The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

20 – After Effects (4)

Sonny Zeppelin’s eyes shook. She thinks for a moment, then lowers her head.

“I’m sorry, Lieutenant Enoch Levandell.”

The colonel chose a clean apology rather than making excuses or coming out with a red flag.

A colonel is not a low rank, and he even holds the title of great mage.

No matter how misunderstood it may be, apologizing to the newly commissioned second lieutenant and sergeant requires considerable determination.

So I decided to cool it down.

“No, I think it’s a situation that can be misunderstood…… Ugh!?”

As I tried to move my body, I felt pain like a ghost. This is really f*cked up. A man’s waist is his life.

“Platoon leader!”

When I am in pain, Bell Mayer hurriedly comes and supports him. As she stretched out her hand, her throbbing pain eased.

A first-class blue mage.

As much as she deals with water, the source of her life, she could also use some healing magic.

“…… Anyway, doesn’t this prove the innocence of Bell Meyer and me?”

“Hmm, I guess you could say that.”

“Then, could you please do me a favor?”

“What kind of favor?”

“About Rumia’s desertion, the Colonel, please excuse me. It’s because this friend has a trauma, she never intentionally strayed from the wire.”

“Ah, ah~ Well, that’s it, I don’t care anyway. Leaving the front line isn’t such a big sin.”

Unexpectedly, Sonny Zeppelin was generous in this regard as well. She is a truly unstoppable woman.

“But I mean. Is it true that you ran into mages? Then, have you seen anything that looks like this?”

She said, drawing the shape of a round sphere with her hand.

“Because it sparkles? Like a jewel.”

Bingo.

I was convinced that my hypothesis was correct.

Something special was stored in the Belgordo Fortress, and the mysterious mages stole the item after instigating thieves to attack the fortress.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t see it. But given the circumstances, it’s clear that they took it.”

I added with a grin.

“Are you referring to something special that was kept in the fort?”

“So-called, I can’t get past the remark I just made.”

Sonny Zeppelin’s spirits changed again. Once again, the unfolding magic power stimulated her whole body.

The aggro was definitely drawn.

She seemed to ask how I knew that.

“It was an easy truth to know. If it wasn’t for that, there’s no way the colonel would come all the way here with just one outskirts fortress falling.”

“Keep reciting it. I’ll have to listen to it.”

My plan was going smoothly.

Now is my chance to prove my innocence and at the same time imprint my name firmly on Sonny Zeppelin.

Anyway, he was a person who had to put the line on the line before the war.

A little earlier than expected, but…….

‘I rather like it.’

I calmly began to explain my hypothesis.

“When I first heard of the fall of Fort Belgordo, I received a report from the company commander that an explosion had been observed.”

Until then, I wasn’t sure it was a mage’s attack. I just thought you might have brought some explosives.

“However, I realized it the moment I encountered the systematically moving thieves and the group of suspicious mages at the end.”

Make sure to drive the wedge.

“It’s not a simple fortress raid,” He said.

Now Sonny Zeppelin’s gaze was completely fixed on me. She even nodded her head in the middle as if she was interested.

I told you everything I saw on the spot.

All five of them were excellent mages using at least intermediate level magic.

In the end, everything, even the fact that he used an artifact called the Rune of Remote Return.

The colonel crossed his arms from the middle and said with a serious expression.

“Enoch? Didn’t you say Enoch?”

“Yes, that’s right, Colonel.”

“Do you think the ensign knows where they come from?”

“I’m sure it’s the Soviet Empire.”

“…… And.”

Short elasticity.

It worked, it worked.

Sonny Zeppelin tapped her on the floor a couple of times with her foot, then she cried out as she hurriedly slipped out of her duty table.

“I’m sorry, so-called, but I’ll come back later!”

***

Sonny Zeppelin couldn’t help but admire.

A terrifyingly sharp insight. Of course, as much as she faced the spies herself, she must have felt more than others…….

It was the first person to understand that the purpose of the mages was not to disturb or provoke the rear through a simple attack on the fortress, but to retrieve ‘things’ that might be stored inside the fortress.

Right now even the commander of Novgorod’s division is simply claiming that it was an attack by bandits.

In addition to that, they accurately matched the country behind them.

She was able to recognize that the poten where Lieutenant Enoch Levandel was sleeping was a very great gemstone.

The will and courage to carry out his will even in front of himself as a great mage and colonel.

The charisma that can be felt from the strangely cool and cold expression, and the confidence that is always confident in one’s words.

There was nothing I didn’t like about Sonny Zeppelin.

Boom!

“Ah, what a surprise!! Colonel! Please get out of the habit of slamming that door open!”

Sonny Zeppelin’s temporary office in one corner of the Regimental Headquarters building. Inside, members of the ‘Special Response Brigade’, whom she selected and brought in, were organizing her materials.

In addition to the division’s own inspection department, the National Military Police were conducting an on-site investigation.

The reason Sonny Zeppelin brought them was because of a special order from the King.

‘The existing military cannot be trusted, so the Special Response Brigade should investigate.’

The precious artifact ‘Pearl of Omen’ was stolen right away.

It is an artifact that has been transported back to Balter Station 3, with security in mind so that the route is not traced.

