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xxxHorse Stable Fencexxx North Entrance xxx
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Barracks Barracks Knight
Upper Barracks
Several hours before enemies appeared from the fog.
“It must have cost a lot to procure new machines, right?”
“Oh, come on! I wanted to go to the battlefield too. And besides!”
“What’s with the solemn tone… Just so you know, I’ll still pay for it.”
“No, no. I made a nice find recently!”
Gira boasted.
He urged me to say it quickly and told me.
Descendant of heroes and brave warriors.
His ability is to multiply money.
One becomes two.
A rather subtle ability.
He multiplies gold coins one by one.
Is it worth the effort?
“Heh heh, you think so too? Hey, Isaac!”
“Are you outside? You wanted to brag, didn’t you?”
“Well, yeah!”
“Excuse me. I am Isaac. It is an honor to meet you, Tōyashi-sama.”
A young man entered.
But when I asked Gira his age.
He’s not much older than us?!
Come on, he’s trying too hard to look young?
Damn, it pisses me off that I lost.
“Isaac, show him your ability!”
“…”
“Hah.”
He took a silver coin from his pocket.
Light overflowed from his palm, and the silver coin became two, stacked on top of each other.
“Here you go.”
“See? Both are exactly the same. The material is also the same. If I keep multiplying gold coins, I’ll get more than I spent. It’s a profit for me!”
“But isn’t it a hassle to multiply them one by one? And you can only multiply money, can’t you?”
I couldn’t fall behind.
I found fault with Isaac’s ability.
“Hahaha, hahaha!”
Gira burst into laughter.
He expected me to find fault.
“Money. Indeed, Isaac had always thought that was the flaw in his ability. But by using his ability to increase his funds, he’s navigated through many dangerous situations. Then he met me, and learned of a possibility to overcome that flaw!”
“What did you say!?”
He can multiply things other than money?
If so, he’s the strongest.
He can claim to be the strongest in production jobs.
Find the original, high-quality item.
And multiply it with his ability.
Things are consumables.
They wear out with use.
But always have many new ones.
He’d be the strongest, surely.
“Isaac, multiply this jewel!”
“Hah.”
Gira tossed a magic tool ring to Isaac.
Isaac grabbed the ring with both hands.
And like before, the ring on his palm overlapped with another.
“Ooooooh!”
The magic tool was easily duplicated!
I asked if it was only palm-sized, but he shook his head.
“Anything I can touch.”
“You made a good find, didn’t you?!”
“Right! But I’m not giving it to you.”
As revenge for me finding fault with his ability,
Gira, his master, took revenge on his behalf.
They seem to get along well.
I’m starting to want a descendant with hero and brave warrior blood too.
Seems there are hits and misses, but Gira overcame the flaws.
I’m sure I can too.
“Where did you meet… what?”
“Enemy attack? Did they abandon the defensive line?”
“Suurl will take care of it. More importantly, where did you meet Isaac?”
I ignored the enemy attack outside, the alarm, and the horns the enemy was sounding.
The priority now is securing a person with an ability that will help my promotion!
The rear is Gira and Patch.
The front line is me and Suurl.
Gira came to the front line with me.
If this continues, I, who have the demerit of completely destroying my exclusive machine (ōgane), will fall behind the other three.
“Bwoooooooooooooooonnnn”
…Even though I’m “seriously” worried about my promotion race.
“Suurl, what’s taking so long? Are you struggling?”
“There might be many enemies. Let’s join in.”
“…”
Damn, Gira’s joining in immediately.
Suurl!? It’s your fault—!
When I left the tent,
soldiers were being crushed by lightly-equipped enemies with sheer numbers.
“So useless.”
All of them!
They’re dragging me down!
“I’ll take your head… Gyahh!”
“Huh? Head?”
A guy with a club attacked me.
He was swinging it.
With both hands.
I kicked him in his defenseless torso.
From next to me, Gira applauded with a snap, snap, snap. Was it sarcastic? He praised me.
I’m not your bodyguard, you know?!
“It’s bad if we don’t get into our machines.”
“…”
“Ah, hey?”
Gira,
do you want to rack up battle achievements that badly?
Not if I can help it!!
I got into a mass-produced machine modified for offense,
and tried to establish communication, but
“Enemy! From the fog! Reinforce…!”
“Gyaaaaaa”
The line was jammed.
My unit hasn’t been able to get into their machines either.
Struggling against infantry.
They’re really dragging me down… (etc.).
“Tōyashi to all machines! Form up! To all units receiving this transmission! Calmly form up!”
“They boarded a strange contraption, ‘myo’!”
“Contraption unit, help me, ‘myo o o o’?!”
Annoying enemies with their ‘myo’ and ‘nyo’.
“Disappear.”
“Not if I can help it, ‘myo o o o’!”
“Guh, despite being so stocky!”
Don’t get in my way!!
Gaaan!
“You guys, handle another area, ‘myo o o o’!”
“Understood!”
Enemy
Enemy Enemy
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Infantry x
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□ △Infantry
Barracks Fire
The horse stable fence is being used by the enemy,
and fires are breaking out all over the main camp.
The black smoke further obscures vision.
The fog alone is irritating enough.
“Die, ‘myāāāāā'”
“I’ll lend a hand, ‘de gojaru'”
“Enemy reinforcements… Ah, so annoying!”
Gaan! Gaan!
“Nā!! There’s no way you can stop it with your hands, ‘myā…'”
“Don’t underestimate meeeee!”
Gashaaaaan!!
I pulled out my weapon,
knocked the enemy machine to the ground,
and crushed it with the support device (Back Axe).
Its back, its neck.
“Stop it, ‘myoo o o o— Gyaabeh'”
It’s crushed.
“Who’s next?”
“H-How unfair, ‘myā’?!
“Does your contraption have four arms, ‘myā ā ā ā’?”
“K-ku, all of us, let’s go, ‘myā ā ā ā ā ā'”
Uoooooooooooooooh.
They were scared of Tōyashi’s machine, but
they boosted themselves, believing they could crush it with numbers.
Gashaan!! Goki! Baki! Gat!
Machine performance.
Piloting skills.
Hesitation to friendly fire.
There were many reasons for defeat,
and they couldn’t fully utilize their numerical superiority and were half-destroyed.
“Run, ‘myooo o o o'”
“Onimyo o o o”
“Princess Warrior!”
“Help meeee!”
“Running away, ‘gorā’!??”
Pursuit.
Insistent pursuit.
I ended up separated from Suurl at this time.
“Tōyashi!? Are you alright?! Gira?! Anyone, please respond—!?”
