Infiltrating the Superhuman Training Girls’ School of the Republic of China!

The next morning, Zhou Lizhi performed a spectacular feat of throwing her military sword at Celine Demetriades, who was running diligently. It was a performance worthy of a ‘Weapon Master’ who could throw a sword from horseback and hit a person’s heart accurately.

Yes, Zhou was riding a horse. Until last week, she had been running the track normally on two legs, but for some reason, today she was riding comfortably beside us on a glossy-coated military horse.

Zhou’s sword throw. It was such a sudden event that Shradha Bhatt, who was running right next to Celine, was startled and brought out her steel fist, but Zhou hadn’t done such a dangerous act just based on my words. She must have noticed something strange on her own as well.

Briar Churchill clapped and laughed as she saw the mud doll crumble and fall after being hit by the blade.

“Wahah! Wahahaha! Finally caught, huh! Did you see something from up there?”

“Ah, that’s right, Churchill. The soil is slightly visible at the crown. It seems she roughly molded a doll thinking I would run alongside her today as well.”

Briar Churchill’s observation revealed why the major had specifically come to the track on horseback today. Even with the talent of a ‘puppeteer’, it’s said to be very difficult to mold a doll that looks perfectly natural from all angles. Zhou Lizhi, who couldn’t notice anything strange from the side no matter how she looked, must have become certain of my tip-off only after seeing the top of Celine’s head from horseback.

“Did you tell her?”

Lieutenant Duey approached me slightly and asked. I nodded.

“Did I do something wrong?”

“In Russia, reporting a comrade’s misconduct to the Party is considered a virtue.”

Barbara Tikhonov approached me out of nowhere and said that. Hearing her words made me feel like I had become a bad woman who had committed a terrible wrong. Well, I am a bad woman. I’m a woman, right?

“In Russian terms, should we say that a comrade’s truthful report has made a great contribution to the Party and the motherland?”

Hearing Tikhonov’s continued explanation made my skin crawl. It’s not that the Chinese Kuomintang doesn’t purge, and persecution and purging of leftist forces are still ongoing in Korea. But no matter what, Communist Party purges are a completely different matter.

In all of world history, the only ‘non-superpowered national leader’ who attempted a large-scale purge against ‘superhumans’ and succeeded in executing them all without facing a coup or rebellion was Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. It was possible because he was an extremely cruel and terrifying person, but many scholars analyze that if Stalin had not carried out bloody purges against superhuman officers, the communist states of the Soviet Union and Japan could not have been maintained.

The existence of ‘superhumans’ was communism’s greatest threat, fundamentally rendering the principle of proletarian dictatorship useless. Stalin showed that even such superhumans could be purged if the Party wanted to purge them, thus protecting the Soviet Union. In today’s Russia, Stalin is called another founding father with equal or even greater status than Lenin.

“Still, I don’t like the number of classmates suddenly becoming nine.”

Colonel Tikhonov smiled slightly at my words, which I had blurted out not knowing what to say.

“It’s okay, Platoon Leader. If this were Russia, there would have been 9 platoon members from the start. There would be no need to take responsibility for failing to manage the platoon members.”

“Fortunately, China is not Russia, Colonel.”

Zhou Lizhi, who had been pretending not to listen to our conversation but had heard it all, said as if chiding us.

“We don’t delete people or give severe disadvantages for cheating in physical training. This isn’t some military unit, is it? At least not for you all. But there is something interesting… Hoang Thi Linh!”

The name Zhou Lizhi called out immediately, when I thought she would surely call Celine, was the Vietnamese hypnotist. Hoang Thi Linh had given up running and was sprawled out far away, but Zhou immediately rode her horse to Hoang Thi Linh and made her stand up.

We were more curious about what Zhou would do to Hoang Thi Linh than continuing to run the boring track, so we turned and followed her stealthily.

The hypnotist was groaning as she was forcibly made to stand up by the major who had dismounted.

“Pl-please spare me. I’m out of shape, so I absolutely can’t keep up with the horse’s speed…”

“I’m not telling you to keep up with the horse’s speed. But I need you to explain, hypnotist. What did you do to me?”

“I, I’m not the mastermind. I’m really not the mastermind. I just cooperated because it seemed fun. I didn’t receive any money or engage in any illegal transactions…”

“So I’m asking what you did.”

