Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume16 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 5===

The change was readily apparent from the Baby Magnum’s cockpit.

The Over Cavitation had been moving side to side so much before, but now it caught a bit like the needle skipping on a record.

(I can do this.)

The weapons system got to work when the lasers in the Princess’s goggles read the movements of her eyes. To maintain her extreme focus, she reached for a drink bottle with a straw sticking out from it. She regretted it when she tasted the sweetness of that first sip. Quenser’s words had pierced the teenage girl’s ultra-sensitive heart, but she could not spit out the coconut milk now.

“Princess, the Over Cavitation uses an aircushion to stay afloat, but that means the status of the waves influences the layer of air. It also uses the salinity of the air to create a kind of ‘stickiness’, so it should be restricted to naval battles only. It probably uses its data support to receive accurate information on those factors.”

At any rate, the Princess’s widened eyes focused accurately on her target. She selected the appropriate weapon and 7 low-stability plasma cannons accurately locked onto the Over Cavitation now that its movement had been slightly disturbed by the lack of data support.

She would not miss now.

A cross counter was fine. The battle would end here, so taking more damage was not a real problem as long as it was not critical.

Defeating the enemy took priority.

(I will end this here!!)

And.

And.

And.

A “leg” appeared out of nowhere, kicked at the water…and launched it sideways???

“Huh?”

The Princess was dumbfounded after she fired the 7 main cannons. This was supposed to be a sure thing, but the enemy Object suddenly hopped to her right and escaped the 7 beams fanned out over the expected range of its evasive actions.

It was the main cannon.

Or more accurately, the two bipod-like parts at the base. One of those had extended like a police baton and suddenly kicked the ocean surface.

The steam pipes spread out like wings and the very edge of the spherical body had their onion armor shaved away with an orange light, but that was all. The Over Cavitation could still move. It aimed her way with the long white spear of a main cannon created by combining water vapor and air bubbles.

(It didn’t work.)

The Princess tried to force her Object into evasive actions of its own, but the machine could not keep up with the rapid back and forth movements she was demanding of it. It groaned like a settling house and inertia squeezed at the organs inside her slender body.

What was that “leg”?

No one had told her about that!