Horizon:Volume 9A Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Strange Ones at the Line of Contact

Have you learned yet

That there’s no reason to worry

And there’s no reason to feel inferior?

Point Allocation (But It’s Still a Hard Job)

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Kasuya raced across the clearing.

Her gaze was directed past the enemy’s broken second line.

The enemy’s third line was there. She would reach the fortress wall of ships if she broke through that third line and the fourth beyond them.

Her team was doing well, but they weren’t done yet. They were about halfway through.

At this point, there was no turning back.

…We have to keep going!

Kousaka and Inada had gone ahead and launched the enemy’s second line upwards more by pushing them than striking them. And now…

“Here we go!”

Kasuya nodded at their bestial roars.

Up ahead, she could see the enemy’s third line charging her way.

…They’re coming!

This was the enemy’s third charge, but that didn’t mean they could take it lightly.

Her team’s speed had dropped after breaking the enemy’s first two lines.

New techniques, reliability, and quantity were the greatest tactics and strategy. This had been repeatedly proven during the Thirty Years’ War and the Warring States period.

The enemy was making repeated charges using their mobile shell control system.

The nonhumans were faster than the mobile shells thanks to their acceleration during tight turns and over short distances. That was why nonhumans would generally rush into the enemy unit, break it apart, and then defeat each individual enemy.

But that didn’t work when the enemy was charging in along a straight line as a single whole. Especially when this wasn’t the first or even the second time – it was the third and soon to be fourth time.

Kasuya’s team were from M.H.R.R., so they knew a lot about mobile shells. They had also been selected for their strength even for nonhumans, so they were managing for the time being.

But they were still largely relying on their speed.

Their momentum had dropped considerably after the second clash. The enemy had a much greater chance of “winning” the next clash. So…

…It all comes down to this third one!

Just as Kasuya thought that, she heard wind blowing on either side of her. She knew what had to be producing the sound.

“Accelerating mobile shells!?”

Reality eloquently answered her question.

Of the three groups laid out left to right, the units closest to the forest and the central unit had accelerated toward her team in a defense formation.

They charged in with spears at the ready. And…

“They’re coming in from the sides!?”

If her team did not break through the central unit, they would be caught in a pincer attack from the sides. The enemy would use that to crush them.

And Kasuya saw the third group preparing something as they accelerated in from the front.

Only their front line prepared it with support from behind.

“Defense spells!?”

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Kasuya saw large ether shields glowing in the moonlight.

They were a crucial part of any defense formation, but…

“They’re using them to charge us!?”

How useful would those defense spells even be when her team crashed into them at speed? In the worst case, the enemy would run right into their own shields, damaging themselves.

But her team could tell one thing when considering the pincer attacks from the side.

…Those defense barriers are meant to stop us here!

Those shields were not meant to protect the enemy from the clash or to defeat Kasuya’s team.

They were meant to create a wall that none of Kasuya’s team could breach.

They were meant to block the way.

And with the way forward blocked, the enemy’s pincer attack would press in on Kasuya’s team, breaking them.

Their acceleration was probably designed to stop Kasuya’s team at just the right place. It was being controlled by a program, after all. The 1000-man defense formation was moving as a single whole.

Thus, the third line had moved forward to stop Kasuya’s team. They formed a wall to place Kasuya’s team in the perfect position to be crushed by the pincer attack from the sides. Which meant…

…They want to make sure they defeat us here!

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While running, Kousaka realized Kasuya was preparing for an attack. So she immediately swung her arm back.

“Don’t!” she said.

Their leader was skilled, but she was young and tended to be overprotective of her people. She had even returned for them earlier instead of abandoning them. So…

“Get ready, everyone!”

“Wh-what are you doing!?” demanded Kasuya.

“That should be obvious!” Kousaka answered their young commander’s question while accelerating out ahead with Inada. “This is a battle! We wouldn’t bother doing anything meaningless, would we!?”

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The Shibata Team used an aerial warship for its north gate. By landing the ship and opening its port and starboard cargo bay doors, it functioned as a checkpoint. Its entrance was currently closed, but it functioned as the center point for everyone in the clearing out in front.

The first and second central lines waiting directly out ahead of the north gate had been breached and the third line was charging in, matching its time to the second and third lines on the left and right.

