Chapter 1 – Episode 1 – A Single Soldier Returns
After I finished training in the morning and ate until lunch without knowing why, it wasn’t until it was time for a break that I realized that this situation was not a fantasy, but a reality.
Just a few hours ago, I didn’t realize that I was fighting a decisive battle with the demon king’s army. At that time I… In a previous accident, I suffered burns that melted the skin all over my body… His back was slightly bent and he lived with a hunchbacked body. But now I am the same as before the accident.
My appearance when I looked in the mirror for a while, and the lightness of my body that I felt…
On normal skin, flat back. This is the body before my life collapsed.
Besides, it wasn’t just the body that changed. The time zone in which I lived has changed.
Currently, this young body is twenty-four.
I’m definitely back in the past.
Okay.
I am…
“I’m back-!”
“Are you finally crazy?”
As soon as I raise my arms and shout, I hear a high-pitched voice from the side. It was ‘Ray’, the chef at the bottle restaurant.
It seems that he came out for a while while working in the restaurant kitchen. Sweating profusely, she came out to get some fresh air and seemed puzzled when she saw me smirking by herself.
Ray is a cute 21-year-old woman with brown pigtails. Perhaps because she is unadorned and wearing plain clothes, everything seems to belong to a cute statue. However, inside her clothes, she has moderately large breasts, a wide silence followed, and a thin waist. Besides, if you look closely, you can see that she is a beauty.
And because he knows the future, he knows her true face.
“Anyway.”
“What?”
Anyway—.
It was an “Opportunity”.
A chance to mend everything that was broken.
“What?”
No one will understand what I do anyway, so let’s continue our thoughts, leaving Ray, who mumbles and stares at me, behind.
I am twenty-four Daron.
One of the most common foot soldiers in the Empire. Originally, I didn’t want to become a soldier, but I didn’t have the ability, and I had parents to support, so I was looking for a job and eventually got this job.
And he was spending his time in a normal way, receiving the fixed amount of money.
Up to this point, this is the life that 24-year-old Daron has spent.
And from here on out, it’s different from the old me.
Because I regressed… Know the future
If I had known that the demon king was invading the continent, I would have been scared and would not have tried to become a soldier. Of course, I am not the cowardly fool I was then, so there is no reason to quit my job right away just because I know the future.
Thinking about it again, this is the worst future.
At the same time, I was convinced that going through that future would be of great help.
In an era of war, quick and accurate judgment determines my life and death. The habit of promptly deriving reasonable judgments without being swayed by emotions that break down reason has been passed on to the present time.
So I think.
Will I live through this episode?
Let’s look back at what ‘I’ have accumulated in the previous episode.
Since I can only feel a little magic power, I mainly learned sword skills.
Besides that, I know a lot of desperate ways to survive.
And the greatest asset of all is knowing what the future holds. The course of history will change depending on how I behave differently, but the pivotal events will not change.
I, Daron… This time, I will never live like a hogu.
Roughly decided how to live.
As before, I won’t wait until the whole continent burns up.
If you dismantle the demon king’s schemes one by one, you will naturally be able to kill the demon king.
But before that, we will also take revenge on the people who prevented the union from coming together properly.
They were in a hurry to stop the demon king, but they didn’t like that they were fighting each other for power and calculating losses and gains.
Furthermore, there are those who want to settle personal grudges.
I have no intention of killing them all.
There is no need to kill if there is room for regeneration or if saving is the right thing to do.
I was just a soldier…
I’m about to leave.
It wasn’t intentional, but in a way, I definitely gave them a chance. However, in the yard where even the hero died, they completely failed.
So, from now on, I will do as I please.
First of all, I know what I need to do.
There is one challenge ahead of us.
“Ray!”
I hear a voice calling Ray from afar. I see soldiers coming here with cheeky steps. These are the ones that are deeply embedded in my memory.
“Tike!”
Ray greeted Tyke with a bright face different from when he saw me. And behind him there were always thugs walking with him. Even though they are of the same class, the word “Fallen off” Suits them who always follow them around.
“What are you doing here?”
Tyke, who is the same age as me, is one of the soldiers in the next platoon. He is a handsome man with strong muscles. To be honest, as a man, he must be more likeable to me than me.
Besides, he will be promoted soon.
“What? I came because I remembered Ray.”
It’s not a dating relationship, but it’s a moderately pink atmosphere. These two couldn’t connect for some reason. I know because that’s the future I’ve been through.
Besides that
“However… Ray, was Darron with this bastard?”
