Chapter 36: Simple Happening (5)

“Target secured. Currently being packaged and transported to the killing field.”

“Since I shot her directly in the forehead with a large-caliber bullet, it’ll take a while for her to wake up.”

“Fufufu♡ Good. From here on, as planned, Sora-chan and I will return first, and Azusa-chan, please lure the enemies.”

“Alright, the preparations are already complete.”

By now, Mika-sama would have intentionally leaked information to the Arius side. However, that information doesn’t include any information about what kind of place we will choose as our battlefield from now on.

Yeah, try to break through this place, which is called a viper’s nest, and contains all of Trinity’s malice.

“Panic room clear! Target, not visible!”

“It seems there were visitors before us… The intelligence was true…

Search the surroundings! Don’t make a big commotion!

Where is the informant we were supposed to meet?! We need that guy’s help!”

The commander of Arius, in charge of the operation to bring down Trinity, is very displeased right now.

The best opportunity was prepared today through information barely secured through an insider created through contact with Trinity and Kirifuji Nagisa’s own blunder…

Someone ruined that opportunity. It was also shortly after the time when it was decided to advance the mission.

She doesn’t know where the information leaked, but she received information from the intelligence of Trinity’s insider that someone leaked information,

and based on that, she obtained information that the target of this operation was trying to be taken away, so she advanced the already advanced operation once more and rushed to the panic room.

Nevertheless, she missed the target, so she is very angry now.

-Static-

“This is IV team, we, we’re being ambushed at the meeting point! The informant, the informant has betrayed us!”

“What?! Suddenly?!”

“IV team! Down! All connections are lost!”

“Damn it! IV team’s location?”

“It was at the entrance of the building where panic room 84 is located!”

According to the intelligence, panic room 84 is a relatively recently built panic room.

Our side also had information that there were no particularly secret infiltration routes, even in the information from the informant who just betrayed us.

The inside couldn’t be confirmed because even the informant couldn’t infiltrate, but in this situation, she must have intentionally spared information only about this panic room.

“There are three entrances to the inside: east, west, and north! Among them, the north side is blocked by a barricade!”

There are three entrances… Nevertheless, the informant blocked only one entrance with a barricade. Then what is the purpose? It’s unknown at the moment.

However, only one team has been annihilated so far, and even reinforcements from Squad are scheduled. Dividing the team is not a good decision, but there isn’t much time now, so we decide to enter by dividing the team.

“I, II, III teams, with me to the east entrance! V, VI, VII teams, break through the barricade! VIII, IX, X teams, enter through the west passage!”

“The teams will be divided. Also, a commotion will occur during the barricade breakthrough. Is that okay?”

“I know! Time is running out. We have to secure the target, even if we have to take some casualties. And I received a call from Squad that reinforcements will soon enter the Trinity Autonomous District.

Now, this mission should be considered not as an assassination of a VIP, but as a war with Trinity. We have to retrieve the target before that!”

“Yes!”

“Enter!”

-Static-

“V, VI, VII teams! Encountered the informant! VI team! Down!”

-Boom!-

“Trap confirmed! III team, many casualties!”

“Tsk… The correct answer is the west…”

-Static-

“VII, IX, X Engagement occurred! The target is… Boom!”

“VIII, IX, X teams, connection impossible!”

Even though I was prepared for casualties, half of them were incapacitated or their ability to act was questionable from the start. However, since we’ve already entered this far, we can’t stop moving.

The Justice Realization Committee can’t move, and we even have reinforcements scheduled. Our side is overwhelmingly superior in numbers, so we’ll break through quickly.

-Boom!!!-

“Argh! C, Claymore?!”

“IED?! Kyaaaak!”

Numerous entry teams were eliminated, and only I, II, III teams remained. VIII and X teams, who returned to the road even though contact was lost due to the destruction of communication devices, eventually joined.

Even so, III team couldn’t exert its strength due to many casualties. But in the end, we… were standing at the end of the road leading to panic room 84.

With a large number of injured members of III team remaining as guides for the subsequent support units, the joining of the subsequent support units is also not far away.