They were intercepting Hashiba’s nonhuman unit from three directions. The third central group would stop the enemy with pure stubbornness if necessary while the left and right groups crushed them in a pincer attack.

No matter how nimble those nonhumans were, they would have a hard time turning a full 90 degrees right away. And if they did do that, it would mean splitting their force and they would be crushed either way. So…

“This ends here!”

The center third line held defense barriers out in front as they charged.

They were closing in. Both sides were accelerating, but something happened about halfway through the charge.

The nonhuman unit suddenly spilt down the center.

“They changed course!?”

Were they avoiding the third line in the center to avoid the pincer attack?

But that was meaningless. The third line only had to adjust their speed.

The nonhuman unit would still be crushed by the pincer attack in front of the third line.

So this action only hastened their doom.

The third line didn’t panic and continued their charge with defense barriers at the ready. The thrusters on their shoulders meant they formed a partially floating wall and pushed on with the rear lines supporting the front lines.

“Go!” they shouted, continuing their unified acceleration.

Then the entire front line saw something.

They saw the back end of the split nonhuman unit.

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“What in the-?”

The front of the third line were still accelerating when they saw the back end of the nonhuman unit.

It was made up of the injured. They were all worn down after the clash with the second line. Some were bleeding and others had their arms bent at unnatural angles.

This didn’t surprise anyone. They had been up against 1000 mobile shells. That nonhuman unit had repelled them all with less than 170. It was only fair that at least 30 of them had been injured.

That group hadn’t just come to a stop – they were collapsed on the ground.

They must have been badly injured and exhausted because they were lying down and clinging to some kind of staff.

No, wait.

“Those are guns!”

The enemy had not yet given up.

The injured nonhumans were lying on the ground to aim their guns.

The uninjured ones were trying to find a way through, but the injured ones were entirely ignoring the pincer attack as they took aim from the ground.

“Everyone, halt acceleration!”

As soon as she realized what the enemy was doing, one of the commanders at the four corners of the defense formation shouted a warning.

But it was too late.

Gunfire rang out and the recoil sent the injured nonhumans rolling backwards. They had definite smiles on their faces. They stared up at the moon, their smiling fangs shining in its light.

There was no need to ask why. Their gunfire had hit.

But they hadn’t hit the wall meant to block the nonhumans’ way. Their gunfire had slipped through the slight gap below the defense spells. They had accurately fired through that gap of only about 5cm to hit the legs of the mobile shells.

“…!”

Not all of them had been hit. Only a few. But it was enough to knock them off balance and topple them.

In that instant, everyone in the third line saw the split nonhuman charge rush in at them. Those nonhumans readied their claws or weapons to hunt their fallen prey.

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A triple massacre began.

The first came when the pincer attack from the sides struck the unmoving injured members of the nonhuman unit.

As for the second…

“Ohhh!”

The nonhuman unit charged into the holes opened in the front of the third line and broke the entire line as if sinking their fangs in and swallowing.

The damage to the third line was severe. The timing of the clash had been carefully calculated, but the nonhumans rushed in just as the pincer attack hit.

It was almost like the pincer attack was pushing them in.

Once in their midst, the nonhumans truly were monsters. It barely mattered that the humans were wearing mobile shells. Their human strength and the movable range of the mobile shells were easily overwhelmed.

But more than anything, the unified control made this true hell for the third line. They wanted to fight back, but the combined feedback meant they were bound by what the others wanted to do.

Ultimately, none of them could move the way they wanted to.

“Ah, ah…ah!!!”

They were broken, beaten, and crushed. Some tried to accelerate away, but…

“Ah!”

They were caught in a pincer attack as the third massacre.

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Kousaka silently thanked their injured.

…Great job!

This had happened in the forest too. They had decided on a certain rule for this battle.

Anyone injured would be left behind. But once that happened, the injured were to ready their guns and provide supporting fire.

They were nonhumans in their beast transformations, but they had excellent aim. They had complained during training that beasts weren’t meant to use guns, but their results here showed they had continued their training when Kousaka wasn’t watching.

It came in handy.

Kasuya would of course know this too, but she wouldn’t have any experience in how to “use” anyone beyond herself and she wouldn’t be aware of how determined everyone else was.

As their leader began defeating the third line with her sight spell visor still on, she didn’t even look back.

