Ultimate Antihero:Volume 3 Chapter 3
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Chapter 3=
Part 1
The war between Tokyo life sphere and the Five Great Leaders’ allied force finally began.
The one who took the first move was the air force of the allied force.
Under the lead colored cloud, drops of rain began to fall.
Countless aircrafts drove through the sky and rushed to Tokyo life sphere.
{I see it. The nest of the shitheads that conspire with demon.}
{Ain’t their defense something. They are just guarding.}
{I’m gonna shove my thick dick there now and make them say ‘hii-hii’ just you see.}
Even while exchanging vulgar talk through the wireless, the pilots moved to do their work.
The role granted to them was to destroy the protective wall that was protecting Tokyo life sphere with missile.
Each pilot controlled their console and locked-on to the wall.
After that,
{ { {FOX2!!!! (Missile fire)} } }
They pressed the button for missile fire.
From the aircrafts that numbered more than 200 even just in the side of Tokyo bay, missiles numbered more than twice of those aircrafts were released.
No, not only aircraft missiles.
The warships above Tokyo bay were also shooting their missiles.
And then those fired swarm of missiles approached Tokyo life sphere with white smoke trailing behind them.
――They impacted the protective wall.
Flower of heat and black smoke bloomed and roar that shook the sky resounded.
……However regardless of that much concentrated firing, the veil of coiling black smoke shook due to the sea breeze, and the pilots saw inside the appearance of the wall that just slightly sooty.
{Oi, oi, you serious! There ain’t even a crack!}
{It even got hit by the warship missile, aircraft missile won’t do anything to something like this.}
The pilots were amazed.
But, that was only natural.
In the first place this protective wall was something prepared for use against <Demon King class> demon.
Destroying it using man made ammunition was out of the question.
Even if it was hit by nuclear missile, this wall wouldn’t be broken through physically.
Therefore the mission entrusted to the first wave of the air force to destroy the wall using missile was impossible to be accomplished.
In this situation, the commander of the air force immediately called to all pilots using wireless.
{Notifying all pilot. Changing the strategy to plan B. I repeat. The strategy is changed to plan B.}
{This plan B is―……}
Plan B was the tactic for the case where the missile attack failed to inflict a telling blow to the wall.
Giving up on the side that was protected by wall, they would descend from above the sky that was virtually defenseless.
The descending unit would try to steal the control of the wall and opened the wall from inside, that was the tactic.
The one who became obstacle this time was the interception unit of the enemy that was deployed above the wall.
The protective wall was thick, it was also equipped with the likes of anti-aircraft gun and anti-aircraft interceptor missile, turning it into a place that was well-suited for defensive line.
The intercepting unit that was deployed here would become obstacle for the helicopter sending in the descending unit and the magicians equipped with <Air Raid>.
Therefore the role that was assigned to the aircraft unit in this plan B was concentrated attack on the enemy unit above the wall.
They rained down gun shooting and bombardment and obstructed the interception unit from deploying.
{Put simply we just got to let loose our gun properly.}
{Ai―n’t that right.}
{Hah, this is easy win!}
While saying that, the pilots pressed the switch of their aircraft gun.
There was no feeling of tension at all in them.
That was also only natural.
This time the allied force managed to slip under the radar and launched a surprise attack.
It hadn’t been five minutes since Innocentius declared the war proclamation.
In other words, right now the enemy should be running around in panic from the sudden surprise attack.
Like that naturally not to mention the interception unit, the set up of the anti-aircraft gun and anti-aircraft missile hadn’t been done adequately.
After all the enemy didn’t have the leeway for that timewise.
If that was the case, this mission would only become one-sided killing――that was how it was supposed to be.
{Ha……?}
Instantly, the aircraft flying in the lead became a ball of fire and exploded while baking the cloud.
Successively, the aircrafts around it also exploded similarly one after another.
They fell to the ground while raising flame.
