[Part Three] The End of a Fierce Fight
Source Page. Translations courtesy of Falcarius!
- Part One
When the high-speed bullet "Fang", having overwhelming power due to its acceleration by the long barrel of the column of three, hit the Geno Ritter, plasma gushed out all around and a tremendous shockwave was generated. Due to its impact, countless flashes and explosions burst out continuously, and flames and black smoke rose up violently.
"Well, did we get him...?"
After a while, within the bright red flames rising from the central point of the blast, the Geno Ritter appeared.
"...Gggh, my vision's distorted."
The bullet, which had been fired at its chest, had slipped off track slightly due to the thick defensive wall, and had gouged deeply into the left-hand side of the armour mask equipped on its head. It had not amounted to a fatal wound, but it had made the Geno Ritter's retreat from the battlefront unavoidable.
Zappa left it to the Mirage Fox to gain control over the rest of the Empire Remnant Army, and utilising his sensors, cornered the Geno Ritter at a cliff overlooking the ocean. However, Ash made up for the damaged machinery with his strong mental power, gained control of the Geno Ritter once again, and locked onto the Dragonhead with the broken armour mask.
- Part Two
"Surrender, Ash! You can't fight satisfactorily in a wounded machine."
"Not yet... Zappa, we'll settle things here!"
"Can we only talk to each other by fighting? ...Here goes!" The two great rivals slowly, quietly closed the distance between them.
And then, Ash brandished his swords using his mind's eye, and Zappa put his Dragonhead into a full drive state and bared its fangs. Silent time flowed between the pair.
This space between the two of them, soundless except for the output noise, was engulfed in a silence as if only they were left on this planet.
- Part Three
When the Geno Ritter spread its huge swords and approached at speeds the eye could not follow, the Electron Bite Fangs of the Dragonhead, which had been sharpening its senses and determining its aim, slipped through a momentary opening in the attack and bit into the throat of the Geno Ritter.
"...It's settled, Ash!"
The Geno Ritter's upper body tumbled down as if in slow motion.
Zappa came down from the Dragonhead, walked up to the Geno Ritter's cockpit and tried to determine whether Ash was alive or dead.
At that moment, a light came into the Geno Ritter's eyes.
"I'll leave this match to you for now! Zappa and those excellent pilots... Let's settle this one day!"
The Geno Ritter deployed the thrusters on its back and disappeared across the ocean, the damaged machine holding out.
- Part Four
The seas of an archipelago located to the west of the Central Continent. The battle in which Zappa and the three youths had made desperate efforts had prevented an advance on the Central Continent by the Geno Ritter.
However, the appearance of this Geno Ritter gave premonitions of the opening of a new great war that would soon occur.
Zappa and Ash, as well as Spector, who fought to avenge his father.
The time when each of their fates would cross once again was not that far away---.
