Murphy sat on the sofa, admiring the high-altitude scenery outside the window, and said to Paula:
"What? Is the situation over at Charldo Harbor really bad?"
"Bad? Using that word to describe the current situation at Charldo Harbor is a bit too gentle."
Paula took out two cans of soda from her mechanical fridge, and with the cool opener on her mechanical arm, she opened them, handed one to Murphy, and casually complained:
"You haven't seen the tense posture of our Half-body Man city, the events near the Brass Fortress have scared the Steam Lords so bad that they've now put the entire city under martial law. One-fifth of the Half-body Men aged 30 to 300 have received enlistment notices.
All inventory steam walkers have been activated, even the trains on the peninsula have begun to be armed.
