Event Scenario/Showdown in the Tundra
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 Hebiko |
"Wooooah...! Amazing, this snowy scenery!" | |
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| Running throughout the night, the Mist Train is now traveling through Eisengradian territory. Once dawn broke, Hebiko is amazed to see the snowy landscape of this area again. | ||
| Hebiko |
"It may be unscrupulous to be so impressed by the scenery like this, but ......" | |
| Conductor |
No, don't worry about it. If we kept our guards up all the time, we'll only exhaust ourselves. | |
 Yukikaze |
"Conductor-san, you okay? You haven't slept all the way here, have you?" | |
 Paddington |
"Sir Conductor, we're almost to the target. Please prepare to stop." | |
 Rinko |
"Are we stopping? In that case, I need to prepare myself. wait no, I don't think he's going to attack us anytime soon." | |
| Conductor |
We might as well have ourselves prepared just in case. But don't get too worked up. | |
| Rinko |
"...? What do you mean?" | |
| We stopped at the target point, and immediately after thatーー | ||
 Shizuku |
"My my? What's the matter, what made you have to stop here? Maybe you got tired of running away?" | |
| Yukikaze |
"Here he is, Shizuku Kuroki!" | |
| Kotaro |
"This is way too fast...! It's been at most 10 minutes since we stopped...!" | |
| Shizuku |
"While it's true that there are no towns around here that could be destroyed in a fight... Do you seriously think you all can win a fight against me just because of that?" | |
| Rinko |
"Try me. Don't underestimate us." | |
| Shizuku |
"What can a mere four people do? My opponents are just――" | |
| Shizuku |
"――!?" | |
| A shot rang out, as if cutting through the dry air. Kuroki managed to dodge the bullet with his incredible speed. | ||
| But he didn't dodge completely, and his leg was slightly frayed and blood was seeping from his clothing. | ||
| Shizuku |
"Was that a gunshot...? Where in the world did that come from?" | |
| As soon as Shizuku looked around, another shot was fired. Kuroki dodged even that, but the echoing gunfire signaled the soldiers who had been hiding from the surrounding tundra to appear all at once. | ||
| Yukikaze |
"Eh... Wh-What's going on!?" | |
| Hebiko |
"Amazing..." | |
| Conductor |
The first sniper shot was probably by Volgo. She has never missed her aim ever before, so Kuroki, you really dodged her bullets twice. | |
| Conductor |
However, what if you're surrounded by multiple guns now? | |
| Shizuku |
"I see.. So that explains why the subordinate who got off the train during the night were for this purpose, eh?" | |
| Rinko |
"I see now, so Yakutsk was to call for reinforcements!?" | |
| Kotaro |
"I thought so. The only way to overcome him is to intercept him flawlessly. However, I didn't expect it would be done on such a large scale." | |
| Conductor |
As far as I can tell, this is the size of a single battalion. However superhuman he may be, the army is not well-equipped just for capturing a single bandit. | |
| Paddington |
"As expected of how Yakutsk should be!" | |
| Karlsruhe looks at me from her command vehicle, and I can guess the general outline of her plan. | ||
| Shizuku |
"Haha, impressive indeed, my mistake for once..." | |
 Yakutsk |
"The enemy will disappear...! Stop him, STRELYAT'!" | |
| A concentrated firestorm literally began. Kuroki immediately activated his Evil Eye, but―― | ||
| Yukikaze |
"A direct hit!" | |
| Fresh blood splattered on the pure white snow. The trail of red splotches continued for a bit, before moving away from the train, and then it disappeared. | ||
| Kotaro |
"It wasn't fatal, but it did wound him." | |
| Rinko |
"But to put it another way, we deployed our forces this far and were only able to repel them. We haven't reached a concrete solution." | |
 Kirara |
"That's right. After all, he will attack again, won't he? It would be impossible to fight him off with such a large number of people every time." | |
| Yukikaze |
"In the first place, we succeeded because it was a surprise attack. What if he approached us out of sight and attacked us one by one then..." | |
| Kotaro |
"The question now... is where Kuroki was hiding in the first place." | |
| Hebiko |
"Speaking of which, yeah. Wondering if he could have predicted that Conductor-chan would stop the train in this snowy field." | |
| Kotaro |
"He didn't predict it. Because... He's already on this train." | |
| Kirara |
"HUH!? What do you mean!?" | |
| Kotaro |
"It was too fast from the time it stopped to the time he showed up. It's not easy to catch up with this train, and just as Hebiko said, it's difficult to predict." | |
| Kotaro |
"He's concealing himself with his Evil Eye and has been on this train for a long time." | |
| Yukikaze |
"No, no effing way...!? We were traveling with the enemy together?" | |
| Paddington |
"Wait, please wait. If that were the case, wouldn't he have defeated us and steal the train already?" | |
| Rinko |
"That's certainly true. If he had concealed himself then take us by surprise, we would have suffered considerable casualties too. We would have lost at least one of our own." | |
| Kirara |
"We dragged him so far that he was surrounded by that army. Do you think he would have made such an error in judgment?" | |
| Kotaro |
"That's because - It's not the train he's after. He's not after the train itself, he's after the power source of this train." | |
| Paddington |
"Power source, that's...!?" | |
| Shizuku |
(Heheh, I guess I've been caught out.) | |
| Shizuku |
(But it doesn't matter, because I can conceal myself. It's impossible for them to search every inch of that train.) | |
| Shizuku |
(If they're going to send out an army like that again, then I guess I can't mess with them for a while. But there will surely be a chance ... Because if they keep on running this long...) | |
| Shizuku |
(They'll have to resupply sooner or later...!) | |