"Impact point confirmed!"
"Damn, it drifted left by ten meters!"
"Correcting now—"
"Reload complete!"
Inside the courtyard walls of the Governor's Mansion, the towering cannon belched a thick tongue of flame, firing a 100mm high-explosive bomb towards the streets near the harbor.
Stepping over the ejected shell case, the loader skillfully moved forward to complete the reloading and closed the breech, while the gunner simultaneously adjusted the firing parameters, ready to fire the next round.
However, before he could pull the lanyard he had just run away with, he was slapped on the back of the head.
"Have you gone mad? Firing at Tulip Street?!" The officer, breaking into a sweat, stormed forward and grabbed the gunner by the collar, swearing furiously.
That was Tulip Street!
Not a single person living there was someone he could afford to provoke!
The gunner, scolded and bewildered, stammered,
"But—but they're right there..."
"Not even—"