MBD | Chapter 5

It was hard to find even a small point where Everhart’s personality matched either his original self or Kang Woojin.

Everhart loosened his grip on the pillow and slowly lifted his head.

“I heard from Captain Rasmus.”

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“In thirty minutes.”

So what? Everhart looked at Karl Heinrich with a questioning gaze, but no further explanation came.

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If this were the old Everhart—before Kang Woojin took over—he would have outright asked him to leave. But now, he couldn’t treat Karl Heinrich carelessly.

Ten minutes passed in silence. If Karl Heinrich was right, that meant there were twenty minutes left until the disciplinary committee meeting.

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Karl Heinrich didn’t even show the slightest sign of leaving. In the end, Everhart decided to just treat him as if he weren’t there and got out of bed.

He was still in a hospital gown, but next to the locker beside his bed, his neatly folded uniform was waiting.

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With a mental sigh of “Ah, what a life,” Everhart muttered like an old man before finally climbing off the bed.

Even as he reached for his uniform to change, he could still feel Karl Heinrich’s heavy gaze on him.

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Clutching the fabric tightly, Everhart turned to Karl Heinrich with the brightest smile he could muster.

“Dear sunbae-nim?”

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“…….”

“Your hoobae needs to change clothes. Could you please step out for a moment?”

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His tone was so stiff, like he was reading straight from a textbook, that even he felt secondhand embarrassment. Karl Heinrich’s lips twitched as if he found it amusing.

But that was all. He neither replied nor moved.

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“If you don’t leave, I’m just gonna strip.”

“…….”

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“Ah, whatever. We’re all men here. What am I even fussing about?”

Despite the discomfort of revealing himself at his weakest, Everhart half-gave up and yanked off the hospital gown. Though he had received treatment, bruises from the paint bullets were still scattered across his body.

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According to Captain Rasmus, there wouldn’t be any scars, but since his skin was sensitive, they’d linger for about a week.

He could feel Karl Heinrich staring at him from behind. Having spent years in the military, changing in front of other men wasn’t exactly embarrassing.

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It was just that it was Karl Heinrich watching that made it feel different.

Everhart dressed as quickly as possible.

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“Been a while since I wore this.”

He’d worn this uniform countless times, but because of Kang Woojin’s memories, it felt like it had been forever.

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The Royal Eisenwald Military Academy uniform had a different design from the one Kang Woojin wore at the military academy back in Korea, but the basic structure was the same.

Everhart took a moment to glance at his reflection. With his blonde hair, blue eyes, tall frame, flawless pale skin, and refined yet sharp features, he practically screamed “I grew up rich.”

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If anyone embodied the word noble elegance, it was him.

After neatly tying his tie and adjusting his uniform, he was satisfied.

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Except for the minor detail that he was about to walk into a disciplinary committee meeting.

With everything ready, Everhart turned around—

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“Whoa!”

—only to stumble in shock because Karl Heinrich was standing right there.

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Karl Heinrich’s firm hand immediately caught him by the waist.

Everhart was even more startled by the touch.

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For a second, it occurred to him that if Karl Heinrich wanted to, he could easily lift him up and toss him around.

Karl Heinrich quickly let go of him.

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“Stop looking at the mirror so much.”

Seriously? He’s nagging me about that?

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Though Everhart felt wronged, he didn’t bother arguing.

Leaving the infirmary, he headed straight for the small meeting room where the disciplinary committee was being held.

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‘Nothing’s gonna happen… right?’

Eisenwald was still an aristocracy with an emperor and nobles in power. Even though Everhart had been told that as long as he admitted to everything, there wouldn’t be any major consequences, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

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Standing in front of the door, Everhart glanced at Karl Heinrich. Unlike Everhart, who was visibly tense, Karl Heinrich remained completely unfazed.

“Come in.”

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A solemn voice. Everhart got so nervous that he even announced his name and rank with excessive formality, but in the end, the disciplinary committee turned out to be nothing serious.

Rather than a trial, it felt more like a principal’s lecture—just some nagging and scolding.

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And during that process, Everhart learned something he hadn’t known before.

‘Hey! Weber Schmidt, you were alive?!’

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Apparently, while Karl Heinrich was too focused on Everhart, Weber Schmidt had stubbornly survived and managed to retrieve the target at the stronghold, leading their team to victory.

‘But there should’ve been time to chase him… No way, did he go easy on him?’

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Since Everhart had blacked out not long after getting hit in the Vital Guard by a paint bullet, he had no clue what had happened afterward.

The accusations against him included blowing up a hiding spot and stealing clothes from an eliminated civilian (?), while Karl Heinrich was being questioned for excessive force against Everhart.

