Countless bullets burst into the wreckage of the Iron Cavalry placed in the wilderness. Firing hundreds of bullets per second from the Gatling gun mounted on the right hand arm is Lean's black aircraft, the "Grimgelde". It has the same livery as Nicola's Black Knight 《Night Baron》, but the shape is quite different, so there will be no problem.
　The Grimgelde's chest armor expands, and the double Gatling gun inside it sparks.
　Continuing on, both shoulders open like a gullwing, and a six-series missile pod is fired, and missiles are released from the legs, which are also opened in the same manner.
　Bullets were also fired from all the fingertips of his left hand, and from the head Vulcan gun. It's truly a hail of bullets.

"Ughhhhh..... Awesome.........

　The broken iron cavalry that had been released from the target and the "storage" quickly turned into not just a beehive, but a piece of steel scrap in pieces.
　After firing, Grimgelde stopped moving. The white smoke rising from his entire body showed that the aircraft was quite hot.

'How many rounds did you fire just now?
I'm thinking about 50,000 rounds, maybe less.

　Not so much. Rosetta's answer to Rosetta standing next to me makes me cringe. I mean, aren't you invincible in a way? If Else's Gerhilde or Yae's Schwertrite were to receive that attack, there wouldn't be a shred of hope.... Even if they could be blocked to some extent with their crystalline material armor, heavy damage is a certainty.
　It's as if Su's Ortlinde Overlord could somehow prevent it.

But it does have its own weaknesses. First of all, as long as the transferred Babylon's magazine is not empty, there is basically no out of ammunition, but the fuselage is not able to withstand continuous fire. When firing at full force, it would have to go into cooling mode for a few minutes like that, creating an opening.
The other thing is that the aircraft itself is designed to consume a lot of magic power, so the fatigue of the rider must be quite high. I'm sure Linn or Fuyao-kun, Linse will be able to handle the rest.

　It makes sense after hearing Rosetta and the doctor's story. That's right. It's like you're activating Explosions the whole time you're shooting.

"Ouch!

　The opening and closing hatch of the pigeon tail opened, and with a lean, Paula jumped out of the plane. With the momentum gained, Paula tumbles out of the cockpit and hits the ground. 'Are you okay, man?

'Hey! It's like a steam bath!
Oh, you forgot to cool the cockpit area, didn't you?

　Mmmm, Rosetta crosses her arms. That's deadly, isn't it? I think we need to put a heat blocking spell on the cockpit, don't we?

And I don't think you'll be able to hear the transmissions or anything with the explosion, which is what it is.
Okay. We need a sound barrier. We should be able to deploy and dismantle them at will.

　There's a double chest Gatling gun right above the cockpit. That's loud.
　In terms of destructive power over a wide area, it's currently the best Frame Gear in the world. However, since there's a risk of getting your allies involved, it's not ideal for group battles. It's more of a one-to-many, annihilation machine.
　The only thing that's left to do is to get it to work.

"Oh?

　I looked up above the sound of flight and saw a blue fighter jet flying over us.
　As it slowed down and descended towards us, the fighter began to transform in mid-air, changing its shape into a slender humanoid form before landing.
　It was Linse's variable frame gear, the Helmvige.
　The fuselage's chest hatch opened and Linze descended. Helmvige is a frame gear with sharp lines. Because its transformation mechanism into a fighter is based on the protagonist's plane in the robot anime, it is equipped with a long shield in its left hand.
　Since that shield is the bottom of its fighter form, it has the weakness of not being able to transform if the shield is destroyed. For that reason, Helmvige's shield was filled with more magic power than the normal crystal material and was made quite hard.

''How so? Are you used to flying?
'Yes. Well, sort of. I can't get much speed out of it yet, but...

　Linse replied with a somewhat wry smile. Once I get used to riding Helmvige, I'll be able to get used to flying with Linze and 'Fly'.
　Helmvige can also transform further and merge with Else's Gerhilde to become a flying support mecha, but apparently it doesn't have that function yet.

''Lean-dono and Linse-dono's aircraft are almost complete, but what do we do with the rest of Sakura-dono, Lou-dono and Yumina-dono's aircraft?

　Rosetta asks me.

'Does the doctor know which one to start with?'
I'm thinking of cherry blossoms for now. I'm thinking of a plane that can use sound-based support magic. It doesn't do any magic on the flames, but it can cast spells on friendly frame gear. However, it can cast spells on friendly Frame Gear. I can increase its speed, or deploy individual barriers. It would be nice if we could do that over a wide area with sound.
It's a mass warfare support system, yes.

　Is that it, or is it going to be a structure that unfolds in multiples, like my "multiples"? Sounds, or maybe a song if it's cherry blossoms. And then they would cast a spell over everyone.
　I've often heard of the morale boosting effects of military songs and the effects of singing for a long time, but in this case, I guess you could call it singing magic.
　Yeah, it's not bad.

"Well, let's start with the cherry blossom fuselage.
Yes, sir.

　Grimgelde and Helmvige both transitioned the Doctor and Rosetta to Babylon, and I took Leanne and Linse back through the "gate" to the castle. But soon we were back in the wilderness.

　I forgot Paula.




　When I transitioned and passed by the castle's training grounds, I saw a bunch of new knights lying around, dead and dying. It looks intense today.
　The boot camp for newcomers that Morobane sister started has already ended, but of course there is morning and evening training every day.
　Some are exempted, but most of them still get their morning and evening spankings from Morobane's sister. It's just because they passed that test, though, that no one runs away, as expected.