But she must have noticed. That injured group would have been hit by the pincer attack either way. Her focus on the frontal attack had to have come from her thoughts concerning that group.

She gathered up all her anger and frustration and threw it at the enemy. That made her strong. Truly strong.

Which was why the rest of them followed her.

But at the same time, she was kind even to their enemy. While the rest of them used their claws or weapons to slash and deliver deadly strikes, she generally stuck to blunt impacts.

Those impacts had to be very heavy, but they were delivered against mobile shells. If anything, these attacks were meant to send the enemy flying and knock them out of the fight.

…Why is she so kind?

While they were ultimately all on the same side, this was still their enemy. If they didn’t win here, the enemy would defeat them. So why?

“Why does she avoid losing them?”

After that question occurred to Kousaka, she heard the wolf yelling up ahead.

“Kousaka! Inada!”

The black wolf crushed and struck the enemy, rendering their defenses and all else meaningless.

“Cover the sides for me!”

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Kasuya sucked in a breath.

Unlike before, her attacks to the right and left were complete combination blows.

They were delivered to the sides, but they were generally smashing attacks sent up from below. She just added a hook to draw in the enemies on the sides.

“Lu la!”

She struck, slipping past the enemy’s attack and defense and smashing them with brute strength as she continued onward.

She lacked the momentum she had when leaving the forest. Her entire team was worn down after breaching the second line.

She didn’t have Hirano or Sakon with her like she did during the break. Oh, and Ootani too. And none of these people were as skilled as Kani who she had worked with before.

“Let’s go!” she shouted, receiving responses from behind her.

“Ohhh!”

Her team didn’t use testament or shaja. They roared their response to their commander.

And they all crushed the enemy to the left and right.

These were not her usual powerful comrades, but she had left the sides to them. They worked to fulfill that role well enough that she really did feel protected. So…

…I can focus on the center!

She struck, deflected, repelled, and continued forward. She ran. She raced. She picked up speed.

“La!”

In that instant, she felt a refreshing chill surrounding her.

…Oh.

She had broken through the enemy.

At some point, her group had destroyed the third line.

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The Shibata Unit worked to remain calm.

They were under attack, but they still had the advantage. An overwhelming one.

The enemy had broken through the center of their first, second, and third lines. But…

“They’re worn down!”

After breaching the third line, the nonhuman group was noticeably slower than before.

That was due to their beast transformations.

For Loup-Garous and other spirit types that had a link to their homeland, their beast transformation would create a “field” around them and they drew an ether supply from that. But most bestial nonhumans were not like that. After their transformations, maintaining that form consumed a lot of ether.

Their beast sides were strengthened in the moonlight because the moonlight provided more than enough ether for them. That the ether-rich moonlight was necessary for that showed just how great the ether consumption was.

When they frolicked in the moonlight, they would simply wear themselves out and fall asleep. When they woke up, they would be in human form again.

The past two attacks had worn them out. So the Shibata Unit knew what they had to do.

“Prepare to fire!”

The enemy had dodged their gunfire at first, but things had changed. The gunfire was guaranteed to hit an unmoving target.

So they took their three-stage firing positions. The front row sat down, the second kneeled, and the third remained standing. Then they all only had to take aim at their targets and fire.

The enemy had begun to accelerate. But it was too little too late. So the gunners remained calm and their commanders gave the word.

“Fi-”

They never finished the word.

A nonhuman was there. Not from ahead and not from the forest.

She dropped straight down from the sky, directly in front of them.

“Thanks for clearing the way, Kasuya.”

She had six golden wings spread wide behind her. Her name was…

“Ten Spears #4 Katou Yoshiaki. This is my first time using Weiss Fürstin’s anti-ship cannon form against people.”

She had already prepared her weapon. A group of metal acceleration panels had been rearranged into an anti-ship acceleration cannon measuring more than 30m long.

The gold-winged Technohexen spoke while Magie Figurs opened all around the cannon.

“Help me out. Help me end this as soon as possible.”

With that, she fired her cannon.

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A booming roar echoed out.

The explosion was fireless, so it was only composed of the impact of the shell hitting and the shockwave created by its passage through the air.

But the blast still swept everything away.

The mobile shells were blown away, crashing into the hull of the north gate warship and several of the defense barriers.

