Chapter 327 – 2. The Narrow Road (4)
“Focus on the C21 sector danmaku!”
In the direction the Crimson Samurai was moving, a dense danmaku was concentrated.
The barrage of barrage, which seemed to destroy even a small planet, which was already too small to be called an anti-aircraft barrage, made even the Crimson Samurai falter, and it was quickly changing its direction.
“E43 sector barrage focus”
Beep- Beep-
Watching Yuria flying at high speed towards the Crimson Samurai and constantly emitting Vulcans of the cruiser’s main battery, which consumes a considerable amount of energy per hour, Lieutenant Miriam realized that her abilities, which he had only heard about in rumors, were real.
Perhaps. Really, this time I came to the thought that I might be able to get rid of that demon who just played with the blood of the alliance.
If it were the super-fortress class super battleship Methuselah and her strength that would be unprecedented in history.
The Crimson Samurai tried to escape by turning here and there several times, but the anti-aircraft fire screen of the agency was never easy.
No. Rather, the planetary defense battery is for defense. Considering that the anti-aircraft fire of the Super Battleship Methuselah was for attack, its nature was rather fierce, so the Crimson Samurai could hardly escape within a certain range.
“Catch Asura here today! Fully charged energy from 3rd to 27th secondary guns! Ready to launch!”
The samurai, who had already been hit by tens of thousands of launcher-class Vulcan beams given by each shot, was strengthening her defense with her six arms and three swords in front of her, and now she gave up running away and ran quickly toward Yuria. Went.
She seemed to have made her judgment that if she clung to YuRia as much as she had intellect, she would no longer be able to fire anti-aircraft fire, and Yuria would also be unable to fire as mercilessly as she does now.
Even so, Miriam, who had been watching the flying wand swinging here and there, put her hand on top of her psychic controller.
“I will take over control of the prepared secondary artillery. I have control”
“Roger. You have control」
As it was, Miriam fired her secondary guns in an incomprehensible direction and at an incomprehensible time interval.
“Concentrate anti-aircraft fire on B11 and C73!”
At that moment, the Crimson Samurai, which moved to avoid the secondary artillery, entered the B11 sector exactly and was caught in the frantic anti-aircraft fire at that moment.
Quagga River!! Boom!! Kwagagang!!
Crimson Samurai, who was swept away by the bombardment, hurriedly escaped from B11, but the Crimson Samurai moved to sector C73 as if it were a lie.
The Crimson Samurai was still hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire and tried to hurriedly escape, but in the meantime, the fire of the secondary guns that had been fully charged came and the Crimson Samurai hurriedly moved to avoid the secondary artillery fire, and the gunfire stopped like a lie.
The Crimson Samurai, who did not understand what was going on for a moment, stopped thinking at the moment when he saw the full-bodied launcher thrust in front of him.
「Bang!」
Kwa-Huhhhhh!!
From almost zero distance, the cruiser’s main battery-level energy was released like a furious roar toward the crimson samurai’s face.
Wow -!!
When Captain Yuria’s launcher hit the Crimson Samurai’s face, everyone on the ship cheered.
Considering the combat data against the Crimson Samurai so far, it was estimated that the Crimson Samurai would be able to inflict significant damage if it was a cruiser’s main gun-level blow.
If a direct hit at close range is possible, she exploded at the zero distance given by the launcher of the cruiser’s main gun, as there was a research result that she might be able to silence it with one shot? On the face too?
If the data analysis results so far are true, the game is over.
“It’s just a prediction! The fight isn’t over yet! Keep an eye on the instruments and screens until the results are out!”
Miriam thought that the Crimson Samurai could not have ended so easily.
No matter how great the Super Battleship Methuselah and captain Yuria are, it is not that she has never mobilized a force of a similar scale.
At that time, instead of Methuselah, a beginner fortress and two super battleships. A large number of cruisers and destroyers were mobilized to open fire, and despite the fact that a number of top psykers were waiting for defense on the ships, the result was that many psykers were killed or injured and one super battleship was destroyed. 19 cruisers sunk. It wasn’t that much damage to the beginner fortress, but there was a record of damage that had to be stopped for repairs for a while.
And, of course, the destroyer was annihilated.
In fact, the reason why the beginner battleships and beginner fortresses survived must have been because the Crimson Samurai was satisfied with that.
