Editing City Series:Volume6d Prologue (section)

===Part 5===

The bullet passed through the center of the train and its shockwave caused the train’s sides to rupture outwards.

This wasn’t just the 6th car Hazel sat atop of. She gasped and looked back to see the 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st cars spewing smoke from their ruptured sides doors.

“The locomotive too!?”

Her question was immediately answered by the locomotive rupturing after its steam engine was pierced through from behind.

The explosion blew away the side of the elevated track, sending concrete rubble scattering into the abyss.

Steam smoke erupted out, creating a boiling sound and some mist. Metal shards flew through the mist.

But Hazel’s ears picked up a strange sound among the many destructive sounds.

It sounded like the strumming of a string instrument.

“It can’t be.”

She looked up while still down on the roof. She could see the pillars supporting the elevated track and the array of metal wires more than a foot thick that extended from those.

The thick wire the train had just passed by had snapped along with its support wires.

As the train continued along the track, the wires supporting that track snapped from the base one by one.

They each produced an unbearable sound in turn.

“This can’t be happening.”

Sensing danger, Hazel looked to the enemy. The armored train carrying the Grösse Panzer had finally come to a stop and the six soldiers were running toward her along the track.

She started to move in response.

“Oops.”

But her skirt was still stuck and she ended up tripping.

“Really?” she complained, tearing the hem of her skirt with her sword Device and freeing herself.

Meanwhile, the first of the six enemies caught up and leaped toward her.

Seeing him use the power of his prosthetic legs to jump high, she made a hasty retreat.

He landed in the spot she had just vacated and immediately continued forward.

Hazel threw herself toward him shoulder first.

Tearing her skirt let her move her leg out much further than before. It felt indecent to her, but it let her deliver a sword strike to the enemy right as he landed and started forward.

He must have expected her to run away because he quickly tried to use an evasion Erklärung.

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But he stopped himself.

…''Eh?

He ended his rewriting of this space, which confused Hazel.

…''Why? Did he give up on dodging?

But Hazel didn’t let her doubt stop her from attacking with the back of her blade.

She frowned after the blow landed and knocked him from the running train.

“Why did he stop his Erklärung?”

Then she noticed something strange about the entire battle. She realized something had been missing all this time.

…''None of them have used an Erklärung.

The Panzerpolis Project was complete and Germania was the center of its Erklärung power.

“But it’s more like they’re trying to test me- !?”

All of a sudden, her vision tilted to the left.

The support wires were snapping mostly on one side, so the elevated railroad had started tilting.

The wires continued to snap as the train advanced and the remaining 5 enemies rushed toward the tilting train.

In the short time before they arrived, Hazel looked around. From atop the leftward tilting roof, the hole leading underground was to her left and the dome supported by the giant cross was to her right.

Everything was so large here.

After a brief look at the cross to her right, she looked down toward the underground levels.

Each consecutive level was about 100 yards thick and there was a 300 yard gap between each one.

The second level was a factory district covered by gray roofs. That level had holes in it as well, providing glimpses of the residential district on the third level. The wind contained a slight smoky scent.

“…”

Hazel silently looked to the shaking and snapping wires overhead.

Then she heard another artillery blast.

It was aimed at the locomotive that was coasting on inertia even after its boiler was destroyed.

The shell hit the bottom of the locomotive, toppling it to the right.

The link to the next car did not break, so the 1st container car rolled onto its side on the elevated railroad.

The rolling propagated back, taking the 2nd and 3rd cars with it.

The container below Hazel was affected too, so it tilted below her.

In that moment, Hazel saw the swaying wire overhead and made up her mind.

…''There’s only one way to escape this.

She leaped.

Leftward. Off of the elevated railroad.