Black Beast Squad (Part 1)
Endurance training, strength training... endurance training, strength training...
After Al-Sarid-Heite's body had recovered somewhat, the officers at Sonell Prison began gathering the prisoners for extremely brutal training.
The workload was immense, and it involved no tactical or technical instruction whatsoever. They were simply pushing their physical limits to the absolute extreme. Even with Heite's physique, he was left half-dead from the ordeal.
During the training, people were constantly eliminated. Those who failed were taken away directly by ships bearing a logo resembling an umbrella, never to return.
However, Ramadan-Biso, who had spoken with Heite before, held on as well, and the two gradually became friends.
According to Ramadan, he had once been a smuggler. On one job, tempted by the hefty profits, he only learned after takeoff that he was transporting spice—and not ordinary spice, but Thyssel tree bark! Worse still, the spice had been stolen by a group of pirates from a transport ship belonging to the crime boss Ni Yongxiao!
Naturally, he was hunted down afterward. But Ramadan was a hard man. He and several of his brothers actually fought their way out. Yet just as they took off and cleared the atmosphere, they were blocked head-on by a Hiigaran-class battlecruiser.
Ramadan had never understood why the regular military had arrived so quickly, but he knew that although the Hiigaran-class was already outdated on the front lines, his tiny smuggling ship was still not even worth one of its fingers.
Later, during the trial, the judge read out the names of every person Ramadan had killed. Ramadan was dumbfounded to discover that the gang members he had killed had somehow all become law-abiding citizens in the judge's mouth?! Only then did he realize he had been set up.
Then he was sentenced to