Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero chapter 2

2 – Got a new job.

“Are you going to be discharged?”

Contrary to my motionless expression, the man in front of me put on his glasses with trembling hands. Even so, the letters on the discharge request in his hand did not change.

“Can I cancel that statement?”

“This has already been decided.”

“I was just discussing with your superior about your promotion.”

I didn’t answer and kept my posture. Then the man in front of him shook his head and let out a short sigh.

“Yes. What would a promotion do to you? If you wanted something like that, you would have come to HQ and worked under me.”

“At that time, I wanted to stay on the front line.”

“Not now?”

“Because the war is over.”

His name is Marquis Karlstein, who has a warm impression like his grandfather next door. He is Marshal at the pinnacle of the Imperial Army and Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front.

Contrary to his warm impression, he is a prominent commander who is respected by all imperial troops and feared by the devil army, but to me he is more comfortable than that. He wasn’t that old, he wasn’t a commander-in-chief, or a marquis.

Of course, that was a private affair. It is a law that a single soldier cannot treat the commander-in-chief openly when he submits a discharge letter, much less in a public place like now.

As he silently maintained an upright, immobilized posture, the back of his neck felt a little stiff, but Marquis Karlstein opened his mouth as if to say something, rubbing between his brows as if his head hurt.

“The Imperial Army still needs you.”

“That is too much for a mediocre soldier.”

“A mere soldier? If you are a soldier, I am an officer. Even if you bring 10,000 soldiers of the Imperial Army, wouldn’t the number of monsters you killed directly increase? Even if you put in all 10,000 people, can you succeed in one of your achievements? I don’t think so.”

“… ….”

I just kept my mouth shut. Regardless of whether those words were true or not, it was because I knew that answering such an overestimation innocently would not be of any help to the campaign.

As expected, Marquis Karlstein’s remarks were close to complaining, so he brought up a different story while putting the discharge request form in the drawer.

“Yes. Where will you go once you are discharged?”

“There must be a place to go.”

“Hearing that, I was relieved that I had nowhere else to go and nothing to do.”

“… ….”

This is a way of speaking that treats people like unemployed people. But it was not wrong. After I was discharged from the army, I didn’t have a specific job to do.

Marquis Karlstein thought for a while. The slow sweep of his chin was an old habit he had when he was trying to figure out how to handle a job.

Then, among the piles of papers piled up on the desk, he looked at the paper that was placed in front of him, and as if something had come to mind, he opened his mouth.

I also saw the contents of the paper. It was written in large letters, “Admission Guidelines.”

“How about doing this? Instead of this discharge request form, I will sign another document. I’ll change your position. And I will keep the rank as it is.”

“If it’s Command, it’s a specification.”

“This is not Command. Academy magazine.”

Academy?

There is only one place in this empire that can be called an academy. Fillion Imperial Academy. A gathering place for the best talent in the Empire, from all the Empire’s friends and all its colonies.

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“If it’s Fillion, isn’t it where your granddaughter is going to be enrolled this time?”

“That’s right. My cute granddaughter who is lovely and wouldn’t hurt to put it in her eyes… Big! Anyway, I know it well, so I’ll explain it quickly. You have to go to that Filion.”

It was well known within the military that the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army was a serious granddaughter idiot.

It’s not something I want to know either. Her grandfather would sit next to me whenever he had a chance and tell me that my granddaughter was so pretty, how old she was now, and she would talk about her granddaughter, and even though she didn’t want to hear it, she couldn’t help but listen.

By the way, it’s an academy. What kind of mission can a soldier perform there? I don’t think I’m going to go to school at this age.

No. Didn’t want to hear I had a hunch that I would get caught up in the commander-in-chief’s ruse, as always if I had to listen to an explanation here. Since my goal is globalization, the moment I opened my mouth to refuse, Marquis Karlstein quickly raised his hand.

