Chapter 74: Tactical Exchange Meeting (5)

How long has it been since the defense battle, disguised as an all-out war, began?

Although it is a defense battle, we are the ones attacking, and after many defense points have already fallen into our hands, they started to concentrate their forces in one place,

perhaps because they thought they could respond in some way, or because they thought they couldn’t do any damage to us with the scattered forces as before.

The final defense line, the final defense line designated to each other as a victory condition other than time when the all-out war was first planned, is in front of us.

As it is the final defense line, it was built with a structure optimized for siege, but it seems that it was not very effective for me and Hina-san.

“I won’t let you escape.”

-Whoosh, ratatatata!-

Hina-san’s mystery-infused firepower projection, as if proving that the rumors of the Prefect Team Leader were not exaggerated, the barrage of the Destroyer quickly ground the cover of the final defense line as if it were melting.

Overwhelming firepower, the powerful firepower unique to the MG42, imbued with Gehenna’s strongest mystery, creates an abnormal scene.

Almost all the members of the Prefect Team and the Justice Realization Committee are unable to do anything but hide behind cover, unable to offer any proper resistance.

Even so, the children who chose thin cover are left to lie down with the cold ground.

Perhaps the future of other children will be similar.

“I’ll take care of everything, the goal is…”

“Yes, leave it to me.”

Most of the defense points made up of scattered forces so far have been broken through by me.

It’s a movement I’ve been thinking about before, but since it’s a movement I suddenly learned, I needed time to adjust.

I’ve used up a lot of mystery and energy, so Hina-san, who still has energy left, said she would take care of most of the defense forces.

She’s not the type of person to be particularly worried about, and we also have to thoroughly win against them, so I rush out without mercy.

Concentrating my mystery on my legs and taking a big leap, I briefly float in the air, search for the department that is playing the role of the command tower in the center of the final defense line,

and thrust downward by propelling in the opposite direction of the mystery.

-Whoosh, bang!-

A roar, even though I’ve already used up half of my mystery, the still sufficient amount of mystery gave me the basis for propulsion, like a jet engine, to the act of plunging into the ground.

“Cough, cough…what’s going on all of a sudden?!”

“Wow…what a spectacular entrance…Sora-chan…”

The dust generated by my plunge into the ground gradually clears, and familiar faces come into view.

Among the familiar faces, there are the executives of the Justice Realization Committee and unfamiliar faces of the Prefect Team…

perhaps they are the executives of the Prefect Team, all of them are standing with their guns aimed at me.

There are people who are embarrassed, but even those people naturally find cover and take their positions in advance,

and the sight of them putting their hands on the mounted heavy machine gun in advance makes me think that the executives are the executives.

“Well…you already heard everything from Sensei, right? That this would happen.”

“Even without Sensei’s intervention, we should have been able to stop two strategic weapons with our numbers…”

“Sigh…my head hurts…”

“Strategic weapons…that’s a bit harsh…”

Tension, everyone in this place was sure that it would never end easily, and that no matter which side was left in the end, both sides would not be safe.

Amidst that tension, I try to be relaxed.

Both sides are convinced that the side that shows a gap first will lose.

Everyone has already finished the conviction that the side that shows a gap first will be defeated.

That’s why I bluff.

I try to reassure myself that this is not something to be so nervous about, that I can do it enough.

-Bang!-

“…As expected, you won’t be defeated easily…”

“That sniper…that impact…it’s Mashiro-chan, right?”

Just as the noise gradually disappears and silence approaches in the scene where the tension covered in the guise of relaxation is dominant, a single gunshot broke the silence.

Perhaps as if they had expected me to rush headlong into the deepest part like this, they had a sniper squad waiting in advance.

I take out my aeternitas….SRM, which I had already loaded, and take a big leap backwards.

“Your specialty is speed! Form a barrage so that you can’t use it!”

