Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume11 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 16===

And finally…

“Wow, Kevin actually survived.”

“From now on, he can be our shield. Let’s just follow him around.”

The white frogmen (probably) from the Information Alliance were gone. Kevin’s suicide charge had not actually killed them all. They seemed to have retreated into a crack in the thick ice.

“What was that about?”

“Who knows. This might just have been their landing point.”

Meanwhile, Kevin was angry.

He was gasping for breath and throwing his hands into the air on the pure white land.

“Hurry on over here! Hurry uuuuuup!! What was that, you pieces of shit!? Why would you send me on a suicide charge!? I thought we were friends!”

“What do you think about that?”

“He decided for himself how close we were and then got mad when it didn’t turn out that way. I can see why he isn’t married.”

At any rate, the direct danger had passed.

If they did not get back on track, the Baby Magnum would be defeated by the Spectre Q&A. They needed to collect what was scattered across the paths – or rather, the area – the two Objects had passed through during their fight.

Quenser crouched down and focused on something glittering on the vast icy surface.

“Found it.”

“What is that?”

Heivia was asking about a ten centimeter wide disk that looked like a crushed dome. It had deviated so far from its original form that he had trouble picturing it.

“This is one of the Baby Magnum’s armor panels. It was completely melted and then re-hardened after pouring down on the ice. It’s shaped like a drop of dew on a window, right?”

“Then did the Spectre Q&A take this in to analyze the Princess’s structure?”

Heivia glanced over at the Armadillo.

“That busty commander gave us some decoy armor and special gas, didn’t she? We might be able to confuse it if we scatter them around.”

“It’s too late for that now. It’s already finished its official optical sample analysis, so it’ll be able to tell those are decoys now. Fortunately, we don’t have to do that.”

“?”

“They don’t have to be decoys.” Quenser waved the disk around a little. “One or two isn’t enough. Heivia, Kevin. Let’s split up and search for the Princess’s armor. The more we have, the better.”

“Dammit. I feel like a kid searching for unexploded ordnance for some money.”

“Ugh. I risked my life for trash like this?”

With that, their battlefield scavenger hunt began.

Quenser, Heivia, and Kevin gathered the scattered armor fragments and placed them on top of the Armadillo.

“The Princess is going to be stripped bare before long. Can you tell us what we need to do now?”

“This should be enough. Princess!!”

“What?”

“I’m about to give you the Armadillo’s control frequency. Um, it’s model number…S…12…A! Use its location for this! Listen, I’m only going over the plan once!!”