Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 166

EP.166 The old general doesn’t die

Even though the old general came out in a low profile, Abby didn’t feel embarrassed as if she didn’t treat him like a general. I was just saying what I was going to say to myself.

“I will listen and judge. Please note that unreasonable demands may be rejected and that the fact that you have made such a request may also be reported.”

Even Frontine, who would have scolded me for being rude earlier, didn’t blame me this time.

“No country can be without crime. There is no other country with as good security as a military country, but even that has its limits. Violence exists everywhere, anytime.”

Frontine, who was thirsty, gulped down the water in the cup and brought out the hwadu.

“As you know, when the military becomes an adult, they are given a biometric terminal and at the same time issued a citizen level. And most citizens… either live at that level for the rest of their lives, or lose their level due to a momentary mistake or misunderstanding. It’s good to think that leveling up doesn’t really exist. There is no hope of getting any better.”

Abbie pointed out in a dry voice.

“warning. Your comments are overly negative. If the military country recognizes private property and lives diligently, it can live affluent life until death.”

“Humans can’t live on nothing but canned beans and tap water, Captain. Humans sometimes need dreams and hopes to live like human beings.”

“Dreams and hopes do not die when they are lacking.”

“No, sometimes I die. You will understand when you raise a child.”

Aby, who had never raised a child, could not easily refute. I was a little irritated by the old man’s cowardly logic.

In the meantime, Frontine sighed while fiddling with the cross in his hand.

“It’s hard. Both the country and the citizen level. It’s so tight that there’s no room to squeeze through. At the very least, it shouldn’t have been possible to reject the Heavenly God and the Seonghwangcheong.”

“correction. The military has never rejected the Heavenly God and the Holy Hwangcheong.”

“I just put a 2-level luxury tax on religion. If that’s not exclusion, what is it? If you have to pay money to buy the support for your heart, can people who have a hard time putting it on their lips right now can buy faith?”

Abby calmly pointed out.

“It is a choice. If faith is so precious, you can spend your surplus funds to own it.”

“…Huh, that doesn’t make sense. But the world doesn’t make sense! Do you say that how long you have lived in the world!”

Maybe it’s because you’re a follower of the Heavenly God, Aby tried to point out that he lacks objectivity.

Before that, Frontine shouted all of a sudden.

“Young people who have nothing more to lose tend to be violent. They have no dreams or hopes. Even the faith that promised them well-being and peace after death has yielded and been taxed! Where can there be a heaven that can only be reached by paying taxes! They have no support in their hearts!”

Frontine clenched his fists in the air. The qigong drawn out of his old body formed clumsily on his knuckles and then disappeared.

“They are the scapegoats gathered by the shadow of the military. Those who lost their dreams and hopes and put their lives into gambling. The shadows used them as scapegoats. So I…”

In that short time, the old Frontine asked Abby in a voice that seemed to break.

“I wish they had… some mercy. The children just wandered around for a while.”

shelter.

It manages orphanages in several districts and is entrusted with the operation of distribution centers. It is a nest created by childless veterans to protect their children, and a private veterans’ home to comfort the families of those who died.

However, even the only child does not grow up as the parents wish, but what about the orphans in the orphanage?

Parents may not be able to fully blame their children for their misconduct, but it is natural for parents to feel responsible.

Therefore, feeling the great responsibility of being the head of the place, Frontine bowed his head and asked for a captain.

That was something Abby could not tolerate.

“It is impossible.”

“…okay. I guess.”

From the moment you have already committed a sin, there is no mercy. The military does not forgive.

therefore.

“But the head office can at least get a fair judgment.”

Because the information provided by the telecommunicationsman has such public confidence.

If Abby clearly observes and communicates all these events, the military will accept it.

“Thank you.”

Frontine willingly bowed his head despite the assertion of a captain who did not state his rank or affiliation.

The atmosphere calmed down for a moment. Even if we parted like this, the atmosphere could be packaged as a beautiful farewell.

Breaking through the atmosphere, Abby asked one more question.

“One question remains.”

“I, who was older and once had a higher rank, bowed my head. Is there anything more I can squeeze out? You are truly a military man. In a good way or a bad way.”

Frontine didn’t expect anything to change and didn’t grumble. He sighed and waited for Abbey’s question.

“Do you know about magicians?”

Then the veteran opened his eyes wide and asked again.

“magician? The Pleasant Criminal?”

A delightful criminal?

