A Space Marine Got a Status Window

— We will depart for the British headquarters base. I hope in advance that the meeting will have good results.

As soon as he heard that communication from the Polish headquarters, Colonel Ian Haig showed a brighter smile than ever.

The officers reacted the same way.

They all wore expressions indicating that they had just overcome a major obstacle.

“I’ll contact the Chinese immediately.”

And, naturally, they immediately informed the Chinese headquarters that Poland had taken the bait.

Shortly afterward, the people sent by China arrived.

“Already?”

Upon hearing the news, Colonel Ian Haig immediately spoke.

“Let them in.”

There was no reason to make them wait unnecessarily.

“And prepare black tea. The best we have.”

Now that China and they were on the same side, they had to treat them accordingly.

Thus, the envoys from China appeared in the office where Colonel Ian Haig and his officers were gathered.

“I am Colonel Ian Haig.”

“I am Lin Zihan.”

“Lin Zihan?”

As soon as he heard that introduction, Colonel Ian Haig felt that something was strange.

As far as he knew, the commander of the Chinese headquarters branch was Colonel Wang Lei.

Naturally, he didn’t find it particularly strange that Colonel Wang Lei hadn’t come personally.

After all, shouldn’t the commander of a branch remain behind to protect his own base?

What surprised him was something else.

“What is your rank?”

In a meeting like that, what mattered wasn’t the name, but the rank.

“I don’t have one.”

“What?”

At Lin Zihan’s answer, Colonel Ian Haig and everyone present tilted their heads in confusion.

It was then.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, the sound of air being sliced rang out, and at that sound, everyone blinked once.

‘Huh?’

In that instant, during the single blink of their eyes, Lin Zihan, who had been in front of them just a moment earlier, disappeared from their sight.

Naturally, everyone quickly turned their heads and moved their eyes to look for her.

Swoosh!

As they did, the sound of air being sliced rang out again.

Swoosh!

Swoosh!

Four times in total.

Exactly as many times as the four people present, Colonel Ian Haig and his three officers.

Then the sounds stopped.

At that instant, a red line began to appear around Colonel Ian Haig’s neck.

Thud!

Shortly afterward, the heads resting on their necks fell straight to the floor.

When it was all over, Lin Zihan was already sitting in her original place again.

She picked up the black tea that had been placed in front of her and, looking at Major Lin Jiayi, who was waiting behind her, asked.

“Can I drink this?”

“……It’s fine.”

“Yes? Are you sure?”

“Yes. I checked through mind reading. They didn’t have even the slightest trace of hostility.”

“Mind reading must be very convenient. It’s a truly monstrous ability.”

As she watched Lin Zihan calmly drink the black tea after saying that, Major Lin Jiayi involuntarily swallowed.

She knew perfectly well that Gwangma, Lin Zihan, was a terrifying Psyker Agent.

Furthermore, since they had arrived together on planet Amotia, they had already wiped out four of the national headquarters established there.

However, witnessing her ability from so close caused an indescribable shock.

‘She’s a true monster.’

What allowed her to perform such absurd feats wasn’t simply the fact that she was fast.

Gwangma, Lin Zihan’s maximum speed was 350 kilometers per hour, and considering only that figure, it wasn’t an inconceivable speed in the space age.

Furthermore, every planet had different environmental conditions, so she couldn’t always reach that speed.

In places with high gravity, there were naturally obvious limits to the speed she could reach.

Despite that, everyone feared her because her speed didn’t come from the laws of physics.

Normally, to move faster, one had to pay an equivalent physical price, and that price generally manifested in the form of weight.

Fast things tended to be heavy, and at the same time, the faster something heavy moved, the greater the influence the laws of physics exerted on it.

But Lin Zihan was simply fast.

That meant she could move at extraordinary speed and still freely change direction.

Furthermore, her acceleration was also different from that of anything ordinary.

She could reach her maximum speed practically instantly.

‘And on top of that, she can do things while moving at that speed.’

The most impressive thing was that, even while moving at such speed, she was capable of accomplishing exactly what she wanted.

It was like perfectly driving a race car while traveling at extreme speed.

And that truly was an extraordinary talent.

After all, for a fast car to achieve results, the driver’s skill was the most important thing.

Naturally, the most terrifying thing was something else.

“Good, now that we’ve cut off their heads.”

She had no intention whatsoever of participating in a race where rules or regulations existed.

And that remained true at that moment.

The reason she had come to the British headquarters had never been because there was bait waiting for her or anything like that.

