---- Miki Arakawa-Viewpoint ---

As small skirmishes continue along the border, Ellis, who has been appointed as my Deputy Deputy Lieutenant on Alice, reports on the advancements of the "Northern Army" led by Koki.

"The 1st Assault Brigade under the command of Major General Admiral, assaulted the coastal city of Linkbull, Asti, successfully occupying."

"Is it over ?! It's so fast!"

No matter how much you assault with a fleet of carriers and battleships, it is too early. You probably didn't use live ammunition, right? He urged Ellis to continue the report, feeling a bit of anxiety, and found that Koki occupied Asti using a genius method.

"Mr. Special Admiralty made a sortie from the Sirens using a special capsule for atmospheric descent. It seems that he used a roaring device after forcibly landing on the shore, but at this time the sound resounded due to raising the roar inside the capsule. Directional sound waves hit the semi-surrounded Knights, and all of the Imperial Knights were almost stunned as shocked by the sound grenade. "

I guess I aimed at it because of that child, but it is usually impossible for humans to calculate the position of the suit to reverberate and the appropriate volume in a short time and take action. Mr. Victoria called Koki a genie, but I'm afraid that even recently, as a mother I, that kid is going to squeeze the frame of a person. Recently, "Mom! Look, you can use magic. ' Well, I think I'll learn magic and insist that my son is a man who draws my blood, but now I'm more worried about the changes in the Mercava front than those trivial things.

"Mr. Ellis, what is the situation on the front line? If you don't break through here soon, Koki will be isolated in the Imperial territory."

"Currently, the two knights of the Merkava Kingdom are in the foreground. The enemy appears to have sub-tribe infantry units on the front lines to preserve their units."

In terms of stalemate, there are no casualties on both sides, but the lack of a decisive hit has led to the problem that the battlefield itself does not fluctuate significantly. Should we hit a full offensive soon?

"What is the ammunition wear rate for land battleships?"

"As of the end of the 16th shell, we're less than 50% of all ships. The worst is the second ship, Clare, with 32% remaining."

I guess there's no reason she was attacking each time she received a request for artillery support, but Claire, who isn't going to be as useful as it should be, should be resupplied in the rear. I make a decision while biting my nails and give directions to Ellis.

`` Remember to ask Claire to resupply in the rear, and tell the captains of each ship to relocate the suits they carry to Alice and Miki before descending. And I'm going to fire a Panjang Drum, so I'll alert the kingdom. "

"OK"

I sit back in my chair and reassemble my legs, but remembering that it was important, she stopped in a hurry to see Ellis trying to go to the correspondence office.

"Can you get tea? A little milk without sugar."

"Yes, please wait"

After seeing Ellis back with a smile, I stared at the information on the screen and started thinking about a plan to break the battlefield.

"Miki, Princess Cassis and General Auguste are asking Alice for permission to board the ship to discuss the war."

"If the captain permits, please guide me to CIC."

While drinking tea and drafting a rough plan, the kingdom called for "consultation." Probably it was not a consultation but a scream that it was impossible to maintain the front more than that, but I had to endure the Knights for about 10 minutes.

Considering how to convey it, Princess Cassis and General Auguste, wearing tired and wearing armor, entered the CIC.

"Miki apologizes for the sudden visit."

"No, it's okay. Is the knights the limit?"

Princess Cassis answers my question with a crying face.

"Yes .... Fortunately Noah's efforts have left no dead, but the four Knights have already been destroyed, and the rest of the Knights are trying to prevent the enemy offensive again. But if I were here, I would have been able to endure a little more ... "

"It's unavoidable that they've been assigned another important task, thank you on behalf of Noah.

When I lower my head, the princess screams in a hurry, "Please raise your head," but now you have to tell the ruined Knights, "Please bear a little more", so you need to show your sincerity. I raised my head down, staring at the princess' eyes, and speaking of the plan I had just thought of.

"Immediately, the imperial offensive will reach its critical point. We plan to use the momentary shift from offensive to defensive to rush the land battleship to the enemy base and dominate the enemy's main team at once ... I need to get the members of the Knights to survive the onslaught of the enemy only once.

"I understand. I will order the Knights to endure anything."

With the permission of Princess Cassis, who nodded vigorously while contacting the Knights with magic, I ordered all units under his command.

