6 "Awakening"
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This chapter was way too long with way to many over stretched scenes, so I cut out about half of it...
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"What, is that !?" The cave in the rock which was around Seina was an obvious artifact. It was a strange shaped passage like one would find in a spacecraft. There was a bulkhead that remained half open.
"That's it!" past that was a huge domed space.
"This is ... ..."
"Here it is. The sacred place where the gods are worshiped ... and where we keep the figure of our god."
"Is this ……?" ?Seina looked up at the gigantic statue with a stupefied expression.
It is was half buried in rocks, but it was about 15 meters in height. well the visible half was, but if the whole body was probably over 30 meters (33 yards).
"... .... a long time ago in the distant past, Like a long time ago, like my grandpa's grandpa and his grandpa's grandpa's long time ago .... Evil came to this village, Thanks to the Idol and the strength of the brave hero the evil was annihilated ... ... its strength was like that of a demon's. "
"Huh ......" Looking at the rock covered statue it was pretty clear that wasn't true it was almost as if the rock had formed around it. There were clear signs of it being dug of the rock out by hand.
Seina kept silent and listened to the elder while looking at Acha who was eagerly praying.
"Mr. Elder!"
"Oh! How is the evacuation situation?"
"Everyone is headed here but the machines are approaching quickly ..."
Gayeeeeeeeein! At that time, a loud scraping sound came out from nearby.
"No! They're cutting through the outer shell! Skip the graces, let's cut to the ceremony."
"Ceremony?"
"This village is once again plagued by evil and a brave hero has arrived, our God has revived .. just as it was foretold." The elder looked up at the statue.
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The toxins that were being produced by the bacteria in Kashak had been neutralized but not the bacteria itself and she was quite weak and unable to evacuate, Kusuro stayed with her instead of evacuating.
"I'm no longer the shrine maiden, you must escape.Leave me."
"No! I won't! Even if you're not a shrine maiden, You're Acha's mother!"
"Kusuro ... ...."
"Sakaka, you have fast legs, please hurry and find help I'll protect Kashak in here!" The other adults and elders in the village should have ordered people to help Kashak, but they forgot.
"Yes, I'm on it!" Sakaka rushed and quickly looked around for something to use as a weapon. He ended up settling on a nearby ceremonial dagger.
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"Raise the output!" Arga yelled.
"It's pointless!I think were drilling through a spaceship, it has battleship level armor!"
"Shit, so should we just try going through the tunnels directly?"
"I'm afraid of doing that who knows what will happen due to his luck! What if we use chemical weapons?"
"Oh! But the golden Wau is here with him? I don't want to burn her up too."
"There's always sleeping gas."
"That won't work... the GP bioenhancement probably makes it ineffective... and I hear he has a special suit." They wanted to confront him inside of one of the machines. It was a suicidal act for them to go out on foot while the rest of the machines were operating.
"What should we do?"
"From the reaction of the vibration sensors, the inside seems to be half filled with rocks."
"In other words,there's a large hole open somewhere? Do you know where it's open?"
"I can't tell from here but it seems that the outer wall seems to be somewhat degraded, it's possible to detect to a certain extent with the vibration sensor where it brittle."
"Let's dig there then."
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Sakaka came running into the passageways.
"Sakaka! What happened to Ms. Kashak?"
"Mikaka and Kusuro were never evacuated!"
"Didn't anyone go to help her?" The elders were alarmed
"No. No one ever gave the instruction to... ...."
The outer shell sounded like a construction site under construction as the machines tried to get through it.
"We'll send people immediately."
"No, elder, it's useless! The entrance in the center is also buried!"
"Is there no other route to go to Acha's mother !?" Seina asked. Seina, who was bioenhanced, was the best candidate to rescue her.
"Going outside is impossible in this state .... And I won't go to make our brave hero go."
"Mother-sama ...... Kusuro ......" Acha was about to start crying.
At such times, Seina hated his ability to detect danger because it made him understand that going outside was reckless. He had to quit thinking about her think about protecting Acha instead.
"Staying here is dangerous, is there no way to escape to the outside?"
"The end of this tunnel comes out outside the enemy base, if we go then there will be nothing keeping them from attacking us."
"Now is our time to ask our God for help! The brave hero and the shrine maiden is here! We'll surely be saved."
Everyone kneeling and praying to the Idol. Seina was stuck. Kirche was missing. Fuku was caught. Communications to the Earth were delayed for another 12 hours.
(No Stop it...)
Gagyaaaaaann!
The instinct to defend was boiling in Seina.
......If you know the way to the base...
.....So if you can unlock Fuku's restraint using nanomachines....
....the enemy is targeting us.
"There's no time left we have to sacrifice the Hero and the Maiden!"
"eh?" Seina had been caught up in his own head, but was being lifted off the ground. He was tossed on a pad in the center.
"What ?! What are you doing!?" The ceiling of the shrine maiden collapsed suddenly, and a heavy machine appeared to fall down from the ceiling.