If it had gone to the end, it is still a question whether the super battleships and elementary fortresses that had suffered near-destruction damage to their subordinate fleet would have survived.
No matter how strong a beginner fortress is. It was a super battleship.
If that bastard broke into it, all of its terrifying firepower would be useless.
Most of all, there were quite a few psykers who died completely with their spare bodies damaged in that battle.
Among those who crossed her river that she could never return to, there was also her lover who promised to be with her for the rest of her life.
So she gave all of herself to that little thing that hadn’t drained her breast milk yet.
She said that if she could kill that red devil, she would be willing to accept that her future life would be mortgaged to that child.
Anger -!!
And should I say it again?
The Crimson Elf emerged from her wide continuum, with only her left face and the shoulder of one of her arms blown out of her three faces.
The battle was kill-and-death from now on.
Aaaaa!!
YuRia chased the trajectory of her red flash and hit her gatling, but that red demon swung her sword, barely avoiding the tip of her muzzle as if she was pouring medicine.
Even if the shield drone was moved in front of her sword’s trajectory, Yuria hurriedly raised the Psi blade to block the crimson samurai’s blade at the bright red blade that penetrated the shield like flowing water.
Meanwhile, Yuria felt something strange.
Crimson Samurai’s three swords.
However, for some reason, Yuria, who felt that she was the same as the two swords she was facing, tried to analyze the situation once again, turning to split thinking.
She did and she found out.
Sometimes the two swords of the Crimson Samurai are operated like one, and when the sword thought to be blocked by the shield crosses the shield and comes in, the second sword that followed it momentarily rode a different trajectory and came over.
There was nothing to be afraid of if the trick was revealed.
Yuria, who opened up space by charging her shield, slammed her vulcan and charged at the crimson samurai with her Psi blade raised.
Yuria, who was confronting the Crimson Samurai’s sword with her two swords while blocking one of her swords with a shield, her lips slightly raised.
Because the shield drone wasn’t a specially ordered item just to be used as a shield.
Only once.
The launcher, fully charged with energy, was mounted on the inside of the shield drone and was only looking for a chance to release that energy.
Kwa-uuuuu!!
The cruiser’s main gun-like blows exploded, but this time Yuria clicked her tongue at the crimson samurai she barely escaped.
“Chit”
Is it true that one battle experience overflows?
Yuria gritted her teeth.
Since she first blew her left shoulder and face off, her mind has been a little impatient because she hasn’t been able to properly deal damage, but even so, she calms her mind.
She first blew off one of her left shoulders, disabled one of her arms, and blew off one of her faces, reducing her field of vision as well.
She calmly analyzes the guy’s behavior patterns further, and if she looks for an opportunity, the opportunity will surely come.
After that, they entangled with each other several times, engaging in mid- and close-quarters and fierce battles, but the distance between her and herself showed no signs of diminishing.
The main consciousness is engrossed in the battle with him, but the divided consciousness is still reviewing the battle with him, looking back at his patterns and techniques, and continuing to analyze them.
But he was like an onion.
Against the guy who keeps showing new looks, Yuria thought about getting a new weapon instead of her shield, but in the end, that was just her wish. It was unclear whether she would have been more helpful than a shield if she had obtained another armament.
Indeed, it wasn’t once or twice that she thought the shield had saved her life.
That’s how Crimson Samurai was.
But I definitely felt it when I fought.
The size of the Crimson Samurai’s power itself was less than his own.
That’s less than half of her own.
That alone was by no means a small force, but Yuria couldn’t understand how she could fight so well with that much power.
With himself more than twice as much in the total amount of power. Even if the distance between each other is getting closer now and they are not able to fire support properly, the fact that they are not overpowered in the situation where Methuselah, a non-standard super battleship that seems to have been forcibly crammed into a super battleship standard, is providing support, is a mystery and a mystery. Was also like
Chow-!!
“Kuk!”
-Inject nanomachines
A medical drone hanging from a backpack flew to the wound and hurriedly injected nanomachines for sealing into the wound.
Then, she went right back to her backpack and Yuria glared at the crimson samurai, considering that she had already become a rag with cuts all over her body.
The mirroring operation to duplicate his actions also failed. A crazy guy who almost never matches his behavioral patterns and always shows a new way of fighting.
It seemed like she was looking into the future, but even though YuRia herself was using Future Foresight, she couldn’t keep up with it.
