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“This will be a pretty difficult fight. Is that all right?”
“Don’t be ridiculous! I’ll handle it somehow.”
Rebecca was frustrated by his restrictions, but she was elated to fight beside Blitzdonner after so long.
“Where’s the professor?”
“What?”
The professor was Daian.
“He has already joined her. He will be able to achieve his goal on his own.”
“So that was his objective all along.”
Blitzdonner knew why Daian had come to the test site. The major had told Daian that he could not be his escort, but Daian’s mission seemed to have gone well.
“Then let’s hang in there a little longer!”
“Yes, Major!”
The two known as the Crimson Hawk ran toward the fresh batch of troops that had just appeared.
Meanwhile, beneath headquarters...
“Hmm...”
Meitzer was languishing in his underground cell when he heard noises. Sounds of battle: gunfire, shouts and explosions.
“The situation has changed?”
The sounds were so faint, normal human ears wouldn’t have heard. However, they were audible to him. At the same time, he heard something else. Faint footsteps...
“Who’s there?”
Had Hitzinger and his comrades come back? Or was it only him?
It was neither one. It was not a soldier at all.
Someone had entered the test facility during the battle all alone.
“What in the world...?” Seeing the woman who appeared, Meitzer covered his face. Of all the possibilities he could imagine, this added the very worst to the worst. “Why are you here?”
She responded to Meitzer’s question with a perky smile. “It looked like a fun party, so I decided to crash it.”
Before him stood the woman who had secretly controlled the world for over one hundred years. Even now, she was controlling August and trying to start the next Great War. It was the Saint.