Chapter 244: Kayn's Touch
"Get out of here! Get out of here!" Kayn didn't appreciate the kindness from the Ionians at all.
He just shouted like that.
Then Fia and Riven really "ran away".
It was just that, after bandaging his wound.
As he watched them leave, Kayn's crazy and stubborn look gradually faded. He covered his well-bandaged neck with a complex and subtle expression.
Then, Kayn reached out his hand to his chest again.
There was the booklet Riven had given him, a 'Brief Account of Janna's Thought'.
"No, how can I take these Ionian things?" Kayn suddenly came to his senses.
He reached into his arms, wanting to throw away the booklet.
Although he didn't know what was written in the book, the Ionians must have had some bad intentions.
You want him to betray the empire just for a little favor? Dream on!
What's more, he still remembered what the short-haired woman said before she left: what leader, what equality for all, and universal peace... It's simply a fool's dream, a huge joke!
It's not enough to deceive a child like him.
As Kayn was thinking this, he heard a flurry of footsteps, panting, and the clanking of armor and weapons in motion from behind him.
The Noxian "reinforcements" have arrived.
The group of adult soldiers who had just fled in panic actually brought back their leader.
When the officer arrived at the scene and saw that the leader who called herself "Orianna" had left, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ahem..." Perhaps because he felt that his expression was a little indecent, the officer quickly frowned again.
He looked at Kayn and the young soldiers hiding in the distance, who were trembling and watching from the beginning to the end, in an accusatory tone: "What are you doing?"
"Where are the two troublemakers?"
"Sir, sir." The young soldiers who had been frightened to the point of being unable to move finally reacted.
They came forward tremblingly, knelt before the officers and adult soldiers, and prostrated themselves on the ground and answered: "They are gone."
Kayn also dragged his thin body, which was seriously injured, and staggered to his knees.
"Gone, just like that?" The officer narrowed his eyes in dissatisfaction.
He looked back and forth at Kayn and the few young soldiers who were also left behind to guard the rear.
Of course the officer knew that the leader had left. He was not blind.
But what he cared about was not the movements of Riven and Fia. It would be better if Riven left. If she didn't leave, he would have a headache.
The officer was only concerned about: "Are you too clean?"
He sneered at the teenagers.
Among these young men, Kayn had wounds on his body, sweat on his forehead, blood on his clothes, and his weapons were also broken...
The other few people were all clean and intact, and it was obvious that they had not just gone up to fight with the enemy.
"I told you to detain the enemy here, and this is how you do it?" the officer asked coldly.
"Sir, sir, we..." The young soldiers' faces changed drastically.
These children, who were generally mentally immature, instinctively sensed the danger.
They knelt on the ground and begged, "I'm sorry, we were so scared... We will definitely do it next time..."
"There won't be a next time," said the officer.
Young soldiers can lose and die, but they must never be afraid of fighting.
After all, their role is to be cannon fodder and bait.
If cannon fodder are afraid of death, what use are they?
Will the next time a war breaks out, will these adult soldiers have to waste their time mobilizing these little brats before the battle, or even assign a large number of men to the supervision team and force them to charge with bayonets?
That's too much effort.
The empire does not need such difficult tools.
"The empire doesn't need cowards." The officer said grimly.
What the Empire needs is a good cannon fodder like Kayn, who has strong subjective initiative.
However, if these cowards are left behind and their cowardice spreads to other people in the barracks, it will affect the overall combat effectiveness of the Boy Corps.
So the officer glanced past Kayn and glanced at the young soldiers who disobeyed military orders and were afraid to fight: "Drag them away and punish them by military law."
"No, no!" The young soldiers widened their eyes in despair.
But the adult soldiers still caught them one by one like chickens, holding them tightly, or lifting, pulling, or even dragging them randomly on the ground, dragging these teenagers away.
No one cares where you go.
The officer quickly put these cannon fodders behind his mind and turned to look at Kayn, who had a stern face from beginning to end: "Boy, your comrades have been dealt with by military law, aren't you afraid?"
"Sir, I'm not afraid!" Kayn tried to straighten his chest: "They are cowards, and cowards deserve to die!"
"Hahahaha, good." The officer laughed with satisfaction.
He looked at the broken sickle in Kayn's hand and knew that he must have been through a hard battle. This kid has courage.
"I promote you to centurion of the Youth Corps. From now on, you will also be an officer."
Although the officers of the Youth Corps were, to put it bluntly, just big cannon fodder. In fact, the higher the officer, the more they had to charge forward, and the faster they died. So this centurion was actually not worth anything.
But this finally brings Kayn closer to his dream of becoming a general .
He was still overjoyed: "Thank you, sir!!"
Kayn immediately bowed his head to thank him and expressed his loyalty to the officer.
The words that "Oliana" said to him were indeed misleading. He was not cannon fodder, only the weak and cowardly were cannon fodder.
And he is a natural warrior and a promising Noxian soldier.
Kayn was thinking this.
But at this moment, the officer's face suddenly turned cold.
Because he finally noticed Kayn's neck and the bandage carefully wrapped around his wound: "Boy, who treated your wound?"
Unlike regular soldiers, each team of young soldiers is equipped with a military doctor and first aid equipment.
Kayn's wound can only be bandaged by others.
"Who is it?!" the officer asked aggressively.
“It’s those two women.” Kayn didn’t even notice him and answered subconsciously.
"They beat you and then treated your wounds?" the officer frowned.
“Hmm…” Kayn lowered his head.
"You just accepted it?" The officer seemed angry: "Accepted treatment from the enemy?!"
"I..." The dream in the boy's heart had just ignited a flame when it was poured with a basin of cold water.
“I was dying…” Kayn said.
But the officer just cursed: "A true imperial warrior will never bow to the enemy in order to survive! Since you have already been defeated, you should die without regrets, die without scruples, and die without hesitation!"
"Even Ionian warriors know how to commit suicide by disembowelment. You should be more ashamed, you bastard!"
"I..." Kayn fell from heaven to hell in an instant.
The officer's gaze on him was like a sword, and the sword was stained with blood. The blood had not yet dried, but was still fresh.
This was the blood of several other young soldiers. It turned out that he was in the same situation as those "cowards", there was no difference at all.
Kayn just knelt on the ground, crawling on the ground, waiting for the judgment of the officer in despair.
Fortunately, the officer still remembered that he had just promoted this young man. It was really inhumane to turn against him so quickly.
So he thought for a moment, and finally spared Kayn's life: "You can go back. This time you have made up for your mistake, and I will spare your life."
Having said that, the officer glanced at him indifferently, then waved his whip casually and left with a group of adult soldiers.
Kayn let out a long sigh of relief.
Only then did he realize that his heart was beating uncontrollably to its limit.
The book "A Brief Account of Jana's Thoughts" hidden in his chest was also warmed by his body temperature.
The breeze finally brought a touch of coolness.
Kayn took out the booklet and planned to throw it away like before. But he couldn't help but think of "Orianna" and the words she said before she left:
"I... am just cannon fodder?"
He thought about it for a long time and finally hid the booklet again.
Not lost.
