Horizon:Volume 1 Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Covert Operatives Under the Night Sky
How is the darkness of temptation.
Which makes the night fun.
Seducing you.
Point Allocation (Night Games)
There existed light in the depths of darkness.
The light accumulated like particles, each one of them the lights of buildings and houses.
The group of lights formed the shape of a city, which looked out to a bay.
However, the light was scarce.
Furthermore, a gigantic rectangular darkness existed in the middle of the city. The darkness that consumed over half the city extended outwards like a spiderweb, the roads and waterways filled with darkness going every direction.
Even though its center was wrapped in darkness' embrace, several lights continued in various directions from the nighttime town. Those were the lights from the homes and villages in the outskirts that followed the main roads; in other words, the streets and mountain paths.
A voice took form at a place where all this could be seen: the northwestern surface of the mountain.
"Musashi is to the north while Tres Espana's Inquisition's ship as well as Regno Unito, the ship of the Pope-Chancellor-sama who came to await the new Logismoi Oplo, lie to our west. And to our south is Mikawa, which is making an offering to P.A. ODA."
The owner of the voice was standing atop a ridge. It was a young man on the roof of the watchhouse constructed there. He was wearing the uniform of the main Academy in Tres Espana, Alacalá de Henares. However, the uniform was modified for mountainous use. It was covered with a fabric without pores, meant to protect against the cold.
Sitting in a folding chair, he looked over Mikawa and the mountains leading there.
His hands, sticking out of the uniform, were holding a sniper rifle. From time to time, he would use his scope to look around.
There was a small noise. Something was tapping from within the collar of his uniform.
Without dropping his gaze to look at his collar, he looked at the ridge reaching from the town to the watchtower where he sat.
"-Well done, Gabrielle-san."
He spoke, and a girl opened his collar and crawled out. About three heads tall, she had two wings.
She took a seat on the young man's shoulder.
"You have a call"
As soon as she said those words, the girl Gabrielle took a trumpet from out of her wings. The trumpet shook.
"-B2T3, this is B1T3. Report your status."
"B1T3, this is B2T3 responding. Tes, there are no changes in the situation - I just have one complaint."
He responded.
A voice boomed out from the trumpet.
"The Gabriel you have is really good. My mouse is a symbol type, so its speech patterns are really businesslike."
"I'm not going to modify you, you're really good."
"Aren't you going to strengthen its functionality? The Catholics have started discounting functionality as a measure against the Protestants."
"It'll become big if I strengthen its functionality, though. It's nice when it's small. Yeah, the fact that it's small is really good."
"That's deep..."
The young man nodded. Atop his shoulder, Gabrielle inclined her small head, tilting it to the side.
"Deep?"
"Yeah, it means that you're worth a lot."
Having heard that, Gabrielle smiled after a while. B2T3 nodded.
"Man, damn this. I'll be doing this forever. When I'm done with this job, I'll turn on its false jamming so we can cuddle. Jealous, aren't you?"
"There's no way you're ever getting married. Also, don't raise strange death flags. If you're going to, then at least do it with a 3D person."
"Rest easy, we'll be able to head back home the day after, so we just have to sit tight. Well, disregarding the fact that the majority of classes other than the extracurricular ones you choose are canceled, night duty is tough."
Suddenly, the young man could hear a noise. A high-pitched noise. Along with the noise came a sound close to murmuring.
"Is that a disturbance in the earth pulse? Did New Nagoya Castle's leyline reactor start up for work?"
"Down here, I've been able to pick it up for a while. Somehow, it seems like something outside the schedule we were given. A communique came in that said that the higher ups were going to ask New Nagoya Castle about it before reporting to headquarters."
B1T3 spoke from the other side of the Divine Communication.
"Rather than that, did you see the advance ship that switched places with us? coming out of the dock? It seems like the girl that's rumoured to be the next inheritor of the Honda name was riding on it."
"-Never cut anyone before."
"Are you talking about yourself?"
Having been asked about that, B2T3 gave an answer.
"I've shot someone. That was in a little skirmish we had with Hexagon Français. As for killing...only animals. Male students of Tres Espana always doing it during bullfighting lessons."
Gabrielle's eyebrows crinkled and she stared into my face.
"...Sad?"
"Thanks for asking."
"Eh!? Are you talking to me!? Oh damn, how far back is the savepoint I'm going to have to load for this!?"
"Shut up, asshole. Don't disturb Gabrielle and I. If you peek out from the watchhouse and smirk, It'd probably be my first time killing someone..."
"Hey now, don't stand up. I can see you from here."
Hearing those words, B2T3's body shook.
...Eh?
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
...I'm sitting down, though?
The instant that thought ran through his mind. Gabrielle lightly tapped his cheek. Directly after. The trumpet shook.
'B2T3, this is B1T1."
A girl's voice rang out. B1T1 was, in short, the internal supervisor of the base of operations at the foot of the mountain B2T3 was on. Because this was an extra-curricular by choice, they weren't from the same class, but he recalled the face.
It shouldn't have been a girl.
"B2T3, this is B1T1."
Yet, the calls continued.
"-Is all well?"
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