Vol 1 Chapter 12 (1/2)
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As the helicopters flew by, they dropped off grenades, like they were giving gifts It showed the thoroughness of the JGSDF
The attack came from several sides, in several waves
Fro over the ground they covered… again and again, frounfire sprayed across the land and killed everything that moved
The bandits scattered, like a swar spiders However, whether on foot or mounted, none of them could escape
The bandits, caught in the , had the tables turned on the hit by bullets
A brave ed to nock and loose an arrow at them, but the arrow fired into the sky had little force It fell swiftly, without any power
Aboard the helicopters, a trooper placed the blade of his rifle’s front sight into the ht’s aperture, and centered the bandit’s head in his sight picture He factored in the speed of the helicopter and the movement of the bandit as he took aim
“Proper aim, proper posture, proper cheek weld, don’t snatch the trigger…” As he ht of the rifle in his arms
He fired three times
His right shoulder absorbed the recoil, and the lack of a need to recover the cartridges was oddly relaxing
Usually, they would be under strict orders to keep an eye on where all their rounds (or parts thereof) went, but now the es fell to the floor of the helicopter, and eventually out onto the bodies of the bandits
The muzzle of the rifle did not shi+ne, veiled as it was in heavy black smoke
The warriors’ bodies becahtly
Italica’s city gate reathed in crimson flame, and the sun that rose into the sky filled the world with heat and radiance
The fully-armored soldiers were ripped to shreds
The sound of Death’s wings were different fro sound than their's, which repeated on and on
A hail of lead fell upon the stones of the city wall, leaving it pock-marked with small holes
Theher throat as she shouted orders, suddenly lost her voice and staredbefore her
She watched the iron Pegasi with their whirling wings of steel, soaring through the sky that they owned
The first thing one would think of when one on riders But what Piña saas not a living creature, but a far on riders should have attacked farsword and lance in equal ht with thehter, of utter brutality
When the flaround, they destroyed everything they hit Stones were reduced to pebbles, horses were blasted to pieces and ht in the blasts lay down and died
「Ho-jo to-ho! Ho-jo to-ho! Hei-a ha! Hei-a ha!」
It was a sy her courtly life, but Piña had never before heard such a beautiful yet stately display Horns, truer thundered across the battlefield with incredible volu an accompaniment to a massacre
「Ho-jo to-ho! Ho-jo to-ho! Hei-a ha! Hei-a ha!」
Piña shuddered, as though she had been stabbed in the back by a sword of ice In an instant, everything had been destroyed by an absolute brutality that nothing could resist Her eative, blended within her and shook both her body and soul
「Ho-jo to-ho! Ho-jo to-ho! Hei-a ha! Hei-a ha!」
Piña’s e on all sides assaulting her every sense
She eventually caless, and powerless
「Hei-a ha!ーーーーHei-aha!ーーーー」
Until now, all the foes she had s
However, this was a mistake
She could not look them in the eye, yet she could not tear her eyes away
「Ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!!
Ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!!」
Piña was defeated by the lyrics known as the “Valkyries’ Mockery” Her pride, her status, everything about her which had worth was denied in an instant
She did not knohat the words
Oh miniscule humanity!
Oh tragic and powerless humanity!
What of your power and authority? All those things you pass down through the generations, we shall destroy in the blink of an eye, like so!
Piña wept as she felt the Valkyries’ disdain At the sas which far exceeded herself
Powerful beings
Radiant beings
What welled up in her heart was respect Respect and fear
And there was despair, that such awesome entities were so far removed from her
“crap! Rory, she — she’s charged into the middle of the enemy!”
As an otaku, Itath
However, thisat all
As a result, he orried He had spent time with her, and he was concerned for her He could not simply leave her alone like this
Itami jumped off the truck and ordered, “Fix bayonets” while he applied his own bayonet
Kuribayashi+ and To them to make sure they were secure
They looked at each other Their firing selectors were switched from “SAFE” to “AUTO” He told them, “Don’t split up”, and then they advanced
However, surging ahead of the rest like a cannonball was Kuribayashi+
Itami and Tomita muttered, “Cheh, that stupid woman” and then sprinted as well, determined not to be left behind
“Forward, charge!”
