Chapter 4: Coring
known as K23 is just for the coming and going of
Even so, its status as a public road means
However there’s only a garbage disposal facility on
from the waste trucks, only those who’ve come to
Although it resembles a former garbage dump
and now there’s almost no smell at all.
collection of waste, raw garbage’s stench was
scattering EMO stimulated by effective
dismantled plastics, they could be perfectly
Even so, they needed reclaimed land for a
storage of the garbage.
trucks driving along the 5 lane highway between the
buildings) as though they didn’t know what had
“Adults put their work first, they don’t try to
He pulled out of the garbage disposal factory
reclaimed land used to store garbage.
back through the sky. He thought he caught sight of
garbage trucks got in his way and he couldn’t be
But as he was crossing over the bridge he saw
“…s.h.i.t…!”
centre of the ring of black smoke was exactly the
Instinctually he revved the accelerator as far as
land.
that from an outsider’s perspective looked like
be the place to hide.
electro-bike hit dirt Honore realised there’d be no
exploded.
here.”
but the slagheap obscured his view to the west as he
If it exploded it would make his coming here
“…Oof!”
handlebars he revved the engine. Unlike gas motors, the
Loose dirt sprayed out behind him and Tokyo Bay came
“…I’m doing it!”
skimming across the sea surface he was impressed, but
put on speed.
the Tokyo unit that was stationed at the Imperial
“…!?”
along the breakwater not because he’d forgotten the
He had his mind set and wanted nothing more than
Imagining that he might be able to see a dog fight
mmm
“…!”
up he imagined he could see sparkling silver dust
In the sky above, the silver Tender Gear looked
Honore’s impression.
details, nor was it particularly close.
have been hit, but that was his imagination too.
close enough that he could identify the falling
why an undamaged Musshan was dropping like
“…!”
spray on the sea surface and he realised the silver
When he looked up with a feeling of hostility,
needle going through the blue sky… Well, it was
“…Seriously…!?”
When Honore realised the suit that had seemed
much further away than before, he became aware
“…!?”
be safe than sorry, but it seemed like staying at
Suddenly he heard the rumbling exhaust noise
sound he saw that the silver airframe was hovering
same land reclamation site he was on.
Honore turned his bike towards the silver suit
The reason for his current decision was the
Although the rubbish piles obstructed his view
as Alafman landing calmly.
and now the enemy has time to relax… It doesn’t
Honore instinctually knew that the silver
of.
He stopped being able to heard the Tender Gear
Then,
could swim in the ocean…]
Honore.
Beston Kriger who’d done the electro-jack.
consciousness felt the same as what had been on the
So Honore twisted the throttle.
His bike leapt forward and he came into
of the unfamiliar Tender Gear.
A female consciousness completely different to
Honore’s perception.
“Don’t do that!”
and the bike were falling.
“Ugh! What does that mean?”
Bang!
in his ears.
From the many things going on in front of him,
back, flying up holding the body of a semitransparent,
Was this a hallucination…!?
conscious, so he stood up.
descending from the silver aircraft and then running
“…!!”
towards the silver suit.
But before he even had a chance of
mmmmmmmm
The three Tender Gears descended while
Musshan…!?
the Musshan went around and cut in behind it, and
hopper nozzle from behind Honore.
The unit that held a Vulcan cannon equipped in
right of Honore.
Honore’s body was pelted with the intense
staggered backwards.
A female consciousness reverberated within
That’s how he became aware that the figure
concrete debris to the left.
He perceived a consciousness like the
Whoosh! The Musshan’s landing gear let out a
“Why are you interfering!? It looks like
Honore turned around to yell at the landed
***
anymore…”
“I can’t do that!”
woman and youth’s minds in the same quality as
“Unh…!?”
airframe known as Alafman crouched could be seen
Something had stopped the Tender Gear from
than the Musshan Fubuki had been entrusted with.
Although Fubuki felt physically restless, he
There’s a pilot lying down under the Tender
wrong, we’ll get no resistance from the Tender
And in that way he confirmed that his own
“Raizen, Son, stay there.”
landing his own craft in front of Alafman.
collapsed after fainting or had been shot, but the
As Fubuki landed his own aircraft, the landing
The boy looked like he was being chased by the
“Three people…”
on his pilot suit. He raised the front armor and
“This is First Lieutenant Fubuki Kei. I’m in
my investigation.”
procedure to a tee was the only martial habit that
to his two subordinates should have also been
line appeared to remain dead.
between the ground and the c.o.c.kpit and as he
mmmmmmmmmmm
towards the left-hand embankment.
“Son, you should see two people on your right
“Yes, sir…”
eyes didn’t stray from above the giant lying under
A fairy…?
He could see a winged fairy. No, it looked
maiden, it had a kimono sash-like cloth wrapped
A winged baby? A girl…!?
They laughed. They mourned. He saw them
…How many of them are there!?
so there couldn’t just be one… He didn’t
they were going straight up as well.
silver background.
they spring out from their arms? It wasn’t clear.
swaying like a mirage.
The sandstorm hit Fubuki full on from the side.
“…!!”
Fubuki collected himself and marched forward,
But all that was there was a giant’s corpse.
Kreiger…”
the giant’s head to verify that, he was disgusted to
…!? Why does he look so happy?
A chill ran through his whole body, but Fubuki
face.
face.
change from when he’d look at it upside down.
shone and so he hadn’t noticed it.
an o.r.g.a.s.m face…”
“…Did he go insane?”
mind made from what he saw, and he raised his
The Tender Gear was larger by far than the
As humanoid machines, vehicles with a c.o.c.kpit
“This is a strange craft…”
settled and he holstered his gun.
I was flying above the concrete debris. This
stopped.
Why? You shouldn’t have done this.”
felt for even speaking to this gloomy woman was
She was that kind of woman. A leather jacket,
the right side of her lips. Dark eyes and long,
stereotypical white woman with bad upbringing.
more of it? Little brat!” She spoke j.a.panese.
could see how her hands, tucked into the pockets of
have a gun aimed at me, so I took a leap without
hitting my thighs after landing near her couldn’t
pulled out.
It seems like she’s reverting to English when
up the surrounding dust us while my arms were
b.u.mped into her chest, I could feel the warmth of
losing this fight.
greyish blue eyes, I didn’t look at her face but
“Arg...!”
drop the gun by twisting her wrist around. As soon
tried hitting the woman’s stomach with a kick while
“s.h.i.t!”
gun! I felt like I was faster than her, and then...
A cloud of dust violently hit my back, knocking
“Wha-?”
surface, hitting down exhaust just in time. I tried
in the direction of the gun as the Musshan’s landing
path.
disposed of by the Daisanka.”
above our heads. Being disposed of by the Daisanka
“Got it...!?”
see the woman in black sneering at me, throwing
“Is she mistaking this place for a strip club...!?”
feel that she wasn’t even serious, and it confused
Davidson Sportster standing behind her back. A
As stereotypical a combination as it can get...
call a wanderer. An outsider, if put into modern
barrels that were part of the Musshan’s gatling gun
“If I were killed by that, I would be blown into
pain. That would be fine with me.”
“Woman, climb up the concrete hill. You too,
Although the young woman’s voice which was
there was also a lot of power behind it.
was lending the Daisanka a hand!”
climbed the concrete rubble while yelling at the
... I could hear what she was thinking...
The voice coming from the Musshan’s c.o.c.kpit
“WE will decide on that. Boy! If you’re a man,
already!”