I Became an Officer in Another World in Just 5 Minutes - Chapter 24

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Episode 24

“Yes…?”

“Originally I was planning to observe you a bit longer, but leaving you alone proved hopeless. What exactly did you do for a whole week?”

The atmosphere I had mistakenly sensed before revealed itself once again.

And at this point, I couldn’t help but catch on.

“Don’t tell me you’re also from the Intelligence Agency.”

“Now you’re even revealing your own affiliation.”

“Ah.”

I covered my mouth with my hand after realizing my mistake, but it was already too late.

‘This is really trash-tier.’

It’s practically no different from the garbage behavior of some noble young master.

“How am I supposed to work with someone like this. How long are you going to sit comfortably on the ground?”

Under his sharp glare, I quickly got up and brushed the dirt off my clothes.

“Ahem, I apologize for showing you such a pathetic sight.”

“You were pathetic from the start, so no need to worry about it. Just report what you found out during the week.”

“Yes…?”

“I couldn’t check myself, but you must have done something.”

‘I didn’t though.’

More accurately, I couldn’t.

I was too busy passing out from extreme fatigue as soon as I got off work.

“Uh… well, Battalion Commander. Ahem, I’m sorry. I was too busy adapting to the new environment to conduct any investigation.”

“I suspected as much, and it turned out to be true.”

The Lieutenant shook his head and picked up a wooden sword.

‘Wh-why are you picking that up so menacingly.’

He seems to be the field agent Eden mentioned, which means his swordsmanship skills are at Special Forces level.

‘He’s not planning to kill me for being useless, is he…?’

With this crazy secretive organization, it’s entirely possible.

“From now on, you move as I tell you. Understood?”

“Un-understood!”

Well, this is actually better.

‘I couldn’t figure out which direction to go, and now he’s finally telling me.’

Come to think of it, isn’t it a bit sinister that he was just watching me for a whole week?

This is why I hate the Intelligence Agency.

“First, pick up the wooden sword again. Making you into something resembling a human being is the primary objective.”

“Yes…! But could you please refrain from hitting me?”

When he kicked me in the stomach earlier, I really thought I was going to die.

‘In the Republic of Korea, that would be grounds for a report.’

I could have called 1365 directly and it wouldn’t have been strange at all.

‘There’s something like that here too, but it would be meaningless anyway.’

Report an Intelligence Agency operative?

I’d be lucky if I didn’t face retaliation.

“Don’t do things that deserve a beating.”

The Lieutenant said something that sounded like what parents would say.

Faced with his firm yet hopeless attitude, I gave up saying more and picked up the wooden sword.

“Looking at you, it seems the Training Camp just taught you the basic concepts. Forget everything you’ve learned so far.”

“Yes.”

“First is posture. Try doing what you just did.”

The Lieutenant who told me to forget everything just one second ago, now telling me to try what I learned at the Training Camp.

He’s either contradictory or definitely has the memory of a goldfish.

‘Which tune should I dance to.’

Wondering if he would actually teach me properly, I assumed the stance while harboring doubts.

“Whether it’s swordsmanship or archery, the most important thing in any physical movement is where you place your center of gravity.”

The Lieutenant said this while pressing my right thigh with his wooden sword.

“Ugh!”

At the same time, my strength gave out and my posture collapsed, and I barely managed to keep from falling over.

“With wrong posture, you collapse from just a slight impact like this. Do you get the feeling?”

I couldn’t help thinking it was because he attacked a weak point, but I nodded anyway.

“I had no idea there would be such a difference.”

“At first glance, you might think the upper body is important since you swing the sword with your hands, but the foundation of all posture is lower body balance.”

Balance, center of gravity. An explanation that focused on these two key terms.

Unlike a typical soldier, it was quite professional and high-level content.

“So even if it’s uncomfortable at first, you’ll adapt as you practice, so try to maintain this posture to the end.”

Standing in the posture the Lieutenant corrected, something did feel different.

‘Is this what proper posture feels like.’

Anyway, it feels a bit awkward right now.

“And next is the stance for holding a sword. Lieutenant, which do you think is more important – defense or offense?”

“Isn’t it defense?”

“Oh, correct.”

Did he expect me to say offense?

The Lieutenant looked at me with surprised eyes, and honestly, isn’t this a bit insulting?

‘How ridiculous, I was second place in the Training Camp after all.’

From Captain Eden to this Lieutenant, they seem to treat me like a water rocket just because the Training Camp period was only 2 weeks and gathered only the elite.