“How about we cut off their arms and legs now? And let’s make sure to cut off their fingers too.”

She simply had no reason to waste an opportunity to easily deal with the British headquarters.

Thus, she led her subordinates and swept through the British headquarters.

Eventually, an hour passed.

By then, only Major Lin Jiayi, Lin Zihan, and their subordinates remained in the command room.

And there they waited.

“All right, let’s see if they really come or not.”

For the Polish headquarters to arrive.

And they didn’t have to wait long for an answer.

— This is Major Jan Zabłocki, commander of the Polish headquarters branch. Message for the British headquarters base. Can we enter now?

At that question, Lin Zihan smiled broadly.

Then she signaled Major Lin Jiayi with her eyes, and she immediately responded.

“This is British headquarters. You may enter.”

— Yes, understood.

As soon as that conversation ended, Lin Zihan burst into laughter, laughing so hard that it seemed she might die from it.

“They really came! They really did!”

Then she said.

“I’m so lucky!”

Kabooooom!

At that instant, a deafening explosion tore through the command room where they were.

When they decided to head toward the British headquarters, Kim Seojun said.

“We’ll attack the command room first.”

When he proposed attacking as soon as they received a communication from the British headquarters base, everyone was horrified.

They asked if it was really okay to suddenly attack.

Kim Seojun answered simply.

“We can no longer cooperate with the United Kingdom in any way.”

After all, they had come prepared for war.

There was no reason to hesitate.

“Then it’s much more advantageous to attack first.”

Even in the space age, striking first was still an advantage.

Naturally, he didn’t intend to do it blindly either.

Kim Seojun observed the situation before speaking.

“The Space Marines who were outside the British headquarters base are quickly entering the base. It’s clear they’ve suffered an attack.”

Something had happened inside.

Everyone was surprised to hear that.

“It seems Lin Zihan or some Psyker on the Chinese side has already made a move.”

It wasn’t because he could see that the person there was Gwangma, Lin Zihan, and that she was doing something crazy just as the rumors indicated.

“You can see that?”

Everyone was astonished that Kim Seojun could distinguish something like that from ten kilometers away, surprised by his extraordinary vision.

“Yes.”

“Whew, what a relief.”

At Kim Seojun’s answer, Noah Winston let out a sigh of relief.

“Looks like they won’t take the nickname Hawk Eye away from me.”

“What do you mean?”

At Private First Class Park Boseop’s question, Noah Winston smiled broadly.

“With eyes like those, they wouldn’t call him Hawk Eye, but some other nickname. Not even a hawk could see like that.”

In any case, once it was confirmed that there was a problem, the answer was obvious.

“We’ll send a transmission to the British headquarters. If there’s a problem, they’ll undoubtedly tell us there’s a problem. If, on the other hand, they say nothing is wrong, then we won’t have anything else to think about.”

Under those circumstances, the answer arrived.

— You may enter.

As soon as he heard that response claiming there was no problem, Kim Seojun pressed the firing button of the Thunderclap’s railgun, which was already prepared.

KRAAAANG!

The railgun let out a chilling sound, and the projectile shot directly toward the British headquarters’ command room.

“Impact.”

As soon as Kim Seojun uttered that word, everyone firmly closed their mouths.

They mentally prepared themselves.

Because they knew.

It wasn’t over.

Although they had attacked the command room, no headquarters base built its command room completely exposed.

It always had several layers of defensive measures.

No matter how powerful a railgun was, it was impossible to destroy the entire command structure with a single shot.

They would undoubtedly receive a powerful impact, but it was unlikely that those inside would suddenly die.

“Everyone, get ready.”

Those inside would survive.

“They’ll be coming soon.”

And the survivors would undoubtedly immediately rush toward the place where Kim Seojun’s group was located.

His prediction was correct.

Kabooooom!

As soon as a tremendous roar engulfed the command room, not a single person screamed.

Major Lin Jiayi was no exception.

‘Damn it!’

Far from screaming, at that instant she felt furious upon realizing that the enemy had deceived them.

“Lin Zi……”

She tried to immediately report the situation to Lin Zihan.

“Ah.”

And at that instant, Major Lin Jiayi could hear it.

— I’ll kill them.

The overwhelming hostility emanating from Gwangma, Lin Zihan.

A killing intent so terrifying that, the instant she perceived it through mind reading, Major Lin Jiayi became completely paralyzed.

Naturally, Lin Zihan was no longer there.

She had immediately gone outside and started running.

She didn’t care who the attacker was.

She wasn’t even thinking about anything like that.

‘I’m going to kill them.’

