Rodney is a soldier who joins Touri's squad early on. They bond and become buddies. They even go on a date together at one point, though they both claim it's platonic. Rodney quickly becomes an existence Touri depends on to a huge extent.

At one point, Rodney volunteers to be a decoy on a su*cide mission in order to keep everyone safe. Touri volunteers to join the decoy unit as a result. They're both mortally wounded and, in order to keep from sharing another tragic secret, Touri confessed to him as he lays dying against a tree. They have an impromptu marriage before he dies, her first kiss being one that tastes of blood. Touri then straps Rodney's body to her back, drags herself to a river, then throws herself into it so the enemy can't desecrate Rodney's corpse and can't have their way with her. Her body belongs to him now, after all. (F*cking beautiful scene btw, had me in tears)

She survives, of course. Fast forward a bunch and she meets Rodney's little sister, Linalee, who he had talked about a lot before. She's the sole survivor of her town after they got attacked by an enemy army. Touri wants to get to know her since she's technically family, but Linalee is prickly because she's in mourning. However, after some effort, Touri gets through to her and they become much closer. Linalee even starts calling her Onee-san. Then the enemy attacks and Linalee gets horribly killed. Cue Touri completely falling apart.

Touri herself starts off quite weak, not even capable of casting Heal despite being a medic. She quickly picks that up though alongside the Shield spell. She also trains to have the endurance to keep up with the assault platoon she's assigned to. Because she has excellent battlefield awareness, she also picks up some training as a scout. Eventually, she trains under a defense platoon and finally learns how to shoot and Shield properly.

From her past life, she also has some experience with leading squads and basic tactics, though it takes time before she can translate that to a real war. Quite frankly, her tactical capabilities as a battlefield commander are likely just as good, if not better than, the best two commanders in the story (both of whom view her as monstrously skilled and really want to recruit her for themselves), but her low self-esteem, modest nature, and general pacifistic personality means she doesn't think of herself as that skilled. It's also not a skill she really gets to show off until way later in the story.

Her best ability however is her danger sense. It's basically supernatural with how good it is. At the right times, she can know what actions she should or shouldn't take entirely based on her danger sense. It takes a while before she really starts showing it off, mostly because she spends most of the story in the field hospital healing, but when she pops off she can really pop off. This becomes especially useful later on when she finally stops being a medic and gets assigned her own company to lead.

THEY DESERVE TO BE HAPPY

she was about to gangb*nged by enemy soldiers, she still wanna stay oobedient. She was about to get r*ped by one of her allies, she rushes to enemy trenches etc etc and she still doesnt wanna hide a knife or something to defend herself. (Btw dont worry, novel has no r*pe tag)

well, lets go.

First of all the protagonist Touri, is totally a girl and even love a boy/man, this is why the TS could be taken of with out problem. There is nothing that a TS normally have and there is no reason to make it a TS, besides some people preferences (I have already read a lot of TS on re library because even though it is not my personal preference, the story could be incredible on the same way a non TS). So don't go with bias.

Same for the Isekai, the protagonist don't use her past live experiences to rebuild the word and bla bla bla, the only reason why it is like that is for justifies the survival instincts and make some parallels with our world history.

About the protagonist being weak, don't worry, on the right time she will be an Ace (not just as a leader, but physically capable of turning the tide of the battle. She can even cut bullets and kill other aces), just be patient.

The most interesting part of the story is that Touri experience every side of the war, literally, from a simple soldier to a leader, from an austinian, to a rebel and a sabbathian. She also go from a pacifists inocente girl to a ruthless completely mad woman. It is very interesting and sad seeing she get more and more mad, and yet, more and more strong because of that (not only she, we saw a lot of characters being distorted by the war, in maaaamy ways). She also have enemies and friends on every side and kill both unfortunately (I want to cry, detail: I almost never cry, but this story make me crie twice, and if I don't desperately try to stop myself, I would cry even more).

I also love how the author manipulate us to hate, love, despise and glorify the same character/group/nation over and over, until we don't know what else think about nothing. Garback is a good example, we hate him, but the more the time pass, the more he is justified, until we see parts of him in every one, and why he did everything he did. He is one of my favorite characters along with Touri, Rodri, Sylph, Gorski and some others.

