Vol 4 Chapter 2 (2/2)
After facing postponement after postponement with the princess's swimsuit feint, Quenser very nearly lost control of his emotions at all that bare skin
”A surprise projectile attack!?”
”I have no idea what you mean, but those military uniforms are hardly suited for the desert”
”Honestly, it's going to get cold once the sun sets You have no one to bla like that,” said the old lady in exasperation, but there was a hint of amusement on her face
With a confused look, Froleytia asked, ”Wait, where is Heivia? Is he not here yet?”
”That's the thing”
Just as Quenser started to respond, a small electronic tone came from his radio
(Who could that be? Someone from the maintenance base?)
Quenser moved away from his commander and hit the switch on the radio
”It's me!! It's me!! It's Heivia!!”
”Where did you get off to? I'm already at the party You should have chosen the red bus”
”I've gotten caught up in soonna be the hero!! But I have one request for you!”
”If you want help, you can forget it!! I' a step away from this party!! And if you want to knohy, it's because there's a well-endowed Santa right in front of me!!”
”That's fine, that's fine!!”
”?”
”I don't see how I can avoid a firefight in the ht now, so this is technically a job for the police To be blunt, we could be in trouble if that huge-breasted commander catches wind of this!!”
”No, not 'we' I'm not part of it this time!!”
”After what happened in the Loyauté district, this would be a third yellow card!!”
”Have we really gotten that many yellow cards?”
”At any rate, we'll be in real trouble if we get any more!! I'll take care of this issue on my own, but you need to buy me some time!!”
”Hm? It's rare for you to be so motivated The proble”
Quenser's long radio conversation must have seeive him some wet drea with? Almost everyone is here”
”Eh? O-Oh, um”
”Just distract that huge-breasted commander!! Don't let her realize I'm not there!! We're in real trouble otherwise If I don't deal with this, the Oceanian civilians will be the ones in danger!!”
(Wait If Heivia is enthusiastically working at so to the party, this must be a major issue on an unprecedented level If an Object shows up, I really anore it)
At any rate, the situation had gotten troublesome
For one thing, Quenser did not see how he could defeat Froleytia Capistrano via any ordinary means
”Quenser, answer h”
Some sand must have been blown in by the wind because Froleytia held her throat
(This is my chance!!)
Quenser grabbed a glass filled with a clear liquid fro by
”Are you okay, Froleytia? Here, have some water”
”Oh Thanks, Quen—bbhhh!!!???”
When the lass all at once, she let out a noise that Quenser had never thought he would hear from her
The reason was simple
”Que— You!! This is vodka! And straight vodka at that!!”
”I'lass! Here, this one is oolong tea!!”
”Honestly I can't believe you—ugbh!? Th-That was malt whisky!!”
”Oh, no!! Froleytia, I won't get it wrong again! This time, it's mineral water!!” said Quenser as he handed her a cup filled to the brim with tequila
(C' these drinks with such high alcoholic content at such a high rate, even a heavy drinker like her has to get drunk!!)
”Hic”
After a fewher head Beads of sere trailing down her bikinied chest and her skin had grown rather red The core of her body had grown li still
(Was the plan a success!?)
Quenser was celebratory at first, but another thought then entered his mind
(Wait, what happens once she's drunk?)
That question then started eating into the boy's mind
(This is bad This ht be really, really bad! Froleytia is a co to happen now that all her limiters have been removed by alcohol!?)
”Qwensher”
The low tone and drawn out way that she called his nahtened him
As an unpleasant sweat began flowing down Quenser's entire body, he could do nothing but stand at attention
”Y-Yes!? What is it, commander!?”
For a while, Froleytia said nothing
She was already quite close to Quenser, but she silently yet unsteadily drew even closer to him
He seriously thought she was going to grab his collar
And then
Right in front of him
Froleytia Capistrano opened her mouth to speak
”Sob Why are you always so mean to me, Quenser?”
”?????”
Quenser's thoughts completely stopped for an instant
That was not the role of the cruel commander known as Froleytia That was a line suited for a timid childhood friend who always carries around a stuffed animal
But he realized as happening shortly thereafter
”I-Is she the type that gets sad when she drinks!?”
”Are you mad, Quenser? Are you? I'm so sorry I'm such a terrible commander I'ht If I did a better job and used the princess to her full potential”
”Wait, wait!! You can't get like this in front of people!! This is where people will half-jokingly take cell phone pictures, so you need to have some self-control!!”
”Are you mad, Quenser?”
”Gyaahhh!! Don't press up against me like that!! Don't wrap your arotten how you're dressed!?”
