A heavy thud echoed, followed by a desperate, cracked voice rising from within the headquarters of the 12th Unit. Someone was screaming, pleading for release: "Please… kill me… kill me."
Only a head remained of a body, with two arrows lodged in its eyes, yet somehow it was still alive, still crying out for the end of its suffering.
All around, others in the room laughed and chatted idly, some even dozing off, completely ignoring the tormented head as if it did not exist.
A man in neat clothing, wearing glasses and a long robe that signified his importance, stepped into the headquarters. He glanced at the severed, suffering head on the floor but ignored it entirely, continuing forward without a second look. Then he raised his voice and announced, "The 12thUnit has been drafted to war by order of the emperor himself. You must go."
The man who had just entered turned to face a black-haired knight standing before him. With a tone edged in contempt, he said, "Vice-Captain, you personally must go to the front lines." His eyes were filled with scorn as he spoke.
A slender blond man came out of a room and said, "There will be no need for that," and threw a message directly at the messenger.
While reading the message, the messenger started smiling and said, "As expected of you guys."
"While being in power, you avoid helping the weak. You run away and hide while leaving the weak on the front lines. Deadbeats and losers."
A short man said to him, "There's no need for all that." He seemed to be growing sad.
The messenger completely ignored him and said, "Since you already had this, why did I even have to deliver the message?"
The Vice Captain replied, "God forbid we want to see an old friend. No matter how many times we try to reach you; to talk to you, you ignore us. This is the only way we can get to you."
A huge man nearby added, "Why are you happy sending us there? It's getting really hard defending you, you know?"
The messenger answered, "Teddy, you just don't know these people well yet. I believe that, in no time, you'll be like me and leave this place."
The Vice Captain then said to one of the maids, "Come on, we need something to drink. Bring out goat's milk and give it to our visitor."
The messenger, clearly upset and angry, replied, "There will be no need for that. I'll be leaving."
The Vice Captain said, "Come on. Ever since you married that, that female, you stopped talking to us. You stopped hanging out with us."
The slender blond man said to the Vice Captain after the messenger left, "Sisi, I know you're hurt, but this guy is starting to get annoying."
Another man asked, "Sisi, who is that guy?"
The Vice Captain answered, "You newcomers don't know about him, but he was one of the early members who started this unit. He is my sister's cousin. He used to spend a lot of time with us, but ever since he got married, he has changed sides."
Sisi then told him to give him the note. After reading it, he smiled and looked at the slender man.
He said, "Thank you, Slender Man. With my position, it will be hard to avoid getting drafted. But with your reach, we can avoid conflicts."
Teddy then said, "Getting to bully weak monsters is no fun after all."
The Vice Captain added, "But we still have to go somewhere. We can't just stay here doing nothing."
Slender Man then said, "We will be going to your area. After speaking with my father, he told me this will be the safest place during the war. Your area will be safe, so we will be fine."
The cut-up head that was laying on the ground then said to him, "Sisi, are we going? If so, give me back my body. And please find my eyeballs, they're lying somewhere I can sense it."
Sisi said to him, "Go find it yourself. And we will not be going there to play. We still have to exterminate the monsters that attacked there. So, stay focused and don't get too comfortable."
One of them asked, "Which monsters attacked us again?" Slender Man answered, "Orcs, Goblins, snake men and others." Then the Vice Captain said, "The three Horsemen of Trash." This war will probably end very soon.