Deep within a forest clearing at Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart...
"Raster Cannon—"
A girl's sharp cry rang out from above the clearing, followed by a piercing whistle through the air.
In the clearing, a deadly beam shot forth like a meteor with an ear-splitting shriek, reaching the beautiful, angelic girl holding a Laser Saber and bearing pure white wings in the blink of an eye.
Facing the formidable beam, Astrea's expression did not change. Her crimson eyes, rippling with illusory frames, shifted slightly as the Laser Saber in her hand suddenly thrust out, striking a point along the side of the beam with lightning speed.
"Bang!"
A fierce force instantly erupted from the girl's slender yet curvaceous body. Transmitted through the Laser Saber in her hand, it was fully applied to the side of the incoming beam, forcibly knocking away the deadly beam capable of erasing everything.
Seeing this, Charlotte, standing atop Sigmund's enlarged dragon head, sucked in a cold breath.
Clashing head-on with the annihilating elements that could erase all things, that Laser Saber had not only failed to vanish, but had even knocked away the Raster Cannon formed from those annihilating elements?... How was that possible?...
"There's no time for you to lose focus, Charlotte..."
While Charlotte was still reeling in shock, a teasing voice slipped into her ears. Immediately afterward, streams of magical light flickered in one corner of the clearing, swirling before pouring into Astrea's body.
"Hah!" Astrea cried. Her wings flapped, and she shot forward, leaving behind afterimages. Within a breath, she appeared above Sigmund's head, gripping her Laser Saber tightly as she brought it down at Sigmund's head without any flourish.
"Whoosh—"
The trembling Laser Saber came whistling down amid a violently oppressive gust. The wind pressed Charlotte's uniform tightly against her body