Chapter 309: Blazing Flames of the Battlefield[R-18] (27)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 309: Blazing Flames of the Battlefield[R-18] (27)
Adele and I had sex all day. Her womb was drenched in my semen. But since she had only just had her first experience, I didn't try any hardcore training or kinky play with her yet.
“Hahh…♡ Oppa… Ah, ahhhnn♡”
Gently and slowly, I carefully guided Adele’s body.
“Slowly rotate your hips… Yes, just like that.”
“Haah…♡ Like this…? Ahng♡”
Her pale skin flushed red as she absorbed everything I taught her.
Squish, squelch…
The only sounds that filled the space above the bed were our wet bodies moving together and Adele’s sweet moans, which she let out between gasps of breath.
“Good, Adele. Just like that. Move slowly, and feel it.”
“Hyaah…♡ Ahhh…♡ Oppa… It feels, so good…♡”
As time passed, Adele grew more and more skilled at moving her hips, slowly learning how to accept pleasure with her body.
The next morning.
I slowly looked down at Adele, who was sprawled out on the bed.
Her whole body was flushed, and she was nestled deep in my arms, completely exhausted.
Her legs were trembling, the insides of her thighs sticky with semen and her juices.
Despite all that, her face was the very picture of happiness.
“Huu…♡ I was born with… genetically enhanced physical abilities, but…”
Adele’s eyes were half-closed as she slowly caught her breath.
“Oppa… you’re just a monster…♡”
I smiled and gently stroked her hair.
“But it felt good, didn’t it?”
At my words, Adele narrowed her eyes pitifully.
“Really… feeling yours inside me, again and again… I don’t think my body will ever be satisfied by anything else…”
She tapped my chest with her small hand.
“You have to take responsibility…♡”
I chuckled and pulled her deeper into my embrace.
“You’re already my woman. What is there to take responsibility for?”
“Eung…♡ You’re right…♡”
Adele smiled warmly and nuzzled her face against my chest.
The movement was so natural, as if she had been mine from the very beginning.
After a quick shower, we returned to the Licencia Group’s private area.
An opulent lobby. Two women were waiting for us there.
Hina and Kim Su-hyeon.
Their gazes weren’t on me. They were fixed squarely on Adele Licencia.
“…My lady.”
Su-hyeon was the first to speak, her voice soft.
“You’ve succeeded.”
Her words were gentle, but her eyes held a mix of hidden emotions.
Joy, relief, and a hint of jealousy.
Hina puffed out her cheeks and whined softly.
“Hmph… Oppa used to be all mine…”
She looked like a small child who’d had her favorite toy taken away.
But Hina quickly bowed her head and took a step back.
“…Still, a promise is a promise.”
Adele glanced at me cautiously, her face the same one that had been whispering words of love in my arms just moments before. Then, she slowly turned to Hina and Su-hyeon.
“Hehe. Miss Hina.”
Adele spoke with a relaxed smile.
“You haven’t forgotten our promise, have you?”
Hina shrugged and muttered under her breath.
“…No.”
Her voice held a strange mix of anticipation and resignation.
The entire atmosphere shifted subtly.
It wasn’t awkward, but there was a distinct, strange tension.
It was the moment the hierarchy between the women was clearly established.
I simply watched the scene unfold.
*
Lisa hadn’t slept properly in days. Aaron Blake’s cold voice wouldn’t leave her mind.
[A weapon is most fitting when it acts like a weapon.]
That single sentence echoed in her head over and over.
“…Fuck.”
After gritting her teeth and tossing and turning, she finally got out of bed at dawn. When she threw open her front door, the base was far noisier than she’d expected.
“What’s all this noise so early in the morning?”
Scowling, she looked around and called over a soldier loitering nearby.
“Hey, you. Get over here.”
The soldier hurried over.
“Sir! Captain Carmen! Good morning, sir!”
“Yeah, good morning. But why is it so loud?”
Lisa asked nonchalantly, crossing her arms. The soldier hesitated before answering.
“Well… the Equinox has returned. But…”
“Hey.”
Lisa narrowed her eyes.
“What did I tell you? Don’t trail off. Speak in clear, complete sentences. Who’s your senior?”
“S-Sorry, sir!”
The soldier trembled, straightening his posture.
“The Equinox failed its mission! Most of the deployed pilots were wiped out, sir!”
