Chapter 214 – 213. Burning Island
[Formula number type -3 Asura. Start up. Estimated run time 3 minutes, goal is to neutralize the rounds. No objection?]
In Asura’s cockpit, where he sat for the first time in a while, he heard Rakshata’s communication. Cecil’s operation was very serious and somehow… I felt like a warrior, but Rakshata’s operation was like forcing me to do something I didn’t want to do.
“Yes yes.”
[Yes. Do it only once? ]
“Yes.”
[This is the first energy wing I use. Try your best to maneuver for 3 minutes. Because we also need data. Do you feel the difference from before?]
“The cockpit has changed a little weird.”
[That makes it easier for the pilot to hold on. It’s going to be a lot different than a float unit. Cecile made something like this. What a great thing.]
“Whoa…”
[Whoops. Are you nervous? I think it’s the first time I’ve seen you nervous?]
As I took a deep breath, Rakshatha smiled and slowly added the medicine. In the submarine’s hangar, Asura was hoisted by a mechanical crane to her catapult. Since she was under-modified and her uptime was short, she was supposed to deploy her energy wings after ejecting them with catapults. I mumbled as I climbed onto the catapult and got into position.
“I was more nervous than I am now when Rakshata had a physical examination.”
[Why? Because an adult beauty touched her body?]
There is that, too, but at that time I really thought I was being eaten.
You don’t have to tell me this story, do you? I prepared without replying to Rakshata. I heard Rakshatha’s communication.
[Preparation for catapult ejection. 3.2.1 Injection!]
Aaaaang!
I felt the pressure as if I was forcibly pulling Asura out of the catapult on the submarine. It was easy to endure this much. In an instant, Asura was tossed out onto the blue sea. Immediately after activating her energy wing, 6 pointed wings appeared on Asura’s back, different from her float unit. Seeing the speed at which the battery drained, it felt like driving a luxury sedan with poor fuel economy. You can’t believe your eyes when you see gasoline.
I could hardly believe my eyes at the speed of the battery.
“Kyaaho!”
As I pulled the throttle, the feeling of turning a corner at a right angle with the old float unit hit me. Even if you just go straight! Communications from Rakshata hurriedly flowed into the communications.
[Now Mach 8 is over! I could die!]
“It’s still okay! Haha!”
[You crazy bastard!]
I ignored Rakshata’s words and flew in a straight line to Suzaku and Karen. It took less than 10 seconds to experience it, but it seemed to have arrived from the territorial waters of Hokkaido to the very center. Right away, the bonus stats collected in the previous battle were raised to physical stats. When I bent the curve, I was sure I wouldn’t be able to hold on.
“Body stat 3.”
Right away, I felt my body getting stronger. My physical stat right now is 27. I felt sorry for the bonus stat, but I couldn’t help it. There was only one way, I had to earn as much as I spent. By leveling up.
[Leader!]
When a black aircraft suddenly appeared in front of me, I heard a communication from Karen, who was struggling to evade maneuvers and was playing a bullet-proof shooting game. This time, she didn’t bother to respond. Now it’s time to get rid of these pups.
“Bradley yee!”
I immediately found my prey. Like Tamaki, famous for Lancelot’s first prey in the Black Knights. I wanted to give Bradley the nickname of Asura’s first prey. Seeing me flying at an unbelievable speed, Bradley’s Percival couldn’t really do anything. Before I knew it, I had no time to stare at it, and the greatsword was pulled out and cut Percival like an apple. It took less than a second for all the limbs to fall off.
[Such a crazy machine!]
The sky flew as Bradley’s cockpit spewed fire. I left the flying Bradley alone and sliced Percival’s aircraft further with a greatsword and blew it up. In the rounds, everyone seemed surprised because Asura suddenly appeared and came with a ridiculous spec up. It was the same on our side.
[…Woojin?]
“Uh. Why?”
[That… How fast…]
“Uhh. It’s totally my style.”
I grinned at Suzaku’s words, unfurled all 6 energy wings, and rushed at the 4 rounders without Percival, who were blocking our side in a circle. The second food worth celebrating was, of course, Mordred. I feel sorry for Anya, but now it’s time to capture her. I saw that Mordred, who noticed my attack, fired a homing missile before he even started. But now that didn’t make any sense either.
“Now I can use danmaku too!”
From Asura’s energy wing, hundreds of small blaze luminous balls poured out. The advantage of the energy wing is that it has its own extremely fast mobility, but the energy wing itself has great attack power.
If the blade touches the wing, the object it touches will be cut off. Rather, it might be sharper than MVS. Because the wings are literally made of energy, there is no need for a laser sword.
