Outbreak Company: Volume 15 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [SAKAKI, ICHIRO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

The smell of burning assaulted my nose. Was it the half-cooked puppet drake beside us, or the whole Third Capital? I couldn’t tell. Pillars of flame sprouted all over the city, scorching the area even now. Near those pillars, everything was vulnerable. Trees, anything made of paper—any of it could be caught up in a stray spark and set alight.

“So hot...” I took out a handkerchief and wiped my glasses, which were smeared with sweat. Even hidden in the shadow of some debris, the heat enveloped us and made us uncomfortably hot. The Kingdom of Bahairam already had a warmer average temperature than the Eldant Empire, but at that moment it must have been more than 40° C in the Third Capital.

“Huh. I think this puppet drake’s flying days are over,” Hikaru-kun said with a sigh. In front of him, our drake was keeled over. It wasn’t dead, but there was a huge gash at the base of its right wing, right across the muscles it would need to fly. It had managed to help us glide in, but that was the absolute most it could have done. No more racing through the sky for us.

I remembered hearing at one point that dragons weren’t like birds; they didn’t necessarily have to flap their wings in order to fly. But whether by magic, or sprite power, or whatever, the wings were nonetheless the “core” or “axis” around which flying took place.

“Guess we can just be grateful it glided down to the ground for us,” I said with a sigh. With that dragon attack, we had just avoided a very fatal crash landing. According to Amatena, dragons had the senses of the reptiles they resembled. In other words, they weren’t as sensitive to pain as mammals were, and our puppet drake continued on under Amatena’s control despite being grazed by dragon fire a couple of times.

On top of that, it looked like the wild dragons had just attacked the puppet drake because it had wandered too close to them. Maybe our attackers didn’t realize we were clinging to its back; in any event, when the puppet drake started going down, trailing smoke, the attackers didn’t pursue. We could count ourselves lucky for that.

But it wasn’t all sunshine and good news.

“Hrm,” I said, taking off my overshirt and rolling up my sleeves as I went to inspect the cargo. I had packed two aluminum-alloy trunks full of weapons and gear, but one of them had tumbled off somewhere during our glide in, while the other must have been scorched by dragon fire, because the edges of the case were badly deformed.

We managed to get the case open, and discovered that the Type-89 ammunition and spare bandoliers, along with the C4 explosive and flashbang grenades, were all safe. However, I’d brought a radio device and several other electronics of various descriptions, the resin casings of which were all now melted beyond usability. I figured we could just be grateful the ammunition hadn’t detonated in the face of such intense heat.

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