Her mind was completely filled with killing intent.

And so she ran.

At full speed.

As she crossed the wasteland at extraordinary speed, she soon managed to make something out.

In the distance was a battle tank.

It was approximately ten kilometers away.

It was an enormous distance.

However, for Lin Zihan, it was a distance she could easily cover in two minutes.

Above all, even a battle tank could hardly reach one hundred kilometers per hour.

That meant that if she began pursuing it, she could catch up without any trouble.

Naturally, for a human being to chase a battle tank alone was absolute madness.

That was precisely why they called her Gwangma.

Because she did that kind of crazy thing as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

As she ran, there wasn’t the slightest worry or anxiety in her mind.

There was only confidence.

The absolute confidence that, no matter what was there, they could never catch her.

And that confidence was perfectly justified.

She was extremely fast, and the defensive capability of the Agent Suit she wore wasn’t something that could be overcome with ordinary bullets.

Therefore, there was only one kind of existence capable of catching her.

Someone as fast as she was.

And until that moment, she had never encountered such an existence, such a Psyker.

The fact that she was still alive was proof.

She had always roamed through space as an apex predator and, naturally, had never had any reason to hesitate.

This time was no different.

Then she saw something in front of her.

Although she was moving at an extraordinary speed of 315 kilometers per hour, she was able to identify the figure perfectly.

‘A Space Marine?’

It looked like a Space Marine, holding a weapon and aiming at her.

Upon seeing him, a mocking smile appeared on her lips.

Did he intend to hit her with a weapon?

‘Are you going to try something on me that not even Hawk Eye can do?’

All she had to do was move from side to side a few times as she ran, slightly changing her trajectory diagonally, to dodge the shots.

As long as she was running, no one could hit her.

And this time would be no different.

Bang!

That was why she ignored the shot.

Clang!

“Ugh!”

And that was why, when the bullet struck her directly in the chest, Lin Zihan was more bewildered than ever.

Regardless of her surprise, she immediately began moving laterally.

Faced with danger, she didn’t allow useless pride to control her actions and chose the most practical response.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Meanwhile, the shots followed her.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

And every single one of them struck Lin Zihan’s Agent Suit.

The Agent Suit made from Behemoth hide wasn’t penetrated, but the repeated physical impacts made her running falter.

At the same time, Lin Zihan’s gaze trembled.

However, it wasn’t trembling caused by fear.

It was exactly the opposite.

Like an enraged lion losing its mind.

Like a shark going mad at the smell of blood.

Lin Zihan’s eyes trembled with fury, and at that instant, she reached one hand toward her back.

A section of the Agent Suit covering her back detached.

It was a shield.

A shield designed with the worst-case scenario in mind.

Taking it out meant that she was giving up some of her speed.

However, it was completely worth it.

It was impossible to penetrate that shield with ordinary bullets.

With the shield in front of her, Lin Zihan began running directly toward the Space Marine.

In a straight line!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Bullets struck Lin Zihan’s shield relentlessly as she ran.

One after another.

That was all.

Not one produced a sound indicating that it was destroying anything.

Meanwhile, Lin Zihan rapidly closed the distance separating her from the Space Marine.

Before she knew it, the distance between them had shrunk enormously.

When they were separated by approximately three hundred meters, the Space Marine who had been shooting at her until then turned his back.

He tried to flee.

As soon as she saw that, a smile appeared on Lin Zihan’s lips.

‘I’ll tear you apart!’

She unleashed all the killing intent she could toward that insignificant creature who dared to try to escape from her.

At the same time, she thought.

It would take her only a single breath to close that distance.

After all, now that she had accelerated again, she could run at three hundred kilometers per hour.

Covering three hundred meters at that speed required only 3.6 seconds.

No matter how fast her opponent ran, the difference he could create wouldn’t even amount to 0.1 seconds.

It would undoubtedly be that way.

“Haste.”

But as soon as the Space Marine murmured something and began running, Lin Zihan’s eyes trembled.

“Huh?”

This time, it really was the trembling of genuine surprise.

‘H-How?’

The Space Marine was running at an incredible speed.

The distance wasn’t decreasing.

‘H-He’s getting farther away?’

In fact, even if only little by little, the distance between them was increasing.

At that fact, Lin Zihan’s thoughts stopped.

She panicked.

Then the Space Marine running in front of her suddenly stopped.

Lin Zihan failed to react properly.

In other words, at the moment when she should have stepped on the brakes, she still had the accelerator pressed all the way down.

So she continued rushing forward uncontrollably without stopping.

