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| + | “I have a suggestion,” Lessar said to Mikoto as the other girl thought. |
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| + | Mikoto looked puzzled. |
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| + | “What is this all of a sudden?” |
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| + | “If the modified MIG-21 continues at a normal rate, it will reach the center of Academy City in less than an hour. We cannot worry about our appearance right now. We need to find the person who is controlling this plan.” |
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| + | “And?” |
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| + | “The destructive force of the Solntse is massive, so the higher ups must have prepared a system to prevent the pilot from betraying them. Simply put, the bomb will not detonate if the pilot merely drops it. After the pilot drops it, the higher ups will send out a detonation signal. I’m betting a system like that has been built in,” Lessar explained. “Otherwise, there is a risk of the pilot betraying the higher ups and dropping a Solntse on the shopping mall. And if there is a unit of those old fighters, they could even drop one here and then run off with the rest once any pursuers have been utterly eliminated.” |
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| + | Mikoto started to nod in agreement, but… |
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| + | (…Huh?) |
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| + | Something bothered her. |
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| + | However, she could not get a proper grasp of what exactly it was. |
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| + | Meanwhile, Lessar had continued speaking. |
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| + | “In other words, even if they manage to get past the air defenses of Academy City and the JSDF, the dropped Solntse will not detonate as long as the detonation signal is not sent out.” |
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| + | “In that case, there’s something we can do other than sitting here twiddling our thumbs.” |
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| + | “Yes, we can find and capture whoever is controlling this plan.” |
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| + | As Lessar spoke, she tossed something from between her fingers. |
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| + | The object that spun through the air like a Frisbee in Mikoto’s direction was a single ID card. |
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| + | “This is…?” |
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| + | “I found it back in that passageway. That card holds authorization of the highest rank. If we search through the areas and data surrounding that person, we can get an idea of these invisible higher ups’ identities. We may even be able to figure out where their hiding places are.” |
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| + | She had not lied. |
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| + | But she had left out the little fact that “whoever is controlling this plan” may have changed from being the higher ups to being some third party. |
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=== Part 3 === |
=== Part 3 === |
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Revision as of 04:26, 26 August 2011
Chapter 7
Part 1
An Anti-Skill group wearing powered suits for work in nuclear facilities had begun the mopping up operation in Academy City.
The terrorists were armed with ultra high frequency electromagnetic rifles and a large amount of detectors. Essentially, they had special electromagnetic firearms that could penetrate all forms of cover and would fatally destroy human cells and they had explosives that used those firearms.
The means of defense in a modern gunfight was not to see the bullet and evade it. Instead, it was to hide yourself behind something that functioned as a shield. As such, the ultra high frequency electromagnetic rifles that could penetrate any kind of cover were quite a threat.
However, as long as you defended yourself with something that could completely block the ultra high frequency electromagnetic waves, you could turn the situation around.
Shirai Kuroko spoke into her cell phone.
“Onee-sama. The soldiers wearing lead armor have ended the firefight. They are fine. The suppression is complete. There is no sign of the nuke exploding. It seems they had almost finished putting it together, but luckily the timer was still incomplete. …That was the report I received.”
“Wait, Kuroko!! Don’t hang up!!”
“Onee-sama?”
“It seems the Russian shopping mall had a secondary plan in case the nuclear bomb on the timer failed. They have likely already switched over to that plan. You need to inform Anti-Skill!!”
Mikoto then seemed to hesitate.
But then she continued on with resolve.
“A fighter loaded with a hydrogen bomb is headed from Russia to Academy City. If the air defense unit does not head out immediately, it will be dropped right on top of you!!”
Three old style fighters cut across the Sea of Japan at a point just barely above the waves. They were flying that low in order to lower the odds of being seen on radar as much as possible. However, that was not enough to completely deceive an air surveillance network. If it was, no one would spend so much money developing stealth technology.
“Klyuch Samolyot to all crafts. I have detected multiple radar waves. The JSDF has likely caught sight of us on their wide-area radar. This will not be so easy from now on.”
“Prisluga Samolyot to Klyuch Samolyot. They are not idiots. They would have already noticed us. For diplomatic reasons, they were just waiting until we were past Russian waters.”
“Nochi Samolyot to all crafts. Russia will begin taking action soon, too. I’m more worried about having Sukhoi’s coming up behind us.”
“Klyuch Samolyot to all crafts. Academy City is our greatest enemy. They will soon realize what we are trying to do. This is the critical moment.”
There was no point in flying so low any longer.
The three old style fighters slowly raised their altitude, threw off the caution they had been flying with before, and accelerated to full speed.
They were heading for the capital of Japan, Tokyo.
Those fighters that had the ability to hold a nuclear weapon were headed for the center of the science side, Academy City.
Mikoto paced about in the stock market center beneath the shopping mall. She was not moving her legs in order to reach a destination. Instead, she was merely trying to suppress her troubled nerves.
“…We reached the center of Code EIC, but the equipment is just the equipment. We didn’t find the person who was controlling it, so we can’t stop the shopping mall’s plan.”
Mikoto was muttering in order to put together her own thoughts, but Lessar was listening in.
(Yes, I generally agree with that, but…)
Lessar recalled what she had seen deep in that hidden passageway.
(The problem is that everyone in the group that seems to have been behind all this was decapitated. And they were killed magically. So…who has control of this plan now?)
Various expectations had crossed paths and the final plan was continuing on.
The Solntse hydrogen bomb.
That weapon held such ridiculous destructive power and it was the truly horrible joker being used in that plan.
Part 2
“I have a suggestion,” Lessar said to Mikoto as the other girl thought.
Mikoto looked puzzled.
“What is this all of a sudden?”
“If the modified MIG-21 continues at a normal rate, it will reach the center of Academy City in less than an hour. We cannot worry about our appearance right now. We need to find the person who is controlling this plan.”
“And?”
“The destructive force of the Solntse is massive, so the higher ups must have prepared a system to prevent the pilot from betraying them. Simply put, the bomb will not detonate if the pilot merely drops it. After the pilot drops it, the higher ups will send out a detonation signal. I’m betting a system like that has been built in,” Lessar explained. “Otherwise, there is a risk of the pilot betraying the higher ups and dropping a Solntse on the shopping mall. And if there is a unit of those old fighters, they could even drop one here and then run off with the rest once any pursuers have been utterly eliminated.”
Mikoto started to nod in agreement, but…
(…Huh?)
Something bothered her.
However, she could not get a proper grasp of what exactly it was.
Meanwhile, Lessar had continued speaking.
“In other words, even if they manage to get past the air defenses of Academy City and the JSDF, the dropped Solntse will not detonate as long as the detonation signal is not sent out.”
“In that case, there’s something we can do other than sitting here twiddling our thumbs.”
“Yes, we can find and capture whoever is controlling this plan.”
As Lessar spoke, she tossed something from between her fingers.
The object that spun through the air like a Frisbee in Mikoto’s direction was a single ID card.
“This is…?”
“I found it back in that passageway. That card holds authorization of the highest rank. If we search through the areas and data surrounding that person, we can get an idea of these invisible higher ups’ identities. We may even be able to figure out where their hiding places are.”
She had not lied.
But she had left out the little fact that “whoever is controlling this plan” may have changed from being the higher ups to being some third party.