“Wait! Sora’s specialty is not speed, but…”

When a seemingly skilled member of the Gehenna executive team gave the first order, the machine gunner of the Prefect Team began to scatter a barrage.

But…this is the situation I like the most.

Concentrating my mystery on my eyes and legs, I arrange the shield of wings in front of me and shoot forward as I did when I broke through the wall and charged before.

“Wh…at?! Ugh!?”

“It’s the wrong answer!”

I was shot and blown away towards the member of the Prefect Team executive who gave the first order.

My leg strength, combined with my mystery, was too fast for them to react.

The barrage that was formed was not to focus on me, but to prevent me from using my speed,

the barrage that was not focused on me, but was scattered indiscriminately, was not enough to penetrate my wing shield or reduce my speed.

-Bang, bang!-

So I grab the collar of that executive and rush to the wall and just smash him.

Dust is generated by the impact, and the surrounding vision is obscured.

I hold the executive in my hand against the wall and bring the muzzle to his forehead and gift him with 12 steel balls.

“Wh…what?! Sora, was she always like that?!”

“Everyone, focus fire! If it’s now, she won’t be able to move!”

Among the bewildered members of the Justice Realization Committee, Ichika-senpai, who belatedly knew how I had originally fought, gave the order,

and the members of the Justice Realization Committee began to focus their attention on the area where I was.

It’s the right answer, but it’s late.

As before, I concentrate my mystery on my eyes, nerves, and legs.

The limit to the number of areas where I can operate my mystery is three, and the opponent is all executives and elites, so there is no room to spare.

-Ratatatata!-

The concentrated fire of the Justice Realization Committee and the Prefect Team began to be directed at the dust where I was.

Certainly, I’m weak to concentrated fire…no, I was weak.

I wasn’t about mobility, but about close combat and high defense.

But I, who can operate mystery, was not.

I shoot my body out of the dust as if exploding the mystery concentrated on my legs.

The direction is the executive who had his hand on the mounted heavy machine gun.

“Eek?!”

I had already engraved in my eyes and in my head where, how, who, and what everyone was doing before I charged in for the first time.

Therefore, it is a mounted heavy machine gun.

Others can move anywhere, but they wouldn’t give up the mounted heavy machine gun, which has the most outstanding firepower, so she, who has the heavy machine gun, couldn’t move.

“I’m sorry!”

“Ugh…”

I grab her head and slam it to the ground.

Another halo quickly loses its light and turns off.

How long has it been since it started, two halos have lost their light.

But there are too many to take down one by one in this state, and I’m not infinite in mystery and stamina, so I need to push myself a little.

“…? Are you serious…?”

“…Try to stop your junior!!”

-Crack, clang!-

I crush and break the legs of the mounted heavy machine gun.

Mounted heavy machine gun M2 Browning, it has overwhelming firepower and power, but in return, it is a heavy machine gun that can only be used properly if it is mounted somewhere…

Then, if I can handle that weight and recoil, can’t I use it as a personal firearm?

There was no big problem in lifting it because the cumbersome legs were removed, and I lift it in that state and take a posture.

I don’t know how strong the recoil will be, so I concentrate my mystery on my legs to maintain my posture, and invest the mystery that I was investing in my eyes and nervous system in my arms and the M2 Browning I’m holding now.

In that state, I gather my wings in front of me to form a shield.

I push the muzzle of the Browning through the gap in the shield.

-Bang! ,Ratatatata!-

Those who realized what I was going to do, starting with Mashiro, the sniper who would be watching this scene, started to focus fire on me.

I can’t hold out forever, but except for Mashiro’s sniper, it’s a level of impact that I can hold out, and even that, Mashiro alone can’t penetrate my shield, so she couldn’t stop my actions, and finally the trigger of the Browning is pulled.

“Everyone, duck first!!”

“Ugh?!”

-Ratatatatatatatata!!!-

“Kyaaaak!”

“If you get hit directly by something like that…ugh!”

“Crazy…what is this!!”

