Outbreak Company: Volume 17 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [SAKAKI, ICHIRO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club

When the word came in—mysterious flying dagger sighted coming from the direction of Bahairam—it was brought immediately to our castle. None of the eyewitnesses had any idea what exactly the thing was, but given that it had come from Bahairam, nearby officials concluded it could well be some new weapon of theirs, and rushed a report here. If Bahairam was staging an attack, we would need to be able to respond as soon as possible.

But it wasn’t as simple as that.

“What do you make of this, Garius?” At this, the collective gaze of the gathered advisors settled on the man beside us.

“To be honest, I don’t think it’s clear whether this thing is from Bahairam,” he said.

We, Garius, Zahar, and our advisors—who had been summoned urgently; we had gone so far as to have magic used to do it—were in a conference room at the castle, analyzing the report. On a round table before us was a picture of the “flying dagger” sketched by a resident artist based on the eyewitness reports. Secondhand, yes, but the best we had. The object did indeed look like two daggers arrayed against each other.

“Considering how recently they lost the Dragon’s Den, I have to assume the Bahairamanian military is still in some state of disarray. Besides, if they’d managed to muster a puppet drake, that would be one thing, but an entirely new weapon like this? I don’t think they’ve had the time or the resources.”

“So you think so too, Garius?” We were of the same mind. None of the gathered advisors raised any objections.

Garius frowned and continued. “Then there’s the fact that this object resembles something I’ve seen in the otaku works that Shinichi and his friends brought here. Something of roughly this shape that travels accompanied by a very large noise...”

“An air-plane,” we said. “Or... No, the word they use is fighter plane.” This received nods from Garius and some of the advisors. There were some among them who, like us and Garius, had gone out of their way to learn to appreciate otaku material. They might have encountered these “fighter planes,” weapons that flew through the air under their own power. According to anime and manga, these things were terrible indeed: fast as sound, powerful as a shock wave, high-flying as the clouds. Our own nation possessed weapons that were capable of flying via magic, but the height and speed at which they flew were nothing compared to these fighter planes.

“Yes, now that you say it, it is indeed similar to that flying weapon from A**a 88,” Zahar observed. “And, in fact, to those that appear in many other anime.”

“Yes, mostly as cannon fodder,” an advisor quipped.

It was true that, notwithstanding works in which the air-plane was the star, most such weapons seemed to appear chiefly to demonstrate the power of the hero or villain. But when they were bested, it was usually by the hero operating a superweapon, or by a kaiju. Our own country possessed nothing resembling such threats.

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