EPILOGUE
“Are you sure Sakuya will be all right on her own, Lady Selia?”
“…She’s strong. Probably stronger than we know.”
The elevator traveled up to the twelfth floor where the central control room Riselia and Regina were seeking was located.
“It should be past here—”
With Schwertleite guiding them from behind Riselia’s back, the two walked through the narrow hallway.
“…So this is the central control room?”
Past the bulkhead door, they found a large, spacious room with a cylinder-like device in its center.
“Connect me to that device.”
“All right.”
Riselia put down Schwertleite, and plugged her into the device.
“Commencing system link—” Schwertleite said, and her horn started flickering.
It seemed that even for her, taking control of a facility of this size would take some time. As they waited, Riselia pondered.
“It’s strange…”
“What?”
“Why aren’t there any combat machines in the central control room?”
“Probably so the machines don’t damage the equipment here?” Regina answered.
“Even so, there weren’t any stationed outside the bulkhead.”
There were no Demon Sword users, either. It all felt a bit unnatural. The central control room was completely silent, save for the humming of the machinery.
But then…
Crack…
Riselia could barely make out a familiar sound.
Crack, crack, crack, crack…!
“Lady Selia, look!” Regina shouted.
Tears in space formed all around them, and eerie, human-shaped Voids emerged from within them one after another.
“…Regina, get behind me!” Riselia swung the Bloody Sword, cutting down the Voids.
But more and more Voids came out of the tear in space, faster than she could cut them down.
“—Why are Voids coming out all of a sudden?!”
Even taking the Stampede into account, their appearance and movements felt far too deliberate and organized.
Is there a Void Lord nearby…?
With the creaking of breaking glass, a large crack shaped like a spider web appeared, forming an exceptionally big tear in space.
“…Huh?”
Riselia’s ice-blue eyes widened. She froze in place. Because the figure that emerged from that large Void tear was—
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