The real danger was the equipment that slipped from their grasp. Countless metal spears soared through the air and rained down on the mobile shell groups to the sides and the gunners on the decks of the fortress wall of ships.

Some stabbed into the decks, some worked with the shockwave to pierce the defense barriers protecting the ships, shattering some of those barriers.

Looking from the top of the ships to the bottom, everything was scattered in front of the north gate. Below the still-soaring blast, mobile shells and equipment all lay collapsed but alive on the ground.

“Hey, are you alright!?”

While checking on their comrades, they saw something more.

Some of the north gate warship’s armor had been torn away, but the ship wasn’t destroyed.

“Yes!” someone shouted. “Our defenses held!”

All those collapsed below the ship hadn’t fought for nothing. Several people raised their voices to celebrate that.

They moved toward the clearing. Some used descent spells and others took the stairs, but none of them forgot to bring their equipment.

They all saw a dust cloud racing across the clearing below them. The battlefield wind scattered that dust into the sky.

A beat later, something emerged.

A cannon.

This was not the one the white Technohexen had fired earlier.

A black anti-ship cannon emerged from below the scattering dust.

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While everyone froze in place and the explosive blast carried heat around the clearing, Yoshiaki opened her mouth. She spoke while converting her Weiss Fürstin to cruising form.

“Technohexen are never alone.”

“Testament. Where the white goes, the black goes also. I’m Angie, the #5. Nice to meetcha.”

The other speaker was next to her. The other girl aimed her Schwarz Fürstin in anti-ship cannon form and she was finishing the preparations to fire.

“The main ground unit behind us is carrying the supplies. Take will want to get inside eventually, but we can take a break before taking care of the rest.” Angie paused. “Oh, whoops. We haven’t gotten inside yet, have we? I’ll open the gate for us.”

Angie scratched her head and spoke to the warship out ahead.

“Good morrrrrrning!”

It’s not even midnight yet, thought Yoshiaki, but that greeting was accompanied by an explosion of power.

This second shot was much like Yoshiaki’s earlier one. Except this one tore through the north gate warship.

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“Great job.”

After spreading her arms and raising her hands to acknowledge the applause coming from the kitchen, Takenaka sighed.

…Whew, I’m free of all that stress now.

They had breached Shibata’s fortress wall of ships. The latest reports said they had blasted a hole through the center of the cargo bay at the bottom of the ship, creating a pathway 5m tall and 15m wide.

The nonhuman unit was apparently working to defeat the enemy inside the ship and secure that pathway. The injured members of Kasuya’s team and their main ground unit would be enough to handle the remaining enemy ground forces in the clearing.

That main ground unit numbered 7000. They would use the route Kasuya’s team had taken as a safe zone to carry in various supplies.

The Battle of Shizugatake would be a short-term battle, but whether or not you had a well-supplied base would affect morale and would greatly alter the enemy’s tactics. Takenaka wanted to take over the north gate ship and two or three more of the ships bordering the clearing. That would allow the Azuchi to approach the north side of Shibata’s formation and increase the safety of their base.

…After all, that ground unit is mostly made up of non-name inheritors.

They were not great warriors like the Ten Spears. They were trained, but the 7000 were primarily young students.

Even so, they were moving in with the intent of defeating and conquering the Shibata Team.

“And after that…it would be nice if we could absorb the Shibata Team into our ranks.”

That was what Takenaka most wanted.

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Takenaka considered Shibata’s heroic status to be the biggest impediment and the key factor to defeating his team.

That team had its skilled warriors like Shibata himself, Niwa, and Sakuma and they also had all the competent fighters under their command. That the Sakuma Team had joined the Shibata Team shortly after their fleet was mostly sunk was a very Far Eastern tactic, but…

“It shows a belief that they’ll be fine as long as they have Shibata-san or Niwa-san with them.”

They would withdraw, but they wouldn’t put up a desperate resistance. They put off surrendering until later. Instead, they gathered around one of their heroes and attempted to quickly return to the fight.

In that sense, what did it mean that they had taken Sakuma prisoner but no one had stayed with her?

Kuro-Take: “Sakuma-san, are you sure you’re all that popular?”

Candy Drop: “Hey, hey, hey! I’m popular! Super popular! Anyway, there’s no gaming PC in this room, so get one in here! I need to show Hachisuka I can beat her high score!”

At least their prisoner seemed happy.

