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Premise of this is, some time ago MC was a freshman at the academy and fell in love with FL. He eventually tried to approach her but it didn't go well. MC, humiliated and emo, did the melodramatic thing and took a leave of absence to enroll in the army. I guess he was thinking it would be a short stint to get away and have something to take his mind off it, right? Well, no, like a week later war is declared vs the elves, and guess who's assigned to the front.Story actually begins after the war ends and MC is able to return to the academy (still a freshman), the horrors of war still on his mind. He wants to quietly re-integrate but things keep happening to pull him back into the fray & limelight. FL has mixed feelings about her role in all this, things make their relationship more complicated, military want to give him a special medal for accomplishments, extremist elven insurgents don't think the war is over, most of the people MC knew are about to graduate now, etc etc.-------------------------------------------------------------------Good read IMO, but this isn't going to be for everybody. Some action, some romance with a FL and later a couple other characters who want to polish his medals, but so far most of the actual story events seem to move around post-war recovery. In more ways than one. There's a lot of focus on remembering and honoring veterans, fallen soldiers and sacrifices. Less actual trauma going on than I thought there would be, though, given it basically having been fantasy Vietnam.I don't really see any overarching grand plot in mind so far, it follows event to event of MC's life right after he returns from the war and how he keeps getting involved in aftermath. Dude has the devil's luck, it's ridiculous at points, so he gets more decorated and honored over time. Why he's being put on a pedestal isn't initially obvious, MC is unreliable and underplays himself a lot (and for one part legit didn't know he had accomplished something big) but details get revealed as the plot goes on. Oh, and you can 100% ignore the reincarnator aspect. There's no purpose to it that I could notice, the only role it played is to introduce a few characters as being relevant to the world.Solid translation quality, no recurring problems I noticed. Few weird sentences, but overall it's one of the better ones out there compared to most of what you see lately.