Clack!
As soon as he hugged Erhan, a thick metal food bowl fell with a loud noise.
Purr-
At the same time, the hot water inside him spilled out, completely submerging the tent floor.
From the wet blanket stretched out on the floor, steam rose.
If it were spilled directly on the body, it would cause burns.
Fortunately, not a single drop was splashed on Erhan.
“More importantly, why is this boy here?”
Axion heaved a sigh of relief as he looked at the person hugging him.
Even amidst this commotion, Erhan did not move at all, he was still asleep.
“He would not know if someone picked him up and carried him away.”
His sleeping form looked so peaceful, that he felt sorry to wake him.
Axion calmly looked at Erhan who was in his embrace.
'Were this boy's eyelashes so long and beautiful?'
When he realized this again, his heart began to race, and Axion quickly turned his gaze.
'Why the hell am I acting like this?'
'If I stay next to this boy like this, I feel like I'll become a stranger.'
In the end, he couldn't take it anymore, so he woke up Erhan.
“Come on, wake up.”
“Hmm...”
Erhan let out a moan mixed with a nasal sound as his eyes closed.
‘This boy, even though he is a man, why is he making such a gentle sound?’
He deliberately shook Erhan harder to wake him up.
"I wake up!"
“Hmm?”
Only then, Erhan opened his closed eyes.
The moment he saw the sleepy eyes under the long and beautiful eyelashes, Axion quickly turned his gaze.
Meanwhile, Elia fidgeted and opened her eyes.
Before her eyes, a solid white chest appeared.
'What is this?
'Is this a dream?'
“I told you to wake up!”
At the growling voice, she quickly raised her head.
There, the face of Axion appeared, who was turning his gaze to the other side.
"What, what is this?!
Why are you here?"
Elia quickly freed herself from his embrace and screamed as she fell back into a sitting position.
Still ignoring her gaze, Axion replied coldly.
“That's what I want to ask.
This is my tent.”
“That can't be… gasp!”
Only then did Elia realize that she had entered the wrong tent.
'Because it was empty, I naturally thought it was my tent...'
'Coincidentally, it was Axion's tent!'
"Ah, sorry!
I'll leave quickly...
Ah!
Why is she so wet?"
Her ass sitting on the floor was wet.
Only then did I realize that most of the blanket spread out on the floor was wet.
Then Axion nodded to her empty metal bowl that was lying in the corner.
It seems that it fell from her body while she was napping.
But her body was not wet at all.
'Is it possible that Axion helped me?'
At that moment, Axion said in a firm voice.
“Get out quickly.”
His face looking at her was red.
'Ah, he looks so angry!'
"Okay!
I'm going!"
Elia quickly left the tent.
Axion sighed in relief as he saw this sight.
Once Elijah was gone, he lay curled up in the not-so-wet corner of the tent.
He tried to sleep, trying to calm his heart, which was beating hard.
•
“What the hell…”
Elia muttered as she lay on the ground, having struggled to find her tent.
Axion's bare chest kept replaying in her mind, and her face flushed.
Then, a sharp pain stabbed her in the waist.
She was so disoriented that she even forgot about her waist pain during all that time.
“I should probably get a massage ointment or something from Theo.”
'It would be okay if I made up an excuse and said that somewhere else hurts, not her waist.'
This time, she correctly marked the tent and headed back to the leaders' tent.
“What is this, haven’t they arrived yet?”
She had come to get hot water a long time ago, but the tent was still empty.
“Where the hell did they go?”
It was suspicious that the Commander would be away for such a long period.
Even the first aid kit Theo brought was not visible.
Her face turned pale.
'Isn't this an emergency?'
At worst, monsters may have invaded.
If so, she, as deputy commander, might have to take responsibility and lead this unit.
To find out what happened, she ran out of the tent and started looking for Theo and Keisha.
When I reached the plain that I had been leveling all day with the unit, a faint light appeared there.
I moved closer towards the light.
'There they are!'
Theo and Keisha showed up holding a flashlight.
Fortunately, the monsters didn't seem to have appeared.
Elijah watched quietly from nearby.
