Inside the ergency operations command center beneath the Sacred Residence, the screens were replaying the battle that had just occurred.
The massive Queen Bee, whose size was astonishing, angrily burst out of its cocoon and destroyed all the fighter jets carrying out the bombing mission like a demon.
Countless wasp-type Gastrea rose into the air from the forbidden zone, circling around their queen.
Then, the drone responsible for broadcasting the battlefield in real ti was instantly destroyed by a volley of stingers like a sudden rainstorm, and the image fell into darkness.
A deathly silence enveloped the operations headquarters.
Those qualified to sit here could not possibly fail to understand what the scene just now ant.
"Why did you disobey my orders?"
Seitenshi sighed and looked toward the pale-faced Minister of Defense.
"Do you understand how many precious pilots and fighter jets the Tokyo Area lost because of your recklessness?"
"B-But even if we did nothing, the bomb known as the hive would have exploded sooner or later!"
The Minister of Defense tried to twist the argunt, instead launching an aggressive counterquestion.
"If we had destroyed the hive the mont we discovered it, none of this would have happened!"
"The fact that Queen Bee managed to grow to this extent is because Your Highness kept refusing to attack and delayed the best opportunity, is it not?"
"Absurd."
Seitenshi gazed calmly at the hysterical Minister of Defense.
"Are you accusing of inaction?"
"Of course, Your Highness."
Seeing that Seitenshi did not imdiately refute him, the Minister of Defense beca even more vicious.
"Forgive my bluntness, but you are far too soft-hearted. An indecisive woman is only suited to staying in the Sacred Residence, living in luxury and raising heirs. You are unfit to command the military."
"Are you questioning the legitimacy of the title of Seitenshi?"
"Hehe… It is not only . Most of the military thinks the sa!"
The Minister of Defense slamd the table and looked toward the colleagues behind him.
"Everyone! Today is the best opportunity to issue our call!"
"We can acknowledge Seitenshi's legitimate right to rule the Tokyo Area, but the military must also possess an independent command structure!"
"If Your Highness refuses to acknowledge this, then we will sit back and watch as those wasps invade this city—"
"Very well."
An unexpected answer ca from behind him.
Seitenshi's voice was as calm and composed as ever.
It was as if she had not been affected at all by the Minister of Defense's clownish performance.
The Minister of Defense suddenly sensed sothing was wrong.
If Seitenshi was rely pretending to be calm, then why were the military colleagues before him also silent?
"You… what are you looking at?"
The Minister of Defense swallowed with difficulty and realized that everyone was staring behind him.
They were looking at the screen behind him, and their eyes were growing wider and wider.
That strangely unified silence imdiately threw the Minister of Defense into panic. He turned around to look.
On the screen, the enormous Queen Bee that had just seed invincible was now covered in wounds, and its flight altitude was continuously dropping.
As for the rest of the space on the screen, it was drowned by tens of thousands of "wasps" emitting black aura.
These Shadow Wasps, which should have been Queen Bee's guards, seed to be controlled by an invisible force.
At a certain mont, they all moved at once and fired tens of millions of stingers toward Queen Bee!
Amid a soundless wail, the mountain-like Queen Bee was finally shot down by attacks from its own kind and crashed heavily into the forbidden zone's dense forest.
As for those Shadow Wasps, they vanished from the sky one after another like flas blown out by the wind.
In less than a few minutes, the sky and forest of the forbidden zone regained their calm.
"You, you…"
The Minister of Defense collapsed back into his seat as if all his strength had been drained.
"Seitenshi… you knew from the beginning that the hive was nothing to fear, didn't you?"
"That is correct."
Because that person exists.
Seitenshi nodded slightly and took out a docunt.
"This umbrella-shaped oath roster was written by you, was it not, Minister Kaneda?"
The command center imdiately stirred because of that docunt.
An umbrella-shaped oath roster was a docunt used in ancient tis when people gathered to start an uprising or rebellion.
Aside from strengthening unity, this kind of docunt could also cleverly hide the identity of the main culprit.
The surrounding gazes naturally focused on one of the many signatures on the docunt: the place where the Minister of Defense's na was written.
The high-ranking officers, whose shoulders bore all kinds of dals and military ranks, turned ashen-faced and retreated from the Minister of Defense one after another, afraid of being implicated.
They had already realized that everything that had happened today was a trap set by Seitenshi.
Her goal was to use the blade in her hand to launch a fatal strike against the forces that had betrayed her.
For this, she had even been willing to use a dozen or so fighter jets and pilots as "sacrifices" to force the mastermind behind the scenes to reveal a flaw.
Was this thunderous, cold-blooded style really coming from the sa weak ruler who once shed tears for the Cursed Children?
"What… what kind of joke is this?!"
The Minister of Defense had beco incoherent.
"As expected of Minister Kaneda, who was born into a prestigious family. Even the way you rebel is so old-fashioned."
Seitenshi distributed copies of the umbrella-shaped oath roster, then gave an order.
"Take the Minister of Defense away and place him under strict confinent."
"No, you cannot do this—"
While being restrained by the guards, the Minister of Defense shouted in a fit of rage.
"I have already transferred the Legacy of the Seven Stars away! That is a secret weapon capable of attracting a Stage V!"
"I am the only one who knows who has it now!"
Seitenshi rely looked at him coldly.
"Take him away."
A mont later, the Minister of Defense's tearful pleas finally faded from the command center.