“Listen first. As you know, five years have passed since the end of the war. We don’t need soldiers anymore like we used to. The imperial family is also trying to reduce the size of the military. The military is a monster that eats money, so they must be planning to catch public sentiment by investing the budget for war recovery. People are now hoping for peace instead of the long war.”

“Good. I will quit now.”

“I told you to listen to the end. Doesn’t war happen just because you want peace? I think that at times like this, we need to prepare for the future even more. And the future is in the hands of young people who are growing up. You educate the young people so that their talents can bloom. As an instructor at Fillion Academy.”

It was only then that I understood the meaning of the position change. Become an instructor at the academy and teach students? I?

The instructor position at Fillion Academy is not a position that anyone can enter.

Wouldn’t it be possible to become a person worthy of being promoted in each field, such as an incumbent Royal Guard, an elite magician in the Mage Tower, and an elite military officer? I didn’t think it was a place for a mediocre soldier like me to enter.

“I don’t even know what to teach you in the first place.”

“I believe you can teach better than anyone.”

“How to kill?”

“No. Teach me how to survive.”

“… ….”

My taste is bitter. All the actions he had committed to survive, the old scars he had pressed down in a corner of his chest came up on his back and brought back bad memories. All of them were blood-stained memories.

I calmed down calmly. As the memories I didn’t want to recall gradually sank into the depths and my mind became calm, I had time to think for a while.

The biggest reason for wanting to be discharged is that the residual fire in my heart has gone out. There was no reason to do anything more desperately. I’ve been in the military for 20 years, so this has been a long time, and I thought it was time to do something different for myself.

I was indebted to the Marquis of Karlstein a few times, and I was honestly grateful for the words that praised me highly. There was also trust that he wouldn’t do this just to eat taffy.

And if you’re an academy instructor, you won’t have blood on your hands anymore.

“Then… Let me think about it for a moment.”

“Nothing! You should think about it. Think carefully and talk. In the meantime, make sure to keep this discharge request form with me.”

“Yes. I will just step away.”

I left the command post with a raised right hand in an imperial salute.

***

Marquis Karlstein looked at the spot where Ion had left and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with a sigh.

“Whew… It could have been a big deal.”

Marquis Karlstein had already half-approved that he would think about it, given the nature of Ion he had seen so far.

Because it was clear that I would openly reject it if I didn’t have any thoughts about that kind of personality. It was obvious just by looking at the way she cut off numerous invitations to meet her granddaughter like a knife.

Anyway, leaving Ion, who claims to be a mere soldier, to be a mere retired soldier is a great loss to the Empire and disloyalty to the Imperial family. In that sense, today’s action was tantamount to fulfilling my duty as an Imperial soldier.

Marquis Karlstein pushed aside the paperwork piled up on the desk and prepared the paperwork for Ion’s position change.

I had to go through the necessary procedures from now on so that I could send them off right away as soon as the word “I will go” Came out of that heavy mouth, because if I gave them time for nothing, they could change their minds.

The president of Fillion Academy also knows about Ion, so if he puts him in as an instructor, he will welcome him with open arms and will never refuse.

‘I should also write a letter asking her granddaughter to be put in the same class.’

Even the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army cannot ask for admission to the venerable Filion Academy, but would you mind accepting a trivial request about which class to assign a student who has already passed?

Not empty-handed, he stabbed that war hero as a gift, but Marquis Karlstein had no doubts that he would listen to a request like this.

‘If a man and a woman are stuck together in the same space, there must be some kind of reaction from that guy over there!’

It’s good that the empire didn’t lose a competent soldier, the academy was good because it got a new outstanding instructor, Ion was good because he got a new job instead of being unemployed, and Marquis Karlstein was good because he got a chance to graft his granddaughter and prospective son-in-law.

This is the plan to eat pheasants, eat eggs, ditch, and catch crayfish. It was the resourcefulness of the Marquis Karlstein, the ‘chief of the dragon’ who did not harm anyone.