Xiao Hui didn't pause. She casually waved her hand, and shared the view from the other side with Countess Black Moon as well.
And so, the sight of two towering giants of light, one gold and one silver, each as imposing as a planet, swinging their fists at each other appeared right before her eyes.
"W-what is this, some kind of tokusatsu show?" Black Moon had just been about to make a snarky remark, but when she looked at the surroundings, the words caught in her throat.
There was no helping it. Tokusatsu shows were, after all, niche works aimed at children. They couldn't really use a backdrop this magnificent.
She could see the vast backdrop of a stellar battlefield, and countless enormous battleships tearing into one another. Gigantic man-made structures of steel were set ablaze by scorching beams, themselves also man-made, and turned into blazing torches. Shattered fragments of battleships scattered into every corner of space. Most would be consumed by the ever-present cosmic radiation, but a considerable number would drift through the stars for thousands upon thousands of years, captured by the gravity of planets and gradually forming what were known as ship graveyards.
As for the crews aboard those fallen battleships, the moment their spacecraft were destroyed, they had already been blown to pieces. But compared to their companions who were flung into space and slowly killed by the cold and suffocation, dying in the explosion had been lucky.
"The Battle of the Bloodgate System?" Countess Black Moon asked curiously. She had already spotted those triangular battleships, shaped like sharp arrows, and recognized them, of course. These ships, seen only in historical records and museums, belonged to the ancient Ero Empire, which had fallen nearly a thousand years ago.
"This should be that Imperial Duke's Domain of