So I found this book while on a scavenging trip in a dollar store and I decided to write it about my days, what I know, what happens to me, what happens to others, and a few other things. The day is October 20th, and I'm working with a militia group, which is composed of soldiers, civilians, and police officers. Everyone is given military training and weapons and is expected to pull their own and help out around the place. There are about 80 of us, men, women and children. Some people 15 and up are allowed to join the military part, so being a 15 year old who wants to be able to defend himself, I joined in. They gave me this military-looking outfit, an m4, a 9 mil, and even a flashbang. All I gotta do are scavenging missions, standing guard, and doing other things that make me a soldier.
I don't really know how to introduce who I am or what I am like, so I guess you could call me a quiet, basic, adventurous type of person. My life has been pretty basic up until September 12th when I lost my home and family. I'm writing in this so people can know what happened to myself and others, to help keep me distracted from the problems in the world for a small amount of time, and also to tell what I know about things to the people who read this.
This group of teens let me join their 4 person squad, which they call "The Four Aces". It's kinda stupid, but we all have similar interests, and we all work well together so why not. They also forced me to wear an ace of spades card in my helmet, which they told me was a symbol of death which is something I guess.
The first ace of the group is the leader, who has an ace of hearts. He's kind of an asshole, but he does care about us. He is 18 making him the oldest of the group. Next up is the diamond of the group who is the nicest one of us. He cares about everyone's well-being and puts us before him. He is 17, and he is the second in command of our group. Then next is the club of the group. He is usually uncaring and uninterested in things, and he also likes to do things on his own. He is 17 as well. Then there's me. I'm the youngest of the group, and I was almost captured by the mamano when things first happened and only survived because some soldiers saved my life. Since then I've been rolling with them before they became this militia group.
As for my family and friends, I don't know what happened to them. I was sick the day shit went down and didn't go to school, and my parents were at work. I heard a gunshot and screaming at around 4:00, and looked outside to see mamano women shooting at people. After that, I packed my stuff and left my home. I followed these train tracks that went through my town until they reached another town where I was chased down and eventually saved by the military. Sometime later after shit was too fucked up, the military group I was with stopped eventually following the government's orders and became their own group. And sometime after that bombs and airstrikes were happening in places that were deemed lost causes, so the government bombed the mamano and random civilians until the mamano stopped the people who were bombing places, which put an end to ending thousands of lives.
After some time I joined the military part and met up with the other 3 aces. They needed a fourth member, and since we talked on occasion they let me join. We are allowed to go on scavenging missions and stand guard around the town where we're currently staying, as long as we're supervised by an 18-year-old, that being Hearts. Speaking of Hearts, he doesn't let us use our normal names. Instead, we have to call each other by our card symbol which is dumb. It's stupid to be called "Spades" all the time. Our normal names are carved into the inside of our helmets so if we get captured or killed, we have some form of knowing our actual name. During my time as a soldier, I have gotten in 6 firefights, and each time I killed no one.
I may be a soldier, but I don't want to kill something sentient. Instead, I just provide cover fire. There is this thing called "The Monster Girl Encyclopedia" which has info about the monsters that we're fighting. It's pretty fucking crazy that this book which is a work of fiction has become a reality. Although, the book seems to take place in the renaissance period, and the mamano we're fighting have modern technology. And from what I've seen and been told, if you do something that really enrages a mamano, they put aside their non-man-killing nature and will end your life, or damn near kill you. It is because of this, some of the people in our group predict that if a military force might be seen as too much as a threat or a problem, and they will probably swap non-lethal with lethal.
Some of the people in my group have used what we know from the book and how the mamano are acting to theorize on why they have entered our world. They theorized that since the Demon Lord is against killing men, and since the mamano in our world will kill you if you break a certain mental or physical threshold, she either changed up her morals or was replaced by a new Demon Lord. In the book, mamano don't birth men so some people theorize that maybe there was a shortage of men, and they needed to enter some other world through magic or technology to get men. And people say that when they take over our world they are going to populate it with a new mamano race.
