Chapter 24 "A Duel Like Out of a Knight's Tale

Reporter Mike: "Can you talk a bit more about the new weapons?"

Prosen infantryman, puzzled: "Aren't you allies? Don't allies share secrets with each other?"

Under the agreement signed last year, Ante, the Federation, and the United Kingdom agreed to exchange intelligence on their respective weapons, but this exchange required one party to be aware of the existence of such weapons and then to make a request.

Moreover, concerning captured Prosen military equipment, the allies were to share technical intelligence in order to prepare well in advance; if an ally requested to send a technical team for field mapping, no country could refuse.

Reporter Mike did not explain this to the Prosen man, simply brushing it off with: "I think our diplomats or military attachés should know about it, but I'm just a reporter. Please describe that weapon to me."

The infantryman recalled and said, "It looks... a bit like an elongated version of the Papasha submachine gun..."