Staff Sergeant Collins

A year later

Heather Base, B6, 12th September

SSG. Andrew Collins

Ordinary days in the heather base, Take a shower, wear your uniform and go to the cafeteria. I am getting used to this kind of routine that we have in Heather base. I sat down beside Second Liteunant Washington. He is a good person actually outside the basic training. He got promoted last month.

It has been a year since Wilson kidnapped me. Well, life isn't good, but not bad, either. I was promoted to SSG four months ago during the springtime. I finished my basic training in the winter together with Natalie and Charlotte. A lot of things happened, and the most dramatic one is Charlotte lost her left eye. Yup, she is wearing eyepatch now on her left eyes. It happened during the operation when I still Private Second Class in the jungle where we got ambushed by several beastkin. She got a cut in her eyes, and I got a scar across my eye. How about Natalie? Well, she lost her left middle finger during that time too. We also got an extraordinary promotion thanks to that, I got promoted to Staff Sergeant, and both Natalie and Charlotte to a Sergeant. Apparently, getting ambushed and holding out a position for three months long is very worth it.

And also, thanks to that incident, I got invited to join the Contritio Special Forces. Well, I'm the youngest of them all besides Natalie and Charlotte. Most of them always flirt the girls, but I also joined them to flirt the girls.

"How was the food, Sergeant Collins?" Washington asked me while putting some Tobasco to his plate.

"As usual, our generals think of everything. The food is good as usual, sir," I replied respectfully to him.

"Where are your friends?" He asked me again.

"Honestly, sir, I don't know," I answered.

"Well, that's common," He replied.

He looked at his hand watch and left the table without saying anything. I continued to eat my food and found that the other girls were running in front of the cafeteria. Both of them are competitive since they're one of the youngest soldiers that got a purple heart.

Weirdly, today, I got a duty to do a patrol around the B5. Luckily, my squad is willing to help me as I expect. I divided the group into two fireteams, which it leader was Natalie and Charlotte. Both of them were a good example for the privates.

I started to eat my food, which was well, mashed potato and leftover turkey from last night. Though, it was better than the leaf and carcasses that we ate during the standoff against the beastkin in the forest.

"Staff Sergeant, here is a letter for you," One of my subordinates said, and he left again.

I opened the letter and read the content.

SSG Andrew Collins

Dear Andrew

Remember me? Andrew, congratulation on the promotion to a staff sergeant, by the way. The situation on Costellia is still normal. Don't worry, only some people miss you and Charlotte. Nice one surviving three months on the jungle while being attacked by beastkin.Oh, I won on the match that day, and Maria became a vice president, but I got a lucky promotion that I never expect. Yup, Elizabeth was demoted from her rank as a president of the disciplinary committee, and a real voting election happened. Maria became the winner as a vice president of the student council, and she chose me as the next president of the disciplinary committee; A good piece of nepotism, huh. Kira, the princess, accepted her loss and paid the cost.

Is Kira there, right? That was your first mission once you got out of that forest, wasn't it? Kidnap her from a town on the other side of the borders. I don't know whether she has told you this story yet, but she is a bastard child. After that accident, she got kicked out of the academy and stripped out of every nobility status and sent to a place so far away thanks to the fact that she destroyed an experimental mech.

What is her rank? PFC right? I placed her in your platoon if I'm not wrong. How does it feel commanding a former princess of Sonile kingdom, feels good right? However, not everything went according to my taste. You know the Tanerian, right? The one that our army always uses as target practice when they try something funny, they send a declaration of war to Sonile kingdom, but don't worry though, our army is safe, Gen.Blackwell signed a ceasefire agreement once the Tanerian declared that war. Now the problem is our safety, so I deployed several FOB across the entire Soniel kingdom as an act of measurement.

Sonile? As usual, they don't care. Well, it's good to be talking to you, my friend. You know, I must go now, the job of the president never stops, right? See you, and if you want to enroll in the academy again, just email me using your smartphone.

Sincerely

General Wilson Galliard

That person surely an airhead sometimes, right? He is our general, though. Well, there is nothing that I could do about it. I finished my meal and placed it on the sink and headed back to my quarters and grabbed my equipment for patrol; a ballistic helmet, bulletproof vest, and my personal FN FNC

In front of the living quarter, I already could saw Natalie and Charlotte were giving orders to the privates, including Kira. Natalie wore an Oakley standard issue ballistic glasses on her eyes, and Charlotte wore an eyepatch on her left eye.

After they gave the command to their own fireteam, Charlotte and her fireteam approached me and formed a line in front of the line. They saluted to me, and I saluted back, then I joined them doing the patrol.