Chapter 41 (1/2)

Chapter 41

—- Arakawa Miki Point of View —-

While s the border, Ellis-sanas appointed as my exclusive officer(adjutant) aboard Alice A report about the advance of our northern troops led by Kouki arrived

“Our army at the north under special Major General, the 1st Aade, attacked the Coast City ‘Asti’ of the Rinkudorubu Empire and was able to successfully occupy it”

“They won already! That was quite fast, isn’t it?”

Even if you raid the city with a fleet of aircraft carrier and battleshi+p it shouldn’t take that fast He did not use live aed Ellis to continue the report, looks like Kouki used his genius method to occupy Asti

“Major General sortie fro a special capsule for at device of his suit after a strong landing to the coast Since he did the roar while half inside the suit, the sound echoed and caused a strong sound hich hit the nearby knights as trying to surround the capsule All of the hit by a stun grenade directly”

I guess that kid was ai for that from the start, but… It is usually impossible for humans to calculate the position of the suit and the appropriate volume to create an echo of sound wave in a short a to address Kouki as the devil but as a mother I a What if one day he said “Moic and insist that “Kouki is a person who has the sauess I should not worry about trivial things and just focus on Merkava Front (TN: Kouki is a person who has the saot his ability/talent froe it to what it means but I prefer to leave the literal translation as it is)

“Ellis-san, what is the situation on the front line? If we don’t break through here quickly, Kouki is will be left isolated in the Empire’s Territory”

“Currently, 2 groups of Knights froround It see to preserve itstheir demi-human infantry units to the front”

So we are in a stale that there are no casualties on both side but the battlefield itself does not fluctuate because there is lack of decisive blow Should I start ordering an all-out attack?

“How about our ammunition on the land battleshi+ps?”

“All of our shi+ps have used more than 50 after our 16th bombardment, the second shi+p Claire is the one who used up most of their ammunition and is currently down to 32”

It can’t be helped because Claire is the one who do the support attack every tioes on, Claire will becoo back and replenish their supplies I have decided while biting on ave Ellis-san instructions

“Please give orders to Claire to retreat and replenish their supplies Do not forget to inform each captain of the shi+ps to distribute the suits which are on Claire between Alice and Miki We will also fire a ‘Panajandrudom about it” (TN: Panjandrum, also known as The Great Panajandrum was a ned by the British hly experi, that were developed by the Admiralty’s Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) in the final years of the war The Panjandrum was never used in battle)

“Roger”

I sit down on the chair and crossimportant and hastily call on the back of Ellis-san who is about to leave

“Can I have a tea, little ar”

“Yes, please wait”

I sent off Ellis-san who answered with a sh the battlefield while looking at the information on the screen

“Miki-san, Cassis-ojo and Auguste-shogun wishes to board the shi+p, Alice, for consultation about the situation of the war” (TN: Shogun is a ruler of the country but in this sentence it uste is a Knight, I guess this ht General)

“Please guide them to CIC if the captain approves”

While I was drinking tea and outlining strategies, the kingdom asked me for “consultation” They probably came here to raise an objection that it is impossible to dohts to hold for another 10 minutes

While thinking on how I can say that, Cassis-ojo and Auguste-shogun who are wearing armor and looked exhausted came into CIC

“Miki-san, I apologize for the sudden visit”

“No, it’s ok Are the knights on their limit?”

Cassis-ojo with a face that is about to cry answers my question

“Yes…Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of everyone frohts are already exhausted The reh to prevent another attack If only the Black Knights stayed in this place, we could have done a bit more…”

“It is unavoidable since they have been entrusted with a different i out In behalf of Noah, I give you my thanks”

When I lower my head, the princess screams “Please raise your head” in a hurry but froer” to the exhausted kingdom so I must show my sincerity by all means I raised my head and looked into the eyes of the princess and spoke the plan that I thought of earlier

“Soon, the

Empire’s offense will reach its limit The moment it happens, they will switch froap, ill plunge the Land Battleshi+ps into the enemy and will end the battle… but… It is necessary for everyone in the Kingdom to overcome more attacks from the enemy”

“──I understand I will coround”

I got perly nods on ic tool, so I also order all units under my command

“Attention all units! All Ground Battleshi+p, prepare to break through the enemy formation Power Suit Teahts”

“Message received from the 2nd shi+p – Claire, they are currently on their way to the frontline and had co their supplies”

I cannot help but s of the report If all the shi+p move side by side in one row, the for so Panajandruas, it will open a path for us to attack the enemy main unit Afterwards, the main army of the enemy is will be suppressed by our mobile infantry who are equipped with reinforced exoskeleton and break their battle lines As I thought about the plan I feel sora at it, I noticed that there is so

“Our troops in the right wing are being pushed back… tanks are supposed to be deployed in there, did so happen?”