We didn’t stick together.
I threw a tee that I didn’t like what else it looked like. The two thugs following Tyke sneaked up on me and made a face. Looking at it now, it’s childish enough to make me laugh, but if it had been me before returning, I’m sure I would have been scared.
“Tyke. I was going to come out and rest for a while, but he was just there.”
“What? Hey, do you like Ray? On your subject?”
I’m the same soldier, but Tyke looks down on me completely. He leads the way and the tomboys also giggle and sneer. There is no lie in what Ray said. I was here first, and Ray came out to take a break from working in the kitchen. I came to a quiet space behind this restaurant where people don’t go often.
You might think there might be some intention.
“Are you laughing right now?”
What. Did you see the corner of the mouth slightly raised?
“Aren’t you covering your eyes?”
Unlike before, his eyes are clearly open, so it must have bothered him quite a bit. Maybe it’s because he’s betting on a woman, so he wants to show the image of a strong man.
If I don’t talk and show a smiley smiley attitude, you’ll feel frustrated.
“Are you crazy?”
She uses the same expression as Ray did to me earlier. Crazy crazy
Yes, the old me was crazy.
I remember.
It was around this time as well.
For a different reason, I was in this place. It was true that he had a crush on Ray. Still, she didn’t mean to because she felt jealous because Ray was closer to another man.
I came here to tell Rey the secret of Tyke.
Still, at the time, I was overflowing with a sense of justice and said this. As before, the same this time.
“Ray. Do you know that these bastards are murderers?”
Like this.
“… What?”
It seems like an unexpected statement.
Behind the bewildered Ray, Tyke and the thugs are seen in bewilderment.
“You know that the reason why Tyke is promoted is because he made a big contribution in the monster sweeping operation a few days ago, right?”
“Hey!”
Tyke is trying to stop my cube.
“Kill the monster? I knew it from the side, but he killed his comrades and threw them to the monsters to save his life. Thanks to that, I survived, and after that, I somehow managed to kill monsters, oh… Did you even kill the boss who killed the monster?”
“What bullshit?”
“Originally, the one who killed the monster was Hackerd, the twenty-seven leader who was said to have died in battle. You were threatening to punish Tyke, who survived by killing his comrades during the battle, and the two thugs behind him after the operation. Maybe that’s why Tyke was scared. When Hackerd chased the fleeing monster alone and managed to kill it, it was this guy named Tyke who chased and stabbed him first.”
The whole story is as I said.
Being a coward, I was watching from behind a tree, trembling. It was a fear that came from the fact that I could be killed if I did something wrong.
So, originally, I should have reported to the captain this morning and then mustered up more courage and told Ray. However, because of the fact that I had returned, I was organizing my thoughts, so I couldn’t report it to the captain.
“Tyke. I’ll report to the captain later.”
“Won’t you shut up?”
Tyke grabbed me by the collar and raised his fist. It looks like he’s trying to hit me with a red face.
“Are you going to kill me now?”
“Dogs—babies!”
Originally, if it were my skills, that fist would pierce my face, but to me now, it’s a ridiculous fist.
Before the big man’s hand could even reach, he thrust his fist into his abdomen.
“Huh—billion.”
Seeing Tyke crawling on the ground, not breathing properly, makes me laugh.
“Are you okay, Tyke?”
When a good tyke falls out in one shot, he doesn’t dare to attack me. All they could do was support the tyke.
Tyke’s gang quickly left for another place, explaining that they were framed by Ray.
…
I come back in a fresh mood, organize my clothes, and remember what happened during the day. I just knocked it down, but it felt so good. How thrilling would it be to give back everything you received?
I thought I would have taken revenge long ago.
“Daron. Did you get a letter?”
As expected, the letter arrived.
“Thanks Hamil.”
When I opened the letter Hamil, who shared the same room, gave me, it was a letter from Ray. Looking closely, there is something I want to talk about during the day, so let’s meet. It’s late in the evening, but it’s still not a controlled time, so it doesn’t matter if we meet.
If it was me in the past who had a brief crush on Ray, she would have run away happily.
The problem is that this is a trap.
Hooked by Tyke, who sent this letter, he suffered severe burns. There was an unfair false accusation as a bonus.
“Daron. Anything exciting?”
“Wait, I’ll go out.”
I need to learn how to manage my facial expressions. I changed into my street clothes and left the room.
The incident that marked the beginning of my painful life happened tonight.
Of course, I have no intention of doing the same thing this time.
Ruler… It’s time to give everything back.
