Léon: The Cat Killer

Nana simply took out a marker, then tore off a piece of cardboard from the pile of cardboard and wrote on it: "[There are people under the bed, please do not step on or squeeze them]"... Then she and Yato moved away from the snoring.

"...Isn't it dangerous for Operator Durin to sleep like that..."

"Um...it's actually not bad, after all, the four of us are taking up such a big room...everyone knows that Dulin always sleeps there."

"...If it's for a good night's sleep, how about having Kroos make a bed with a blackout canopy? It's not good to always cover it with the hovercraft."

"That's a good suggestion. Let's consider it after we return from this Ursus mission..."

Seeing Yato's smile but still keeping his voice low, Nana smiled too. Both of them took out their phones and added each other as friends on the local network, also sharing their team's access codes.

"If you're not getting enough rest, you can come to the HR department's lounge... but mine is for a little kid, so the colors might be a bit bright... I wonder what the other members of Team A4 think..."

"Well, although Dulin looks like a child, she is indeed an adult... As for the others, the old Ranger went to do his own thing since he was on vacation... and Blackhorn and I... don't really like bright light."

"Yes, I understand... In short, the mission itself isn't difficult, but there are quite a few things and dangers to face... I'll probably be dealing with pre-departure preparations from now on. Before we officially set off, I hope the Personnel Department's Action Group and A4 Group can conduct an acclimatization training session as much as possible... because I might also order some non-Rhodes Island standard equipment from outside... everyone at least needs to know how to use it."

“Okay, I will inform everyone to make preparations... You’ve worked hard too, Minister of Medic.”

"Just call me Nana... Well then, I won't disturb your holiday any longer. See you next time."

The conversation was completed in a gentle and soft-spoken manner. As Nana left, Yato turned around and saw Dulin, who was holding up the warship's bow with both hands, looking disheveled.

"...What, did I wake you up?"

"Although I love sleeping, I would wake up if I were approached by that level of murderous aura... When she came to my side, her whole body was warning me of danger. I haven't felt this way in a long time."

Watching the girl, dressed only in a shirt, stretch and yawn, Yato took out a remote and turned up the brightness of the lounge lights slightly.

"Killing intent... that's not how you use that word. Minister Medic didn't actively exude killing intent... what you felt was more like the feeling of being threatened by a wild beast."

"Eh~ So this is what you call a minister? That's rare... In our team, you're the most cautious one, Yato. Isn't 'never speak too intimately with someone you don't know well' your motto?"

In response to the teasing of the short Dulin girl, the masked demon woman removed her eye mask, revealing pale indigo eyes that shone with a fantastical quality under the light... Then, the demon woman drew the long sword she always carried at her waist, placed it on a cardboard box, and began to maintain it.

She couldn't recall when she stopped placing her hand on the knife handle in front of Medic.

But she also had her reasons.

"...It's just rare to meet a colleague who has become a 'mother'...it's quite moving..."

P.S.: Waaaaaah!

PS2: After thinking about it, I realized that sending out a teammate of Wendy's caliber right away might not be enough... So, after looking around for low-level operators, who could help repair the vehicle? It has to be Durin.

The main problem is that Du Lin's pictures are getting increasingly erotic... There are more pictures of him without clothes than with clothes, which is a bit of a problem for me.

Let's go with something similar.

Image: "Dulin", Location: "Images/1684903301-100361166-110347060.jpg"

3rd This Land: 074 Vehicle Enhancement, a Gold Infusion

Nana had no idea how Yato had arranged things for her. The cat killer, who valued efficiency and timeliness, returned to his office after informing the A4 action team, seeing that there was still some time before lunch, to begin the formal manpower mobilization report.

Aya is an intern under my supervision, and her assignment is directly under the Emergency Department... The Human Resources Department's Action Team and the Emergency Department's Action Team are actually one team, so Aya's file status only needs to be checked in the system to see if she is on field duty.

However, Aya's departure means that the ship's emergency medical services will be suspended, and there will be no one to act as a fire brigade or emergency personnel. If an emergency occurs on the ship while she is away, it would be quite a bad thing to find that no one answers the emergency phone.

Nana told Kal'tsit about this on her phone... Kal'tsit replied that there was no need to worry, as there would be a new attending physician-level member to take over in Kazdel.

However, since the files of those three people have not yet been logged into Rhodes Island, Nana does not know their details. But since Kal'tsit has made arrangements, Nana can go and handle her own affairs without worry.

For example, Sussuro, who is also a colleague in the medical department.

Although she is not an operations operator, she belongs to the medical department and has experience working with Nana... so as long as she notifies Sussuro's superior, Touch, via mobile phone and reports to the head of the medical department, Kal'tsit, via PRTS, she can be transferred to the operations team.

