When the orange-red mushroom cloud from the energy blast fired by the giant magic-powered cannon atop the artificial celestial body in satellite orbit—the blue moon "Peria"—slowly dissipated, and the sky was shrouded in rising smoke and dust, everything gradually settled. At last, the tiny girl and the giant bear she was sitting on appeared in the night.
"Tibbers..."
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"I finally figured it out!"
(...)
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(Tibbers didn't respond. As far as it was concerned, across this world—or even countless worlds across countless planes—its troublesome little mistress was probably the only one who would, and could, stand perfectly still just to test some pointless question and let an energy orbital cannon blast her head-on. Anyone else would've been reduced to ash by that blast, which had the power of a tactical nuke.)
"Aha!"
ヾ(^▽^*)))
"So that's how it works!"
"That red-haired guy's thing that looks a lot like a holy sword is actually a remote control for a satellite weapon? I guess it's like my old rifle—a way to summon and target a fusion strike?"
ヽ(⌒⌒)
Looking at the huge crater around her, where the land had been flattened and even melted into glass, and the burning forest farther away, now reduced to a few charred tree roots, Annie nodded in satisfaction.
Now she'd finally satisfied her curiosity and figured out why the holy sword she'd gotten earlier had so many strange features. So that was what it was all about?
Still, people in this world were such a hassle. It was just a remote control for calling in an orbital strike—did they really need to make it look so much like a sword, and require psychic power, chanting, and resonance to control it?
Back when Her Majesty Queen Annie had been a Ghost Operative in the Koprulu Sector, all