They locked onto their targets, advanced a few steps, and fired
Another few steps, and then they were shooting from the hip
They repeated the
Several bandits fell amidst sprays of blood
Ahead of the her halberd in a dance of death She swung, spun, cleaved her foe’s shi+eld apart and then knocked him down She did not seem worried at all, and herup around her
Her foes tried to press her with their shi+elds, thrusting over the tops with their swords and attacking her knees under the botto her halberd from top to bottom
She cut them apart,firewood
She did not even look behind at the ene behind her — she simply thrust behind with the pointed base of her halberd
Against a spear attack from all directions, she jumped up as the shafts crossed beneath her, and used them as footholds to vault into the air
Rory’s skirt blossoarterbelts that connected to her black panties, and the s her halberd in a full circle
As if caught in the blades of a food processor, the tops of the bandits’ heads ca blood like a crimson tide
Her face was spattered in crimson pearls from the bloody rain, as she cleaved the wind, cleaved through flesh, cleaved through steel
A greatsword filled with equal a down on Rory’s head
But Rory’s keen eyes noticed the attack, and her opponent’s desperate gamble failed
With her left hand, Rory grabbed her skirt and ducked the blow like a bullfighter evading a bull’s charge
At this moment, Kuribayashi+ arrived
Shouting, “Bayonet thrust!” she stabbed theto ambush Rory in the back
She used the recoil of firing her weapon to help extract her bayonet, then slashed down at the foe in front of her She stabbed and stabbed, then swung her buttstock like a club Smash, smash, smash!+ Then she pointed the barrel of her rifle at the tip of the man’s nose, and fired
She parried a sword sith her rifle, which ruined the rifle The buttstock was dented too, but Kuribayashi+ didn’t care, si his face in with the heel of her boot
The wobbly bipod fell off with a clattering sound, and Kuribayashi+ went “Acha~” as she thought of what the arain, this hy the Type 64 had been issued, and not the Type 89 Muttering, “Expendable itehtly
This was barbaric, hand to hand coe But Kuribayashi+ had trained for it
Her small frame was as nimble as a cat’s, and she overwhelunned them down as they tried to retreat After her rounds were expended, she threw a grenade at her enemies’ heads
She judged that her enemies’ bodies could serve as a shi+eld for herself The explosions behind the eneht and cowered behind their raised shi+elds
Kuribayashi+ drew her sidear wooden shi+elds, the 9mm bullets could splinter a shi+eld in one shot, shatter it in another, and strike the person holding them with a third
Rory charged into the breach and Kuribayashi+ reloaded her rifle in the meantime
Itami and Toirls With their rifles, pistols and bayonets, they kept the ene Rory and Kuribayashi+
If one could take a step back and cal battle, it would be a beautiful sight Especially Rory, whose ht was indomitable Was it because of her battle frenzy, or was that just the way she was? The two of the widely like they were in the throes of pleasure, even though this was the battlefield Still, any man would want to see a face like that in bed with him
The two of theerly displayed their tandem combat technique
Bayonet swings, halberd thrusts, rifle shots, grenades, the whirling hilt of the halberd, flying kicks and straight punches defeated the enemy
There wasn’t even any tiazines Once Kuribayashi+ was out, she shouted, “El-tee, gun!”
Itami tossed his rifle to Kuribayashi+, and Kuribayashi+ tossed her almost-wrecked rifle to Itami
The Italica citizens and guards in the hts found that the ene around, they saw Itami and company
“The Apostle of Emroy is here! The Men in Green are here!” As they shouted these things, they regained their discipline, and began helping each other to fight After that, they heard the sound of explosions and the blaring of the trumpets
「Führet die Mähren fern von einander, bis unsrer Helden Hass sich gelegt!
Der Helden Grimm büsste schon die Graue!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!」
And then, the attack helicopter appeared, breaking through the clouds of smoke that obscured the sky
Their sheer aze upon the iron Pegasus that had descended from the sky
The AH-1 Cobra’s 20 autocannon swiveled to aim at the bandits which Rory and the others had pressed into a mass
Seeing this, Itami and Tomita nodded to each other
Itarabbed Kuribayashi+ fro “Get down!” as they did