A world of sword and musket. Renki Dareeka, a descendant of a glorious but long impoverished family, could only dream of an officer’s rank and hope that someday he would try on a uniform. They say that if you want something badly enough, it will surely happen. Only the paths by which desires are fulfilled are sometimes extremely, extremely convoluted.
Want to taste army life? Easy! But you’ll have to start not even as a simple soldier, but as a powerless convict on hard labor. And then think for yourself how to live on… and a strange companion, who has knowledge quite unlike anything in your world, will help you!