The blaze luminous fragments that jumped out of my asura’s wings shot down all the guided missiles fired by Mordred. Even so, it was blown away, and Mordred’s lower body was made into rags. Let’s say it’s a guided missile, it’s a much smaller and weaker missile than the missiles used by conventional fighters. It’s the same that it breaks when hit, but in terms of strength, it’s no match for Blaze Luminous, so even though it penetrates as it is, it doesn’t cancel each other out.
But I can’t use it twice.
“20%?”
After using it once, more than 60% of it was gone. Now that I’m here, I’ve been moving for less than a minute, but the battery is already on the verge of death. I sensed that I was fucked. Rakshatha’s shouts were heard over the communication.
[Hey you crazy bastard! What if I use it! With an aircraft that has not been modified yet!]
“That… I’m sorry.”
Has Rakshata ever hit a double bath like that? He was startled and immediately fucked the apple. But things are really not good. I can’t figure out how far I can move from here…
[47 seconds from now! End it quickly!]
“Get up!”
Thankfully, Rakshata did the math! It was impossible to reliably get rid of all the rounds for 45 seconds. I quickly rushed to have Mordred retire. Mordred’s lower body was swept away anyway, so he couldn’t resist. The other aircraft tried to block it somehow, but now there was no answer to catch up unless it was the same energy wing. Since I need to take them down quickly, I switched my greatsword to a twin sword and swung it. I only confirmed that the hadron blaster on my shoulder was falling off, and immediately turned around to find another enemy. It was Lancelot Graf of Nonette.
“Are you still riding a mass production machine!”
When I shouted with an outside voice, I heard the screams of the nonette.
[This is! Parasol… Ahh!]
Kwajijik!
Enraged by my words, Nonette couldn’t do anything and, like Bradley, had her limbs cut off and her cockpit blown off. Now, only Monica and Dorothea were left. These two didn’t know how much battery I had left. The battery is already at 8%. He couldn’t return to Ikaruga alone if he fought any more.
“Do you want to continue?”
[Are you sending it?]
I heard Dorothea’s voice at my question. Originally, it would have been better to kidnap Anya now, but it was already gone. Since the remodeling wasn’t even finished yet, it didn’t matter if I caught it after the remodeling was finished. Anyway, I have V.V. From the Emperor’s point of view, the plan was greatly distorted. Perhaps by now you’re in the middle of regretting why you didn’t take over the code sooner.
“Because we also need to reorganize. But since I’m here, you guys will have a hard time fighting, right?”
[Can’t you see this power difference?]
As I got airborne and giggled, Dorothea moved her Nightmare to show me behind him. There was a black dot in the sky, just like a migratory bird. That’s all Nightmare.
“Schneizel must have really decided to come. A prosthetic leg? A wheelchair?”
[…Is in a wheelchair.]
“Isn’t that a very welcome sound? That bastard has to be beaten at least once. Then he knows that the world is scary and he can’t be fooled.”
[…
“Since I joined, Rounds won’t be able to do anything? Even without me, we have many ace pilots. Can the army be moved? The Chancellor of the Britannian Empire?”
[Joy. I’ll go back for now.]
“Good idea.”
I sighed inwardly. The battery was down to 6% as we talked for a while. Dorothea’s Paromides paused for a moment, and then I saw him cautiously retreating backwards. It was Schneizel’s order. The goof went through. If they attacked now, even if there was a rounds I had to retire, we could have suffered tremendous damage. It was much better to fall in now and fight while riding a proper Asura after time passed.
[It was almost a big deal.]
“So. If we fought, we would be in big trouble.”
[I sometimes think that if the captain falls into the water, only his mouth will open.]
“Why? Because you talk so well?”
[No. It’s because it’s light.]
“You seem to be becoming more like Lirina these days?”
[That’s not it! Just. Because I’m worried…]
“Yes?”
Karen said no more. She looked ashamed even after she said it. Besides, she was ashamed of him, so I was ashamed of myself. Today’s battle fell into a lull here. Although we were still fighting each other on the main battlefield, even if I didn’t go there, the opponent’s rounds were missing, so it would be possible to block Suzaku and Karen enough. There won’t be any damage at all.
“Hey! I’m on the verge of running out of battery right now! I’m going to Ikaruga, so you guys can take care of that!”
I thought a little and the battery was at 3%. Out of the six energy wings, all but two were turned off. And with just one pull of the throttle, it began to glide in the direction it was flying. It was the direction of Ikaruga. It was a little far away, so if I didn’t go like this, I felt like I would fall to the ground without reaching it.