D-Genesis: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 2] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Yoyogi Dungeon, Eighteenth Floor

“So, what’s the big idea waking us up this early? The world better be ending.”

This was not good for beauty sleep, Natalie grumbled. If anyone present wondered what someone who spent her days in underground caverns fricasseeing genomos was doing complaining about beauty sleep, they didn’t voice it. He who fears drowning goes near no wells.

“Funny you should say that,” Simon answered, passing her the tablet displaying the president’s orders.

According to its contents, time was rapidly running out.

“So should we get going right away?” Natalie asked.

“Nope.”

Their response window was broken into six-hour sections. As long as they were there between the same two cleaner reproduction cycles, it didn’t matter much if they took a bit of time heading up.

“If we radio ahead, Falcon Industries will have any necessary equipment ready by the time we hit topside,” Simon explained. “Lucky for us, they were in the country for a demo.”

“‘Demonstration’?”

“When their tests were done at Yokohama, they were going to show off a porter here.”

“Damn.” A look of disappointment hung in Mason’s eyes. “Too bad.”

“Never mind that.” Simon tapped the tablet lightly with the back of his hand. “What do we do about these guys?”

“Sorry, Natalie, but it looks like you’ll be our main weapon.” Joshua turned to the team’s flame-magic user.

“Are you joking? My magic won’t hold out long enough to get through thousands of slimes,” Natalie answered. “They’ll divide again while I’m resting up.”

“But explosives and projectiles are out. And we can’t go hacking the cleaners up without creating more.” Joshua shrugged, sensing a nonstarter.

“The real best weapon would be raw heat...” Cathy piped up. Since she’d been sent off by D-Powers with her parting gift—a skill orb—on the thirteenth, she was free to join Team Simon and dive the eighteen floor until she had to return for pre-boot camp preparations on January 26.

In truth, Cathy’s inclusion in this dive had been a direct request from Miyoshi, so that Cathy could test out her orb. Thus, although she wouldn’t be participating in the mission, she was present for the conversation now.

“Like a flamethrower?” Simon asked. “Can we even get our hands on one?”

“The Marines retired them in the seventies,” Cathy replied. Following the Vietnam War, they’d been phased out in favor of thermobaric weapons.

That’s right. Cathy was originally a marine, Simon thought, recalling the contents of her resume. “So what about now?” he asked.

“Well, currently the Marines get thermobaric grenades from Picatinny Arsenal. The XM1060, they’re called. I wasn’t around, but I hear they saw active use fifteen years ago in Afghanistan.”

“What kind of firepower are we talking?”

Most grenades were set to have a wounding radius of fifteen meters.

“I’ve heard one could blow apart a stone wall from a distance of one-hundred yards. But I don’t know detailed specs.”

“Damn. We’d be crawling with cleaners from the blast. Anything with less impact, more heat?”

“Recently maybe thermite-based weapons. The M14 or TH3.”

“Hand grenades?”

However, with a wounding radius of only two meters, the M14 and TH3 presented the opposite problem—their area of effect was too small.

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