Was it a coincidence, or was it fate...
Or perhaps it had all been planned from the start.
From the beginning, Jonas had suspected that the Void Realm Church Saintess might not come to the front lines herself... but when he discovered that she really was absent from the captured church members, he still couldn't help feeling disappointed.
He didn't know how strong she was, but with a trap laid well in advance like this, she would have had no way to escape, no matter how capable she might be.
What a pity. What a pity.
If she had been a little more aggressive, perhaps none of the subsequent trouble would have happened.
Thinking this, Jonas couldn't help sighing.
What he didn't know, however, was that the Saintess hadn't stayed away from the front lines out of caution, but because... she underestimated the Alt Conglomerate far too much.
In her eyes, a Holy Tribunal Squad numbering a few dozen was enough to crush most medium-to-large conglomerates in District 25... and that was true. Not every conglomerate possessed two or more Tactical Mecha units.
The Saintess had actually guessed that the Alt Conglomerate might be concealing its strength. She had even prepared for the worst: its apparent strength might represent only two-thirds of its actual power, with the remaining third hidden beneath the surface.
But reality was worse than even her worst-case scenario... after all, in its previous campaigns against outside enemies, not only had Miss Esnie, a strategic-level asset, stayed out of the fighting, but even the Tactical Mecha squad hadn't deployed in full.
Perhaps the Saintess herself had never imagined that her momentary contempt would spare her from falling into the enemy's hands... if she had decided to go all out from the start, she might already have been