She wasn’t some helpless child who needed protecting anymore.
“We need to stand up to the Genesis Army on our own.”
Annette gave her a toothy grin like that was the exact answer she’d been hoping for. “Yo, I’ve been waiting for a job we could do together for ages.”
Her innocent smile made it clear just how excited she was.
In the past, the pairing would have been unthinkable. Erna and Annette spent a lot of their downtime together, but when it came to missions, they generally got partnered up with different members of the team.
In a sense, this was going to be the first time they actually worked together to complete an assignment. And they’d been given a brutally difficult mission to mark the occasion.
The Lylat Kingdom was the land where revolutions died.
Half a year prior, the coup d’état led by Vice-Admiral Grenier ended in failure. The Genesis Army’s spymaster Nike noticed some tiny things out of place in his reports and went to the naval base herself. From there, she got one of Grenier’s right-hand men to betray him and tell her everything.
At Grenier’s trial, he was sentenced to death and was publicly executed via guillotine.
Launching a successful revolution in Lylat was said to be impossible.
Despite knowing that, Lamplight went in anyway.
There was a plot brewing in the world’s shadows—the Nostalgia Project—and in order to learn the truth, they needed to get close to the Lylat prime minister. If they weren’t careful about how they did so, though, Nike the Invincible Tactician God would kill them. Fighting her head-on was an option of absolute last resort.
If they wanted to get to the prime minister, they needed to neutralize the Genesis Army.
That meant bringing about so much chaos that not even Nike could keep it in check.
After thinking long and hard, Klaus arrived at a verdict. It was hardly the most direct solution, but it was going to have to do. The good news was that particular fire already had plenty of fuel.
That plan just so happened to be identical to the one the Inferno twins had tried.
“—we’ll start a revolution. Our job is to overthrow the Lylat government.”
“Soot” Lukas had once made that very same declaration, and now “Fool” Erna was making it, too.
With just two girls, they were going to take down a national government.