Because it was clear that she would be reprimanded if she suddenly jumped up unnecessarily, and she would be told: “Why don’t you sleep and walk around?”
'Let's go back to the tent and wait.'
While she was thinking like this, their voices were heard.
“After that fight, eight years have already passed.”
“Has it been that long already?”
Keisha's dry voice was heard.
“More importantly, Colonel, what the hell made you come here to conduct fortification work?
Haven't you been here for eight years?”
Upon hearing those words, Elijah's eyes widened.
‘Honestly, I felt like this fortifications agenda was a bit strange.’
'As for it being sudden, Keisha is unpredictable, so let's consider it normal.'
'But the war happened a long time ago, and during all that time no maintenance work was done once, it's a bit strange.'
Even in its former life, it was common for fortifications to be carried out once or twice a year.
The rules of this world might be a little different, but in any case it had to be done regularly every year.
There was no way that the strict Keisha was ignorant of this matter.
Then, Theo's voice was heard.
“……Are you over it now?”
Keisha didn't answer.
Just then, Theo knelt down and took something out of his bag.
It was a large bouquet containing white daisies.
Even in the darkness, the white daisies glowed clearly.
"What is this?"
When Keisha asked, Theo answered.
“Since we are going here to conduct fortification work, Miss Lavinia brought it for us.”
Keisha's eyes twitched.
“……That person will really like it.”
Keisha placed the bouquet on the floor.
In Elijah's eyes, it was an ordinary land with nothing.
“I'll go in and wait first.
And you, Colonel?”
“I'll be gone in just a little while.”
After he finished speaking, Keisha looked at the bouquet in amazement.
Theo picked up his bag and strode towards the leaders' tent.
But Elia stayed put.
It was because of Keisha's facial expression that he was left alone.
His facial expressions that appeared in the lamplight were not like the face of the devil that usually drives the unit's members to hard work.
'He looks lonely and sad.'
This strange appearance aroused her curiosity, and she could not move.
“Is it strange that you are seeing such an appearance of the Colonel for the first time?”
Illya's body froze at the voice that was heard behind her back.
As soon as she turned her head, Theo was staring at her with a stern face.
“Erhan, what are you doing here?
Now it’s time to sleep.”
“I went to look for you in the tent, but you weren't there...”
At those words, Theo let out a sigh.
“Alright then.
Let’s leave the place first and talk.”
He continued talking, giving Keisha a sideways glance.
“Because I don't want to disturb the Colonel.”
They quietly returned to the tent.
Theo prescribed a massage ointment for Elijah, who said her arm was stiff.
“Apparently it was due to digging with a shovel.
Yes, the amount of work was very exhausting indeed.”
Fortunately, Theo had no doubts.
Elia opened her mouth, about to leave the tent.
“Military doctor, can I ask one question?”
"What?"
When Theo asked, she asked.
“This place, it seems that fortification work has not been carried out for a long time.
Is there any reason for that?”
Instead of answering, Theo remained silent.
After a while, he opened his mouth.
“This place is heart-wrenching.
Especially for the Colonel.”
•
Keisha muttered, looking quietly at the ground where the tulips were placed.
“This place, is the place where I first met Comrade Yuz, and it is also the place where I lost him.”
He closed his eyes quietly.
His first encounter with Beuse was about ten years ago, but he was alive as if it had happened yesterday.
While he had been actively working for several years as a demon trainer at the Imperial Army Training Center, after receiving Derek's recommendation, an urgent message came to him.
The message was asking for help in eliminating the last group of rebels.
Because Kesha was trembling with disgust and hated the rebels, he immediately agreed.
He lost himself in thought as he went to the great plain where the battle was said to take place.
Those fierce battles with the rebels, which seemed endless, are finally ending.
He joined the Imperial Army and made the annihilation of those who exterminated him and his family the sole goal of his life, fighting battles and diligently training soldiers.
But after they disappear, what will he do himself?
It was a concern he had never thought about before.
Suddenly, he felt a strange feeling of emptiness.
Suppressing the emptiness that came over him, he headed towards the battlefield.