Part 10
[Arroganz’s body check has been completed. All green, ready to go out anytime.]
Hearing Luxion’s voice, I move Arroganz to the hatch of the hangar.
Five idiots also get into the armor, activate it and get behind Arroganz.
“Finn, what are you going to do?”
I asked Finn, who did not deploy his armor, and he shrugged.
“I’ll be covered outside, so don’t worry about it. You can just throw me out like this.”
I didn’t understand what Finn saying.
I was not good at skydiving in my previous life, so I respect Finn’s courage.
“Aren’t you afraid?”
“I’ve got my partner.”
When Finn looked at his partner Brave, he made a gesture of puffing out his chest, as if he was happy to be depended on.
“Haha, good duo. ——Luxion, we’ll go out too.”
[Understood. Hatch Open]
As soon as Luxion says that, the hatch of Einhorn’s hangar is opened.
When the hatches on the left and right sides of the hull open, the wind blows through the hangar.
Even in the midst of all this, Finn stood there with a look of ease on his face.
Looking outside, I can see scattered resistance taking place.
The enemy flying battleships were unable to move, and much of their armor was aimed at Licorne but was blocked by the Livia’s Field.
Literally, Licorne —— No, they can’t even do anything against Livia and others.
“I’ll get out first.”
In the midst of all that, I see the shadow of a plane approaching Einhorn.
The booster of the container backpack on Arroganz’s back catches fire and I leap out of the hangar as enemy armor closes in on me.
The enemy’s voice could be picked up from an external microphone, not a communication line.
“I found you, Fiend Knight!”
“Defeat our Holy Knights’ Grudge Enemies!”
“For His Majesty the Great and our Beautiful Country!”
Just by hearing this line, I can guess that the other party is a magic equipment.
They lay down their lives for just one battle, they are literally giving their lives for the nation.
I question that way of life, but I hesitate to mock it.
“You Holy Knights will end up here.”
At the very least, let’s put an end to the existence of the Holy Knights of Raschel.
Move the control stick and step on the foot pedal to accelerate Arroganz.
In order to keep distance from the holy knights, I descend in a spiral.
“They can’t be saved, right?”
[Yes.]
Luxion, who had been so kind as to accompany me in my pointless conversation, was not sarcastic this time.
“I guess so. ——Get the rifle out.”
[Rifle discharge.]
A rifle from a container is grabbed by Arroganz in his right hand, and when it is held at the ready, a pseudo-magic equipment figure can be seen on the monitor.
Lock-on——The sights were fixed on the enemy, and when the trigger was pulled, a bullet was fired from the rifle, blowing off the head of the pseudo-magic equipment.
I thought it would regenerate as it was, but when the body of the remaining pseudo-magic equipment cracked, it shattered into pieces.
“It’s getting more violent again. You didn’t just increase the power, right.”
I killed the pseudo-magic equipment who has the ability to regenerate with one blow.
[Based on the data collected so far, we have modified it for anti-demonic use and improved the bullets to be more effective against magic equipment.]
Based on the data accumulated by Luxion and Creare, they seem to have created a more powerful weapon.
When the holy knights saw that their friends had been killed, rather than breaking their will to fight, they became furious and attacked Arroganz.
They were taken in by the magic equipment and were becoming mentally unstable.
“How dare you!”
The pseudo-magic equipment was so furious that they sped up, but I kicked them away with Arroganz.
If they are speeding up but coming straight at me, they are not scaring me.
“It’s easy to read!”
The magic equipment that I kicked away, pointed the rifle and pulled the trigger as he was trying to regain his position in the air.
Scattered magic equipment fell on the chalk castle, the symbol of the White City, and splashed black liquid on it.
Still, the magic equipment of the holy knights swarms Arroganz with their eyes on me, the so called Fiend Knight.
“For the Great Motherland!”
The pseudo-magic equipment, shouting for his country and coming toward me, was holding a huge hammer in his hand.
