Volume 8 - Chapter 34 – Aquatic Battle (2/2)
After the scream a splash, the sound of him hitting water.
The all-purpose golem abided by its orders, and even underwater did not let go of Intact. And then Intact, or rather, no human could speak underwater.
As a result, in the middle of the river, the all-purpose golem simply sunk down while firmly keeping hold of Intact.
“All hands abandon ship! Abandon ship!”
Marcello went around yelling loudly, and when he recognized that no one was left to jump off, he himself also grabbed a nearby piece of wood and jumped into the water holding it.
“Father, everyone has left the ship.”
“Yeah. The ship’s about to sink too. Alright, let’s finish this.”
Jin ordered Reiko to shoot two lead shots.
“Yes.”
The soft lead was smashed along with the impact, spread wide, and conveyed its kinetic energy without waste to the ship’s hull.
And the result.
“Wh-whawha, whawhawha”
In front of the Unifilers floating on the river, the boat they had just been on was smashed to smithereens.
“Alright, next is the fellows floating on the water, I suppose. Reiko, let them have it with the smallest current [Thunder Rain] you can.”
“Yes, Father.”
Right now one of the quickest ways to deal with the people in the water was to give them an electric shock, using lightning from the skies.
And so Reiko cast [Thunder Rain] at the smallest possible output she could manage.
For an instant, the river surface was dyed purple. Around 100,000,000 volts rained upon the floating Unifilers’ heads.
Urgh, argh, and similar short screams: all the Unifilers on the surface of the river fainted. Despite being submerged in water, their hearts probably wouldn’t as long as they weren’t extremely unlucky.
However, there were two of those extremely unlucky people, and two who sank while unconscious due to the weight of their armor. Including Intact, that was a total of five people. By chance, the death toll was the same as the number of Reinhardt’s guards.
“Alright, let’s collect them.”
And like this, the neutralized members of the Unifilers were scooped up with the fishing nets on Hydro-5. The total turned out to be 28 people.
“For now, let’s tie them up properly.”
The Land golems were made to be on alert on the riverbed, and the unconscious Unifilers were handed over to them. As he didn’t have suitable rope with him, Jin fashioned a wire rope out of golem fragments using Craft Magic.
“Now then, I suppose I’ll consult with Reinhardt about what to do with these guys.”
Although they failed in the end, they had abducted a diplomat of Shouro Empire, so Jin was hesitant to deal with them on his own.
Or rather, he thought the one who bore the largest grudge must be Reinhardt, so he figured he’d ask for Reinhardt’s opinion first.
Reinhardt then turned up while being guarded by the Army golems Land-58, 59, and 60.
“Jin!”
“Reinhardt! Are you alright?”
“Yeah, thanks you to.”
Reinhardt said and smiled, but Jin noticed that there was no energy behind that smile. Looking it over, there was a choker on his neck.
“Don’t tell me! Sorry, Reinhardt. I should’ve realized it earlier.”
Jin said and laid his fingers on the choker.
“No Jin, this isn’t something that’s so easy to–”
And then he tore choker off. Without Reinhardt even feeling that Jin had pulled on it.
“Take…off…”
“Hm?”
Reinhardt looked at Jin who was viewing the taken off choker annoyedly, and smiled bitterly.
“Good grief, what in the world did you do to get that off so easily?”
“What did I do, umm… The moment I touched it with my fingers I got this indescribably baaad feeling, so I opposed it with Magic Energy which made it as soft as clay and I tore it off, or something like that?”
The choker had a function to, using Magic Energy, adjust its size to the chokee’s neck. If this function’s parts were overcharged with Magic Energy, let’s say by ten times the capacity, it was true that it would malfunction but for Jin to know that he would have to examine this choker in detail.
“Hmm, well, let’s leave the detailed investigation for later, as Stearina was also caught along with me. Please also take off her choker.”
Reinhardt said and Jin was surprised,
“I heard of that. The place were you were attacked was Stearina-san’s house, after all.”
“Yeah, her secondary home to be precise.”
Speaking of Stearina, she was still unconscious after being carried by Cosmos.
“Yeah, it must be because of this choker. It’s got a Magi Formula that undermines your physical condition inscribed in it.”
Jin took off Stearina’s choker while saying so.
“What!? So that must be why I was feeling somewhat listless. Thanks, Jin. …Leaving that aside, what’s up? That’s a very unusual helmet. I don’t know if I should even call it clothing?”
The helmet Jin was wearing was more like a sci-fi movie prop. Right now his night vision visor was flipped up so his face could be seen, but if it was down probably no one could tell who he was.
“It’s the new equipment I made. It’s been rather helpful.”
Jin then put on a serious look and pointed towards the unconscious and tied up Unifilers.
“Reinhardt, how should we deal with these guys?”
He asked.