"Inform all units! Land battleships are ready to rush to enemy lines. Power suits should go to help the Knights retreat."

"Communication from the 2nd ship Claire. It will return to the front line after refueling."

A report of just the right moment makes you smile, and if all the ships line up in a row and press against the front of the Imperial Army, a gap will always be created somewhere. Aiming at the gap, injecting the remaining Panjang drum and spraying neutralizing gas should open the assault route to the enemy's headquarters.After that, if you conquer with Mobile Infantry equipped with Noah's enhanced exoskeleton, this front Can break through. Thinking so, I felt a little strange while looking at the arrangement of each unit reflected on the screen with some relief.

"Your right wing is being pushed ... tanks are supposed to be deployed, but what happened?"

"The information is currently confusing. Please contact the Tank Corps directly, so please wait."

It is unlikely that a tank squad with high firepower and strong armor would easily withdraw. The only possibility is a ground attack from above, but according to prior information, there was no Dragon Rider deployed in the Imperial Army on this front. Even if you came with reinforcements, you could still catch it with Alice's radar and what was going on?

"Emergency communication from the tank squad!" I see a large enemy weapon in front of the right wing.

A large weapon? I don't think the Imperial Army has such a technical skill, but the fact is that the tank squad has withdrawn. Unless we can see the actual large weapon, we will determine that no effective countermeasures can be taken without giving a command to display the right wing area on the screen.

"Switching the video, it is a relay video from the tank that is serving as a palace. Such is this."

You can see that Ellis, who switched the video, is uttering a word when she sees a huge humanoid Nanica on the screen. More than five times the power suit we used by Noah ... 20 meters of a likely giant walked here with awkward movements.

"A giant golem !? How are humans moving like that ...?"

"Princess Cassis, do you know what that is?"

When I approach Princess Cassis and ask a question, she explains the giant with a blue face.

"Ah, that's one of the ancient siege weapons called the" Giant Golem, "but it uses an enormous amount of magical power to launch, so it's not a human or even a sub-human It should be "

"But it's booting up and coming to us now. Can you guess how it started up? And are there people on it?"

Princess Cassis was desperately thinking with her eyebrows, but seemed to come to a conclusion after a while, and told her what she had guessed with her face as if she had bitten a worm.

"There are no people on board, the Giant Golem is an automatic doll. It's an activation method. It's not only magical power but also" Sol "in hundreds of people. It can be moved if it is started using ''

He immediately uses an imaginary bomb to kill the Imperial Army's headquarters and is driven by a desire to do so, but he bites his lips and endures that feeling, shouting at the captain and giving instructions.

"Captain! I'll allow the use of live ammunition. Blow off that annoying giant right now."

"Let's say that the type of ammunition mounted on this ship will cause considerable damage to the surroundings, is that OK?"

Forgot ... Because the assumption of the use of neutralizing gas, land battleships do not carry ammunition to destroy targets using only simple ammunition mass.

"What is a heavily armed power suit squad?"

"We have been supporting the retreat of the Knights of the Kingdom from a while ago. It is possible to abandon it and it may lead to an unacceptable loss rate for the Knights."

"What!"

Gantly, I kick up the Admiral's seat with my heeled toe, which would destroy the right wing. Should we use live ammunition weapons even if we are prepared for reasonable damage? But in that case, there is definitely a death, so even if you can achieve a tactical victory, it is synonymous with losing strategically.

"Miki, the withdrawal line for right-wing units is the limit.

"Miki, if the Giant Golem is not stopped immediately, the lives of the Imperial casters are dangerous."

Ellis and Princess Cassis urge me to make a decision. The moment I apologized to Koki for failing to keep my promise of “Never killing dead” in my heart, the moment I opened my mouth to give the captain an order to allow live fire with the main gun ... Communications echoed Alice's CIC.

“… Eh… or… Noise… Sorry …… Can you hear me? One-way communication in all frequency bands due to severe noise. This rushed to the rescue at the command of Maj. Gen. Special Admiral, Ground Raider Odin. Units requiring a support attack should signal their targets with infrared strobes and will attack the giants under their eyes until instructed. '

Apparently it was helped by Koki again. While watching the screen showing Odin slowly descending from the sky onto the ground, he stuffed his mouth with tea that he wanted to make.

