Vol 1 Chapter 4 (2/2)
“Is it saying that their Greenie Level (is there such thing?!) is too high for the the suit”
Ensign Meihowa and Sergeant Aroha thought the maintenance machine was broken and demanded us to wear the suit and try it out for real
However, Chief Luise and I refused The moment we step into the newly created Alter-Aro haywire
The actual reason as to why the maintenance restarted was because the safety device sensed our power and restarted to stop so
One could consider the Alter-Armour as the body, and its pilot as the brain If the pilot was exerting too y into the body, then the body would naturally shut down
This hy the maintenance equipment automatically shut itself dohen it sensed levels it wouldn’t be able to handle
However, if ere to reveal that fact, then that would be the sa our identities to the Federation as the real Lezirth Dawnbringer and Luise Maynard
That would be problematic
With us declared deceased by the Governain if ere to reveal our identities We had to so a scene
“There’s no need to go that far And don’t worry about the back-up pilot, Ensign Meihowa There wouldn’t be a need to choose a pilot as long as you don’t die, right?”
“Are you going against your leader’s orders? Well, I wonder what the probleh intellect or acadeh results”
Platoon Leader Meihowa played with her hair with her finger as she looked at the machine in wonder
Geez, can’t you tell that we scored high? We scored so high, and that’s why the machine rebooted itself
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The medium-sized assault Cruiser was not equipped with a hyperspace travel engine That was the case 120 years ago, and that didn’t seea-sized destroyers seeines starting from the year 184
The world really has become a better place
Anyhow, getting to the Azoran star system via mediu a ride on the titanic Archimedes, which was headed to that system, and travel to Azoran-4, then to Azoran-3
To su a lift to the battlefield by a carrier
While ere on the titanic-sized, carrier-type space shi+p, eren’t allowed to leave our assault Cruiser while docked onto the Archi a part of the Federation forces, ere not permitted to set foot inside the Archimedes shi+p
So asting our tiht assault Cruiser
I was obviously bored We had to stick with our roogling, to play around with his other friends
“Uh fu fu fu I shall noatch a war film with my friends”
With those words, Pencolt leftdeck, as if he wanted me to see
Strangely enough, I envied himEven someone like Pencolt actually had Replicant friends who shared the same hobbies he did
damn it, does that mean I’m less popular and have less of a future than him? No way! How could this happen?
After a while, a few Replicant soldiers came Since they were all dressed in military uniform, they all looked the same and didn’t seem to be any different However, they all let off an atmosphere similar to Pencolt’s, which couldn’t be masked by their uniforms
“Yoo!”
Pencolt raised his hand and greeted thenise who Pencolt was and walked past him
For a leefully in my heart, but that made me feel even more sad about myself
“Hey, it’s me! Pencolt Lim!” (Lim seems to be his family name)
Pencolt quickly extended his arrabbed their shoulders The soldiers turned around in surprise
“Huh? T-That voice”
“Could it be Pencolt?”
They recognised Pencolt and had their socks blown off
“N-No way!”
“We also went through the sa, you know? What happened to you?! Did you catch a fat burning illness or so?”
“Y-You lost so ht!”
“Y-Y-You look completely different!”
The soldiers overreacted at the sight of Pencolt Considering that Pencolt lost so ht and looked a lot sharper than before, that reaction wasn’t very surprising They ht that the instructors starved Pencolt, if he was that thin
Just now, they didn’t recognise Pencolt because of his appearance, but they’re still his friends?
Argghh! To think that I don’t have as many friends as him!
“Then please do excuseto attend! Protect the base, man! Ha ha ha!”
Pencolt waved his hand at me
Hy person if I feel the irresistible urge to punch him? Is that how it is? Is it?
I returned to my quarters and looked at the wall in a daze
I get treated like a greenie by everyone, I don’t know anyone here, and I’h… this is the end for me
Then, the door opened
“M-May I come in, Lezirth?”
The brown haired girl, dressed in the bullet-proof vest and a helers In this less interior, where all sides were siether, her presence lit up the room
“Ah, M-Miss… Luise
“Please don’t use the Miss! I’ve asked you call me by my name”
Chief Luise Maynard The President of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Excluding the Minister of the Federation, she held the top position, with everyone under her lead 120 years ago! Not only that, she was the pilot of Tetragrato obey
“Ah… yes T-Then, Luise?”
“That’s right You should have done so earlier”
“It is not easy to change the way I have addressed you, for such a long time”
“Then you need so me Luise”
Chief Luise sat next to me as she said that Since she walked in, the automatic door closed itself
She and I sat facing each other in that tight place I was supposed to say her name in a place like this?
“Pardon?”
I gulped I becah water already
“Hurry”
“Ah… yes… Luise”
“Yes A bit more”
“Luise?”
“Yes, one more time”
“Luise…”
Every tiled was like a cat having its sides tickled
After enjoying it like that, she stood up with a stony expression
“Ah, this wasn’t what I ca that concerns me”
“So that concerns you?”
“I find it strange that Archi to Azoran-4”
I wasn’t sure where she was going with this, so I goggled my eyes
“What do you mean?”
“Archimedes… is an anti-Letix spaceshi+p in this era The Federation currently holds the Letix as the greatest threat, then the Asa, and finally, the Elcros But it doesn’t reatest foes, to attack weak Elcros”
“Maybe they are ai for an intensive surprise attack?”