It has also been confirmed that the informant’s last companion escaped through the door in front of us.

Unlike the narrow and complicated roads so far, this is the last road with a different door size, so the panic room must be beyond this… Finally, the end of this damn mission is approaching.

“Open the door and enter!”

-Creak…-

When we opened the door and entered, what unfolded was a hallway without a single shelter, wondering why this building was made in this structure. And beyond that…

-Brrrrrrrrrrrt!-

Panic Room 84, built relatively recently, about 2 years ago in terms of time.

It was built in preparation for the unprecedented unification of Gehenna by a leader called the Thunder Emperor of Gehenna, and the relationship between Trinity and Gehenna reaching the extreme and approaching the brink of war.

It’s a panic room with a particularly vicious design among safe houses, literally.

The entrance, there’s only one proper path, and dozens of corridors and passages are all narrow one-way streets, and most of them lead to dead ends, so there are even dozens of lost Tea Party members.

Nevertheless, at the very end of the road, there is an absurdly long, windowless hallway with shelters intentionally installed only on the side close to the panic room. This vicious panic room is the battlefield we chose.

It’s a battlefield that we wouldn’t have been able to choose if it weren’t for me and Mika-sama. The merit that this panic room gave us was beyond imagination.

-Brrrrrrrrrrt!-

As soon as I confirmed that the Arius members entered by opening the door at the opposite end of the corridor, I pulled the trigger of the Evolys, which I had prepared in advance.

I fire each bullet with all my might into the barrage pouring out at 750 RPM.

The Evolys has clearly shown outstanding power before, but the scene unfolding now is clearly different from before.

As it is the last line of defense for the panic room, the door of the corridor, made of a material with ridiculous durability, is torn apart like a piece of paper. This must be what they used, which I didn’t have.

If it were me before, I would have allowed them to advance little by little, but the Arius forces are now unable to advance even a little in this corridor.

-Tick, tick-

I wonder how long I poured out the barrage. Even the bullets stored in the weapon case were completely exhausted.

Every time the Evolys spit fire, I felt like something was leaving my body little by little, but it’s still okay. It’s not a big problem for fighting.

When the deployment of the barrage ended, as if they had been waiting for this, the Arius members started to approach.

“You’re out of ammo… Get out of there obediently…”

“Ha! If I were going to get out because you told me to, I wouldn’t have blocked it in the first place…”

I drop the Evolys to the ground, take out the Type 99, and rush.

Every time I swing the Type 99, one person loses consciousness and collapses.

I grab the head of the guy who rushes in between the swings of the Type 99 and slam it to the ground.

I spread my right wing wide against the guys rushing in groups and swing it from left to right to slam them into the right wall as a group.

Every time I swing, a brutal sonic boom occurs, and every time I slam, a crater is created.

Every time I move, one halo loses its light. And at the very end…

“Cr… Craaak?!”

-Boom!-

I grab the head of the guy who was commanding the battle slightly in the rear from the beginning and delaying my advance, probably judged to be the commander, by the gas mask and slam it into the floor.

The floor is shattered and the guy’s head is stuck in the ground. This is not enough. Without letting go of the guy’s head, I grind the floor with the guy’s head and charge, leaving a trace like grinding with a construction drill on the floor.

When I reached about half the length of the corridor, I thought it was the end and threw him upwards strongly.

-Crash!… Thud-

With the crater created in the ceiling, the guy is stuck in the ceiling, ignoring the influence of gravity, and after being fixed to the ceiling for a few seconds, he falls to the ground.

“Phew… Haa… It’s a little tiring…”

I look back for a moment. Craters were created on the walls and the floor, so it was no longer a flat shape, and the excessive impact caused the lights to flicker,

and above all, bloodstains and Arius troops who were lying on the ground and stuck to the walls and could not get out were lying unconscious. The original shape of the corridor was at best the door leading to the last panic room.

