Nah it's fine. Hollywood and CoD taught me that the hostage taker dies instantly when shot and has no reflex action whatsoever. Lelei would be fine I'm sure.
In reality, SOP is never to just rush a hostage taker or shoot them except as a last resort. Technically, you can shoot someone in certain places so they drop immediately (this is why practice targets in police/military training have a vague T-shape, these are the centers to aim for). But something can always go wrong. Lol, especially if you try to tackle them instead of shoot them. You try everything else first.
As for why she revealed herself and the hostage. Well, she's at the Gate. The only way out of this world? The one packed shoulder to shoulder with soldiers with no other way through, now or later? At a time her comrades are on the other side?
Still might seem like a half-baked plan yeah, but remember, the guy on the other side's not worried....
I'm a bit fuzzy on remembering this, so some of what comes next might be wrong. I read this part...7~8 years ago?
Anyway...
Basically all the remaining big players end up at this one spot. Itami's group, the JSDF Gate forces leadership, the Chinese agents, Prince Diablo...and then also the other foreign spies, mainly the Americans. The Chinese try to pretend to wreck the Gate to force the JSDF to let Lelei through, the Americans intervene because it wasn't a part of their deal. Turns out the Americans had always planned to double cross the Chinese anyway and take Lelei, I think to dress it up as a 'favor' that the Japanese can't reject, so to speak. But the Chinese knew that they planned to double-cross them, so they double-crossed them first, that's why this whole situation happened.
That's the main content of the next chapter or so at least. If you want to know the rest of the arc, and the whole series, because we're near the end....
Americans decided to go with a fallback plan of supporting the Japanese openly and directly after all, so the Chinese are in a pinch and then everyone starts shooting. Yes, like all-out battle. The Gate finally gives out and collapses, which leads to an incursion event by a third world...full of bugs. Like starship trooper arachnids or starcraft zerg, which start massacring people. I'm hazy on what happens next cuse alot of things moved quickly I think, but the gist is eventually the portal is closed, isolating all three worlds again. Some JSDF end up on the Alnus side, including Itami and his harem. Some by choice but not Itami I think. Speaking of choice, Japan had decided closing the Gate was for the best anyway (at least in the short term), and they were going to let whoever wanted to stay on either side do so. So it works out for them politically, though things ended up bloodier than intended.
Cue the infamous 4 year time skip, and somehow Lelei found a way to recreate a Gate. There's an implication of a kind of Stargate-esque direction from this point, but as far as this story is concerned, it ends with Itami finally being able to attend Comiket again.
Cue the infamous 4 year time skip, and somehow Lelei found a way to recreate a Gate. There's an implication of a kind of Stargate-esque direction from this point, but as far as this story is concerned, it ends with Itami finally being able to attend Comiket again.
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