But based on what the Shibata Team and those following him were doing, the most important part of this battle would be defeating Shibata. The next most important would be what to do about Niwa and the other skilled warriors.

The real question was what to do with them after they had been defeated.

The best option would be to give the impression they had held a final showdown between the skilled warriors of both sides but not actually do it. Then they could build a base here, constantly demand the other side surrendered, and absorb the Shibata Team.

If their skilled warriors had fought a final showdown, it would provide a convincing reason for the Shibata Team to join them. Power wasn’t everything, but those people could not get by if they stayed with someone powerless, so it was important to prove Hashiba had even more power.

On top of that, Hashiba had to demonstrate that they cared about more than power. They had to let the Shibata Team know there were those who worked on the battlefield in a support role. That would provide a path for surrender more than anything else. So…

…I would really like for Kasuya-san and the others to clear the way and secure a safe location while defeating as many of the enemy’s skilled warriors as they can.

But that was asking a lot. Still, that was what Takenaka wanted as a commander.

“They are so much stronger than they used to be.”

Their defeat during the Keichou Campaign had motivated Kasuya, Yoshiaki, and Wakisaka to improve. Hopefully this “north gate breaching” mission had helped them get over that old loss.

Takenaka had reconsidered a lot as well.

She had relied too much on the Ten Spears during the Siege of Bitchu Takamatsu Castle. The scale of the battle and the Exiv Fantasy elements like the Terrestrial and Celestial Dragons had been too much for them. We had summer break coming up, so in hindsight I should have solved it all with some super high-damage by crashing the Azuchi into the enemy. Yes, a giant ship ram would have been perfect. Yay, yay, hooray!

Azuchi: “Takenaka-sama, your silence is concerning, so please say something. Anything. Shaja.”

Impressive, “Azuchi”. You know my thought patterns too well.

But the enemy would be focused on Kasuya and the others soon. The next group of warriors would set up a base and then the battlefield would more or less be flipped inside out.

“So next I should use the ace up my sleeve.”

A cook carried a plate out from the kitchen. It contained an apple pie. If I eat that now, I’ll have my ero all charged up for when the stress hits. Gotta keep the cycle going.

Kuro-Take: “Okay, Kiyomasa-san, you’re up next. Good luck.”

The Battle of Shizugatake was moving on to its next stage. So…

Kiyo-Massive: “Testament. My unit has arrived at our destination.”

“Oh.” Katagiri turned around after ordering a drink at the counter. “Everything is progressing as planned.”

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Kiyomasa stood just barely within the moonlight.

She was on the border between the forest and a clearing.

However, this clearing was not the one bordering the northern face of the fortress wall of ships where Kasuya’s team was fighting. This was the southern clearing on the complete opposite side.

She had a single task: execute a pincer attack on the Shibata Team. Takenaka’s plan was for their main force to attack from the north as a diversion while Kiyomasa and the 500 warriors under her command destroyed the south side of Shibata’s formation. And then…

“We settle this quickly and move on to Honnouji.”

She looked back to the southeast, but the forest obscured her view of the sky. She knew what had to be there, though. A light would be rising into the sky from Honnouji and the Musashi would be on its way there.

When she faced forward again, she could see their current enemy. The ships lined up in front of her looked like…

“A castle.”

The warships lined up a kilometer ahead looked so much like a fortress wall.

The aerial ships were lined up to form a circular wall. There were gaps between the ships, but rough moats had been dug there. Some of the gaps had even used the dug-up dirt to create earthen walls or had snow piled up into a barrier.

The ships were all at least 15m tall. They would be at least as sturdy as Paris’s walls that counted as Bitchu Takamatsu Castle.

Climbing over them was out of the question.

That meant breaking through the gaps between the ships was the only option.

The warriors inside the fortress wall were currently gathered to the north. The Azuchi was there and Kasuya’s team must have breached the wall there. Earlier, Kiyomasa had seen two explosive blasts and dust clouds rise into the air from the north. Kasuya’s results had delighted her.

The north side would soon become a sight of intense battle. With that in mind…

“It’s finally our turn.”

Her people behind her nodded with bitter smiles.

“We need to get going. Everyone to the north is already fighting.”

“We’re always seen as the foundation of Hashiba’s defenses, so this happens a lot.”

“Things would be different if the Fukushima Team was her.”

