Lieutenant Colonel Talion of HER led NEU's Ferrari captain to the vicinity of Piazza Dukes Aosta, west of the city of Turin, where he found that his troops had not attacked at the agreed time.

"These rice buckets were actually dragged by the defenders of NEU!" Talion thought to himself.

The Ferrari captain provoked: "What's the matter? Looking for your troops? Wouldn't you be able to do without them! ”

He controls the special aircraft "Leonidas" with a high-speed machine gun to shoot Talion, who has been dodging on the ground, in an attempt to force him out of the alley. But Talion knew that NEU's humanoid weapon, the "Companion Cavalry", was not good at street fighting, and no matter how provocative and offensive Ferrari was, it would not come out.

Ferrari was sweating in the corners of his forehead. He had been held back by Talion for a long time, but then he was impatient and wanted to leave, but when he turned around, he was attacked, so he fell on the railroad. Now Ferrari is afraid that Talion will repeat his old tricks, and will not dare to expose his back again.

"Damn, it's just going to go on forever!"

Ferrari had the body stop on open ground in the Ducal Square of Aosta.

"Hey! A lion with albinism! If you're not a coward, come out and duel with me! ”

The albinistic lion was talking about Talion's special machine, the "White Lion", and Talion knew that this was the enemy's tactic, but he was still happy to accept it, so he took the initiative to show up.

"Hahaha, yes, yes, I thought that you NEU soldiers were all soft eggs, and they would only run away with one shot. You dare to challenge me, there is some backbone. ”

Ferrari said dismissively: "You arrogant person, would a normal person decorate the body with a lion's head?" I'm a Ferrari captain in the new European Union. Report your name, I will not kill nameless ghosts! ”

"My name is Talion, Lieutenant Colonel of the Holy Roman Empire of the Universe, Captain of the Hydra."

"Oh... I thought that the only good driver for HER was the Red Knight, but now I see that you are not bad. ”

At the mention of the Red Knight, Talion was a little displeased. He considered himself a first-class humanoid weapon pilot, but his reputation was completely overshadowed by the Red Knight.

But Tarion is not someone who can be easily provoked, he sneered and then sarcastically said, "Where, it's your NEU's first trump card, Billy. Where's Bard? I don't think if he fought me, he wouldn't be as embarrassed as you are. ”

Hear Billy. Bard's name, Ferrari's expression became slightly distorted. From the beginning of his career as a fighter pilot, he has always been inferior to Billy. Bud. After they became the ace drivers of the humanoid weapon together, Billy still overpowered him in terms of reputation, treatment and rank, much to Ferrari's displeasure.

“… Whether he's powerful or I'm powerful, let you see it! ”

Ferrari pulls out a special thermal spear placed on the back of the airframe and tries to fight Talion in hand-to-hand combat. Talion laughed, took out his thermal tomahawk, and slew it first.

Although Tarion's thermal battle axe is short-handled, the axe blade is not smaller than that of the laser long-handled axe of machine two, and the slashing force is very large. Ferrari did not dare to catch it with the shaft of the spear, and barely caught an axe with the head of the thermal spearhead. He stepped back, trying to take advantage of the length of his spear, but Tarion was in hot pursuit, keeping a distance in his favor.

After several collisions of weapons, the thermal spear was almost cut off, and Ferrari shouted, "It's time!" Now the enemy is not holding a rifle, kill him in one go! ”

Two "partner cavalrymen" and a number of tanks suddenly appeared around, and Ferrari's previous self-registration and other things were just to buy them time to arrive.

"Despicable!" Tarion scolded.

"There's no despicable way to deal with your HER!"

The tanks and the "fellow cavalry" opened fire together, before being hit. Talion grabbed the leg of Leonidas, who was trying to take off, and escaped with the help of the jet power of the Ferrari body.

Ferrari was frightened by Talion's stress reaction, and if he had been ambushed, he would never have escaped.

"You... It's really tough!! ”

Ferrari aimed his spear at the "White Lion" and tried to stab Talion down, but the "White Lion" got his brute force out of nowhere and threw "Leonidas" onto the building next to the square.

After Talion landed, he was set on fire by NEU's troops. Fortunately, he had already reached a place a step away from the alley, and avoided disappearing without much injury.

But Ferrari wasn't so lucky. After Talion dodged, all the attacks hit the building he was on. The building collapsed in an instant, burying the Ferrari and his body.

"Damn... What are you eating, so many people can't hit!! ”

The Ferrari takes control of the mech and rises from the rubble and goes after Talion alone. But he didn't expect Talion to go far, and at the next intersection, Ferrari saw a silver-white battle axe suddenly swing out of his blind spot, splitting his body in two.

"To be honest, you're not bad, I had a great time."

Tarion raised his tomahawk and slashed down at the cockpit of "Leonidas"...

…

Charlotte grabbed William and flew in the direction of the Osiris, contacting Captain Shepard.

"Is it the Osiris? I captured one of HER's commanders, but now there's a squad of HER humanoid weapons going around Mount Supelga behind you to surprise the palace, do you hear that?! ”

To her surprise, Captain Shepard did not show the slightest panic when he heard the news, but calmly said to her, "Well done, I'll send someone to receive the prisoner when I put it on deck." As for the surprise attack of the enemy, I have already arranged it. ”

Charlotte asked puzzledly: "It has already been arranged?" Did you know that the enemy would surprise you? ”

"In the universe, HER surprise attacks are commonplace." Shepard said.

…

At this time, Anton was debugging the sniper rifle sighting device in the cockpit of the "Hundred Steps", and he ambushed to a hidden point on the hill of Supergar on the order of Shepard, waiting for the enemy to appear.

For a long time, HER has been fond of attacking colonial satellites by surprise. They would pack the frontal attacking forces as the main force, and then have a few eagles hide behind the asteroids and attack from other directions. Thanks to HER, many colonial satellites are now covered with float mines. These mines will voluntarily move out of the way when signaled by friendly forces, but they still cause a lot of trouble for the colonized satellite's inhabitants to communicate with the outside world.

In the same way that colonial satellites would deal with surprise attacks, the Osiris engineering team had already planted mines in the enemy's path. The power of these mines cannot destroy enemy aircraft, but they can blow up the enemy and create a chance for Anton to snipe.

A few minutes later, scouts who were lying in ambush nearby reported to Anton that the enemy had appeared as expected. Anton threw away the rag and went into a sniper stance.