Chapter 242 – Control (1)

“What?!”
“Heh… ?! Whoa… ! Ha… !”

The ground rumbles louder and louder.
I realized something was wrong and got out of bed and put on my pants.
Rose also hurriedly escaped from the climax, calmed her trembling body, and raised her magic power to put on her combat uniform.

“The magic power level… Seeing that it hasn’t broken, I’m not an executive, but it’s really high… Is this one?”
“Senior Louie! Stop!”
“No! Accelerate!”
“Stop!”

In an unexpected situation, Louis’ choice was to stop.
Stopping the vehicle means eliminating the cause through combat rather than avoiding an unexpected situation.
Louie immediately raised the vehicle’s emergency stop lever and raised his microphone in his hand to broadcast into the vehicle.

[The vehicle stops. Repeat. Vehicle, stop! Grab the handle! Stop!]

I put off explaining the details of the situation and lower the mic.
Louie raised his spear and shield and turned on the vehicle’s front headlights.
Nothing was visible on the relatively brightly lit tracks.

Feeling strange, I buttoned up my shirt and frowned.
Something… What is this… Big.
Big crab, huge crab… Several… It’s under your feet… ?

“Reverse the car!”
“Yes?!”
“Hurry!”

As Louis flinched at the command she shouted thinking it was something strange, Arna threw a needle-like lightning into the driver’s seat.
The instrument panel in the driver’s seat cracks, and the car spits sparks on the tracks and reverses itself.
At about the same time, the entire underground shook with a cooing sound, and the red magic warning lights that glowed around the tracks went off in succession.

“Gooooong!!”
“Gooooo!!”
“Hee!!”

The subway rails have been destroyed and something gigantic protrudes from under the ground, making an ear-piercing cry.
Rose, who was standing behind me, reached out and covered my ears.
I checked the identities of the guys I could see through the front window of the driver’s cab as I struggled to balance against the tremors that echoed through the subway.

Large, furry balls the size of subways crawl out of the ground, extending slender tentacles from one side.
Giant hairy tentacles… Marimo sea anemone… ?
What can I say about this?

“No… What is that?!”
“Hybrid… ? A mutation?”

A voice of embarrassment could be heard, as if neither Louis nor Arna were strangers.
Then, something large, heavy and sharp, protruded from between the tufts of hair.
The moment I saw something like a four-pronged toenail, I remembered the picture of the infected I saw at the training center.

“This… That’s it! It’s a mole!

I don’t remember the name, but I remember that it was written as a kind of mutant monster.
It lives deep underground, eats other infected organisms, and lives by going back and forth in the water.
It is a case where a small mole becomes an infectious agent and grows enormously, and it is characterized by the long and thin tentacle at the tip of the nose.

“If it becomes a mole… Hey?! This is a dangerous guy!”

This giant mole is a dangerous guy who should be killed immediately if found in the subway.
It has a habit of living in water and in tunnels, connecting subways and underground waterways and flooding them, becoming infected and changing its claws to tremendous strength and tearing through subways like paper.
It could destroy all railroads and even collapse the subway itself, so it proudly occupied the top spot in the list of harmful infectious agents.

“Why is this here?!”

As such, it was an infection that was hard to see around the city center because it was definitely annihilated.
I heard that it is treated as a rare infectious agent because it has become difficult to see these days, but to see it like this… Should I say good luck or bad luck?
Louis opened the cab door in surprise.

“Senior Louie… You want to catch that?”
“To write a status report because the subway went off again?! Shut up and get out!”
“The teacher is inside!”
“Huh, heh… I knew this would happen, so I didn’t leave work and waited.”

When Louis went outside, Sienna, Rosé, and Arna followed and left the cab.
I stood still as I watched all four of them go outside, then went to the refrigerator to get some snacks.
Sit in the driver’s seat, put a drink next to you, and get ready to watch the battle.

“Gooooo…”
“Gooooong… !”
“Ohhhhh… !”
“One, two, three… Five? Is not it… ? It’s so big I can’t see how many there are…”
“Ha… Louis-senpai, is this really something we can catch?”
“Do as you practice, as you practice, you practiced because of the teacher.”
“You haven’t actually done that yet…”
“Good… Then, shall we try the bunker?”