He swings it wide in the air, and before it gets close to Arroganz, he swings it down and charges at it while spinning in the air.
What a rough way to attack!
I made light talk and have Arroganz avoid it.
“Sorry, but I’m an individualist, so I can’t relate when people say it’s for the good of the country.”
The spinning pseudo-magic equipment changes direction again in a large circle and comes toward Arroganz again.
“Missile! Just stop the movement.”
[Firing.]
When a missile was launched from Arroganz container, it hit the spinning pseudo-magic equipment and shook its axis of rotation.
The rotation speed slows down, and I hold the rifle up and pull the trigger toward the magic equipment, which is dizzy in mid-air.
The pseudo-magic equipment, which had been shot through the chest, falls down and stops moving as it is.
It seems that the next three pseudo-magic equipments will attack at the same time.
Seeing how well they work together, they must be highly competent as holy knights.
I know that they are competent when they don’t let their magic equipments go out of control and come to cooperate together.
[If they can’t take them down with one plane, they’ll take us down with three!]
Sporadic attacks were noticeable in the magic equipment, but when it came to coordination, it was a nuisance.
Arroganz could probably beat them in performance, but I don’t like to be damaged.
When approaching the targeted enemy, Arroganz strikes the palm with its left hand.
“First, one down”
Impact —— As the magic equipment blows away, the black liquid splashes down on Arroganz like return blood.
[I’ll have to clean it carefully when we get back.]
Luxion says with a truly disgusted expression, but it is strange that the artificial intelligence has a tendency to be a clean freak, or rather, a thorough dislike of magic equipment.
He could have defeated his enemies without hesitation, but for some reason he has something like a heart.
What were the old humans thinking when they gave minds to artificial intelligences?
“How dare you, to my brother!”
Apparently, the holy knights piloting the three magic equipments were brothers. I kicked away the one that was charging at me to avenge his brother’s enemy, and I took aim at the other one.
Thanks to the magic equipment who forgot himself in anger, the coordination was disrupted abruptly.
“That is the second one——you’re the only one left.”
With the goal of avenging his brothers’ deaths, the magic equipment became mentally unstable and swelled up, unable to maintain his humanoid form.
When he swells and becomes round-shaped, a large mouth appears.
And on his back were the wings of a bat, small for the size of the ball.
“I’ll crush you into pieces!!”
Looking into his wide-open mouth, I saw the saw blade vibrating.
Since he will bite Arroganz, I will offer him its left hand.
The magic equipment bites down from the elbow first, vibrating the blade and making a sickening sound of metal rubbing against metal. Luxion was dismayed when sparks came out of his mouth.
“You play too much. Or did you get upset?”
He’s sensitive to my feelings.
The way he wanted to avenge his brother’s enemies brought to my mind the faces of Nix and Colin —— my brothers.
If I were in the same position, I would have definitely taken revenge.
When the metallic sound gradually ceased, the magic equipment opened his mouth.
Arroganz’s left arm was somewhat damaged but intact, and instead, all of the saw-like teeth of the magic equipment were shattered.
“—— Blow them up.”
[Understood.]
When a shockwave is generated from the left arm, the magic equipment bursts out.
With no time for sentimentality, I move my face to look for my next target.
Let’s think about it after it’s all over.
“Next!”
[A new magic equipment is rising from the ground. It seems that they have introduced low-skilled holy knights.]
It seems that the Holy Kingdom of Raschel, which was impatient after being attacked, has even sent in candidates for the Holy Knights, who are not yet full-fledged.
The reason I know this is because of the appearance of the magic equipment that came up.
All of them have a distorted shape.
“Let’s get this over with and destroy the magic equipment.”
[——No, that’s not necessary.]
Descending swiftly past Arroganz are colorful armors.
Julius —— white armor with a masked knight riding in the forefront, followed by red and light blue armor.
Three machines were slashing at the magic equipment.
