Paper is running out. So are cloth, salt, firewood, water, and time. Yet the Second Order Founding Preparatory Unit cannot stop. Rules for demon-beast wounds, wagon routes, water-bag paths, village wells, rain patrols, and the decision to return all have to be learned and recorded somehow. The unit begins turning isolated field choices into a repeatable system—a map of the road back. The Road Back follows the shift from individual skill toward organization, where logistics and judgment become as important as the sword.