“Satomi-sama! The soldiers!”
It wasn't until Koutarou heard Ruth's voice that he finalize caught on to Elexis's real goal.
I see, so he did it to let his subordinates escape! I got tricked by Dextro's face!
Two additional soldiers that had been hiding somewhere had carried the other five into the spaceship. Elexis had attacked to buy time for his subordinates.
“So you're buying time again... you're surprisingly caring for your subordinates.”
“I don't know about that. The most important thing for us is to not leave any evidence that we were involved behind. It's not to kill you or capture the ladies.”
While Elexis was distracting Koutarou, his subordinates were making preparations to retreat. But that would be meaningless if they left any evidence behind.
Well played... With this, even if I defeat him, we'll only escape the danger for a moment...
The systems on the Blue Knight, including the bracelets, were being scrambled, leaving behind no recordings that could be used as proof. The devices on the ship would self-destruct, and the soldiers that could serve as witnesses had been carried onboard the spaceship.
The only proof that would remain were the recordings on Koutarou's bracelet, but unskillfully announcing that would only put Clan in a difficult position. Clan was personally cooperating with Koutarou, but her Schweiger family were hostile with Theia's Mastir family. So Clan couldn't make any decisions that would have a negative impact on her family, and Koutarou didn't want to force that on her.
“My only miscalculation was not taking into the account the existence of an irregular like you.”
The weapons on the giant's shoulders were pointed towards Koutarou. On its right shoulder was a large beam cannon and on its left shoulder was a multi-purpose missile launcher that could fire up to eight shots at once. They were the most destructive weapons on this giant.
“If possible, I'd like to get rid of that irregular right here.”
“Aren't I an irregular because you can't get rid of me?”
“That certainly might be the reason!”
While Elexis was still speaking he fired the missiles. These missiles were guided using the target's heat signature and by camera. Having been fixed on their target, the missiles chased after Koutarou as if they were alive.
“Damnit!”
Koutarou was planning on getting as close to the missiles as possible before dodging, but they exploded a few meters before they reached him.
This method of attack was known as a proximity fuze. The missile exploded as it was still approaching the target and was intended to deal damage over a wider area. Not even Koutarou could dodge that attack.
“Satomi-sama!!”
Ruth let out a scream. Koutarou had been caught in the missiles explosion. It was a wide area attack that Ruth had been fearing. Not even Koutarou would be in one piece after that. Ruth was protecting Theia from the blast while feeling something similar to despair.
“Satomi-sama! Satomi-sama!!”
A cloud of dust shrouded the area where Koutarou had been. Since the explosion had been so close to the ground, a large part of it had been scooped out and thrown into the air, blocking all sight. However, the cold winter wind slowly blew it away.
And once the cloud of dust had been blown away, Ruth could see Koutarou lying wounded at the bottom of the hole that had been carved into the ground.
“Noooooooooooo!! Satomi-sama!!”
Upon spotting Koutarou, Ruth let out another scream. To her, something that should never happened just did.
“As expected, not even you could do anything about that...”
Next the beam cannon started moving. The turrets motor roar as it pointed the cannon towards Koutarou. Elexis was planning on finishing him off with this.
“Farewell, Neanderthal-kun. You put up a good fight.”
“Stop it, don't kill Satomi-samaaaa!!”
Koutarou would die. The Koutarou who was supporting Theia and Ruth's dream. His death would almost be the same as the world ending to Ruth. Her screams were from the pain of her soul being torn apart.
However, Ruth's screams didn't reach Elexis, and he calmly pulled the trigger. The enormous amount of power generated by the giant was turned into a powerful beam and a giant spear of light attacked Koutarou.
The hole created by the missiles was widened even more by the beam. The soil was once again kicked up and created another cloud of dust, covering Koutarou.
“Satomi-sama! Please answer me, Satomi-samaaaa!!”
Ruth was screaming and crying like a child. She was so frustrated that she couldn't leave Theia's side. She wanted to run up towards Koutarou and save him even now, but she couldn't leave Theia behind. All she could do was scream and cry.
“Well then, that gets rid off the irregular. All that's left is―”
“...Keep talking. I'm an irregular because you can't get rid of me.”
At that moment, the giant's right arm and leg were cut off.
“W-What!?”
Having lost its support, the giant fell to its right, with a surprised Elexis still in it.
And as it f