”You're mad”
”I'm not!! I'm not mad!! Dammit, I have no other option while in public like this! I wouldn't really, but if ere alone I could probably get aith all sorts of things!!”
”You really aren't mad?”
”I'm not!! Really! Trust me!!”
””
Froleytia pressed her large breasts forcefully against hiht her face in so close he probably could have kissed her had he si further
This all placed a tremendous mental burden on Quenser, but Froleytia finally spoke once she had worked so out in her mind
”Quenseryou're so brother to me”
”You're a little sister character now!?”
Part 7
Meanwhile, Heivia Winchell was running through the ”city” as the sun began to set
The situation was as follows:
While the blue taxi waited at a sinal of the sort used at construction sites, a h force to break the
”What the hell? Why do things like this always have to happen to me!?”
Thinking the un from the holster at his waist, but then thefrom the face
”You're a Legitiht!?”
”What?”
”I have so to report! I've run across so!!”
”Wait, wait, wait No!! The peace of Oceania is for police special forces to deal with, not the military This isn't e-breasted Santa!! This is no ti with—!!”
”The Legitiet!!”
”Seriously!? But it's still not my jo—”
”And the ones chasing me will be here soon”
”Tell me that part first!!”
Heivia frantically pulled the ested traffic Just as he did, the blue taxi was turned to Swiss cheese by gunfire frouns The driver had fled the instant the ed man had jumped in so he was not hurt, but Heivia still did not like it
As they ran, the ed man said, ”You can call me Royce I'm an Information Alliance journalist”
”No, don't introduce yourself!! That al involved in this!! Also, I don't want to be on a first nauy!”
”I would like to hand this off to you and get back to my normal life”
”If you try to force this onto nore all war treaties and shoot you in the back!!”
It seeave the the crowds of people and ie the vehicle gave theotten quite a ways away by then
The two decided they had lost the eneed information
”So why is an Information Alliance journalist here?”
”Both for business and private reasons” As he spoke, Royce lightly touched the cell phone hanging frohter was deployed here I wanted to see what kind of place it was for myself”
”Deployed? So is she in the military?”
Heivia looked skeptical, but he then recalled that he himself was a minor out on the battlefield due to the situation in his noble fae of those in the
The reason Royce was subconsciously toying with his cell phone round set to a photo of his daughter
”Yes, and she hasn't even entered junior high school yet She may be a bit too skilled,” said the self-proclai of being a princess of the Legiti her on just for fun which has led to her do, she will keep laughing loudly on top of the stage forever I have no idea how she acts within her unit, though”
”Does that have anything to do hy you are being chased?”
”No, the current situation has to do with my job”
”What were you doing?”
”My original goal was to do some civilian level research into whether the Infor its duties suitably That said, all I can really do is intercept radio transmissions”
Hearing that, a bitter look appeared on Heivia's face
”Did you pick up someone else's transmission?”
”It wasn't froroup It see firepower of Objects, and nal and located a base of theirs They noticedit froot me”
”An anti-Object group,” muttered Heivia in annoyance
He knew people with those views existed all around the world and he could hardly deny that the destruction of the Oceanian military nation had caused such sentiments to spread Also, Quenser and Heiviaor rather, the stories of the Objects had puroups whether the two boys wanted it or not
”So these people want to destroy an Object, and they just so happened to choose our Legitiet?”
”If the information I intercepted is correct, yes”
”How do they plan to do it?” asked Heivia ”Destroying an Object is easier said than done Even if they attack it while it sits motionlessly in the e it Even if they hit it directly with a large H-bo to destroy that monstrous weapon?”
”There is a way,” cut in Royce ”If there wasn't, I would not be working this hard to stop the me down to stop me”
Part 8
While wearing her usual special suit, the princess had headed to an i held A tent had been set up to create a roof and several arcade machines were lined up underneath
She had intended to spend only 10 or 20 an
However, the game she had chosen turned out to be a one-on-oneall the Objects of various affiliations, the Baby Magnua at the ed her As such, the princess was unable to stop playing
Because the two co each other, she could not see her opponent's face
That meant her opponent could not see her either
However
”Oh ho ho!! Oh ho ho ho ho ho!! It see 033!! The specs of the original model and – more importantly – the view the people hold of it are sireater!!”
”This game wasthat the parameters would be skewed in their favor!! In fact, you should be asha without such handicaps!!”
”Oh? I have no idea who you are, but you itidom Elite! Oh ho ho!!”
”I have no clue who you are, but no sane person would give any praise to that Information Alliance Elite!!”
