No one knew when it had started, but television programs in the Star Abyss had become increasingly strange.
"'Nine Clans' Biological Purification Net, produced by Imperial State Military Industries—the finest choice for interstellar expansion, worthy of your trust..."
Nomi watched the shopping commercial in boredom. It was not that she had any interest in something designed to slaughter entire families; she was merely trying to distract herself.
"Honestly, the group's stock price suddenly crashing this time was obviously a planned short attack. Whether Red King was in the Layer Abyss had nothing to do with the stock price. This was all staged to fleece retail investors..."
The priestess from the Temple of Annihilation was named Lista Kacha. She had been chattering endlessly beside Nomi since earlier.
She was somewhat of a conspiracy theorist. Rather than preaching and recruiting converts like a proper priestess, she spent every day obsessing over international politics and the ecosystem of Interstellar Civilization.
Although Nomi had already served in the Joint Army for 277 months and had long encountered all sorts of bizarre comrades, she still found someone as unhinged as Lista difficult to accept.
"Don't be fooled by appearances. The Layer Abyss Joint Army may be able to consistently conduct large-scale military operations, but behind the scenes, the three Layer Abyss Narratives are all fighting for the right to speak."
Lista slowly turned her twelve fingers around a crystal-ball artifact, her tone dripping with mockery. "Take Wellington Dubler, the combat staff officer of the Centaur-101 Space Brigade. He's a spy planted by the Regent Crown Prince of the Imperial State. Meanwhile, brigade commander Darwin Rivar is a Silver Dragon noble from the old Zheng Long Banner group, one of those superior people personally named by Red King... Do you think all these people gathering in