Vol 1 Chapter 2 (2/2)
Robots were also created by huht to vote
Those were the arguments put forth by the Pureblood Principle supporters
In the old Earth government, there was the ‘Veracruz Treaty’, which stopped any unfair usage of clones This Veracruz Treaty was a treaty for clones for physical labour, and for clones not to put humans out of work
Clones hts as a human That way, even if clones are created, they are si humans, not slaves
As a result, thoughtless creation of clones was banned
When this Veracruz Treaty was put into effect, it was one of the few international laws that actually perforhly praised
Afterwards, when the humans were under attack from the alien species known as Letix, the Pureblood Principle supporters’ lost their power This was due to the fact that they were unable to suppress the uprising Replicants, especially when there were not enough strong soldiers to fight off the Letixes, ere co to destroy them
That was si World War II The supporters had no choice but to accept help fro the humans, Clones and the Replicants
However, the world right now see Pureblood Principle What happened during the last 120 years?
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Anyone could see the fear and the restlessness spreading through the Replicant soldiers gathered at the training ground If the platoon was made up of Elcro, Asa and Replicants, it was obvious that recruits would be scared shi+tless
It was easy for the platoon members to consider themselves as sacrificial lambs of the Federation This hy the Federation of the past distributed races evenly a the forces
‘There’s obviously some distrust of the Federation Government in the army’
I aiting in line at the training ground A Replicant soldier standing next to me, poked my side
“Hey, where are you fro? Are you fro?”
Cartel was a cris The Replicant producing techniques anisations by the looks of things
“No, I’eneration”
“Pfta ha ha ha! You eneration, you ht? The pilots of the 12 Kishi+ns Are you one of them? Huh?”
He brought his finger towards his head and spun it in circles
“12 Kishi+ns? There are 12 Kishi+n-class Alter Armours? They must’ve created some more since the year 69”
Alter Arained from the contact with Letix, apart from Replicant techniques and hyperspace travel
Harvested cultured cells, based off the Letix; Old One, would be inserted to the reinforced fra When done correctly, the Alter Ar weapon that is capable of displaying ith at the pilot’s command
And aest of those Alter Armours were the Kishi+ns
During the 69 space years, there were only 8 Kishi+n-class Alter Armours in existence
Since the fundamental basis of Alter Armours was life itself, the production of these was closer to breeding thanThere were numerous atteain any more Kishi+n-class Alter Armours
Hence, the Federation placed the 8 Kishi+ns as the highest class and organised the other Alter Armours as Dominion>Master>Senior>Major>Juvenile>Minor>Minion as a 8 levelled scale
But if there were 12 Kishi+ns, than that meant that there 4 more Kishi+ns were birthed since then…
“Ohh, I as, man”
A somewhat chubby recruit interrupted the conversation What ith this off-putting way of talking?
“There are 8 in possession of the space Federation, 2 by the Asa and 2 by the Elcro,it a total of 12, man”
“Eh? Asa and Elcro have Kishi+ns?”
I didn’t know too much about Asas, because that race was encountered after I fell asleep, but on the other hand, the Elcro possessed Kishi+ns? That’s quite a surprise
“Currently, the Federation lost both ‘Dawnbringer’ and ‘Tetragrammaton’, ‘Omertà’ was stolen by the Replicant Rebels and ‘Diablo’ to the Elcros Have you been living under a rock to not know all this, dude?”
The recruit looked at me with a look of disbelief
“What? Dawnbringer and Tetragrammaton are lost?!”
I was unable to hold back my yell Recruits around me looked at me
“W-What’s with that guy?”
“Is he a psychopath?”
Kehh! What did they say? Me, a psychopath? I was extrery, but I had a more important matter at hand
To think that the Dawnbringer was lost…
Dawnbringer was the rammaton happened to be Chief Maynard’s
Chief Maynard’s and my Kishi+ns were lost by the Pureblood Principle followers of the Federation? Then that ed us
‘Wait, would they just destroy a Kishi+n for that reason?’
