The alliance's pirates watched the two assassination attempts, one following hot on the heels of the other, in stunned disbelief.
"Hey! One Dark Shadow went to assassinate the Pirate King, then another turned around and assassinated Kloros. Which one is real?"
"No idea. I certainly can't tell."
"Isn't that obvious? Of course the one on our side is real! The one who tried to assassinate the Pirate King must be a fake!"
"Huh? That... actually makes sense."
"Yeah! Just what you'd expect from Shattered Star's greatest legendary assassin. All hail Dark Shadow!"
"All hail Dark Shadow..."
"All hail Dark Shadow..."
On the other side of the battlefield, the concealed Dark Shadow stared blankly at the distant scene.
His impostor had just... killed Kloros?!
But... why could it cloak itself too?
Like everyone else, Dark Shadow had originally thought it was merely a Legendary Mecha the Ghost Captain had deliberately modeled after his own to throw people off. Reality, however, told him that the mecha was... exactly the same model as his!
His cloaking system was a closely guarded imperial secret. Anyone who could produce an identical one...
Could the people backing the Ghost Captain really be the other princes?
Faced with the copy ninja, the "Sharingan Bug," Dark Shadow's imagination also began to run wild.
When a problem arose, people always tended to look for the cause in others rather than themselves...
"No, I have to get word to His Highness right away!"
The Ghost Captain might have both the Machine Race and a mysterious prince backing him. Now that he had obtained the terrifying Vector Engine as well, the threat he posed had grown enormously!
This intelligence was critically important!
He glanced once more at the spot where Kloros had fallen.
*What a shame. His Highness thought quite