32 - Psychological Shadow

Chris came to the front of the machine and prepared to throw a punch. Hana wasn't even bothered to write down the result. Despite the Military University being very organized and rigorous, they had already abandoned much of the useless bureaucracy.

Before the Awakened came along, the national army was extremely bureaucratized. As long as a person wanted to request a simple thing, he would have to deliver several documents to a person in charge, who would separate these documents for another person in charge, who would probably have to deliver this to one more person, making a simple request that could have been approved in a few minutes take several days to be approved instead. Of course, for important things documentation was still required, but for something like the physical strength test, the only thing needed was the examiner's verbal confirmation that the conscript had passed.