I Became an Officer in Another World in Just 5 Minutes - Chapter 79

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Episode 79

“You’ll inevitably be shaken around, so please bear with it a little.”

Since her condition was serious, there was no response.

‘Damn, let’s hurry.’

Instinctively realizing there was no time to spare, I ran desperately with all my might.

“Kiriririik!”

“Get out of the way!”

Goblins appeared occasionally along the way, but fortunately their numbers weren’t too great.

Swoosh!

Since there was no time to kill them, I only inflicted serious wounds to prevent them from following and kept running.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before I heard a familiar voice.

“They’re gradually closing in, so fall back while engaging!”

“The goal is to buy time, so don’t overdo it!”

Lieutenant Garen’s booming voice.

It seemed I had circled around and reached Lieutenant Garen’s position.

‘This actually worked out well.’

In a situation requiring treatment and rest, nowhere was safer than the main force.

“Lieutenant Garen! Target destruction complete!”

“What’s behind you…”

Confirming me joining the main force and Lieutenant Orpia on my back, he opened his eyes wide in apparent confusion.

“We’re retreating for now!”

“Retreat!! Retreat!!”

The Special Forces soldiers, who seemed to have been struggling considerably to hold their position, quickly withdrew as soon as the retreat order was given.

While not seriously wounded, quite a few people appeared to be injured.

“Since we need to pick up speed, I’ll carry the Lieutenant for now.”

“Understood.”

Having carried her all the way here and being quite exhausted, I handed over Lieutenant Orpia without hesitation.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

“Yes…”

As she was carried with a weak voice, his back was incomparably broader than mine.

The sense of stability was different.

“Hang in there a little longer and follow me.”

“Yes sir!”

Following behind Lieutenant Garen, we quickly put distance between us and the goblins.

‘But how can he run so well even while carrying someone?’

It felt like he’d be faster than me even if he ran a 100-meter dash like that.

“Company Commander, it seems the last pursuing goblins have also fallen behind.”

“Then let’s rest here for a moment. Reconnaissance team, survey the surroundings.”

“Yes sir!!”

After giving the order, he carefully set Lieutenant Orpia down.

“There doesn’t seem to be any external problems, so what happened?”

Lieutenant Garen looked at me and asked briefly.

“Uh…”

Since I absolutely couldn’t mention anything about the eyes, I was momentarily at a loss for words.

‘What should I say about this?’

As Lieutenant Garen said, she looked fine from the outside.

But Lieutenant Orpia was currently unconscious.

I needed to make up some lie, but the difficulty was considerable.

‘Let’s just keep my words to a minimum.’

Sometimes it’s better to say nothing at all rather than a hundred words.

“We were each fighting when she suddenly collapsed, so I don’t really know either.”

“Hmm, could it be poison? That would be the worst-case scenario.”

Lieutenant Garen sent me a worryingly intense gaze that felt burdensome.

Fortunately, Lieutenant Orpia regained consciousness before he could take any action.

“I’m… I’m fine. I just overdid it a bit. Captain, could you bring me some water?”

“Yes! Here it is.”

With the feeling of losing ten years of my life, I handed her the canteen.

“Ugh.”

Was water really a cure-all?

Life began returning to her previously dying face.

“We should call it a day here.”

Everyone nodded at Lieutenant Garen’s words.

“I’m sorry about this.”

“Not at all. We also have several lightly wounded, so resting is better.”

Indeed, as he said, the Special Forces soldiers also seemed to need rest.

“I’ll escort you to outside the mountain range. Please get on my back.”

Lieutenant Garen bent his knee and showed his back toward Lieutenant Orpia.

“I feel so sorry.”

“You’re light as a feather, so it’s fine.”

‘Hm? What’s with this sweet act?’

It was a sentence hard to believe came from his mouth.

‘He’s absolutely not that kind of person.’

For a moment, I wondered if he’d been hit by a mental attack from a magical device.

“Then… excuse me.”

Lieutenant Orpia slightly bowed her head as if embarrassed and got on Lieutenant Garen’s back.

Thus, the first day ended with destroying one magical device.

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“Move quickly if you don’t want to be discovered and die!”

Colonel Bocard shouted at the Punitive Force soldiers pulling the cart loaded with the magical device ‘Monument’.

“Operation Commander, the prisoners are at their limit. I think they need to rest a little.”

“Rest here at the entrance? Do you want to be discovered by the enemy?”

Captain Ricardo suggested a break, but it didn’t work at all on the impatient Colonel Bocard.

“There’s no rest. Whip them to increase speed! Or pull it yourselves!”

“Under… understood.”

Since pulling the cart themselves was unimaginable, Captain Ricardo and the other Reconnaissance Command soldiers took out their whips.

“You vermin bastards! Move quickly!”

“If we’re discovered because of you lot, will you take responsibility?!”

Crack! Crack!

“Aaagh! I’ll walk, so stop! Stop it!”

Under the pain from the whips, the eight Punitive Force members summoned every ounce of strength to increase their speed.

And among them was Lieutenant Robin, whose blonde hair was now duller than before, also pulling the cart.

‘That bastard I’ll tear apart, just a few months ago he couldn’t even make eye contact.’

