In the CIC of the Aegis destroyer “Ibuki”, the operations specialist raised his voice in surprise to a sudden change.

“Many small groups of meteorite bits have changed their course!”

“What!?”

Kaburagi fixed his eyes on the radar screen. Many of them were set to fall in a direct path to hit here, but their courses were changed. The points where they would fall were probably all over the place.

“The change in the center of gravity and the air resistance have caused them to deviated from their courses.”

The weapons officer delighted in the faint hope to be seen. Now, it looked like they were positioned to fall into the ocean, far away. And, many which had not yet gotten past the atmosphere would naturally decrease to the state of annihilation due to the frictional heat.

But, Kaburagi was not released of all worry. Again the weapons officer yelled.

“S-still, there are those that will get past the atmosphere and fall here!”

Even though they were small meteorites, their destructive power was still that of a few megatons. There’d be no saving them if they were directly hit. But, that was up to the realm of luck.

But, for some reason, Kaburagi had the feeling that they wouldn’t get hit. And, that was right.