---- Captain Odin Martin's viewpoint ----

"Major, are we waiting today?"

Lucas, who is in charge of shooting, is struggling with a cigarette in his mouth while straddling a shell. It is hard to judge whether smoking in a place where flames are strict is tough or simply stupid, but since he is a good-skilled shooter, there is no intention to remove him from the team at this time.

"Oh, wait while preparing to start scrambling at any time. And get off from Soko! I'll fly to space if I accidentally explode."

"Hey. Well, nobody cares about where you flew away. We're always waiting for waste. We didn't have a turn when we were on earth, but we don't have a turn in another world. I wonder if I should aim for a suit wearer. ''

I can understand a little about how Lucas feels like he's crazy. There are several types of weapons on Earth that have been retired because they no longer need to be deployed, but there are only two weapons that can cause problems if completely retired.

One is Missile Attack Nuclear Submarine, which is being deployed in a few countries just because it is better to have missile defense technology than it was today.

The second is the strategic bomber we use. Not only because of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, but also because powersuits can shoot down aircraft if you are worried.In modern military balance, bombers that are slower than fighters and have a larger area to be hit are possessed than there are no bombers It is treated as a disappointing weapon rather than a submarine that may be better.

Under such circumstances, despite the fact that he joined the Air Force, he can understand the sadness of Lucas assigned to the bomber unit, but I want him to be a little more alert.

"Hey Lucas, what happened to John?"

I wondered if there wasn't John who smoked with Lucas normally. I asked him where he was.

"Ah, he went to the toilet with a magazine about 30 minutes ago. The link's sister is cleaning his nails over there."

No matter how much work you have, you're probably too free! Tolstoy's captain and crew in a similar setting are now in strict training and command a land battleship now, you're a little more apprentice.

When thinking of such a thing, the main communication terminal installed in the cabin suddenly sounded and a lamp was displayed to notify that communication was coming from outside the base. Anyway, as usual, the ground troops will be ridiculed.

"This is Captain Martin Odin. What is your affiliation?"

After that, the opponent should continue, "That? Are you not a pizza delivery company? I was twisting my head how to return to the line, and the woman reflected on the screen responded with frowning.

"I'm Lieutenant Commander Kureki Arakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Affairs, and Lt. Col. Claire Dauntres. He communicated to you because he wanted to speak directly to you, but he was quite arrogant. "

A joke? Speaking of Koki Arakawa, isn't she the only son of Shuichi? Now he's commanding Noah's main force and taking control of the Linked Bull Empire, but why is he sending a message to a lower commander like me! ? No, first of all, if you do not apologize, you will be a martial law if you do poorly.

"I'm sorry! I was relaxed because the wait was prolonged."

"It is a place to teach the superior how to hear the mouth ... I will exchange communication with your Excellency, but please do not be rude if you make a mistake. "

With that said, Col. Claire came out of the screen, and this time a gentle boy appeared on the screen. Since we belonged to Noah with respect for Shuichi, we have never seen Kouki's face like those of other units, but since he has a similar feature to Miki, this boy It's sure to be Koki.

"I am Captain Odin, Major Martin Achenbach! I am honored to see His Excellency."

"I'm Koki Arakawa. Don't be afraid to be so scary, please relax

I was told "please make it easy," so I decided to take an upright and immobile posture. Behind Lucas shouts, "Sit down and cross your legs," so make a note in your mind that you'll definitely hit him later.

"I'm sure the Major is commanding a new ground assault, right?

"Yes, under my command is the ground assault aircraft Odin."

Koki nodded satisfactorily with my response. Surely, Kouki himself designed Odin, but did he just want to see who was using the plane he designed? The boy who appears on the screen when he has such a question has issued a ridiculous command with a smiling expression.

"I command Major Martin using my authority. The Odin ground assault is a quick assault and supports the fighting kingdom rescue squadron in the area of Merkava. According to the information of the Dragon Rider dispatched from the Ursuna Empire, the appearance of "Large Siege Weapon" in the direction of the kingdom is predicted, so it is an operational goal to destroy it with Odin. "

"Why such a big role for us ..."

I'm surprised after putting it out. This time he will ask the superior to question the commander-in-chief, and this time he will be given "mentoring" to Col. Claire, but I do not understand why we can leave such a major role.

