“Only a little bit further, recruits!”

While listening to the shouts of encouragement from the instructors, Kang Jin-Ho continued to trudge forward, the heaviness of the military gear weighing down on his shoulders.

The shouts were coming from seemingly every direction. The assistant instructors were trying to egg on those recruits falling behind during the march, but their voices sounded more like noises at this point.

If this had been a different training exercise, the instructors would've been preoccupied with chewing the lagging recruits out, but today? They were all making pitying faces while pushing the recruits from behind.

“...Huh-uhk!” Ju Yeong-Gi walking in front of Kang Jin-Ho suddenly began wobbling.

Kang Jin-Ho reached out and supported Ju Yeong-Gi's backpack filled with heavy military gear. The momentary reduction of the gear's combined weight crushing down on Ju Yeong-Gi's back helped him regain his balance.

Kang Jin-Ho spoke to the recruit in front, “Keep going.”

"Yeah..." Ju Yeong-Gi replied, his voice faltering. As the sweat streamed down his face, he took another pained step forward. He was born with large bones and a good deal of muscles, which only made a long-distance march like this an absolute torture session. If only the military gear in his backpack weighed less! He wouldn't have been troubled this much.

An assistant instructor walked up to Ju Yeong-Gi. “Recruit No.99!”

“Recruit No.99, Ju Yeong-Gi, sir!”

“How are you feeling, recruit? You okay?”

“Sir, I can do this!”

“It's fine to give up if it's too difficult, recruit! Don't push yourself unreas...