The thing she was holding so tightly backfired.

The unintended backlash blew Lina and the pieces of the Brionac backward.

The shock of being slammed to the ground caused the Eidos reinforced armor that protected Lina to fluctuate.

After picking up the Trident, Tatsuya invoked ‘Restoration’.

He reconstructed the relative coordinate information using the data on CAD construction and his own body as reference points, the Trident returned to his hand in repaired condition.

Tatsuya fired six shots of his ‘dissolution’ but it had no effect on Lina’s magic barrier, it persisted in sticking to her limbs.

At the joints of both arms and legs, he was able to drill thin holes large enough to put a needle through. The four microscopic scars caused Lina intense pain equal to having a file whittle directly on her nerves.

She didn’t have time to cry out in pain before, her mind blew a circuit. Her mind was swallowed by a white darkness.

? ? ?

“Lina....”

After finishing his task, Tatsuya returned to where Lina was, he looked down on her body which still lay limp on the ground unconscious and murmured to her knowing she wouldn’t be able to hear him.

“It would be better if you quit the army as soon as possible.”

He had been saved by her softness in the skirmish that had just taken place.

Even only giving consideration to the battle power, Tatsuya should have had a much more difficult struggle.

As her first shot had reduced his right arm to cinders, he interrupted Gram Dispersion in order to avoid receiving greater damage; if he destroyed the information that coalesce it into a beam, the plasma would disperse. He had lost from the moment the beam had started coalescing, and if there had been wider dispersion of plasma when she fired then Tatsuya probably wouldn’t have just lost only his right arm as much as half his body could have been burned away. Of course, even if it was, his body would probably be instantly restored however, that had become his winning move without the sleight of hand with his right arm, he wouldn’t have been able to launch a surprise attack.

From the beginning of the bombardment he had to avoid interfering with Lina in order to curb consecutive damage by using the extra time to construct how the ‘path’ was created. Even if he followed the path of the shot by the shockwave it produced, without a doubt he would have been given enough damage to hinder his counterattack.

During the time the hedges were mowed down also, he also shouldn’t have avoided receiving damage. Despite the fact that in order to take away the enemy’s ability to resistance, the accumulation of damage was a cornerstone.

The long conversation on the theory of FAE wasn’t necessary. There was absolutely no reason to disturb Lina by revealing the operating principle of the secret weapon.

In the last attack, she hadn’t aimed at the legs, the power had been regulated to stop before the underlayer of the skin burned. By changing the orientation of the Brionac, she had lost critical time. It was not the time lag from being surprised by the restoration of his right arm but rather the time lag produced by moving Brionac that was actually the fatal one.

“Stars Commander ‘Sirius’....I don’t think the job is suitable for you.”

Tatsuya muttered the words as he picked up Lina.