episode_0034

Glacier turns into a monster.

A huge chunk of glacier approaches with sharp teeth like the head of a monster or the mouth of a shark.

[Everyone, spread out! Start shooting at the enemy!]

Aria’s command went out.

[yes? Ha, but that…!]

[Before drinking water, it is a hostile entity! Shoot!]

[Ah yes!!]

Each aircraft was slightly slow to respond, but when Aria gave the command again, they began to move quickly.

‘indeed.’

I silently focused on Class A’s movements.

Andy in the vanguard, Jesse and Jace in shooting, and one in electronic warfare.

[Analysis complete! Estimated ether… E-level!]

[what?! That doesn’t make sense! It’s class E, but how can it be that big?!]

[Just shoot!]

Andy holds up a beam rifle and shoots at the glacier monster.

The beam hit the body of the guy who was approaching while chewing through space, and soon a large explosion occurred in the outer ether.

[Uh, that, really?!]

[The ether ore itself is covering my body! No, glacier…?!]

“You can think of it as glacialized ether.”

I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I joined the line.

“You can think of it as ether copying the glacier crystals.”

[See, copy…?]

“Although it is a sight that is difficult to see in a colony, ether also has the property of ‘replication’.”

Although it is confidential to the outside world, it is not a big problem if it is made public.

“The explanation will be given later, after the battle is over. For now, focus on suppressing the enemy in front of you.”

[Well, then, over there, instructor!]

“What is it, lavender?”

[We are trying to retrieve that, is it okay to destroy it?]

“Of course.”

If it were natural, it would be natural.

“If the game is not damaged to the point of being reduced to mush, the parts that can be recovered appropriately should be recovered.”

[Laz!]

Just because it is a monsterized etheric glacier does not mean that the moisture in it has no meaning to us.

[…According to Cloud Tactical Commander’s policy, we will now carry out an operation to suppress the ice monster.]

“Hmm?”

I felt puzzled for a moment by Aria’s words.

[Prioritize suppression, but if necessary, destroy.]

Aria’s nervous voice soon followed, and I actually felt relieved.

‘That’s right.’

Rather than trying to get some water and getting caught in that maw and having the entire aircraft chewed up, it would be much better to just quietly destroy it.

‘I’ll watch over you. ‘Team A.’

How cool will this movement be?

I muted the microphone on the line for a moment and focused on the wire.

If they protect us from space monsters.

“There won’t be another idiot coming to rob the food warehouse during this mess…”

I have to protect everyone’s food and drink, and at the same time, I have to leave evidence on CCTV that I do not enter the food warehouse.

“…….”

Outside of a tightly closed warehouse.

The very faint sound coming through the crack in the door was clearly someone’s footsteps.

* * *

Ta-ang, taang!

A concentrated attack aimed at the ice monster.

The ether beam gathered at the beam rifle’s muzzle splits space and explodes upon reaching the inside of the glacier monster’s open mouth.

Quang, boom, quang!

[done!]

A powerful explosion occurred inside the ice monster and its movement stopped.

The ether monster, which appeared to be empty, as if the gas inside had exploded, lowered its head and stopped moving.

[I really, really.]

Jesse returned the beam rifle to its waist holder and approached the monster.

[Stop, Green Tea Two! He’s not completely dead yet!]

Aria hurriedly called Jesse.

Quack!

Right in front of Jesse’s Harkon, the glacier monster stopped with its mouth wide open.

[Uh, uh…]

As if struggling just before death, the glacier monster attacked Jesse by opening a new maw instead of the one that was destroyed.

[Hee, hee hee…!]

[Green Tea Three, retrieve Two immediately! Won and Po finish off the monster!!]

As soon as Aria’s instructions were given, Jace’s Harkon came running from behind, hugged Jessie’s aircraft and retreated backwards, and the other two aircraft that got in between them began firing their beam rifles at the ice monster.

Boom, boom, boom.

Beam rifle fire focused on the slightly opened mouth.

The bombardment continued until the residual energy mark on the outside of the ether rifle showed its bottom, and a series of explosions occurred inside the glacier monster’s mouth.

[Aaaah—!!]

Green Tea One and Andy’s screams echo loudly throughout the line.

It may have been an evil act to avenge a colleague who almost died, or to overcome the fear that such a thing might have happened to oneself due to the fact that a colleague almost died.

[Andy, stop shooting now. Xanthan, none.]

[Ha, ha, ha, ha.]

Pushyyy.

The color of the beam rifle held by Andy’s Harkon turns gray.

To be exact, the color flowing through the ether line connected to the outside of the rifle disappeared as all the ether stored in the rifle was used up, but it was like a car turning off.