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The pirates who weren't digging found kashak and kusuro and tried to capture them. Kashak tried to offer herself to them in exchange for letting kusuro go. They cruelly declined the offer and moved to attack Kusuro. Kashak quickly jumped out of bed and picked up a dagger and pressed it against the other pirates neck.
"If you hurt that child, he will die!" Kashak said but the machine didn't stop.
Soon after blood dripped down from Arga's neck. "Did you not understand what I meant when I said stop doing this!"
"Chaika, Don't worry about me, it's going to hurt, but I can be resuscitated. We need that wau!" Kashak having played her only card put down the knife and surrendered when suddenly,
Oooaaaaaaaaaa!
It was like a mighty lion's roar, a dense mass of anger accompanied by a tremor. The sounds of the heavy machines that were digging faded away instantly.
"What my sensors are all malfunctioning! What's wrong?"
"We're looking into it ... ... No, wait, stop aaaah!"
Suddenly the other side of the line went silent a few moments passed and he got a message from another pirate
"All-machine alert! Heavy machines back to the heavy machinery storage!"
"What's going on!?"
"There's something coming from the hole we dug!"
Zoo! .....Zoo! ........... Zoo.......
An odd sound gradually approached the surface.
"............"
The commanding pirate silently stared the hole. His whole body was drenched with sweat, and so were the other Space pirates but they weren't afraid of something invisible. Their instincts recognized the familiar sound, it was the thing that they experienced on a daily basis. The sound of death approaching. Zuu Wu Nuun! .....Zuu Wu Nuun!.... Zuu Wu Nuun! And it appeared from the darkness as a giant humanoid machine.
"Oooo Ooh Oo Oo Oo Oo Oh!" The humanoid raised its head and roared as if to show its existence and power. It was the incarnation of destruction, the descent of a God of death."
"... .... Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot!"
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"That odor ...... What's this bad smell?" Seina, who is in the cockpit of the huge humanoid, muttered.
Seina put a small amount of force on the spherical controller. The humanoid rushed over to the nearest drilling machine and snapped it in half, the one behind it also split.
"Why! What is such a thing doing here !?" The captain of the enemy pirates shouted.
"... Oh, yes, why is this such a thing here?" Seina who heard them agreed looking at the expressionless girl in the cockpit who stood looking pale like a ghost.
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Several minutes ago:
It was definitely a transfer gate that the villagers had put him on as a "sacrifice", but the problem was where was he transferred to.
He felt like something was biometricly scanning him.
Perhaps it was some kind of biometric authentication.
It was reasonable to think that the thing which they thought to be a religious idol, was more then just a statue.
"Acha, are you OK? ...... Hey, Acha? Acha !?"Strings of light began to dance around Acha and scan her.
"What? a Time Freeze!?" Acha was wrapped in a field and frozen in time.
And, suddenly the light began to swing around. It tickled him─ ─ ─
"A Royal Tree !? " The feeling was definitely similar to that of royal tree. The nerve lights shining on Seina's suit were emerging from the wall of the cockpit.
"Good, ZINV."
"Who is that?"
A human voice suddenly came in the cockpit. It spoke Japanese. However, he could not find a figure to go with the voice
"Oh my ... Do you understand me?" It was a slightly flat way of talking without intonation, but it was clearly Japanese.
"Who are you? Where are you?" Seina responded in Japanese. The voice made him feel nostalgic.
"I'm within ZINV"
A sphere on the floor in the front glowed, and a girl came up from there.
"Are you ... ... D?"
The last words he said he said unconsciously. There was no conscious part of Seina that would even know to say those words. Half of her bright young face was hidden by her hair. her skin was pure white almost transparent, she was pretty girl who looked almost like a doll.
"I was sleeping alone here.... I don't have my personal data with me."
"Personal data? Are you an ai."
"Yes."
"Well, What exactly is up with this ZINV thing .... actually, What happened to Acha? Tell me that first."Acha remained frozen in time.
"That child is frozen because she was causing noise while ZINV was trying to link with you. I'll cancel the field around her when it's done." The girl let out a little sigh
"What's wrong with you?"
"I'm tired from talking, it's been a long time since we last talked."
"...... Oh, yeah, that's right."
It was a bit unexpected, as this was uncommon even for advanced personal data, but her Astral had clearly returned and he could clearly make out her personality. Seina felt a certain familiarity spring up, and they smiled at each other.
"... ... Right?"
The monitor suddenly started, and the state of the villagers was displayed. Seina had completely forgotten about it, but they were in the midst of being attacked by Space pirates.
"Sorry. I was glad to see you for the first time in such a long time. "
The emotion felt between them was palatable. and if nothing had been going on it would have been likely that Seina and the girl would've continued talking to each other happily for quite a while. Seina could feel this but he knew he had to act.
"I have to save everyone."
"Well then ZINV wants to go with you. "
The body of Acha emerged and came down to the girl. The girl held her. Of course not physically, but the image of her did.
"What are you called in this era? "
"Seina Yamada and you?"
"You've called me by my name already..."
"What?"