Still, second place is second place.

“Why do you think defense is more important?”

“Because you need to survive to kill more enemies, right?”

“That’s also correct, but it’s not the answer I was looking for.”

Swoosh!

Suddenly the Lieutenant raised his sword out of nowhere and aimed it at my neck.

“Now, if I move just a little more, Lieutenant’s neck will be pierced. How would you move in this situation?”

“I would raise my sword to block it, wouldn’t I?”

“That’s right. You need to block the attack first before there can be a next move, and you can only win by buying turns like that.”

“So you’re saying the best offense is defense?”

“What?!”

I tried saying something that floats around online communities, and suddenly the Lieutenant’s eyes lit up.

“The best offense is defense… That’s really a good saying. Who did you hear that from?”

“Uh… it just popped into my head.”

I couldn’t exactly say the internet.

“Your comprehension is excellent. Though your body doesn’t seem to keep up.”

The Lieutenant withdrew the sword that had been aimed at my neck.

“I’ll teach you with the goal of perfectly mastering basic Imperial swordsmanship within a month, so make sure to keep up somehow.”

“Understood!”

I don’t know what it is, but I answered loudly anyway.

“Maybe because you just graduated, your voice is good. First is the movement for defending against attacks coming from the front, which should be useful for blocking the pathetic attacks you made earlier.”

The Lieutenant held his wooden sword diagonally to assume a defensive stance protecting his head and upper body.

“From here you need to know how to transition from defense to offense as a combo move. Try attacking me once.”

“Understood.”

I closed the distance and executed the same slashing motion as before.

Thwack!

As the wooden swords clashed with a dull sound, the Lieutenant slipped his body in.

“When an opponent attacks, it means their body is exposed defenseless. From this point, it becomes a battle of timing.”

Thwack!

The lieutenant’s wooden sword, which had disappeared from my sight, struck my abdomen hard once again.

“Ugh!”

“Don’t exaggerate. I didn’t even hit you that hard.”

A tone as if he’d done me some great favor after beating me up.

Without a doubt, he’s a genuine Intelligence Agency operative.

‘Crazy bastards.’

From what I can see, having a ruthless personality and broken character must be requirements for joining the Intelligence Agency.

“I just showed you, so get in position and try it.”

‘Damn it.’

I gritted my teeth to endure the pain and gripped the wooden sword.

‘What kind of suffering is this on a rare day off.’

Holding back curses is a full-time job.

“What are you fooling around for! When did I ever do it like that!”

The training proceeded almost like being marked one-on-one by a training camp instructor.

I thought it would end before dinner at the latest, but that was my misjudgment.

“Um… what about food.”

“I brought some, so don’t worry about it and keep going.”

The lieutenant said this while putting nuts he’d taken from his pocket into his mouth.

‘Shit, are you the only one with a mouth!’

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“Ah…”

It’s already been a week since I started this hellish training with the lieutenant.

It was hard before, but these days I’m really going insane.

‘Just kill me.’

During work hours I’m deployed to appease the Adits Imperial Army, and when I get off work I’m worked to death by Lieutenant Alpen.

This would definitely qualify as hazing within the unit.

But do you know what the biggest problem is?

‘This damn cursed swordsmanship mastery.’

Because of this cursed skill, my swordsmanship ability improved by leaps and bounds like a sponge absorbing water.

And as a result, the lieutenant started enjoying teaching me.

“I want to be discharged.”

Seriously, if it weren’t for the heir position hanging over me, I would have thrown away this Noblesse Oblige nonsense and gotten a dishonorable discharge.

“Working out? It looks like you’ve put on some muscle in your arms.”

Lieutenant Ramon, an advocate of exercise theory, looked at my forearms with gleaming eyes.

“It’s not muscle, it’s swelling. I think it’s from holding a sword for long periods lately.”

‘If this guy finds out I’m exercising, he’ll definitely want to do it together.’

Lieutenant Ramon’s workout time is two hours before coming to work.

So if I’m not careful, I might end up doing double duty.

“That’s definitely not swelling.”

“I don’t exercise except when called out, so there’s no way I could have built muscle.”

I quickly pulled down my sleeves before arousing more suspicion.

“By the way, it’s been a while since we had a day off – do you have any plans?”

To change the subject, I asked about tomorrow’s day off.

“I’ll work out in the morning and just lie around. Catch up on some sleep I’ve missed.”

