Resilient Platoon

Chapter Three

Eden left the office and looked at the paper. It had the logo of the academy. He read the contents on the page as he was walking:  

Welcome, Eden L. Karst, to the prestigious Regina Frost Military Academy. We are very excited to have you, the very first Sharo, to attend our academy and learn our ways and possibly learn from you. We know that you have worked as Private First Class in your father's mercenary army and decided to promote you of your former ranking. Mme Volt has specifically hand picked your team so you won't have many problems with your team. We hope you enjoy your final year of tertiary education with us in Regina Frost Military Academy.

As he finished the last sentence, someone bumps into him and heard someone fell to the ground. 'Watch where you're going, imbecile.' said a girl. 'And you made me drop my tablet.'

Eden looked up from the paper and saw a girl in the uniform on her shoulder was the badge of a lieutenant and she didn't look too happy when she laid her eyes on him. She had brown hair, hazel eyes, and olive skin. Eden realized his wrongdoing and extended his hand for her to help her up. 

'Apologies, Lieutenant.' She looked at it with disgust and slapped his hand away from her. Then she looked at him, observing his outside clothes and then noticed his eyes and realized she bumped into the new transfer student. Now, she looked even more furious.

'I don't need your assistance, Sharo!' She got up herself and dusted her school uniform and picked up the tablet from the ground. 'Can't even believe the military forced the academy to let you enroll here. What's next? They'll start letting in Somariens in this academy.'

Eden looked confused and saw the students around them stopped and watched them. Many of the students murmured to each other. He couldn't hear what they were talking, but he overheard the words of Sharo, careful, and dangerous. He ignored them and try to focus his attention on the girl... and mess with her a bit.

'Oookay, you don't need to bring them in. All are happy living in the Mountain Islands in the Sharo province and have all the supplies for every necessity they'll--'

'I was being sarcastic!' She interrupted. 'Gods, you're so foolish. Just next time watch where you're going.'

'Look, I said was sorry.' Eden pointed at the paper. 'I was busy reading-'

She held her finger up to him, making him hush. 'Do you have any idea who I am?'

'Am I supposed to know who you are?' Eden asked unsurely. He just met this girl and tried his to explain himself, but the girl expects to be recognized by Eden who just got here.

The girl was now frustrated. 'You've never heard of Lionel's Weapons Company?'

Then Eden's expression changed into an 'oh' face. 'You're the daughter of Dratic Lionel?' she nodded with a smile. 'Then you must be Sania Lionel?' She nodded again with a smile. 'So your company were the ones who sold weapons to the insurgents in Chief Harkon's lands.'

Eden could have sworn that he saw Sania's eye twitch. 'Those are false accusations and nothing more. The officials ruled that insurgents stole the shipments from the Tarnick Sea.' Eden can tell that she holding back the anger and trying to control her posture and tone.

Eden raised an eyebrow. He knew they didn't steal the weapons. Since the Tarnick Sea is patrolled every day by the Sharo Navy and shipments of the company are usually guarded by the two dwarf-class warships. They couldn't be beaten by insurgents with limited funds to attack two warships with heavy weaponry. But, this is Sion and he has to be careful of his words before he says the wrong things.

Sania looked at the crowd around her. Then, she turned her head to Eden with a grin, using this crowd to her advantage. 'Now, why don't you tell us why you are here, Sharo?' She folded her arms and waited for his response, acting like she's the queen.