[Everyone is safe.]

Captain Edmund opened his mouth.

[The ice monster activity has been confirmed to have stopped. Green Camp Team A immediately retreated to the dock and rested for 15 minutes. It is a command.]

[…All right.]

At the captain’s instructions, the four aircraft turned and headed straight for the battleship.

“…….”

Lavender bit her lower lip as she watched the four Harkons passing by.

“porridge….”

Before her self-talk leaked out without her knowledge, she quickly muted the microphone on the line connected to the others for a moment and then took a deep breath.

“I almost died.”

Because you let your guard down?

Did you just approach them thinking they were all dead?

The moment the glacier monster opened its mouth wide and tried to chew Harkon, what did Lavender feel at that moment?

“…….”

I can’t go into detail, but I thought I couldn’t at least let him die.

Even if Jesse is someone who has a problem with him.

Jesse’s death does not end with the death of Jesse alone, but ends up being someone’s ‘responsibility’.

That’s why Jesse shouldn’t have died.

Just now.

“…It was definitely in a position to be ripped off.”

If we were to say ‘originally’, the glacier monster would have pretended to be dead for a while and then chewed Jesse’s Harkon whole.

By chewing on the cockpit on his chest, Jesse must have been split in half and exploded into a being known as Je/Si.

It wasn’t just being chewed, it was as if someone had bitten into an apple.

“…Ha.”

Lavender lamented for a moment.

If you were in that situation, you definitely wouldn’t have approached until someone said ‘down’.

Before that thought occurred to me, I couldn’t help but lament about other issues.

“…Did you do it?”

It was a situation that should have been chewed up in the first place, but it didn’t happen.

The moment he thought, ‘I can’t let Jesse die,’ Jesse’s Harkon aircraft was pulled back ‘very slightly.’

Just like a magnet pulls metal, the fact that Jesse’s Harkon moved back about 1m without anyone knowing was not something Jesse did.

“…….”

Lavender’s questions only flowed in vain in the cockpit, and no one answered.

just.

[We will use the drone team to recover the remains of the glacier monster. Natalia Gee, Lavender Gee. Stay on alert until resource collection drones clear up all the wreckage.]

“Yes, Captain.”

Just follow the captain’s orders and instructions and be faithful to the assigned mission.

“…Okay. Think about it later.”

[Lavender, what is the answer?]

“Ah, yes!!”

Lavender unmuted her microphone and responded cheerfully.

Pajik.

Purple electricity flashed behind her, but it did not enter Lavender’s field of vision.

* * *

An hour later. A hangar on a battleship.

“It was dangerous, but I survived.”

I came to the hangar wearing a space suit to prepare for any unexpected situation and looked at the remains of the ice monster that was being dismantled by drones.

“Did you secure enough drinks for two weeks with this?”

“Is it a drink?”

“Yes, lavender.”

Lavender, who had not yet taken off her pilot suit, approached me with her helmet on.

“The taste of the ether drink made by melting the space Debry glacier is truly a masterpiece.”

“It won’t be harmful to the human body, right?”

“It’s okay if you are a human who has adapted to outer space. Microorganisms and such have all been removed by ether, so there is nothing strange about it, except that it is pure water made of ether.”

“Ah, ahaha….”

It’s true.

Even if it is water that has changed through chemical changes.

Even if it was a monster pretending to be Debri Glacier, the fact that it is ultimately drinkable water does not change.

“And if you feel uncomfortable, why not drink bottled water and use ether water for washing?”

“…Ah!”

“Actually, the purpose was more urgent. You can’t say to the people who went out into space and fought like this, ‘I can’t even shower because of restrictions on drinking water.’”

“……That’s a good thing.”

Lavender pulled her pilot suit closer to her helmet for a moment.

You probably can’t smell it because of the helmet.

Even if that were the case, the smell wouldn’t be that bad.

Who would think that the sweat of someone who worked hard for everyone is disgusting?

Even if I can’t clean it myself, I can help by at least dousing it a few times with the etheric water from the Debry Glacier, even if it’s not as much as I want.

“With that amount, it will be enough for the next two weeks…no, a week.”

“It’s short.”

“If I go out and get it tomorrow, it will increase again. There is still space left in the hangar for loading. It’s a shame.”

“Are you sad?”

“If there was an ether bus, I would have used it without worrying about water.”

“Yes?”

Lavender asked, tilting her head.

“What is the relationship between the ether bus and water?”

“You said that the nature of ether is replication, right?”

“Yes.”

“The ether buses have one feature in common.”

a copy.

“If you use the ether bus, you can replicate water and food in the same way.”