"It was unconsciously. My name is D."
"D, nice to meet you D."
"Yes. Now let's start ZINV."
The internal structure deformed and a maneuvering system was built around Seina.
"Put you hands on the control ball."
He put both hands on the spheres immediately as D instructed.
Because it closely resembled the system which the Kamidake also used, he immediately understood.
"Oh!?"
A basic control method was instantly installed into his brain.
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---translator commentary---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Jimmu
ZINV or Jinbu and HIMC or HIMIKO are named after historical japanise figures who are seen as demigods.
The first Emperor Jimmu and the great Shamanistic Magician Queen Himiko.
Both are supernatural figures in Japanise history, Kajishima loves him some occultism lore.
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Suzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzunen. The Idol began to vibrate and the villagers raised a shout of delight. "Ohhhhhhhhhh, The God has resurrected! Now, everyone, Get ready to evacuate!"
The idol stood up breaking the rock around him effortlessly.
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"Okay, what ... ... is this smell!" Seina suddenly frowned. It wasn't coming from inside the cockpit, but from the outside of the dome. It was different from am odor. But Seina couldn't find an appropriate word other than smell to express it.
"It's human malice. The pirates wear it on themselves. But be careful. Don't be swallowed by it."
"Malice ... ... ?"
"... ... Big brother... .... brother! brother! Help Kashaku! Help me! Help me! Help me! Please help!" At that time, Seina's consciousness heard Kusuro's screams ... ... No, he felt it and the unbearable odor accompanying it. It made Seina 's blood boil.
"Kusuro!" Seina cried out. ZINV was suddenly outside the dome. behind him was a tunnel over 50 meters long.
"That smell ... ... Where did it go?"
"... ... over there!" ZINV thrusts his right hand into the rock wall where it smelt bad and pulled it out...
"What's going on!?" The pirates heavy machinery was one third the size of ZINV. It was like a basketball held by an adult.
ZINV pulled off the machines legs like it was an insect and then finally crushed its torso with both hands.
"Ahh! Stop it! You're squishing me... ... ... " the microphone function of the machine was destroyed
"No Stop!" D shouted, Seina stopped ZINV's hand.
"... ... What was I... huh !?" The unpleasant smell hadn't disappeared, but he noticed what he was doing.
A heavy machine came jumping at ZINV with it's legs causing supersonic vibrations. It had the power to easily crush rocks, but the exterior of ZINV wasn't rock.
"It seems that the armor has deteriorated considerably outside" However, D had on a slight frown.
ZINV knocked itself back against the rock wall rubbing the machine between itself and the wall.
The heavy machine tried to escape by hanging on the wall and a flash came from ZINVs hand. The heavy machinery was cleanly cut into six pieces and fell to the ground. The unpleasant smell disappeared, which means the heavy machine pilot was dead.
"Ah!" Seina, who noticed it, cried out.
"For the time being, those who were hunting the villagers have all been eliminated" D said.
"What? But I just started a moment ago?" He had just killed quite a few people. Although he unexpectedly had no discomforting feelings about it just relief that the disgusting smell had disappeared.
"Seina, It's dangerous for to let yourself get carried away while being influenced by ZINV. Everything's alright now but we need to be more careful about getting attacked. Our repair functions aren't working. It seems that a billion years really took a toll on things. "
"... ... What's that now?" Seina asked to confirm again because he couldn't believe that statement. "More enemies seem to be on their way." But D ignored Seina's question with a calm voice.
"……roger that!"
The threat hadn't been eliminated yet. Seina cleared his head and headed for the enemy approaching them.
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At the same time that the statue started to move, the Mikagami suddenly began to vigorously emit nerve lights.
"What's wrong Mikagami?"
"On that planet, Someone's there! Oh my!" Mikagami's voice was embarrassed, but full of delight.
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Aboard the Hoystoke the Captains was examining the feed of ZINV and heavy machinery fighting. "Is that one of those humanoid weapons the pirates have?"
"We're getting an emergency contact from a short distance. They want to talk to the captain."
"Who could even be calling us...?" The secretary locked the entrance and the captain immediately prepared himself to receive communication.
"Who are you?"
"Because This is an emergency, I will only be discussing the matter at hand."
"Ah!?" The captain looked at Seto with eyes open wide in horror as she came on the screen. However, he was a soldier so he straightened up and concentrated immediately on Seto's story.
" The GP Army and the flagship "Seniwa" are on their way. What happened to Seina Yamada?"
"... .... It seems that Tarrant was chasing him but he hasn't been seen yet ... ..." The captain forwarded the previous live image.
"This thing is battling the units that were pursuing Mr.Yamada. I know nothing else, only where the Hoystoke is."
"If possible we recommend you protect Seina Yamada , if that's impossible, we recommend you escape urgently!"
"We'll do our best"
"Thank you" Seto's communication dropped and the captain looked at his secretary.
"What do you think?"
"Mr. Kara Yoichi must want to cut off the influence of Taima-sama and Nakita-sama, and there's a high possibility that Seina Yamada is piloting that thing."
