Outbreak Company: Volume 18 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [Sakaki, Ichiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three: The Rescue

We headed for Holy Eldant Castle as thoroughly equipped as we could be. Namely, Myusel, Elvia, and I wore our forbidden armor, Hikaru-san was using his avatar, and Minori-san and Reito-san had all the weapons they could carry. Reito-san, by the way, had only had his pistol, for self-defense, on him, so Minori-san spotted him a Type 89 and some other stuff she happened to have on hand.

“Shinichi-sensei!” Romilda called from the shadows of the trees, waving to us. Assaulting the castle head-on obviously wasn’t a good idea, so we’d arranged to meet Loek, Romilda, and their parents by one of the many small side entrances. We would stop our carriage, and Romilda’s dad, Rydel-san, would fill us in on the castle’s secret entrances. His ancestors had been among those who built the castle generations earlier, which was why his family had been granted nobility, unusual for demi-humans. Naturally, the Guld family had a set of blueprints for the castle, passed down as a cherished heirloom.

“I must say, I’m impressed you even knew these would be here,” Rydel-san said, running his fingers through his beard.

“Eh, y’know. It’s sort of how these things work. Even in real life.”

Any castle or fortress or whatever was bound to have secret passageways that the family and their servants could use to escape in an emergency. It wasn’t just a cliché—it was common sense. But the flipside was that they could be used to sneak in as well as out. Then again, when I said it was a cliché, I meant in entertainment—which these people hadn’t had much of until recently. Maybe it wasn’t as obvious to them yet as it was to me.

“It’s usually disguised as, like, an unused well or something,” I said.

“No, nothing that obvious,” Rydel-san replied. “Besides, it would fill up with rainwater. Surely you don’t imagine my esteemed ancestors would have created such a facile deception, Shinichi-dono?”

“Huh? But then where...?” I asked.

“Behold the wonders of dwarven skill!” Rydel-san struck the root of a nearby tree with his fist. It went booong, and then part of the root recessed inward.

“Wow...”

No way, I thought, but only for a second, because it got even wilder. A dozen nearby trees soundlessly slid aside or tilted half-over, and the ground itself began to give way. I heard dirt tumbling downward, but I could clearly see a metal surface below.

Hang on a second... Was this a secret base?! Was a rescue machine with wings that looked tiny for the size of its fuselage going to pop out?! Why were dwarves so obsessed with this stuff?!

“That’s so cool!” Reito-san cried. “I mean, cue the badass background music! Mrrrrmrmrmr bzzzoowww!”

“I think those English do-gooders would be more appropriate here,” I said.

“Yeah, about that,” Reito-san said. “In the opening, they always exclaim ‘Th*nderbirds are go!,’ but doesn’t that seem like, grammatically a little weird?”

“Huh? Isn’t it because there’s five of them?”

“I heard go is actually an adjective there. They say it’s a pretty common spoken usage,” Minori-san interjected.

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