Fujino looked at the giant machine gun in front of him and fell silent for a moment.
Where was the fish? Where was his fish?!
His fishing rod had already gained a fifty-percent fishing rate. How had he still managed to pull up something this bizarre?
Wait, the description of this lousy fishing rod seemed to refer to the fishing probability.
Not the probability of catching fish...
Damn, had "a fisherman can catch anything except fish" really become a classic saying?
A tire, a sea turtle, Japanese yen, and now a machine gun...
Wait, with a caliber of twenty-five millimeters, should this be called a cannon instead?
What if he ended up fishing up a nuclear warhead next?
Fujino silently grumbled to himself.
Genta and Ayumi stood beside him with bewildered looks on their faces:
"A... a machine gun?"
"What kind of fish is a machine-gun fish?"
Ayumi and Genta were rather innocent.
"This isn't a fish..."
Hearing the two children chattering away, Professor Agasa looked at the "colossal object" and said helplessly, "This should be a WWII-era naval anti-aircraft machine gun cannon. I saw something similar when I visited a museum as a child."
Genta did not quite understand. "But why did Fujino catch a machine gun?"
"That's because, during the WWII era, after Japan surrendered, the Allied forces fought their way to the waters near Tokyo."
Ai Haibara glanced at the anti-aircraft cannon embedded in the concrete. Her expression was almost impossible to control, but she still explained, "Quite a few warships were sunk in these waters back then. After Japan surrendered, many damaged warships were transported to Tokyo Bay. Quite a few sank halfway there. At the same time, there are no detailed records of exactly how many ships were lost..."
As she spoke, she lowered her