"No." Inori Yuzuriha spoke. "We're out of time."
"Huh?"
The people present did not quite understand what Inori Yuzuriha meant.
At that moment, a Funnell robot materialized.
"I repaired a Funnell," Inori Yuzuriha said. "And just now, it connected to the network."
An image appeared.
"What is this?"
A white palace.
"Washington, from a little while ago."
Inori Yuzuriha spoke.
The territory of the Atlantic Federation.
At first, there was nothing unusual about the image. It was so quiet that it almost looked like a still picture.
—However.
At that moment, a green pillar of light suddenly appeared on the screen.
The beam burned straight through the white point of light, and the image itself quickly vanished as well.
Everyone's eyes widened when they saw that scene.
"Requiem!"
There was no doubt that it was Requiem's beam.
But—how was that possible?!
"Le Creuset prepared not two bases, but three," Inori Yuzuriha said. "Although the first two have now been rendered useless, the last one has already fallen under the Coordinators' control."
As she spoke, the image changed.
"...Just now, we detected Blue Cosmos remnants' third base." A blonde woman appeared on the screen.
Durandal was sitting beside her.
However, Durandal did not say a word. He merely sat there.
—He probably did not have the chance to speak.
"Although we carried out a timely purge, one beam still struck Earth, causing an unfortunate incident. However, we have now secured this third Requiem base, likely Blue Cosmos's last. Yet LOGOS and its Blue Cosmos lackeys remain stubbornly alive, so we will continue striking them..."
No one stepped forward to refute her.
Some were afraid of provoking trouble.
More simply could not speak up.
It was not only Orb that had suffered Gungnir's attack. The core members of most resistance factions around