It was also the reason why they did not attach a separate convoy. If a convoy were dispatched from the center, there was a high probability that this fact would flow to the ‘hostile forces’ in some way.

However, at the point of passing through the border fortress Belgordo for a while, bandits attacked the fortress and the artifact disappeared.

Anyone can see that there is a lot of willfulness.

Even though all the thieves were annihilated, the pearl of omen was not recovered in the end.

So Sonny Zeppelin was convinced that the ‘enemy’ was within the Ukrnian Army and nowhere else.

“Ah~ I’m sorry. By the way, Captain Marcel, bring me all the documents related to Lieutenant Enoch Levandel of the 3rd Magic Battalion under direct control of the Northern Corps and his platoon.”

“You mean the 3rd Mage Battalion?”

“Uh, no one else, just Lieutenant Enoch Levandell.”

The colonel’s eyes flashed.

Perhaps, he might be the second lieutenant best suited to his special response brigade.

***

While I was serving the medic, the situation was quickly sorted out.

It wasn’t even a complicated situation in the first place.

Subdue all the bandits who attacked the fortress. All the remains of the dead have been recovered, and the restoration work of the Belgordo Fortress is steadily progressing.

Of course, the investigation will continue on the unidentified power behind it and the stealing of the ‘artifact’ that was kept in the fortress.

The contents were not disclosed to the outside world, so the clean-up was almost over if it was a simple fortress raid.

As much as the soldiers of our battalion were leaving the regiment one by one and preparing to withdraw.

The first real battle, which was sudden, ended safely.

There were quite a few people who made their majors in the process.

– Thanks to Enoch’s appropriate response. Thank you very much.

Lieutenant Ivan, who was in charge of the tip of the wing, but did not break through the encirclement by fighting desperately, took this opportunity to impress his superior commanders.

– Actually, I believed it from the beginning! Our second lieutenant, Enoch, did a really good job!

Likewise, Lieutenant Colonel Lockhart, who had been praised by the division commander and regiment commander, shrugged his shoulders and gave me high praise.

Sometimes when you curse while talking about the old class or something. It’s a model of a true opportunist soldier.

That wasn’t a bad thing though.

It means that he made up for the troll act of breaking the wall of the official residence and eating it.

In addition, the news overlapped that he had traced the assailants to the end with the spirit of a saint of death, and caught the clue of the case to some extent.

The ransom of the entire 5th platoon as well as myself has achieved the result of a slight increase in ransom.

At least, it has succeeded in breaking away from the image.

Even if the division commander even bothered to visit me and Rumia to congratulate me on the achievement, it means that I did really well.

I thought all that was left was to receive such undeserved praise, establish a major, and return to the unit comfortably…….

Why is this sh*t?

“Captain Lockhart? I’m thinking of changing 2nd Lieutenant Enoch Levandel under you to a member of our special task force brigade, right?”

Just before the last withdrawal.

As the officers and noncommissioned officers of our battalion, including Lockhart, gathered together, Sonny Zeppelin poured out bombshell remarks.

“Yes…… ? No, what do you mean, Brigadier?”

“It’s literally. We decided to urgently assign Enoch Levandel to our brigade.”

Lt. Col. Lockhart’s face contorts at the shocking fact. Even I, who was in charge of him, was in a state of absurdity.

“You heard about the battalion commander. The fortress raid incident is over, but the investigation into the people behind it is still ongoing.”

“Yes, I know.”

“I really need Lieutenant Enoch Levandell for that investigation. Then, can I take you?”

“Brigadier General! No matter what, there is definitely a procedure…… !!”

“I already told the personnel headquarters. Unless you refuse, will it be repaired in the next few days?”

It was really reckless.

“Enoch Platoon Leader? Would you like to come here for a second?”

At the sound of a voice calling me out, everyone’s eyes turned to me.

‘Oh sh*t, why did you do that all of a sudden?’

I had no choice but to step forward slowly. My back, which had not fully recovered yet, was aching.

“Lieutenant, if you just say you’re going from here, no matter how much the battalion commander you are, you can’t stop it. Did I really like you? Looking at the records, it seems that the platoon only has strange kids.”

She added confidently that I would 100% accept it.

“It’s a newly created combat unit, and it’s under the direct control of the central corps. In fact, it is a position that is recognized as the most elite in the entire military, but don’t you want to go up to a higher place than this general field unit?”

Everyone was waiting for my answer.

Lt. Col. Lockhart looked at me with anxious eyes, while Colonel Sonny rolled his eyes in a triumphant manner.

I turned my head and looked at my platoon members in the rear.

Rumia, Belle, and even Claude. Of course, that’s what I think I’ll accept.

Certainly, a once-in-a-lifetime rope has come down, but it’s an irrelevant proposal.

As she said, the special response brigade is a unit that is treated as a decisive battle weapon of the Ukrnians even in the main story of Hearts of General.

Not only will you be able to quickly build up your skills, but you will also be able to build up a lot of majors, so the path to promotion is almost completely open.

“Isn’t this kind of opportunity always coming?”

But.

To the colonel, who was grinning at the intuition of victory, I opened my mouth without a second thought.

“I don’t like it.”