"Wooo—" A long, resonant cry like a whale's song.
The first thing to slice through the water's surface was a fin.
A narrow, long, and hideous black bone fin cut open the lake surface, tearing through the water like a triangular sail breaking through wind and waves. The deep, cold lake water parted to both sides, pushing out a tide.
The moment they saw that pitch-black bone fin, sharp as a sword, everyone in the Fourth Action Division sensed that something was wrong.
It was simply too big.
The body length of an adult blue whale is usually only thirty meters.
Yet, humans are already insignificant enough before one.
But the monster currently rising from the water before them... judging by the length of that terrifying bone fin, its body length might approach a hundred meters.
That was a terrifying giant beast.
It was like a monster that had come over for a cameo from the Ultraman set next door.
Just the bone fin tearing through the water surface was enough to make one feel powerless to resist.
"Wooo—"
The close-range whimpering sound almost blew out Su Yuzu's ears. Su Yuzu shouted at Hayabusa beside her, "Didn't you say this lake only has an average depth of six or seven meters!!?"
"How exactly was this kind of monster hiding under this lake?!"
"I don't know either!!!" Hayabusa, wearing a look of despair, also didn't understand how such a monster could hide at the bottom of the lake, watching them build a bonfire and chat happily on the shore.
No wonder that heartbeat sound was so obvious.
The lake water was churning in time with its heartbeat.
Closing one's eyes, it felt as if it were right beside them.
Because it truly was.
For a monster of this size, its heart alone might be larger than the jeep Su Yuzu and the others came in.
The larger the monster, the harder it is to deal with.
Even if the opponent was only Second Sequence, an ordinary Third Sequence Esper would have absolutely no way to deal with such a giant beast.
Let alone... Su Yuzu looked with a grim expression at the evil beast pushing aside the deep lake water, slowly propping up its body under the bright moon.
Its gigantic and perfectly round dark golden vertical pupils blazed like torches, staring straight at Su Yuzu, who was as insignificant as an ant.
Su Yuzu could feel it.
The strength of this terrifying monster before them... was Third Sequence.
Even in an eroge world, you have to follow some basic laws, right? What about conservation of mass? Where is the conservation of mass?
How many people were in this tiny laboratory in total?
Was all that meat put together even enough to fill the gaps between this monster's teeth?
How did such a huge giant beast just pop out?
[Ding—]
[Part.2 - Eve of Dawn.]
The mechanical woman's voice rang out at just the right moment.
[The giant beast hidden in the lake water has finally revealed its full appearance.]
[Challenge it.]
[Inflict as much damage as possible upon it, and retreat safely.]
[Mission Requirement: Attack the Chimera Amalgam as much as possible.]
[Mission Rewards will be determined by the damage inflicted and the personnel survival rate.]
[...]
Survival rate?
That was a term Su Yuzu could not accept.
If possible, she wanted everyone to survive.
"Wooo—" The giant beast paddled its body, pushing toward the shore.
Tilting her head back, Su Yuzu finally managed to see its full appearance clearly.
Those exaggerated bone fins had made her misjudge the giant beast's size somewhat.
But even so, this whale-like giant beast was nearly sixty meters long. When it propped up its body, it blocked Su Yuzu and the others like a building, blotting out the sky and the sun.
Those huge, perfectly round pupils were like two dark golden lamps.
And accompanying the giant beast's whimpering...
That giant mouth, which split open to almost half the length of the giant beast's body... leaked a spectral blue light from its cavity.
"Gan! Wen! Cui!!!" Looking at the giant beast in front of her, Kujou Katora didn't have a shred of certainty in her heart.
She could only roar, making a final struggle.
Accompanying Kujou Katora's roar—
Boom—
A massive boom rang out from beneath the monster's body.
Those were the Mithril bombs left by the combat members of the Fourth Action Division at the lakeside.
