Chapter 6:
the day before the attempted assassination komachi got a communication from huo balta telling her that he was being held captive by tarrant and was escaping and needed help.
She called ryoko's adjutant and told him.
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Komachi broke seiryo out of his cell and she barely managed to give him a light sword before he began to run off haphazardly setting off all the alarms on the ship.
Komachi doubted her choice of freeing him to cause a distraction but he went directly to the security gaurds room and beat everyone in the room, then he disabled the security cameras and destroyed a ton of weapons systems and then he found some dangerous weapons hidden on the ship and continued his rampage.
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Daruma watched seiryo rampage.
"He's a GP member right?"
"He's supposed to be under Tarrant's jurisdiction"
"I apologize for this " tarrant told him
But seiryo proceeded to go back and blow a hole right back into tarrant's secret room.
"Tarrant what is the meaning of this!"
Tarrant took out his gun and shot his own staff members
"I'm sorry I had no idea."
"That doesn't change the fact that your responsible for not supervising your crew."
"I'm aware."
Tarrant panicked and quickly took the rest of his men and left.
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When he left he immediate proceeded to turn to one of his subordinates and bash their jaw in which as far as they were concerned was better then being shot dead.
"Sir we're receiving a message from the research satellite. Huo Balta has escaped!"
It was a dire emergency even more dire then seiryo's escape.
"The phantom freed him and then caused a large part of the satellite to self-destruct along with Huo's research."
He wanted to leave immediately to take care of the situation but he couldn't launch the Daedalus with the Big Daruma under internal attack . He sent his subordinates to do it instead.
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On Tarrant's desert planet laboratory, researchers were trying to disinfect their systems from the phantom Ai with an astral that was plaguing the satellite's system.
"It's no good we can't stop the ship huo is on!"
"Destroy it! We can't let him get away!"
"We can't, the rest of the satellite is exploding!"
The satellite onscreen exploded into chunks and a huge chunk fell to the planet right outside the base but the shielding on the base protected it.
"What about the phantom is it gone?"
"Our containment program was working up until the explosion. We can't confirm if it's gone for sure though. It disappeared after the second round of blocks exploded."
"Launch a ship to go after them now!"
"Tell tarrant-sama I am taking responsibility for this blunde.r"
the head researcher said. their guards turned their guns on him and his fellow researchers and shot them all to death as this happened they didn't notice it but the phantom had appeared in the computers behind them as they fired on the researchers. The monitors glowed with a white light for a moment.
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On the mikagami's bridge seto and minaho had confirmed that huo had been successfully taken into protective custody, he had sent information that let them jump to him but not know where he was... so they were unable to locate tarrant's base. Huo's ship had been destroyed but he managed to escape unharmed.
"Thanks to the data though we've cut down the possible locations of tarrant's base from 800000 to only 300,000 possible places. Luckily though he escaped with the original J. I can't believe it. It's been 20,000 years since they got their hands on it and now it can finally be returned to Jurai!.... at any rate send a private delivery service to get it to us. I need it shipped C.O.D."
"But Seto!"
"I know Ringo will be unhappy but we can't pay the standard shipping rates for this. It's going to be a challenging delivery."
"By the way I heard from kiriko... apparently Airi did something that made her very mad."
"I know hehe I already saw. Watching seina-chan go into that lingerie shop was hilarious. The gifts he got us are nice though aren't they." Seto caressed her amber ear ring and minaho had on an amber broach.
"By the way... how are things going with the ship"
" Neeju · Na · Melmas, Ryo-ohki and the new ship should arrive in 8 hours. Noike is escorting them here."
"the Kamidake will be taking it's final flight test over the next 3 days..."
seto pulled up a monitor.
"No way!"
the flight path of the ship went right into Huo balta's rescue ships trajectory.
" I think we found our delivery guy."
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Seto went home to the residential area of her ship. she jumped into the lake around her house and swam in it happily while admiring her gift from seina. she then went and bathed and got into her night clothes... she went before her mirror
Mirror · Seto - - Seto.
"uhuhuhu .... True, that's terrible ... yet only I am angry."
─ ─ Did he really give you something like that?
"Yes it is my treasure"
── How Innocent ... ... ............
" ... ... I'm happy"
── That's good.
"Yup……"
── huhuhu
"Huhuhuhuhu"