229: Enemies face to face! Mocking them to their faces: You really do suck! (Bonus chapter for seated tickets)

The sudden upheaval across Kevin-9 shocked everyone living on it.

Among the Life Alliance's more than two billion native inhabitants, everyone from congressional grandees to beggars at the bottom felt that peculiar tremor.

Everyone turned their eyes toward the sky.

The black stripes vibrated at an ever-increasing frequency.

People watched the purple sky that had accompanied many of them all their lives gradually fade, then turn deep blue.

Through that deep blue, they saw the beautiful stars that ancient books alone had described as existing in the heavens.

"So beautiful!"

Many romantic young women gazed up at the stars, their faces full of delight.

But many others had already descended into a frenzy.

The noble lords of the Life Alliance, in particular, knew exactly what this meant.

The natural barrier they had relied on for so many years was rapidly disappearing!

"Damn it, what happened?"

At the emergency meeting, the entire congress had descended into utter chaos.

Everyone desperately wanted to know what had happened.

Just then, the remote communications system rang.

As the connection went through, Lord Marlock Winter appeared on the large screen in full battle gear, alongside Diamond City's representative, Winter.

Marlock looked at the disheveled congressional grandees and spoke with a mocking curl of his lips.

"I can see you're panicking, but that's all right, you damned parasites!"

"My master is very generous, so he has permitted us to tell you what's really happening!"

Marlock then explained the Shadow Puppet Sanctum and the Shadow Legion's plans in detail.

At his words, all the assembled congressmen turned pale and began trembling.

They knew all too well how cruel the universe beyond their planet was.

They knew just how far their institutions and technology lagged behind the outside world.

And now, without having made any preparations, they had