San gave a wry smile. His thoughts were complicated. He recalled his nightmarish SERER training exercise. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, and Recovery (SERER). That training exercise was the most 

 experience of his life. Though it was training, he had to 

 through hunger, endless pursuit, narrow escapes, and constant fear for his life. He couldn’t help but feel sick whenever he thought back to that training. He expected this situation to be as much if not more of those same feelings.

With a reddening face, she rushed towards one of the pit 

 behind a tree. San gave a knowing smile before exhaling a long trail of smoke. ‘She must have been holding it in all night… that’s for causing me some trouble, little kid.’

After collecting their supplies, both stood up. They buried their main and reserve parachutes and helmet in front of the largest tree. Biyeon marked an ‘X’ on the tree trunk. She found that the bayonet went right into the trunk, like a knife 

. Looking at the bayonet sticking out of the trunk, she tilted her head and frowned. She couldn’t help but make a quirky smile.

The sunlight started shining down from the mountaintops on their right. The entire world seemed to have brightened up considerably. Sunlight reflected off of the snow and ice caps on the tops of the mountain. They were 

omentarily blind

. 

“On that 

, that looks like a year-round icecap ridgeline, right? That means it’s at least 4,000 meters 

?”

Biyeon focus

 on one spot in the bamboo forest. San followed her line of sight. Nothing could be seen.

Deviation – Chapter 5

San looked up toward the sky. A group of dark 

 roiled about, blocking the sun’s rays. It seemed like the entire world suddenly became shrouded in darkness. Without a moment’s notice, large raindrops started pouring down along with streaks of lightning. They both went under a large leaf to avoid the rain. In a brief amount of time, a large amount of rainwater came down. A piece of ice bounced off the ground. It seemed like rain and hail were falling at the same time.