It seems that because of the addition of many interns, the medical department's work can continue even though Nana has transferred Sussuro away... The only question is whether Touchprint will go crazy with the increased workload after taking away a senior medical operator like Sussuro...

Nana could only say that she would bring back gifts for the medical team members... Sending more small gifts to build good relationships would reduce resistance if there was a need to regroup the troops in the future.

Unlike the medical department, the action team falls entirely within the authority of the human resources department.

Rosemary, as a senior elite operator, maintains her own independent staff because Kal'tsit granted her permission to use her, making it the most convenient time for Kitten to handle her personnel file.

Although Huang became an elite operator in the past three years, she still belonged to the E3 Operations Group. To mobilize her, it was necessary to notify ACE through the system. Since the E3 Operations Group did not carry out field missions, Huang was brazenly stuffed into Nana's team by Nana using the authority of the personnel department.

It made Nana wonder if she was abusing her power?

Of course, if Nana really wanted to abuse the personnel department's manpower allocation authority, she would probably transfer all of Rhodes Island's high-level combatants into her own squad...

In reality, senior elite operators like ACE and Outcast have ministerial-level authority... Nana, as the nominal personnel minister, only has authority on par with everyone else. Leaving aside issues like access permissions, abuse of authority is out of the question...

The main reason why Nana feels she is abusing her power is probably because when she was in the ICA, the Cat Killer's operations were entirely handled by her agent.

Now, she was in control of Rhodes Island's personnel arrangements, able to include whoever she wanted in her missions according to her own wishes… For Nana, this was a completely new experience.

Finally, I added my electronic signature to the end of Aya's written "Notification Regarding Operator Vanilla's Transfer to the Reserve Operator Training Camp"... Aside from almost writing "77" instead of "Medic," there were no other problems.

"...Then came the notification of the team merger between Franka, Razer, and Jessica...and the A4 Operations Group's call-up request report..."

With all the formalities settled, Nana looked at everyone's files and began preparing the action plan and materials... In the past, her manager had handled all these things for her; now she had to learn to make decisions on her own.

First, let's assess their abilities... The old friends have the kitten to help with their training, and once they meet the kitten, Nana will have a pretty good idea of ​​everyone's skill level... As for the A4 Action Team, judging from the information, they seem to be a very traditional mercenary team.

A captain who uses a knife and has a rather aggressive approach to action.

A heavily armored character who uses a shield and serves as the captain's thought process.

A sorcerer responsible for maintaining all the team's belongings, big and small, and also acting as their mascot. (Additionally...)

There's also a seasoned sniper operator with extensive combat experience and a comprehensive knowledge of all things—a veritable encyclopedia...

Just as Kroos recommended, this setup seems perfectly capable of being used not only for logistics but also for advancing alongside the main force.

Rhodes Island members should have a higher level of professionalism than ICA members, so Nana probably won't worry about fighting on the front lines while her support staff just drive off... After all, she's an operator Kal'tsit has labeled as the 'cornerstone of Rhodes Island,' so her trust level should be maxed out.

While the A4 operation team, lacking medics and support operators, is ill-equipped for continuous high-intensity combat, if the logistics team falters, either the frontline operation team will be wiped out, allowing the main enemy force to advance, or the team leader himself will have made a fatal oversight in assessing the battlefield situation…彡

Nana took a deep breath, reminding herself that she held more than just her own life in her hands... She then began checking the team's safety precautions.

First, regarding measures to stabilize the condition of Oripathy patients within the team... In the team, Hoshiguma, Sussurro, Franka, Blackhorn, and Yato are all infected... If we add myself and Kitten, who are in the special situation of having negative infection rates but are still infected, then 7 out of the 12 members of the team need to be monitored for their infection status.

Nana knew that Rhodes Island possessed an Originium infection detection device improved by the Engineering Department, but according to the files kept by the Human Resources Department, the device, which was mostly made into wristbands and legbands, only had a monitoring end and no network connectivity... It seemed that due to privacy regulations, the infection records would only be updated at Rhodes Island after Rhodes Island notified or dispatched a messenger to collect the data, and the Medical Department would have to rely on the data to formulate subsequent treatments later.

Essentially, the infection monitoring loop doesn't have the ability to actively intervene in the disease... That's why Nana insisted on bringing Sussuro along... In critical moments, without a doctor in the team, someone might really die suddenly.

We can't really expect Nana, who only knows how to perform emergency surgery and end-of-life care, to treat Oripathy.

But having doctors is not enough; you also need medicine... However, counterintuitively, Rhodes Island headquarters doesn't have a large stockpile of Oripathy inhibitors.

After Rhodes Island's pharmaceutical factories around the world ship their products, most of them are distributed to Rhodes Island's various offices nearby... Only some large factories will accumulate enough drugs every few weeks or even months, and then transport them to Rhodes Island's main island via large third-party transport aircraft.