I look at my right hand. The Type 99, which I swung with all my might, couldn’t withstand the impact and was shattered, and only the bolt and stock part were held in my hand. It wasn’t mine in the first place, but it’s a bit of a shame….

-Thud, thud, thud, thud-

A large number of footsteps are heard from the front of the corridor. Along with a familiar voice.

“Wow-oh, did Sora-chan do all this?”

“…In the end, it became like this, Mika-sama…”

Behind Mika-sama… A large number of troops, which seemed to be at least a battalion, are visible. It’s not the time yet. I speak with the intention of deceiving the enemies appropriately.

“Ahaha☆ That’s because there’s no way we can make peace with those horned guys from Gehenna, right?”

“Haha… That’s right… Mika-sama was such a person…”

-Thud…-

“Will you stop? I’ll clean up that child, so wait a little? Anyway, you guys will only increase the number of injured people, right? If it’s me, I can definitely clean it up, yeah.”

When the Arius troops try to pass Mika-sama and aim their guns at me, Mika-sama stops them. While saying that she will clean me up, she asks them to wait a little and lowers the muzzles of all the Arius members.

“Haha… Clean up… Can you do it? Mika-sama?”

“Ahaha☆ Are you bluffing, looking at your condition now?”

Mika-sama aims her gun at me. I also throw away the broken Type 99 and take out Daedalus.

In the darkened corridor due to the broken lights, only the two halos were shining. One halo that shines brightly and endlessly, and one halo that starts to flicker little by little due to the continuous battle.

I draw strength from my lower abdomen.

“Well… Then…. Let’s go…”

I lower my posture, stare at the front, and declare. That I will go to you.

“Mika-senpai”

With those words, I started running towards Mika-sama. Mika-sama also raises her strength…

She readjusts the gun she was holding, quickly turns around, and hits the head of the Arius soldier right behind her.

Their reaction is as if they knew this would happen, without any hesitation, the Arius soldiers aim their respective guns at Mika-sama.

My vision gradually slows down. I start to feel the enemies in front of me at a glance, one by one, in detail, what they are trying to do, what they are holding, and how much strength they have.

I knock out two machine gunners who are judged to be the most threatening to Mika-sama by hitting their heads with Daedalus one by one.

-Bang! Bang!-

The last defense began with two gunshots.

“Ahaha☆ Are you trying to stop me with just that? Aren’t you out of your mind?!”

Mika-sama’s Lancaster spits fire. She skillfully hit the Arius troops rushing from the blind spot with her bare hands and sent them flying far away. They are desperately trying to not miss even that small gap, but…

-Grab, Crack, Boom!-

“You can’t pass here, obediently get stuck in the wall or give up!”

I grab the guy’s head by the gas mask and throw him into the wall. In the process, the gas mask was smashed, but I don’t care.

Mika-sama advances, destroying everything.

I also rush, putting the guys who are pushed back by Mika-sama and who Mika-sama inevitably misses into the wall or floor one by one.

Light emanates from Mika-sama’s fingertips. Everyone touched by the light is blown away or falls to the ground.

A sonic boom is belatedly generated by the fist I throw, and everyone caught in it is blown away.

The wall can’t withstand the impact and gradually collapses.

The door, which was already not maintaining its normal shape due to Evolys, finally falls.

Already, the sound of gunfire is smaller than the sonic boom caused by me and Mika-sama’s punches. There are already no foolish people here who try to stop me and Mika-sama with guns.

As I carefully put them into the wall one by one, fold them in half, and hit them in the head at point-blank range, at some point, no one remained in the corridor except me and Mika-sama.

“Haa… Haa…”

“Phew… It’s finally over… Are you tired, Sora-chan?”

I barely manage to support my tired body, lean against the wall, and sit down.

“Haha… I can’t keep up yet… Senpai…”

“Ahaha☆ You naturally call me senpai now?”

Now that it’s all over, I wanted to chat with Mika-sama…. Mika-senpai while my mind was still there, but… My limit is approaching…

“It was…a promise…wasn’t it…”

“Yeah, that’s right… And… Take a good rest?”

With those words, my mind was cut off.