"Why are you so heavy?!"
For Honolulu, being able to keep moving was already a miracle. Yet all her efforts to drag St. Louis proved futile, only making her own body grow heavier. This was the price of squeezing out the last of her remaining time.
"..."
Using her last bit of strength to break free from Honolulu's grasp, St. Louis slowly closed her eyes as Honolulu's voice seemed to fade farther and farther away, the light in her eyes gradually dimming.
"Honolulu, Helena... live..."
"Big sister!"
"St. Louis!"
Feeling the weight vanish from their hands, Honolulu and Helena widened their eyes, watching in unbearable grief as St. Louis was blasted into the air amid a spray of water.
Not far away, Yingrui, whose beautiful silver-and-purple hair had been reduced to short hair by battle damage, also watched the figure launched into the air by a main-gun shell with sorrow-filled eyes.
"Zhenhai!"
Having just torn open the Mirror Sea's extradimensional space from an uninhabited area and entered it, Gwen immediately discovered two dark figures flying rapidly toward him.
Sensing the sorrow radiating from the two figures but no sense of danger, Gwen caught one in each hand, not allowing them to fall after reaching the apex of their flight.
The instant they landed in his hands, Gwen discovered the appalling condition of the two critically injured women—
One had a broken spine, while the other's lower body had suffered comminuted fractures.
One was almost dead, while the other was barely breathing and not long for this world...
A Favor from the First Carrier Division
"Ah!"
"St. Louis!"
Yorktown, who had followed Gwen through the opening he had torn apart with his bare hands into the Mirror Sea, recognized the person in Gwen's left hand at a glance.
St. Louis's nearly