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But there was one thing that didn’t make sense—yes, Karl Heinrich had used excessive force, but technically speaking, Everhart was the one who threw the first punch before the paint bullets.

For some reason, that little detail was completely omitted from the committee’s discussion. Everhart was briefly puzzled, but then he found his answer in the expressions of the instructors.

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‘Ah. Favoritism.’

More than half of the instructors in the disciplinary committee were nobles.

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If they acknowledged that Everhart had struck Karl Heinrich first, then Karl Heinrich could claim self-defense.

And that would mean only Everhart—the noble—would be punished.

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Since aristocrats were all about pride and dignity, they couldn’t let that slide.

So, to make it look like both sides were at fault, they intentionally ignored that part of the story.

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Karl Heinrich, clearly used to this kind of treatment, didn’t even bother protesting.

And finally, the committee announced their decision.

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“Karl Heinrich Stein will manage the central library for two months. Everhart von Friedrich and Weber Schmidt will be assigned to sanitation facility management for one month. That concludes the disciplinary action.”

Sanitation facility management, in other words—cleaning toilets.

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…Fantastic.

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The Royal Eisenwald Military Academy allowed only two chances in a lifetime.

Officially, anyone with magical power could apply to the Royal Military Academy.

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However, due to the exorbitant tuition fees and the costly entrance exam fee, in reality, only nobles or the wealthy had any real chance of getting in.

Even with these tough conditions, even nobles were completely barred from entry if they failed the test more than twice.

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Because of this, noble families who were well off worried about the disgrace of their children not making it into the Royal Military Academy. And the fact that one could only take the test twice had another meaning.

‘It means the age of the cadets and graduates stays within a set range.’

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Normally, students would enter at seventeen, and even if they were delayed by a year, they’d start at eighteen and graduate by twenty-one.

You didn’t even need to spell out what happens when you lock up a bunch of teenage boys in one place at their prime, the kind of age where they could chew on rocks for fun.

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‘For crying out loud, is this a military academy? It’s just a freaking high school!’

The military academy Kang Woojin graduated from was, of course, an educational institution for adults. Adults, meaning people who were socially expected to take on responsibilities and obligations…

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At the very least, it meant they were capable of understanding human speech when spoken to!

Everhart let out a heavy sigh as he took in the tragic state of the latrines.

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Was this for real?

“This is a toilet? Or a pigsty? No, wait, even a pigsty would be cleaner than this.”

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“I told you I’d do it. Are you seriously going to clean this?”

“What, you think I’m gonna fake clean it? Didn’t they order us to do this from above?”

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“They wouldn’t say anything even if I did it alone.”

It wasn’t like I didn’t know why they had Everhart scrubbing latrines.

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To be fair, I did break the rules worse than Karl Heinrich did.

So by making me clean the disgusting restroom, which looked like a tough punishment on the surface, they were giving me a way to get off easy. On top of that, there was Weber, an easy target who wasn’t even a noble, standing right next to me.

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If I had to guess, the old Everhart would have dumped the task entirely on Weber and then maybe scrubbed the floor a couple of times at the very end, just for show.

And technically, even scrubbing the floor twice counted as doing maintenance.

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‘Why does it feel so shitty to be getting special treatment?’

Everhart had always taken privileges for granted.

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It was so normal to him that he never even recognized them as privileges in the first place. But now, maybe because he had inherited Kang Woojin’s memories, he was starting to feel uncomfortable about the way nobles were treated.

Maybe that was why he was starting to understand, bit by bit, why Karl Heinrich hated the Five Great Families and the noble class so much.

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Everhart grabbed a mop.

“When are you gonna finish if you do it alone? We should do it together. …And let’s be honest, you only got stuck with this because of me.”

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If he had just dropped out earlier like the other team members, he wouldn’t have gone through all that suffering. But instead, he stuck around and took every bit of hardship that came with it, just to cover for Everhart. If you were human, you’d feel at least a little guilty about that.

“But we won in the end.”

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“How the hell did you even survive that?”

“I have no idea? Either way, it’s all thanks to you, sunbae-nim.”

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“Don’t act like I did anything when you’re the one who pulled it off.”

Feeling embarrassed by the continuous flattery, Everhart patted Weber’s back, telling him to drop it.

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For a second, he caught himself. That was something he used to do as a captain to comfort his soldiers. He flinched, but luckily, Weber didn’t seem to notice.

“…Let’s just clean.”

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Everhart and Weber splashed detergent-mixed water onto the filthy latrines and scrubbed with all their might.

The murky water just kept pouring out endlessly. Was this for real?

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Even the toilets from the Joseon Dynasty would’ve been cleaner than this!