Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume11 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 19===

Frolaytia was holding her head back in the aircraft carrier’s battle command station.

Destroying the Information Alliance Second Generation, clearing the unnatural ice blocking the Cape of Good Hope, and securing the safety of the sea were all desirable results, but now they had lost their chance to determine who was behind the drug war.

“It’s better than getting wiped out because we were too focused on that, but I still want to punch them later.”

Meanwhile, Frolaytia received a report from a young operator with the courage to speak to her when she was clearly in a bad mood.

“We just received an external communications request. A civilian one. It seems to be from the young Vanderbilt lady.”

“Not a problem. Put her through.”

She had it routed to her laptop and a familiar face appeared in the video chat window.

However, something was not right.

“Major Capistrano!? There’s a Second Generation Object there!”

“I can’t discuss details of military operations with you, lady. But I can tell you the Information Alliance threat is gone and your secret lover is just fine. But just this once, okay?”

“No!! Vanderbilt’s countermeasures office has finally tracked them down. The threat is not an Information Alliance Objec-…”

Severe static filled the transmission, but the answer arrived before she could question it.

“…a Legitimacy Kingdom Object! Azureyfear has you in her deadly sights!!”



At that same time, Quenser, Heivia, and Kevin were picked up by the other Legitimacy Kingdom soldiers taking part in the mission. They were stuffed inside a rubber boat made from an Armadillo as they and the Baby Magnum made their way back to the aircraft carrier fleet.

“Anyway, is your brother really an astronaut?”

“He’s probably lying again.”

“I-I am not. You might not believe me, but that one’s true!”

At that exact moment, a deafening noise filled the world.

The next thing they knew, more than two thirds of the hundred-ship fleet, including destroyers and early-warning ships, was broken apart. Their relief at finally returning vanished in a heartbeat and their minds went blank. There was nothing they could do as a giant wave sped their way. Unable to maintain its balance, the rubber boat flipped right over.

“Bwah!”

“Just grab on! You’ll get caught in the sinking ships! And what was that!?”

“Ah wah wah wah wah wah.”

“Kevin! Grab onto the boat if you don’t want to die!!”

They had no time to flip the boat right-side up, so the soldiers grabbed on and witnessed what happened next.

There was a giant iceberg that looked like two mountains stuck together.

“What!? What is that!?”

“You’ve gotta be kidding me! It’s that tits iceberg!!”

It crumbled, melted, and shattered from within.

Something far too large was slowly revealed.

It had a spherical body fifty meters tall. In addition to the air cushion directly below, it had upside-down Y-shaped insectoid legs with boosters covering the sides. It had a single main cannon on the very front and it lacked the countless secondary cannons that usually made one look like a sea urchin or chestnut burr. Instead, some strange devices that resembled peacock feathers were disconcertingly moving on the back.

Quenser spoke in utter shock.

“An…Object…?”

“But who does it belong to? Was the Information Alliance hiding another-…!?”

Heivia trailed off, so Quenser looked over to his awful friend.

“Hey, what is it?”

“You’re kidding, right?”

Heivia cried out like he was having a nightmare.

“Why the hell does that Object have the Winchell family crest on it!?”