And one magic equipment coming toward Arroganz —— is shot through by the green armor of Jilk, who is holding a rifle in the distance.
A communication comes in from Jilk.
“Leave this to us, go ahead.”
“You’re useful once in a while”
When I make light talk, Jilk goes along with me.
“I wish you would appreciate our work more. When things settle down, please set up a meeting to discuss this so that you can revise my assessment.”
It is typical of Jilk that he is the only one who asks me to revise his reputation.
It is like saying that there is no need to re-evaluate the other four.
The armor that Jilk rode in was shooting down the magic equipments one after another.
Apparently, it is equivalent in performance to the rifles held by Arroganz.
As I was about to descend, a true magic equipment, Finn and Brave fused with a magic equipment spreading its wings, was coming up next to us.
The holy knights are surprised at the sight of him.
“How could a holy knight betray us!?”
“No, who is he anyway!”
“Not many people look as beautiful as that.”
The Holy Knights were dismayed at the sight of the real magic equipment, but next to us was Finn —— a magic equipment owned by the Empire.
Finn was not dealing with the pseudo-magic equipment.
“Leon, Kurosuke says he feels a strong demonic reaction from below the lake.”
“Not from the castle?”
Brave, on behalf of Finn, tells me where I can find the magic equipment.
[There’s no doubt about it. It’s in the lake.]
Looking over my right shoulder, I saw the red lens of the Luxion flashing.
[I have located the magic equipment, and someone who appears to be the Holy King has boarded the airship to escape.]
“That way first, huh.”
[No, it looks like it’s going to be troublesome.]
Luxion said it, but his tone was somewhat dismayed.
He is not dismayed at me.
Sounds like a mutter that he thought it can’t be helped.
Shortly thereafter, Finn pushed Arroganz away.
“Get down!”
“!”
What I saw before Finn yelled at me was a column of water that had formed from something popping out of the lake.
It is not one or two, but dozens of them.
Finn’s magic equipment draws his sword and holds it up, slashing something that comes out of the lake.
Looking closely, it was a rather large tree seed that Finn had slashed.
About the size of an adult? Such species are being shot out of the lake one after another.
When Luxion saw that, his red lens flashed suspiciously.
[I request permission to use missiles.]
“Do it.”
Without hesitation, I give permission, and the hatch of the container backpack opens and missiles are launched from it.
The missiles tracked the seeds that were shot out of the lake.
The hit causes an explosion, and the burned seeds fall into the lake.
“What kind of seed is that?”
Finn seems to have no idea what to expect.
“I don’t know. What about you, Kurosuke?”
[It’s grown uniquely over the years, so I can’t predict it either. Well, I think it’s plant-based.]
Ivy grew from the lake where the magic equipment, said to be of plant origin, was sleeping.
What can be seen at the tip is a leaf shaped like a bivalve —— or a shape like the one I saw in my previous life.
Six of these ghastly bivalve shells, each with its own stinger, emerge from the lake.
“I remember now. It’s a Venus’s flytrap.”
I mutter, and Finn, who was listening, agrees.
“When you mention it, it sure looks like that. Well, I guess it’s just a resemblance, but it’s not the same thing.”
Huge flytraps were attacking the surrounding area indiscriminately.
When it attacked the nearest pseudo-magic equipment, it was pinned down and remained there——.
“W-Why? I’m your ——ally——’
They were pinched and melted in an instant, apparently.
“It’s out of control!”
“They must have been forced to activate it. It’s a really nasty enemy. That said, there’s also the matter of the seeds that were shot out.”
The seed that was shot off on the monitor had six legs when it fell on the castle town. When the seed cracks open and becomes a large mouth, it begins to attack the people of the castle town.
It is not pleasant to watch as they attack those nearby with their large mouths.
“This way first, huh.”
As I moved the control stick to go to the rescue, a purple armor landed on the castle town.
The armor, which poses in vain, bears six spears.
“Let me take care of this”
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