At those words, Lisa’s expression hardened.
“…What did you say?”
“So… there are rumors that the Equinox’s captain is going to be replaced.”
“Ha, the Equinox failed a mission?”
The soldier glanced around before lowering his voice.
“My, my friend is a mechanic on the Equinox… He said they were annihilated by a single mobile weapon.”
Lisa’s brow furrowed sharply.
“…Is that true?”
“Yes, sir. It was a unit called the Legion. The Licencia Group’s signature model.”
Legion.
The name of a familiar unit flashed through Lisa’s mind.
A high-performance B-class unit. One of the Earth Federation’s newest models.
But.
It destroyed the Equinox with that?
It didn’t make any sense.
“…You’re not lying, are you?”
Lisa asked in a low voice. The soldier swallowed hard and nodded.
“I found it hard to believe too, sir… but I saw the combat logs my friend showed me. A single mobile weapon wiped out everyone, even the ace pilots.”
Lisa was speechless for a moment.
…Does that even make sense?
No matter how high-performance the Legion was, the pilots aboard the Equinox were anything but pushovers.
…The Legion’s pilot.
For some reason, she had a bad feeling. As if she was destined to face them in the near future.
Just then.
“Captain Carmen!”
Lisa turned her head toward the urgent voice calling from a distance.
“What is it?”
“You’re ordered to report to headquarters immediately!”
“By who?”
“Who do you think, sir? The commander!”
Lisa closed her eyes and let out a slow sigh.
“…Haa, understood.”
Muttering quietly, she began to walk.
*
When she arrived at headquarters, Mason and Oh Hyun were also waiting in the hallway.
The two of them were leaning against the wall in front of a large conference room.
As Lisa approached, Mason raised an eyebrow.
“…What. You got called in too?”
Lisa crossed her arms and gave a slight nod.
“Yeah. Doesn’t feel like it’s going to be good news.”
Mason smirked.
“If it were good news, they wouldn’t have called us in this early.”
Oh Hyun stood there silently. Lisa glanced over at him.
A moment later, the door to the headquarters conference room opened.
“Captain Carmen, Lieutenant Mason, Oh Hyun. You may enter.”
An officer spoke curtly.
The three of them looked at each other in silence. Then, without a word, they slowly walked inside.
Inside the conference room.
Commanders with grim expressions sat quietly.
Among them was one man who exuded a particularly cold and heavy presence—Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Blake.
His gaze alone was enough to pressure the three of them.
Lisa muttered under her breath.
…Well, it’s definitely not good news.
Just then.
A man sitting at the head of the table slowly stood up.
“…Huh?”
Lisa tilted her head instinctively.
It was a face she’d never seen at headquarters before. But the moment she saw the rank insignia on his shoulder, she felt her breath catch in her throat.
“…Two… stars?”
The words slipped out of her mouth.
The room fell silent for a moment.
A flustered officer started to clear his throat but stopped, and Mason squeezed his eyes shut beside her.
At that moment.
The general—an old soldier with a full head of white hair and impressive, deep wrinkles—laughed out loud.
“Hahaha! You’re just as amusing as the rumors say.”
At his words, Lisa felt a cold sweat trickle down her spine.
“Y-Yikes! Sir!”
Her hand shot up in a flash, snapping into a crooked salute.
A few subtle chuckles spread through the conference room. But Lisa kept her head high, looking the general straight in the eye.
Seeing her seriousness, the old soldier’s smile widened with amusement.
“At ease.”
Lisa cautiously relaxed her posture.
After a brief pause, the general began to speak.
“Ah, I haven’t introduced myself.”
His voice was gentle, yet it commanded the very air in the room.
“I am Raul Bernard. Commander-in-Chief of the Arsenos Strategic Command’s Special Mission Unit.”
“Special Mission Unit…?”
Mason muttered under his breath.
Raul Bernard stroked his chin lightly as he spoke.
“It’s a newly established unit.”
Raul stroked his chin again and added.
“To put it simply, you can think of it as the Arsenos Alliance’s special mission unit, created to counter the Earth Federation Forces’ ‘Zeros Code’.”
“…”
A quiet tension filled the conference room.
Zeros Code.
The Earth Federation’s most elite special forces. A collection of monsters known as ‘living weapons.’ And now, Arsenos had created something similar.