Their comments made her smile bitterly too. After all, getting here hadn’t been easy.

…You don’t normally jump out of ships during a high-speed maneuver.

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I always ask so much of them, thought Kiyomasa with a sigh.

They had done well against gods of war and Terrestrial Dragons back at Bitchu Takamatsu Castle, but none of it was something anyone should have to do.

And now they had performed a group dive from a ship during a high-speed maneuver.

Their opportunity had come during the battle with the Sakuma Fleet.

They had jumped when the Azuchi made its initial charge. When the 1st and 2nd central ships had been sent out ahead and then pulled back by the towing belts, all that speed had canceled out to zero for just a moment.

That quick forward and back had not been a game of chicken, nor had it been meaningless. The central ships had been sent out in front of the Sakuma Fleet so that her team could drop from the bottom of the ship.

They had predicted that was the one moment when the Azuchi’s speed would be at a safe level. And they had predicted the Sakuma Fleet would only be able to focus on the Azuchi afterwards.

Their predictions had been correct.

After descending, they had acted separately from the rest, with Kiyomasa in command. Her team had proven at Bitchu Takamatsu Castle that they were capable of moving as a group under harsh conditions.

With a few other units joining them for extra strength, they were to charge the Shibata Team from the south.

However, they couldn’t do so right away.

They had intel saying Niwa would be guarding the south side. And after Sakuma’s people abandoned ship, they had made their way to the Shibata Team’s south side to join with them.

Hurrying to the south side would only mean running into and battling them.

So while it placed a great burden on Kasuya’s group, a breaching mission had been carried out to the north.

Kasuya’s group was the Hashiba’s main force, but they were being used as a diversion while Kiyomasa’s group attacked from the south.

The Shibata Team would be facing the Azuchi, so Kiyomasa’s group could attack them from the rear.

That was the general idea behind Takenaka’s plan.

Kiyomasa thought it was asking a lot, but she also knew she was well suited to this kind of mission.

…My team is accustomed to taking defensive action and Caledfwlch gives me one of the most powerful attacks in the Ten Spears.

But a focus on defense slowed them down. They were still above average, but they weren’t even close to matching the speed of Kasuya’s team. That left only Kiyomasa if speed was needed on this side, but Takenaka had made a request regarding that.

“Only use one Caledfwlch blast.”

She held the combined double-scythe spear in her right hand.

Caledfwlch.

The divine weapon could store ammunition, but that was not unlimited. Especially now. During summer break, P.A. Oda’s ether was being focused on Honnouji preparations, so ether supplies for other uses had been limited.

…Yet I still used a shot at Sanada.

I shouldn’t have done that.

I couldn’t help myself, though. These things happen. Yes.

It didn’t even shake me when one of my girls wished the Fukushima Team was here, but I couldn’t agree more. Yes. But even if she were here, this is the battlefield and I swore to myself I would not let myself get distracted by such things.

At any rate, Caledfwlch currently had three rounds loaded.

She would use one here to destroy that fortress wall and the remaining two she would use after the Battle of Shizugatake.

For their battle against Musashi.

That battle would likely begin after the Battle of Shizugatake and the Honnouji Incident were both over. And it might be a long series of battles. If she was going to use a power strong enough to change the course of a battle, it had to be there.

After all, the history recreation already assured them victory here at Shizugatake. So…

“–––––”

She breathed in.

Calm down.

The clearing was about a kilometer front to back. She could easily cover that distance with a full-power Caledfwlch blast.

…If possible, I should direct it toward where Kasuya-sama is fighting so it can provide her support too.

Once she had broken through the southern fortress wall of ships, her 500 warriors would attack. They would effectively only be causing confusion and a diversion, but the Shibata Team would be forced to pay attention after the sudden Caledfwlch attack. And the more they confused the enemy, the more they could help Kasuya’s team.

…I need to give this my all.

She opened a lernen figur showing an aerial photograph taken from the Azuchi. She displayed her location on that and began to move.

Just then, she realized several figures were lined up atop the ships forming a wall in front of her.

“Them?”

She knew them. She recognized them. She had fought alongside them at Novgorod. She hadn’t literally been by their side then, but anyone in P.A. Oda would know them.

“Niwa-sama and her Mehter?”

The enemy had predicted this pincer attack.

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