Angels Cry (English ver.) - ラスティフロント@Wiki

#1 『Fallen Land』

Under the lead colored sky, grey ground which cannot be thaught any creatures can live in.
This huge deseart area called “Sea of Ash” is the ruin of the city group which was extinct in world war,once upon a time.
Corpses of skyscrapers ――that should be called symbol of glory in that time―― are projecting from ashes everywhere.

About three figures can be seen by the debris of ancient ship whose length is about 20m.

“...1500 meters ahead, near the water tower. There are three tankettes , two BMPs, and four... no , five BTRs. One Enhanced Mechanical Company, isn't it?”

A soldier who is  lying down under the camouflage net tweeted  with adjusting his night vision goggle.

“Rishek, Estimating enemy influence isn't our work. We only have to report.”

A Corporal who was near the soldier said.
Aparrels of them were similar to imperial soldiers , but there were not any decorations such as epaulets and mantles.
Sweating uniforms were dirty with sands and ashes.

A Private First Class called Rishek crawled out from camouflage net and left from fill which he was using as a hiding.
Taking out a box of cigarettes from trousers pocket and start smoking with hiding fire with his hand.
After reporting to Unit Information Center by his radio, the Corporal awaked a WAC who was sleeping with holding her rifle.
They had been observing that tract since eighteen hours ago, and finally found a enemy group that backs up the information from ComI unit.

“They must be stealers that are ransacking our territory.”

Corporal Darrell said with putting camouflage net and containers of ration to his backpack.

“「Our territory」... But in fact, we have nothing to do with that, aren't we?”

Rishek said that WAC named Refla after removing his goggle.

“They are waiting us 10km away.If we are too late, they will leave us behind.”

Darrel said with silly.

“How terrible this job is...”

Refla tweeted. 

Crundult Empire Army 8 Division 2 Mechanical Recon Company.
Now, this unit has been privatized by a rural nobility.
And contains large by  many mercenaries that are imperfect as majority.

This time, these three were moved to search enemies that are despoiling excavation plant that are occupied by nobilities illegally.
This is never a regular maneuver.
Mercenaries were popular among nobilities as soldiers that are frxible and disposable.

This three soldiers are quite different each other in terms of their career.
With Refla, she has not even an experience of Boot Camp.

Suddenly, a roar of guns pealed.
And consecutive gunfires by machone gun follow that.

“Shit... What the hell?”

Rishek creeped to the fill he was using a somtime ago after loading night vision goggle again.
Staring the enemy's side, he breaked off.

“...Hey, are you okay?”

Darrell asked.

“What... What the fuck I'm watching?”

A Yagra BMP which is blowing up fire from cupola and some bodies of Arkilian soldiers that scattered near that BMP were projected in magnified vision of goggle.
A Tankette Dacker's barrel of firing gun was pointing something hazy like human figure.

That figure walked to Dacker in difiance of direct hits by 25mm shells, and touched the aromour plate of that Tankette.
Just then  blood of crew blew up from all opening of the body, and Dacker became silented.
The thing turned around attended infantries, and they stoped their moving with kneeling.

Despite their suffering, the thing looked at here ―― mercenares lying down.
It cannot be possible to find marcenaries in this distant, in addition to they are only putting their heads from fill.
In spite of that,the thing keeps glaring them.

“It can wait to report. We should run to rendezvous point right now.”

Darrell said with paling his face.
Holding their rifles and backpacks, three mercenaries started running to Southern West.

It was six hours later the Attack An Craft named “Kalliope” which carries them arrived at garrison.
It is because, the pilot afraided at being seen by “that thing” three talks about and fly very low altitude.

As soon as rusted landing gears of that craft touched down to surface of hanger, some officers ran up to there.
Mercenaries were exhousted and sat down after exiting from side entrance of ship.

“What did you see, Ah!?”

A lieutenant pressed them, and asked loudly.
But they are not garrulity enough to explain that miserable scene.
Lieutenant keeps pressing.