“That’s surprisingly ordinary. I thought you’d go work out somewhere or play futsal.”

“I’d like to, but we can’t get the members together these days. Before this situation started, I used to play with the soldiers regardless of weekdays or weekends. Oh?! Speaking of which…”

“I’d love to join you in spirit, but I have plans tomorrow.”

Even if I didn’t have plans, playing futsal on a day off would be insane.

-Whirrrr! Combat readiness level 2 declared! Orders from Division Commander.

“Sigh, let’s go.”

“This should be the last one before the day off.”

We brushed off the inevitable situation like eating a meal, and welcomed the company’s day off that came around after 2 weeks.

Except for me, that is.

“As I said yesterday, you absolutely must make a connection with the Battalion Commander this time.”

“I understand.”

Alberm, the city closest to the 3rd Division.

Today I’m going to the gambling house there, Randel Casino.

To lose money.

“You’ve thoroughly read all the books I gave you, right?”

“Yes. I’ve especially mastered all the card games, so you don’t need to worry.”

Lieutenant Olmen’s favorite type of game is poker, specifically Texas Hold’em.

“I don’t have faith, but I have no choice but to trust you.”

Couldn’t he just say he trusts me a little?

‘Don’t these Intelligence Agency bastards get character education?’

It really seems necessary, but the military is originally a place that doesn’t teach what’s needed and only stuffs in useless things, so I shouldn’t have hope.

“Please have a little faith in me.”

“Faith is something you can have when trust has been built.”

“Ah, yes.”

I was momentarily speechless at the suddenly philosophical line.

“Anyway, since I can’t go with you, if the atmosphere gets even slightly strange, escape immediately.”

“Understood.”

Even if he didn’t tell me, I’d run away.

My life is tens of thousands of times more precious than the Intelligence Agency’s mission.

“Then let’s depart before it gets any later.”

“I’ll see you later.”

After exchanging final greetings, I left the division and got on a carriage.

“Please take me to Alberm 21st Street.”

“Yes, sir.”

Unlike the capital, this was a shabby carriage with no modifications whatsoever.

As expected, the moment we entered the stone road, my rear end shook violently.

‘This trashy countryside.’

“We’ve arrived. That’ll be 12 silver please.”

Just when I, who rarely get motion sick, was feeling nausea and the urge to vomit, the carriage stopped at its destination.

‘Running service like this and charging 12 silver?’

Even a luxury carriage in the capital would have cost about 14 silver, so there was hardly any price difference.

‘This is why the countryside doesn’t work.’

I got off while clicking my tongue at the price that was no different from being ripped off.

‘I just need to go straight along this road, right?’

The reason I didn’t take the carriage directly to the casino is simple.

‘Maintaining military dignity and whatnot.’

Gambling, prostitution, drugs, etc.

If someone reports it, things get quite complicated.

“Found it.”

As expected of a casino.

They were using expensive magical tools to light up their sign, so I could spot it from far away.

“Ahem.”

As I was about to enter the casino, I unconsciously cleared my throat at the guard’s eyes scanning my body.

‘I’d lose if we fought, right?’

Not just lose, but probably get beaten up miserably.

-Ding! Riri-ri! Diri-ri!

As soon as I entered, I was greeted by an orchestra and countless people dressed in suits and dresses.

There was no doubt this was the hottest spot in the neighborhood.

‘Why are there so many people?’

Just looking at the street outside, it seemed quiet, but this place was like a festival hall.

‘To enjoy the games, I need to exchange for chips first, right?’

Finding the chip exchange wasn’t too difficult.

It was right in front of the entrance, about five steps from where I was standing.

“Welcome!”

A beautiful employee who would definitely catch your eye on the street greeted me with a bright smile.

“Mm.”

I wanted to smile back and greet her the same way, but from now on, I had to start acting.

[Chip Exchange Guide]

1G -> 10BIT

100G -> 1,050BIT

10BIT-> 95S

A structure that skims off 5 percent profit.

‘Casinos are already hard enough to win at, and there are fees on top of that.’

It was amazing that the place was still packed with customers despite this.

‘How much should I exchange to avoid being ignored while drawing appropriate attention?’

Actually, there was no need to think about it.

I had already decided before coming.

“Since it’s my first time, let’s go light… just 500 gold.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, I pulled out five 100-gold checks from my wallet and tossed them over.

At that moment, the woman’s eyes wavered.

‘Did she fall for me? …Probably not.’

She was probably thinking ‘What a sucker!’

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