Su Luo: Had to Take It Seriously!

Su Luo looked at Akashi's somewhat darkened expression and gently gave her a push, interrupting her train of thought.

"What's wrong, Akashi?"

The expression on Akashi's face worried Su Luo and also made Angel Yan and Zhixin curious.

"Commander, I have a bad feeling, nya."

"What exactly is wrong?"

Su Luo gestured for Akashi not to panic and to calm down first.

After steadying her emotions, Akashi told her Commander about her speculation. Angel Yan and Zhixin listened from the side, carefully recording everything Akashi said.

"Hmm... your speculation..."

Akashi understood this world less well than Su Luo did, so her speculation set his imagination racing.

Su Luo repeated Akashi's speculation in his mind.

If he continued following Akashi's line of thought...

Angels corresponded to Antix... then Kaisha should be equivalent to Observer Zero.

And Liang Bing, also an angel by origin—Morgana—was equivalent to the Sirens' Arbitration Agency?

Then... Hexi was equivalent to the Experimental Agency?

That was Su Luo's guess, but he subconsciously shook his head. Compared to the Experimental Agency, Hexi seemed more like Osta, Antix's creator.

Then who was the Experimental Agency?

Angel Yan and Zhixin? They were somewhat similar, but they also resembled Navigator TB.

X was accounted for, Good Guy Richard was accounted for, Osta was accounted for, Andix was accounted for... What was still missing? The ships, Meta, the Commander, and Anjie?

Su Luo continued to let his imagination run wild.

If Earth's Xiong Bing Lian matched the ship girls' character settings... then Qiangwei and Yuqin corresponded to Ashes?

Lieyang's position was more like Meta.

Then... Anjie corresponded to Super Seminary's Space?

Who did the Commander correspond to?

Su Luo could not find a matching candidate.

Other than these people, what other factions existed in the Known Universe...

Sky Scum? Sky Scum had mixed in with Carl...

So... Sky Scum corresponded to... Arbiter Dibel XV?

Su Luo quickly compared them in his mind. Most of Akashi's line of reasoning matched up.

Su Luo could understand Akashi's worries as well.

Thus, Su Luo, who had not truly cared much about this world's future and had only been waiting to return to the port as soon as possible, finally took it seriously.

"Akashi, are you worried that Carl will recklessly get himself killed like World Alpha did back then, causing a High-dimensional Invasion or creating a world-destroying monster? Mysterious Enemy X, in other words?"

Akashi nodded. That was indeed what she thought.

Su Luo considered it. Given Carl's situation, it was not impossible...

Angel Yan and Zhixin exchanged a glance as they listened. Then Zhixin spoke up to ask.

"Um... what exactly is Mysterious Enemy X? And Andix, as well as Good Guy Richard, who was affected by Meme Pollution?"

Su Luo looked at Zhixin, who had asked the question, then gestured to Akashi for her to explain.

"Mysterious Enemy X..."

Both Zhixin and Angel Yan listened intently. As they listened, they uploaded everything they heard from Akashi into the Sacred Knowledge Repository.

Within the Angel King's Palace, Kaisha watched the intelligence uploaded by Zhixin and Angel Yan in real time.

By the time Akashi finished, Zhixin, Angel Yan, and even Kaisha, seated in the Angel King's Palace, all wore grave expressions.

"So... your world... was once destroyed by this Mysterious Enemy X?"

Angel Yan asked Su Luo.

Su Luo nodded, then shook his head.

"The original world was destroyed by Mysterious Enemy X. But before it was completely destroyed, the Judgement Plan was restarted. Then Antix was sent back into the past, continuously opening up Parallel Worlds as testing grounds and searching for new hope within those testing grounds..."

"Then your world now..."

Before Angel Yan could finish asking, Akashi, knowing what she wanted to ask, answered directly.

"The Commander is our savior, nya!"

Those words were heard not only by everyone present, but also by Kaisha, far away in the Angel King's Palace.

