"Caw caw, I heard from the Doctor that you're going to form a new team?" Hoshiguma asked after taking a small biscuit from Rosmontis's hand and eating it.
Hearing Hoshiguma's words, Rosmontis's ears immediately perked up. She was also very curious about Kanna-chan's new team.
"Don't tell me yet, let me guess? Since I'm good at frontal combat, the team's composition is mainly for assault. Rosmontis, if I remember correctly, your squad is excellent at both positional warfare and assault, right? Kanna-chan, your strength is higher than both of ours, so the team you lead should be the strongest all-rounder type!"
Hoshiguma pondered for a moment, pinching her chin, then clapped her hands and stated her guess.
"Good guess, but completely wrong..."
Hoshiguma's guess was probably what most Operators who heard the news would think, but the Doctor clearly did not follow conventional methods, instead having Kanna-chan form a special engineering squad.
Hoshiguma, looking surprised, learned of the Doctor's idea from Kanna-chan and couldn't help but wag her tail, looking troubled.
"Kanna-chan, don't you think it's overkill? With your strength, you could totally be a member of an assault team!"
"Hehe, not really! Whether it's frontal combat or providing support from the side, I'm confident I can do it well, because Kanna-chan is the strongest! And compared to direct assaults, I prefer to secretly take potshots! Besides, if it's an assault team, I'd only be executing missions alone, but a special support team would involve several teams working simultaneously, so I'd be able to help more people, right!"
Looking at the still vast expanse of white around her, Kanna-chan thought of everything since coming to Rhodes Island. She felt that she was no longer an outsider standing outside the window, watching everything happen powerlessly. She had her own strength, and she could use that strength to protect the people she wanted to protect.
After they chatted for a while longer, a voice from below announced that Rhodes Island was short-handed and asked the trainees participating in the special training to assist in maintaining order. Warfarin, as the second-in-command of the Medical Department, was temporarily forgiven by Kal'tsit for her actions and returned to the Medical Department to preside over the overall situation.
Suddenly, Kanna-chan realized that she was the only one left, hanging alone on the bridge.
Fortunately, the bridge was a special area of Rhodes Island, where only registered Operators could come up for training or perform small tasks like cleaning. So her lonely appearance was not discovered by outsiders.
And those more familiar Operators, upon seeing Kanna-chan hanging up there, would actively greet her.
When the time was almost up, Kanna-chan withdrew her bound hands and feet from the cross, then jumped down.
Just as she was about to enter the main door, she saw ACE standing inside with a document.
"Yo! Kanna-chan, I have a question I wanted to ask you..."
Kanna-chan looked at the trash can next to him; a pile of cigarette butts was very conspicuous, clearly indicating that he had been waiting there for a long time.
"...You'd rather wait here than come out and find me?"
"Uh, you see my old bones, the wind on this deck is so strong, one gust and I'd probably end up in the Medical Department. I'm just trying not to add to the Medical Department's burden."
ACE also noticed Kanna-chan's gaze and was too embarrassed to say that he was just using the excuse of looking for Kanna-chan to slack off. He could only make up a lie that even he didn't believe... Kanna-chan, as ACE expected, had a look that said, "I'll believe you when pigs fly, you rotten old man is really bad."
"Ahem! None of that matters. What's important is this combat training. The Doctor just told me about this combat, and I think it's quite interesting. But Ascalon is still in the infirmary, so the command authority will probably be handed over to you. So I came to talk to you about how to conduct this training."
ACE felt Kanna-chan's sharp gaze and couldn't help but pull out the enhancement plan for confrontational training that the Doctor had given him earlier, handing it to Kanna-chan.
Kanna-chan already knew about this matter. She didn't take the book but instead asked,
"Speaking of Ascalon not being here, Kal'tsit would definitely not let Mon3tr participate in such 'boring' antics. With just me leading SWEEP, it feels a bit disadvantageous."
"Uh, it seems the Doctor has already told you. There is indeed such a situation, but we all believe that with your strength, plus SWEEP, you are already much stronger than other teams.
What we need is for the Operators to feel the powerlessness when facing a strong enemy, and then reflect on what they can do when faced with a desperate situation? Is there a way to protect their lives as much as possible, rather than being instantly killed by you? So this is also why I came to you. During training, you must control your output, at least don't defeat the opponent at the very beginning, otherwise it won't serve any training purpose."
Kanna-chan sized up the righteous ACE and said with a suspicious look, "Your team is the first opponent for the training, right! Are you afraid that if I take you down at the start, you'll lose face?"
"How could that be? My ACE is known throughout Rhodes Island for being loyal and honest. How could there be such a thing as deliberately finding an opponent before training to ask her to hold back? This is slander, this is defamation, I want to appeal, I want to protest..." ACE looked at Kanna-chan with a pained expression, as if Kanna-chan's words had caused him immense humiliation... Although ACE was red-faced and pounding his chest, assuring that he was definitely not that kind of person, seeing that he didn't move an inch after talking for so long, Kanna-chan felt that she had probably guessed correctly.
"Alright, you're right. Since it's pressure resistance training, there must be a process of resisting pressure, not just being slapped to death. I'll hold back, but the Doctor only told me about the plan, not the time. Do you know when the training starts?"
ACE looked surprised to hear Kanna-chan's words. This matter had been planned for a long time, but it had been delayed because of Kal'tsit's opposition and Kanna-chan either being away or under house arrest. However, this time, because they were waiting for this group of people from Lungmen, Rhodes Island would be resting here for a few days, so it was a very good opportunity.
"Did the Doctor really forget to tell you? Our first confrontation is scheduled for tomorrow, which is why I came to you to beg... ahem, to discuss the method for this confrontation."
ACE, who almost blurted out his true thoughts because it was too natural, quickly changed his words when he saw Kanna-chan hadn't reacted yet.
"You were going to say beg..."
"Don't mind those trivial details! The key is the effect of this confrontation, the effect!"
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