There are so many shots, so I couldn’t invest as much mystery in each shot as Daedalus or aeternitas, but it’s a .50BMG large-caliber bullet that is difficult for even students with halos to withstand properly from the beginning,

and with a little bit of mystery, everyone standing in the place where the muzzle passes falls down in one shot.

The continuous violence of large-caliber bullets with mystery did not allow the cover to maintain its shape properly, and the scene used as the command tower was turned into a mess, leaving nothing behind, including the cover.

-Sizzle, tick-

The Browning reached its limit.

Perhaps if the ratio of mystery invested in the ammunition and barrel had been slightly off, the barrel of the Browning, which had turned red,

would have started to melt, and the magazine, which had poured out all the bullets and was empty, proved how much this gun had been abused.

I think it’s messed up since I broke it with the legs, but it’s school property, so I slowly put it on the ground and take out aeternitas again.

“Huff…huff…this is…it’s the first time I’ve felt this since training with the captain…”

“…Are you trying to kill me..? It’s scary…”

Ichika-senpai and Iori-san appeared from behind the cover that was almost destroyed and had no shape left.

The people who are still conscious and not fallen are probably Mashiro of the sniper squad and the two in front of me.

I could be sure because I knew that the other members of the sniper squad were clustered around Hina-san.

The opponent is three, maybe a few more if my certainty is wrong.

It’s definitely an unfavorable situation.

I used up about half of the remaining mystery by firing the Browning with a lot of mystery for a long time, leaving about 20 to 30 percent of the remaining mystery divided in half once more.

Further consumption of mystery could lead to a deterioration in my condition, so I release the mystery that I was concentrating on my arms and legs.

I’ve consumed a lot of mystery, but my body is fine, on the other hand, the opponent is in tatters from being caught in the barrage of Browning…um…Sensei won’t see, right?

Anyway, I think I can do it even though I’m outnumbered, so I rush towards the opponent.

The first target is Iori, if you ask which one is more threatening and stronger, Ichika-senpai or Iori, I don’t really know.

But I know Iori-san’s agility, so if the engagement with her drags on, I’ll be exposed to Mashiro’s sniper for a long time, so her priority was higher for me.

In addition to that, the direction she was standing in was a line of fire where I could be free from sniping when I thought about Mashiro’s location, which I grasped during the short engagement, so she was a little more reasonable.

“Tsk…”

-Bang!-

A frontal breakthrough towards her, as before, I used my left wing as a shield, so I could be free from her shooting.

But the people in front of me are specialists in combat.

They can easily read such an obvious aim, so a response comes immediately.

-Ratatatata!-

“Isn’t your aim obvious? Or did you forget about this senpai?”

Ichika-senpai started shooting around to my right, where my wing defense was empty, while I was concentrating on Iori.

Ichika-senpai has also been in the Justice Realization Committee for over a year, so shooting at a fast-moving target in such a small-scale engagement was not difficult, and the shooting was directed precisely at my head.

Unfortunately for them, the bullet used by Ichika-senpai’s Red Dragon is a .280 British bullet, is it small caliber?

It’s not, but one or two ordinary rifle bullets were not enough to stop me.

“Hup!”

-Whoosh, whoosh!-

As soon as the distance reached a distance that could be called close combat, as if this kind of situation is familiar in Gehenna, where the situation often turns into a catastrophe,

she quickly grabbed the barrel of the gun with a skillful hand movement, as if she had practiced it many times, and swung it.

The spiky decoration of the buttstock…it looked uncomfortable to shoulder, but it was for this purpose…certainly, it seemed to be useful in such a close combat situation, but unfortunately, close combat was my specialty.

I grab the buttstock that is swung at me and pull it, tripping her with my leg.

“Ugh, even if you’re confident, why do you rush in while getting hit by all the bullets…! It’s abnormal!!!”

“You seem to have a lot piled up…I’m sorry…?”