{GUWAAAAA!}
{ROCK! STUART!}
The pilots opened their eyes wide witnessing the friendly troops getting shot down one after another in surprise.
The first aircraft formation attacking from the Tokyo bay that easily numbered more than two hundred planes had their number decreased until less than thirty planes merely in a few dozen seconds.
Just why in the world?
Even though the enemy shouldn’t have time to even take battle formation, yet
The pilots fell into confusion from not understanding anything.
But one pilot among them directed his gaze at Tokyo life sphere that was still wafting black smoke and noticed.
The upper part of Tokyo life sphere protective wall.
Taking aim at the swarm of the flying airplanes were the anti-aircraft gun, anti-aircraft missile, and then――
Battle line of magicians looking up to the sky setting up <Arms> of rifle-type and wand-type.
{Lies……!? They has finished deploying the interception unit already!?}
Correct, the Japan army had put their interception formation in order under five minutes and deployed above the protective wall.
Part 2
Japan army’s high speed deployment.
There were three reasons for that.
The first reason, a simple high level of skill.
Japan national defense army, exactly as that name implied, they weren’t particularly good in attacking from their side, but they boasted unequalled skill in defensive battle.
Especially under the policy of their current administration led by prime minister Kinugasa, the army carried out training that was leaning extremely heavily to the importance of defensive battle.
Training for the in case occasion of the capital’s defensive battle was carried out once a week.
And disaster drill with the participation of all citizens was carried out with the frequency of twice a month.
Usually the citizens behaved as if the drill was troublesome, but those persistently piled up training demonstrated their fruit in this emergency.
Not only every single of the soldiers, even the evacuating citizens, and even the student magicians, all of them understood what they should do and where they should go in the current situation, because of that whether it was the unit deployment or the evacuation guidance, all were carried out extremely smoothly.
That was the first reason.
And then the second reason was because today was the war victory commemoration festival.
The war victory commemoration festival a big festival that was held once a year.
Most of the citizens of Tokyo life sphere were gathering around the imperial palace.
The student magicians that participated in this festival with their culture festival and the national defense magician who was responsible for the security so that the festival could progress smoothly were also the same.
In other words since the moment of the war proclamation, all of them were already in the position where they could immediately coordinate and solidified their battle strength.
This was also one of the reasons that made it possible for the high speed deployment.
But, it was hardly possible to construct the defensive line in only five minutes just from these two reasons.
As expected the biggest reason was――
The existence that even in this moment was continuing to hover above the sky of Tokyo life sphere……the human-type mummy.
The existence of the <evil god> Quachil Uttaus.
The divinity that Homura summoned just before he left, the one that took the name of <The Treader of the Dust>.
This was an <evil god> that specialized in interfering with [time].
Homura made use of that power and granted to all human that existed in the Tokyo life sphere the divine protection of <Time AccelerationChrono Drive>, accelerating everyone’s inherent time until ten times faster.
Therefore, the people of Tokyo life sphere could move just as much as fifty minutes in only five minutes.
With that much time added with the above mentioned condition and the height of their skill, it was not even an exaggeration to say that it was easy to construct the defensive line before the aircrafts reached Tokyo life sphere.
And then with their time accelerated――
The movement of the enemy also looked relatively ten times slower.
“Haha! This thing is awesome! They are slower than even RC plane!”
“Yeah, it’s far easier than shooting down clay!”
“Doing monkey business in this long awaited joyous festival, I’ll shoot you all down until there is nothing left!”
{It’s fine to not force yourself aiming at the missile heading to the wall and the enemy’s ground unit.
But don’t you all dare letting even a single aircraft or magician equipped with air raid, as well as the heli of the airborne unit come close!
Shoot them all down!}
“ “ “YES SIR!” “ “
Under the instruction of commander Hassad of the national defense army’s seventh division, the national defense magicians deployed on the protective wall at Tokyo bay’s side were shooting down one after another the approaching enemy with truly a one hundred shot one hundred hit.