"Then, the value of making the shipment has evaporated." It was now known to Jurai, the plans to build a new ship with the Daedalus's data was in trouble.
"Prepare for withdrawal, call those outside back immediately."
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"That's ... ... one of Renza's Giant humanoid weapons! What is such a thing doing here?"
Tarrant's headquarter's command center was in a state of panic.
"I don't understand. All those who entered the cave have been wiped out, what's going on ...... " "What about Seina Yamada ?"
"It's unknown what happened to him! We need reinforcements!"
"I understand, stall for as long as possible!" Tarrant cut off communications.
"Arrange for reinforcements quickly, hurry!"
"Postpone Reinforcements! Give priority to The Kamidake's transportation instead." Tarrant interrupted the director's aide.
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"How is it going?" Tarrant contacted the engineering department. "We're currently transferring the necessary items such as our research materials."
"What do you think of that thing?"
"There's little information to judge it on from the situation ... .... But there's no doubt that it's a Renzan humanoid weapon. "
"Well that's obvious. Hurry up and prepare for the transfer!" Tarrant was dissatisfied with the small talk he was hearing.
"Doctor Clay, Have you seen this?"
"It resembles the humanoid weapon that the pirates use, but it's a completely different thing."
"Why do you say that?"
"There's considerable age deterioration on the armor. Although it's impossible to specify a detailed age, it has to be millions to hundreds of millions years old. It's just speculation, but it may be one of the things that founded the humanoid weapons of Renza, perhaps a remnant of this place being a heritage site of the prehistoric civilization. Moreover, there's a high possibility that Seina Yamada is on board."
"Why? Why do you sat that?"
"It's fighting in the GP Combat style."
"... ... Huh! Can you do something about this?"
"If the battle ship's main guns hit this spot directly, it may do something... or not. Either way it looks like there's no time to know for sure." The base swayed greatly as Clay spoke.
"What! What's that!?"
"We're checking on it! Wait a moment!"
On the security camera's was ZINV. It had finished battling with the heavy machinery and began to enter the base.
"We have About ten minutes before that thing gets in here!"
"Shoot! Shoot! " Heavy machinerys were sent at ZINV but it had no effect on it's armor. ZINV easily crushed it. ZINV was too strong. the armor of the heavy machinerys was like a soap bubbles to it.
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"ZINV, calm down please." Occasionally, D chimed in, but the smell of the opponents offended ZINV, Seina's fighting instinct seemed to be putting it into a frenzy. Especially, the smell he sensed coming from inside.
(There's no doubt that Tarrant is in there) Seina had felt that malice was many times. It was the first time he sensed it in the form of a smell, but it's was Tarrants. Even though the enemies in front of him had a smell it wasn't as intense as Tarrant's.
"Seina, people in the village!" Reflected on the monitor was the villagers who were worshiping ZINV. He noticed Kusuro.
"So he came out ok ... that's good." That lightened his heavy heart.
"Okay!.... D, can you break into an enemy base computer?"
"The basic system is the same as what I'm used to, so probably."
"Okay!"ZINV soared high into the sky in one leap. The next moment after viewing the enemy base, ZINV was inside the base of it.
"D, find the Position of the Kamidake and Fuku!"
"Roger that!... Oh No! I had to stop accessing it" D said oddly happily.
"What, what's wrong?"
"I was stopped by Ms. Mitsuki."
"Ms.Mitsuki, what are you saying!"
"Seina Yamada!" Tarrant was reflected on the monitor ......
"Kirche!!"
Tarrant had Kirche tied up in front of him.
"I know that you're in there. Kirche and the terminal body of Kamidake are in my possession. "
"D!"
"I can't break the Access lock!" D said, Seina clenched his teeth.
"Come out of there. If you don't I'll add Kirche and the terminal to my body count. If you surrender I'll keep them alive, they won't be free but at least their lives will be saved. "
"Owaaaaaaaaaaaah" ZINV moaned.
"That won't work Seina! I don't care what happens to me ... ... But you care what happens to her! " Tarrant grabbed Kirche roughly.
"Stop it!"
"... ... Then hurry up!" Tarrant smiled as if he had won.
"............" Senia's advantage was gone, He either had to give himself up or kill Tarrant at the expense of his colleagues. (At worst, even if I die here, Tenchi will get my message on Earth and Washu is over there.)
"... .... D, can you handle things while I'm gone?" Tarrant knew Seina was inside of ZINV but he didn't know about D.
"Okay, leave it to me."Seina didn't know if she understood his intentions but D's response somehow assured him. The front of the cockpit opened, Acha disappeared and so did D.
Seina headed out. There was a small handle to open the cockpit. It was a physical escape hatch that could be used in case of an emergency, he used it and was lowered to the floor below by wires.
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"Hey, did you hear? Seina Yamada was caught!" On the monitor of the Hoystoke was a guard in Tarrant's base.
"Whoa, are you serious?"
"You can't make this kind of thing up."
A voice interrupted his communication.
