I'm here just thinking that if this boy tells his parents the truth, they'll think they failed him, because clearly neither of them wants him to become the soldier he did.
Thank you for the last panel. It has been a long time since I was able to look at a drawing of a well-trained male's body without sexualising it. If you don't draw people/anatomy, you might not get it haha. It's also because I have an art block for years now.