I mount in that state, in a martial arts competition, it’s a posture where punches should go out, but this is a gunfight, the opponent is a person called an ace even within the Prefect Team, so she won’t faint with one blow.

Considering the surrounding fire, I wrap my wings around all sides like a shield and make it a closed room, and then shoot 12-gauge slug rounds with a little mystery added to her forehead at 0 distance.

-Bang!-

“Really…I hate it…”

What, a long-standing lament flowed out of her mouth, and a halo lost its light.

I say that there is Mashiro’s sniper, but now there is only Ichika-senpai and me at this scene.

I slowly get up from the top of the fainted Iori-san and turn my body towards Ichika-senpai.

Of course, I defend the entire upper body with my left wing to guard against sniping.

In this state, I can rush straight to Ichika-senpai, but

“Wow…isn’t that too unforgiving…?”

“In the first place, there are more of you, senpai? There’s no way I can be moderate…ugh?!”

-Bang!-

Suddenly, I felt a strong impact from the right side, and at the same time, my vision swayed greatly to the left.

Sniper, this impact…Mashiro…? If the line of fire I grasped before is correct, Mashiro’s sniper should have come from the left.

“I’m sorry! Sora-chan!”

-Ratatatata!-

Without any time to worry about that, Ichika-senpai’s shooting begins.

Medium range, no matter how unbalanced I am, she thoroughly maintains a medium range as if she doesn’t want to enter my specialty attack range.

“Ugh…”

Firepower, as if knowing that the firepower from just one rifle is not enough to penetrate my shield, as if knowing that it is not enough to take me down,

she picks up the gun of another Prefect Team member who fell to the ground and shoots between both arms.

Giving up shouldering and aiming, just blasting away with firepower, since it’s a barrage unfolding from medium range, there must be a judgment that no matter how you shoot, you can hit me.

It might have been a plan they had made before…no, the situation itself would be impromptu…as expected of senpai.

The judgment is fast and the skill is excellent.

But that doesn’t mean I can fall, right?

I squeeze out some of the remaining 20% of my mystery and concentrate it on my legs, forcibly correcting my posture.

-Bang!-

“Tsk…”

Mashiro, who wouldn’t just stand by and watch that, sniped at my leg this time, and the mystery that wasn’t properly gathered is scattered.

Fortunately, the forcibly corrected posture did not collapse, and I was able to raise my wing as a shield again.

-Tick Tick-

At the same time, the two rifles used by Ichika-senpai ran out of bullets.

“Really…it’s a bit too much!”

“Haha! It’s the fighting method of the weak!”

-Click, bang! Bang!-

Ichika-senpai’s ammunition depletion was a huge opportunity for me, so I turn the cylinder of aeternitas and load slug rounds, give up aiming, and charge while shooting.

Ichika-senpai also seems to know that there is no time to reload anyway, so she lets go of the guns in both hands in the air and kicks up the Prefect Team member’s AR70 lying on the ground with her foot and continues shooting.

-Ratatatata!-

Ichika-senpai wanted to maintain medium-long range against me somehow, but I was a little superior in physical specs, so in the end, it was Ichika-senpai who was caught up.

-Click-

The distance that was barely narrowed again, I turn the cylinder again and switch to 12-gauge buckshot and shoot…

“Hup!”

“Tsk…”

-Tap!-

At the same time as aiming aeternitas at Ichika-senpai, she swings the AR70 up greatly and hits aeternitas upwards with the buttstock.

If it were the original strength difference between senpai and me, I could have endured it, but the sudden close combat and continuous stamina consumption made this possible.

A sudden gap, Ichika-senpai was not a person to miss this, so instead of retrieving the AR70, she just threw it backwards, took out the Glock 17 in her pocket, and shot my empty lower abdomen.

-Bang! Bang!-

Seeing that senpai threw away the AR70 into the air, I also hurriedly let go of aeternitas and prepared for close combat, but the sudden two shots to the lower abdomen were enough to make me shrink.