"What's that !?"
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This chapter was way too long with way to many over stretched scenes, so I cut out about half of it...
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"What, is that !?" The cave in the rock which was around Seina was an obvious artifact. It was a strange shaped passage like one would find in a spacecraft. There was a bulkhead that remained half open.
"That's it!" past that was a huge domed space.
"This is ... ..."
"Here it is. The sacred place where the gods are worshiped ... and where we keep the figure of our god."
"Is this ……?" ?Seina looked up at the gigantic statue with a stupefied expression.
It is was half buried in rocks, but it was about 15 meters in height. well the visible half was, but if the whole body was probably over 30 meters (33 yards).
"... .... a long time ago in the distant past, Like a long time ago, like my grandpa's grandpa and his grandpa's grandpa's long time ago .... Evil came to this village, Thanks to the Idol and the strength of the brave hero the evil was annihilated ... ... its strength was like that of a demon's. "
"Huh ......" Looking at the rock covered statue it was pretty clear that wasn't true it was almost as if the rock had formed around it. There were clear signs of it being dug of the rock out by hand.
Seina kept silent and listened to the elder while looking at Acha who was eagerly praying.
"Mr. Elder!"
"Oh! How is the evacuation situation?"
"Everyone is headed here but the machines are approaching quickly ..."
Gayeeeeeeeein! At that time, a loud scraping sound came out from nearby.
"No! They're cutting through the outer shell! Skip the graces, let's cut to the ceremony."
"Ceremony?"
"This village is once again plagued by evil and a brave hero has arrived, our God has revived .. just as it was foretold." The elder looked up at the statue.
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The toxins that were being produced by the bacteria in Kashak had been neutralized but not the bacteria itself and she was quite weak and unable to evacuate, Kusuro stayed with her instead of evacuating.
"I'm no longer the shrine maiden, you must escape.Leave me."
"No! I won't! Even if you're not a shrine maiden, You're Acha's mother!"
"Kusuro ... ...."
"Sakaka, you have fast legs, please hurry and find help I'll protect Kashak in here!" The other adults and elders in the village should have ordered people to help Kashak, but they forgot.
"Yes, I'm on it!" Sakaka rushed and quickly looked around for something to use as a weapon. He ended up settling on a nearby ceremonial dagger.
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"Raise the output!" Arga yelled.
"It's pointless!I think were drilling through a spaceship, it has battleship level armor!"
"Shit, so should we just try going through the tunnels directly?"
"I'm afraid of doing that who knows what will happen due to his luck! What if we use chemical weapons?"
"Oh! But the golden Wau is here with him? I don't want to burn her up too."
"There's always sleeping gas."
"That won't work... the GP bioenhancement probably makes it ineffective... and I hear he has a special suit." They wanted to confront him inside of one of the machines. It was a suicidal act for them to go out on foot while the rest of the machines were operating.
"What should we do?"
"From the reaction of the vibration sensors, the inside seems to be half filled with rocks."
"In other words,there's a large hole open somewhere? Do you know where it's open?"
"I can't tell from here but it seems that the outer wall seems to be somewhat degraded, it's possible to detect to a certain extent with the vibration sensor where it brittle."
"Let's dig there then."
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Sakaka came running into the passageways.
"Sakaka! What happened to Ms. Kashak?"
"Mikaka and Kusuro were never evacuated!"
"Didn't anyone go to help her?" The elders were alarmed
"No. No one ever gave the instruction to... ...."
The outer shell sounded like a construction site under construction as the machines tried to get through it.
"We'll send people immediately."
"No, elder, it's useless! The entrance in the center is also buried!"
"Is there no other route to go to Acha's mother !?" Seina asked. Seina, who was bioenhanced, was the best candidate to rescue her.
"Going outside is impossible in this state .... And I won't go to make our brave hero go."
"Mother-sama ...... Kusuro ......" Acha was about to start crying.
At such times, Seina hated his ability to detect danger because it made him understand that going outside was reckless. He had to quit thinking about her think about protecting Acha instead.
"Staying here is dangerous, is there no way to escape to the outside?"
"The end of this tunnel comes out outside the enemy base, if we go then there will be nothing keeping them from attacking us."
"Now is our time to ask our God for help! The brave hero and the shrine maiden is here! We'll surely be saved."
Everyone kneeling and praying to the Idol. Seina was stuck. Kirche was missing. Fuku was caught. Communications to the Earth were delayed for another 12 hours.
(No Stop it...)
Gagyaaaaaann!
The instinct to defend was boiling in Seina.
......If you know the way to the base...
.....So if you can unlock Fuku's restraint using nanomachines....
....the enemy is targeting us.
"There's no time left we have to sacrifice the Hero and the Maiden!"
"eh?" Seina had been caught up in his own head, but was being lifted off the ground. He was tossed on a pad in the center.
"What ?! What are you doing!?" The ceiling of the shrine maiden collapsed suddenly, and a heavy machine appeared to fall down from the ceiling.
