Putting away my rifle, I slowly raised my hand and placed them behind my head. Satoru did the same, despite not turning back to confirm my actions. Yanagi, though slightly confused at first, eventually followed up with the same action.

“We did what you asked, now show yourself!” I yelled at her general direction.
For a while, there happened to be nothing but silence, but eventually, I could faintly see a figure emerging from the darkness of the forests, stepping into the orange sunset and coming down the hill. With a leap, she positioned herself onto the wrecked, half-melted vehicle.

There the woman stands, one hand grasping a machine gun, the other holding a huge field gun ripped straight out of a Tengar anti-aircraft post. Her flowing long hair was that of magnificent platinum, flowing like a veil in the evening breeze. A pair of crimson pupils contrasted nicely with the woman’s pale skin and hair color. Her face was that of an impeccable beauty, but her stature was abnormally tall, even for someone from the Empire.

Most notably, her body emitted a faint but domineering blue aura, making her ‘glow’ of some sorts. While I do not know what this entails, there was one thing I know for sure: my hands were shivering behind my head.

But it appears that I have caught her attention. Slowly, she lifted the field gun on her left hand and pointed the barrel at my direction. Other than almost giving me a heart attack, demonstrated her monstrous, inhuman strength.
“You, who are you.”
As expected, her accent was extraordinarily deep, though not incomprehensible.

“I… I am Subaru Kurokawa, son of Vice-Admiral Kagetora Kurokawa of the Zipang Combined Fleet.” I blurted out in one quick sentence.
“Zipang… Zipang…” she closes her eyes as if she was trying to remember something.
“A-i-ko-to-ba”
Huh? Love words?
“Lalilulelo!” screams Satoru from under her.

And just like that, the menacing imperial drops all her weapons. That repressive blue aura also dissipates along with her action.

The three of us were all too happy to breathe a sigh of relief