You Try It Too (1)
You Try It Too (1)
"How could those things..."
Corporal Rikun's penis dangled as he muttered as if his soul had left his body. The other Oist mercenaries were the same. They were feeling the fear of death from the beings outside the window.
I looked out the window again. The colossal shapes approaching from outside the window were clearly a swarm of Deathworms. Unbelievably, they were flapping their massive wings and flying towards the train. At this speed, it wouldn't even take a minute until they collided with us.
"Deathworms shouldn't have wings."
[Deathworm Mature Forms are capable of flight.]
"What did you say?"
So, all the Deathworms I've caught until now were just larvae?
Thump!!
My hair shot up into the air from the fierce wind. Corporal Rikun and the Oist mercenaries were trying to jump out of the train, wearing parachute bags. I couldn't see any parachute bags equipped on the train. It seemed the parachute bags they were wearing were standard gear for Oist mercenaries.
You sons of bitches, you're just trying to save yourselves, aren't you?
If I wore X, I could save myself and Yun Seol-ha. But I couldn't think of a way to save all these people on the train.
"Excuse me!!"
A woman who looked to be in her mid-30s grabbed an Oist mercenary's wrist and cried out in a piteous voice. She was hugging a boy of about five years old, her face filled with despair.
"Take us too, no, please just take my child!!"
Corporal Rikun pulled out a pistol from his belt without a moment's hesitation and fired it at the woman's head.
Bang!
Splat-!!!
The back of the woman's head exploded, covering the child standing behind her in blood and brain fragments.
"M-Mom..."
The Oist mercenary even aimed his pistol at the panicked child.
Crazy bastard.
Bang!
Splat!!!
I threw my body forward with all my might and barely managed to save the child from the crazy bastards' bullets. However, the bullet, having lost its target, pierced the heart of a passenger standing nearby.
"Cough!! Cough!!"
Blood gushed like a fountain from the man's chest. Passengers fell into uncontrollable panic from the approaching swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms outside and the gunfire inside, screaming like chickens.
The Oist mercenary aimed his pistol at the child again. I wanted to tear off his arm. But as long as I had the Nose Piercing, I couldn't act hostile towards the Oist mercenaries. In this situation, if Yun Seol-ha were to be electrocuted and collapse, she could be trampled to death by the panicked passengers.
Someone grabbed the Oist mercenary's pistol, which was aimed at the child, and pulled it down. It was Corporal Rikun.
"Don't waste bullets. We're all going to die anyway. Focus on escaping."
Starting with Corporal Rikun, the Oist mercenaries successively jumped out of the train. Seeing them fall with quite practiced postures, I felt a sense of relief.
Make sure you stay alive. I'll kill you with my own hands.
"Hiiiieek-!!"
"I think we're going to crash into them!!!"
The people inside the train watched the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms approaching, their faces filled with fear.
What should I do?
It wouldn't be difficult to rescue only Yun Seol-ha as things stood. But if I did that, too many people would die.
[A dangerous energy signature has been detected. Equip me immediately. If the Qualified One is hit by this energy while bare, the probability of death is 100%.]
I felt the hairs on my entire body stand on end. Even without X telling me, I instinctively knew that allowing their attack would result in irreversible damage.
I saw a flash of light among the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms. Without a moment's hesitation, I took X out of my inventory and equipped it. The light from the Deathworm Mature Forms grew larger and larger. Along with an ominous sound, a violent vibration was transmitted through the air.
Drrr-drrr-drrr-, Drrr-drrr-drrr-drrr-drrr-drrr-drrr-drrr-!!
The train shook as if it would break apart. Passengers gripped the train handles, seatbacks, and other fixtures, staring at the creatures' light as if their souls had left their bodies.
Their ball of light seemed to grow exponentially in an instant. It immediately enveloped the train car I was in.
Whoosh-!!
The sound of air tearing came belatedly. It took less than a second for the terrifyingly fast shot to pass through the train. But due to the immense super-high heat, the train car I was in literally evaporated. I felt a terrifying heat trying to burn me through X. The air in my lungs expanded, and I felt like my body would explode.
My mind grew hazy, and I felt someone pulling my wrist. Looking down, I saw the child, covered in his mother's blood and brain fragments, with an angry expression.
[Initiating rapid temperature control function.]
Fwoosh-shhhhhhh-
Steam erupted from X's surface, and I felt the heat rapidly dissipate. If it had been even a little later, I would have been roasted alive inside X.
