Chapter 42 Operation Deception
The fight between Thompson and Isamaya was not easily narrowed.
Various mechanical devices emanating from Thompson’s prosthetic arm rushed at Isamaya’s neck.
Watching the mechanical tentacles rush at them, Isamaya struck them with the blunt weapon he was holding.
Isamaya’s blunt weapon looked like a club suitable for one-handed grip. It was the pointing stick she used in class.
“What is that stick? You say you’re a teacher at Constell, so you’re a stick figure?”
“Sometimes I use it that way.”
Isamaya raised the pole horizontally, pointing at Thompson.
For a moment in Thompson’s eyes, Isamaya seemed to be holding a small ball. The length of the pointer was completely hidden from Thompson’s eyes, making him lose the sense of distance.
Moment,
“… … Suck!”
Kaang!
When the little ball seemed to have grown in an instant, Thompson hurriedly stretched out his arm. Isamaya’s pointing stick hit the prosthetic arm and bounced off.
‘What, it looks like it’s gotten longer, no, it’s really gotten longer!’
As he said.
Isamaya’s pointing stick grew longer. Even though Thompson and Isamaya were quite a distance away, they reached his eyes at once.
And it shortened again, as if it had ever been, and Isamaya grabbed it and turned it round and round. No, it’s been a little longer than before. I don’t know the length of the ‘original’.
“Soldier weapons are designed to hide their length from enemies. In particular, simple weapons that have almost no front and rear, such as sticks, are easier to hide.”
Isamaya raised the pointer horizontally again. And amazingly, it was completely hidden from Thompson’s sight.
“But what if the weapon that hides the length really changes in length? It’s funny that you have to consider both, isn’t it?”
“… … You crazy b*tch.”
When Thompson spit swear words.
A familiar sound came from far away.
After hearing the sound for a moment, Isamaya spoke softly.
“… … It’s a train.”
“huh.”
The two paused for a moment. As Isamaya said, a train was coming this way along the railroad from afar.
Isamaya’s eyes narrowed.
“So, did you do something on that railroad track? a bomb or something? Or do you want to aim for the train yourself?”
Foot, Thompson laughed.
“Is that possible? Rather, we came because of your captain. That old man is floating in the sky like that, can’t you just pass by?”
“Hey, I didn’t mean to touch the train.”
“Sure. We are Indus Image management is important. If you blow up the train to kill the Constell students, you can’t just get over it. It’s going to be a different issue than before.”
As Thompson said, there was nothing unusual about the train passing by.
The sound of the train grew louder and louder, passing Osprit in the air, but nothing happened.
Isamaya thought.
‘Frondie was right. After all, they commit their crimes after arriving in Cropole.’
The fact that the members are here means that business cards have already been distributed. Everything is as Frondier read.
That’s ridiculous, Frontier.
Suddenly, while Isamaya was thinking about that, tentacles sprang out of Thompson’s prosthetic arm. They started spinning like a fan around the prosthetic arm.
“Come on, this time will be different from before!”
Thompson leaned forward, as if protecting himself with it.
gang! Kaang!
As a test, Isamaya pierced the pointer several times, but failed to pierce the rotating tentacles. There was a slight gleam in her eyes.
“It’s a really good prosthetic.”
“Of course. This is it. ‘Hitchcock’ spent a lot of money and custom-made-”
“It makes the prosthetic look more powerful than yours.”
Thompson, who was proudly trying to explain, stopped. Tendons grew on his face and his chin bulged out.
“I’ll make all four limbs and prosthetic hands sweet.”
“it’s okay. Because I have more respect for my body.”
“Shut up!”
Thompson screamed and ran to Isamaya. Isamaya reduced the size of the pointer and looked at it silently.
‘… … indeed.’
After making a short judgment, Isamaya swung the pointing stick wide and wide.
Thompson, who wanted to run madly in anger, bowed his head to avoid the pointer.
There was no anger on Thompson’s face to avoid. It was only acting that lost reason to provocation. Rather, his cold eyes glared at Isamaya.
“huh!”
Thompson’s prosthetic arm stretched out. A hole opened in the middle of the palm, and something ejected flew to Isamaya.
It was a thin saliva. It was shot straight in the face of Isamaya,
Ting-
hit the glasses
“… … ok?”
Thompson wasn’t aiming for glasses. Isamaya moved her head lightly and purposely blocked it with glasses.
The durability of those glasses is amazing, too, but that meant that Isamaya had already read Thompson’s number.
“… … What, if possible, everyone goes to the goal for this.”
“I think so.”
Isamaya grabbed the stick again. We paid attention to Thompson’s three-dimensional expression change.
‘You’re good at pretending you’ve been provoked.’
At first, Isamaya was also deceived. Thompson thought he was about to lose his temper and attack by Isamaya’s provocation. But it wasn’t. That expression was Thompson’s trap.
“I don’t think there are one or two people who look at this body and make fun of it.”
Bang-bang, Thompson said, tapping his prosthetic arm.
“Those who try to provoke do not know that they are defenseless at that time. They are the ones who will take care of sticking their heads out of the mouth of a lion when they pretend to be angry, but your years are a little different.”
“Well, it’s true that I don’t like your saksu.”
Isamaya still spoke coldly with a stern face.
Heh, a light snort occurred.
“That is my personal feeling. It is not a matter of misjudgment.”
“… … ho.”
Isamaya tapped the pole.
“Then do you have any other weapons? If the circus was over, it would have been time to leave.”
“The provocation is still there.”
