smile, took something out of the pocket of his military uniform, then placed it in her hand.
“Take this.”
What he gave her were several small tablets.
When Illya raised her eyes at him with a suspicious look, he continued speaking.
“This is my first military training, so I brought it just in case.
First, this is a magic medicine to relieve muscle pain.
I already took it.”
Only then did I realize why Yusar seemed so healthy in the morning.
“This is a medicine to strengthen muscles and endurance.
It is temporary, but its effect lasts for half a day, so it will be enough during training.
When you take it, it turns into the mana form and is quickly absorbed into the body, so it will never be detected even if you undergo an examination.”
Just by looking, they were rare medicines that were difficult to obtain on the market.
To prepare these things in advance before enlisting, he is a very prepared and prepared person.
“Take one of each type first, and the remaining half of these pills will be yours.”
Give it to me?
Her eyes narrowed.
Wait, the reason this bastard offered me these precious medicines so easily is, of course….
Elijah's eyes sparkled as she asked him:
“You are supporting me to deter Axion, right?
To protect the first place from a monster like Axion.
Right?”
“You know very well.”
As expected.
Yusar, who has the great goal of becoming the future Grand Duke's son-in-law, does not want his rival Axion to gain positive attention and stand out in this unit.
Especially since the appearance of Axion yesterday, the only one who had lasted in training for six hours, had to be a great threat to him.
He wasn't just giving her these pills out of courtesy.
“But there's another reason to give you these pills, too.”
At that moment, Yusar continued speaking while looking at her.
Another reason?
"What is it?"
“You are a woman.”
Upon hearing these words, Elia flinched in anger.
"What do you mean by that?"
When she looked at him with a defiant look, he replied:
“I'm not trying to belittle you because you're a woman at all.
But the female body is different from these guys' bodies.
Even if the height and build look similar, the bone structure and muscle mass themselves are completely different.”
Those words were true.
Even though she had spent several years in military service in her previous life and had constantly trained her body, she couldn't keep up with the men who had just entered the training camp with sheer physical strength.
“Restraining Axion is important to me, but not being discovered as a woman is just as important to me.”
What a cunning man!
While Elia was secretly admiring Yusar's scheming, he put a pill in her mouth and urged her:
“Then eat it quickly and let's go quickly to the training ground.
In a minute, that annoying Keisha will come.”
I swallowed!
Elia swallowed the pill.
As soon as she took it, the muscles that were aching and stiff in every corner of her body began to disintegrate as if magic had befallen them.
'What a tremendous impact!'
She couldn't be sure yet if her muscle strength and stamina had strengthened, but she would know soon.
Ilya, after taking the medicine, quickly rushed with Yusar to the training ground.
•
“Preparation for the morning inspection is complete!”
She gave Keisha a military salute while shouting.
Keisha looked at her with satisfaction.
This boy plays the role of unit leader perfectly!
Although I haven't told him anything about the morning inspection, he does it smoothly on his own.
What's more, he is just a boy from a simple country baron family who has not received any training.
Moreover, today in particular, even those other bastards seemed to have strangely blazing eyes, and martial discipline filled them.
This is all thanks to his choice of a good unit leader.
As expected, his eyes were right in choosing Erhan.
Keisha thought about this while telling the unit members:
“So, this morning’s inspection will be conducted by this commander himself.
First, let’s run around the military parade ground!
Execute!”
Then one of the young men shouted:
“How many laps do we run?”
Hearing these words, Keisha's lips twitched.
This bastard, does he dare to question the commander who is issuing orders?
On normal days, he would have imposed a disciplinary punishment on him immediately, but since he is in a very good mood now, he can gladly answer.
He had intended to make this morning's training more lenient than usual.
Keisha replied while smiling:
"Run until I tell you to stop!
Run!"