Step-by-step retreat operations.

The main combat power is divided into two parts, the ability to move and maneuver at the same time haode Knightmare is responsible for covering the retreat, the wounded and some Knightmare who need to be transported by armored vehicles will leave first, no matter who will be assigned to a mission.

Instructions were given through the connection communication, and Lelouch sent out the scouts while having Natsume follow behind.

He didn't tell the others what Natsume had done to him, so at that time, it was obvious that the other party was blocking the sight of the Black Knights and the people of the Japanese Liberation Front, and even if he brought it up now, it would only make things more troublesome.

After the retreat, Lelouch had already decided to use GEASS to settle the man who called himself Arthur.

This is the rear, Natsume raised the light weapon he had just issued to himself, and slowly retreated while observing the surroundings.

The sound of artillery bombardment in the distance became weaker and weaker, and the dragged Bunitania was fighting, of course they could take a dispersed pursuit, but Conelia knew very well that after dispersion, the battle would be greatly reduced, and it would create favorable conditions for the Black Knights, so they began to concentrate on breaking through and suppressing the covering corps left behind.

Natsume slowly followed the team, and Hinata, who had never shown his face, drove a truck parallel to Natsume.

"Yo!"

"Weishenme here? Don't you take part in the fight? ”

“weishenme？ Actually, my real identity is the Minister of Logistics. ”

The quasi-man stretched out his right hand from the driver's seat and waved

"And my black Knightmare isn't very suitable for this kind of melee, just use it to protect resources and stolen Sakurai."

It's casual.

Natsume swallowed the words into his stomach.

From here, you can see the scoundrel driven by Lelouch with another Knightmare, which is the Knightmare of Fujido Kagamishiro.

The Four Holy Swords stayed in the rear together, and they served as the main combat force of the covering force together with the Red Lotus Second Style, and the road to here was not very wide, which is why Lu Luxiu chose this place.

But ah.

Natsume moved to a nearby hill, and then there was a question from the quasi-person.

"What are you doing! Keep it low-key! ”

"I understand, it's just ......"

Ahead, there is a street less than 100 meters away from Ashford College, and although the odds are unlikely, there is a high probability that the academy will be affected if there is a battle there.

By the way, Natsume moved in the direction of Luluxiu, and Natsume planned to ask Lulu to modify the route of the change, after all, there was more than one way to leave this area, and besides, maybe there was a safer road.

Slid down the hill, and then Natsume suddenly sped up!

"Get out of the way!"

Without room to think, he slammed down the second-order pedal, and with the sudden acceleration, he threw the rogue mech in front of him on the right to the ground.

It's light.

No, it's a large-caliber energy cannon.

The beam of high-impact light tore through the air, obliterating the particles, and shot straight from behind with a roar like a beast.

A ravine was cut out of the concrete floor, all the buildings on the road were shot through, the mud and stone dissolved by the heat, and the beams of energy broke the momentary calm.

Roaring, destroying, sweeping across the battlefield with unrivaled momentum.

Everything in its tracks vanished, the would-be vehicles were completely penetrated, explosions rang out one after another, flames flickered, and skyrocketing fireworks whimpered.

Almost half of the vehicles were destroyed, four Knightmare were incapacitated, casualties were relatively small, but the speed of action and the time to retreat were dragged down.

Raising his head, from the concrete forest behind him, Knightmare retreated from the broken mech, led by five mechs, about eight mechs.

The Four Holy Swords and the Red Lotus Two Styles are all fine.

However, the right hand and right calf of the Bubu and the left half of the cab of the Red Lotus II were all destroyed and eaten, and they could only move with the help of other Knightmare.

It's the damage that that beam does.

"Sakurashi Energy High-Density Loading Gun, Odin's Gun - MAX."

"What's that? Is there such a weapon? ”

Faced with the quasi-person who suddenly connected with him, Natsume expressed his doubts while being surprised by his safety.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, Arthur, you have two more choices."

"Huh?"

"Run and run."

“…………”

Run away?

It's true that I don't know much about weapons that I haven't heard of at all, but if you run away here, the false name of 'hero' that you have constructed may disappear as a result.

I was given a position by a quasi-person to serve as the captain of the first team of the front-line team, so I think I can transfer some people.

"This is Arthur, please answer a team!"

"It's all gone."

The quasi-person points to the rear

"The shelling just now killed half of the members."

"What a joke."