The opponent had not yet unfolded its erosion domain; at this moment, the Mithril bombs could exert massive power.
Su Yuzu watched as that giant beast seemed to take an uppercut of matchless power.
The lake water, churned into white, and steam rose instantly, forming a white curtain dozens of meters high.
"Wooo—" Along with the giant beast's cry of pain, the lake water in front of Su Yuzu and the others was dyed a shimmering spectral blue color, emitting a dazzling fluorescence in the darkness.
The dark red erosion domain only then arrived late, the heavy sensation pressing onto Su Yuzu's body.
"Just how many bombs did you guys bury!!??" Su Yuzu suddenly felt that killing that monster wasn't impossible.
"Just an equivalent of about 400 kilograms of TNT."
"???" Many question marks suddenly popped up above Su Yuzu's head.
"Just!??"
Had she... been sitting in a convoy with this many explosives all along?
"For a Catastrophe Beast of this size... this level of explosion is not fatal at all." Kujou Katora had already gripped her narrow, long blood blade.
"Moreover..."
She scanned the deep forest around them. Pairs of dark golden vertical pupils lit up in the darkness. "We have no way to retreat."
"Hayabusa!!!"
"Stay by Miss Yuzu's side and be ready to displace Miss Yuzu back to the Tokyo metropolitan area at any time."
"Everyone else, open fire!!!"
"Don't give it any chance to catch its breath."
A hail of bullets instantly lit up the dark night shrouded by the dark red erosion domain.
But... under the erosion of the giant beast's furious domain, the damage caused by those munitions was once again minimal.
This was also why Kujou Katora had insisted on detonating the explosives before the erosion domain unfolded.
"Wooo!!!" The whimpering giant beast broke through the water curtain and the hail of bullets, once again revealing its full appearance within the dark red domain.
The first sharp bone fin on the giant beast's back had already snapped.
The pectoral fin on its left side had also been completely torn apart; one could even see the giant beast's ghastly white ribs at the torn wound.
Spectral blue light replaced the torn pectoral fin, supporting the giant beast's body.
Blood glowing with spectral blue fluorescence flowed constantly from the gash, mixing into the lake water.
It had suffered heavy damage, which also allowed Su Yuzu and the others to see hope.
"It's not a Catastrophe Beast!!!"
"This is also a Chimera Amalgam!!!"
Su Yuzu shouted with all her might, injecting more confidence into Kujou Katora.
She didn't know how Miss Yuzu determined that the giant beast in front of them wasn't a Catastrophe Beast.
But Kujou Katora would always trust Su Yuzu unconditionally.
The difficulty of assaulting a Chimera Amalgam and a Catastrophe Beast were not on the same level at all.
They could win!
Win this battle... and take these bastards back to eat roast meat.
"Gaa!!!" Hoarse, low roars from the Walking Husks came from the mountain forest.
Densely packed, withered Walking Husks leaped out from the deep forest, launching an attack from behind Su Yuzu and the others like fleas.
But Kujou Katora was prepared.
"Transfer firepower!!!"
"Cover that group of Walking Husks with firepower."
"Leave that Chimera Amalgam to me for now." Kujou Katora had already tore open the cold-proof coat on her body.
Under the girl's excessively short combat suit, the exquisite curves of her buttocks were tightly wrapped in black silk stockings.
Su Yuzu looked at Kujou Katora's profile.
Only then did she realize that there was actually a hint of gentleness on Kujou Katora's sharp face.
If the Kujou family hadn't met with an accident.
Kujou Katora would probably have grown into a rather gentle woman.
A standard Yamato Nadeshiko character, and her ability would be a music-type ability that fit that gentle temperament well.
It's a pity the world has no IF route.
The dark red, narrow, and long blood blade was gripped in her hand.
Kujou Katora turned her head sideways to look at Su Yuzu and sighed softly, "Do you want to fight with me?"
Su Yuzu revealed a huge smile.
"It would be my honor."
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