If the relative velocity between the two side had the gap until ten times then that was only natural.
Even for the people who got red mark in shooting training, it was hard for them to actually miss the target.
“As I thought, Homura-san is just, amazing……!”
“To be this reliable even when he is not here, really the <evil gods> are just so various eh―”
The student magician Koga Ayumu and Anna Drawnin that was mixed among the deployed unit on the wall preparing their rifle and wand were aiming at the assault landing boats that were launched from the warships while talking about the blessing.
Even the jet aircraft looked like it was flying in the speed of clay pigeon shooting.
The likes of the assault landing ships gliding on the water looked as if they were mostly standing still.
Especially for Anna who received the divine protection of <Eagle Eye> of the <White Death God> Simo Hayha, added with this divine protection of Quachil Uttaus, shooting out those things was so simple that it was not an exaggeration to say it was like she was shooting sitting duck.
Within one second in real time, Anna alone could easily sink three missiles or aircrafts, or seven if she targeted the landing ships.
And then in the interception unit, other than Anna there were also the magicians and the soldiers equipped with anti-aircraft equipment, then the anti-aircraft gun and missile pods and the likes. All those interception attacks that were multiplied ten times, in the real time that didn’t even reach one minute, had sunk all the approaching more than the two hundreds aircraft and the missiles that were more than twice that number, and also the landing ship that were approaching their location, there was not even one left.
The enemy that was launching surprise attack at them had the table turned on them.
“Yosh! With this the first wave of the enemy is annihilated!”
“The second wave will come soon! Don’t get careless!”
“Hehe-. No matter how many those half-wits that come here, they are just not our match.”
Due to the ten times difference in speed that brought them one-sided victory, the morale of the national defense magicians who showed uneasy expression when they began to deploy was now really high.
It could even be said that they had already recovered from the emotional impact of the surprise attack.
“I, if we can keep this up, then we are going to be able to hold on until Homura-san return back!”
Even the expression of Ayumi who at first looked like she was going to flee anytime showed a little composure that didn’t get too careless.
But――
(Now now, I wo―nder about that.)
Among those people that were like that Anna sharpened her gaze, then with her <Eagle Eye> that reached very far, she glared at the enemy’s mother ship that was floating far away in the Tokyo bay and thought.
Attacking in this so large a scale, that meant that the enemy was also coming here with considerable determination and resolve.
If that was the case then surely they wouldn’t pull back just from this much.
The most telling thing was that most of the attackers just now were normal soldiers.
The magician unit that was the main force still hadn’t shown most of their strength.
(As expected, they aren’t going to let us win easily like this aren’t they.)
And then, Anna’s hunch was unfortunately right on the mark.
Part 3
From among the swarm of aircrafts rushing to Tokyo life sphere which numbered several thousands in total, not even one were able to reach Tokyo life sphere.
Every last one of the approach was shot down after receiving the fierce attack of the interception unit which was bestowed by the divine protection of Quachil Uttaus.
That fact was reported to the command room of the <Five Great Leader> by a soldier of the allied force with a pale face.
“The, the first wave of the air force that went ahead, has been annihilated……!”
Hearing that, Joseph shouted angrily that sounded like a scream.
“Wha, what is the meaning of this! Didn’t the surprise attack succeeded!?”
“Don’t tell me that our preparation for war has been leaked to them.”
“Even if that’s the case it’s still strange yeah. That many missiles and aircrafts were all shot down, their firing line is just too much! That ain’t possible physically!”
Tairon immediately denied Leti’s words.
For him that was familiar with war, he was able to imagine the scale of counter attack from Japan’s whole battle strength.
And then Japan’s counter attack that repelled the first wave had greatly surpassed that imagination.
“Just how in the world they did that?”
The <Five Great Leaders> were perplexed. Toward them who were like that――
“About that, from the picture that the air force took, the people of Tokyo life sphere were moving around with unbelievable speed……”
The reporting soldier transferred the recording of Tokyo life sphere that he obtained from the pilot of the air force to the terminal of the command room and it was displayed to the people in that place.
