章 137: 27.5 Rig System?

"And as for you, Shade and Shizu, I found the button. Get ready for some assistance on my end."

Turning off the comms, I hovered my finger on the one button that Shade said would turn this entire [Rig] into a veritable fortress. I didn't know how it would work, but I could only assume that this thing was just going to go transformer on us and shift into something cool.

Or maybe it'd just switch gears from cruise control to actually zooming across the water.

"Now's gonna be a good time to press that thing!" Guidance yelled out, her eyes still peeled towards the outside world. "They're starting to gain on us."

[*BOOM! SPLASH!*]

More cannonballs made close contact with the ship, one being blocked by Maruki while the other grazed us by the skin of our teeth. Looking at the chart, the enemy was indeed starting to catch up with all of our running away, the red triangle blinking ever so closer to our location with each second that passed.

"Anytime now!"

"Pressing it!"