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Above Tengu City, aboard the Fraxinus...
"Anything you want to explain, say it all now..."
In the command room, Kotori sat at the commander's console with a stern face, looking down at him. Her eyes held a distinctly unfriendly glint; one look was enough to tell that this little sister was in a very bad mood...
"Ahaha..." Seeing Kotori's hostile expression, Wu Yan gave an awkward laugh. He glanced around at the Ratatoskr members staring intently at him, his expression becoming slightly unnatural and causing the anger in Kotori's heart to flare even further...
"Ratatoskr's purpose is to resolve the problem of Spacequakes peacefully through dialogue with Spirits. That was why Ratatoskr was founded in the first place!" Kotori pointed the lollipop in her hand at Wu Yan and scolded him without mercy.
"And what were you doing? You actually went straight into a fight with a Spirit! How was that any different from those AST people?!"
Wu Yan choked at those words, then muttered softly.
"When I ran into Kurumi back then, weren't we fighting the whole time too? You were clearly having a lot of fun fighting yourself..."
"Huh? Did you just say something?..." Kotori narrowed her eyes, a malicious smile appearing on her face that made her look especially dangerous.
"I didn't hear you very clearly. Could you please say it louder?..."
"I'm saying there was no other choice, wasn't there?..." Wu Yan said irritably. "In that situation, was I supposed to just stand there and take the hits?..."
"So what?!" Completely unaware of how unreasonable her words were, Kotori spoke in a distracted yet matter-of-fact tone.
"It's not like they can kill you anyway!"
"Hearing you