“But according to the inforathered, it would be ainst the Elcros Rather than driving the Elcros to extinction or conquest, the Federation would ”
“Then maybe it’s a routine rotation of battleshi+ps?”
“I suppose there is that possibility Maybe it was unwise of me… to question every action they take”
She clicked her tongue as she said that
But she really was a a recruit, she was able to come to those possible conclusions, with that lie was almost useless in this world 120 years into the future
“Ah, and I… started to hack into the Federation’s military computer”
“What?”
The Federation’s iant Quantum computer, that our terminal was able to access by hyperspace communication
The CPU was a huge Mother-Frame on the Epiece System
And the terminals, owned by every soldier of the Federationto their rank and authority, to share information
The co its own CPU, but Quantum computers increase in functionality proportional to their size, so thisback to the Mother-Frame was much more effective with the correct communication method
However, thatinto that military computer could cause horrendous implications What she just declared was no different than saying, she will take all authority of the Federation with her own hands
The issue is, for her, such a thing would actually be possible
This was because she was the one who built the Federation’s h updates and firewall improvements over the past 120 years, of course
So that hy she declared ‘I’o,she would’ve said, ‘I’ve hacked into the computer’
“So Lezirth, please don’t hold back and ask me any questions that may trouble you And we ht happen in the Azoran system”
“I see And I will be fine I will protect you, Admiral Luise”
“You called ain, didn’t you”
“Ah… L-Luise? Then please be informal with me as well, Luise If you… Luise is formal with me, then it would be harder for me to…”
When I addressed her without any forhtly
“Yes, Lezirth I’ll also protect you With all of th”
She took off her helmet and placed her forehead on top of mine I was taken back and froze in surprise I could feel her warh my forehead
“Then please do your best, Lezirth”
“Yes, Luise”
Luise sain, and left the shell
When she left, I could finally cal away insidewith her healed my heart
When I should’ve been the one who heals her instead!
“Arghh!”
I suddenly felt a head splitting pain It was an excruciating pain It felt like ed out from the inside of my skull I could only closepressure, and wait for it to pass
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It is an old memory of my childhood days
Despite being born from the Letix Uberlord, I still had a childhood Born in a laboratory and raised by the researchers there, I was simply named ‘Replicant Sample B’
They were striving for and researching the completeness not found in the other weak clones, yet they told me that I wasn’t born by the wills of the researchers, but by the Letix Uberlord They were not as cruel to me, compared to the others
That was because there was a ‘Replicant Sample C’
She was chosen as a control sample, like me
C was far ather data But her poere growing to dangerous levels With a glass wall between us, I used to look at her all the time
“I will save you”
I proirl only nodded her head Her long hair swayed in the glass cylinder, filled to the brim ater, which resembled a lake
I was only lying to the girl
Because she freed herself froth
I… dreamt of the past of my childhood
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It was a little over 7 hours since our departure from the Epiece system, when the Archimedes arrived in the Azoran system
Azoran-4 often displayed sparks of light, which could be seen from distant space So it was quite clear that the Federation hasn’t quite taken the planet under its rule However, with the arrival of Archi tide of the war, this planet would soon be under the Federation’s control
Although I knew little about the Elcro race, thinking about Ensign Meihowa (she is now officially a co put on the front lines) pained ed, I could’ve prevented the ith the Elcros
As I was deep in hts, a siren started to wail inside the shi+p Our medium-sized assault Cruiser was released from Archimedes, and started to set course for Azoran-3
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“As you all know, our training will be held in a si on Azoran-3, Southern Sphere 35-120, ill install a beacon at a designated location after a tactical ai area is volcanic, so there is a possibility of toxic gas being present Link up the oxygen tank to your hel to your squad nu are available on your ter the squads”
They were inside the storage area where the Spider and Alter-Arest area available on the assault Cruiser The Suicidal Platoon was listening to Ensign Meihowa’sthere
As directed by Ensign Meihowa, the recruit squad leaders stepped out, and started to equip themselves with the Power-Armour These Power-Arht when equipped When a nuclear battery is attached, it fuels the th, and it is pre-equipped with Movement Sensitive Body Bunker ,as well as Power Fist
They acted as the crowd-control to protect their squad
But before that, there were squad leaders ast the recruits? How come I didn’t know?
“Ehmm… Lezirth Sorry, but we’d like you to leave our squad”
“We don’t want you in our squad either”
“It would be really problematic if you join us”
The three squad leaders who stepped out in front of us, refused to take me into their squads I wasn’t the only one as rejected, because Chief Luise, who joined later because of gravity adaptation therapy, and Pencolt were both rejected
“H-Hold on a minute! Now this isn’t fair, isn’t it? We are all comrades in this platoon! Does it evenon personal preference? We’re not trying to split ourselves up into the red and blue teaht!”
I voiced uments out loud, but I only realised how sad that was as I listened to myself
To think that I would be treated as an unstable boo off at any time, when I used to be hailed as the Hero of the Federation, the saviour of thousands of people, just weeks ago! I beca like this
It was then when Sergeant Aroha patted my back
“There, there, did our little Lezirth get bullied?”
“……”
“You, Luise and Pencolt will be acting as the guards for the Spider So you’ll be working with me Got it?”
“Cough O-OK”
I could feel the wareant And because of that, I couldn’t help but feel even more sorry about myself
To think… that I would be a soldier that needs special attention!
I’end of Vice Ader’s life! I was lost for words because of the shame