Senpai doesn’t stop shooting with the pistol as if she doesn’t want to miss the opportunity she barely caught, and kicks up the EM-2 that fell on the floor with her foot, but…

-Ratatatatatata!-

Revolver fanning in a collapsed posture, I quickly move my hand to the Daedalus in my waist holster and shoot all 5 shots.

Even the sloppy fanning performed in a state where the fallen stamina did not show the original strength and the recoil felt stronger than usual and the posture was collapsed, this is close range.

There’s no way it won’t hit.

Daedalus’s bullets are large-caliber bullets, so it was enough to break Ichika-senpai’s posture, and fortunately, one of the 5 shots hit senpai’s hand,

and the Glock, which she didn’t let go of even while kicking up the EM-2, falls from senpai’s hand.

I reload 5 shots through the speed reloader, dropping 5 shell casings from the cylinder of Daedalus, a hand skill I’ve repeated many times.

Ichika-senpai, who barely recovered her posture, looks at me again…but unfortunately, my reloading is already over, and the timing of senpai looking at me perfectly coincides with the moment senpai recovers her posture,

so as soon as senpai recovers her posture, what she saw was the muzzle of Daedalus.

“Haha…I can’t win anymore…”

“Sigh…really…I’m so tired…”

The battle started in adverse conditions, the mystery wasted to try out a new fighting style, and their improvisations pushed me this far.

I could have easily gotten through it if I had used 20% of the remaining mystery, but this is really for emergencies, so I couldn’t use it.

Perhaps if Mashiro’s sniper had hit one more valid shot, I would have had to use it.

“It seems to be over.”

“Welcome…Hina-san…”

It was around the time when I was wondering why Mashiro’s sniper didn’t come during the close combat with Ichika-senpai.

Hina-san was dragging the fainted Mashiro and approaching this way.

“That…maybe she’s your friend…? I’m sorry…the place where this child was sitting was a little damp, so I thought she might catch a cold if I left her, so I brought her…”

“Pfft…thank you, Hina-san…”

“Haha…in the end, that side was no match for the Prefect Team Leader…”

Thus, the unfair quantity battle against the majority of the Justice Realization Committee and the Prefect Team somehow ended in victory.

[Everyone, good work. Everyone, um…yeah, rest well until 4 o’clock, and we’ll start feedback from 4 o’clock. Sora and Hina, good work too.]

“Yeah…Sensei, see you later.”

“Good work…”

Fortunately…no, the scene, which had become a mess, was scheduled to be demolished from the beginning, so there was no need to clean it up, and everyone could rest.

“…Do you think so too?”

“Yes, that’s right, Hina-san. Perhaps if the system had been properly established from the beginning and each other’s cooperation had been properly carried out, at least I would have fallen.”

“Perhaps if that had happened, I would have fallen too…”

Yeah, Hina-san dealt with most of the forces on the final defense line alone, and since there was no control by the executives and the weapons were machine guns with high firepower from the beginning, she was relatively unscathed.

I, who dealt with a considerable number of defense points alone and rampaged in the middle of the enemy camp where the elite executives were swarming, was a bit ragged.

But perhaps considering the number of troops dealt with, Hina-san would be more than me, as much as the number of troops concentrated on the final defense line at the end.

Nevertheless, in conclusion, not only were both of us not retired, but we also broke through all the defense lines and made a mess.

If you think about it normally, isn’t something strange?

If it were only the Prefect Team or the Justice Realization Committee, I don’t know, but it was a joint attack by both the Prefect Team and the Justice Realization Committee.

Only at the end did they barely establish a system and prepare for interception, but it was already too late…

But yeah, at the end, there are still many problems to be solved, but now they have learned to cooperate with each other one step at a time.

Isn’t it said that the beginning is half the battle?

At least the results of this tactical exchange itself may not be good, but it was an event where each other gained a lot.

…I won’t do it again.