"So that's why you were so adamant about putting Clili in Azure Thunder's cockpit... your goal was to turn Azure Thunder into a force you could control. How ruthless, Teacher Calvin."
"Wouldn't you do the same?"
After a silence, Ludik said expressionlessly, "But judging by the current situation, setting aside whether you can achieve your goal... the Ninety-Eighth Impact alone probably won't be an easy hurdle to clear. I've healed Clili, but repairing a gigantic machine like that will take more than a day or two, won't it?"
"At present, two God Eaters are already being transported here, and their pilots will arrive before midnight," Scholar Calvin said solemnly. "As for the academy, we actually have a reserve model as well. Once its adjustments are complete, it can also be deployed."
God Eater was the collective name for combat machines like Azure Thunder.
What they devoured were the gigantic monsters known as Emissaries, yet they called them gods in order to hunt them. Ludik felt this was a desecration of the divine.
That probably offered a glimpse of this world's prevailing ideology. He had found no sign of faith in this pilot academy.
"Then how are we supposed to find the protagonist of this Page World?" Ludik asked again after a moment's thought.
"Any event that causes unusual changes in a Page World will inevitably have the protagonist at its center, or clues closely connected to them," Scholar Calvin said quickly.
Ludik said, "In that case, these successive Impacts count as abnormal events... that fellow who descended after the Ninety-Eighth Impact, Zero?"
Yet Scholar Calvin said gravely, "Actually, regarding Zero... I once saw someone identical in another Page World."
Ludik instantly narrowed his eyes and said abruptly, "Teacher, you haven't only seen someone identical in a Page World... you must