That was impossible
Kishi+ns were very valuable resources that couldn’t even be produced by money and effort alone It was also impossible to activate the Kishi+n-class machines if the pilot didn’t meet the standards either
However, there were nearly 30 billion people 120 years ago Since that figure was increasing rapidly even under Letix attack, that should her
With a population pool as large as that, a pilot capable of being able to pilot a Kishi+n-class machine should’ve been born
Then did that rammaton were lost because of the Federation’s mistakes? Well, that’s stupid
And if Omertà and Diablo were stolen by the rebels, then the current state of the Federation was unspeakably bad
That was the only conclusion I could arrive at
“Is that really true? Then aren’t we in great danger? And what the hell are the Pureblood Principlists thinking?”
“We’re not really in danger, er and the Dawn Corps suicided with over 10 billion Letix forces, so we’re safe for a while Also, even if the Elcros have a Kishi+n in possession, they don’t pose much of a threat to us Federation Military, man”
My goodness While it was true that my Dawn Corps fended off over 10 billion Letix forces, we did not die But to think that they would record it otherwise in history
If that’s the case, did they purge all of my subordinates like myself? They couldn’t have put all those people to cold sleep, so did they kill them all?
I thought of my playful subordinates, who pulled pranks on me all the time They certainly were stressful at tiood people There were Replicants, pure blooded earthlings, Cyborgs and Androids, but they were all precious comrades of mine
“Kuk”
Who was it! Who purged Admiral Luise and I and killed off all of my subordinates?!
I tried desperately to caler down At that moment, someone came behind my back and called out the recruits and I
“Stop talking a who the greatest greenie under the heavens is ast yourselves?!”
It was the Platoon Leader, Meihowa
Other recruits cracked up laughing Recruit Pencolt pointed his finger at me and spoke
“I can stand you reenie! But I can’t stand youfun of me, man!”
Ehh? What was that? That ‘I know I’uy’ sort of confident look Not only was his way of talking weird, his mentality was out of whack as well
“What will you do if you cannot stand it?”
Platoon Leader Meihowa asked with exasperation When she did, Pencolt smirked
“Nah, I’m just sayin’ I alanted to say that, man”
“Recruit Pencolt! Position yourself at the gauntlets first While Recruit Pencolt is doing the gauntlets, Recruit Lezirth, you give me plyometric jumps Get to it!”
The Ensign had a sense of dissatisfaction in her eyes as she looked at h
I positionedIt was a variation of hurdles where you had to ju one’s stamina and reaction
“How many do you want?”
“As many as you can do of course! Do at least 60 while Recruit Pencolt goes through the gauntlets!”
Following her orders, I started to perforrabbed a rifle and juauntlet field
The gauntlet was a course where a recruit would avoid paintballs and obstacles, shoot at aby a hand-to-hand combat dummy
As an effective course that i and movement capability, accuracy and close combat, one must be able to clear the course within 90 seconds in order to graduate from the Military Academy Seamen in particular had to be able to clear the course in under a minute When I did it, my record was 22 seconds
However, as soon as Recruit Pencolt stepped into the course, he started to scream He was covered fro about after tripping over obstacles Crawling under the wire nets on his stomach left him short on breath and when he finally escaped the wire nets and started to shoot, he didn’t hit any of the targets
The e and the recruit shot at the hostage
Seeing the head, heart, abdoe would’ve died instantly, had this been a real-life situation No, since Recruit Pencolt was already hit by the paint balls, he would’ve been killed in action and promoted 2 ranks
When Recruit Pencolt wasn’t able to escape froeant Aroha turned cut the power and dragged hied to do over 200 plyometric jumps
“Ha… haven’t you ever played any gaht?”
“Cough… ku… g-ga so I’m fine with them, man Haa haa”
Recruit Pencolt was gasping for breath as he replied Sergeant Aroha dropped him in surprise
“Don’t open your !”
“No, next recruit, get in there And Recruit Lezirth, that’s enough”
“What, this is enough?”
“Are you a fortified Cyborg or soood If only your head was as good as your physique”
Ensign Meihorinkled her face Wait, was this girl treating me as an idiot? I can even do 128bit four fundamental arithmetic operations and partial differentiations in my head!
If the rumours about bomb cadet squads could be trusted, this platoon will be stationed on the battlefront after six weeks of basic training To the front lines, no less—where it was the erous
Judging by Recruit Pencolt’s perfor could this platoon survive? I could understand why Ensign Meihoas so worried
Then Recruit Pencolt collapsed on the floor, as if taking his last breaths, with an oxygen n with his finger and said to me
“I touched Sergeant Aroha’s ass, I can die a happy man, eh he he heh…”
… W-What? Why was he looking at et any sympathy from me!