With Koki's authority, it should be possible to make all sorts of powersuits and fighter units waiting on Noah Island. When he was silently waiting for an answer, he responded with a smile with a smile.

"It's so cool, it's romance that a super-large ground assault can turn enemy siege weapons into beehives! And the Major is tired of waiting? I was able to understand my feelings because I was canned on the island until this time. Please come and let me know. "

I was stunned for a moment by Koki's words, but I was able to immediately grasp the meaning. Romans are just an excuse to give you a chance to look back at other units that are always chilling us out, and if you succeed in this rescue operation, you'll never be able to beat the waste again There will be nothing.

Realizing that, Lucas began checking the equipment as soon as possible, and found that John and Link, who had listened and listened to the conversation, ran to the hangar to get the flight equipment for everyone. After confirming his subordinates' behavior, he replied to Koki while stretching his back and saluting again.

"We will be successful in rescue operations and destroy the expected large enemy siege weapons!"

I don't know if I'm satisfied with this response, but Koki nodded twice and cut off the communication by lowering his head to me, the lower major, saying, "Thank you." I was so impressed by the compassion of my subordinates that overlapped with Mr. Shuichi somewhere, and I threw my chest in the battle after a long absence.

"Large, we'll arrive in the fighting airspace with a mortar."

"Speak at the correct time, not" Motochoi "!"

Since the operator's link reported a bad report, I tried to contact the ground unit while scolding it, but the communication was not successfully connected from the previous time, apparently it seems that a large amount of communication was performed at once and I could not process the information The main terminal seems to be temporarily down.

"Accurately, it's about two minutes later, and it's not possible to get any communication with the ground forces at the moment from the command from Noah's headquarters.

I don't know what to ask, because precision bombing isn't a mission in the first place, so we can't tell which one to attack without request from the ground forces. Do you wait until you can contact me? When you start thinking about that, shooter Lucas raises his voice and reports.

"I can see the" Large Siege Weapon "that was predicted to appear. Let's shoot it because it's troublesome. You'll be instructed to kill that big one afterwards.

"Wait! @ If you release it with a friendly army around, it's really bad."

Lucas, who doesn't get my shooting permission, looks into the target scope while complaining, but can't do anything in the current situation. If you fire up a friendly army with your skill, Kouki who sent us out with confidence will be annoying.

If we can somehow inform our ground troops of our intentions, we can start firing ... but yes! You can use what you learned when you were still enrolled in the school.

"Link, take control of all the bands used in this battlefield. On the other hand, it's okay to communicate, so let's inform our ground units of our will."

The link is immediately operated by Odin's information system, which also functions as an air traffic controller, and thumbs up with a finger. After confirming that, I speak into the headset microphone.

"Can you hear me? This is Odin. The noise is terrible .... Do you hear it? It communicates on all frequencies because of the terrible noise. I rushed to rescue at the command of the Special Admiral of the Special Admiral," Ground Raider Odin. Units that need a support attack should alert their targets with infrared strobes and will attack the giants under their eyes until instructed.

That's okay, all you have to do is move the enemy infantry away from the giant's feet. To destroy siege weapons, use soft-iron bombs with relatively low killing ability, but if they hit humans directly, they would be fatally injured. The question is how to separate the infantry, but I'm already thinking about it, and I grin and command the co-pilot, John.

"Let's lower the flying altitude and fly close to the siege weapons. If Odin, a 100 meter long giant, flew 5 meters above the ground, the imperial people would be surprised and escaped."

"Okay!

Once you make a large turn over the battlefield, lower the nose and accelerate to rush into the ground. After gaining sufficient acceleration, the aircraft moved to level flight and traveled 1000 km / h .... When flying 5 meters above the ground at Mach 0.8, you could use an external camera to see the Imperial soldiers, who were surprised by the shock waves and roar of the aircraft, fled in a hurry. Was.

But we're not the only ones who are called "elites" amongst the strategic bombers, and this is "Odin" designed by genius Koki and developed by Noah.

"Link, Lucas, are you sure your belt is fastened? I'll do some flips!"

"Major, I've been thinking for a long time, but I'll tell you once. Isn't it an idiot !? I can't do acrobatic flying with a bomber."