“Report! Idlers!”

Mercenaries were surrounded by 2 squads of MPs before they knows.
Lieutenant pressed the muzzle of his pistol to Refla's head who was looking down.
Rishek had lost control emotionally by fatigue and rage.
Suddenly, he aimed his rifle to Lieutenant's chest.

“...What fuckin' are you doing, Private!?”

MPs got set their SMGs all together.
Other mercenaries who were in Kalliope aimed tarrets to resist them.

“No more. Kill them all this fuckers...”

Just as lieutenant was about to order MPs, an officer dressed in inconnu uniform striked him down.

Motioning MPs to break up, the officer kicked lieutenant's stomach who was lying down on floor.
Not moving in about 10 seconds, finally he got up and left the hanger after saluting the officer.

Ignoring MPs who were running out there with scaring, the officer toworded mercenaries.
She was in dressed in black long coat and lace up boot.
A badge of rank means captain was on her collar.

“I'll hear your report directly later. At first, you should take a rest.”

Declaring so, she left the hanger.

“It does not make sense but... let's take a bath first.”

Darrell stood up, and undid his pistol belt.
Rishek was staring at nothing with getting set his rifle.

“Hey, savage. Let's return.”

A mercenary who was aiming tarret of Attack Craft slaped Rishek on the back.
Refla went to woman's dormitory with pilot of craft at quick pace.

Later, the officer does not show up until next noon.
Being ordered to stand by in early morning, mercenaries were havin too much time on their hands.

“Lieutenant Sachsen is from the  Bartels House, isn't he?”

Lying on the up stairs of a bunk bed, Private Kai Hansen who is the tarret gunner tweeted.

“I'm not interested in such a fuckin' thing.”

Rishek who was sleeping until now answered from below of bed.
Darrell had not come back since he left for PX in 0800.

“Bartels House is owner of us, and manager of that excavation plant. Do you understand?”

“You are meaning that, that fuckin' asshole knows that phantom?”

After about one minuite silence, Kai tweeted again.

“Well... Actually, It's not unusual that he shouts with his handgun.”

Listening Kai's voice, Rishek started putting on his combat boot.

Suddenly, the door of the room opened.

“That woman is coming. We should ready for her tentatively.”

As soon entering the room, Darell said so.

“...Woman? What are you talking about?”

Kai asked him dubiously.

“That Captain-like-bitch. On a closer look, she must be crazy.”

Again the door opened.
That captain was standing on entrance.

“Well,sorry. I overslept.”

Noone recogmized yesterday, The voice of her was undoubtedly woman voice.
Seeing her face, mercenaries something odd about that even she had have regular features.
Tatoo was not on her face which must be got always Empire people's.
And more than enything else, Rishek felt a mystery shiver about her.

“Are you okay? Don't worry. I won't bite you. Why don't you relax?”

Captain said.
Before he knows, Rishek had been standing up and attentioning.
Usually, he doesn't look up to higher.
He watched that phantom with night vision goggle more clear than anyone else who were there yesterday.
He was feeling something similar to that phantom on this Captain.

“Anyway, you are too confused about your career.”

Captein said with comparing mercenaries' face and a document which she took out from her coat's inner pocket.

“Drake Darrell. Ex-U.I.Waliunecle Navy Land Force. Alen Rishek. Ex-Military Inteligeance of South Pannonia.”

Hearing a word of Waliunecle, Darrell made his face tense slightly.

“You are, well... Kai Hansen. Is pronunciation collect?”

“Yes, sir! That is collect, sir!“

Kai answered loudly.

“Don't be humble yourself. I don't belong to military...”

Suddenly, Captain's back of head blew out.
Blood, brain, and pieces of skull were splashed on floor.
About one second later, a sound of gun fire arrived at the room.

“Get down!”

When Darrell screamed, two mercenaries had already lied down on the floor.
Roars of soldiers sounded from corrider, out of room.