“I’m sorry. It’s heaven.”
She is a woman whose every word is scratching her nerves.
Thompson frowned, but there was no impressive facial expression change or reaction as before. The smoke doesn’t go through, so it’s closed.
‘He’s good at defense. You don’t want to kill me, but you’re good at handling situations that I can’t easily attack.’
An indicator rod that is freely adjustable with an unknown maximum length. That alone is confusing, but it is used to hide the length from the opponent’s view.
Thompson thought that he had an advantage in preemptive strikes or long-distance, but he wasn’t. Isamaya’s attack hits first, and is recovered before he charges.
‘I can’t help it. The prosthetic arm will be broken, but here-‘
When Thompson made a decision.
Woong-
“yes?”
Thompson felt a strange sensation and stiffened. His entire body seemed to pass through a light flow of mana in an instant. This strange feeling, Thompson is well aware of.
“Magic circle!”
Thompson shouted involuntarily and then looked around. It was a bit of a risky move because Isamaya was in front of him, but depending on the type of magic circle, ignoring it would lead to a more dangerous situation.
‘What is this size? It’s not even a public railroad, it’s overflowing with both valleys swallowing up!’
Thompson chuckled. With a little pretentiousness, I said to Isamaya.
“What are you guys? What were you planning to do with a magic circle this size? The hospitality is too much!”
… … So I talked to Isamaya to get even a single piece of information.
Isamaya’s expression was more grimacing than Thompson’s. He was glaring at Thompson, tensed by the magic circle’s senses.
‘… … What’s that face?’
didn’t you do it?
* * *
Pascal and Skyler also noticed the anomaly.
But they couldn’t turn their eyes away.
Kaang! Kang!
The two slashed each other’s bodies and swung their swords with tremendous inaction and aura.
He avoided being stabbed, but Pascal’s skin was cut, and he escaped from the diagonal sword, but Skyler’s armor was cracked.
The clash of Aurors was like that.
‘It bothers me because I can’t see.’
Pascal thought.
There were many disadvantages than I expected to simply fight a knight who couldn’t see the inside.
Without a face, there are no pupils, so they don’t know where their eyes are going. Even if the helmet is facing this way, it may be looking at a completely different place. Perhaps Skyler himself is making full use of it.
There is no muscle in sight, so it is difficult to read the starting point and destination of the attack. You can only respond properly if you watch to the end.
Kaga Gaga River!
After two clashes, a clash of blades trying to prove each other’s strength.
When the blades of each other’s Auror-clad blades made a sound, they created sparks.
“A great achievement at that age!”
Skyler’s admirable voice was still there.
Pascal asked.
“How do you see my age?”
“Well, aren’t you in middle school?”
“… … .”
Blood vessels appeared on Pascal’s smiling face.
aah! Skyler’s blade was pushed back by the powerful aura. Whoa? With a light cry, Skyler stepped back.
“I am a teacher. I’m not in middle school.”
“haha! It’s a joke. I didn’t know you’d be so angry.”
The two separated for a moment. Meanwhile, Skyler decided to say something he was concerned about.
“… … So, what is this magic circle now? What is this ignorant size? Did the teachers get together and work all night?”
“Well, I don’t know.”
Pascal said calmly, but he really didn’t know.
what? This magic circle. I have never seen such a huge magic circle. Maybe it was drawn bigger than the original magic circle?
The magic circle has the same effect whether it is drawn large or small, but it is difficult to simply draw physically large. the chance of making a mistake increases.
Besides, this is a rugged terrain with an aerial railroad crossing both cliffs. Drawing the magic circle that surrounds all of this while calculating the difference between elevation and elevation is truly possible only when talking with words. It’s possible in theory, but it’s not a human thing to do.
‘Hmm, let’s see.’
Skyler looked for the source of the magic circle with a squint, without moving his helmet as much as possible. Due to his invisible nature, Skyler was able to do this trick.
‘Right. There’s something standing on the other side of the cliff. That guy has activated the magic circle.’
and looking at Pascal again,
‘No, wait.’
He turned his gaze to the road again.
‘I, that bastard, it’s a Frontier!’
Skyler was astonished. It wasn’t obvious because he was astonished inside the armor, but his heart was already pounding.
‘What, what? Why is Frontier over there? Why does he have to be on the train? So, what was the train that passed by? All the Constell students are heading to Cropol, but only Frontier is missing?’
Is that possible? No, does Constell ‘allow’ that in the first place?
‘… … No, it can’t be. Right! That’s a mask!’
Skyler made a quick and sensible decision in her own way. Not Frontier, but someone else. The other guy is changing his face to imitate Frontier.
Common sense doesn’t mean that Frontier should be in a place like that. Of course, it is normal if you are heading to Cropol with other students in peace.
If not, what would the efforts of Indus to do to spread the image of Frontier and the business card work that Indus worked hard in Cropole? All those plans are in vain, it can’t be.
‘How dare you do useless deception!’
Skyler got up in anger and looked at Pascal.
However, Pascal’s expression was a spectacle.
“… … Well, no. what?”
Just as Skyler was confused in his head, Pascal spoke out.
He also found the Frontier and muttered with his eyes fixed on it.
‘what? Why are you even embarrassed?’
Is this even deceiving? A high level of facial expression? That is why Pascal’s expression was so, so natural, and his absurd gaze was conveyed to the heart.
‘What! Real or fake! That frontier! Which one!!’
Skyler’s head was confused, and he was screaming a voice that could not be heard.
