This is when the Prime Minister is making an emergency declaration to all members of Parliament, the whole country, and the world.

"Lambry".

Manami Mizuhara gasped slightly, but her expression was calm, as if the fierce battle just now hadn't drained her too much physical strength.

And in the palm of her hand, he clasped Lieutenant Colonel Darcy's neck tightly, and despite the latter's iron face, he could not escape her palms, which looked incomparably white and thin.

Behind her and Lieutenant Colonel Darcy were the Suwon couple huddled in the passage hugging each other, snuggling up and looking ahead, with expressions like a bolt from the blue.

But the object of their surprise was not the American soldiers who had dozens of guns firmly aimed at their side at the front of the passage, but the daughter who was firmly protecting them.

"Little Ma ......"

"Manami ......"

Mizuhara Makoto's mouth let out a sigh as if she was having a nervous breakdown, and it sounded like she wanted to cry; However, Mizuhara's voice was very sluggish, like a cobblestone on the mountainside, blocked by a grass barrier.

Hearing the voice coming from behind him, a trace of loneliness flashed in Manami's eyes.

But it's fleeting.

Still holding Lieutenant Colonel Darcy's throat firmly, she took a step forward as she faced the soldiers in front of her.

One-step.

"Get out of the way......"

This sentence was said in Japanese, but Mana really woke up the moment he said it, so he said it again in fluent English:

"Get out of the way—if you still want your chief's life."

From crushing the blood-colored crystal, accompanied by a strange power awakening in his body, Manami Mizuhara felt that he had made a leap that he had never experienced in his life, both in terms of physical fitness and mental sharpness.

When I first got along with the Divine Wood Pendant, the warm current that flowed into my body from it was far less powerful than this power, and even couldn't be as strong as it could be.

And after the power spread throughout the body, the memories in the brain from childhood to the present continued to rise and flicker like fragments of the bottom of the sea.

Manami Mizuhara's English score can't be said to be very good, just average. And even for English majors with excellent grades, there will be many problems in speaking without any long-term communication with the natives of the English-speaking country.

- But at that moment, after becoming a transcendent being, Manami Mizuhara felt that his brain was more awake than ever.

It was a wonderful feeling that everything that had ever been seen became incomparably clear.

Even English, which I didn't learn with much effort at the beginning, suddenly became a book at my fingertips in the library of my brain—words I had seen, books and movies I had read in English, and standard spoken words from class recordings I heard during class...... The moment she awakened, it all became a part of her body.

Therefore, Manami Mizuhara expressed his thoughts in extremely clear words.

And the soldiers in front of her also understood her words.

They glanced at each other a few times in a subtle gesture, and there was a slight wavering in their eyes, and the originally stable posture of their bodies also showed some deviations.

"Get out of the way."

Manami Mizuhara took another step forward.

The rift in the soldier's formation grew bigger and bigger.

Some people want to maintain a fighting posture, others are afraid of their commander's life, and still others are afraid of Manami Mizuhara himself.

The force she's just shown has transcended human boundaries, showing the violence of the monster King Kong, and the agility of a whitethroat pintail swift who doesn't have the confidence to hunt and capture such monsters even when the Commander is not in her hands.

"I said, get out of the way."

Manami stepped forward again.

"—let me and my parents go."

Another step.

It's okay, the formation on the opposite side is being torn apart more and more, as long as you can break through this passage and enter the top deck of the cabin, you will be able to be more free at that time.

Think so.

However, Manami Mizuhara found a problem.

- The parents were still curled up in the back, not moving.

It's not a big deal, though, just turn their heads and prompt them to stand up.

So Manami Mizuhara half-turned his head and looked at his parents who were snuggling up to each other:

"Mommy, Daddy—"

Before the words fell, a sharp whistling was suddenly heard.

"-Bang!"

Manami's pupils instantly constricted.

Because she was looking sideways behind her, she was able to notice what was going on next to her out of the corner of her eye.

Take yourself as the middle line.

On the left are the parents.

On the right are the soldiers.

At this moment, it swept from the direction of the soldiers, and just as the gunshots rang out, the bullets were about to pass in front of them.

But the goal is not yourself.

If you let the bullet continue to shoot forward.

Well, the target it ends up hitting.

- It will be the parents.

In an instant, Manami Mizuhara's brain was like a high-speed computer, taking all the conditions into account and coming to the final conclusion.

In such a situation, there is only one thing that can be done.

Manami Mizuhara made a decision.

- she held out her hand.

Lean forward.

Like a shield, his arm was stuck in front of the bullet!

"Whew!"

Bloodstained!

However, the moment the bullet was embedded in the flesh and blood of Manami Mizuhara, it had already been squeezed out of it by the beating muscles, and the wound on the arm also solidified the moment the blood marks appeared.

"Hoo ......"

Manami Mizuhara shifted her gaze from her frightened parents to the array of soldiers, and on the side closest to the passage, a young soldier with a pale face, a slightly trembling arm, still in a shooting position, and a puff of white smoke from the muzzle of the gun attracted her attention, and his eyes were full of shock and horror.

And whether it was him, or the other soldiers, their eyes were focused on the bullet that had fallen from the bottom plate, looking at the light blood on it, and hissing.

“…… I see, is it a fire? ”

Once again, Manami Mizuhara confirmed that this was the truth.

Her mood lightened a little.

- However, she relaxed too soon.

Because just now, she made a fatal mistake.

In order to block the misfire bullet that was fired at her parents, she swung her arm closest to the direction of the bullet and intercepted it.

But, here's the problem—that hand, the same arm she had grabbed by Lieutenant Colonel Darcy's throat.

So, in order to intercept the bullet, before waving her hand, she subconsciously shook off Lieutenant Colonel Darcy and met the bullet.

Lieutenant Colonel Darcy, who was thrown away, fell directly to the ground after his back hit the wall of the passage.

- However, he did not faint.

On the contrary, he was still sober.

And he also grabbed a gun from the ground with great agility and aimed it at Manami Mizuhara and her parents behind her.

"—!! fire"

The instructions that had not been uttered at first were finally spoken.

The soldiers, who had long been accustomed to following orders, pulled the trigger without thinking.

Because many light bulbs were broken, in the flickering passage, a sound of breaking wind whistled, and Manami Mizuhara's pupils instantly dilated, and she subconsciously blocked in front of her parents, opening her arms, wanting to protect them.

Bullets whistled in, splashing a little blood on her body.

But that's not what she cared about.

Because when she turned her head to look past.

I saw the pale and blood-lost faces of the Suwon couple, and the expanding pool of blood under their tightly hugged bodies.

Manami Mizuhara watched.

Then, there was a terrible wail.

(End of chapter)