In many cases, if Rhodes Island wants to replenish its medicines, in addition to growing or synthesizing them itself, it needs Rhodes Island landships to shuttle between various pharmaceutical factories to purchase the goods.

The bad news is that the current drug inventory on Rhodes Island's main ship obviously doesn't allow Nana to squander it. The amount of blocking drugs that Nana can mobilize is only enough for one team to go out and meet their own drug needs.

The good news is that there is a pharmaceutical factory invested in by Rhodes Island in the Kazdel region. Although it is not large, the inventory is enough for Nana to fill an exploration vehicle and go to Ursus to show off in front of people in the name of Rhodes Island. This would definitely be enough to infiltrate the social circle of the infected as bait.

Clearly, even during the civil war, neither the Sarkaz nor the White Emperor's faction intended to target the pharmaceutical factory... Nana didn't know if it was due to an internal Sarkaz agreement, but it was simply the White Emperor's faction protecting it... In any case, the factory wasn't interfered with by the Sarkaz, nor was it blown up by competitors from other countries... This really demonstrates Kal'tsit's ability to survive in the cracks.

After all... if a large pharmaceutical company were to continuously supply the Sarkaz with Oripathy prevention drugs, the thought of the Royal Court Army's Sarkaz being able to use Originium Arts without worrying about Oripathy would be a heart-stopping experience for the surrounding countries.

That's a bit of a tangent... Anyway, the cat killer first applied for a truckload of medicine in the system, with a ratio of four common medicines to six Oripathy blocking medicines, and the purpose was marked as Ursus Icebreaker... Of course, some of it was for personal use as well.

After ensuring the availability of medication, the next step is vehicle maintenance.

She took out the usage records of that car from Black Steel again... The main body of the car should be fine, but what worried Nana more was the living area inside the car.

Of course, Black Steel said they would thoroughly clean the place before delivering it, and previous users would take their personal belongings with them... The situation like TDD's, where they hurriedly took someone's belongings along with their belongings, obviously won't happen again.

Nana's concern wasn't about the residual effects of the previous user's use... but rather the living area's adaptability to the Ursus region.

It's important to know that the vehicle had undergone special modifications... Back then, in order to resist the Originium rain that was codenamed Black Edge, TDD's shipping department urgently reinforced the exploration vehicle with an outer layer of armor and Originium-resistant materials for the partitions.

There was nothing inherently wrong with this, but the problem was that in order to complete the modification as quickly as possible without affecting its future use, TDD's ship crew chose to directly remove the multi-layer insulation panels of the exploration vehicle's interlayer and replace them with Originium radiation-resistant materials... In Colombia, where the climate is relatively mild, the lack of insulation materials was simply a problem that could be solved by increasing the power of the vehicle's air conditioning.

However, in the vast snowfields of Ursus, the dangerously low temperatures are not a problem for a particular season or time of year, but rather a constant threat.

It would be very uneconomical to expect air conditioning to solve all low-temperature problems based on this... after all, other devices also need electricity.

Using lead-lined plates designed to counteract Originium radiation for insulation is definitely not an option.

"...So, the replacement interlayer components...should be manufactured by the engineering department? Is there enough time? We'll be arriving in Kazdel soon, a place with distinct summers and winters. Can we order ready-made insulation materials there?"

After thinking about it for a while, Nana still felt it was better not to have high expectations for Kazdel's industrial capabilities... Just to be on the safe side, Nana called Kroos, a native of Kazdel, for advice.

She completely agreed with Nana's guess. The cola-flavored blood demon even recommended that Nana go directly to Thor Heavy Industries to buy a ready-made one while the intercity network was still running... After all, Rhodes Island's own engineering department was currently working hard to process its own orders, and even if Nana placed an expedited order, Kroos wouldn't be able to conjure up the insulation layer for the exploration vehicle before arriving in Kazdel.

After all, Rhodes Island isn't the Columbia Security Service... Kal'tsit has never even played with this toy car that took years to come out.

Since Kroos said this was the only way to make it in time for Nana's travel plans, and out of trust in Rhodes Island's chief engineer, Nana wrote Kroos's words into the funding request form submitted to Kal'tsit and placed the order in the name of Rhodes Island Medic.

Since Nana had free access to the internet, the contact process was quick and convenient. The representative from Thor Industries was very friendly after hearing that it was 'Medic from Rhodes Island'. Seeing that they offered a 10% discount and removed the initial offer, Nana didn't haggle over the price, and the whole deal was finalized very easily.

Whether Kal'tsit would hang Kroos up and beat her up after receiving the bill for six million LMD was none of Nana's business... after all, she probably hadn't even returned from Ursus by then.

After ordering the insulation components, Nana also considered adding some other things to the car...

When Raytheon Industries heard that Nana was going to modify the Hero Exploration Vehicle, they put a lot of things out of their mouths to promote their products... including miniaturized vehicle-mounted automatic Originium cannons and close-range defense systems that were only available to the armies of various countries.