''Mega Heel,'' "Refresh.

　I'll heal the wounds and strength of everyone in the Knights of the Order as they pass by and roll into the training grounds.
　Everyone who had been healed of their injuries and fatigue finally noticed my presence and bowed their heads in unison.

''Alright, so that's it for our morning training then. Each of you take a shower in turn, have your breakfast, and return to your posts.
""Yes!"

　At the words of Sister Morobane, everyone heads to the shower room in the separate quarters of the Knights' men and women.
　The new knights have already been assigned to their respective assignments and are in the stage of learning their jobs. Those in charge of guarding the castle will learn how to deal with visitors and bandits in case they enter the castle, those in charge of patrolling the castle will learn patrol routes and how to solve problems, and those in charge of espionage will learn how to make contact and collect information.
　Those with other characteristics, such as farmland development, paperwork, and construction management, were assigned to that side.
　In addition to that, the newcomers would also be trained in frame gear using the frame units.
　Currently, there were over two hundred members of the Order, and almost all of them were to learn to fly in one way or another, except for those who had difficulty riding in the cockpit, such as the Mulet Charette sisters, who were of the Lamia tribe, and Zamza, who was of the Oga tribe.
　The Frays could appear at any moment. It's never a good idea to be prepared for it, you know.




'Fisheries development, sir?'
Yes, sir.

　Mr. Kosaka, the Prime Minister, began to tell me this in the office.
　Fishing is the kind of thing where you catch fish, of course. Why again? That's because we don't have many opportunities to eat fish in our country.

Do you mean that we should be able to catch more fish in the rivers that flow through our country?

　There is no sea in Brunhild. It's mostly river fish.

It's not a river. It's about letting the fishermen catch the fish in the sea and making a profit from it.
'What? We don't have an ocean...
'There is, isn't there? Beyond the transition gate.
Oh.

　Right. Beyond the transition gate, the seven islands with the labyrinth. That's our territory, too.
　All we had to do was catch fish there and bring it back to us. There's no ocean around here, so I'm sure we'd sell a lot of fresh fish. You might even be able to eat sashimi.

I see. That's a good idea. And you're going to develop part of the island and make it into a port?
I suppose so. The island itself is small, so it won't be able to be developed into a port town. Also, there are dangerous monsters on the island, so what can we do about them?

　Hmmm. I don't mind if I hunt them all myself, but those monster materials can be sold for quite a bit of money. It would be a shame if we had to take away their food source for the adventurers... But who would want to fish in a dangerous place?

Do you want me to put wards on the docks to keep the beasts away?
I guess that's appropriate. Also, we might have to investigate what kind of sea monsters are out there.

　Indeed. It's no good if the boat that catches the fish is attacked.
　Well, I think that part of it will be fine if I summon a Kraken or a water dragon and order them to hunt down the magical beasts that would attack people around the island.

''Can we gather some fishermen or something?''
We'll take care of that part on our end. We don't know how much we've caught yet, so it's hard to say, but I don't think we'll lose anything.

　Then I'll give it a go. In the meantime, I'll give you permission to do some test fishing.
　I should go to the island tomorrow and summon a Kraken or a water dragon.
　The Sea Serpent, the sea dragon that protected the Kingdom of Egret that we visited when we were looking for the ruins of Babylon. I'd like to call in a guardian dragon like that one and have it protect me. I'll have him call in just the right guy from Ruri's household.
　I'm not going to be able to get any more than that. We don't want the same kind of slave-trading ships as before, you know.
　After Kosaka-san leaves the room, I check the report on the desk. I have to look over the voices of the people in the castle and important matters.
　The world situation, or rather, most of the information about that kind of information is received from the guild master, Relisha-san, via email or something.

''In the original world, it would just be online news.

　Still, I get all sorts of information in the mail from the kings of various countries. Emperor Regulus announced the engagement of the Second Princess to King Felsen, or King Belfast told me that Prince Yamato stood and walked. This was sent to me with a photo attachment, though.
　Because of this kind of association, there is not much conflict in the countries of the East-West Alliance. They come to a compromise and when they still can't come to a decision, they sometimes turn to me.
　Belfast and Mismid are interacting better now than ever before, and relations between Regulus and Rhodomea have improved. The Ramish nation has also stopped its closed relationship, and Linier is now forming a friendly relationship with the northern kingdom of Paloof. That's quite a feat.
　With that in mind, as I read the various reports, there were quite a few reports of frays that appeared in various countries. Most of them were lower-ranked species, so it seems that they were defeated by adventurers of red rank or higher.
　When we first defeated the Frays, I believe the guild rank was...what? Speaking of which.....
　I called up the picture I had taken when I first encountered Fraise from the photo file on my phone and projected it in the air. The ruins have been crushed and the actual thing is gone, but it's a pictogram that seems to have been drawn a thousand years ago.
　I couldn't decipher them back then, but I'm sure I could decipher them now with a "reading" or something. To do that, we'd have to identify the type of emoji, and I wonder if Pham knows what it is. As the administrator of the Library, she might be able to identify them.
　But there's a chance we won't know if it's a character that didn't exist 5,000 years ago or something like that, and we're talking about characters that weren't in use in Belfast a thousand years ago, so maybe it wasn't the Belfast people who built those ruins a thousand years ago.
　If that's the case, who did it and why........ Also, the flames that were sealed together with it are strange.
　The more I think about it, the more curious I am.
　I decided to head to the castle's storeroom to look for Pham.