“They are coming from exit of east. And fuckin' sniper is on the mooring tower.”

Darell said.
It means that, they cannot move from this room.

“Where are our guns!?”

Rishek asked with angry.

“All is in the armory near the exit!”

Kai answered.

“Hey, doesn't that bitch have something useful?”

Darrell asked.
Crawling to the body, Kai found something.

“Yeah! A large handgun is here.”

The pistol whose size is as large as SMG was in leg holster on Captain's thigh.
Kai touched grip of that, and screamed suddenly.
Right hand of body grabbed his wrist.

Ignoring Kai who jumped aside, Captain got up and drew her pistol.
And aiming to top of mooring tower which is at about 400m away from window, she pulled the trigger.

Bulet flew out from muzzle without any loud sound, and only clank of slide was emitted to room.
Sniper found something approaching in his scope, but his brain was not so accurately to avoid that.
The Full Metal Jacketed bullet pierced the lens of scope, and broke his right eye.
Subsequently it took into his brain, and devasteted everything in that.

Exiting from room, captain began shooting to soldiers who were on their way running from end of corrider.
Everytime very long cartridge fly out from her pistol, bodies of soldiers become ripped apart by that.
They were not so applicational, and could not operate this situation.
They cannot even counterfire.
In a twinkling, the corrider became bloodbath.

A lucky soldier who was covered by bodies of colleague, succeeded to fire a rifle-grenade.
Toward an object which is approaching with drawing a paradola, Captain shot her pistol.
Without any distortion, the bullet broke the fuse of grenade.
Explosed in air, piece of broken that made bodies of soldiers more miserably.

Assailant became silented without even magazine change of Captain.
She walked to a body which was the most near fo her, and shot its head more two round excessively.

She found something trembling with fear on the floor.
It was a tiny culca.
She embraced that and stroked its head with a smile.

Mercenaries cannot do anything except for watching that strange scene.

 

 

#2  『No Bullets Fly』

The sun had already been setting into west horizon.

At an altitude of about 500 meters, a Light Cruiser Freja was moving over the gentle hill country.
There were no flags which must be fulltering, and also cannot see any crew on its deck.

Mercenaries were in a cabin with a long desk which seems to be used for briefing.
Rishek was smoking near the window with watching twilight sky.  
Memories of rural distinct in South Pannonia crosses his mind.
There are not any benefits in there since he came of age.
But after the abnormal event these two days, he could not help adoring there where is his root.

The door opened and a black-haired woman entered the cabin.
Her coat which was dirty with blood and brain until a while ago is very clean now.

“Sorry to have kept you waiting. My culca had diarrhea... ”

Saying such a negligible thing, she put a map bag on the desk.

“Just in case, I ask you again. Is it true that this six had returned from 3-4 area of Sea of Ash, isn't it?”

She looked toward Darrell who is the leader of this squad.

“Yes, sir. Most definitely.”

He answered.

“I see...”

She tweeted with taking out some documents from the map case.
And she looked up by fits.

“I've not given my name. I am Elvira Jugn. Supposedly, my rank is Captain.”

And looking mercenaries steadily, she said with smiling.

“Welcome to Gnogge.”

Seven hours ago.
Checking the culca stopped its shaking, she put that on the floor slowly.
And she watched a body which she shot excessively a while ago.
Seeing its epaulets, she frowned slightly.

“Well... this is unexpectable.”

She said to three mercenaries who were standing in amazement.

Mercenaries could not understand what is “unexpectable”.
A woman who was blown up her brain just a two minutes ago is talking to us.
Moreover, any vestiges of that bullet could not seen on her head.

Jugn said to them with rapidly.

“Our cruiser is coming this camp, but... we can't remain here now. Let's run away.”

“Run away? ...But how can we do?”

Kai could not do anything anymore than confusing.

“I heard that your Attack Craft is fast.”