Chapter 398 – Period 2) 3. The Prototype of the Giant (2)
The return from the moon to Earth was truly instantaneous.
The giant called Talos, or rather the tactical aircraft Remegeton, was so huge that, despite its enormous size, there was only room for Yuria inside, so Loa had to board the spaceship again, but what happened after that was truly beyond imagination.
Because I traveled through space from the moon to the space station in one go and came back.
“Wow”
In a situation that could only be described as “Amazing,” Loa quietly watched Yuria start something while riding the giant.
The space base was disintegrated into pieces, and parts and scrap metal from the dismantled spacecraft that had been rescued from the moon came out and began to rebuild the space base.
The power source of a spaceship that contains such an enormous gravity that it is scary just to look at it. A black hole degeneracy was placed at the center of the base, and only one of the seven still-living parts salvaged from the spacecraft was placed inside it during construction of the base.
“What are you going to use the rest for?”
-It is a part for connecting the energy sharing system to the orbital defense system. And one I will write myself.
“Huh?”
-Because I am not in a good condition right now to be able to fully exert the power of this giant. It hurts my pride a little. Even a sphere like this can’t exert its power.
Yuria processed five of her remaining six parts and sent them flying far away.
-We will surround the Earth in a hexagonal shape with a total of six, including the space base. And through this energy line, the output of the black hole degenerate path will be shared with defense satellites. I’m busy. All the defense satellites also need to be remodeled.
Although she seemed to be lamenting for some reason, Yuria actually seemed quite excited.
“Yuria, is this fun?”
-Uh, um… Usually, I was unintentionally greatly restricted in terms of civilization level, but now I feel like the restrictions have been almost completely lifted. Should I say that I feel a bit liberated? It’s a shame because I was happy living with Loa. If it weren’t for that, it would have been so stuffy that I would get sick. This also doesn’t work because the civilization level is too low. That doesn’t work either. Because there was absolutely nothing I could do.
“Well, I see.”
Well, Yuria often made things that were enormous and excessive, but from Yuria’s point of view, even those things seemed to be far too barbaric.
-To be honest, even this is very outdated to me, so I sigh a little.
“But it’s not at the level of being primitive, is it?”
Yuria, who had been engrossed in various construction projects for a while, nodded to the giant she was riding.
-The technology used in this Lemegeton alone is outdated, but it is stronger than the mass-produced Lemegeton made for regular soldiers. It’s a bit inconvenient because they adopted a somewhat inefficient method.
Roa was a little surprised to hear that it was stronger than the equipment used by regular soldiers from the Yuria era.
“Really?”
-It means that the performance has been forcibly improved. To compare it, rather than refining the ship’s line and installing more efficient sails to increase the ship’s speed, it feels like just blindly attaching a lot of large sails.
It didn’t quite hit home, but I felt like I knew the general feeling.
As the construction of the space base was completed, the spacecraft headed towards the space base on its own.
Then it was connected to the space base and the door opened.
-For now, wait inside the base. Now that artificial gravity works, it will be convenient. I will return after finishing the defense system repairs.
At Yuria’s words, Roa came out of the spaceship and into the space base.
Just like Yuria said, the soles of my feet really felt good when I entered the space base from the spaceship! And I felt gravity as I hit the floor.
“Oh?”
When Yuria was rebuilding the space base, she saw the general structure, but when Roa looked around the inside again, she felt that it had definitely changed in many ways compared to before.
The plates that collected the sunlight that were spread out outside had all disappeared and were no longer visible.
Previously, they were very important components responsible for the energy of this base, but now with the black hole degeneracy? Considering the power contained in the power engine, it may be natural that the boards that collected sunlight to create energy were no better than toys.
While looking around the changed interior, Roa suddenly found a familiar door.
“Ha, haha…”
Is this the same?
Even though so many things had changed, looking at the hot spring entrance still in the same location as before, Roa traced her memory and pressed the button used to open the door.
Seeing -!!
With a strange sound, the door opened into the wall, and the hot springs came into view inside, just like before.
Since this is happening, should I just take a hot spring bath?
After taking off his clothes in the locker room, Roa entered the bathroom, washed himself first while looking at the large hot spring, and then entered the bathtub.
As I splashed and dipped myself into the water, I felt tired and was about to slump down, when I felt an unknown gaze coming from behind.
No. I felt it.
“Woah, that’s shameful. Did you go in alone while I was working?”
“Is it over already?”
When I turned around inside the hot spring, Yuria said, ‘Kyaaa!?’ She quickly covered her chest with one arm and between her legs with her other arm.
“Ooh, ooh”
“What are you doing? Why don’t you come in?”
Yuria also entered the hot spring with a sigh and an embarrassed expression.
“It’s been a while since we’ve been here together.”
When this place was first built, it seemed like I would come here often, but at some point I didn’t come often.
