Chapter 38: 29th Squire Squad (1/2)
Jin saw Sun Li was looking at him. He just smiled at her before closing his eyes as his vision was already blurred.
[Subtle flashback of memories while Jin is unconscious]
”Aimed at the monsters Jin!”
”Jin run! Hide and run!”
Voices getting louder and louder
Cracks from the steps of monsters.
The silhouettes of unknown people.
*BOOM* *BOOM* *Prffft* *Prffft*
``I pressed the trigger, I fired… I am still a human being!``
[flash back ended]
Jin's eyes slowly opened and dazzling light is what he seeing, his hands were big shaking and his whole body is covered in sweat. He looked at the time it was 6:49 am. ``I have a guess I am in the infirmary..``
raised his hand and covered the dazzling light that was in front of him. And then he heard a rough voice that was near him. ”Are you able to get up Candidate Ru Jin?” Jin turned his view to the left and see a man in white uniform and with military ribbons on his chest.
”Ye-s, Sir” Jin looked at the officer and saluted and seating calmly. ”Well to be honest with you candidate Ru Jin your performance as an individual was very excellent. Sadly your group performance always ends up in a fail, would you answer why is that?” the officer looked at Jin as if he was inspecting him.
Jin looked at the front and the whole becomes silent for a moment only the sound of the air-condition can only be heard.
”Well, Sir to be honest with you. All of those group training missions, were all on a successful path sadly to what I can say is that the world is pretty much unpredictable you cannot say and plan as exact as it gets. That is why I believe if we are going into a mission a Plan A and Plan B cannot be the only choices of Plans. There should be a lot of those plans, there are a lot of possibilities. And that is what I learn from all of those failures I have been through. My group performance was a hard one. Because we did not plan carefully enough. We thought that the training mission will be easy that it will only take about 2 plans at least. That is why our calculation went wrong and we failed. But I will not blame anyone in this work.”
”I see is that how? Do you learn from those failures you have experienced as a Marksman as a squire candidate? Well if that is all I need you to be put to the rank of specialist III Class and enter a squad leader role for the 29th Squire squad.
You have 3 days to train them and to form coordination between those people. If you still fail and then we will put you into the communication support unit. That is all Dismiss candidate” the officer stood up and closed the notebook that he has opened earlier.
After that conference between Jin and the officer. ”So I should look at these names huh… And then put them into my Squire squad. What classes of these people have, A swordsman and an Assassin after that an Archer, and lastly a Healer. So there is no magician class this is not that big problem a bit I guess. Like the old games in the Mythical Realms, this can work if there is coordination.”
Jin just got out of the infirmary and walked towards one of the mess halls as it said in the papers. And when Jin entered the mess hall he saw a lot of candidates eating and then an arm blocked his way halfway to the entrance. The candidate looked at Jin's eyes and said ”Are you the new squad leader of the 29th squire squad?”
Jin grips the sling of his XDR-rifle case, ”Well, for what I know yes I am the new Squad leader. Are you part of that squad?” the candidate crossed his arms and then looked at the other way at the group table where there are people who are laughing.