5 parts Ongoing Assi Lara Ikihohto, a Finnish-Turkish woman, lives for anime, webtoons, and Korean dramas-until war shatters her peaceful, pop-culture-filled bubble.
As family and friends are lost, she discovers new alliances and learns to fight for her country-partially fueled by a strange mix of psychopathy and laziness that she's learned to call "strategic."
Bureaucracy makes her want to scream. Physical activity makes her groan. Most men...you'd expect moans, but what they really get are eye-rolls, except for one who's surprisingly useful.
Explosives? Somehow, they're hilariously, ridiculously, dangerously fun.
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Branches whipped past as they sprinted through the forest.
"Drop the fucking backpack!" she snapped.
The man tightened his grip on the straps. "No way. I carried this thing for hundreds of kilometers. And now you want me to just leave it?" He barked.
"Yes," she shot back.
"What the hell-"
The other two men yelled almost in unison: "Drop it!"
But he shook his head, stubborn. "No chance."
Without waiting, the others ripped the backpack from him and threw it aside. He lunged for it, furious. "I'm not leaving that there!"
The woman cut him off, grabbing his arm. "Trust me. It's the best choice right now."
They bolted through the undergrowth, lungs burning. Behind them, their pursuers came to a halt, eyes fixing on the abandoned pack lying in the mud.
She smirked. "Now, stay right th-"
Click.
The blast ripped through the forest, the shockwave flinging them into the dirt. Leaves and fire rained down.
The man lifted his head, face pale with fury. "You made me carry explosives for hundreds of kilometres! Do you realise if that went off early, I'd be dead?"
She rolled onto her back, chest heaving, eyes glittering with amusement. "But it didn't."
