What follows is a sudden burst of light and sound: A streak of bright hot light as narrow as the weapon that spawned it races across the water, causing a small parting of the choppier tops of those incoming waves before it vanishes from sight.

"...Whoa."

Manabu has spent a lot of time in basic training, handling and cleaning and dismantling and reconfiguring laser-based weaponry, but he's never had his hands on a gravity saber before, and while he's not the one firing the shot, he still has the same awe as he would as a kid just reading about it.

This is way overkill, he thinks.

Still really rad, though.