Escape Speed (Volume)

is the first volume of the Escape Speed light novel series, written by Nozomu Kuoka and Illustrated by Gin. It was released under the Dengeki Bunko Imprint in February 2012.

Synopsis
'''Awaken, boy! A non-stop action by the strongest weapons, the demons, set in a closed town! The 18th Dengeki Novel Prize  winning work!'''

Showa 1 ○ Summer of 1st year. The island nation of the Far East, Yashima, was devastated by the war 20 years ago. In the abandoned town of Jinten, people lived under the threat of runaway combat machines. While escaping her combat weapons, the girl Kanaha meets a strange boy sleeping in her casket and a giant bee, and she asks her to help her. That was the moment when the girl and the boy signed a "master-slave contract". The boy's name is Kinshi's Navagraha. "Bee" and the boy were ultra-high-performance strategic weapons called "Kichu". Kanoha treats Navagraha, who has no human emotions because it is a weapon, as a human being and interacts with him. It was Navagraha, which gradually began to have a heart, but the same demon insect as Navagraha, the dragonfly of the four heavens, came flying ── !?

(source: Bookwalker JP - Translated)