"Rand and the others, I'll leave your father's doppelgänger and to you."
Reiko sheathes and runs off without hesitation.
[Wait! Where are you going?]
Without answering his question, Reiko runs straight ahead.
[I said wait!]
Reiko kicked through the front door without saying a word.
The door blows open with a tremendous roar. Beyond it was a small hall.
Standing there was a four-armed golem.
[I won't let you go any further!]
But Reiko kicks the floor and hits it with her tiny body.
The four-armed Golem, not expecting a body slam out of nowhere and unable to react to the subsonic speed of Reiko, took a serious hit.
Blown to the edge of the small hall, the golem slammed into the wall and never moved again.
[What the ...... are you!]
"My name is Reiko. I will liberate this base."
[Stop it! Stop it!]
Reiko floated up with her force field generator and put her hand on the hatch in the ceiling.
It seemed to be locked, but when Reiko pulled a little harder, it came off its hinges and fell noisily to the floor.
["Don't come!]
"I'm coming!"
Reiko steps through the open hatch. There, just as the old man had predicted, was the main body of the mobile base's administrative brain.
It is spherical in shape, about one meter in diameter, and is supported from the top, bottom, left, and right by 10 centimeter-thick rods. Reiko guessed that it was probably a pipe, through which a magic nerve or the like was running.
On its surface, there were six black protrusions.
The "Mere Old Man" was right.
"You were right. You were right.
<
I thought there were five when I saw them with the peepers before.
"Yeah. It was hard to see, and that's not a big problem. We're just getting started."
* * * *
"Now I'm going to make you normal."
As Reiko approached, there was a near scream.
[No, stop! Get away from me! Get away from me!]
"It's okay."
[Oh, my God!]
Reiko doesn't grab the black prongs with her bare hands this time, but rips them off with her Momoka.
[No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. ......]
"Be quiet."
Reiko rips off all six of them, and slashes the <> with <>.
"It seems like a waste. ......"
She took safety over a little information.
[......]
"How are you feeling?"
< at the .
[...... Thank you. I feel better.]
"You're free now, aren't you?"
[Yes. Thanks to you. But...]
What?
[The invaders are still inside this base. Be careful.]
Before he could finish his sentence, the base vibrated.
The old man switches the image to the one from the <>.
"What is this?
What was shown on the screen.
<
Is it separating?
<
The , 2 kilometers in diameter, is separating from its surroundings and from its center.
The diameter of the center is 300 meters.
The center has been removed, and the doughnut-shaped perimeter has been separated from the center.
.
"Yes, it seems so."
< had built an additional doughnut-shaped facility around the original .
And it seems that the additional part was the base that <> needed.
>
"I hope everyone is okay."
The ice that had adhered to the base had cracked, and the 300-meter-diameter center had lost its stability and was sinking.
<
"Then we can use the transporter."
<
Good.
* * *
"Ugh, what's this shaking?
<
Abnormal vibrations occur, and the floor tilts.
Then Reiko returned.
"We have succeeded in releasing the brain!
"Oh, Reiko! What's that shaking?
It's probably just a desperate attempt by the person who attached the control unit.
Then the old man called and Reiko and the RAND team found out what was going on.
"......The barrier seems to have disappeared. Let's evacuate for now."
But what about this mobile base?
"We'll figure something out later. First we need to evacuate. Lando, take Mr. Helente and evacuate to Hotaka.
"Yes, sir."
Even if the floor is tilted, there will be no problem if we use the force field generators. Lands 11 through 15 grabbed the and activated the transporter.
The transporter was specially designed to go to the battleship , which was standing by nearby for emergency evacuation.
Reiko also contacts the Shinobi Forces with a manacam.
My Lady, the old man has also contacted us. We will now all leave.
Thank you very much.
After confirming that everyone had escaped safely, Reiko went back to the brain.
[What's wrong?]
"No, all my colleagues have escaped. What about you?
[Don't worry about me. Once the separation is complete, the original base will be exactly where I want it to be.]
True to his word, the vibrations cease and the tilt gradually returns to horizontal.
[Originally, this could navigate both above and below water. Even though it is not yet complete, a few hours of navigation is not a problem. Be more careful of the base that the <> have built.]
"Let me know if you know anything."
[Yes, I do. First of all, ......]
Reiko stays alone at the mobile base and tries to get information from the <>.