Bright Sword: Reborn as a Puppet Soldier, I Really Just Want to Run Away

No System, just writing by hand. Three updates a day, totaling 6,000 characters, before the book goes on sale; five updates a day, totaling 10,000 characters, afterward.

There's no way I'm becoming a puppet soldier. Not in this life.

They'll squeeze every last thing out of us, and the Japanese will exploit us. Even if I survive, I'll be condemned as a traitor after the war.

Anyone who wants the job can have it. I'm not serving them!

Xu Yang decides to desert.

But things get a little strange.

On his first escape attempt, he catches the adjutant and the commander's third concubine in an affair, and someone ends up dead.

The battalion commander: I'll remember what happened today. We'll settle this in time.

Xu Yang: Huh? Is he holding a grudge and planning to make my life miserable?

Run. I have to run!

On his second escape attempt...

The battalion commander: The Japanese can't find out they're secretly selling weapons. Keep it quiet!

Xu Yang: Huh? Could the battalion commander be involved too? I'm done for. I stumbled onto his secret!

Run. I have to run!

On his third escape attempt...

Captain Watanabe: You are very, very good! A fine soldier, indeed!

Xu Yang: Huh? Isn't he putting me on the guerrillas' assassination list?

Run. I have to run!

Xu Yang is at his wits' end. He really just wants to be a deserter.