"This attack won't fall on Orb, so we just need to avoid it. Our target is up there."
"Mm—! Then let's make this unit quiet down for now."
"Target locked... Nazca-class. Secondary acceleration initiated."
Star-picker deployed its thrusters and accelerated once more, charging head-on into all the attacks.
Closer—getting closer—
Yet just as the missiles were about to strike Star-picker, it made a lateral movement and evaded the attack.
Amid the dense, rain-like barrage of missiles, Star-picker flew upward against the current, yet not a single drop of that "rain" touched it.
"Are they about to break through the atmosphere?!"
Heine drew his sword and shield.
[Image: Knight of Justice]
In that case, he would show them what he could really do!
"Come—pilot of Freedom—"
There was no longer any need for additional auxiliary sensors. The machine's own sensors were enough to see everything clearly.
Then—
"Huh?"
A meteor streaked past him.
Heine did not even realize what had happened.
Star-picker did not slow down at all.
But after that meteor passed, Knight of Justice had already lost its limbs and head, while its torso had been cleaved in half down the middle.
And Star-picker had not slowed down at all.
Then, it passed straight through Heine's mothership, a Nazca-class vessel, before the meteor continued flying toward the distance.
Everything had happened in a single instant.
Star-picker had not slowed down at all.
As though...
He had merely been dust in the universe.
The radiance of the stars would not be obstructed by such insignificant dust.
It had already flown into the distance.
Inside the cockpit, the two of them interlocked their fingers—
[Image: Has to be censored]
Author's Note:
Continue after watching the military parade?
The answer was only one!
[Instantly defeated]
[It got instantly defeated]
[Didn't this