The former is a small, single-mounted turret modeled after city defense cannons, but with a caliber of only 100 mm, while the latter has a caliber of 20 mm and a rate of fire of up to 12,000 rounds per minute.

They are typically installed on land-based ships like Rhodes Island, which are over 500 meters long, to intercept incoming spells and projectiles, and also to suppress smaller targets like road bandits.

The prototype of this thing is obviously the revolver used by the Lateran Papal Gunners, and Nana knows that Columbia and Victoria have both conducted imitation research on similar weapons... However, it is only Columbia, a place that uses firearms as its main weapon, that would tacitly allow Thor Heavy Industries to complete the imitation under the watchful eyes of Lateran.

It has never been commercialized... or rather, given its international relations with Laterano, Raytheon Heavy Industries has never openly sold the replica weapons from the Revolver Base.

The reason they're willing to give it to Nana now is probably because Medic is from Columbia, or perhaps they're hoping to invest in Rhode Island.

After all, there are real profits to be made from a deep collaboration with Rhodes Island. Blacksteel has managed to get rid of its infected employees over the past three years, and it's hard to say that it hasn't already made a fortune.

However... this close-in weapon system requires a massive ammunition depot to function...

This might not be a big deal for a land-based vessel like Rhodes Island, but for an exploration vehicle like the Base Walker, where every inch of space is crucial, it's really too extravagant.

Despite the strong recommendation from Raytheon Industries, Nana still purchased two vehicle-mounted automatic cannons to fill the gap in the original exploration vehicle's lack of weaponry.

They will cover the vehicle's omnidirectional threat from the left and right, and from the front and back... Although it is indeed difficult to fire two weapons at the same time with such a diagonal arrangement, it is enough for self-defense weapons to fire without blind spots.

However... in this way, the two turrets are worth two million, and the supporting ammunition and electronic equipment are worth eight million. As a result, Nana only made a preparation, and Rhodes Island threw away sixteen million LMD, which is half the price of an exploration vehicle.

It seemed that the other party also noticed Nana's hesitation when she was about to pay the bill, and the Raytheon Industries staff then readily provided free interior and exterior cleaning, vehicle maintenance, and assembly and modification services.

Although it's unclear why everyone suddenly seems to know that I'm driving to Ursus, Raytheon Industries assured me that if Blacksteel delivered the car to them, they would install equipment and perform vehicle maintenance free of charge... ensuring the mission was completed on time and to a high standard, while also delivering it to Nana for free.

In the past, Nana would definitely not have cared about such small favors, but they said that if Rhodes Island was even one second late, Thor Industries would pay ten times the full amount of the order in cash.

This confident statement left the cat, who was new to large-scale online shopping, feeling a little dizzy... and even suddenly hoping that the other party would be a little late... after all, there was money to be made.

The other party also seemed to know that if they didn't appease the client after completing such a large transaction of ten million, this would be their last transaction with Rhodes Island.

Raytheon Industries guaranteed that they would completely refurbish the vehicle's tires, brake discs, and other important components. As for the complimentary pink living quarters, which were said to be suitable for children and female crews and had a popularity rate of over 99%, Nana thought they were just sugar-coated bullets...

Since we've already bought the cannonballs, we might as well take advantage of the sugar coating.

After gritting her teeth and internally criticizing Raytheon Industries' behavior, Nana chose a less glaring renovation plan... This was based on the fact that Yato had photosensitivity in her files, and that Dulin had morbid narcolepsy.

The vehicle refurbishment and maintenance can be considered as completing the most difficult part of the mission, namely the vehicle itself.

After all, Nana's original plan was to have Dulin take charge of these things, which would be a huge workload and a heavy task... For someone with narcolepsy, this would probably be worse than killing her.

Ultimately, Nana resolved the issue by outsourcing it.

Nana then instructed Blacksteel to send the vehicle to Raytheon Industries, which was next to their headquarters, and began to rack her brains about how to write the expense report.

Ah... is this the reason why my manager always frowns before I start a mission?

Nana also began to understand how painful it was to ask her superiors for funding.

In short, let's talk to Kroos first. Kroos sent the final contract, quotation, and communication records to the engineering department all at once. She first sent a question mark to the PRTS channel, and then Nana's phone rang.

Caller ID – Kal'tsit.

PS: Waaaaaah, kitty

3rd This land: 075 Receiving a package

Nana has gone missing; she's been missing for several days.

Or perhaps the word 'missing' doesn't quite fit, since she wasn't actually lost, and she still washes up and goes to sleep at night with Rosemary, who patiently waits...

But the kitten couldn't find Nana before dawn, and not only did Nana not participate in the supposed acclimatization training, but she also didn't show up at the celebratory dinner after the training was completed.