[Image: Nebula Blitz]
"Nani?! If that's the case!"
Nicol immediately switched to live ammunition and attacked.
"Bang!"
Dawn evaded most of the attacks, but Neo's evasive maneuvers were rather careless, and quite a few shots still struck him.
Yet Dawn was completely unharmed.
"Although the Earth Alliance can't fully reproduce the Yata no Kagami Armor, this kind of composite armor... is still pretty useful."
Neo, in turn, controlled the Dragoons and resumed the attack.
"Nicol! That person is?!"
Yzak, on this side, also spotted the panicked pair and came over to support them.
But Yzak felt that something about the other side was strangely familiar...
[This can be Reversing the Heavenly Stems too?]
[The first series' villains are completely fighting each other here, lol]
[This should be a boomerang.]
[I just love watching boomerangs.]
[I'm really curious—which is stronger now, Dawn or Daybreak?]
[Probably Dawn. The name hard-counters it.]
[???]
[Don't believe in mysticism.]
After this transition, the scene returned to the base.
"We... retreat."
After seeing those Coordinators get instantly defeated as well, the fanaticism Le Creuset had displayed earlier immediately cooled.
-Retreat.
The Magic Crab, which had seemed utterly ridiculous before, now appeared to have become some terrifying ghost, lurking throughout the base.
If it caught them, they would meet a disastrous end.
He didn't want that!
So they had to retreat!
They had to leave now!
"Are you leaving?" Snow Lotus asked.
"Ah, that's right. I can keep fighting somewhere else. I can still destroy humanity!" Le Creuset panted. "If I can't have it, then humanity's world might as well be destroyed!"
The expression on Le Creuset's face turned savage. "Right, and that thing—how are the preparations going?"
There was still one secret weapon.
He hadn't lost yet!
"We're making the final adjustments," Snow Lotus said.
"Mm...