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The pirates who weren't digging found kashak and kusuro and tried to capture them. Kashak tried to offer herself to them in exchange for letting kusuro go. They cruelly declined the offer and moved to attack Kusuro. Kashak quickly jumped out of bed and picked up a dagger and pressed it against the other pirates neck.
"If you hurt that child, he will die!" Kashak said but the machine didn't stop.
Soon after blood dripped down from Arga's neck. "Did you not understand what I meant when I said stop doing this!"
"Chaika, Don't worry about me, it's going to hurt, but I can be resuscitated. We need that wau!" Kashak having played her only card put down the knife and surrendered when suddenly,
Oooaaaaaaaaaa!
It was like a mighty lion's roar, a dense mass of anger accompanied by a tremor. The sounds of the heavy machines that were digging faded away instantly.
"What my sensors are all malfunctioning! What's wrong?"
"We're looking into it ... ... No, wait, stop aaaah!"
Suddenly the other side of the line went silent a few moments passed and he got a message from another pirate
"All-machine alert! Heavy machines back to the heavy machinery storage!"
"What's going on!?"
"There's something coming from the hole we dug!"
Zoo! .....Zoo! ........... Zoo.......
An odd sound gradually approached the surface.
"............"
The commanding pirate silently stared the hole. His whole body was drenched with sweat, and so were the other Space pirates but they weren't afraid of something invisible. Their instincts recognized the familiar sound, it was the thing that they experienced on a daily basis. The sound of death approaching. Zuu Wu Nuun! .....Zuu Wu Nuun!.... Zuu Wu Nuun! And it appeared from the darkness as a giant humanoid machine.
"Oooo Ooh Oo Oo Oo Oo Oh!" The humanoid raised its head and roared as if to show its existence and power. It was the incarnation of destruction, the descent of a God of death."
"... .... Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot!"
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"That odor ...... What's this bad smell?" Seina, who is in the cockpit of the huge humanoid, muttered.
Seina put a small amount of force on the spherical controller. The humanoid rushed over to the nearest drilling machine and snapped it in half, the one behind it also split.
"Why! What is such a thing doing here !?" The captain of the enemy pirates shouted.
"... Oh, yes, why is this such a thing here?" Seina who heard them agreed looking at the expressionless girl in the cockpit who stood looking pale like a ghost.
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Several minutes ago:
It was definitely a transfer gate that the villagers had put him on as a "sacrifice", but the problem was where was he transferred to.
He felt like something was biometricly scanning him.
Perhaps it was some kind of biometric authentication.
It was reasonable to think that the thing which they thought to be a religious idol, was more then just a statue.
"Acha, are you OK? ...... Hey, Acha? Acha !?"Strings of light began to dance around Acha and scan her.
"What? a Time Freeze!?" Acha was wrapped in a field and frozen in time.
And, suddenly the light began to swing around. It tickled him─ ─ ─
"A Royal Tree !? " The feeling was definitely similar to that of royal tree. The nerve lights shining on Seina's suit were emerging from the wall of the cockpit.
"Good, ZINV."
"Who is that?"
A human voice suddenly came in the cockpit. It spoke Japanese. However, he could not find a figure to go with the voice
"Oh my ... Do you understand me?" It was a slightly flat way of talking without intonation, but it was clearly Japanese.
"Who are you? Where are you?" Seina responded in Japanese. The voice made him feel nostalgic.
"I'm within ZINV"
A sphere on the floor in the front glowed, and a girl came up from there.
"Are you ... ... D?"
The last words he said he said unconsciously. There was no conscious part of Seina that would even know to say those words. Half of her bright young face was hidden by her hair. her skin was pure white almost transparent, she was pretty girl who looked almost like a doll.
"I was sleeping alone here.... I don't have my personal data with me."
"Personal data? Are you an ai."
"Yes."
"Well, What exactly is up with this ZINV thing .... actually, What happened to Acha? Tell me that first."Acha remained frozen in time.
"That child is frozen because she was causing noise while ZINV was trying to link with you. I'll cancel the field around her when it's done." The girl let out a little sigh
"What's wrong with you?"
"I'm tired from talking, it's been a long time since we last talked."
"...... Oh, yeah, that's right."
It was a bit unexpected, as this was uncommon even for advanced personal data, but her Astral had clearly returned and he could clearly make out her personality. Seina felt a certain familiarity spring up, and they smiled at each other.
"... ... Right?"
The monitor suddenly started, and the state of the villagers was displayed. Seina had completely forgotten about it, but they were in the midst of being attacked by Space pirates.
"Sorry. I was glad to see you for the first time in such a long time. "
The emotion felt between them was palatable. and if nothing had been going on it would have been likely that Seina and the girl would've continued talking to each other happily for quite a while. Seina could feel this but he knew he had to act.
"I have to save everyone."
"Well then ZINV wants to go with you. "
The body of Acha emerged and came down to the girl. The girl held her. Of course not physically, but the image of her did.
"What are you called in this era? "
"Seina Yamada and you?"
"You've called me by my name already..."
"What?"
