Gustain

**Gustain** is a communications officer of the Imperial Army Base of the Duro Defense Force of the Parpaldia Empire, who manned the magic signature sensors.

## Personality

Gustain works tracking dragon signals on the magic signature sensor and communicating with the manacomm in charge of the Imperial Army Base of the Capital Defense Force in the air defense communications section at the industrial city, Duro.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

At the beginning of the Duro Air Strike, in the room where the air defense communications section inside the lavish building headquarters of the Imperial Army Base at Duro, communications officer Gustain sat on the commander’s chair, who was showing his lack of interest in fulfilling his duties. He heard on a manacomm, learning the reports from the dragon knights, who flew the wyvern lords in patrol above Duro, and those patrolling the ocean to the east. He thought in his mind that their higher-ups might have raised their alert level to almost the maximum level possible, but he had no idea why they should be worried that Duro might come under attack. He believed Japan was a run-of-the-mill barbarian country, but the empire would emerge victorious.

The loud, ear-splitting sound of one of their dragon knight’s transmissions suddenly getting cut off could be heard throughout the room. He immediately tensed up and took the manacomm transmitter in hand to check in on what had happened. His superior shouted at him a report of what was going on. He responded one of the signatures disappeared, which he believed one dragon knight of Squadron 1 under Magne’s command shot out of the sky. The radar operator reported before Gustain could even order him to check, confirming the Japanese were attacking. He heard Magne’s intense scream and tried to warn Squadron 8 assuming that these unknown fast-flying objects (F-2 fighters) were headed toward them. However, the radar operators and communications officers in the command room, who were only listening in to whatever was reported, didn't see additional signatures and believed possibly Japan was mechanical aircraft. Just as Gustain was about to ask Magne what was going on, they heard Squadron 8 radioing in. They debated what was going on, and the string of bad news didn’t stop. Even the sensor screens were repeating the same confusing and depressing message as their wyverns disappeared at a baffling rate. Gustain had had enough and broadcasted all over the network asking everyone to report in. However, chaos had already gripped the skies to the east, and they found it hard to sieve the reports coming in to paint a picture of what was actually going on. As if jinxing their fates, the dragon knights flying close to the ocean surface started to disappear from their screens. They debated that the Japanese were using mechanical aircraft from Mu with machine guns as a fully-fledged invasion. They found it incomprehensible in many aspects of the attack, but the fact alone that their wyverns were knocked out of the sky, they found enough to warrant it as a precursor to a full-scale invasion.

The sirens exclusively used for emergencies blared out all across the base. Gustain switched the channel to the one used for emergencies before issuing orders to their wyvern units that were already up in the air and on standby on the ground. Manacomm receivers all across broadcasted the alarm, prompting those listening to keep their ears glued for more updates. All personnel across the base were arming themselves as magical anti-air batteries and towed magic artillery alike were hauled out to position and turned around to face the sky. The Duro Defense Force was preparing for battle.

After the JASDF F-2 fighter destroyed the Milishial magical anti-aircraft cannon with 20mm bullets, the F-15 and F-2 fighters flew ahead of the JMSDF BP-3C Orion bombers to intercept them, easily dispersing and exploding a dozen squadrons of dragon knights by the missiles across the city of Duro endlessly. Reports were being screamed out left and right within the communications room. Gustain was shocked in fear as he stared up at the sky from a window. When the BP-3C Orion bombers finally reached the skies above them, they dropped hundreds of bombs. The bombs erupted into enormous explosions as soon as they hit the ground, causing tremendous earthquakes to close the Imperial Army Base. Gustain was carried by his feet off towards somewhere, but he had nowhere to flee. As the bombs reached the base at long last, the flurry of explosions followed suit, leveling everything and everyone that was still standing under a blanket of hellfire, killing Gustain and others in the communications room.

## Trivia

* Gustain only appears as a character in the light novel.