Entry #1 1923

Our neighbor, the Legadonian Entente has declared war on us today, how foolish of them to wage battle against us. I assume this war will be short since our Fatherland is the strongest force on the continent and I am but one of many mages that is a part of its strength. I shall be keeping this journal to iterate my glorious moment in service to our Empire during the war.

In the worst case scenario, my journal will be nothing but memories of a man bidding his time in the eastern regional army, if the Lord has any mercy for me, he shall deploy me to the front lines.

Entry #3 1923

The Lord has yet to show us favor but we remain strong. The entire eastern army is eager to deploy! We are aware that only a portion of us will be sent but we all pray for it to be our own selves. There is only good news from the front, after a strong repel from our Norden border troops we are now organizing a strong offense. As a mage I can only salute my comrades who have held air superiority this entire time while the infantry organizes itself and those that have allowed our border defenses to destroy the first army sent by the Entente.

Entry #7 1924

Being in the garrison the entire time can be rough, I was already missing my wife's cooking back home but now I dream of it every night, the ration's do not exactly taste the best ever since the war began. I simply wish for a decent stew with a bread i could actually dip in, right now i guess i could use the bread as a bowl...

Entry #12 1924

Our offense was a great news to us soldiers, even with a reduction in personnel here due to being deployed we would proudly hold our line. Unfortunately that was short lived since the bastards from the Republic have declared their own full offensive on our flanks! They dare attack the Empire while we are launching an offense in the North. As much as I applaud the tactical decision made I must simply shun them for such a rash decision. A war with the Empire will simply not benefit them in any way, even if we continue our Norden campaign, we will not fall to the Repulican troops!

Entry # 37 1925

I do not know if it was by the will of God or sheer luck of things but it seems my chance has appeared to help our Fatherland. Today all the mages have received a message from the department of General staff, a recruitment notice. Here is how it reads out, I am keeping my copy for motivational purposes:

Notice from department of service

Imperial army general staff

Always lead him, never abandon him

Always walk the unbeaten path, never yield

Always be on the battlefield

All for the sake of victory

Mages wanted

For hazardous battlefield

Small wages

Long months of gloomy bullet storm

Constant danger

Safe return doubtful

Honor and recognition in case of success

General staff organizing committee

I simply cannot express my joy into words for my journal, only that I thank you God for this glorious opportunity to serve my homeland. The words used clearly shows that a grizzled veteran is in charge, one with experience and knowledge of the front lines that you can only dream about. Just imagine how much service I could be to our Fatherland in this unit.

I have submitted my application almost instantly, along with all my brethren's who also dream about being on the front lines for our country. Too long have we waited on the sidelines of this war, we shall wait NO LONGER!

Entry #41 1925

One would not believe the joy I felt when I learned that my application has accepted and I am to journey to the capital Berun to view the unit itself. I am to pack my things immediately! My wife would be so happy to hear that I can help our Fatherland proactively like this. I wish I could visit her before but I simply must make myself ready as soon as I can. I shall return to my journal once I can calm down and with the good news of this new unit!

Entry #42

I am speechless.

It was something I simply did not expect. It started off in a normal way where I joined with my wing mate and we reached the room for the Unit. Once inside although, was a small room with only a simple desk and a man named Colonel Turner. The thing that bothered me almost instantly was the lack of windows which was odd for a room on the edge of a building riddled in them.

We were told a few things but I was unable to listen, something felt very odd in this room, considering the absence of windows it was rather well illuminated. My wing mate brought me back to my senses when the colonel was asking if both of us understood to go to an airport. My mate agreed almost instantly but I could not, the voice was not coming from the man in front of us, not from his throat at least. It was off, as if coming from my left.

I simply took a half step in the direction of the wall, tried to feel it but it faded away. In all honesty, I wanted the wall back. Now I was faced with a blonde little girl who was staring right through me with her chilling blue eyes. Mere words could not explain the mixture of emotions I was feeling, confusion? Anger? Doubt? Embarrassed? Fear? I do not know, but this child in front of me, in uniform was the source of it all and I will never forget what she told me.

"Congratulations, you may actually be of some use to the Fatherland."

That grin she made, was most definitely not humane and I could not say anything. I later learned that she was the one in charge of the new unit, organizer Tanya von Degurechaff, a living recipient of the Silver Wings Assault medal. Here I was expecting a man in his forties, grizzled veteran with scars smoking a cigar that could tell us all about war. Instead we have a child, is this irony? Or simply the will of God giving us a bad joke to make a child fight this war. How cruel he must be.

Author's Note

This is more of an experiment by me to see if people would be interesting in reading a journal from a member of the 203rd battalion. I have read stories all trying to invade the current one with their own custom character or create an ending and what not.

I wished to take a different approach and tell the parallel story about those who gave a lot for their land without help. Just man and woman who fought hard and survived ridiculous things considering they were follow Tanya into suicide missions.

If you wish for more give me a shout in a PM or review, would love to hear people's opinion. If you think it stupid, also give me a shout.

Thank you guys and gals.

Edit Dec 10/2017

Made some changes to give it more meat, i realize it is nowhere near enough but that is because i fear giving too much information, my character is supposed to be nameless, no one in specific. If you can trace it to someone in LN, Manga or show, i have failed, that is my belief so I am trying to tiptoe around. Worry not the chapters will be updated soon with a rant as to why it was late.

Thank you very much for your patience everyone