The Legiti around the area using the two arcade ht could break out at any ht in almost perfect unison
I don't care ins this game, but please end it so we can be freed from this job
At the same time, Lieutenant Colonel Lendy Farolito of the Information Alliance held a video camera in one hand as she filame her all
The silver-haired, brown-skinned woman had completely lost her usual look of a formidable tactician
”Oh, dear 50 wins and 53 losses Is she finally losing her focus? Ah It looks like she lost interest in the ga that cute butt like you're a baby duck You're going to fall, you're going to fall Ah! You fell Oh, dear”
A female subordinate of Lieutenant Colonel Lendy's cut in with so sure to stay out of the fraht in frame would lead to a truly horrible fate)
”U parent, but you should not be fil her even if you are her commander The Elite herself is considered valuable information by the military”
”What are you saying? Looking after the pilot Elite's mental health is part of our job We cannot peer into people's hearts, so we have to gather that information from their everyday casual behavior,” replied Lendy without hesitation ”By the hy are you wearing a maid uniform?”
”Because I am a Capitalist Corporations n all the time”
The blonde-haired, brown-skinned ”irl also had cat ears on her head
However, Lendy was too focused on fil the Elite to look over at the ”mercenary”
When the target of her fil, she finally stopped fil
”Huh? Where are you headed?” asked the ”mercenary”
”Somewhere where maids and mercenaries are not needed”
Lendy Farolito pouted her lips, but still acted based on the information she had collected beforehand like anyone from the Information Alliance would
”I adoirl”
Part 9
Three uns with a caliber of over 5mm came to one section of the ”cityscape” They were there to eliminate Heivia and Royce who had fled
The ”cityscape” was primarily a collection of tents and RVs, so it contained little that was sturdy enough to use as a shi+eld in a firefight
However, there were some exceptions
For example, the area the trash was collected in
A nu dump trucks made of steel were parked on the outskirts For a fee, the trash froathered there Afterwards, it was taken to a proper incinerator in one of the actual cities
As the du, they were as tall as a three story building The tires were taller than a person and a twisting staircase was needed to reach the driver's seat With a number of them lined up, the area was essentially surrounded by steel
In theout
The garbage men ran off, but the three men paid them no heed
”(Kicker, Nexa We need to escape afterwards, so we can't spend more than 5 minutes here We need to finish this!!)”
”(But that guy has a rifle His range is too great!)”
”(I'll fire like crazy to keep him in place You two circle around behind the dump truck and shoot him!!)”
Suddenly, the sound of the gunshots coed The noise wasthan before
(He switched from his rifle to his side arm?)
As soon as they came to that conclusion, the three men moved forward to take the offensive
”(He's out of ammo! We can overwhelm him now)”
A strong, deep gunshot rang out and Nexa's head was smashed to pieces
”Wha—?”
While still in shock, twohiround
The gunshots had un
They had been the louder gunshots of the rifle that had supposedly run out of ammo
(shi+t! Did he purposefully switch over to his handgun despite having rifle auard!?)
The last re man tried to fall back, but it was too late
With the advantage of nue and power difference between an assault rifle and a subreat
Heivia Winchell silently drew closer without allowing even the slightest chance of a counterattack
”You were right,” said Heivia to Royce as he looked through the contents of the handheld device he had found in the ars ”They've prepared a cheether naphtha, various fuels, and some chemicals to create flames that cannot be put out ater and spreads those flames 3 to 5 kilometers in every direction”
”It's basically the sa as a Molotov cocktail I've seen videos of it online”
”The warhead appears to be handmade, but the cruise missile it's loaded in and the ihters deployed to areas around the country excluding where they had the Generation 05, so there was no lack of such items”
”The Craft Salamander III?”
”Sounds like some bland convenience store creaht down to a level where even an idiot gets it The point is to show off your obvious hostility,” said Heivia as a cruel se should be 1500 kuidance system”
The one re question was how they planned to destroy an Object with it
Even a direct hit froen bomb would not destroy an Object's armor Also, chemical combustion warheads were anti-personnel weapons Heivia did not see how one could destroy an Object
Royce answered that question
”Most likely, their target is not the Object itself”
”What?”
”Basically, they just have to make the Object unusable And they can do that without attacking the thick ar the s”
”Are they after the Elite?”
It was not entirely impossible, but Heivia was still skeptical
Anyone could tell there was a danger of an Elite being targeted when outside of the Object That hy they always had a special unit of bodyguards with them and were constantly accoht interior in case of firefights, explosives, or cheical weapons
Even if a cruise missile loaded with a cheht for the Elite, she simply had to climb aboard that arate any dae from heat or smoke
”No,” replied Royce ”Their target is the maintenance soldiers It does not matter if they do not have any particularly important duties or information The chemical combustion warhead can cover several kilometers in every direction with flale place, a large majority can be eliminated If hundreds of maintenance soldiers are lost all at once, the Object can no longer function Even if it still has a pilot and a commander, the Object cannot function without those at the botto”
”So they're stopping it by destroying the Object's surroundings rather than the Object itself, hm?”