"Haa, haa, huff, haa."
As I frantically expelled the hot air from my lungs, I felt my mind clear. I looked down again, but the child was nowhere to be seen.
Damn it, was that a hallucination?
I saw the train, split in two, stopped on the tracks. The train cars, which had been heading vertically towards the ground, had fused to the tracks due to the super-high heat.
"At least it won't crash."
If the train cars had separated and fallen apart, it would have been a major disaster. The swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms was already right in front of me. Moreover, the light they had just fired began to flash simultaneously in three places.
Bwooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo,
Bwooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-ook-,
Bwooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-.
Let's at least save Yun Seol-ha.
"X, where's Yun Seol-ha?"
[Displaying target's location.]
Yun Seol-ha's location was displayed in a train car falling far below. I entered, smashing through the door of her train car at maximum speed. All the passengers inside were either crying in terror or staring blankly at the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms.
"Seol-ha!! Where are you!! Seol-ha!!!"
Yun Seol-ha was standing in the same spot as before, as if by a miracle. Like the other passengers, she was staring blankly at the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms.
"Let's get out of here. Come here!!"
The view outside the window in front of her turned pitch black, then white, then black again in rapid succession. It didn't take long for me to realize that it was the eye of a Deathworm Mature Form.
"No, Seol-ha!!"
The moment I tried to grab her waist, with a deafening explosion, the Deathworm Mature Form in front of Seol-ha vanished.
Splat-!!
"What was that?"
Holding Seol-ha, I exited the train car. There, a golden giant, easily hundreds of meters tall, was shaking something off its palm.
"X, do you know what that is?"
[That is the Super Robot, Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed, from Honor of Brothers. The user is Stella. She is part of the Elite Brigade.]
"Elite Brigade..."
So, there was someone using that thing in the Elite Brigade meeting room I visited a few days ago.
Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed charged into the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms. They fired super-high temperature light at Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed, but it bounced off its palm.
Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed pulled out countless arms from its back and annihilated the swarm of Deathworm Mature Forms with overwhelming combat power. It was so instantaneous that I didn't even have a chance to intervene.
"Wow, holy shit, that's amazing."
Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed, as if by magic, lifted all the train cars and headed towards the ground train station.
As I followed Thousand-Handed Thousand-Eyed towards the ground, Yun Seol-ha, who had been blankly staring, opened her mouth. For some reason, her voice was frozen cold.
"Kelrot-ssi, what is that robot?"
To talk to her and reassure her, I told her what I had heard from X. Yun Seol-ha listened quietly, then nodded as if she understood, smiled shyly, and buried her face in my arms.
At the ground train station were Kamyu, a few Elite Brigade members, Sras, and Rick.
As I approached them, Kamyu looked at my face and was startled. Then she glared at Rick and said,
"How dare you put such a vulgar piercing on an Elite Brigade member. Shall I summarily execute you along with your filthy subordinates?"
Rick was startled and hastily removed my and Yun Seol-ha's Nose Piercings.
I should have just told Kamyu about this.
I felt a surge of injustice, as if I had suffered for nothing.
Kamyu grabbed my shoulder firmly and said with a serious expression,
"The Deathworm Spawning Ground's hatching speed is faster than expected. We'll inevitably have to carry out the infiltration operation starting tomorrow. You can do it, Lieutenant Kelrot."
"Tomorrow?"
Starting tomorrow? That's surprising. Perhaps my feelings showed on my face, as Kamyu said in a chiding tone,
"What's with that reaction? I thought you'd want to receive a mission befitting the great Elite Brigade as soon as possible."
An infiltration operation risking my life is certainly more appealing than sitting in a Milking Chair and having my Breast Milk extracted. But there's something I need to do first.
"What about the Oist mercenary who murdered a civilian?"
"That's summary execution, of course. But why are you asking?"
Just as I expected, I knew this bitch would say summary execution.
"I just saw such a bastard. Let me execute him before the infiltration operation."
"Well, if that's really the case, then yes, but is it true? Do you have proof?"
Proof? I have it.
"Corporal Rikun, that bastard, put a bullet in a civilian's head. He'll be missing one bullet from his possession."
Kamyu's expression hardened. I don't know if my words will work. But it doesn't matter. I'm just trying to get Kamyu's permission to use it. If not, I'll just kill him secretly. As painfully as possible, of course.