Rising from the scoundrel, Natsume and Lelouch were only a meter away from the ravine created by the attack just now, and if they were one step slower, both him and Lelouxiu would turn into stars in the sky.

"Not at all!"

It was the cry of the members of the battle line.

"The attack just now! The so-called temporary supplies were destroyed, and the energy could not be filled! ”

"The pursuing force is also coming! Discover the witch and her guards! ”

"More than half of the communication facilities have been lost, and communication with the reconnaissance force has been lost!"

"The casualties caused by the explosion are being counted, and most of the affected people cannot move! Twelve people have been infected at the same time! Medication is needed! ”

"Hurry up and disperse! I can't follow the troops! ”

[Silence me all!] 】

Louder and more powerful than everyone else, Lelouch began to command the team.

[The logistics unit moves the wounded to vehicles that can move, gathers them as much as possible, and collects the medicine and hands it over to the person in charge. The combat unit reports the situation, abandoning the inactive Knightmare, who is in charge of the team of trucks and providing assistance while protecting. Then fire flares, even if they are seen, it doesn't matter, they have been exposed anyway, notify the expatriate scouts in the form of flares, let them fire flares everywhere, disrupt the enemy troops, and then take an S-shape movement to prevent controllable mines on the ground, there are still some left, and then go to Ashford College! 】

Unlike Natsume's thoughts, and contrary to Yuphemia's wishes, they plan to go to the academy again.

"Yes!"

Hearing such an answer, they all agreed with Lelouch's arrangement.

“ZERO！”

Natsume spoke.

"There may be an ambush inside the Academy, and if it is occupied, it will become an island and be surrounded. Besides, if the group of students had taken refuge en masse, we would be the turtles in the urn again without the hostages, and I think the best way to do this would be to continue the same route as before, back to the base. ”

"The enemy's pursuing force is moving faster than us, and will immediately close the distance, and at the same time, there are large forces that you don't know, and if you keep moving along the previous route, you will be sniped again, you can't even think of this? Do you want the enemy to stop attacking? ”

“……”

Faced with Leluxiu's words, Natsume was silent for a while.

Indeed, if you continue to advance, you will be attacked again, and if Natsume's beam speed just now hadn't been discovered in advance, even if you accelerated with all your might, you might not be able to avoid it completely.

That weapon is strong, powerful, that's a fact.

In that case, for the sake of Yuphemia's wishes, and for the pleasure of not being able to take place, Natsume spoke.

"I'll go and tell him to stop."

Because the communication is currently connected to the whole domain, Natsume's words made everyone else stop moving in an instant.

Cornelia's troops, Knightmare, also have nearly a hundred, and there are also that kind of weapons, plus the third knight Gino and his personal guard, there is no difference between going alone and looking for death.

However, Natsume added again

"I'll definitely stop him, you just need to evacuate with all your might."

"Really? The price of believing is total annihilation. ”

"Then believe it, thinking that it is impossible to annihilate the whole army."

"It's ...... to entrust everyone's lives to you, an outsider."

"Wouldn't it be nice to believe it once?"

With a playful smile, the quasi-man spoke.

Some of them shouted along with him.

They see Arthur as a hero, and there is only one thing a hero needs to do, and that is to work miracles.

Listening to the words of the soldiers on the battle line, Lelouch suddenly nodded in agreement.

This may be a good thing, because in this way, Arthur will definitely be killed, and he can use this to make a statement, the so-called death has no proof, and maybe he can also use it to drag down Hinata.

Then, you go ahead, after that, Lelouch informed the whole army of this matter.

As soon as he received the order, Natsume's weapon was ready to go, because no one knew when the next attack would come.

When passing by the Four Holy Swords and the Red Lotus Second Style, Fang Buddha could see the shocked expressions on their faces.

Let me save the young girl! Wrong, it's everyone.

Cornelia's forces are currently making their way through the dwellings in front of Summer, but many of them are ruins, and the sloping building on the left is just the right place to take refuge.

However, it was discovered.

The three Knightmare came head-on, each pulling out their blades against the enemy, intending to attack together and end Natsume directly.

It was the wrong decision to fight directly, so Natsume chose to flee, yes, to the side.

"Catch him! Don't let him move to the rear and destroy the 'Spear of Odin'! ”

Cornelia gave an order, and Gino on the side moved his wrist and said

"Why be so nervous, we have a big army here, why don't we want a cup of coffee? Her Royal Highness. ”

"You can also go to the rear, it will be enough to leave it to me here."

