Elijah's face flushed.
'Did I just hear wrong?'
Axion kept staring at her with his blue eyes as he approached her with long strides.
There was a slight smell of alcohol on his breath, but she didn't feel any discomfort.
Axion extended his hand again and carefully touched her face.
That hesitant touch was so soft.
She wasn't rude or annoying.
On the contrary, I felt love and tenderness in her.
Elia didn't step back like she had before.
No, she didn't want to back down.
'Why am I doing this?'
'It's because of drunkenness.
Surely that's why.'
She repeated in her mind.
Meanwhile, Axion looked at Erhan standing in front of him.
As soon as he saw Erhan standing without rejecting his touch, stronger feelings overflowed than they had just before.
At that moment, he suddenly regained consciousness.
'Why am I doing this?'
This man is a colleague, so why do these tender feelings continue to appear?
The unknown feelings towards Erhan began to make him feel afraid.
'This is dangerous.
Really, not anymore.'
“Erhan, I'm sorry.
Please consider that you didn't hear what I just said.”
Axion quickly withdrew his hand and apologized.
“I'll go in first.”
After he finished speaking, he quickly turned around and headed back towards the annex building.
•
“Oh my head!”
Elia woke up the next morning holding her head.
Her head was almost exploding from the drunkenness.
I staggered like a living dead, heading towards the restaurant.
“Elle, are you okay?”
“Aha…”
I repeatedly drank water instead of eating.
“Were you okay yesterday?
I waited a long time after you went out for a walk, and when you didn’t come back, I got worried.”
“Ah, like that then.
I didn't know.
Sorry...”
When Elia apologized, Lennox asked her.
“Did something happen when you went out for a walk?”
What happened with Axion came to her mind.
But she answered in a voice that seemed indifferent.
“I don’t know, I don’t remember well because I was drunk.”
After she finished speaking, she looked around the restaurant.
She saw Axion eating alone in a distant place.
Unlike her, who was suffering from the effects of drunkenness, he seemed very disciplined.
She remembered the events of last night and blushed.
Then, Lennox exclaimed in an excited voice.
“Anyway, thanks to Elle and Axion, everyone in the unit got permission to go out and that's really great!
Thank you both so much!”
"You're welcome."
“They said the commander would give us exit passes after the meal, and we would all go out and come back in the afternoon.”
“This is good...”
Elia nodded with a soulless face, enduring the headache.
Even if she went out, she would have wasted the whole day due to her drunkenness.
But the unit members were very happy and their faces looked full of enthusiasm.
“We're finally getting out!”
“How long has it been...
I want to get out quickly!”
Unlike Ilya, Axion, Lennox, and Yusar who had received reward leave, they had not been able to venture out to the outside world even once since their enlistment.
Naturally, they were looking forward to it very much.
‘Yes, if I sacrifice myself and everyone is happy, that is enough…….’
Illya repeated this in her mind, and after enduring the effects of drunkenness, she gathered the unit members into one place inside the barracks.
There, Keisha waited for him to bring her exit permits.
The barracks door opened and the eyes of the unit members sparkled simultaneously.
But the one who opened the door and entered was not Kesha, but Theo.
“Why a military doctor?”
Everyone tilted their heads in confusion.
Managing the unit's departure and leave was entirely Kesha's job.
'This does not bode well.'
Elijah's face hardened.
If something unexpected happened on a day off or out, it was a bad sign.
Unexpected things usually happen when a severe emergency occurs.
If an accident of this magnitude occurs, in the worst case, all outings and even vacations may be cancelled.
‘It can’t be, it can’t be…….’
Elia hoped that wasn't the case, and greeted Theo.
“Loyalty!
Military doctor, what’s the matter?”
Instead of answering, Theo looked at the unit with a very embarrassed face and then opened his mouth.
“With great regret, this outing has been cancelled.
We hope everyone understands.”
A hint of despair appeared on the faces of the unit's members.
“Military doctor, this is unbelievable!”