“I hypnotized you, Instructor!”

I gasped at Hoang Thi Linh’s words. Churchill found their conversation so funny that she started laughing loudly, clutching her stomach, while Catherine Duey nodded as if finally understanding the situation.

“I thought it was strangely dull…”

“Hypnosis, what kind of hypnosis?”

Zhou asked Hoang. Hoang Thi Linh hastily answered while taking out a string with a coin attached from her hand.

“Now, if you look at this coin…”

“Stop the nonsense and answer properly.”

Zhou Lizhi glared at Hoang Thi Linh while tightly gripping the coin in front of her eyes. Hoang Thi Linh grinned and nodded.

“Got you.”

“What?”

At that moment, Zhou Lizhi, who was holding the coin, suddenly lost consciousness and fell backward, leaning against the horse she had just been riding. Hoang Thi Linh said with a chuckling laugh:

“I knew this would happen, so I set this suggestion to work when the coin was grabbed. It didn’t work on the Generalissimo, but with this method… hehe… Now she’ll completely forget what happened until just now, so I won’t be punished…”

It seemed like she didn’t do it with any real malicious intent, but just to avoid punishment.

The ability itself was quite impressive, but the goal was so modest that it felt like a letdown. I approached Churchill, who was enjoying the sight of Zhou Lizhi being tricked too much, and put my hand on her shoulder.

“Briar.”

“What, Platoon Leader? Do you want to save that pitiful instructor?”

“Did you hear what Hoang Thi Linh just said? That woman, when she wakes up, she’ll forget everything that happened to her.”

“That’s hilarious! To become an instructor and not be able to resist a single hypnosis ability, and even forget that she was tricked, isn’t it too funny? Everyone saw that woman being embarrassed, but only she doesn’t know about this situation…”

“I think it’s funny too. But don’t you think this might be even funnier?”

“Hmm, which one?”

“Imagine the major desperately pretending nothing happened while remembering how she was tricked. She might not be able to point at you and insult you so confidently in front of you anymore. And if it turns out that you were the one who woke her up…”

To be honest, I hope Zhou Lizhi doesn’t fall too far into the abyss.

It’s enough for me to bring her down. I don’t want her to be played with as other exchange students please. It’s not so much my personal desire, but because it helps achieve what I intend.

…Let’s leave it at that for now.

“That’s a good idea, Eun-young.”

Briar Churchill said as she drew out her baton from her waist. Hoang Thi Linh, realizing that Churchill was trying to break Zhou Lizhi’s hypnosis, urgently pointed her coin towards Churchill, but Churchill’s movement was much faster.

The moment she swung her baton with a thwack, there was a ding sound, and the coin trembled and swayed in front of Hoang Thi Linh’s eyes. Hoang Thi Linh looked at the coin in her hand as if startled, then spun around on the spot making a dumb sound.

“Uhehe… Oh, I’m dizzy…”

Tikhonov shrugged as she saw the hypnotist collapse on the ground.

“Actually, when learning superpowers, you’re supposed to first learn how not to stab yourself with your own knife. It’s really hard for people who haven’t received proper military education.”

I’m glad that at least I won’t have to stab myself with my own ability. Churchill, with a completely focused expression, furrowed her brow and flicked her baton again.

“The flow of brain waves… hmm… the blockage is… here!”

With a swish of the Maestro’s hand motion, a ding sound like a hammer striking an anvil rang out from Zhou Lizhi’s head. Zhou opened her eyes wide and stood up, holding both hands to her temples.

“Wh-what! Lo-loud!”

Zhou Lizhi stood up on her own two feet, spewing curses. In front of her, Briar Churchill stood with her baton, smiling triumphantly, looking for a chance to show off in front of the instructor.

“Weak against hypnosis, are we, Major?”

Churchill said in a completely sarcastic voice.

“Would you have become a complete fool without me? Yes, yes, without this unqualified, stupid Briar Churchill!”

“Ah.”

Zhou Lizhi seemed to recall what had happened to her as she looked at Hoang Thi Linh lying on the ground. She shouted, thrashing about on the spot:

“Take this one away and lock her up in the guidance room right now! I’ll make it as if there were only 9 exchange students from the start!”

As the platoon leader, I hoped she wouldn’t do that.