Especially Captain Ricardo.

He was Robin’s peer who entered Reconnaissance Command in the same class.

“What are you glaring at!”

Confirming the gaze directed at him, Captain Ricardo swung his whip at Robin without hesitation.

Crack!

A whipping not meant to urge movement but to inflict pain.

Pain that was hard for a human to endure struck his brain, but Robin made no sound whatsoever.

“Tsk… tsk, orphan bastard with nothing but high pride.”

Lieutenant Ricardo felt chills at the monstrous sight and touched on Robin’s most painful spot.

“What did you just say?”

“I said orphan. Why? Did I say something wrong?!”

Ricardo raised his voice to resist the murderous intent that seemed ready to take his head at any moment.

Unfortunately, Robin had no way to deal with such a Ricardo.

“Haa.”

At the sight of the powerless Robin, Ricardo felt an indescribable sense of conquest and exhilaration.

“If you’re a criminal, you should quietly accept your…”

“Lieutenant Ricardo! Where are you?”

Just as he was about to swing his whip once more, Colonel Bocard called for him.

“Damn, consider yourself lucky.”

Ricardo frowned with regret and ran toward Colonel Bocard.

“What’s the matter, sir?”

“Take a look at this.”

What Colonel Bocard pointed to was none other than the monument they had installed three months ago.

“What’s the problem… what the hell is this.”

A sword mark carved long across the circuit.

Naturally, if a sword mark was carved into the circuit, the monument, being a magical device, would be reduced to an ordinary stone.

“They did this with the clear intention of destroying it completely.”

Colonel Bocard clicked his tongue after examining the sword mark closely.

“Did a monster do this?”

“Does this look like something a monster did to you, Captain? Tsk tsk, your eyes are crooked.”

Colonel Bocard clicked his tongue as if finding it pathetic.

“I apologize. Then surely the Lycans…”

“That must be it. I heard they caught on, but to think they’d actually find it. Did they deploy troops on a large scale? Even then, it should be impossible.”

They had heard news that the Raikane Empire had also learned the identity of the monuments due to the Ogre variable.

However, no one at Reconnaissance Command was particularly worried.

Since they paid attention to camouflage, it was difficult to distinguish from ordinary rocks, and the Gork Mountains were extremely vast.

“There’s no way the map was leaked, so they must have discovered it by luck.”

It was quite a complacent statement, but there was no other way to think about the situation.

“Even one of these costs a considerable amount. Tsk, more will be broken.”

Colonel Bocard’s face crumpled as he could see the future.

“Just in case, send a reconnaissance team to check the nearest monument and come back. Meanwhile, let the punitive force rest for a while too.”

“Understood.”

The reconnaissance team was really sent just in case.

But the news they brought back after checking was shocking.

“Um… Operation Commander.”

“What.”

Lieutenant Ricardo, who had received the report from the returned reconnaissance team, called Colonel Bocard with a trembling voice.

“They say the monument… has the exact same sword mark carved into it.”

“What?!”

“According to the reconnaissance team, the traces of people passing through aren’t that old. I don’t know what method they’re using, but they seem to be finding the locations and destroying them.”

“Damn! These fucking bastards.”

The monuments were objects of astronomical value that a soldier couldn’t earn even working their entire lifetime.

Even if just one was destroyed, they’d have to worry about disciplinary action beyond just writing a report, and now there were already two.

It was natural for Colonel Bocard, who was in charge of installation and management, to feel urgent.

“Deploy all reconnaissance teams to find those Lycan bastards! Shit, we have to stop them by any means necessary!”

“Y-yes sir!”

At Colonel Bocard’s command, the operation members began pursuit based on the remaining traces.

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“Wow, it’s been a really long time since I’ve seen Bellingcho this big. This really is the Gork Mountains.”

Lieutenant Garen, who had suddenly crouched down on the ground while walking, plucked a blade of grass.

“What’s Bellingcho?”

“Captain, you’re from a merchant family and you’re a man, yet you don’t know Bellingcho?”

He spoke as if it were an impossible thing, but I really didn’t know.

“I’ve barely done any guild work, so my related knowledge is lacking.”

“That’s right, Captain’s constitution suits the military, so there’s no way you’d fit with a guild.”

‘No. I’d fit incredibly well.’

If I could just escape this damn military, I’d create a second Amazon, so I had no idea what he was talking about.

“Ha…haha.”

“Bellingcho is an herb that boosts vitality. Initially, the military used it, but it boosted vitality in other places too much, causing adverse effects, so its use was canceled after just one year.”

“Other places, you say?”

“If it’s a man’s vitality, where else would it be?”

At Lieutenant Garen’s words, I naturally understood without realizing it.

“Now it’s traded expensively for that purpose. This much… would get at least 30 gold.”

“30 gold, you say…?”

The blade of grass on the ground was similar to my monthly salary.

“Why are you so surprised? It’s a fact known to all citizens of the Empire that old nobles come carrying bags of money when something helps with sexual vigor.”

“I see.”

Whether in South Korea or here, the world men live in seems to be the same.

‘There was a reason herb gatherers risked their lives to come in here.’

The phrase “high risk, high return” couldn’t be more fitting than this.

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