(Many thanks to "Youcai Luobo" and "Yunqi Qinggu" for the tips!)
High above Tengu City, the Fraxinus...
At that moment, inside the command room of the Fraxinus, only Kotori sat upon the command dais, while all the rest of the Ratatoskr members were completely absent from the scene.
Since spacequakes occurred without regularity, precursors could only be predicted about a dozen minutes in advance. Once a certain window passed, there was simply no way to forecast when a spacequake would happen, so the personnel of the anti-Spirit organization Ratatoskr generally had no vacations.
The purpose was to be able to sound the spacequake alarm at the very first instant of a spacequake's occurrence every single time, and to promptly take control of the situation regarding the Spirits manifesting in the "adjacent world" in order to respond.
Therefore, barring exceptional circumstances, the command room of the Fraxinus would always leave at least one or two personnel behind, scheduling them for night duty and shift rotations.
However, today, the Diva—Itsuyo Miku, whom Ratatoskr had gone to such exhaustive lengths to entrap—had been successfully sealed, and the Berserker—Yekusaya and Yuzuru, listed as top-priority response targets—had also fallen into their net. To celebrate, Kotori had granted all of Ratatoskr a holiday, letting them off work early.
Naturally, the moment a spacequake was predicted to be imminent, the alarms linked to every Ratatoskr member's radio would sound simultaneously. By then, the Fraxinus would automatically recall all personnel via the teleportation device to deal with the Spirit.
And if no spacequake occurred, then the throng of Ratatoskr members would be able to thoroughly enjoy this hard-earned holiday.
It was just that, clearly, even though Kotori had given everyone in Ratatoskr a holiday, she had never thought of giving one to herself.
Sitting upon the command dais,