Abbie was puzzled by the combination of words that she couldn’t understand at all.

“A merry criminal? How can a criminal be pleasant?”

“There are things like that in the world, Captain. I’m not sure if you’re inexperienced will understand.”

“denial. It’s impossible. Crime is something to be avoided and rejected. There can be no pleasurable crime.”

“well? Listen to the magician’s journey. Can I still deny it?”

Frontine smiled and rhymed like an old man telling a story to a child.

“You must know Cheon Uimubong, right?”

Aby immediately nodded at the name of the most famous holding company in the military.

“of course. Isn’t it one of the only five holding companies in the military that produces Aki avatars and armour?”

Everything in the country is owned by the military, but there are a few items that the military cannot produce.

The most famous of these are Aki Avatar and Alchemy Fabric.

The Alchemy Fabric can be used only when there is a human Bone Aki Avatar that responds to it.

Aki avatars, which are usually paired with clothing packets, can only be made with very special magic, excellent technology, and a delicate sense.

Currently, the only place in the military that can create Aki avatars is the holding company Cheonui-Mubong.

Cheonuimubong, whose predecessor was a certain cloth shop in the old kingdom, invented Aki avatars and clothing packets, and is truly the technical leader of the military.

“Didn’t they almost ruin it because of a magician!”

That’s why the words that followed surprised Abby.

“How is that possible?”

“It is simple. I was trying to make bags and jewelry wallets and belts out of their hides and sell them! But what kind of crazy guy is pickpocketing from one district to another!”

Who is the one who makes the great soldier who once wore a star and the old man whose face is full of scars and wrinkles after going through all kinds of battles laugh like a child?

The magician did something similar to magic simply by saying the name.

“At that time, Cheonui-mubong was definitely like an idiot. They hired laborers to make their own things, and even mobilized an orphanage saying that children with small hands made them better… But thanks to a pickpocket grinding off the trinkets they made, they completely ruined it!”

“correction. Cheonuimubong did not perish.”

“It would have been better if Jik-nyeo hadn’t been inaugurated as the president and raised it up again!”

Frontine, who had been giggling for a while, soon ruminated on the past in a daze and fell into memories.

“At that time, at the orphanage I was in charge of, the future magician was the first and the second was the pickpocket. How much trouble we got into playing stealing with each other… I’m shy so I don’t talk about it much, but some of them must have become real pickpockets.”

“It is strange. Was there any attempt by the military authorities to catch him?”

The old man’s memories are as deep as his years, and it took him a long time to get out of them. After Abe urged a couple of times, Frontine answered.

“A few officers went to investigate, but they were all futile.”

“What did the military police say?”

Then Frontine giggled as if he had heard some funny joke.

“what? You’re going to use the military police to catch the pickpocket king? you know The military doesn’t use its hands unless the public order is broken. The king of pickpockets is a pickpocket. I wonder if the calculations will be right only after starting an investigation because of that one!”

Abbey’s reason could not agree with him laughing cheerfully at the crime. However, since he was genuinely laughing happily, Abby accepted the sentiment.

“Anyway, you mean a criminal. All right. Thank you for your cooperation.”

Frontine, who had been laughing heartily, cleared his throat and grabbed the weight.

“…Anyway, be careful. A magician won’t touch you, an officer… but those who call themselves shadows have a chance of targeting you even more.”

“Thanks for the advice.”

Abby held her hat to her chest and nodded. The other person was a veteran who was no different from a normal person, so he had normal manners, but Frontine was more satisfied than receiving a salute.

“Even if there is no romance, there are soldiers. The future of the military is bright.”

Looking at Abby walking through the small yard of the shelter, Frontine muttered wistfully.

“The old general is just stepping back… It’s a pity that he can’t.

they are veterans. Those who can no longer fight because they are old or injured.

I was once a soldier, but now I am an observer who sees the military from the eyes of ordinary people.

When the viewing position changes, the perspective changes. Since they became ordinary people after being discharged from service, they felt very complicated emotions when they saw the military.

Spikes and glue glued together to hold shape behind a proud, flawless drapery. It was a monstrosity that was hard to recognize unless you were a veteran.

however.

“Still, what I want the country to do well is… Loyalty or attachment to the country I created.”

The old man clicked his tongue and got up. The waist that screamed from sitting down and getting up was more violent than usual.

“Let’s see. I need to order some canned food from Mr. Clean… and buy packets… Oh, and mend the fence.”

He had more work to do than his age.