Chapter 82: Every Dog Has His Day
Miss Friday had left for a few days, and Ade's life returned to the two-person, no, man-machine world with Alice again. Alice was unusually happy and talked especially a lot these days.
Because Miss Friday ate a lot, plus Ade also gave her extra meals from time to time, which led to his food stock planning being completely disrupted. After she left, Ade had been working hard to find food around the island to stock up on more food.
When Miss Friday was here, he slept in the cockpit every day, which made him have a backache, now he can finally return to his longed-for bed and take a nap every day. This day, just when he was dreaming, his phone suddenly rang loudly. He opened his eyes, and what he saw was Alice's panicked look on the screen, "Ade, high energy response approaching, presumably three MSs."
He bounced out of bed at once, three MSs, it might be TITANS's Hambrabi squad.
"What is Scirocco doing? Does he expect such a small squad could find anything?" He muttered and rolled out of bed, picking up his phone and sprinting in the direction of Hyzenthlays.
The three MA-form Hamblabis flew past before he got into the cockpit, but just in case, he was still in the cockpit on standby. However, something weird happened. Just a dozen seconds later, the other side turned back and the three MSs scattered around the island to start a search.
"It doesn't make sense." Ade was puzzled, "How come they suddenly saw me?"
"Ade, one MS approaching in." Alice marked a high-energy reaction source on the map, "We'll be spotted sooner or later at this altitude, want to go up?"
Hyzenthlays was not originally designed for intra-atmospheric combat, and now its Minovsky floating system is broken, it can only run and jump on the ground as a target. He lost most of the weapons when he fall into the atmosphere, now the only weapons he had were only one long-bladed rifle and one beam saber.
"Let's sneak attack one first, at least it's less stressful." He adjusted VSBR's power to maximum, "Let's hope its pilot isn't too alert."
As that Hambrabi got closer and closer, he held his breath to gently put his finger on the trigger. Every now and then the other party adjusted his stance to look in a different direction, and just as the other party turned his back on him, the high-energy particle beam was shot out. At this critical moment, that Hambrabi suddenly made an evasive maneuver, and this sniping hit the empty space.
"Crap, an ACE." Ade couldn't help but exclaim his bad luck. "Is Scirocco so extravagant? He even sent an ACE to perform such a mission!"
Hambrabi quickly pulled up in altitude and retreated backward, while the other two MSs also flew to him in a flash. Ade had no choice but to turn on the public channel and use his ultimate skill, "I, Suzaku Kururugi, don't kill nameless people. Who are you? Give me your name!"
"Yazan Gable of TITANS, remember me well." The other party replied as Ade expected, "Suzaku Kururugi is already a Knight of the Round Table, do you think I'll believe such nonsense? You're Adrien Lingus, right?"
"What? Kururugi is already a Knight of the Round Table? What has happened this year?" Ade held back from shouting out and said instead, "Are you Colonel Scirocco's beloved man, Yazan, who is known as TITANS Beast?"
He remembered that Britannia is just across the sea, so he tried to pretend to be Kururugi to distract them, but he did not expect that Kururugi had become so famous now. His trick was like moving a stone to hit his own feet in this situation. What's worse is that Yazan directly turned off the public channel and didn't intend to chat with him at all.
"My MS is no match for his." Ade sighed with a headache, "And as a top ACE, even trash talks can't distract him. How am I going to defeat such an enemy?"
The three Hamblabis lined up in the air and had no intention of landing. Each Hambrabi had two beam cannons on board and held a beam rifle, the three MSs firing intensively at Hyzenthlays. Ade could only lift the beam shield, evading on the ground with the remaining thrusters and occasionally taking time to return fire.
"I always relied on Inle's firepower, but I never thought there would be a day I had to dodge the enemy's firepower. Crap." He moved around and tried his best to dodge the attacks, while the other side could fire at him from the sky at ease, "Alice, estimate their remaining ammunition and energy. The floating system is so energy-intensive, they can't fly forever, right?"
"His Gundam is still not flying by now, so his floating system is probably broken. You guys, keep a safe distance and don't approach." Yazan calmly commanded his two men through the friendly channel, "He shouldn't know that we already have nuclear power, and is probably still foolishly waiting for us to land."
"But his beam shields and armor are tricky." One of the men asked, "I don't know when we'll be able to blow it up this way."
"What's the hurry? It's Lingus' Gundam after all, let's play it safe." Yazan immediately made the best choice, "Prepare for a protracted battle, take turns shooting to consume his physical energy and will. There is a 90% chance that we can capture him alive."
Ade immediately noticed that Hambrabi's firepower thinned, and after observing for some time, he found that the opposite side was actually taking turns to rest. He tried to return fire more aggressively under such fire, but Hambrabi's mobility was good, and the opponent also hid very far away, every of his shot was evaded.
As time went by, Ade's spirit was worn down little by little. Now the situation has become the two sides are shooting at each other from far away, but in general, Ade was more tired.
"This is going to be a protracted battle?" He exclaimed, "Has Scirocco got nuclear power?!"
"Ade, what to do?" Alice's voice was overwhelmed with anxiety, "We'll be consumed at this rate."
"There's no way out, it's time to fight for physical strength and energy." Ade gritted his teeth, "My body is comparable to Coordinator's, and I just had lunch and a nap. They flew all the way to this island without resting. We still have a chance of winning."
So the two sides stood off from each other. As the sun began to set toward the west, after several hours of continuous confrontation, Ade found his attention began to lose focus. The opponent, on the other hand, was definitely in a much better mental state than he was because they could take turns.
"Ade, it's all my fault." Alice's voice sounded heartbreaking, "If only I were more useful, if only the auto-battle AI was stronger, this wouldn't have happened. It's all my fault."
