1921
“You’re all going to have to learn how to fight.”
From the way some of the provinces reacted, North might have thought he’d just announced that they were to going to depart the Hamgyong Mountains for Shizuoka once winter was over.
“You want me to learn how to fight?” Hwanghae asked, eyes wide behind his wire-rimmed spectacles.
“Foolish notion,” South Chungcheong scoffed.
“Haven’t we already been learning to fight?” South Gyeongsang questioned. “We’ve all taken turns with the guns.”
“Guns aren’t enough,” North responded.
Especially since they couldn’t actually practice shooting them due to their lack of ammo. Most of their experience had been gleaned from extraction missions they hadn’t been able to conduct stealthily. Such as when they had failed to rescue Gyeonggi that first time, and when they had Liberated the Jeollas and South Chungcheong.
“And now that our first goal of freeing every Provincehuman is accomplished, we need to start focusing on aiding our people.”
“Which means we will be engaging the Japanese much more frequently,” Hwanghae realized.
North nodded. “As of today, we are going to start practicing hand-to-hand combat every night for at least an hour. Longer if we're not on the move. I will be in charge of teaching you the basics.”
Considering his own fighting tactics had been gleaned from wrestling South in their small house, and in his few physical confrontations with their guards (most of which he had been incredibly outnumbered in and 'walked' away from horribly beaten), and from… Japan… the confidence behind North’s declaration might have been unwarranted. But they needed to start somewhere.
South Hamgyong- whose eyes had lit up ever since he first mentioned the topic- jumped up, leaving her poor attempt at cutting tubers up on the snowy ground. “When do we start?”
“You don’t,” North Hamgyong interjected.
His sister frowned at him. “Excuse me?”
He ignored her. “Korea, fighting practice is a good idea for the men, but the women shouldn’t be apart of it.”
“Excuse me?” SH repeated with more force.
“A women’s place isn’t on the battlefield,” North Hamgyong told her coldly. There was a clamour from the assembled provinces at his words, most indignant, but a few agreeing.
“I disdain to side with the factory rat-“ South Chungcheong ignored North’s rebuke, her sharp voice slicing the chatter. “But I must. I have no desire to fight. That is men’s work.”
“It’s the work of anyone who wants to Liberate our country,” North growled. Of course he was going to have trouble with her.
South Chungcheong raised an angled brow. “Are you not enough of a man to protect us? I see little purpose in a male if he cannot defend the women in his life.”
“I agree,” North Hamgyong said, albeit grudgingly. South Hamgyong’s mouth hung slightly open, apparently too full of baffled outrage to retort against him.
North didn’t share that problem. “I see little use in a Provincehuman that won’t fight for our people,” he said through gritted teeth. “What happens if you get caught on your own?”
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Chasing Liberty // Countryhumans North Korea fanfiction
Fiksi PenggemarThe Koreas were victims of Japanese Imperialism for thirty-six years, deprived of freedom in their own country. With the defeat of the Japanese Empire after the second World War, you would think that their problems would be solved. But things rarel...
