Chapter 38 (1/2)

Chapter 38

—- Arakawa Miki Point of View —-

“Well, let’s now discuss Noah’s strategy against the Kingdom of Capus”

After theheld Claire-san quickly approachedbefore I can hear any details from the Military Department

“Excuse ive your son permission to leave Noah Island?”

“No, I did not give such permission”

What is Claire-san saying? There is no reason forabout such things and looking at her, the face color of Claire-san changes every ti the co at her co

“Your son right now, is giving explanation to everyone that he got pero out of Noah Island He is currently at the ‘Suit Depot’ I will issue an e your naht?”

“Eh~ Yes, Please”

What is that child thinking, going around Noah and telling a ‘lie’? He is especially disregarding the consequences and the ranted perh I aainst it

Until now, he always follohat I said but why is he suddenly acting like this… While desperately thinking about the cause of Kouki’s action, Claire-san reports to me in a scream

“An enored the direction of Control Center, He ignited his thrusters without per a course towards a different continent, different frodom”

“Contact him directly and order him to return to Noah Island! If that is not possible, force his suit to land using the remote control system”

“It is impossible, Kouki-kun has disconnected any communication on his suit We currently do not have effective way on contacting him Also, Remote Control is not installed in 8th Generation Power Suit in consideration to Electronic Warfare The suit has a complete standalone system”

How could this be?! I ay that we installed to protect my son completely backfired Fortunately, the device that detects the position of the suit is working We can consider that the worst case of ‘mutiny’ is not possible

If it is not oing to do?’ I decided to suspend the conference, judging that they cannot solve anything if I stay here

“The Strategic Conference is will be suspended, my son left Noah Island without permission All Military and Technical Departe of co all your power”

I am satisfied on the staffs who runs to each of their own depart towards the command center which is located in the basement

When I enter the co the satellite came to me and report on the current situation

“Kouki-kun right now is flying with an altitude of 18,000 e course several ti towards the north continent”

“Then, he is not headed to a densely populated area?”

The staff answers “Yes” to my question Thank God… It seems that we can so the human race due to some reason What’s in the North Continent?

Does Kouki only want to know so in there? Or is this a diversion on his action for us not to realize his true purpose? I asked a staff who is analyzing information from the satellite to see what is on the North Continent

“Alic We cannot find any place in that area for Kouki take interest…”

So he really is trying to deceive us? While being bothered with my son’s behaviour that I cannot understand at all, Shuichi-san shows ed expression on his face

“It is an inventory of individual weapons carried out by Kouki and loaded on his suit That idiot took ‘that’ with him”

I al the paper which was handed to un with around 50 rounds of ammunition but the main probleht with hinetic Projection Cannon Prototype and a Pile Bunker as his main weapons but the loaded warhead on the missile launcher which is attached at the back of his suit is outrageous as a sub weapon

“That kid… brought with hiinary Weapon’?”

The noise in the command center suddenly stop and everyone keep quiet the moment those words leak out from my mouth Even Eve of the Ada about the iinary weapon as an ultimate weapon From the information collected in the ruins and explanation of Kouki, if you shoot this weapon it will theoretically explode and will create a small blackhole that has the capability to perfectly annihilate anything within 2000 kiloence that Kouki was able to take the ile trial I wonder if he is headed to the northern continent to try it out on a deserted area?

“Miki, what should we do? Kouki e to escape from us but I can still instruct my subordinates to chase after him”

I think the suggestion of Shuichi-san is good but in a case Kouki is shuffled and activate optical cae and disconnect the device for position infor will become impossible so we must not adopt this action yet However… A staffKouki’s action told us about a sudden change in the situation

“Kouki-kun is lowering the suit’s altitude! The current location is 300km in land in the North Continent, altitude is 8000 , 4000… 3500…2000… Eehh!? It disappear fro an altitude of 1,200!”

“Did he activate optical cae? He did not crash?”

