Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume9 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 12===

Quenser and Heivia both clicked their tongues in the half-destroyed station.

“What do we do, Quenser!?”

“Putana has a point. Even if we do rescue the hostages, they’ll be slaughtered just for being with Legitimacy Kingdom soldiers if we don’t take out the Flyaway. More importantly, we don’t know where Putana is and we’ll never find her if we just randomly search through the mountains!”

Also, if the cable car incident had been part of a talent trafficking plot, then there was a good chance the Flyaway was in on it. It was not clear whether he was leading the crime or if he had been paid off, but either way, he would try to erase the evidence if it fell apart.

“Dammit. Then let’s hurry up and deal with the problem up there. Without the Object’s anti-air lasers, we can have a helicopter sent in.”

They were reluctant, but every second they waited only worsened the situation.

Staying where they were would not improve things.

“Anyway, we need to climb back up to where we slid down. …Hey, Quenser. What’s that you’ve got there?”

“The driver’s journal from before.”

“What use is that now!?”

“Don’t be so sure it’s useless.”

“?”

They rushed from the station building and chose a relatively gentle route up the slope. All the while, they heard the intermittent rumbling of Object cannons.

The Baby Magnum was not the only one firing.

“Hey, something isn’t right.”

Heivia came to a stop and his cowardly fear – his proper fear of an Object – rose to the surface.

“The Princess isn’t the only one firing. In fact, it looks like the Flyaway is sending out the fiercer bombardment!”

“Why? The Flyaway’s main cannon is meant to be abandoned, right!? Isn’t that thing supposed to use all of its firepower at once and then run away!?”