Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume11 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 12===

“Heivia, Heivia.”

“What is it, goddammit!? My ears are hurting too bad to hear you properly!!”

As the repeated explosions and shockwaves gradually cornered the Princess, Quenser grabbed Heivia’s shoulders and shouted loud enough to not be drowned out.

“We need to pull up the rubber boat that’s still in the water! We need the Armadillo’s help. Heivia, you and Kevin help me out!!”

“What are you even trying to do!? Wouldn’t jumping down to the boat be the faster way out of here!?”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

Quenser glared at the distant Spectre Q&A that was firing its explosive laser main cannon that made use of a dye laser.

“We’re going to do something about that thing. I can’t let it keep bullying the Princess. And if it gets away, the drug war affecting safe countries will continue. Colorful Vanilla will be spread without end while some government official’s wallet gets fatter. That would leave a bad taste in my mouth, so we need to do something, whether that means capturing the Pilot Elite or analyzing the drug.”

“You’re…right. It seems to only be targeting the Capitalist Corporations for now, but they’re still targeting safe countries. I don’t want to leave any chance of that being spread anywhere near Marie and Wells.”

They used the synthetic rope to pull up the boat. Once it was up on the ice, they let out the air and it automatically transformed into the suitcase-sized Armadillo.

“Let’s turn this around before they reach checkmate. Come on, Heivia.”

“Are you kidding!? We have to run through all those explosions and shockwaves!?”

The two idiots and the middle-aged man crouched down and ran along the cracked ice land with the small power supply Armadillo.

As they felt vibrations that seemed to beat all of their skin like a drum, Quenser spoke over the radio.

“Princess, can you hear me?”

“What is it, Quenser? I’m a little busy.”

“Turning down people’s invitations on the pretext of being ‘busy’ is a warning signal when it comes to interpersonal relations, so be careful.” He twisted his lips in a smile as he joked. “Can you move from the point you’ve been concentrating your fire on and move the primary battlefield elsewhere? I want to set up a trick while you do, so you’ll have to make sure the Spectre Q&A doesn’t notice.”

“You don’t like giving easy requests, do you?”

“If you can’t, the situation will only get worse. You know you’re being pushed around on the chess board, right? You’ll only be cornered if you let more time pass.”

She replied through her actions rather than words.

The Baby Magnum veered to the side. Laser beams and low-stability plasma cannons blew away the surviving portion of the artificial ice shelf, clearing a new path with water vapor explosions. She was running off.

“Let’s go, Heivia! You too, Kevin!!”

“I know, you bastard, but can you at least tell me how many times you’re planning to get us killed today!?”

In the area where the Objects had been fighting, the thick ice had either melted or was full of cracks in a web-like pattern. It was not a ship designed to float, so it could capsize at any time. It was quite thrilling, but the two idiots and the middle-aged man got as close to the “cliff” as they could.

But then short bursts of gunfire reached them.

“Wah!!”

Kevin curled up on the spot and Heivia dragged him back behind the suitcase-sized Armadillo.

“What!? Why are soldiers showing up now!? Are those Information Alliance!? I thought the Spectre Q&A worked on its own!”

Heivia used his large knife as a mirror to check on the situation from behind cover. He saw four or five frogmen in pure white wetsuits, so they may have been planning to fight on the ice. They were about two hundred meters away. There were more cracks on the seemingly pure white surface, so they had likely crawled up from the ocean rather than appearing from thin air.

“Seriously, what is this!? I have no idea what role they could be playing.”

“It doesn’t matter. If we don’t take them out and keep moving, we can’t help the Princess! She’ll be bullied to death by the Spectre Q&A!!”