“Unknown! However, we have not confire, we do not think the likelihood of a crash as well The position infor nor analyzed”

I only wish that the position inforical reaction of the suit of Kouki that appears on the screen is true while also hoping for the analysis of the cause to complete soon

—- Arakawa Kouki Point of View —-

While flying to the direction indicated by Kon, I found a creature that looks like a giant octopus swi in the sea onthe appearance of the creature slowly e whale like creature hit the octopusit its prey

“Ahting” (TN: I think this is a reference to the well known ‘Sperm Whale vs Colossal Squid’)

“Kon, kon”

Kon is also excitedhis tail flutter violently I would like to lower ive up this time because the suit will consume extra fuel due to air resistance

Eventually after the sight of the whale disappeared, I saw the light on the co a e will tell nore it and ask Kon who is drinking water from a tube on my knee

“Kon, ill soon enter the northern continent Is the direction okay? Where do you feel strong ical power?”

“Kon!”

Kon refers to one point reflected on the s its tail Hmm, it’s 300 kiloo and coet the Orichalcu ho Moreover, it is necessary to refuel at one of Noah’s outpost base on the way Ma~ I guess this is okay I’ll just get an Orichalcuot scolded and confined on Earth, I can just ask Coat-san to take care of it for me

“Okay, I will lower the altitude above the target location I will also release the safety of the weapons Do not bother me for now”

Kon clinging to the neck of an to lower the altitude gradually after petting Kon I felt a strange feeling while I was further lowering the altitude I release the weapon’s safety at an altitude of 8,000 meters to prepare for surprise attacks

“Na~ Did you feel so weird just now?”

“Kon…”

Apparently, Kon also feel the sa the current altitude with the altimeter, it was displayed that we are currently at 1,000around 1,200, but could it be justthe altitude again but I a amount of fuel… Fortunately, there are no problems with my body and the suit so I just continue to lower the altitude as it was When I flely toward our target upon reaching an altitude of around 200 arden Kon is loudly crowing in that direction using its tail That garden is definitely our destination

“All right, All right I will go over there so please be quiet! My ear is ringing so shut up”

I land the suit in the garden, ignoring the frozen Kon After checking the surroundings and confirine─ I took the shotgun which is placed beside the seat and prepare to get off Kon showits mouth

“Please absolutely never took off your reinforced exoskeleton Also be sure to release the safety of the gun so that you can shoot anyti Master does not have any talent for shooting so you should not ai to Kouki as Goshujinsama)

Shut up! Do not worry about things people don’t care about Macho taught ed to use a shotgun at all tiet because I don’t have talent in shooting Kon unexpectedly know those details even though he was not there at that time

After I silently nodded, I loaded the shotgun with bullets and open the suit’s cockpit

“Can you convert the stones in here to Orichalcum?”

“Kon… Kon! KonKon!”

We go outside and ask what kind of stone is good for Kon Kon pointed at a stone using its tail I move close to it and collected the stones that I have never seen before

[What are you doing in such a place as this?]

I was surprised to suddenly hear a voice fro the stones as instructed so I turn around pointing the gun I saw a beautiful onesan who had 2 horns on her forehead co at me carefully

She is wearing proper clothes and is looking at un and activate the translator installed to the exoskeleton and try to speak to her

“hello”

[Ho~ You speak the Elven Language Are you an elf?]

This is bad… It is a bit scary that I cannot understand what onesan is talking about so I raise the gun once again If onesan still approachshot and run away in top speed! While thinking of escaping in th of the stones until now raised a roar for the first ti while

“Guraa~aa~a! Gurr~rrr… Guraa~aa!”

(Ie if necessary)

“I-I understand, I will use translation ic as you instructed!? So please, do not hurt me”

Suddenly, onesan started talking words that I can understand I think that she is using a translation ic similar to the one used by Adi-san I am relieved that we can talk to each other properlyI ask a question to onesan as to who she was