There were a lot of different things going on. Although it has almost disappeared now, Yuria also had a fear of hot things.
To be honest, the temperature of the hot spring itself is still set lower compared to the past.
For Roa, the current temperature was good, but on the other hand, it felt bitter because it seemed to indicate that Yuria was still unable to escape the pain of her past.
Roa and Yuria’s eyes met, and the inside of the hot spring became hot differently.
* * * * * * * *
I wonder how many days have passed since I came down to earth after finishing my work in space with Yuria.
Upon hearing that trouble had broken out again in the Kingdom of Galton, she came to visit Galton with Yuria.
In the past, when Yuria lost her heart and was frozen cold, Roa was reluctant to let her go to Galton, perhaps because of what happened there, but even so, this matter was quite important, so she came to visit with Yuria.
Roa, who had been greatly burned by the trend of this country, which was so intolerant and seemed to have had its conscience in such a way that it was so severe, thought that this country would not be easy to talk about, and sure enough, it was different.
“Cheeky!!”
The man in front of her pulled out her sword and swung it at Yuria with what seemed to Loa to be clumsy skills.
However, Loa did not do anything in particular.
There was no way Yuria could have been hurt by a sword that was clearly visible to her.
But surprisingly, her opponent’s sword stabbed Yuria’s body! And she cut deeply.
“Huh!?”
For a moment, Roa was so embarrassed that she lost consciousness, but even then, she felt something was wrong.
Why isn’t Yuria showing any reaction?
Although Yuria is certainly patient and strong-willed, and her mental strength is high, she is not the type to endure pain for no reason.
Because when she was sick, she usually couldn’t hold back and screamed.
But even though her body was severely torn apart, she didn’t make any sound, let alone scream?
Then she discovered something even more strange.
Even though the knife cut into her body and cut deep into it, her body was not split.
However, the air was shaking as if there was noise in her space, as if something was crackling around her sword, which was stopped near the center of Yuria’s body.
When I thought about it, there was no way that person could have hurt Yuria.
Considering the suit’s defense power, Loa couldn’t have hurt Yuria’s body without properly increasing her gravity.
Clearly, Yuria was very calm, wondering if she was actually hurt, but it was the other person who was embarrassed.
“Uh, huh? Profit?”
Yuria moved forward in front of her with a sword attached to her body, and the sword was extending behind her, but there was no sign of bleeding anywhere on Yuria’s body.
It was only then that Roa realized for sure that Yuria had done something when she saw her opponent’s hand holding her sword beyond the tip of Yuria’s back.
“What, what, what! What!! What on earth have you done!!”
“What do you mean? You were the one who swung the sword.”
The other person seemed to really want to run away, but it seemed like he was caught in Yuria’s body and couldn’t escape.
“Hey, profit! Let it go, let it go!! I mean, let go of this!”
Although he struggled, he could not get away from Yuria.
And in the end, after being frightened for a long time, he was able to escape from Yuria only after making a magical pledge to never cause trouble to the empire again.
After finishing the work, Roa asked Yuria.
What on earth did you do?
“It’s not a big deal. I don’t get hit by normal physical attacks.”
“Uh, huh?”
“It’s just that my condition was so bad that I couldn’t even demonstrate those basic abilities.”
Roa was completely dumbfounded by Yuria speaking so simply.
“The more you peel it, the more something sticks out. It’s not even an onion.”
“So, Loa, be careful. Even though they basically ignore physical attacks like me, demons can do similar things.”
Roa looked at Yuria in surprise at Yuria’s words.
“Even demons can do that?”
“Yes. It may be an advanced technology for them.”
“How on earth did we win against demons in the past?”
Yuria just shrugged her shoulders.
“Just coming to Earth consumed a tremendous amount of energy, the Earth’s environment itself is hostile to them, and above all, they cannot recover their strength at all on Earth. In fact, rather than saying that the beings on Earth were victorious over the demons at that time, it was rather that the demons could not handle their own consumption. Closer to self-destruction”
“…”
“And above all, only a very small number of people invaded in previous invasions.”
And this is an all-out war like never before for the demons.
“It will be a completely different fight than before. Don’t forget that all the dragons had to come out just to deal with the scouting party that was greatly exhausted by Tamamo. Even so, if I hadn’t controlled and directed them, the dragons would have lost. Tao”
“…”
One port.
Even with just one port, which gave up as much as possible for the sake of stealth, Tamamo was caught and the entire dragon had to come forward.
That wasn’t enough, so I had to get Yuria’s support.
And now, the ports flying to Earth were stockpiling more demon energy, and dozens of even bigger ports were flying in with more demons.
“Are you saying that if just one thing falls to Earth, our world could be destroyed?”
Yuri nodded her head with a bitter look.
“What I’m trying to do on this earth right now is not to win against the demons. It’s just to hold on as long as I can.”
In the end, the fact that Yuria was the only one who could end all of this was still an unchanging fact.