Ignoring Lucas' words, he raised Odin's nose at a dash, climbed up at a right angle, and then flipped over to see the tank squadron on the ground upside down. I turn on the headset microphone that extends to my lips, and then yells at the tank squad instead of a subordinate who has been stupid as Odin's representative.

"Take a good look at the fucking guys in the tank squad! The pizzeria that you've been ridiculously smashed that big butt!"

A variety of things are scattered in Odin's cabin returned to normal flight due to aerobatic flight, but no one is concerned about such a thing, all are absorbed in killing the opponent who the tank squad retreated It has become.

"Lucas, destroy the enemy's siege weapons with the Gatling cannon. Don't be spared?-Since we haven't come for a while, we'll use all the equipped 20 guns to break them apart."

"Roger that"

Lucas looks into the target scope at my instructions and starts aiming and preparing for shooting. This Odin is equipped with 20 36 mm caliber gatling guns in addition to 120 mm guns and missile launchers, which is indeed insignificant compared to the high power heavy guns equipped with tank guns and power suits It's a barrel.

But there are the greatest advantages that they do not. The tank cannon fires 6 shots per minute or 8 early, even with the automatic loading device, but the gatling artillery can fire 3,900 shots per minute. That's 20 ... What happens to an object that fired at 78,000 shots per minute with simple calculations? What happens if you deploy a solid magic barrier that bounces off a tank gun and land it in the same spot continuously? ─── The result is immediately obvious.

"Start shooting!"

A 36mm bullet attacks the siege weapon while leaving a banging sound unique to Gatling. In the first three seconds, a purple light emission was visible at the point of impact, but five seconds later, it landed without any resistance, and it was found that the rain of the bullet dug the humanoid shoulder.

"Foot! Stop aiming at your feet. Let them roll and cook carefully."

The giant's upper body is already stubby because I aimed at my feet without stopping shooting at my instructions. When my legs flew apart and fell down prone, bullets poured down from the sky and fired all the way from the head of the giant to the toes, and when the prototype was no longer known, the ground forces contacted me.

"Relief Army Commander Miki Arakawa. Thank you for helping this dangerous place. But couldn't you stop firing soon? Princess Cassis next to me and Alice's CIC personnel are also taking a look. Doing too much will lower Noah's reputation and hinder future negotiations, so please stop there. "

Calm down to the words, I ordered Lucas, who was still shooting, to stop shooting, and then responded to Miki, Noah's commander.

"I understand. You destroyed a siege weapon, but do you need any other support attacks?"

"No need. Thanks to you, you have time to rebuild, and most importantly, when the giant falls, the Imperial Army has lost its willingness and has begun retreating. I'm okay to withdraw, so I'll return to Noah ... but before that I would like to fly over the northern army if I have enough fuel. Couldn't you ask because my son who had just been in contact with him for the uplifting war wanted to see Odin?

"I understand! Odin will now fly north, and then fly above the Northern Army."

As soon as I salute, I see the screen cut off and tell John to head north. Certainly, Koki was supposed to have been a Dragon Rider from the Ursuna Empire, and now he is looking forward to seeing how he reacts to this aircraft as a driver in the same sky.

---- Miki Arakawa-Viewpoint ---

I was relieved in my heart to see Odin fly north. Such "stop at the foot. If you attack the enemy with a slapstick like never before, you'll have a strange misunderstanding with Princess Cassis next door and the Ursuna empire soldiers listening to communications.

Ellis has said that he is taking care of Odin's crew because it is Koki who built such a ridiculous airplane.

"Miki-san, what is Odin, can you fly in the sky with such a huge body?-That was about 100 meters.

"I don't know, I ordered the tech department to create a mock-up prototype after mock-up as designed by the creation program. By the way, if I move any one of the 12 engines, it will not fly It's a mystery of technology. ''

Ellis comes to my explanation with her eyes wide open.

"Isn't that a problem?-Check with Koki and why you can fly!"

"Because it's just a coincidence! I just happened to fly and I didn't think I really would float like that." Isn't it enough to tell me? I wonder if it's a rebellion period?

Ellis shut down when she lost her troubles as a mother, and she probably sympathized with my son who did not go well with his son. I decided to talk with Kouki at the end of this war, and then ordered my high-speed suit squad to chase the enemy.