"How can it be Alice's fault? It's only my programming level that's too rookie." He comforted her, "Put on some music to cheer me up. There's still hope, don't give up."
"Yeah." Alice agreed listlessly and was about to play the song when she suddenly exclaimed, "Energy response approaching in! Only one object, so fast!"
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In the dressing room, Ange took off the clothes and stockings she was wearing and put them in the locker, and picked up the driving uniform to put it on.
"Come to think of it, this uniform and the driving suit are practically the same styles. Can they be designed by the same person?" She said to the young girl beside her while putting on the clothes, "Momoka, do you think this dress is ero... erotic?"
"That's for sure! It's simply too shameless, how can Her Highness wear such clothes!" The maid looked indignant, and then showed a worried expression, "Her Highness Angelise, you are you going to battle again. Momoka will always pray for your victory!"
"What are you thinking? Of course, I'll be back safely. Those things don't pose a threat to me at all." Ange gave her a confident smile, "By the way, I didn't expect you to really come over, isn't this the same as what he said ... you must have encountered a lot of difficulties on the way, right? It must be very dangerous, right?"
"For Her Highness Angelise, this little problem won't defeat me!" The cute maid girl replied full of energy with her hands clenched in fists, "Wherever Her Highness Ange is, Momoka will follow you!"
"Thank you, Momoka." After changing her clothes, Ange gently hugged the maid, "It must have been very hard for you to desperately hide for me for more than ten years, thank you."
"Her Highness~" the maid girl was excitedly at a loss for words, it looked as if she was going to cry, "I, I ..."
"It's time to leave." Ange let go of Momoka and patted her shoulder, "Wait for me to come back."
"Well, Her Highness Angelise!" The maid girl looked at her with expectation, "Who is the 'he' you said just now? Have you finally had a male friend as well?!"
"No one! You have misheard!" Ange suddenly rolled her eyes, puffed her cheeks, and walked away, leaving Momoka with a bewildered look alone, "We'll never meet again ... it was too much! He is really a scum! Wait, he said never see me again, does it mean that he is not a scum? Ah ah ah, anyway, that was too much!"
Ange came to the tarmac. Everyone had already gathered and she was the last to arrive. The first squadron stood in a row, and Prosecutor Emma was doing the pre-war mobilization. To be honest, the prosecutor's duty is to monitor Normas, it was weird to hear Emma say something like "please be careful", "you must come back alive". But this kind of thing has been going on for a year, and the girls are already used to it.
According to Salia, Emma had insisted on sending people to search for her before, so Ange had some good feelings for Emma.
After listening to Emma's words, Ange boarded Vilkiss to do a pre-strike check. Looking at the (ಡωಡ) pattern that flashed on the screen, she couldn't help but mutter again, "It was too much."
"Hey." A teammate, who hated her and she hated her too, shouted at her, "Hey, hey, hey! Did you hear me?!"
"How do I know who you're shouting at if you're hey, hey, hey over and over again?" Ange replied indifferently, "But considering your IQ, I'm afraid it's difficult to remember one more name, so I'll reluctantly tell you again, my name is Ange."
"Arrogant bastard...!" The girl gnashed her teeth and hammered the panel of her PM, "I warn you, this time don't grab all the prey by yourself again. It's troubling that everyone doesn't have an income except you!"
"Of course I will cooperate with everyone, people are social creatures, they can't live alone." Ange showed an innocent expression, "but with your IQ and driving skill, only I cooperate with you is not enough, you need everyone to cooperate with you. You have to say what you just said to everyone again to ensure that you have income. Or am I the last one to know that everyone has been cooperating with you?"
"You ... bastard, asshole! " The girl didn't know how to retort her and could only repeat the same word.
"Your current state, is a kind of self-loathing after being forced to admit the huge psychological and reality gap, clinically speaking--" Ange looked up for a moment and then said, "Oh, I should go now, let's talk about this after we get back."
After that, Villkiss began to accelerate and fly up, leaving someone who was still shouting "asshole" in the same place with a dumbfounded face.
Ange was in a very good mood after sneering at the person she disliked, so she played exceptionally well during the mission. She even had time to chat in the channel while slaughtering her prey, "Salia, where exactly do you think these dragons came from?"
"Aren't they sent here by other country's Normas?" Salia was speechless that Ange would ask such a question, "Focus on the mission! What if we get crashed!"
"But how did the Normas out there get the dragons? You have never seen a Norma out there, right?" Ange pursued relentlessly, "And if the outside world is full of Normas, aren't we their kind? Why don't we simply join them and instead fight to the death for Misurugi?"
"You're a princess, aren't you, asking such things really- oops!"
Salia is obviously not as skilled as Ange and was hit while chatting, luckily it wasn't serious and Ange decisively chose to shut up after finding out her true combat level. This is the truth of why only ACEs chat in the public channel, because it's simply equal to suicide to ordinary people.
In the battle, Ange controlled her strength so that everyone could kill a few dragons themselves, except the one she just disliked. This time, still no one was killed in the mission and everyone was ready to return to the ship with wide smiles.
"Speaking of which, this place isn't far from him, is it?" Ange looked in the familiar direction, the sun was starting to set in the west, some colors that would have been inconspicuous could instead be seen in the sky rendered by the afterglow, "Salia, do you see a flash in the sky over there? A very small, faint one?"
"I don't see anything!" Salia replied impatiently, "Hey, what are you doing? Don't leave the group without permission!"
"I'll go check it out, you guys just go back first, don't wait for me." Ange's Villkiss turned around and sped off that way as she muttered to himself, "We'll never see each other again? I haven't returned the favor yet, asshole!"
PS: sorry, I uploaded the wrong chapter before. I just found the draft of c82 and uploaded it. Maybe a few grammar mistakes remain uncorrected in this draft.