"A savior? No wonder..."

Kaisha had long guessed that Su Luo was important to another world. She simply had not expected him to be this important.

"You have already mastered time?"

Zhixin caught a particular point in Su Luo's words: returning to the past.

"Antix possesses that technology."

Su Luo neither admitted nor denied it. He merely said that Antix—that was, the Sirens—possessed such technology.

Zhixin did not dwell on that. She merely noted it down silently.

Their current research into Spacetime Technology could not achieve a prolonged return to the past.

And as for Parallel Worlds... the angels currently could not accomplish that either.

Therefore, it could be inferred that the scientific technology of the world where Su Luo and the others came from surpassed that of their Known Universe.

Yet such a world had once been destroyed by Mysterious Enemy X, which might have come from a higher dimension...

Zhixin and Angel Yan exchanged a glance, and a deep chill settled in both their hearts.

"Could Carl possibly bring about an enemy like that in the future?"

Zhixin murmured.

But no one answered her.

Su Luo and Akashi were only speculating, while Angel Yan simply did not know.

As for Kaisha, seated in the Angel King's Palace and constantly listening to the conversation, she silently activated the Sacred Knowledge Repository and attempted to calculate such a future.

After several hundred stars had gone dark, Kaisha nodded in disappointment.

There was far too little relevant information. Whether it was the so-called higher-dimensional enemy or Carl's research progress, the available data was pitifully scarce.

Carl was very good at hiding himself. No one knew just how far his research into the void had progressed.

The calculations were difficult. It was simply impossible to derive an answer in a short time.

Kaisha could only remember this possibility and later discuss with Hexi how the angels should respond if the Known Universe truly had to face such a future...

Inside the cabin, Akashi looked at the clearly absent-minded Angel Yan and Zhixin. After thinking for a moment, she spoke to change the subject.

"Alright, alright, let's not think about this problem for now, nya. We're only worried that it might be possible, nya! Things haven't reached that point yet!"

Akashi waved her hand, signaling for them not to overthink it. Su Luo nodded as well, though he still kept the matter in mind.

They had accidentally arrived in the Known Universe. They did not know what relationship existed between the Known Universe and the universe containing the port—or rather... whether their accidental arrival might cause some sort of passage to form between the two worlds.

If there was no such passage, that would be best. If there was, it would be rather troublesome.

Su Luo hoped there was not.

However, considering that after Lala and the others arrived at the port, they could still return to the universe where Delubik Star was located... A few days ago, he had even seen a report from Fushun in his office. At Lala's invitation, she wanted to go on a grand adventure in the universe where Lala's home was located, and Iron Blood's Z52 had signed up as well.

Therefore, Su Luo inferred that the two worlds were probably already connected.

With that in mind, Su Luo felt that the port and the Known Universe where the angels resided... would most likely develop a connecting passage because of their arrival...

Although everyone at the port had already undergone Mind Awakening and would not be at a disadvantage against X, that did not mean the port could accept another enemy suddenly appearing out of nowhere!

It was not that they were afraid. It was simply too much trouble.

So...

If it was confirmed that a passage connecting the two worlds already existed, then... he would have to find a way to take out Carl, that unstable factor, before he truly did something catastrophically stupid...

As Su Luo thought about it, he silently wrote Carl down in his little notebook, waiting to see whether his speculation was correct.

(It was certain that in the story, the Sirens had always been playing house with World Beta's ship girls. After all, the testing grounds had technological locks designed by the Sirens.

As for mastering time: in this Afterglow Under Starlight storyline, Arbiter Maijisha I. Bu's scheme made her command over time abundantly clear. It had a real 486 vibe.

Azur Lane had its own Death Return now! laughs

Arbiter Dibel XV corresponded to the fifteenth Tarot card, the Devil. Judging from the earlier plot, she had allied with Hata-kaze Meta. The two of them were probably both connected to X, though not as deeply as Good Guy Richard was.)