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“Haa, this is worriso the failed soldiers”
Ensign Meihowa h the gauntlets
Even I could feel the pain of having to lead a platoon of failures
I could tell that all of these recruits were quite underachieving All of them should be Replicant soldiers, yet they were even worse than Earthling soldiers
“This is hopeless if we include the failed soldiers I suppose our King of Greenies is up last”
Sergeant Aroha winked at htly plump lips were quite attractive
But she wasn’t referring to ht?
“Shouldn’t his strength be quite good? He’s not even sweating after doing 225 plyoreenie! You’re up”
Ensign Meihowa handed eant Aroha snickered and handed me a sports drink
“You’re worn out froulp and catch your breath”
“No, I will finish it before the sports drink goes lukeware of the platoon myself”
I spoke in a soleeant Aroha shtly
“H?”
“I, the shortest record holder of this gauntlet course in the Second Military Academy, will show you how it’s really done H your words!”
Although ed by corruption, I was still the Coer I wasn’t soreenie! I will show theht here!
I started to get hyped up with enthusiasm and I warmed up
“Well, do whatever you want I a forward to your performance”
Ensign Meihowa sighed while covering her face with her hand
Hmm, she doesn’t seem to trust me But I won’t ask her to believe me I’ll prove it with my score time
“Let’s do this!”
I ju towards ed forwards,ets withrifle and ju target on the second floor and juets while in ht into the hand-to-hand coauntlet with a mid-air turn
“21 seconds 40! Wha ha ha ha! I broke my own record!”
I yelled out in joy after seeing the clock set up at the exit of the gauntlet course But huh? The ti?
“Huh? What? What’s going on? Was that too fast for the machine to calculate?”
I looked at the clock in surprise Sergeant Aroha used her finger to point atrifle
“Identify yourself! You have to identify yourself on the rifle to set your record!”
“What? Identifying et implemented?”
Such a thing did not exist 120 years ago! Why do they have to digitalise everything when the instructor can just record the time?
Du rifle to find out how to identify myself
But then it happened
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
The training rifle started to fire paint balls at the recruits and the instructors The paint balls flew at a frightening speed and covered the recruits and the instructors in pain
“Kyaaah!”
“Woahh!”
“I-It hit me there! Before I could even use it!”
Ugh, I had caused friendly fire withoutrifle was quite rhythmic and fun to use
No, that’s not what I should be thinking! Look at me! I quickly aimed the rifle towards the sky
Then Aroha, Meihowa and the nuht red paint
Drip, drip…
My word! Red paint dripped from Meihowa and Aroha’s breasts onto the floor Had they been flat chested, the paint would’ve dropped flat onto their stomachs In any case, both options are excellent! It was impossible not to be amazed at them
To drench girls’ body, it was a mistake but that’s not bad…
I have never regretted a single thing in my life!
“Oh… oh now This gun, it’s weird…”
“You failed! You greenie! Do you want me to lecture you hard? Hmmm?”
Ensign Meihowa glared at auntlet with the control panel
“T-That was close I got my best record”
I could only lick auntlet timer in that cold, chilly mood
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Ensign Meihowaa shower, because she walked out while drying her wet, stea on the sofa in her office and I sat up straight when I saw her walk out
“Recruit Lezirth, do you pity me?”
Daggers flew at me from her emerald eyes
“Hmm? No You, Platoon Leader Liu Meihoill becouarantee it”
“…”
“Why do you make that expression?”
When I asked, she hed
“While I areenie like yourself looks up to me as so, I would definitely have been happy if someone else told me that”
She spoke while beco teary
Hmm, as that? Was she like that because she was so happy? She did see
“That aside, where’s Chief of… Admi… no, hmm, where’s Ms Luise Maynard?”
Since she ordered me not to call her the Chief of Staff or an Admiral, then hmm… what should I call her?
While I ondering on how I should refer to Chief Maynard fron Meihowa threw herself down on the sofa in front of me
“She appears to have coravity adaptation training Apart froreat supporter Her academic skills are excellent and while she may be physically weak, she doesn’t have to be a soldier Someone of her calibre is no problem”
“Really? That’s a relief”
That was great news for me, as I have been quite worried about Chief Maynard I smiled naturally
As I sn Meihowa’s expression sharpened Hood with her facial expressions
“The problem is you”
“Huh?”
