Editing HEAVY OBJECT:Volume4 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 16===

As Quenser detonated the plastic explosives from a safe distance, he spoke to Heivia who was looking through his rifle scope.

“How high were those!?”

“The first one was 27.1. The second was 30.5! That’s just barely there, right!? How are things going on your end!?”

“Well enough. Now it’s just up to the princess.”

“Hey, Quenser. Our huge-breasted commander has been screaming at us over the radio for a bit now. What are we supposed to tell her?”

“You’re still connected to the channel? I cut it off a while ago.”

“Sometimes I am truly in awe of your guts…”

As they spoke, the two boys moved on to the next step.

Even then, the Deep Optical was trying to attack Quenser and Heivia, and the Baby Magnum was taking the hits to act as their shield.

The princess used her brilliant talents (that she had been artificially given) to keep the lasers from hitting the same spot too many times, but the entire spherical main body had begun to glow orange.

They had no time.

“Heivia, you dive down and remove the weights from the bottom of the filters! I’ll cut off the filters with the knife!!”

“Tch. I’m not gonna get decompression sickness am I!?”

As the filters were cut loose, the cloth floated up near the surface of the water. Quenser cut loose several dozen, so they quickly spread out amongst the surrounding water.

Quenser contacted the princess via radio.

“I’ve scattered some filters packed full of tungsten. Don’t pass over them!!”

“How are you going to destroy the Deep Optical with filters?”

“Isn’t it obvious? The shiny surface of the filters will reflect the lasers.”

However, the Deep Optical was covered in various sensors.

It had surely noticed the large number of filters floating near the ocean surface.

It made quick movements back and forth to avoid the filters. And it did so with its propulsion device that detonated the air using lasers.

The princess gasped and said, “It’s no good. They have noticed them!! You cannot interfere with the lasers keeping the Deep Optical afloat!!”

“Those aren’t the ones I’m after,” said Quenser as he reached for the switch on his radio.

Yes.

The switch that sent the detonation signal to the electric fuses for the Hand Axe plastic explosives attached to the filters.

“I’m targeting the giant wings it uses for quick turns!!”

As he shouted, several plastic explosives detonated simultaneously. Instead of spreading in every direction, the underwater explosions shot pillars of water straight up.

And they brought the shattered fragments of the filters with them.

Some of them made it within the C-shaped wings on the back of the Deep Optical’s spherical main body. At the same time, powerful lasers were being reflected around within the wings causing the air to explosively expand.

The tungsten that was blown into the middle of it all threw the reflection of the lasers out of order which in turn caused a massive error in the angle of the Object’s turn. And this was at the same time that the Deep Optical was making repeated small curves to avoid the filters that it had mistaken for sea mines.

In the middle of one of those quick turns, it lost its balance.

The entire Object tilted far to the side.

Before, it had used reflected lasers to detonate the air and recover, but it could no longer use that once it had transformed.

That left only one fate for the giant weapon.

It had to sink.

It could not right itself and it could not rotate 180 degrees and transform.

While sending a great spray of water into the air like someone wiping out while water skiing, the Deep Optical attempted to recover.

But then one last strike finished it off.

This strike came from a low-stability plasma cannon equipped on the Legitimacy Kingdom’s First Generation Baby Magnum.

And it exploded.

With a brilliant flash of white light, a great shock rushed across the surface of the ocean.

It was not clear if it was caused by the Deep Optical sliding across the ocean surface or if it was caused by the giant explosion that occurred afterwards, but a tremendous wave spread out across the area. And the wave did not just affect the surface. Quenser and Heivia had dived down below the surface, but they were still tossed around like ice in a glass being shaken.

“Cough!! Cough cough!!”

Quenser had a stable source of air from his oxygen tank, but the sudden loss of any sense of up or down confused him so much he felt like he had forgotten how to breathe.

“Is it over?”

“We still haven’t gotten the white flag signal from the Capitalist Corporations. It seems they still wish to fight,” replied the princess.

“Sink their lifeboats or something. They’ll change their minds once they see firsthand that nothing but a watery grave awaits them if they don't surrender here.”

With that comment, Quenser headed for the bright ocean surface.

He could not think of a single reason to stay in the dark depths any longer.

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