Sky Striker Ace, but Symphogear

Even though a missile was hardly a stable sniping platform, and attacks continued to harry her, Chris still locked onto the figure lurking in the thick fog and pulled the trigger.

A torrent of bullets burst forth, pierced the shadow in the fog, and confirmed its destruction.

[Wait, Miss Chris! The node hasn't been destroyed! It's still in this space!]

Yet just as Chris relaxed, Elfnein's warning left her puzzled and put her back on guard.

"How is that possible? It clearly showed that I destroyed something... wait, another direction? A new one's appeared?"

Still finding it hard to believe, Chris raised her guard. Then her equipment's targeting radar showed a new silhouette with an energy signature aiming at them from the fog in another direction.

Several more blasts followed. With sniping proving ineffective, the two could only stand back-to-back and struggle to hold their ground with their armor's defenses.

"What the hell is going on? Weren't we supposed to win if we destroyed the node's core? Then why didn't destroying the armor's core change anything? It worked back there!"

Failing to achieve the expected result made Chris anxious. If this went on, the opportunity they had finally seized might slip away.

"Wait, Chris. You and Elfnein mean the node's core is on Raye's armor? Why?"

While Chris fretted, Kohinata Miku thought things over, noticed something amiss, and asked why they had reached that conclusion.

"Why? Because that's how it was with that red armor earlier. Before..."

Although she did not understand why Kohinata Miku was asking, Chris explained.

"But I haven't seen anything like that here. It's been covered in clouds and fog ever since I came in."

Kohinata Miku raised an objection. She had not seen Raye's armor emerge from a concentration of energy. This place had looked