Louis and Sienna step forward first, Sienna stands behind Louis and puts ice on her sword.
Louis stuck her spear into the ground, standing in a strange posture with her shield fully exposed, tilted forward with her shield.
Seeing this, a nearby giant mole approached her proboscis-filled tentacles as if groping.

“Rosé, dagger.”
“This time, it will be successful… ?”
“Could it explode like last time?”

Right next to it, Arna and Rose were doing something.
Rose held out the daggers in both hands, and Arna grabbed the blades.
Arna and Siena cast magic on Louis’ shield and Rose’s dagger almost at the same time.

“Frozen Thorn.”
“Lightning blade Lightning Blade.”

Rosé’s dagger shimmered and shone, and ice thorns sprouted from Louis’ shield.
Arna and Sienna, who had strengthened the weapons of Louis and Rosé, magical girls of melee combat type, reached out their hands in the same direction almost at the same time.
At the fingertips of the two were the tentacles of a giant mole that slowly approached.

“Ice dust!”
“Thunder Wave Thunder Wave!”
“Gooooo!!”

Sharp ice dust is embedded in a huge ball of black hair, and a flash of lightning quickly spreads and stretches over it.
Startled, the giant mole shrank its tentacles and swung its huge claws with a painful voice.
Immediately, Louie stepped forward and blocked the mole’s arm with a barbed shield.

“Ha!”

As it was, Louie used explosive magic against her shield and slammed an ice shard into the mole’s arm.
The leather is tattered from the torn arm.
On top of that, Rose clung to it, crossing his daggers up and down.

“Rang-ah!”

The magic scattered from Rosé’s body transforms into a giant wolf and bites off the giant mole’s arm.
The giant mole dropped his arms and roared backwards at great speed.
It drives lightning through the skin by driving ice, burns the nerves to slow down movement, blocks the return attack, drives ice again, explodes the ice inside the wound, and bites the top… It’s a pretty brutal link…

“Gooooo…”
“Gooooo… !”
“Oooh!”

Sensing the situation with the tentacles on their noses, the moles reacted in unison and pulled out their claws from the hairballs.
The large moles all at once attacked Louis in the front, just like a furry man charging at them.
I swallowed my drink, anticipating the attack of the moles, which were as fast and heavy as tentacles.

“Good!”

Unfortunately, the moles’ attacks did not reach the magical girls.
The pointed claws were blocked by the ice wall that rose up in an instant, and Arna’s lightning exploded over them once again.
Louis discovers the rigid mole and stabs it with a spear, then uses explosion magic again against the wound.
On top of that, Rosé kicks with her huge claws made of magic, tearing open the wound.

This linkage process is blazingly fast, as if it were connected.
I know that a giant mole is stronger than a tentacle dog, but I can’t compete with them at all.
I opened the bag of potato chips in amazement at the four people who had changed completely from before.

“Gooooo!”
“Ohhh!”

The giant mole’s claws and tentacles attack Louis and Sienna one after another.
Sienna built an ice wall for most of the claws, and Louis raised her shield to block the part where the ice wall broke.
Rosé waits for a gap to open without attacking, while Arna burns the inside of the mole by flowing high-voltage current whenever her claws touch the ice wall.

I feel that they are preparing to connect with each other without rushing out.
It’s also impressive that Sienna gives up her speed and focuses on defense, and Arna gives up her attack power and focuses her magic on her Infected body’s reduced locomotion.
If Sienna and Louis are blocking the attack, Arna will load Rose’s sword with lightning, and if Arna and Rose attack or burn his nerves with lightning, Sienna will quickly put her ice spikes on Louis’ shield.

Is it a counter-oriented anti-vibration link designed around a shield that blocks continuously rising ice walls and weakening places…
This… It’s amazing how perfect it is.
It’s not flashy, but it’s a solid killing bunker that pursues realism.
The defense-oriented connection that Louis said was a bunker was maintained quite firmly.