All eyes were opened wide from that recording.
The reason was because the movements of the soldiers of Tokyo life sphere that looked like rice grains in that recording projection looked as if their image had been fast forwarded ten times faster.
“This video, is it being fast forwarded?”
“No. This video is being played in the normal speed.”
“……The cause is most likely that thing.”
Gregorio who was also a magician paused the recording temporarily and pointed at something.
What was projected far away in the pilot’s field of vision was, a person’s shadow.
The mummy that had its both hand thrust forward floating above the sky of Tokyo life sphere.
Gregorio knew just what was that shadow.
“<Great Old One> Quachil Uttaus. The evil god that manipulate time. The <Evil God User> must have summoned it before leaving and left it behind. If we imagined that the divine protection of this evil god quickened the time of the people of Tokyo life sphere ten times faster than us, it will explain this interception’s fierceness.”
“Kuh-, he really becomes a nuisance for us at every opportunity……! How annoying!”
Leti cursed while biting her nails without caring of other people’s eye.
“Secretary general Wan. You are also an S-rank magician right? Is it possible to perform the same technique to us?”
Tairon showed irritation to Joseph’s question while shaking his head.
“Don’t say something absurd. <Chrono Drive> itself is not that difficult of a technique, but that’s only if you put it in yourself alone. Expanding the range until the scale of anti-army ain’t something possible even for S-rank like me. Besides in the first place <Chrono Drive> can speed you up until three times faster at best. This situation is just hopeless.”
Their plan at first was to send the air force as the opening gambit before sending in their main force that was the magician unit and the infantry.
However to keep sending in their force like this continuously would only be pointless effort.
What should they do in this situation?
Everyone in the command room pondered.
Toward they who were like that,
“Sheesh, it’s just too sluggish I cannot bear to see this.”
A mocking voice came from behind.
The one who spoke was one of the <Special Misssionary> who smiled thinly.
“Aa? What, so you guys have any better idea instead eh.”
Tairon snapped at this and he directed his gaze at the talker with a question.
In respond, the eldest one even among the <Special Missionary>, a white bearded old man named Dalett took a step forward,
“But of course. You cannot expect anything from human who is not even magician from the start. Hey, Velt.”
He directed the attention at the figure of the girl behind him who was wearing a dress with rolled blue hair.
Toward this, the girl called Velt nodded,
“Yes, really. Or perhaps I should say that in the first place the plan to throw our force little by little using aircraft or landing ship itself is a stupid plan. Against a single small country like Japan, it’s better to just engulf them completely with the power of number. ……Just like this!”
The moment she raised her voice, she clasped both her hands together and kneeled on the spot taking a praying posture.
Instantly――the girl’s figure began to be enveloped in light, a pair of wings grew from her back, and then a silver halo appeared on the top of her head.
That was a possession that only possible for <Special Missionary> with a rank above the hero possession that was used by magician.
The was the secret of the church where one was possessed by angel which was a higher rank spiritual body.
And then, right after an angel descended down on that body of the girl called Velt,
A tremor that was even fiercer compared to when Homura tore apart <Aureole> began to shake the aircraft carrier.
In the middle of that, Dalett informed Innocentius.
“Your grace. We are going to charge there. Please hold on to something.”
“Don’t tell me……-! All member prepare for impact-!”
Innocentius comprehended just what were they, the <Special Missionaries> going to do from the words of Dalett, then he gave such order through the mind transmission to all unit that was deployed in Tokyo bay.
Right after that――
{Witness the day of rage of the great god.
Something like a mountain is thrown into the sea, the sea surged like it’s going mad.
All life living inside the sea are stolen, all ships are crushed.}
A severe earthquake that couldn’t be compared to anything until now assaulted them who were on the sea.
Translator's Notes and References
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