“What the hell happened?”
“Can we go out in a few days?”
Questions came from all directions, and Theo remained silently listening to all the questions.
Instead of asking questions desperately like the unit members, Elia looked at Theo with a serious face.
'What the hell happened?'
It seemed more dangerous than I thought.
‘The exit should be completely canceled rather than postponed…….’
This means that, whatever the cause, an incident has occurred that cannot be resolved immediately or in the near future.
This meant that they would not move until this incident was resolved.
'In my previous life, such situations usually occurred when there was a possibility of war.'
Such as provoking North Korea.
Elijah looked at Theo and hurriedly asked him.
“Military doctor, did the monsters appear again by chance?”
“Not that.”
At these words, Theo sighed and opened his mouth.
“Colonel Keisha has gone to receive an investigation from the Imperial Army.”
"What?"
Elijah's eyes widened.
'Why Kesha in particular?'
The Imperial Army investigation was just a name for an investigation, but it was actually detention and interrogation.
While Elia was confused, Theo told them.
“Until the Colonel returns, I will take command of this unit.
So, let’s prepare for today’s training.”
•
When the exit was cancelled, the morale of the unit's personnel declined sharply.
After completing the training, Ilya and the unit returned to the barracks and sat down heavily.
Their souls were more tired than their bodies.
“El, military doctor Theo… No, the commander is calling for you.”
Lennox informed her, and she headed to the office to see Theo.
She heard the unit members talking in a gloomy voice around her.
Were they complaining about canceling vacation or something?
But when she heard their conversation, Elijah's eyes widened.
“It's strange without the leader.”
“Somehow, I miss him.”
“Do these people miss Kesha?”
'That demonic human?'
Of course, Illya realized that behind Keisha's devilish side there was a reason of her own.
But the unit's members, unlike her, did not know that fact.
'Looking back, Keisha hasn't been acting as devilishly lately as he did at the beginning of his recruitment.'
He even provided a very lavish dinner for those who carried out the work of building the fortifications.
A dinner of this size was considered an extremely generous gift from Keisha's point of view, and it was only natural that the members of the unit would be moved by it.
‘Even in the original work, there was no such banquet.’
Are his feelings for the unit deeper than they were in the original work?
Unlike the original work, after being recruited disguised as a man, Illya was always focused only on her changed status.
But other than that, other things were changing little by little without her knowing.
She didn't know if this was positive or negative.
Of course, Elia had faith that Keisha, who had gone to investigate, would not be harmed.
It was confusing because it wasn't in the original work.
But is Keisha a normal person?
Wasn't he the one who abandoned the Imperial Army because he was dissatisfied with it?
'He will definitely come back looking like a brag, and act like a devil again.'
More importantly, why are events so different from the original work?
If she looked at the reincarnation stories she had read in her previous life, they were based on the original work, where the heroes successfully solve problems and achieve their desired goals.
But in reality she couldn't do it.
Because everything changed little by little as she moved, and even unexpected things kept happening.
For her, she was busy struggling to adapt to this situation.
This was not the case, like stories of misunderstanding in which the character lives a carefree life without special ambitions, and those around her automatically misunderstand things, which leads to her achieving tremendous achievements.
To this extent, aren't there any advantages to reincarnation at all?
'Maybe because I'm stupid.'
Although she felt a little gloomy, she shook her head vigorously.
'My goal is to be safely discharged without being found out, right?'
If I was really stupid, I would have been exposed and fired already.
Just the fact that I've survived without being caught so far means I'm doing well.
When Keisha comes back, all I have to do is hold on safe here as I am now until discharge day.
Thus, she reassured herself and arrived at the office.
"loyalty!"
“Are you coming?”
Theo was sitting at his desk instead of Keisha.
“The reason I invited you is to discuss the future situation.”
Theo's face was serious.
“Erhan Trengen, since you are the deputy commander of this unit, I will speak frankly.”
Theo continued, his voice darker.
“At worst, Colonel Keisha may not be able to return.”