There was something about that existence that was fundamentally different from itself.
‘Experience, experience. What’s his experience like?’
Just simply something beyond the scope of analysis.
It occurred to me that I could not defeat this monster without crossing the gap of something.
Turong -!!
I tried to shoot again, passing his blade with my shield, but he evaded better than before.
When she tried to widen the distance to get help from the battleship, it quickly made a move to hit and enter the battleship, so Yuria had no choice but to resume her hand-to-hand combat as she hurriedly blocked his way.
Methuselah was his greatest strength and, on the other hand, the fetters that bound him.
It’s dangerous if you don’t have it at all. Get in the way if you can.
Because he wasn’t near me, he could escape from Methuselah’s net, but on the contrary, if he broke into Methuselah’s inside, there would be no catastrophe like that, so Yuria was in trouble.
Then there is only one way.
Yuria drastically changed her strategy.
He summoned two of the shields that were still floating around him and blocking the direction of the Crimson Samurai’s attack.
And Yuria, equipped on both of his arms, moved the location of the Psi blade generator to the tip of the shield as it was, secured more reach, and then deployed the blade with all his might.
Ji-ing -!!
“Let’s go somewhere. I wonder if it’s first for me to catch up with you. Maybe it’s first for you to eventually catch me”
It felt like the composition of Goliath and David.
A gigantic monster over 3 meters tall and a slender woman with a height of 170 basically confront each other, although her body looks bigger because of the battle suit.
Soon, Yuria rushed at the Crimson Samurai like Goliath.
Shuaaaaak -!! Bang!! Kagagak!!
Even though he lost one arm and has five arms, he still has the three black handles of Crimson Samuria.
On the other hand, Yuria used her two shields as a psychic energy supply line and used them as a tool to make up for her lack of reach, so Yuria fought with two swords and a single shield.
It was a fairly risky fight at first, but soon Yuria quickly adapted to her changed reach and now even started giving her breaking balls in it.
The connection between her arm and shield.
She and she use the connection between the shield and the psychic blade generator like another joint, and not simply to make up for the lack of reach compared to the Crimson Samurai, but as another variable generator, and the fight became more and more fierce. .
Even if Yuria was also adapting, the Crimson Samurai’s adaptation was faster.
She seemed confused for a moment about how long she had put in the new variable, but the red devil, who had adapted to the variable before she knew it, began to savagely attack YuRia.
In the midst of such a battle, Yuria focused on her sword while receiving a strange feeling as if she knew something.
The guy who sometimes made unreasonable movements fought, so those unreasonable movements were never unreasonable.
If you couldn’t use your future foreknowledge, it would be incomprehensible, in a sense it was like playing Go.
Even if it looks like a meaningless move right now, it’s as if it will never become a meaningless stone if you look far behind.
His sometimes seemingly irrational behavior turned into meaningful behavior when viewed from a distance, something an ordinary person could never do.
The outcome that would have happened if you hadn’t done that action.
The future that is induced by doing that action.
A future blocked by that action.
As a result, at present, the action is futile, but in a broader sense, it was not futile.
By doing that, the present was limited and the future induced.
I thought it was the result of reading numbers through foresight, but that too was different.
If it was the result of foreseeing the future, what he did was inefficient.
Chaejaeng!! Kaga Gak!!
The blade bent from the end of the shield and blocked the sword that came down over the head.
He didn’t get greedy in the battle between swords and swords, and withdrew his sword and swung it endlessly again.
Like water flowing, he never stopped swinging his sword.
Moving from place to place without rest, wielding a persimmon.
In the midst of that, Yuria suddenly saw something.
Something. With the feeling that if he gathered one more piece of something, he would be able to see the true nature of it, so Yuria switched to a more aggressive attack and rushed at him.
The reason for something that can’t get over him.
A piece of something that you lack more than him.
The border between life and death is countless. Yuria, who was constantly crossing and using her sword, fell into a trance in the feeling that something of hers would come into her hand at the moment, and not only the Psi blade generator attached to the end of her shield, but also the Psi blade in her own hand itself. Rising up, she lunged at him.
See, deeper.
One more step forward.
Little bit more. Just a little further…
At that moment, the tip of her giant sword was reflected in Yuria’s eyes.
“Ah…?”
Woowoowook -!!
“Aaaaa!!”