“Inventory.”

And then the world she saw changed.

Instead of the landscape of planet Amotia, a room completely enclosed on all sides appeared.

Kaboom!

Even in that situation, she was unable to stop running and only managed to do so after crashing into one of the walls.

“Uuuugh!”

From that sudden impact, even her Agent Suit couldn’t prevent her from suffering a concussion and letting out a groan.

She couldn’t properly get back on her feet.

Lying there, she looked around.

Beep! Beep!

‘Is this……?’

She looked at the objects densely covering the floor of the place where she was.

‘Anti-tank mines?’

Kabooooom!

And then her world was completely engulfed in explosions.

As soon as Lin Zihan shot off, Major Lin Jiayi also moved quickly.

Together with Lin Zihan’s subordinates, she quickly left the British headquarters base.

Then they boarded an armored vehicle specially manufactured for officers and set off.

‘No.’

Major Lin Jiayi’s face was filled with anxiety.

Naturally, she wasn’t worried about Lin Zihan.

‘She can’t kill them!’

What worried her was that Lin Zihan would end up killing all of them.

‘We have to interrogate them somehow.’

From Major Lin Jiayi’s perspective, she couldn’t waste the opportunity to discover who was behind them like that.

That was all.

She had no other concerns.

She didn’t even consider the possibility that they could be defeated.

Precisely because of that.

Splat!

When she suddenly heard the helmet of Lin Zihan’s subordinate who was driving explode, Major Lin Jiayi failed to react immediately.

‘Huh?’

She was bewildered.

‘How?’

After all, they weren’t traveling in an ordinary vehicle, but in an armored vehicle specially manufactured for officers.

There was no glass in front of them, but special armor, and they could observe the outside through cameras.

At the front, there were only a few small openings intended to allow them to observe the outside in an emergency if the cameras stopped working.

And a bullet had just passed through one of those openings while the armored vehicle was traveling at full speed and killed the driver with a single shot?

It was absurd.

Bang!

Immediately afterward, the sound of a tire bursting rang out.

Without a driver and with one tire destroyed, the vehicle could no longer continue moving properly.

After swerving violently for a few moments, it ended up climbing onto a huge rock and lost its balance.

Thud!

The armored vehicle fell onto its side.

The three survivors inside quickly opened the door and got out.

It was then.

Crack!

Crack!

The helmets of the two Lin Zihan’s subordinates who had just quickly emerged from the vehicle were destroyed.

They died on the spot without even having a chance to scream.

Only Major Lin Jiayi remained.

She didn’t move.

‘If I go out, I’ll die.’

It wasn’t that she completely lacked combat capabilities, but compared to those attacking her, her abilities were nothing more than child’s play.

In that case, it was better to rely on the armored vehicle’s protection and hold out inside.

Rrrrrumble!

Shortly afterward, Major Lin Jiayi heard the sound of wheels violently crossing the wasteland.

‘They’re coming this way.’

She sensed the enemies approaching and prepared herself.

‘I’ll try talking to them.’

She intended to start a conversation.

And in that regard, she was more confident than anyone.

As long as she possessed mind reading, there wasn’t even the slightest possibility that she would lose in a conversation.

She had another source of confidence as well.

‘Even if they capture me, they’ll never get any information out of me.’

She was confident that she could keep her mouth shut through any torture.

That was why she deliberately opened her radio channel.

And then she heard a voice.

“We’re from the Polish headquarters.”

As soon as she heard it, she spoke as well.

“Your actions unequivocally constitute an attack against the People’s Republic of China!”

Naturally, she didn’t say that because she believed such an argument would work.

She intended to provoke her opponent and then read their thoughts.

It was like throwing a stone onto the surface of a pond.

Naturally, she immediately activated her mind-reading ability.

It was then.

“Where did you hide the spaceship?”

‘The spaceship?’

As soon as she heard those words, information about the spaceship appeared in her mind.

And then she screamed in horror.

“H-How……?”

“I already have the location of the spaceship! And all the codes too!”

It was at that instant.

A bullet from the Gauss weapon shot out and pierced the armored vehicle.

Crack!

And Major Lin Jiayi’s helmet exploded.

〈 End of Chapter 56: Falling into a Trap (3) 〉

Author’s Note

I’m sure everyone was surprised by today’s development.

To think that Didat, the romance and harem guy, would apply the rule of ‘if she’s a heroine, she has to die’……!

T/N:

Didat is the author’s pen name, in case you see it mentioned a lot. Also, I’m starting to leave the notes in the author’s chapters.