They wept and wailed. Many had already broken down in despair.
Because at that very moment.
They had felt Silver Fantasy sever her connection to the God Frontier they had forged, as though she had severed every bond and friendship she shared with them.
Traitor!
Traitor!
They did not want this handout bought by begging.
They would rather die than betray their lord to survive at this final moment.
"Why?! Why!! Back in Hell, she was the one who would stand against all of us to protect Lynn! Why would she falter at the very last moment?! Don't you know that everything you've done is a betrayal of everything we believe in?!"
They were anguished and desperate.
More than a decade of war.
What had kept them going until now? What had they fought for? It was their unwavering belief that their leader would turn the tide for them, that he would carve a bloody path out for them at the final moment.
Without that sliver of hope, they would have died on the battlefield ten years ago.
They did not want to scrape out a living.
They only wanted an outcome!
Bzz-
The sky tore open.
The Captain's skeletal figure descended. He staggered forward, crumbling with every step, and looked at the people within the mirrored veil as he gasped for breath.
"What happened?! Where's Miss Machine Intelligence? Where did she go..."
Within the veil, the people of Dark Night City already looked ashen.
"She betrayed us. She took those Nightmare Demons to the Fourth Layer of space. Lynn... is there."
Captain Constantine shuddered violently. He abruptly turned toward the traces left by the spatial rift, flames flickering tremulously within his empty eye sockets.
At that moment.
He understood everything at once.
"No... that's not right!"
His withered body