Three days later...
In the barracks recreation area reserved for soldiers between shifts at a Terran base, Izayoi, Asuka, and Kasukabe You had just returned from duty and were heading toward their quarters in uniform when they suddenly spotted a petite Ghost Operative ahead of them.
She was playing an arcade game at a nearby soldiers' entertainment club, apparently having the time of her life.
Curious, they approached and took a look at her face.
"!!"
"Is that really Annie?"
"Great!"
"We finally found you! We thought you'd been killed and eliminated!"
When they discovered that the little girl who had been missing for three whole days and four nights really was Annie, Izayoi, Asuka, and Kasukabe cheered and promptly stepped forward to turn off the unknown arcade game she had been enjoying.
"!!"
!(;o)o
Annie had been playing perfectly well when someone forcibly interrupted her, and she nearly flew into a rage.
"You're the ones who got killed!"
ε=(ˇεˇ)))Ptooey!!
"I'm doing perfectly fine!"
s(ˇεˇ)ゞ
However, when she realized they were acquaintances, she forcibly held back her temper, turned around in her seat, and spat at the three of them reproachfully.
"If you're doing so well..."
"Then why haven't you replied to any of our messages?"
"We've been trying to contact you ever since we landed three days ago."
"Don't tell me you didn't receive them!"
As she spoke, Kuro Usagi Asuka glared at Annie again, not without complaint.
"But as it turned out..."
"Who would've thought you were hiding here playing games by yourself?"
"Isn't fighting outside more fun than this?"
Kuro Usagi Asuka genuinely couldn't understand it.
After all, they were currently in the fifth stage of the Bounty Game, and it was a projection-based real interstellar war game at that. Yet Annie had ignored their messages despite