Chapter 5 - Evacuation [Part 1 - Maiden]

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I went to our tent and started to call Sergeant Charlotte along with the whole squad for the sudden meeting. I entered but all I see was Math on a phone call while facing his back me. I slowly walked to him and overheard their conversation.

"...?"

They seemed to be talking in a different language. From the way he looked while speaking into his phone, it looks like he was begging his caller but I'm not quite sure what exactly is he saying.

I tapped his shoulders. "Who are you talking to?" I asked.

"...!" He jolted and immediately ended the call. "Ah... Rem, it's just you..." he slowly turned around and said, his eyes a bit swollen.

"...What happened to your eyes?"

He rubbed his eyes, smiling subtly. "Oh this...?" he said with his soar voice. "It's nothing, there's just dirt in my eyes..."

"..."

Is he perhaps lying...? If so, that's not a plausible lie given the circumstances we're in. Though I don't know either why humans cry...

"What's the matter, Rem?" he added.

"...The general is calling for us in the meeting tent. He said it's an emergency."

"Is that so?" he said, putting his phone in his pocket. "Then I'll be going now, don't be late again like last time!" He then started to walk away, waving at me as he left the tent.

"...?"

What was that all about?

Math, I don't understand him...

Seeing that no one was inside the tent except me, I thought to go outside too.

- I looked at the armory tent just now, but nothing was changed inside. All the things that are supposed to be there are still there. -

While walking outside, I suddenly remembered what General Roger said earlier and went to the armory tent. True, I didn't believe him at first and expected to see the armory tent empty but as I took a look inside, I saw that the things that were inside it yesterday were still in fact... there. Though the explosives may be gotten a little bit less - Maybe the other soldiers took them for provisions on the battlefield. But in comparison of the armory tent's contents from today to yesterday's was not much less of a difference. It's not a stretch to say that everything was in place as if it's not been moved from the same position where they were yesterday before we brought them in the truck.

"...?"

I'm sure these were in the truck in the middle of the woods yesterday. Is that a dream? Do robots even dream in the first place...?

Thinking about it while wandering around the camp, I saw Shaun and Luna together from a distance.

"Luna, Shaun!" I shouted at them from afar. "General Roger is calling..." Getting much closer to them, I saw Luna sitting at Shaun's back while he was lying on the ground face first, "...for us... What are you two doing?"

Both of them ignored me as they exchange replies and continued what they are doing. "Who the hell did you say fat~?" Luna asked, smiling at Shaun.

Shaun tried to lift his head. "Get off of me, you pig!" he replied. "I just said eat moderately!"

Luna suddenly stepped on Shaun's head. "That's the same thing!" she shouted, her upbeat tone turning into a rage.

Shaun tried removing her feet from his head, struggling. "Don't fucking step on my head, you Lunatic!" he exclaimed. "I'm just saying the truth, you were stuffing your face earlier with rice! Who the hell even eats like that early in the morning?!"

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