“The current reports that we have are conflicting each other, please wait as I contact the tanks directly”

It is unlikely for tanks with high fire power and hard ar that can push them back is if they are attacked from the sky but our Intel does not state that the Eon Riders and even if they did, they will be detected by Alice’s radar I wonder what is going on?

“Eency coe weapon in the right wing, we need immediate backup… I repeat we need immediate backup’… That is their report”

Large weapon? I did not think that the Imperial Army had such technical capability, however, it is a fact that our Tanks are withdrawing I need to see this large weapon so that I can decide for an effective counterht wing on the screen

“Switching display, this is a relay video fro is…”

Ellis-san itch the display was at loss for words when she saw a huge hu on the screen It has more than 5 times the size of the suit used by Noah… It looks like it is around 20towards us without any aard movement

“Giant Golem!? How can humans make it move… No way!?”

“Cassis-ojo, do you knohat that is?”

When I asked Cassis-ojo the question, the princess explains about the giant with a blue face

“Aa~ that is one of the siege weapons used long tie aical power to s or even demi-humans”

“But it istowards us Do you have an idea how they make it move and is there a person inside it?”

Cassis-ojo frohile desperately thinking and after a while see me her idea

“People cannot ride inside Giant Goleical power froh, you will also need a ‘soul’─ For Noah to easily understand, it will need the ‘life force’ of a living creature to activate “

I aer to eliinary Boive instructions to the Captain while shouting

“Captain! I approve the use of live ae eyesore”

“If I may speak, the ae around the target as well Are you sure about this?”

I forgot… because we decided to only use neutralizing gas, the land battleshi+ps are not equipped with aet

“Where are our Heavy Armored Power Suits?”

“They are supporting the withdrawal of the Kingdohts as per your previous order, it is possible to abandon thehts Order”

“How could this happen!”

I kick the Ad At this rate, the troops in the right wing are will be destroyed Should we use live ae it will cause? However, that case will definitely be labelled as a defeat, strategically, even though we technically won by killing people

“Miki-san, the withdrawal line of the right wing is at its limit”

“Miki-san, if we don’t stop that Giant Golem ier”

Ellis-san and Cassis-ojo urge ize to Kouki in le death’ in this battle The moment I was about to open un… A communication with noise came in Alice’s CIC

“… h… noise is terrible…earthis e via one-way transmission on all frequencies This is ‘Ground Attack Aircraft – Odin’, we rush to the rescue under the command of the special Major General Forces that need assistance, please use the infrared strobes to inforiant until further instructions are given”

It looks like Kouki saved us While looking at the screen showing Odin slowly descending to the ground, I drink the tea which is now cold

—- Captain of Odin, Martin’s Point of View —-

“Major, are we on standby today as well?”

The shooting officer, Lucas, was straddling a shell while having a cigarette in hisin places where fire is prohibited, he is probably stupid If he is not skilled gunner, I already had him removed from my team

“A~aa, we should be ready to scranite that, I will throw you out into space”

“Yeah… Ma~ no one cares about us anyway? We are just alasting ti When ere on Earth, there was no chance for us to co into the other world, we are still on standby after all I wish I trained on how to use a power suit”

I can understand why Lucas is somewhat down There are several types of old weapons on Earth which is not used anymore and are considered as retired but there were two types of weapons which can cause problems if they are completely removed

One is ‘Nuclear Powered Attack Submarines that can carry y developed, several country still deploy a few of the

The second is the Strategic Bomber, which is us In modern military where nuclear weapons are completely removed, there are power suits that could shoot down aircrafts Boer area of attack, and is thought better to have than nothing In a sense, bomber is treated as an even useless weapon than the nuclear submarines

Under such circuned to a Bomber Unit This is why I can somewhat feel how frustrated he is