I Became an Officer in Another World in Just 5 Minutes - Chapter 94

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Episode 94

“What about you, Lieutenant?”

“Me? You mean me?”

A question thrown back in reverse.

I naturally expected her to answer skillfully that she had experience, but her reaction was no different from mine.

“I don’t have any either. To be honest, I despised all men my age until I enlisted.”

“Despised…?”

“At banquets, they would swarm around me with lecherous looks, and wanting to connect with me by force, they would propose marriage talks to my family without even asking me, buying me like an object. And the gifts they sent… I don’t even want to imagine.”

It must have been truly terrible, as her expression wasn’t good.

‘I guess being born pretty and handsome doesn’t mean everything is good.’

Of course, it would still be 100 times better than being ugly, but I couldn’t say that here.

“You must have had a hard time.”

“It’s okay. It’s gotten a little better now. I found a way to escape too.”

“Right, you should escape. But don’t push yourself too hard. As you can see, the war has at least a few more years left.”

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

Lieutenant Aisa said that, then looked down at the box containing the bag.

“Do you want to have it?”

“Would you give it to me if I wanted it?”

“Well, if you want it, I can give you something like this. You’re the Deputy Company Commander, after all.”

With all the work she does in my place, how could I not give her this much.

“Right?”

She spoke in a voice that seemed somehow pleased and raised the corners of her mouth.

“Then you’re giving this to me as a gift?”

“A gift? That’s right. Please continue to work well with me.”

“Thank you! Hehe.”

She laughed with a tickling sound, and I could indirectly feel a little why men fall for her.

“I’ll use it well! Rest while you work!”

Lieutenant Aisa carefully took the box, greeted me, and left the room.

“What, she does like bag gifts.”

I couldn’t help feeling like I’d been had.

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“What’s wrong with this.”

Horen, who runs a meat restaurant in Retop Village, checked the week’s sales and doubted his eyes.

‘It’s been cut in half.’

Sales that were literally cut in half compared to last week.

It was natural in a way for an emergency to hit Horen, who had been playing around everywhere and came to work for the first time in a week.

“What the hell happened! Did we miss something?!”

Horen questioned Jeckob, the store manager, as if interrogating him.

“It’s not missing, but suddenly from a week ago, the number of soldiers drastically decreased. That’s why I was looking for you, boss, but I couldn’t reach you.”

Of course he couldn’t reach him.

He had spent most of the past week at casinos and bars.

“Ahem, you don’t need to know about that. The soldiers decreased? Are they doing some kind of training?”

A week-long gap would be painful, but manageable.

‘The president definitely said it would last a year, so there’s no need to worry, right?’

News secretly spread only to full members of the Merchant’s Association.

Horen’s plan was to do business for 11 more months, then sell the store at a high price and leave the village.

“I’ll look into it, so just do business as usual. If they haven’t come for a week, they’ll come rushing soon.”

“Yes, understood.”

Since Jeckob just had to do what the boss told him anyway, he returned to his position and continued his work.

And Horen left the store and headed to the Merchant’s Association, feeling uneasy.

“This is an emergency. Wasn’t this supposed to be negotiated?”

“We need to come up with some countermeasure, this is urgent.”

In front of the bustling Merchant Guild Office.

All the people gathered there were store owners.

“Is there some kind of problem?”

Horen approached Gaf, who was running a billiard hall, and asked.

“Oh! Good timing. Horen, you’ll probably be hit the hardest. Are you okay?”

“You mean sales? It’s already chaos, but is there some problem with the military camp?”

“It’s not that. Right now that military camp made a barbecue restaurant and they’re grilling and eating meat directly. So they’re not coming out.”

“What…?!!!”

At the sound like a bolt from the blue, Horen’s pupils dilated to the point of bursting.

“All the stores in the village have seen their sales plummet. That’s why I came here too.”

“No, why a barbecue restaurant at the military camp? What kind of crazy thing is that!”

Since everything would be over if the meat restaurant failed, Horen’s emotions and voice became intense.

Meanwhile,

The tightly closed door of the president’s office opened and Hobbs came out.

“Sorry for keeping you waiting. I was also late because I was checking the situation.”

“President! What the hell is this about? A barbecue restaurant? I’m ruined!”

Horen, who had become more desperate than anyone, stepped forward and raised his voice.

“Yes, this is really absurd. I definitely thought he was someone we could talk to.”

Hobbs was also very angry right now.

‘To backstab me like this?’

They definitely gave tacit agreement to help, then suddenly a barbecue restaurant.

The saying that all nobles are cunning wasn’t false.

“We’ve lived dedicating ourselves to the soldiers all this time! Is this the right treatment! We need to go and confront them about this!”

At Horen’s words filled with grief, other merchants began taking sides.

“Right! Let’s go together!”

“This is disrespect toward our village!”

“Forgetting everything we’ve done for them, if the soldiers act like this, we need to take a hard line too!”

Rising voices.

If he stayed still here, he wouldn’t be a president.

“I’ll go to the military camp again.”

“Let’s go together! They’re disrespecting you right now, President.”

“We need to push with numbers.”

“Right! Let’s go!”

