Under the early morning sun, female soldiers stood in groups at the corners of the hallways in the dormitory, smiling. They pointed their hands at the faces of the young men walking by and exiting through the main door of the dormitory.

Among the group of five curvy ladies, one laughed, breaking the silent laughs and drawing in the attention of the soldiers walking by.

She pointed her right arm at a broad-shouldered soldier standing close to the exit of the dormitory.

"I thought with all that heavy shoulder, your dick would also be as big as your fist, not knowing it was just like your pinky finger," she said, laughing heavily and tapping at the shoulder of the lady beside her.

"Ruth?!" a sweet voice shouted, pulling the dark-eyed lady to the side and scolding her.

"Why do that? Don't you know he's not just an ordinary soldier?" she said, frowning and tilting her gaze to let Ruth see the difference in the uniform the broad-shouldered man was wearing in comparison with theirs.

Yet, Ruth didn't take Eva's advice, she just pulled herself away, chuckled, then looked horizontally at Eva and rolled her eyes at her.

"No wonder you allowed yourself to sleep with him," Ruth said, laughing as she moved to the four ladies standing in shock.

Everyone walking by, including some of the female soldiers standing at opposite angles, began laughing at Eva as they shifted their gaze from the man now walking at the other side of the entrance and the lady now climbing the staircase feeling disgraced.

"See how pathetic Eva climbed the stairs. Why do you even bother moving with her?" Ruth said, pulling herself from the three ladies and opening her arms as she kept staring at the staircase, chuckling.

…

"Where from that noise?" Kai said, jolting from his bed, sweating. He walked to the open window, placed his hand at the stool and watched the glorious view outside the new room he'd spent his first night in.

He stood there inhaling the fresh air waving into his room and listening to the harmonious humming sound coming from the canopy of the tall trees.

In the space above the canopies, he saw three white birds soaring high in the sky, flapping their wings and circling under a white-ash–colored cloud.

Though this wasn't his first time seeing a view like that, yet it gave him a different experience. Not to mention the sun's rays danced in the white-colored room he stood in, moving from the white curtains and landing at the center of a diamond-shaped patterned floor.

Moving his gaze from the birds outside, he moved into the bathroom, took a quick bath and walked out of the room, now refreshed with the warm water he used.

The moment he stepped into the hallway every moment changed and turned to him as if he was a freshly crowned king entering into his city.

Every step he took began like a fight with the wind as his black boots slammed the ground like a hammer.

Descending the only staircase in the building and stepping out of the second floor, where his new room was, Kai saw a group of young men rushing toward him as if he was a thief.

He paused, waited, and watched them reach his side.

"Did your eyes really emit that purple glow in the junior's dormitory last night?" one of the young men circling him said, brushing his arm on Kai's face and staring at him like a psycho.

While they brushed their palms on Kai, footsteps echoed from behind them, silencing their movement the very moment they heard it.

"Let him be!" a voice echoed, and in that instant, the group of young men moved from Kai and dashed out of the hallway Kai stood in.

Raising his eyes from the guy's direction, Kai saw Gray and Clara walking toward him as if they were a married couple and not siblings.

"How are you feeling?" Gray said, placing his palm on Kai's shoulder and pushing him forward, letting all three of them exit the building together.

The view outside caught Kai in a glimpse. Though he'd been seeing such view over and over again, being at the remote part of the Sword Sect Barracks, it was something he couldn't hide or not be amused by.

Kai tilted his gaze sideways, staring at the shimmering vehicles of different sorts, the group of young men and ladies walking by, holding their arms and swinging themselves, dancing.

It wasn't a day for a party, but their walking alone seemed as if they were dancing.

Clara moved and stood beside Kai, letting Kai be at their center as they walked to the truck Gray used to convey them out of the barracks' gate that evening.

Kai moved into the back seat while Clara moved to the front. Gray hesitated as he stared at the man running in their direction from afar, but hopped in when the man waved them and turned back.

Gray inserted the car key and started the engine. He turned, looked at Kai who hadn't wrapped the seat belt, and alerted him to do so, then made Clara also put on the seat belt.

For a couple of minutes, the truck drove, moving at a high speed and letting the tall building at their front move past them like a shooting star.

Kai, who hadn't seen these parts of the barracks, moved a bit closer to the window and stared at the buildings and the landscape.

He enjoyed every last view he saw until they stopped closer to the junior dormitory, the very building he was moved from, and got down from the truck.

Max, who was standing at the building's entrance, rushed to the truck the moment he saw Gray stepping down and greeted.

"Good morning, Lieutenant," Max said, raising his right arm and placing it at his forehead, saluting all three of them, though Kai was known to be in the same rank with Max yet he got the privilege to be greeted.

"Good morning. Have you heard any news from the media team, the one you said called before the earthquake started?" Gray said, moving toward Max and walking him closer to the entrance, leaving Kai and Clara behind.

Though Kai wasn't part of the conversation, yet he could understand the words by just reading Gray and Max's lips.

After five minutes of intensive communication with Max, Gray moved back to Kai and Clara, letting them hop back in the truck, and drove them out of the barracks.

Kai's face tensed, his breath hitching as he stared at the building they moved past in the alley and into the road choked with countless people, all shouting and throwing their arms in the air.

"What's going on?" Kai asked, turning toward Gray, his face filled with deep confusion.

Gray didn't answer, he simply turned a soft gaze at Kai, blinked, and brushed his arms across his hair.

The moment he tried to speak, a stone flew in the air and struck the windshield of the truck, breaking part of the glass and letting a spiderweb line dance across it.

At the sight of the crack, Gray pushed the door open, stepped down and joined the soldiers helplessly telling the citizens to calm their actions.

Kai's heart hitched as he saw Gray slapping a man holding a black suitcase, pushing the children forward.

He opened the door and stepped down from the back seat, stared at the red glow around the man tightening his grip as he struggled on the ground.

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Under the busy road of Gilgal Village leading to its central market, children ran hauling stones in their palms and throwing them at each other.

Reaching the side of a blue car parked just at the junction at the center of the village, they stopped, looked at their reflection in the mirror of the car and dashed forward when a young man with brown hair walked toward the car yawning.

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