The AS combat team of Mithril's Pacific Fleet SRT (consisting of three members) had now received a special mission.
This mission was to protect a high school girl named Chidori Kaname. According to her personnel file, she seemed quite ordinary.
Although her father was a UN high official, according to intelligence investigations, her father hadn't provoked anything recently, so secretly protecting this high school girl was quite strange.
More importantly, this mission had allocated B-level equipment to the team. Simply put, they could bring AS robots to execute the mission.
"Hey hey hey, this is in the city, but they're bringing AS units too—you can see this young lady isn't simple."
The person speaking in a somewhat frivolous tone was a blonde man named Kurz Weber, a team member with the rank of sergeant.
"Sousuke, what do you think? What's special about this young lady?"
Kurz patted the youngest guy in the trio—this guy's age would still be considered underage in this young lady's country.
Interestingly, this guy was also arranged to be a student at her school to better protect her.
"I don't know."
Sagara Sousuke answered and continued with his work.
"Don't answer without any hesitation like that. Do you think this young lady might be that kind of person?"
"What kind of person?"
"Well..."
Thud—
The sound of flesh being bluntly struck sent Kurz directly crashing into a pile of miscellaneous items.
"Instead of wasting time talking, why don't you hurry up and pack things for me!"
The person who kicked the blonde was the AS combat team's commanding officer—Melissa Mao, with the rank of staff sergeant.
"Alright, boss. Let's change to an interesting topic. Have you guys heard? Our beautiful submarine captain has been acting somewhat strange recently. Ever since that inexplicable biochemical drill, beautiful Captain Tessa has been a bit odd. So boss, do you have any inside information?"
Kurz's words earned him a wrench thrown at him.
"And just today, the submarine gained one more person, and today the captain's state is even more off—somewhat overly nervous and excited. Like those adolescent girls about to meet a childhood friend they haven't seen in a long time, dressing more beautifully than usual. I noticed she even put on a little makeup."
Kurz continued gossiping while catching the hammer the boss threw at him.
Hey, was she trying to kill him?
"So boss, do you have any intelligence? You just delivered meals to Tessa, right? And it seemed like portions for two people? Did you discover anything?"
"If you want to know so badly, why don't you ask Tessa directly?"
This time Melissa didn't throw anything else, because Tessa was indeed very different from usual today.
Although she had helped deliver meals, she hadn't delivered them directly to Tessa—Major Andrew had taken over midway.
So she was actually quite curious about what kind of person that college student-looking young man was, to actually be dining with Tessa.
Suddenly, the communicator on her body rang—it was Major Andrew.
"Staff Sergeant Mao, the mission has changed. Please have the three of you come to the SRT command room immediately."
"Understood!"
The other two who had also heard immediately put down what they were doing and followed.
"I bet it's definitely related to that man. Could he be some high official's son coming to gold-plate his record?"
Kurz continued gossiping like this.
"Otherwise, why would they arrange AS units? Isn't it just to increase survival rates? Really values his life."
He mocked like this.
However, those two completely ignored him, making him feel depressed too.
But when they reached the command room door and pushed it open, all three big shots were there, making the three pause.
More importantly, there was one additional person—the man Kurz had maliciously speculated was here to gold-plate his record.
"Staff Sergeant Mao, this is the revised mission."
Melissa took the tablet Major Andrew handed over and browsed the information.
Hmm?
Now Melissa felt Kurz's wild speculation had some possibility.
The additional male named Ejie in this operation was the young man currently standing beside Tessa.
Moreover, Melissa noticed details—this young man, also with the rank of staff sergeant, didn't maintain that kind of boundary between superior and subordinate in his positioning.
It felt like they were equals.
And Deputy Captain Lieutenant Colonel Richard, this usually somewhat rigid old man, seemed to not mind the other party's seemingly undisciplined attitude.
How to put it—as if this guy's true identity and background weren't simple. So the lieutenant colonel, major, and even Colonel Tessa's attitude toward him seemed somewhat respectful.
Could he really be here to gold-plate his record?
Huh?
Five members?
Besides adding this Staff Sergeant Ejie, who else was there?
After the next page—
"Wait, wait, what's this situation?"
Melissa's voice couldn't help but rise, because the fifth person was really beyond her expectations.
"What?"
Kurz leaned his head over and saw the information above—it was the beautiful captain's information.
What did this mean?
"Lieutenant Colonel, Major, and Tessa, are you serious?"
Melissa's tone was very serious.
Tessa wanting to participate in the mission—Melissa could actually understand this kind of thinking.
Because during private chats with Tessa, she had also expressed wanting to act together with the three of them, to be active on the front lines with everyone.
But Tessa was also very clear that she couldn't be so selfish.
Yet this time, she was really being this selfish?
The lieutenant colonel and major had actually agreed—it was truly outrageous.
Melissa's gaze shot toward the young man named Ejie. Tessa's decision to participate was definitely related to him. Didn't this guy know this would involve Tessa in danger?
"Major, are you sure this arrangement is fine?"
The person also raising questions was Kurz.
Yes, with a questioning tone.
"No problem."
"Fine, since you officials all agree, we have nothing more to say, but I have an objection to this!"
Kurz pointed at an item in the mission assignment above, which wrote that Tessa's escort would be handled by that person.
Could he handle it?
"I want him to prove he has the ability to protect Tessa well!"
Saying this, Kurz also twisted his neck and shrugged his shoulders, making cracking sounds.
This indication was very obvious—he wanted the other party to show his skills, to let him see what his abilities were like.
If his abilities weren't up to par, then he was really sorry, but Kurz would make it so he couldn't carry out the mission.
This way, Tessa wouldn't need to take risks either.
"No problem. Staff Sergeant Ejie, please trouble yourself to show these three your abilities."
Three people?
These words made Kurz frown, and Melissa beside him also narrowed her eyes.
Major Andrew's meaning was obviously for the three of them to go together?
Was he looking down on the three of them?
Or was this young man really extraordinary?
"Um, Mr. Ejie, please go easy on them."
Even the captain said this, making Melissa and Kurz laugh.
They really thought the three of them were completely no match for the other party.
"Mm."
The other party nodded lightly and stepped forward, and his gaze suddenly changed.
At that instant, Kurz and Melissa had the illusion of being killed.
At this moment, both their spines instantly shot up with bone-chilling coldness that froze even their souls.
At this moment, it felt like they were truly being gazed upon by the grim reaper—not as a figure of speech, but the noun Death itself!
So their bodies' strong survival instincts made them react before their brains could.
"Bang!"
Gunshot!
Echoing so deafeningly in this conference room!
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