When people act collectively, fear disappears.

And so 50 members of the Merchant’s Association headed to the military camp.

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“The number of orcs today was higher than expected, so it was very tiring, but everyone worked hard.”

Kelvin briefly spoke while watching the soldiers grilling meat.

“Eat your fill and go in to rest well. That’s all.”

“We’ll eat well!”

“Enjoy your meal!”

Sizzle!

As soon as the Battalion Commander finished speaking, the meat began grilling.

Usually we don’t eat together in groups like this, but today was a day when the monsters were particularly troublesome, so the Battalion Commander took out the military camp operating funds.

“Eating inside like this is good for us because there’s no risk of accidents, and it saves time and money for the soldiers, so it’s killing two birds with one stone.”

“That’s right.”

Of course, for me it’s killing three birds with one stone since sales are also rising.

“The results have been good so far, and I heard the regiment is currently reviewing it. Captain, you’ve really brought about a big change.”

“No. This is something I should naturally do as the Subjugation Company Commander.”

You might ask what this has to do with being a subjugation company commander, but there is some connection.

‘If a dozen or so people go out for something like a company dinner, there’ll be a gap in our forces if a situation breaks out.’

Well, there hasn’t been an incident because of that yet, but it’s likely to happen at least once someday.

“I heard that the Captain’s guild provided a lot of help this time, and indeed, as rumored, there’s no place that cares for the military as much as the Oclo Trading Guild.”

“Is there such a rumor?”

This is completely the first time I’m hearing this.

“Aren’t you most actively helping with food ingredient deliveries and military supply support?”

“I see. Father certainly has a lot of interest in the military.”

Of course, I opened the path for them, but developing it further from there was purely the guild’s capability.

“Company Commander, you should eat too. Didn’t you just come back from going out on subjugation today?”

“Yes, I’ll eat heartily.”

Since I absolutely love pork, I grilled it on the pan and took a big bite.

“Company Commander!”

Just as I was about to put it in my mouth, Lieutenant Aisa, who had stayed in the office saying she had work to do, came running over.

‘Did she suddenly want to eat meat too?’

Well, since we ordered plenty, adding one more person like her wouldn’t be a problem.

But she had a different reason for calling me.

“People calling themselves the merchant’s association from Retop Village have come to see you, Company Commander.”

“What, already?”

It’s only been a week since we opened the barbecue restaurant.

I thought it would take at least a month before they visited, but their sales drop must be more painful than expected.

“The soldier at the main gate says there are over thirty of them. What should we do?”

“What on earth are you talking about, Captain?”

Lieutenant Colonel Kelvin, who had been listening to the conversation beside us, asked for details.

“Didn’t I tell you last time that people came from the village? Making unreasonable demands.”

“You did.”

The Battalion Commander was also extremely angry then, saying it was complete nonsense.

“And now they’ve come because their sales dropped after we set up the barbecue restaurant. They’ll probably demand we tear it down.”

I can just too clearly picture what they’re going to say.

“So they’re opposing the construction of convenience facilities for soldiers because they need to fill their own bellies. How ridiculous.”

Lieutenant Colonel Kelvin shook his head.

‘Fortunately, our Battalion Commander doesn’t seem to have any corrupt ties with the villagers.’

Usually when you look at the military, they’re all connected to some high-ranking person from the village or company, so they deliberately don’t help even when they could, while picking soldiers’ pockets.

“I should go out and deal with them myself.”

“No. Since I started this, I’ll meet with them this time too. I’ve prepared something knowing they would come out like this.”

“Really?”

Lieutenant Colonel Kelvin seemed annoyed, so when I said I’d step forward, he sat back down in his chair.

‘This kind of thing is an emotional fight, so he probably doesn’t want to do it.’

Honestly, I’d find it annoying too.

“I’ll be back shortly.”

I just put the meat I was about to eat in my mouth and left the barbecue restaurant with Lieutenant Aisa.

“The barbecue restaurant is more popular than expected.”

“It’s half the price of what they usually ate at the stores, so it’s bound to be.”

We’re managing it with a reservation system, and dinner is almost always fully booked.

‘If there’s a downside, it’s probably that you have to clean up after yourself?’

Of course, compared to the money saved, it’s really a negligible downside.

“Go and have one person… no, that’s too few, have just two people come to the Company Commander’s Office. Have the rest wait outside.”

“Understood.”

“More than that, isn’t this ridiculous? Are they planning to protest against the military?”

During wartime, dozens of people showing up at a military base without an appointment is something we could definitely make an issue of.

“Their profits must have been cut at least in half, so they’ve probably lost their minds.”

“That’s probably it. I’ll be waiting in the Company Commander’s Office.”

“Yes, I’ll escort them over.”

I left the escorting to her and went into the Company Commander’s Office to clean up what looked like trash.

‘Is there really a need to clean up?’

What I’ve learned from military life is that treating garbage like people here doesn’t change anything.

Rather, they just think ‘Oh? They’re staying quiet even with this treatment’ and act up even more.

“Let me just have some coffee.”

I roughly made just one cup of coffee for myself and waited, and before long, the Company Commander’s Office door opened.

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