Nihonkoku Shoukan

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Minasan Oidemasu! This is Yukkuri demasu!

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Chapter 1

Upheaval

Part 5

Central calendarYear 1639, Month 4, Day 25. Evening.

Port Maihark was in a great clamor like a madhouse.

Everyone raised their voices in wonder and admiration.The citizens living nearby, the soldiers, and the sailors altogether weregazing at the direction of the sea.

「What a huge thing!」

「Unbelievable, is that really a ship?」

「Is that a mountain floating on the sea?」

There were many shouts and yells.

Bruay was also doubting his own eyes. On the offsh.o.r.e,there were several unbelievably large ships lined up.

Just by measuring with the eye, one of the ships had animplausible estimated length of no less than 250m, which gave off a bizarrepresence. There were talks about how when the warship Pima made contact with j.a.pan,it boarded a 250 meter long ship, but he thought that they were just lying to exaggeratetheir accomplishments. However, the reality was: ‘that ship really existed’.Despite being anch.o.r.ed far away on the offsh.o.r.e, it was still absurdly large inappearance and had no sails.

Eventually, something flew away from that large ship.

He had eyesight good enough that he could see thatthere were people riding in it, so he understoodthat it was some kind of vehicle. On the top of the vehicle, there wassomething like an elongated board spinning around in high speed.

Although he previously had received a message abouthow he would be picked up by the other party, when Bruay actually saw thisother way to fly in the sky that wasn’t a Wyvern, he was at loss for words. Asit approached, there was an unfamiliar ringing sound and a loud unnatural flappingsound which put fear into the surrounding people. Eventually, a violent windbegan to blow as if it could blow away anything nearby.

When the vehicles had landed in the plaza, the windand the sounds gradually abated. A door on the vehicle’s side opened, a manappeared from it and started to move with a steady gait towards the gathered crowd.

Bruay stepped forward and the man standing in front ofhim saluted.

「Good day, I am Tsukasaki of the j.a.pan Maritime Self Defense Force’s Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality Deployment Force. For this occasion, we have received an instructionto pick up an observation officer from the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.」

Bruay replied in a hurry, while also being a bit impressedby Tsukasaki"s prompt behavior.

「Nice to meet you, I am Bruay, the operations staff of the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.alityNavy’s 2nd Fleet. I am grateful for the current reinforcements from j.a.pan.」

「Umm, I believe that you had been informed in advance, but have you finishedyour preparations for boarding?」

「Yes. I will be in your good hands.」

Bruay held his the luggage and timidly boarded thevehicle ──something that was called a helicopter, 『MCH-101』[1]. There were no decorations inside the aircraft, but the seat was fluffyand comfortable to sit on.

Once again, the helicopter’s engine speed accelerated andthere were a strange sensation of floating. Although it was somewhat slowerthan a wyvern, there were no jerky vertical movements caused by flapping, and thesmooth ascend of the helicopter astonished Bruay. This vehicle could flywithout almost no shaking and was much more comfortable than a wyvern, moreoverit could transport large numbers of people or goods.

「This is…… amazing. Just how this vehicle works is beyond my understanding……」

While in the middle of the flight to the mother ship, hekept admiring the usefulness of the helicopter.

When the helicopter approached the carrier anch.o.r.ed offsh.o.r.e,he was overwhelmed by the size of the mother ship that was incomparable whenseen from the faraway sh.o.r.e.

(What’s with this ship size‼ …… Ah, I understand, if the ships are this big,then a large number of personnel could board it, and so when it becomes a meleefight, they could capture the enemy ship one by one through overwhelming numbers.As the number of captured ships increased, the fighting power will also bequickly increased, so this one ship alone would certainly be able to deal with dozensof ships.)

Using his own knowledge and logic, he was trying to makesense of the helicopter destroyer.

Helicopter Destroyer 『Izumo』

Total length - 248 m

Standard displacement - 19,500 tons

Construction cost - 114 billion yen[2]

It was the largest destroyer[sic] of the j.a.pan Maritime Self-Defense Force that couldhandle the arrival and departure of five helicopters at the same time.[3]

Bruay alighted on the ship deck that was wide enough fora cavalry battle.

(The floor is hard…… This is…… made from iron? How could it float in thesea? What kind of magic is this? A ship should be constructed from wood……)

With the incomprehensible fact of an iron ship floatingin the sea as the beginning, Bruay’s confusion kept increasing.

As he was told by Tsukasaski, he entered the ship’s interior.

(…… The inside…… is bright. Did they burn something? No, light magic? Isthis a Magic Ship?)

After being guided into the ship interior that was so widethat it felt like an illusion, Bruay arrived at the bridge and met with thecaptain.

This time, Bruay saluted without any delay.

「I am Bruay, the navy operations staff representative of the Qua-Toyne Princ.i.p.ality.We are grateful for the reinforcements.」

「Nice to meet you, I am this ship’s captain, Yamamoto. This might be sudden,but we have already located the position of the armed insurgent ships. It’sabout 500 kilometers west from this location. Their speed is very slow, about 5knots[4],but they are heading towards our direction. So we planned to leave tomorrowmorning and issue a warning to the armed insurgents to turn back. If they don’tabide, then after we fire a warning shot, we will eliminate them entirely. Soplease relax yourself inside the ship until tomorrow.」

「Eliminate them entirely...... Eliminate, entirely?」

How absurd. There were only 50 Qua-Tonean ships and 8 j.a.paneseships. Only 58 vessels couldn’t possibly confront 4,400 vessels.

「Ah, no. Of course if the enemy turns back, or begins to surrender orescape, then we will refrain from attacking.」

「That"s not what I meant…… Certainly our country’s fleet has prepared 50 ships.Will we perform this operation with only 58 ships? This might be rude to ask, buthave you been informed of the enemies’ number?」

Bruay was concerned that j.a.pan hadn’t been informed ofthe enemy’s size.

「We have been informed of the number of the armed insurgent ships. We have alreadyinformed the staff that there will be no need for escorts from the Qua-ToyneNavy, so we will ensure Bruay-dono’s safety. Please be at ease while performingyour duties.」

Bruay was surprised again. The j.a.panese intended tochallenge a huge fleet of 4,400 ships by themselves without cooperating withthe Qua-Toyne Navy.

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Bruay’s diary ofthat day

I boarded the j.a.panese ship safely as the Qua-ToynePrinc.i.p.ality’s citizen.

The flight until the ship was extremely comfortable, theinterior of the metal ship with a size beyond the norm also had a fixedtemperature. In addition, it is bright even at night. Although I should be inthe middle of the sea, the swaying of the waves are inexistent. Everything isout of common sense and so, I am very astonished.

In my meeting with the captain, when he told me thatthey will challenge Lourian’s 4,400 warships with just 8 ships, I at first thoughtthat they were suicidal. But after I observed this ship’s interior, its size,and then its metal construction, then I understood that fire arrows or ballistawouldn’t be able to damage it for sure.

On the other hand, the ship"s deck is so high, so thearrows fired from that higher alt.i.tude will surely hit the enemy ships. Thereare no fixed-installed weapons like a ballista, but it is highly probable that theweapons are portable and will be deployed when they enter battle preparations. Althoughfor a moment, I was in despair that there were only 8 ships, there is apossibility that enemy’s attacks won’t be effective against this ship. j.a.panseems to possess absolute confidence in the battle.

To be this nervous as an observer officer, this is thefirst time I’ve felt this way ever since I had been born.

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