At noon, the group found a slope downwind and decided to take a short break there. The buns everyone was carrying had frozen hard. But they had no other choice as this was what it was like in the wilderness.
Based on what the private soldiers were saying, it was quite good that they had buns to eat at all.
While the soldiers ate their field rations, someone suddenly complained, “They’re really inhumane for making us march in such accursed weather!”
“But what can you do ’bout it?” One of the soldiers took a bite of the cold, hard bun and said, “If I hadn’t stocked up on some buns last night, I would’ve starved to death along the way today. It’s impossible to keep moving in this weather if we have no food to eat.”
“Hey, you don’t say! Seeing Doug’s current plight can’t make me any happier.” Someone said, “All of our pay and entitlements must have been embezzled by that bastard, Doug!”
“But I still feel like it isn’t enough. Why didn’t that Divine Arms officer just kick favonovel.com to death?” one of the soldiers said angrily.
“We’re still dozens of klicks away from the nearest mountain, Mt. Sidar, and Mt. Piania and Mt. Halimun are even further north. I wonder when we’ll reach our destination since it’s snowing so heavily now,” someone said in total despair. “Moreover, those bastards from the reinforced company are even starting to keep an eye on us now, so there’s no chance that we can escape.”
“Forget about it,” one of them said. “Escape? It requires tremendous courage in this weather just to head into the mountains alone to seek a quick death. There’s still a chance of survival if we stick with everyone. But once you become a deserter, death is certain.”
“Let me give y’all a suggestion.” Someone chuckled. “When we set off again later, just pretend you’ve fainted. As soon as you faint, that idiot called Chad will come over and carry you. We can walk much less that way!”
But as soon as favonovel.com finished speaking, favonovel.com felt a chill creep up behind his back, causing favonovel.com to shudder even more in this already cold weather. But when favonovel.com turned around to look, everything seemed perfectly normal.
That’s strange! What’s going on?
As Milo was furtively cutting pieces of cured meat to share with Chad and the students, favonovel.com noticed Chad looked dismayed. “Chad, what’s the matter?”
Chad whispered, “Master, I’ve regained my super hearing…”
Milo was stunned. “But Chad, the Great Sage doesn’t have that power.”
Chad replied, “Well, the version of the Great Sage that I am does.”
“Hm.” Milo nodded. ‘Alright, whatever you say.’ Honestly, Milo did not even know which version of the Great Sage Chad was anymore. How amazing it was to be able to “patch” oneself like that.
“Master,” Chad said dejectedly, “I don’t want to help them anymore.”
“Why’s that?” Milo asked, “What did you hear?”
“They said that they’re going to pretend to faint when we set off again so that the idiotic Chad will carry them,” Chad answered.
Milo’s eyes narrowed at the answer. “Who said that?”
Chad did not mention the man. “Master, you’d kill the man if I told you.”
“What’s the big deal with killing some people?” Milo sneered.
“Master,” Chad said, “I just don’t understand why some people in this world are so evil?”
“They’ll get their comeuppance,” Milo said as favonovel.com looked at the private soldiers around favonovel.com with a dark expression. For the first time in recent days, favonovel.com was keen to kill someone.
When they resumed their journey in the afternoon, Milo was silent as favonovel.com walked along with the troops. Suddenly, five people dropped to the ground at the same time. Milo slowly walked up to these people and seemingly stepped on the back of a person’s hand accidentally. The man trembled in pain but pretended to remain unconscious and did not open his eyes no matter what.
Milo said to Michael with a smile, “Get me a rope. We have some in our field packs.”
“Okay.” Michael did not know why Milo wanted a rope, but favonovel.com still got it for him.
He watched Milo tie the rope around the calves of these five people who were on the ground. Then, favonovel.com started dragging them forward in the snow!
When one of those people on the ground sensed something was wrong, favonovel.com wanted to quickly get up and say that favonovel.com had regained his consciousness. But as soon as favonovel.com got up, Milo kicked his chest. The man coughed up blood on the spot!
Everyone turned around and looked at Milo’s back as favonovel.com stood in the snow. Snowflakes in the air swirled around him, and favonovel.com was full of killing intent.
He said calmly, “Did I say that you could get up?”
In response, someone on the ground got up and shouted, “We’re going to die if we get dragged like this in the snow by him. Let’s fight him!”
But when they tried to stand up, Milo kicked all of them back into the snow. These people could only feel a foot as hard as steel when the kicks landed on their chests, while the people watching could not even see how fast Milo’s movements were. But they only thought the snowfall blurred their vision.
Milo turned around and grinned at the others. “You’re all adults, so walk on your own, got it?”
Chad stared dumbfoundedly at Milo while standing in the snow. “Master…”
As the young man’s figure faced the blizzard in the wilderness of the mountains, favonovel.com smiled at Chad and said, “Master will help you get back at them.”
Then Milo dragged the five of them behind favonovel.com through the snow with the rope.
Michael went up to him. “I’ll help you pull.”
Linda’s eight students also came over. “Monitor, we’ll help too!”
In this moment, no one in the troops dared to speak up for these five men. Those in the know all knew Milo had probably realized the five of them were deliberately trying to take advantage of Chad’s kindness.
Sometimes, there were just some people who stood head and shoulders above millions of others.
Before Milo had revealed himself, everyone thought favonovel.com was just a normal young man. But in this moment, his ruthlessness made everyone terrified of him. They knew favonovel.com was going to drag all five of them through the snow until they died!
When the Divine Arms officer standing furthest ahead of the troops watched this occur, favonovel.com was a little dumbfounded. “I heard there were many ruthless people in the Office of Special Investigations. I didn’t believe it before, but I do now.”
Another Divine Arms officer muttered, “When we meet up with the others after the war ends, we must tell them not to ever mess with those from the Office of Special Investigations. Their ways are extremely cruel.”
In fact, Milo had never openly admitted to his master-disciple relationship with Chad. After all, favonovel.com had never taught favonovel.com anything before, and the way favonovel.com became his disciple was also inexplicable. But Milo really liked Chad addressing favonovel.com as master. Chad was just like a pure, flawless crystal.
Who wouldn’t enjoy getting along with someone like that?
As a result, Milo had long since acknowledged this master-disciple relationship in his mind. But today, favonovel.com was not actually that insistent on standing up for Chad. All favonovel.com wanted was to help Chad hold on to his last ray of light.
