RUNE TROOPERS VOLUME 1 PART 2 OF CHAPTER 6
“The target upon impact has broken to pieces! It has broken into 63 smaller pieces!”
(EN: tsk! Just 6 short, huh?)
“Can we shoot them down?!”
“W-well, roughly 40% of them pose a destructive threat by the time they fall to sea level! Again, a large number have the possibility of directly hitting this ship and land!”
“Kuh, and the second wave of attacks?”
Kaburagi immediately said to the weapons officer. But, he himself already understood that they had no cards left on the table.
“N-no good! It would not meet in time!”
The meteorite was threatening to be too close of a distance to attack with the SM3. To defy the attack of the flying object out of the atmosphere, in intercepting it, there had been only one chance. The radar indicated the groups of scattered, smaller meteorites which scattered like spider children.
“Is that it for what we humans can do against this…!?”
Kaburagi scowled at the groups of meteorites which would get rid of everything. And, he intuitively knew that someone designed this attack. This meteorite attack would not fit that enemy shogun’s ‘aesthetics’ of settling things in battle. In other words, this attack is one with strange motives. Again, the goal is not merely to destroy the nation – In the middle of his utmost stress, his thinking was interrupted. This was not the time for such.
(EN: … *Complains about the author nerfing Ibuki’s awesomeness to give Ikemen-tachi a chance to do something*)
“The groups of meteorites will hit this ship in 15 minutes!”
“All crew members, prepare for the impact!”
Fastening the strap of their gray helmets, the crew members prepared for the impact of the meteorite falling. But, if they take direct hits from the meteorites, such things will prove meaningless. The sense of powerlessness from leaving everything to fate ruled over all of them.