"Understood."

Gino began to reduce his speed and slowly pushed down the rear of his troops.

Natsume, who noticed this move, smacked his tongue and waved his right arm as he hid in the building.

The left hand had been attacked before, so it couldn't move flexibly, so Natsume could only rely on his right hand and his own flexible advantage, and the previous battle with Gino was already the limit of his left arm.

Circle around a stone pillar and whirl back as you lower your body to slash from below, then slash upwards.

The blade stabbed through the weak part of the armor of the left leg underground, and then with a strong swing, the opponent's right leg was directly cut off.

Lowering your body is to dodge the bullets while underneath the enemy, killing two birds with one stone, the only downside is ......

"It's a matter of moving."

The split-second attack tugged at Arthur's mech, allowing the other two to take advantage of it.

The slashes from both sides fell at the same time, and Natsume could only sit and wait for death.

Bang!

Exploded!

The bomb dropped at the same time as the previous maneuver exploded, and the storm swept through the area, sending all three Knightmare flying together.

Very good.

Stabilizing his body in the air, this time the lightweight body helped Natsume's one-handed knife with two slashes.

There was another explosion, and the two mechs on the Bunitania side fell to the ground, sparks and flashes of lightning staggered, and Zuihou was destroyed and exploded.

Go ahead!

With that in mind, Natsume ran to a higher floor.

The next moment was an attack, enemy shelling and strafing, bullets shattered the remaining glass of the building, missiles destroyed the foundations of the building, and the whole building shook.

Rubble fell overhead, and the ground began to crack.

Bang!

It collapsed, and the whole building began to collapse, and dust and rubble flew all over the sky.

For a moment the battlefield fell silent.

"Spot the enemy!"

In the sky above the large army, there was a silvery-white figure.

It jumped up at the moment of collapse.

The target is the 'Spear of Odin', which is guarded by Gino.

"Launch!"

Bullets shot into the air like rain, and Natsume felt a vibration and a violent ringing in her ears.

The external armor was almost completely shattered, the attachment of the left hand was also destroyed, and the left arm was detached from the body, as the structure and wiring were torn apart, and flames were ignited.

Bang!

Again, it has been haired, and it is in the middle of the left foot of the body.

Flying out, his left arm and heel removed, Natsume, who was out of balance, struggled to manipulate Arthur.

"Oh no, it's going to be here, let's get killed."

It's a pity, I'm still a virgin man!

No, no, it's really painful to say that!

Please let me break the *, Lord God! Here's a girl or something! Except, of course!

Landing on the ground, nearby Knightmare swarmed up, but was stopped.

It was Natsume's second means, the wrist of the arm was detached, and the bomb on it was thrown out by himself.

The intense light of the fire robbed the enemy's vision, and Natsume took the opportunity to crawl on the ground.

Click.

It was a break in the internal skeleton of the cab, in which the sharp side pierced Natsume's lower abdomen.

A piercing pain came, his eyes widened, his teeth gritted, and he clenched the joystick.

Go ahead!

The back of the cab also began to crumble, and the enemy's spear flew the outer part of Natsume's back, revealing the built-in equipment inside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Natsume let Arthur's arm push hard, and the whole person rushed forward.

After forcibly swinging his weapon and slightly changing the enemy's attack trajectory, Natsume jumped on one foot.

Broke through the enemy's defenses and attacked with one-handed and one-legged mechs.

In front of him was Gino's Tristram, who simply raised his left-handed sword.

Natsume, who was jumping, couldn't dodge it, so he hit it directly.

"Failed, Mr. Arthur."

The sword pierced Natsume's cab, but because Natsume unbuckled his seat belt in time to dodge, the blade cut off the right shoulder of his body along with a piece of flesh, staining half of his body red and blurring his vision.

"But...... Be...... Ah, it's mine, what about victory......"

The right hand is gone.

Gino turned around and found that the right hand of Arthur's body was placed on top of Odin's spear.

"...... Three...... ......, OK. ”

The third explosion caused by Natsume succeeded.

With surprise and a little admiration, Gino let go of Natsume and ran to the side with the other Knightmare.

A deafening sound echoed through the sky, including the surrounding buildings, and Sakuraishi's energy surged out of the surroundings.

"It worked!"

Ahead, the soldiers of the battle line cheered.

At the same time, a certain hero, failed......