"It was unconsciously. My name is D."
"D, nice to meet you D."
"Yes. Now let's start ZINV."
The internal structure deformed and a maneuvering system was built around Seina.
"Put you hands on the control ball."
He put both hands on the spheres immediately as D instructed.
Because it closely resembled the system which the Kamidake also used, he immediately understood.
"Oh!?"
A basic control method was instantly installed into his brain.
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---translator commentary---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Jimmu
ZINV or Jinbu and HIMC or HIMIKO are named after historical japanise figures who are seen as demigods.
The first Emperor Jimmu and the great Shamanistic Magician Queen Himiko.
Both are supernatural figures in Japanise history, Kajishima loves him some occultism lore.
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Suzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzunen. The Idol began to vibrate and the villagers raised a shout of delight. "Ohhhhhhhhhh, The God has resurrected! Now, everyone, Get ready to evacuate!"
The idol stood up breaking the rock around him effortlessly.
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"Okay, what ... ... is this smell!" Seina suddenly frowned. It wasn't coming from inside the cockpit, but from the outside of the dome. It was different from am odor. But Seina couldn't find an appropriate word other than smell to express it.
"It's human malice. The pirates wear it on themselves. But be careful. Don't be swallowed by it."
"Malice ... ... ?"
"... ... Big brother... .... brother! brother! Help Kashaku! Help me! Help me! Help me! Please help!" At that time, Seina's consciousness heard Kusuro's screams ... ... No, he felt it and the unbearable odor accompanying it. It made Seina 's blood boil.
"Kusuro!" Seina cried out. ZINV was suddenly outside the dome. behind him was a tunnel over 50 meters long.
"That smell ... ... Where did it go?"
"... ... over there!" ZINV thrusts his right hand into the rock wall where it smelt bad and pulled it out...
"What's going on!?" The pirates heavy machinery was one third the size of ZINV. It was like a basketball held by an adult.
ZINV pulled off the machines legs like it was an insect and then finally crushed its torso with both hands.
"Ahh! Stop it! You're squishing me... ... ... " the microphone function of the machine was destroyed
"No Stop!" D shouted, Seina stopped ZINV's hand.
"... ... What was I... huh !?" The unpleasant smell hadn't disappeared, but he noticed what he was doing.
A heavy machine came jumping at ZINV with it's legs causing supersonic vibrations. It had the power to easily crush rocks, but the exterior of ZINV wasn't rock.
"It seems that the armor has deteriorated considerably outside" However, D had on a slight frown.
ZINV knocked itself back against the rock wall rubbing the machine between itself and the wall.
The heavy machine tried to escape by hanging on the wall and a flash came from ZINVs hand. The heavy machinery was cleanly cut into six pieces and fell to the ground. The unpleasant smell disappeared, which means the heavy machine pilot was dead.
"Ah!" Seina, who noticed it, cried out.
"For the time being, those who were hunting the villagers have all been eliminated" D said.
"What? But I just started a moment ago?" He had just killed quite a few people. Although he unexpectedly had no discomforting feelings about it just relief that the disgusting smell had disappeared.
"Seina, It's dangerous for to let yourself get carried away while being influenced by ZINV. Everything's alright now but we need to be more careful about getting attacked. Our repair functions aren't working. It seems that a billion years really took a toll on things. "
"... ... What's that now?" Seina asked to confirm again because he couldn't believe that statement. "More enemies seem to be on their way." But D ignored Seina's question with a calm voice.
"……roger that!"
The threat hadn't been eliminated yet. Seina cleared his head and headed for the enemy approaching them.
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At the same time that the statue started to move, the Mikagami suddenly began to vigorously emit nerve lights.
"What's wrong Mikagami?"
"On that planet, Someone's there! Oh my!" Mikagami's voice was embarrassed, but full of delight.
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Aboard the Hoystoke the Captains was examining the feed of ZINV and heavy machinery fighting. "Is that one of those humanoid weapons the pirates have?"
"We're getting an emergency contact from a short distance. They want to talk to the captain."
"Who could even be calling us...?" The secretary locked the entrance and the captain immediately prepared himself to receive communication.
"Who are you?"
"Because This is an emergency, I will only be discussing the matter at hand."
"Ah!?" The captain looked at Seto with eyes open wide in horror as she came on the screen. However, he was a soldier so he straightened up and concentrated immediately on Seto's story.
" The GP Army and the flagship "Seniwa" are on their way. What happened to Seina Yamada?"
"... .... It seems that Tarrant was chasing him but he hasn't been seen yet ... ..." The captain forwarded the previous live image.
"This thing is battling the units that were pursuing Mr.Yamada. I know nothing else, only where the Hoystoke is."
"If possible we recommend you protect Seina Yamada , if that's impossible, we recommend you escape urgently!"
"We'll do our best"
"Thank you" Seto's communication dropped and the captain looked at his secretary.
"What do you think?"
"Mr. Kara Yoichi must want to cut off the influence of Taima-sama and Nakita-sama, and there's a high possibility that Seina Yamada is piloting that thing."
