D-370 Until Discharge.

I had spent a long time in the Snowy Mountain Battalion. By now, I had naturally become part of this unit, and it felt just as familiar as my previous one—Cledore Mountain Battalion.

Crash—!

At the sound of something collapsing outside, I frowned as I lay sprawled on my bed.

"Which bastards are making a racket when I’m trying to sleep?"

Come to think of it, things had been unusually quiet for a while. Maybe it was time to step outside and kill those noisy brats.

I threw open the door with that exact thought in mind, only to come face-to-face with Luna, who had just been about to enter my quarters.

"Miss Salvia!"

Having lived together for a year, Luna was well aware of my personality. Even so, she still beamed at me despite my scowl.

"I have good news!"

"What? What is it?"

Was the monster subjugation canceled? Or did I finally get a letter from Aquila?

Honestly, in this army, the only so-called "good news" was when pudding was served at mealtime, so I didn’t bother to hide my disinterest.

"There’s an external assignment!"

"That’s what you call good news? Are you out of your mind?"@@novelbin@@

Just thinking about descending this goddamn mountain already gave me a headache. Was she feeling proud just because she had endured six years in this frozen wasteland?

"It’s not like that! This time, a new firearm is being introduced, so each battalion is sending one platoon to learn how to use it."

"And?"

A new firearm was certainly a good thing, but the idea of going to learn about it sounded like a pain.

Still, if they were introducing new guns, did that mean we were finally getting a modernized rifle? The rifles used by the Snowy Mountain Battalion were a step up from the shotguns we had before, but they still had a lot of flaws. Maybe they had finally developed a proper rapid-fire model. Not that it really mattered to me, since I didn’t have much time left in the army.

"You came here just to tell me—wait a minute."

I had been about to brush Luna off when something clicked.

"Did you say all battalions of the Border Defense Army are sending a platoon each?"

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