Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume11 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 8===

The Princess maintained her focus even as a white screen of water vapor covered everything and new ice flowed in below the Baby Magnum.

She had done nothing more than secure her means of passage.

The true earth-shaking battle between Objects was yet to come.

“!”

The locations of both Objects, the changes in the opponent’s movements, the orientation of their cannons, the movements and creaking of their lenses and sensor heads, etc. All of the data taken in by the Object was ultimately analyzed by a human mind and she operated the Baby Magnum with the instincts of her fingertips. The Spectre Q&A fired its frightening laser beam main cannon a moment later.

She just barely managed to avoid it.

And instead of a straight line attack that flew at the speed of light, this attack had curved slightly through the curtain of water vapor.

“I already experienced a bending main cannon back in the Rio Grande District!!”

This time, a laser beam flew off in a seemingly random direction, collided with a hunk of ice, and bent at a sharp angle with some reduction in power. However, the Princess had predicted this as well, so she had moved her machine out of the way.

It was the same as a mirror, lens, or prism.

The Spectre Q&A was using some kind of technology to remake the icy land, reflecting its light with that ice, and bending it with the water vapor screen. But if one viewed the enemy Object as the source of the light and knew how the various obstacles would interfere with that light, it was not impossible to deal with.

Of course, this was the same as constantly doing the mental arithmetic to determine how a laser pointer would bounce around an amusement park’s house of mirrors, and while the source of the light was constantly moving around at over five hundred kph.

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But…

(I can do it.)

The Princess operated the control stick while placing some belligerence on top of her logical thinking.

Weak lasers in her special goggles read the movements of her eyes and sent her wishes to the machine.

(This isn’t an unbeatable foe. Second Generations have a single point of specialization, so if I can bring an end to that gimmick, they aren’t a threat. With my focus on the fundamentals, I have less excess weight and have lighter footwork!!)

None of that was wrong, but that did not mean it was entirely correct either.

Yes, where did the Spectre Q&A’s name come from?

It retrieved samples and optically analyzed them to work out its enemy’s weakness.

So the longer the battle continued, the more clues it had to make a comeback.