Tragedy means tearing beautiful things apart for all to see / Is he your Commander or ours?

"I'm all right..."

Feeling the abundant psionic energy flowing from Gwen, Yorktown shook her head gently, her expression turning serious.

"Just now, while my carrier aircraft were hunting down Observer and the other two ships, an unknown enemy shot them down before they could even spot the target."

"An enemy who could shoot down your carrier aircraft without even you noticing, Yorktown?"

Bumblebee cried out in surprise at Yorktown's words.

Already certain that her eldest sister had been the one to instantly destroy the Sirens who had put them through such misery, Bumblebee could scarcely imagine what sort of enemy could shoot down her sister's carrier aircraft before she could react—

Of the three Yorktown-class sisters, Enterprise was the most famous, but Yorktown was no less formidable. Back when they had fought those lunatics from the Sakura Empire...

While Bumblebee's thoughts wandered, Enterprise, whose emotions had been pulled back from their extremes by Yorktown's and Gwen's psionic energy, adjusted her naval cap and spoke.

"During the battle earlier, I asked Observer and the others what they hoped to accomplish. They told me they wanted to squeeze as much power out of us as possible to face their true enemy.

"I don't know what they meant by their true enemy, but we can be certain that there is an enemy even the Sirens fear, one that drove them to conduct this unprecedentedly cruel experiment.

"And an experiment on a completely different level from their previous ones, with even Observer and the others participating personally, could very well involve higher-ranking Sirens, either as participants or overseers.

"For example...

"The Arbitration Mechanism they mentioned."

Although Yorktown had not explicitly said so, their behavior led Enterprise to suspect that Gwen was the Commander her sister had mentioned, so she held nothing back.

"The Arbitration