"Then, the value of making the shipment has evaporated." It was now known to Jurai, the plans to build a new ship with the Daedalus's data was in trouble.
"Prepare for withdrawal, call those outside back immediately."
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"That's ... ... one of Renza's Giant humanoid weapons! What is such a thing doing here?"
Tarrant's headquarter's command center was in a state of panic.
"I don't understand. All those who entered the cave have been wiped out, what's going on ...... " "What about Seina Yamada ?"
"It's unknown what happened to him! We need reinforcements!"
"I understand, stall for as long as possible!" Tarrant cut off communications.
"Arrange for reinforcements quickly, hurry!"
"Postpone Reinforcements! Give priority to The Kamidake's transportation instead." Tarrant interrupted the director's aide.
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"How is it going?" Tarrant contacted the engineering department. "We're currently transferring the necessary items such as our research materials."
"What do you think of that thing?"
"There's little information to judge it on from the situation ... .... But there's no doubt that it's a Renzan humanoid weapon. "
"Well that's obvious. Hurry up and prepare for the transfer!" Tarrant was dissatisfied with the small talk he was hearing.
"Doctor Clay, Have you seen this?"
"It resembles the humanoid weapon that the pirates use, but it's a completely different thing."
"Why do you say that?"
"There's considerable age deterioration on the armor. Although it's impossible to specify a detailed age, it has to be millions to hundreds of millions years old. It's just speculation, but it may be one of the things that founded the humanoid weapons of Renza, perhaps a remnant of this place being a heritage site of the prehistoric civilization. Moreover, there's a high possibility that Seina Yamada is on board."
"Why? Why do you sat that?"
"It's fighting in the GP Combat style."
"... ... Huh! Can you do something about this?"
"If the battle ship's main guns hit this spot directly, it may do something... or not. Either way it looks like there's no time to know for sure." The base swayed greatly as Clay spoke.
"What! What's that!?"
"We're checking on it! Wait a moment!"
On the security camera's was ZINV. It had finished battling with the heavy machinery and began to enter the base.
"We have About ten minutes before that thing gets in here!"
"Shoot! Shoot! " Heavy machinerys were sent at ZINV but it had no effect on it's armor. ZINV easily crushed it. ZINV was too strong. the armor of the heavy machinerys was like a soap bubbles to it.
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"ZINV, calm down please." Occasionally, D chimed in, but the smell of the opponents offended ZINV, Seina's fighting instinct seemed to be putting it into a frenzy. Especially, the smell he sensed coming from inside.
(There's no doubt that Tarrant is in there) Seina had felt that malice was many times. It was the first time he sensed it in the form of a smell, but it's was Tarrants. Even though the enemies in front of him had a smell it wasn't as intense as Tarrant's.
"Seina, people in the village!" Reflected on the monitor was the villagers who were worshiping ZINV. He noticed Kusuro.
"So he came out ok ... that's good." That lightened his heavy heart.
"Okay!.... D, can you break into an enemy base computer?"
"The basic system is the same as what I'm used to, so probably."
"Okay!"ZINV soared high into the sky in one leap. The next moment after viewing the enemy base, ZINV was inside the base of it.
"D, find the Position of the Kamidake and Fuku!"
"Roger that!... Oh No! I had to stop accessing it" D said oddly happily.
"What, what's wrong?"
"I was stopped by Ms. Mitsuki."
"Ms.Mitsuki, what are you saying!"
"Seina Yamada!" Tarrant was reflected on the monitor ......
"Kirche!!"
Tarrant had Kirche tied up in front of him.
"I know that you're in there. Kirche and the terminal body of Kamidake are in my possession. "
"D!"
"I can't break the Access lock!" D said, Seina clenched his teeth.
"Come out of there. If you don't I'll add Kirche and the terminal to my body count. If you surrender I'll keep them alive, they won't be free but at least their lives will be saved. "
"Owaaaaaaaaaaaah" ZINV moaned.
"That won't work Seina! I don't care what happens to me ... ... But you care what happens to her! " Tarrant grabbed Kirche roughly.
"Stop it!"
"... ... Then hurry up!" Tarrant smiled as if he had won.
"............" Senia's advantage was gone, He either had to give himself up or kill Tarrant at the expense of his colleagues. (At worst, even if I die here, Tenchi will get my message on Earth and Washu is over there.)
"... .... D, can you handle things while I'm gone?" Tarrant knew Seina was inside of ZINV but he didn't know about D.
"Okay, leave it to me."Seina didn't know if she understood his intentions but D's response somehow assured him. The front of the cockpit opened, Acha disappeared and so did D.
Seina headed out. There was a small handle to open the cockpit. It was a physical escape hatch that could be used in case of an emergency, he used it and was lowered to the floor below by wires.
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"Hey, did you hear? Seina Yamada was caught!" On the monitor of the Hoystoke was a guard in Tarrant's base.
"Whoa, are you serious?"
"You can't make this kind of thing up."
A voice interrupted his communication.
"What's that !?"
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