"This..."
Faced with Vita's teasing and everyone's gathered gazes, Anna's eyes drifted uncertainly, not knowing how to answer.
Fortunately, a timely voice saved Anna from her embarrassment—
"Hehe...
All right, Vita, stop teasing Anna."
"Hm?
Captain, you're awake?"
Although she knew full well that the one before her was only a thoughtform, not the real Gwen whose whereabouts were unknown, Anna was still overjoyed.
"Mm, I just finished syncing the information."
Gwen nodded and looked at everyone in the room—
Regardless of their identities or strength, everyone bore on the backs of their hands the emblem Gwen had left behind when the Antimatter Legion had arrived beyond the Solar System.
"Everyone, I'll be counting on you this time..."
As his words fell, wisps of flame quietly ignited across Gwen's thoughtform, directly activating the ritual.
"You..."
Vita, who had wanted to trade a few jabs with Gwen, opened her mouth, sighed softly, and was the first to pour her power into the flames.
The others in the room followed suit, channeling their strength and heartfelt intentions into them—
Although what Gwen needed more was their feelings, feelings usually needed some medium to be conveyed, such as power.
At the same time, on Earth and in the Lands Between, the thoughtforms Gwen had left behind also turned into two clusters of flame, turning themselves and the gathered power into kindling, transmitting those heartfelt intentions into his heart.
Meanwhile, within the World Bubble, the girls gathered once more at the signal amplification tower. Streams of Psionic Energy converged, harmonized through the two hubs of Yorktown and Observer Zero, then were transmitted to Gwen.
As those heartfelt intentions and convictions reached him, the body of Wingless Noah, which Gwen had transformed into beneath the Divine Cloth, suddenly erupted with dazzling radiance.
"Whew..."
Feeling the