However, so bothered Heivia about that
(That isn't too different from our idea to destroy that computer in the Loyauté district)
That gave Heivia a bad feeling, but he continued the conversation
”The crucial Elite and couards for every single ht actually have a chance if they really are trying to crush theed the subject slightly ”Since they prepared theto detonate it in midair”
”I would assume so If it is not detonated in midair, its effects would not spread as far But I only knohat I was able to find on military websites”
”The Craft Salae of the missile, and the locations of the city and thethe maintenance base zone and the cityscape spread out around it Hah It see anyone from your Information Alliance”
”So? What I must do remains the same”
”Why would you help protect a Legitidom military facility?”
”I have both business and private reasons for that” Royce wiped sweat fro nothing as a threat like this approaches the people of Oceania If spreading infor it back is goodthe inforh time to evacuate, so I feel I should use the information I have received in a different way in order to avert this catastrophe”
”And what is your private reason?”
”I told youthe concept of the clean battlefield will help preserve the safety of hter I cannot have that concept lost due to some terrorist attack”
”I see,” muttered Heivia
He could trust a real reason like that ood” reason
”We need to find out where the launcher is located,” said Heivia in a low voice ”If we know that, we can try to attack before the missile is launched or intercept it if it has already launched”
”Fine, but we have no timents of infor to begin soon It is probably because thethe attack that we had so few pursuers”
Part 10
After wasting more time than she had expected at the arcade, the princess walked along the tent-filled ”cityscape” on the way to the Legitidom party
The Legitiuards were still spread out around her and an armored vehicle also accompanied her, but she still decided to travel on foot
The unorganized layout of the tents and forceful flow of pedestrian traffic prevented the smooth travel of the vehicle She felt she would make better time on foot
The princess recalled the exchange she had had back in the arcade
To the very end, she had never seen her opponent's face
(Honestly I do not know if that was sohtseer from the Information Alliance or what, but the way they control all information about Elites and treat the)
The Legitidom treated their own Elites like patriotic heroes and rallied support fro part of legendary bloodlines that stretch hundreds of years into the past Both were completely ridiculous ways to treat them, but it is hard to notice how odd the environment one has been i the smell of one's own house
As the princess walked a all the tents and RVs, she suddenly stopped
Her bodyguards all thought ”Don't tell et of their protection had the right to choose what she did
The princess looked over at a store filled with joke goods
Due to the season, it contained a lot of Christmas-themed trees, wreaths, and red boots It also had some Santa Claus costumes for sale
When she had gone swi earlier that day, Quenser had seemed incredibly disappointed for some reason
She still had no idea what he had been hoping for, but it seeht thing to do
She guessed it had so a proper time and place
”Santa Claus Santa Claus,” muttered the princess as she headed into the store
The tanned shop owner see the special suit of an Elite That meant she was the representative of a nation which in turn meant she would have a lot of money
He was not wrong in that line of thinking, but the princess had no interest in money and so she had no idea how much money she had in her bank account
The princess's bodyguards starting showing an interest in her actions as they secretly began to wonder, ”Oh, is our princess finally awakening to her sex appeal?”
”Could you put together a Santa Claus outfit for me?” she asked
What she got in return was an overly standard Santa Claus outfit y red shi+rt, pants of the same color, and a fake white beard
”Don't go with that boring thing!!” shouted the bodyguards in their hearts, but that expressionless girl was not going to absorb the ideas of japanese moe so quickly
However, the look in the princess's eyes changed when she glanced over at a 3Din a corner of the tent
It was playing footage from an Inforo
”Yayyy!! This ift of a night of dreams about a sexy miniskirt Santa!! Oh ho ho!!”
It was unclear how e was real and how e The blonde ringlet curl, G-cup idol shook her body while wearing a red and white Santa costume that appeared to be a modified Elite special suit
For a while, the princess's expression grew even more expressionless than usual, but she finally pointed at the screen and spoke to the shop owner
”Givethat outdoes that”
After being transformed into a miniskirt Santa for the tropical southern hedom party
(This does not seem like a very practical outfit)
The princess looked down at her clothes
(Well, as long as Quenser likes it But will he really like this???)
The party seedoroups where they chatted as they drank and ate Everyone's eyes turned