"Shh—!"
"All of you, shut up first!"
Just as the others were about to keep chatting, the "Demonic Dragon Knight Captain," who had been observing the situation all along, suddenly changed his tone and barked a low reprimand.
His expression shifted from lazy indifference to taut, barely suppressed tension and shock, his eyes widening.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
At once, everyone fell silent and turned their eyes toward the Chaos town.
"!!"
"Look! Over there!"
As he spoke, the Demonic Dragon Knight Captain stretched out a green finger and pointed toward the town's southeastern corner.
"There!"
"Outside that rusty sheet-metal fence!"
"What the hell is that thing?!"
Following his teammate's direction, Careful Left and Right Hands quickly narrowed his eyes and looked toward the southeast corner.
"..."
Greenskins had excellent eyesight, but that did not mean their vision could magnify things like a telescope. They needed to focus, adjust, and let their red, vertically slit eyes adapt to changes in distance and light.
A few seconds later, he finally saw it:
At the southeastern corner of that Chaos town, there was indeed a relatively open patch of ground outside the fence. Scattered across it were wrecked vehicles, fragments of "Gundams," and several crooked stone pillars. On the road between those wrecks and pillars stood a figure—no, not a "person," but a figure far larger, broader, and heavier than an ordinary human, standing there ramrod straight.
There was no doubt about it. It was a suit of power armor!
And it was not the CMC Powered Combat Suit worn by the Sector Marines in their camp, but a model that looked older, bulkier, and far more imposing.
The armor's main body was a dull iron-gray. Its shoulder plates bore strange decorations and were as broad as two shields. An eye-like emblem