“Both you and Luise scored high on the academics test… So if you were norirl’s scores were almost unprecedented In other words, she is here now as a lowly recruit because of your hiccups Do you understand how heavy that responsibility is?”
“What? Is that so? I caused trouble for her?”
“You didn’t know?”
Ensign Meihowa crossed her arhed
“Really, there isn’t , and don’t you know that our platoon will be sent straight to the battlefields once the training is finished? How can you live without any nervousness? Stay tense I do not want any reenie like you”
“You truly are a great leader”
When I praised her honestly, she was surprised She probably didn’t expectlike that
Blushi+ng either because of the bath or because of what I said, she swept her silver hair over her shoulders with her fingers The ht reflected off of it
“Even if I a you this out of my kindness, I am a Platoon Leader while you are a Recruit! Recruit Lezirth! That attitude of yours is going againstof you to start understanding that you are now a Recruit”
“Of course, Naval Cadet I am not a person who is that senseless”
After hesitating for a n Meihowa It was unheard of that a Vice Admiral would salute a low Naval Cadet… But I was now a Recruit, so I suppose it is normal for me to salute her
She responded to my salute and smiled bitterly
“Make sure soain”
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When I returned back toAs he decorated his desk with various toys and playthings, he looked up at me and snickered
“Did you stamp yourself onto the beautiful Platoon Leader? To uess that’s a neay of raising a flag lol”
“What are you saying? Why are you here?”
“They pulledthat someone like you can’t be left alone, man It just means that I’m your roommate from now on”
What? Suddenly being re on the door
Stuck on the door was a plate that read ‘Concerned Soldiers’ Room’
What was this supposed to be? M-Me, a concerned soldier?! This cannot be! This is ridiculous!
da with the training rifle when I used it! If it orking fine, then I could’ve set the world record and make everyone fall back in shock!
Recruit Pencolt looked at the bed and he seemed to pretend that he wasn’t also a concerned soldier but he only became my roommate because he had no other choice
“Shotgun on the lower bunk! It’s a bother to climb to the upper one! Btw, do you snore?”
“I don’t”
“Then I’ the lower one Complaints?”
“No Ah, Pencolt, why did you enlist in the military? And why did the Replicants in our platoon enlist?”
If the Federation looked down on the Replicants, then they shouldn’t have enlisted I couldn’t understand why they would go out of their way to enlist when there wasn’t a conscription system
“Have you really been living under a rock? Don’t you even knohat the current Fed’s like?”
Pencolt asked in surprise
“No, I don’t know So tell me”
“You do know that the Fed separates the planets by Supervisional, Autonomical and Pioneered, yeah?”
“Well, I know that much”
Supervisional planets were under direct control of the Federation Governovernovern
“Pioneered planets and Autonomical planets are like country towns that are conservative of their old custosters want to live in the busy city rather than a country town?”
“Well, yeah That trend can be found in the history of the human race”
“So a lot of youngsters want to co froh unemploysters to land a job while still being in the cities is to enlist in the armed forces”
Huy seeeable unlike his looks
“Did you also enlist for the job?”
“No, I already had a job,part of the economy unlike many others here”
“So why did you come?”
“Uu hu hu Don’t you know that the Supervisional planets under the Fed’s control has a gender ratio of 10 feht I would be able to experience a rosy youth by co here”
“………”
I don’t usually sweat, but I could feel sweat running down my back Why did I have to end up with someone like him as a roommate?
“Lights out! Everyone turn off your lights!”
Since the lights went off in the barracks, I climbed up onto the upper bunk and lay there Pencolt also cliht made the bed creak This should’ve been a bunk bed ether, but I orried that this ht snap
“They say that this platoon will be deployed as human shi+elds onto the battlefield, but are you not afraid?”
“Hu hu That’s what I’ for, man”
“Huh?”
“Asa and Elcro girls are all hot I want to go out onto the battlefields and her wo on, won’t there even be less males? Don’t you reckon?”
“…”
I could feel cold sweat running down et wet
I had to stay up all night that day, wondering whether or not I should strangle that snoring Pencolt’s neck