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Annie had just eaten her fill in the cafeteria aboard the Heavenly Blade Seven. Only now did she waddle over to the corridor outside a conference room in the ship's central hub, her round little belly bulging with food. To her surprise, the people and angels inside were giving off an air of such misery that it practically hung in the air.
"..."
|?˙?˙) Hello?
"Um..."
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"Why are so many of you hanging around here? What are you doing? Why do you all look so listless? Are you starving? Then why don't you hurry up and go eat?"
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Annie saw that almost all the members of the Super Warriors and the angels' leaders were gathered in the not-very-large conference room. There was Miss Zhixin, Queen Yan, and her angel guards, all looking rather strange. Even when Annie greeted them, they merely glanced at her with furrowed brows.
"What happened?"
(°ー°〃)
"Don't tell me... you idiots lost a battle on Earth?!"
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As far as Annie knew, nothing much had happened lately. Aside from the angels and the people of Earth joining forces to rout the Heavenly Scum and the remnants of the Devourers stranded on Earth, there really didn't seem to be anything else going on.
And if they'd had such a huge advantage and still lost to the enemy's stragglers, throwing the battle away outright, then they might as well surrender to the Heavenly Scum now, before they embarrassed themselves any further.
"..."
"..."
Still, nobody in the conference room answered little Annie's astonished question.
They seemed to be considering something, and for now they only exchanged glances and smiled wryly. No one hurried to explain too much to this little girl, who spent every day loafing around and doing nothing.
After all, they'd spent