One of the three-meter-tall Crimson Samurai’s three swords pierced Yuria’s left eye, penetrated her brain, and protruded a long blade from the back of her head.
All of Yuria’s vital signs, brainwaves, and psychic states fluctuated like crazy and entered the red zone. In a hurry, the super battleship Methuselah, full-armed special psykers on standby, scrambled, avoiding Yuria somehow, and numerous turrets frantically directed towards the Crimson Samurai. It started firing beam cannons.
Kyuhwaaang -!! Kyuhwaaaaang -!!
Wheein!! Aaaaa!!
In Methuselah, almost the same model as the Psi Vulcan used by Yuria was equipped as one of the combat turrets, although it was larger due to the difference in material, and beam bundles like showers from those turrets began to pour toward the elongated Crimson Samurai. Did.
“Leader!! Leader!!”
“Damn it, hurry up!! The captain’s vital signal!!」
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!!
Her brain and blood floated drop by drop on the inside of the visor, and warning messages were being output inside the cracked visor, along with warning sounds, but Yuria was not in the mood to look at them.
Amidst the large sword piercing her left eye and stabbing her in the head, Yuria couldn’t understand her trembling and unable to even moan properly.
Dang, what the hell did you do?
It hurts! It hurts!! It hurts!!
-Warning! Warning! Shock alert! Shock alert!
-Warning! Brain waves are unstable!
-Warning! Low blood pressure!!
-Warning! Danger of psychic runaway! Warning! Danger of psychic runaway!
All sorts of warning messages were pierced by the sword and printed on the cracked visor, and while the warning sounds were ringing, Yuria somehow managed to bite her teeth.
If she had been a normal psyker herself, she might have been retired from this blow and changed into a new body or lost her mind.
But…
From the state in which the left and right brains were separated once and the diene brain was separated separately, to the state in which the cerebrum was separated in front and back again, try this over and over again!!
Even if a part of the brain is damaged, the degree to which thinking develops without that part…
My life wasn’t going so smoothly for me to completely lose my mind to the extent that my brain was cut!!!
“Kuhaaaaa!!”
Chow ah!!
Pulling her sword out of her head, Yuria exclaimed! Huh! She did, and she exhaled heavily, and with a swish, threw her sword behind her, which her bastard had missed.
One of the combat drones waiting around him grabbed a sword and hurriedly began returning to Methuselah.
At the same time, a medical drone for emergency treatment immediately attached to Yuria’s head after her sword was pulled out, and immediately spread a Psi screen on her affected area to cover her dead body.
He hurriedly applied narcotic painkillers and treatment substances in the brain, gathered gray matter brain fragments and skull fragments scattered around, and started aligning Yuria’s brain as if defragmenting a disk.
“Haha…”
It was never a very good feeling because the feeling of my brain being shoved and stitched here and there on its own was the feeling that even my mind was being crushed here and there, but maybe it was because of the experience of countless experiments and surgeries that I had undergone so far. Did not let go of his mind until the end, and in the meantime, did not take his eyes off the Crimson Samurai, who had been briefly separated from the battleship’s attack.
I wanted to throw her mind off right now and collapse, but that was impossible.
I want to get into the medical capsule as soon as possible and receive proper treatment, but that was also impossible.
For the first time, beings that use their brains, skills, and techniques, rather than creatures that rely on instinct and try to solve problems only with power.
As Yuria, who was the first to encounter a battle with a being who really knew how to properly ‘fight’, it was a huge price to pay, but thanks to that, Yuria was able to realize what fighting is in the true sense of the word, not just relying on strength.
It’s not just about predicting the opponent’s speed and movement, shooting accurately and swinging accurately, but the meaning of ‘nothingness’ contained in it.
In the distant ancient times, a country called China invented a combat method called martial arts, but during the Cultural Revolution, most of it was virtually lost, and the remaining pieces were restored by clumsily patched up, then properly broken by the newly established real-life martial arts at that time, and the conclusion that martial arts is a fraud It may have gone bad, but even so, there was something to learn from the name martial arts.
Because there was definitely something that couldn’t be explained by just shooting, stabbing, and swinging quickly and accurately.
In that sense, the Crimson Samurai’s way of fighting could be said to be martial arts.
Looking at the simple specifications alone, he was obviously more advantageous, but something that could not fill the gap existed between that monster and himself.
However, Yuria also began to gradually open her eyes to something.
