Chapter 4: Coring

known as K23 is just for the coming and going of

Even so, its status as a public road means

However there’s only a garbage disposal facility on

from the waste trucks, only those who’ve come to

Although it resembles a former garbage dump

and now there’s almost no smell at all.

collection of waste, raw garbage’s stench was

scattering EMO stimulated by effective

dismantled plastics, they could be perfectly

Even so, they needed reclaimed land for a

storage of the garbage.

trucks driving along the 5 lane highway between the

buildings) as though they didn’t know what had

“Adults put their work first, they don’t try to

He pulled out of the garbage disposal factory

reclaimed land used to store garbage.

back through the sky. He thought he caught sight of

garbage trucks got in his way and he couldn’t be

But as he was crossing over the bridge he saw

“…Shit…!”

centre of the ring of black smoke was exactly the

Instinctually he revved the accelerator as far as

land.

that from an outsider’s perspective looked like

be the place to hide.

electro-bike hit dirt Honore realised there’d be no

exploded.

here.”

but the slagheap obscured his view to the west as he

If it exploded it would make his coming here

“…Oof!”

handlebars he revved the engine. Unlike gas motors, the

Loose dirt sprayed out behind him and Tokyo Bay came

“…I’m doing it!”

skimming across the sea surface he was impressed, but

put on speed.

the Tokyo unit that was stationed at the Imperial

“…!?”

along the breakwater not because he’d forgotten the

He had his mind set and wanted nothing more than

Imagining that he might be able to see a dog fight

mmm

“…!”

up he imagined he could see sparkling silver dust

In the sky above, the silver Tender Gear looked

Honore’s impression.

details, nor was it particularly close.

have been hit, but that was his imagination too.

close enough that he could identify the falling

why an undamaged Musshan was dropping like

“…!”

spray on the sea surface and he realised the silver

When he looked up with a feeling of hostility,

needle going through the blue sky… Well, it was

“…Seriously…!?”

When Honore realised the suit that had seemed

much further away than before, he became aware

“…!?”

be safe than sorry, but it seemed like staying at

Suddenly he heard the rumbling exhaust noise

sound he saw that the silver airframe was hovering

same land reclamation site he was on.

Honore turned his bike towards the silver suit

The reason for his current decision was the

Although the rubbish piles obstructed his view

as Alafman landing calmly.

and now the enemy has time to relax… It doesn’t

Honore instinctually knew that the silver

of.

He stopped being able to heard the Tender Gear

Then,

could swim in the ocean…]

Honore.

Beston Kriger who’d done the electro-jack.

consciousness felt the same as what had been on the

So Honore twisted the throttle.

His bike leapt forward and he came into

of the unfamiliar Tender Gear.

A female consciousness completely different to

Honore’s perception.

“Don’t do that!”

and the bike were falling.

“Ugh! What does that mean?”

Bang!

in his ears.

From the many things going on in front of him,

back, flying up holding the body of a semitransparent,

Was this a hallucination…!?

conscious, so he stood up.

descending from the silver aircraft and then running

“…!!”

towards the silver suit.

But before he even had a chance of

mmmmmmmm

The three Tender Gears descended while

Musshan…!?

the Musshan went around and cut in behind it, and

hopper nozzle from behind Honore.

The unit that held a Vulcan cannon equipped in

right of Honore.

Honore’s body was pelted with the intense

staggered backwards.

A female consciousness reverberated within

That’s how he became aware that the figure

concrete debris to the left.

He perceived a consciousness like the

Whoosh! The Musshan’s landing gear let out a

“Why are you interfering!? It looks like

Honore turned around to yell at the landed

***

anymore…”

“I can’t do that!”

woman and youth’s minds in the same quality as

“Unh…!?”

airframe known as Alafman crouched could be seen

Something had stopped the Tender Gear from

than the Musshan Fubuki had been entrusted with.

Although Fubuki felt physically restless, he

There’s a pilot lying down under the Tender

wrong, we’ll get no resistance from the Tender

And in that way he confirmed that his own

“Raizen, Son, stay there.”

landing his own craft in front of Alafman.

collapsed after fainting or had been shot, but the

As Fubuki landed his own aircraft, the landing

The boy looked like he was being chased by the

“Three people…”

on his pilot suit. He raised the front armor and

“This is First Lieutenant Fubuki Kei. I’m in

my investigation.”

procedure to a tee was the only martial habit that

to his two subordinates should have also been

line appeared to remain dead.

between the ground and the cockpit and as he

mmmmmmmmmmm

towards the left-hand embankment.

“Son, you should see two people on your right

“Yes, sir…”

eyes didn’t stray from above the giant lying under

A fairy…?

He could see a winged fairy. No, it looked

maiden, it had a kimono sash-like cloth wrapped

A winged baby? A girl…!?

They laughed. They mourned. He saw them

…How many of them are there!?

so there couldn’t just be one… He didn’t

they were going straight up as well.

silver background.

they spring out from their arms? It wasn’t clear.

swaying like a mirage.

The sandstorm hit Fubuki full on from the side.

“…!!”

Fubuki collected himself and marched forward,

But all that was there was a giant’s corpse.

Kreiger…”

the giant’s head to verify that, he was disgusted to

…!? Why does he look so happy?

A chill ran through his whole body, but Fubuki

face.

face.

change from when he’d look at it upside down.

shone and so he hadn’t noticed it.

an orgasm face…”

“…Did he go insane?”

mind made from what he saw, and he raised his

The Tender Gear was larger by far than the

As humanoid machines, vehicles with a cockpit

“This is a strange craft…”

settled and he holstered his gun.

I was flying above the concrete debris. This

stopped.

Why? You shouldn’t have done this.”

felt for even speaking to this gloomy woman was

She was that kind of woman. A leather jacket,

the right side of her lips. Dark eyes and long,

stereotypical white woman with bad upbringing.

more of it? Little brat!” She spoke Japanese.

could see how her hands, tucked into the pockets of

have a gun aimed at me, so I took a leap without

hitting my thighs after landing near her couldn’t

pulled out.

It seems like she’s reverting to English when

up the surrounding dust us while my arms were

bumped into her chest, I could feel the warmth of

losing this fight.

greyish blue eyes, I didn’t look at her face but

“Arg...!”

drop the gun by twisting her wrist around. As soon

tried hitting the woman’s stomach with a kick while

“Shit!”

gun! I felt like I was faster than her, and then...

A cloud of dust violently hit my back, knocking

“Wha-?”

surface, hitting down exhaust just in time. I tried

in the direction of the gun as the Musshan’s landing

path.

disposed of by the Daisanka.”

above our heads. Being disposed of by the Daisanka

“Got it...!?”

see the woman in black sneering at me, throwing

“Is she mistaking this place for a strip club...!?”

feel that she wasn’t even serious, and it confused

Davidson Sportster standing behind her back. A

As stereotypical a combination as it can get...

call a wanderer. An outsider, if put into modern

barrels that were part of the Musshan’s gatling gun

“If I were killed by that, I would be blown into

pain. That would be fine with me.”

“Woman, climb up the concrete hill. You too,

Although the young woman’s voice which was

there was also a lot of power behind it.

was lending the Daisanka a hand!”

climbed the concrete rubble while yelling at the

... I could hear what she was thinking...

The voice coming from the Musshan’s cockpit

“WE will decide on that. Boy! If you’re a man,

already!”