Raul Bernard paused for a moment, looking at the three of them.
“Now, do you understand why the three of you were summoned?”
Lisa asked cautiously.
“…Are we to be assigned to that unit, sir?”
Raul nodded slightly.
“That’s right. The Equinox’s reputation has been shattered, and the Knights-Shade who were aboard have been annihilated.”
He slowly clasped his hands together and continued.
“Therefore, we have formed a new unit dedicated to special operations, gathering ace pilots with near-perfect skills. And the first three members of that unit are you.”
Raul smiled leisurely.
“You are free to refuse. However, if you do, you will regret it for the rest of your lives.”
Then, Raul added one last thing.
“Of course, if you choose this path, you will become the elite of Arsenos. And you will move the battlefield, the world, and destiny with your own hands.”
Raul Bernard’s voice was calm, but it resonated heavily in their chests.
Lisa closed her eyes for a moment.
…Just a bunch of pretty words.
That’s what she thought.
The elite? Holding destiny in her hands? Was there any real value in that?
Lately, she had been feeling an increasing sense of futility about the war.
Just then.
The first person to step forward was Oh Hyun.
An expressionless face. Empty eyes. But one thing was certain—his resolve.
“I’ll do it.”
A short, simple statement from Oh Hyun. Raul smiled.
“Oh, so you’re the one I’ve heard so much about.”
As Oh Hyun stepped up, Lisa found herself walking forward as well, almost unconsciously.
“…I’ll do it too.”
Finally, Mason scowled and stepped forward.
“I’ll do it…”
Raul Bernard nodded, satisfied.
“Congratulations.”
He continued slowly.
“Captain Carmen and Lieutenant Mason. You will soon receive your dedicated units. Until then, train your bodies and minds thoroughly.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Sir.”
Lisa and Mason replied curtly and saluted.
Raul gestured lightly.
“Good. You will be notified of the upcoming procedures shortly. The rest of you may leave. I have something to discuss with this young man alone.”
The conference room fell silent. Only Oh Hyun and Raul Bernard remained.
Raul slowly approached Oh Hyun.
“You’ve been a civilian until now. Piloting military-grade weapons, but not an official soldier.”
“…Yes.”
Raul carefully took a small box from his coat.
A small, black box.
Inside, a new rank insignia, tinged with a powerful shade of red, gleamed.
“Take it.”
Raul held the box out to Oh Hyun.
“The moment you accept this, you become an official officer of Arsenos.”
Oh Hyun stood motionless for a long time. His eyes were empty, his fingertips trembling slightly. After a moment of silence, he slowly reached out and took the insignia.
“I’ve also heard about your family. I know a little about your father as well.”
At the mention of his family, Oh Hyun’s fingertips flinched. A dark shadow passed over his face.
“Do you know what a great man your father was?”
“My father…?”
Raul gazed into the distance for a moment, as if tracing the fragments of an old memory.
“That’s right. Your father was deeply involved in the development of Arsenos’s mobile weapons.”
Oh Hyun stared at Raul with disbelief. His face, stiff with shock, was filled with bewilderment at a truth he had never heard before.
“…I was never told anything like that.”
“That’s understandable. Your father operated in complete secrecy.”
Raul continued cautiously.
“However, the reason your family was driven down to the lower levels of the colony was, in a way, because of your father. He was the type to do things his own way. Rigid and uncompromising. He made many enemies in the process of upholding his principles and was ultimately sacrificed for political interests.”
Raul took another long breath and said.
“And I, too, failed to fully understand his intentions. In Arsenos, sometimes even the right thing had to be sacrificed.”
Oh Hyun clenched his fist around the rank insignia. His fingertips trembled faintly against the cold metal surface.
“…I never knew any of this. My father never said a word to us.”
Raul silently placed a hand on Oh Hyun’s shoulder. The gesture was heavy with regret and bitter self-reproach.
“I was a cowardly hypocrite who remained silent when your father was pushed out. But he… he was not a man who should have left like that.”
Oh Hyun’s fist tightened. The memory of that day tore painfully at his heart.
Raul took a deep breath and looked at him with determined eyes.
“I hope that you will now carry on your father’s will and fight for the citizens of Arsenos.”
At the edge of Raul Bernard’s smile, there was a hint of chilling cruelty.