Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM2 Depth5 (section)

===Part 2===

Letting their extra strength soak off into the pool naturally made them sleepy.

But when Kongou Mitsuko came crying over the radio, Mikoto visited the Izanami’s maintenance hangar and found the giant fighter girls were arguing.

The disagreement appeared to be between an F-14D and an F/A-18E they had captured after the battle at the Imperial capital.

A giant school swimsuit girl and athletic bloomers girl were grappling.

What were they doing here instead of using the crane to return to the landing ship?



“How could you start dogfighting above the densely-populated capital!? You’re nothing but a coward who doesn’t care about the people’s lives, Toxin 01!”

“No, that was the best option at that time. I don’t care what you or anyone else says, Kitty 01. I did nothing wrong.”

“Have you no shame!?”

“Kitty 04 to squadron. Let’s teach her a lesson by pressing her bare boobs against the glass wall!!”



“Hey, hey, hey!! shouted Mikoto, trying to interrupt, but the fighters did not stop yanking at each other’s hair and clothes. While they looked like cute girls, they were around 20m tall, so she was decently afraid of being trampled. …Also, the F-14D with the call sign Kitty 04 appeared to have been secretly watching late-night dramas and had learned some indecent things from it.

While the Girlish Weapons didn’t seem to mind switching sides in a fight, did they generally agree on trying to protect people’s lives? They were fighting pretty fiercely here, but they weren’t firing any bullets. Perhaps they didn’t want any stray shots or ricocheting bullets to hit Wannai, Awatsuki, and the other girls watching nervously on in the maintenance hangar. They probably would have been shooting otherwise.

The F-14D kept yelling even after she was pulled away.



“You need to learn your lesson!! If you don’t, you’re not getting any more water fuel!!”

“Ugh… You want me to go hungry? Wahhhhhhh!!”

“Oh, Kitty 01 made Toxin 01 cry.”

“How could she!?”

“Wait, you mean I’m the bad guy here!?”



(Are they simple and easy to use, or does this just make them more dangerous? I can’t decide.)

They were seriously resolving their argument with food?

Mikoto sighed in exasperation.

And…

“…”

A short distance away, YF-22A was watching the commotion in silence.

She felt a disturbance in her chest.

The F/A-18E probably did deserve criticism for beginning a battle over a city on her own discretion, but it was the nature of the Liheilstaut Empire that had planted that way of thinking inside her.

She understood that the plan had been to lure Shokuhou Misaki, the Tokiwadai group’s leader, away from the rest and restrain her…but why do that in the densely-populated capital?

Maybe you could say that detail helped deceive Shokuhou.

And in fact, the term “capital” didn’t have much strategic value outside of the country’s pride.

The people didn’t seem to recognize what it meant, but the Liheilstaut Empire had already distributed its ministries and other administrative functions to other important cities so that the Empire could continue on just fine even if it was decapitated.

In an emergency, the leaders of the country could move their base of operations elsewhere. Preparing a second or third home base (in secret) in case of invasion of bombing was not all that unusual.

That may have been why they were willing to risk their capital for a single operation.

But.

Could they not calculate how many people would be harmed in the process? Had they really balanced that negative against the positive of fooling Shokuhou?

What was the point of the military and of a weapon if they couldn’t protect all the unarmed people?

“…”