They both sat. Seonghwa took off his hat and placed it on San's table.
He observed everything in the room.
"Hmm...surprisingly this place seem much cleaner than before."
"Really?! You've been away for six months and now that you're back, this is the first thing you notice?"
"Tolerating all that dirt and blood on the battlefield is unbearable enough. I don't want to suffer here too." He winced and shook his head.
"Who forced you to join the army?"
"Don't mention that again..."
San laughed.
Both Unit-1 and Unit-2 were stationed in same place. Most of the time, they worked separately, but when necessary, they fought as a single Unit.
Part of Unit-2 was sent to a small town in North six months ago to investigate a possible threat.
The mission seemed simple, but what they encountered there was no longer a threat, it was a trap; more like an announcement.
About fifty southern women and children were captured there and used as sex goods. God knows for how long, but it was only part of a bigger business that was going on on both sides.
It wasn't a difficult task to eliminate a few drunken soldiers who had been sent there to got killed at first place. Perhaps the hardest part was getting the captives out and sending them back to south but all of it only took a few days.
So why did it take six months for Unit-2 to return?
According to Unit-2 reports, the first problem they encountered was returning the captives. Some women resisted and a fight ensued. Under no circumstances they shouldn't have harmed them, but contrary to expectation, all the women who resisted were killed by the northerners there, and the rest returned to the south without the slightest trouble.
Several civilians were killed during the mission but reprimanding Unit-2 for that later became in the last priority.
The main problem started when they realized that those who had returned to South were all carriers of an unknown disease, something that war lacked so far.
Almost all Unit-2 either became infected, died of the disease, or got killed to prevent spreading the disease among the northerners; similar to women who resisted returning.
Dealing with the disease, lack of sufficient troops and ammunition, and the impossibility of communicating with the southern army were also involved.
After that the news of the disease spread among the southerners, almost no one was willing to go there to help or even investigate the situation. A small town near the border was became a nightmare in the army.
In this situation, you either have to be very stupid or very brave to volunteer for something like this.
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Hallow /WooSan/
Fanfiction"You don't believe in your God anymore?" "I do but i would bath in sin for you." Warnings : triggering themes, sexual content, violence, swears/curses. Disclaimer : this story is purely fictional and has nothing to do with the members in real life.
