Editing Sorcery Hacker:Volume2 Phase03 (section)

===Part 5===

Ayato Criminaltrophy seemed to spin his body in the blue blazer like a whirlwind and he leaped up the stepped rows of anti-aircraft guns and autocannons in the blink of an eye. Climbing was not the right word for it. He planted his fingers and shoes on the wall with slightly raised friction thanks to the sea breeze and he detected the saltier spots to choose a route that let him maintain his momentum as he leaped on up. Once he arrived at the main cannon turret up top, he stabbed his Linkage Plug sword into the gap of the swivel joint and released the blade. Then he jumped atop the gray turret to arrive at the base of one of the barrels. There, he shoved his sword into the joint providing vertical movement.

He was not hacking it.

He had not reached a high enough level to hijack control of the entire turret.

He was simply wedging the blades into the joints to block the turret’s movement.

“That won’t last, Sorcery Hacker!!”

Henrietta’s close-quarters combat skill did not allow her to follow after him and she had to shout up at him from below, but it did not really matter if those replaceable blades were broken. They only had to last for a count of ten.

Ayato ran along the thick turret with his eyes on the muzzle.

It had a diameter of 0.5 esoule<ref>Approximately 60 centimeters.</ref>.

Yes.

Which meant a skinny boy could crawl directly inside it!!

“Ohhhh!!”

He threw his Linkage Plug sword in first and dove inside the main cannon as if stepping on it. The inside was hot from the friction, but it was still bearable since the cannon did not actually use powder or other explosives to fire. The warship was sturdy against external attack, but it was easily destructible from within. Its vulnerability to Sorcery Hacking worked similarly.

He had been right to build up his level somewhat with the anti-aircraft guns and autocannons.

He forcibly jabbed the blade in, hacked the lock, and forced open the metal door to tumble out inside the turret.

There were indeed no humans or demons directly operating it.

He found a small room containing plenty of spare explosives, an auto-loading device, and the system that operated along with the back guide. More than 200 small military sorcery devices were gathered here. Their combined level was too great to hack the turret as a single device from the outside, but each individual part’s level was fairly low when he could choose them individually like this.

His sword audibly stabbed into more and more of them to hack them each in turn.

After forcing open the escape hatch that was designed to never open from the outside, he flicked one of the floating crystal tarot cards with a finger to trigger the finishing blow.

That girl had tearfully begged him to save the Water Lord.

“What right do you have to make someone cry?”

His own safety was of secondary importance.

He spoke with his back to the machine.

“You hunk of junk!!!???”

It exploded not 10 seconds later.