And it is it. If you still won't give a chance, sorry for wasting your time, I have nothing else to say.

it might seems obvious, but I just realized that sylph lost on purpose on the day after I finished it. I thought that she was so desperate with everything that she blunder, but she actually lost and die on purpose, staining her name forever for the sake of her country. This is very sad and make much more sense she go with Touri like: "even after all that I did, you will still manage to loose?!?!".

And about the continuation on the LN that Ozy is translating, after think a bit, Iris might not be the daughter of Bern and Remi, but Touri brainwashed. If it is this way, she come back to Sedol 10 years after the war, both her and Sedol are brainwashed to forget everything, and 20 years after the war we have Iris and Sedol not remembering Touri correctly. It would keep the two endings together and justify some holes, like Sedol not remembering nothing and Anita's quote at the end.

Or bern could still be alive at the end of the light novel, so he could have a child (the only reason that Touri don't grow up is the drugs that she uses, so to Iris look a child, she couldn't be a +20 years old woman). This would explain why Iris want to know about Bern crimes.

And I must say that I am divided with this continuation. From one, side I am sad that Touri still not have her happy ending with her son and is suffering more even after everything, also sad because her name was stained after everything that she have done for her county and beloved people. I also read only finished stories nowadays so I am quite of disappointed to see that I am once more having to wait years for an ending that may not come and could be horrible. But from the other side, if it has the possibility of having a better ending for everyone, especially sylph (doesn't even need to be Yuri, just her living a pacific hidden life with Touri is absolutely good), I am open to it. And at the other hand, it must be way more interesting from the point of view of someone reading the LN first to have this future shards.

And for last, I want to say that after the end of arc 4, it was the only time that I pray for a character that I like to die. While reading I was expecting an ending that everyone encounter at the afterlife, maybe even reincarnating at other peaceful world (we know that this is possible) or living together on heaven. But Touri wasn't able not even to rest in peace. It was the first and probably last time that a history will make me feel like this, I owe the most sincere thanks to the autor for everything, from the happiness to the sadness

and the s*xual harassment/attempted r*pe

One "genius" girl repeatedly described as "kind-hearted" who becomes a pretty good friend to the MC is from a different nation. Next time we see her, she's unhesitatingly helping other countries exterminate and invade the MC's country because apparently it'd save her own (very little explanation or story telling for this), and the next time they meet apparently she now hates the MC for... defending her country from soldiers she herself sent attacking and killing the MC's allies and friends, or for obstructing her plans.

The coalition she's helping invade the MC's nation sometimes listens to her orders/advice with devastating effectiveness, or sometimes rebels/resists her instructions (and hence failing abjectly), depending on where the plot next needs to go (hard to know when the author hates explaining or justifying plot developments). In addition, her genius-level tactics feel like cheating, as she repeatedly overcomes significant military disadvantage with simple strategies and her soldiers are almost always capable of striking at command/communication posts and HQ with ease and blazing fast speed against practically zero resistance. Effectively, it just feels like her soldiers are given a massive stat boost when under her command rather than succeeding because of human ingenuity and that this "genius" girl has some limited form of omniscience when it comes to the battlefield with unmatched communication abilities to reach her troops.

At some point the MC apparently falls in love with a guy who later is mortally wounded (guess what, she finds out about her feelings right at that moment).

In previous chapters she showed no particular romantic thoughts, and then at some point he's dead, leaving the MC constantly and repeatedly rejecting others (fair), because according to the narration she's loyal and wants to remain faithful, thinking that her body belongs to the "husband" she spontaneously "married" with a kiss in around two minutes or less after she apparently discovered her love for him as he lay there coughing up blood and dying. One might say it was foreshadowed/implied with the unreliable narrator trope, and that's fair, though the lightning fast emotional transition from 'Hey I'm sure we're just friends' to 'My love for him is eternal' after a single kiss (the guy is dead by the end of it) is still disconcerting. Consider it an attempt by the author to make their work slightly different from other TS stories where the MC, despite having turned into a woman, still seems distinctly male/engages in a yuri romance/isn't really treated as a woman