4-29: -A: Sacred Sword (2/4)

4-29: -A: Sacred Sword (2/4)

Frire wielded her sword and glared at the infiltrator with anger and hostility.

A normal person would have long fallen on their back in the face of the pressure she emanated, but the person before her just laughed.

Aha! So being too greedy and trying to run a Mind skill experiment was a bad idea. Not only did you name the kids I played with, you even know the organization Im from! Wow! What kind of magic trick is that?

Sorry, but Im not telling you anything. I do sympathize with your bad luck, though.

Frire slipped out a chuckle as though shed remembered something, then she knitted her brows.

The infiltrator was frustrated that shed been found out because of some seemingly funny reason, but she pretended to be calm.

One thing she strangely got right was that the skill experiment was a bad idea.

The army was more or less the only one in the know about the matters regarding the Mind skill experiments, so it was a clear hint that soldiers had been involved.

Moreover, it brought to mind the names of the organizations that could get past the citys defenses and come up with and execute such thorough plans without getting caught. There werent many such terrorist organizations.

However, the person who figured everything out didnt actually have much confidence in his guess since it was based purely off of circumstantial evidence.

Is that so? Unfortunately, the real one isnt around anymore, so even if you ask me to return her identity, well, I cant help you there.

Even then, Frire said.

The infiltrators words implied that the real Lesca was no longer in this world, but Frire likely expected that. Despite that, she still asked her to give back what shed taken and glared at her with her golden eyes.

In the face of that pressure emanating from Frire, the infiltrator exhaled and made an exasperated face.

Fuu, I see youre as stupidly serious as ever. What a boring woman.

What?

A wave of faint agitation washed over Frires face.

The infiltrator felt a sense of superiority at that. All shed done was to restore her voice, and yet shed already connected the dots.

So she still remembers me, she smiled.

So, you found out, did you? Well, fine. I never liked this face in the first place. Screen cancel, the infiltrator said.

What!? Frire said.

Without a hint of guilt from taking another persons life, the face the infiltrator wore disappeared and her face returned to its original state.

From that blue hair that was relatively common in Garesto and that late thirties face to a pink-haired bob cut and a face that was around Frires age.

Lieutenant Aria Banslet? Right, faking identities was your specialty!

Thats former lieutenant to you, Lieutenant Colonel Saint-chan. But yes, its been a while. I didnt think youd actually remember me. That makes me quite happy, she said insincerely as a fearless smile appeared on her face.

Aria Banslet.

A former lieutenant of the Garesto Special Forces.

Frire couldve never dreamed that the person who infiltrated the academy would be her.

In fact, even her being alive was a surprise.

The two were old friends and have known each since their recruitment exams. They were even assigned to the same first unit.

Because of that and how sociable Aria was, they got to know each other, and they were frequently assigned together because the weapons they first specialized at worked well together. After getting through many life-threatening situations, they became comrade-in-arms.

But after that they were moved to different units and became estranged. When they reunited 9 years ago, they were already enemies.Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)

Of course, I remember. Who do you think caught you!? Frire said.

Thats right. I was done in by you that time, wasnt I? Aria said.

Aria slipped out a chuckle as she thought back to that time, but Frire wasnt laughing.

Although they had only been together for a short time, she was still the first friend she made after enlisting and in fact in whole her life too so one could only imagine how hard it was for her to arrest her with her own hands.

But those only stopped her for a moment, as she forcefully lifted her legs and brought the drones out from under the ground, then she kicked them away and turned them into junk.

Tsk, where is she!?

But Aria just wanted to buy herself that brief moment, so that she could make herself vanish from Frires sight, and move away from Frires range.

Ill have you stop moving for awhile, Aria said from over 100 meters above the ground.

She had put on the Volunteer Army-use exoskeleton, and was now holding a sniper rifle.

She aimed that gun at her old friend and pulled the trigger without any hesitation.

A vast amount of photon gathered together and, in the next moment, unleashed a powerful beam at Frire.

The highest grade of paralysis effect had been added into that beam, so even with her high Resistance stat, a direct hit would leave her incapacitated.

!

But Frire wasnt so dull that she wouldnt notice that attack.

She realized that an attack was coming from above her, but it was too close to dodge, so she used her sword as a shield instead.

When Aria saw that through her scope, she laughed.

Hah! Its not so weak that you could just block it like that!

As she laughed, her attack landed, and a violent flash accompanied by a roaring sound and powerful impact covered the surrounding area, wiping out the tent and the equipments, leaving nothing but the fine particles fluttering in the air.

After the flash had dissipated, a crater had been gouged out of the land and none of natures traces was left nearby.

Already, that attack was less a sniper shot, and more an artillery hit.

The fact that youre still in perfectly good health after that really goes to show how ridiculous your Resistance stat is. As expected of the heir of the prestigious Doneju Family thats known for their martial arts.

When the smoke had cleared and Frire appeared without a single scratch on her, Aria was understandably shocked, but she had succeeded nonetheless, so she let out a breath of relief.

Aria was confident in being able to endure the same attack with a simple exoskeleton, but taking it on with nothing but ones flesh and yet not have to worry about ones life?

Even among the Garesto military, that level of Resistance was monstrous.

Id love to finish you off here, but then wed be completely antagonizing the Garesto public and military, and be on the receiving end of a full-scale attack, so lets leave that for later.

Theyve been showing so much weakness just with this operation already, so it was definitely too early for them to escalate the situation with Garestos military.

But of course

I dont need your concern, Aria.

!?

As Frires voice resounded and a flash of light filled her vision, she didnt even have the leisure to freeze up.

Her intuition told her that a grave threat was at her.

So she threw her sniper rifle at the direction of the voice and immediately bolted for the opposite direction as fast as she could.

In the next moment, a silver stroke split her sniper rifle in two and it exploded.

Ku, whats going on!?

She had merely moved according to her intuition, and had yet to process what was happening.

Thats why she immediately froze when she realized what was there in the direction her weapon had exploded.

An exoskeleton unlike the exoskeletons used in the school.

A polished sharpness and a beautiful lean figure that had shaved off everything unnecessary, all in the form of a full silver armor.

It was perfectly fitted to its user and the womanly contours were in full display.

When her beautiful face was coupled with the blaze of photons illuminating from the large wing boosters behind and the skirt armors wings, she looked just like the Valkyrie spoken of in the legends, and she gave off a divine aura that struck fear into any and all who beheld her.

To think that even my return battle with this guy would be you. I sure have ended up with a strange fate since those test run battles.