After hearing Girlfriend's words, Hamel gave a cold snort.
"Enough with the Deliberately Obscuring the Truth act. What death aura?"
"You're just a wraith that secretly latched onto my subordinates. Do you really think you can cause trouble here?"
Hamel turned to another communications officer. "Notify the Blade Fleet at once. Wipe out everything on New Diamond Star!"
As Hamel saw it, if this creature had emerged from the two traitors' corpses, it must have been lurking in the command room for some time.
There was no point trying to deceive it further. It surely knew everything that had just happened.
So he staked everything on his last remaining force: the Blade Fleet at New Diamond Star.
At Hamel's order, Girlfriend chuckled softly.
"How perceptive. You worked out at once that I came from the New Diamond Star front."
"Drop the act," Hamel said with disdain. "Once I search your soul, I'll know how you infiltrated my command system."
"New Diamond Star is the farthest battlefield from here. We've placed extensive defenses between us. Even a deity from the Void Abyss couldn't break through them."
"Don't try to fool the learned and esteemed supreme commander of the Redstone Empire with your shallow ignorance!"
Girlfriend could not help laughing.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to mock you."
"But what you just said was too funny."
Her smile faded, and her voice turned cold.
"You needn't wait for a report from New Diamond Star's commander in chief."
"They're already... all dead."
Hamel snorted, dismissing her words, then ordered his personal guards.
"Seize her!"
The Redstone Guards immediately activated their Redstone Chains, binding Girlfriend's insubstantial form.
Feeling the chains tighten, Girlfriend sighed. "I must say, you're astonishingly wasteful."
"It has the peculiar beauty of a band of cavemen using a catapult to throw an