Until now, Yuria, who had been fighting mainly at long range distances, activated the Psi blade generator, which had not been of much use until now, and pulled out long Psi blades in both hands.
My half-dead brain greatly simplified my thinking, but I liked that now.
After catching her breath, Yuria rushed at the red warrior again.
Parka River! Kigi Geek!!
At first, he was holding three swords, but lost one sword due to the situation just a moment ago.
In the fierce battle between each other in close combat, aiming for each other’s lives, the crew members who ran to assist Yuria watched the battle from a distance, stamping their feet together from a distance, and the super battleship Mudsela Epsi Yuria stood close to the Crimson Samurai. When they engaged in close combat, support fire was no longer possible, and they watched the battle with countless turrets and guns charged to fire support whenever the distance opened again.
It was a really fierce battle.
Thanks to the efforts of her medical drone attached to Yuria’s head, Yuria’s vital signs went from the Red Zone to the Yellow Zone, but her Yuria’s body was getting more and more injured in different ways.
Her vitals, which had been barely stabilizing, began to deteriorate again, and her breathing became rougher, but nonetheless, her Yuria eyes looked straight at her and only the warrior in front of her.
Pakan -!! Visor!!
Little by little, Yuria began to understand the existence in front of her eyes.
What the warrior in front of her wished for was none other than death.
However, at the end of a fierce real sword fight in a bloody battle where each other risked their lives, rather than just such a death, they really wanted to die by being defeated by the opponent.
However, he also had no intention of dying so easily.
He pushes himself to the limit and burns all of himself to fight beyond that limit. He hoped that in the end he would die without regret.
Just like the Vikings, a super ancient people who wanted to go to Valhalla by dying in battle.
In a life-and-death confrontation with the Crimson Samurai, Yuria began absorbing the Crimson Samurai’s techniques.
However, it was not just a simple copy, it analyzed its principle and logic, transformed it to suit itself, refined and advanced further during the battle, and continued to make it its own, and gradually the battle began to tilt toward Yuria.
However, as if proving that the name of the three major fears that had been rotting the head of the human union was not in vain, an unexpectedly sharp blow penetrated Yuria’s abdomen.
“Cheuk!!”
It was a blow that ignored defense.
If he didn’t dodge, he succeeded in dealing a huge blow to YuRia by burrowing into such a blow that he would have no choice but to die.
The blade that dug into his abdomen cut Yuria’s slender waist in two, splitting her body into upper and lower parts.
While the internal organs were leaking out of the body that had been cut to pieces, Yuria hurriedly blocked the body with a psychic screen and, like a crimson samurai, rushed at him, ignoring her condition.
If you gave up your defenses to give up your flesh and take your bones. I will do the same for you.
However, what you will lose is your life, not your waist like mine.
Yuria’s Psi blade, which penetrated more and more into the crimson samurai’s arms, shone through the blue cheeks stained with miasma, and cut the crimson samurai’s body vertically.
Seo-kik!!
After a fierce battle, Yuria, who went into battle even with her body severely injured in two pieces, ended up cutting the crimson samurai’s body in two pieces vertically and won the battle, and was no longer blind.
The recoil that had already crossed the limit and continued the battle came, and in the end, Yuria, who crossed the line because she could not reach the limit, lost her mind as it was.
When I woke up again, I was inside a treatment capsule for body regeneration.
Fortunately, his lower body was well attached to his body, which he glanced down at while still in a hazy consciousness.
Outside her capsule, female crew members were watching her, and she was very welcoming as she struggled to open her eyes.
Cry and laugh and get angry
Why did I have to deal with him in such a dangerous way?
If you deal with him moderately, he will back down, but was there a need for that?
Inside her healing capsule, Yuria smiled bitterly at her and she couldn’t answer.
She tried to beat the Crimson Samurai, but as she followed him, she assimilated into him.
For some reason, Yuria, who was smiling bitterly at her, seemed to still be able to feel the pain she felt the moment her upper and lower body split into two.
Her body was clearly connected and she wouldn’t be anesthetized like before.
For some reason, she couldn’t figure out the reason, but YuRia, thinking that it was just a hallucinatory pain from the shock of the traumatic injury, passed it off and went to sleep, thinking that she should rest a little more for now.
Beyond that dream
Without knowing what was going on in her real body, even in her dreams.
