Annie, of course, never paid any attention to the fierce battles raging around the outer perimeter of the base or to whatever plans the higher-ups inside were making to defeat the enemy. Anyway, all she knew was that the demons definitely wouldn't be able to break in anytime soon!
Likewise, it seemed the humans at the base wouldn't be able to win anytime soon, either.
So, since neither side could win nor lose for the moment, she might as well do whatever she pleased during this time: eat when she wanted, drink when she wanted, sleep when she wanted, and never miss a chance to have fun!
See?
"..."
A few days ago, after visiting a certain injured young lady and innocently losing a big peach, she decided to change things up today. She was going to take a stroll through the mine below the base—the refugee camp—and see how things were going. While she was at it, she also planned to check on that little brat Pipa, who used to have a runny nose and spent quite a while following her around, eating and drinking for free before a couple adopted him and took him away.
When she had first arrived here, landed on this planet, and touched down outside at the mine's chaotic ore yard, the underground mine had still been a pitch-black maze of enormous, abandoned tunnels and caverns. Several thousand refugees had been chased inside by a horde of Warp Daemons. If she hadn't happened to arrive in time, there probably wouldn't have been a single survivor.
Later, after she summoned Darius and the others, word of the mine base spread among the survivors in the surrounding area, and more and more people gradually gathered here. Then came the Great Western District Evacuation, which brought in