"Haa... I'm going crazy..."
In a vast office, a girl with long hair lets out a sigh.
The office is wide and tall, but she, who is in it, doesn't look so steadfast.
Her name is 'Nanagami Rin', Chief Administrator of the General Student Council and currently the acting president for the now-missing General Student Council President—a so-called 'high-ranking person'.
So why is a girl in such a high position clutching her head?
Gehenna, which causes trouble almost every other day?
Trinity, where all sorts of political maneuvering runs rampant?
Millennium, which requests strange inventions every day?
No way. The problem wasn't the academies. She had seen those kinds of problems to the point of being sick of them, even before becoming the acting president.
Then is it Sensei, who burns his own salary by pouring it into subculture games?
Or perhaps the Black Market, an uncontrollable territory?
Surely not Kaiser, the cancerous existence of Kivotos?
No. No. It was none of them.
It's not that those aren't problems, but they weren't the cause of her headache.
The cause was just one thing. The Farm.
Huh? Why a farm, so suddenly and out of nowhere?
Surely it's not *that* kind of farm, the one where you plow fields and sow seeds.
A military supplies company — [The Farm]
Market share approximately 67.2%.
Estimated monthly profit alone, 1.2 trillion yen.
A company established just three years ago that, with its unique quality and marketing, had quickly surpassed even Kaiser to become one of Kivotos' leading corporations.
That's what most of Kivotos thought of The Farm, and that was her biggest problem these days.
Ah! So the corporation is committing crimes!
No. It's a fucking model corporation that consistently makes donations, doesn't commit fraud, abides by the law, and pays its taxes.
Looking at its usual conduct, it would have been great if Gehenna were even half as good as The Farm.
Ah! Then it's killing the economy with a monopoly!
No. Gun prices have become about 20% cheaper than during Kaiser's monopoly, and their performance has improved.
In the first place, there was Kaiser, which was practically a criminal enterprise, so a model corporation would obviously be better.
So what's the real problem, then?
"...That crazy bastard, really."
On the tablet Rin is looking at, a video is displayed.
There are three people in the video.
The 'Farmer', a male student with light gray hair who serves as the President of The Farm, and the directors, twins—one with short black hair and one with long hair—named 'A' and 'S'. These were the ones effectively in charge of The Farm, the key figures.
[It's done! A success!]
[Congratulations, President.]
[This is it! Sis, aren't you excited?]
[Not Sis, A. And I am excited. I just don't like making a fuss.]
[Tch, let it go! Anyway, President! How many does this make?]
[With this... it's about four. S.]
Although they wore masks to hide their faces, at a glance, they had a warm atmosphere for a company, so much so that if you showed it to a stranger, they might ask if they were family.
Yes. If only they were just that harmonious, how nice it would be.
"How the hell do they even make this shit..."
If the background they were standing in wasn't a desert where they had just finished a missile test, Rin wouldn't be having such a headache.
Presumably, what they tested wasn't just any missile. As proof, the suspected impact zone has a wide, deep crater dug into it, as if a nuke had gone off.
It's impossible to know how massive the explosion was, but a pit the size of a small academy's campus, fragments of glass heated by the blast that faintly reflect light, and the still-scattering sand and dust are the only clues to go by.
The weapon that caused such a massive explosion, something close to a catastrophe, was none other than the yellow cylindrical device right behind them.
What they called the 'Critical Ordnance Rapid Neutralizer'. In other words, a weapon called CORN.
You heard that right. Those crazy bastards named an unprecedentedly heinous missile after something like corn.
And so, the video Rin was watching ended with S whining to go to a barbecue restaurant for a success celebration party.
Now do you understand why Rin has such a headache?
The company's attitude and the economy are not the problem.
A weapon of ultimate evil whose mere existence is a risk of war, and if launched, would annihilate smaller academies. It could even cause fatalities.
The problem is the Farmer himself, who excitedly builds such things as if they were toys and even conducts test runs.
What's more, looking back at their conversation earlier, they said there are three more of these things.
This alone is dizzying enough, but there's an even more shocking fact.
The one who sent this video was...
[from farmer. 'Think this is approvable?']
...the Farmer himself.
He even sent it asking if something like that could be authorized.
When Rin first saw that email, she seriously considered resigning, which says it all.
So. To summarize, it's like this.
The president of a leading military-industrial complex who possesses overwhelming military power, churns out asymmetrical warfare assets as if printing them, and thinks of it all as a joke or within an acceptable range.
"...I'm losing my mind."
Thanks to that, the Chief Administrator's worries deepen yet again today.
Hm? And what is that Farmer doing, you ask?
"Ah, fuck, I'm screwed."
"You're not very good at games, are you, President?"
"Judging objectively, I recommend you quit."
"Shut your mouths, you bastards."
He's in the middle of a marathon stream of Chronis... anyway, the game that won first place in a kusoge competition.
Well, as long as he's happy, I guess that's all that matters, right?