But then again, these are just theories. I personally think since their technology is modern like ours, a few centuries have passed where they're from, and during that time the Demon Lord has made the mamano able to birth men, but by the time she did it, it was too late and men were in short supply. So they started to invade our world to collect men to balance out things, and also so the Demon Lord can have another world in her possession. Some people who heard me voice my thoughts on this agree with me, but it is still just a theory. But one thing is for sure, if you get captured by them, you're either gonna be raped and married by one of them, or you're gonna get turned into one of them. As for people 14 and under, I don't know what happens to them. Maybe they stay with their families and have what family members that are women turned into the mamano. 15 and up, well, they're up for grabs, as long as another mamano has good reason for a certain person to be for themselves, so if someone does something that attracts the attention of a certain mamano soldier, they can have the higher-ups give orders to capture that one person specifically so they can be married by the original mamano.
I also learned a lot about the types of soldiers in the mamano military from what I have seen and been told. The bigger ones like ogres and amazonesses either walk up with heavy machine guns or walk up wielding a big ass machete. And the machetes and knives for some reason don't make you bleed, but instead make you feel tired. I picked up a combat knife off of one of them, and cut my hand with it, and it made me feel warm and slightly exhausted. From what I learned it's made of this special silver, which they use in heavier calibre bullets like heavy machine guns and snipers, but rifles and pistols use tranqs. Probably because it is cheaper to use some chemicals and glass than a special type of metal, and it would probably be impossible to shoot a tranq out of a heavy machine gun or 50 calibre rifle. After all, if they have modern weapons, then they probably have modernized prices for these types of things.
We've been attacked by unarmed ones like Hellhounds, Manticores, and Raijus, which shoot venomous thorns at you, electrocute you, and claw your ass to unconsciousness. There are also these children-looking ones which are goblins apparently, and they run around with clubs and submachine guns. But they can't seem to hit anything without spraying and praying, so the only ones that are a threat are the ones with clubs since they can knock anyone down and unconscious pretty damn easily.
Then there are the magical ones. I personally don't know much about them. I have read quite a bit of the encyclopedia, but probably not even close to half of it, so I really don't know much about the spells and potions and things like that. I also missed out on a lot of mamano types because I have mostly read up on the ones that I have seen in battle, which does not include things like holstaurs or kobolds, things that would not be as good in battle. They also haven't brought in planes, helicopters, tanks, things like that. I don't know if it's because they don't have them, or if it is impossible to make them non-lethal with demon silver and other things.
During my time with this militia, we've stolen one of the monster's radios and we listen to it to learn news from them. There have been some interesting things I've heard and learned. This one guy was reported to drive cars full of explosives into monster camps and blow them up, and this group of teens reportedly blew up a monster vehicle, shot a hellhound, jumped off a bridge, bit off the ear of a corporal, hid in woods, captured one of them, only for him to escape and kill one of them. I wonder what it would be like to go through all that shit.
And there is this one guy who joined us who insists on using an axe and Molotov cocktails, and this other guy who wears juggernaut armour and walks forward into enemy lines while shooting at them with a heavy machine gun like he doesn't care about being shot at. Another interesting thing that happened was when we heard about these guys on the radio who were defending a lighthouse, and sometime after that, this one guy named Max showed up by himself and claimed to be one of them and that the other one was taken by a mershark. He thought that the mamano were out to kill and imprison people, and when he learned that they just want to rape and love you, he freaked the fuck out. During that whole time defending a lighthouse, he didn't know 2 shits about them or what they want.
The community we have set up is pretty nice. We have groups that hunt and scavenge food, groups that train others, groups that take care of the younger kids, and a few others. So yeah, I'm grateful that my life turned out alright after the shit that went down. Well, I don't know how to end writing in this, so later.