Soone could not help asking quietly,
"Your Highness, the Legacy of the Seven Stars has always been managed by the Minister of Defense. What he said just now…"
"I have also made preparations for that matter. There is no need to worry."
Seitenshi seed to have expected this and answered calmly.
"There is only one thing all of you need to understand."
"As long as I remain in this position, absolutely no accident will befall the Tokyo Area."
"What you need to do is very simple: obey my orders without question."
"If you can do that, then you will witness a brand-new future for this world together with ."
Her powerful, firm tone and unwavering conviction erased the final trace of hesitation among the military leaders.
An elderly man with graying hair and several general stars on his shoulders solemnly raised his hand in salute and let out a low roar like a lion.
"For the future of the Tokyo Area, long live Her Highness Seitenshi!"
The soldiers stood up one after another like sunflowers turning toward the sun, offering their loyalty to Seitenshi.
"For the future of the Tokyo Area, long live Her Highness Seitenshi!"
"For the future of the Tokyo Area, long live Her Highness Seitenshi!"
"For…"
...
At the sa ti, inside the forbidden zone.
"How noisy."
Drake removed his earpiece and looked toward the uninvited guest accompanied by a small figure.
"This should be our second eting, boy."
The man in a tailcoat and mask spoke in a delighted voice, as if he were reuniting with an old friend.
In his hand, he carried a heavy suitcase.
The suitcase was made from a very special material and gave off a jet-black sheen.
It was a container forged from the sa Super-Varanium alloy used in the Monoliths.
This expensive alloy was only used against humanity's mortal enemy.
Even if only a few dozen grams of Super-Varanium alloy were mixed into the blade of a machete, it could easily kill a Gastrea with tenacious vitality.
From this, it was clear that whatever was inside the suitcase was definitely not harmless.
"And also our final eting, Mr. Kagetane Hiruko."
Drake yawned, took out a blue Mana Potion, and drank it.
Queen Bee, infected by the Gastrea Virus, had not actually gained much more combat power.
However, its vitality had beco extrely tenacious.
Even after his Shadow Soldiers were revived several tis, they had only barely managed to grind it to death.
"If I were you, I would not reveal my killing intent so easily."
Kagetane Hiruko raised the suitcase, signaling Drake not to act rashly.
"This sinful object is known as the Legacy of the Seven Stars. It can emit a strange aura that attracts the few Stage V Gastrea that exist in this world."
"Hehe…"
Hearing Kagetane Hiruko's explanation, Drake revealed a contemptuous smile.
"First, I need to correct one thing. The true Legacy of the Seven Stars only attracts one specific Stage V. That is Scorpio."
"Second, why do you believe that the Legacy of the Seven Stars in your hand is not a fake?"
"Is it only because the Minister of Defense personally handed it to you?"
Kagetane Hiruko's expression changed—if one could see his face through the mask, that is.
No longer caring about the effectiveness of the "Legacy of the Seven Stars," he imdiately opened the suitcase.
However, there was nothing inside.
Only a slip of paper.
Written on it was— You have been deceived, Kagetane Hiruko.
Drake softly read those words aloud and pulled the trigger at the sa ti.
Sensing danger, Kagetane Hiruko imdiately spread his repulsion field, protecting himself and the blue-haired little girl beside him behind it.
However, what Drake fired this ti was a high-energy laser beam without a physical form.
The scarlet laser easily pierced through the repulsion field.
But just as it was about to bore through Kagetane Hiruko's throat, he tilted his head and dodged it.
The searing pain aroused Kagetane Hiruko's killing intent, causing him to laugh madly.
"Hahaha… So you saw through everything from the very beginning?"
"The person capable of unexpectedly replacing the Legacy of the Seven Stars… I see…"
"Even that lofty Her Highness is one of your people, isn't she, boy?!"
His gnashing roar was the signal for battle.
Drake stepped forward, but Kagetane Hiruko moved even faster and took the offensive first.
A pale blue repulsion field suddenly expanded into a fan shape, sweeping toward Drake with terrifying montum!
"Greatest Pain! Collapse!"
The repulsion field could not only be used for defense.
It could also be used like this, crushing enemies with the force of a hydraulic press and grinding them into at paste.
"Arid Grandeur."
Drake thrust his sword toward the closing pale-blue force field.
The spinning blade erupted with astonishing penetrative force, and an explosion occurred where it collided with the field.
"To think you can break through Greatest Pain…"
Kagetane Hiruko, kneeling on one knee, suddenly coughed several tis.
Blood flowed out from beneath his mask.
"Papa!"
Kagetane Hiruko's Initiator, the blue-haired little girl nad Kohina, glared angrily at Drake and charged toward him.
"Don't interrupt Big Brother's fight!"
Enju, who had long since been unable to hold herself back, also rushed out from the side and blocked Kohina, who was holding two kodachi.
Then ca a rapid series of clanging tallic collisions.
When the two small figures separated again, Kohina's weapons had already shattered piece by piece and could no longer be used in battle.
"You… what kind of weapons are those?!"
The blue-haired little girl looked at her opponent in surprise.
Enju was holding two black daggers in a reverse grip.
They looked plain and unimpressive.
However, only soone who had clashed with them would know that these two daggers possessed astonishing cutting power.
After only a few exchanges, the weapons in Kohina's hands had been sliced apart like cakes!
"Hmph, hmph~ These are weapons Big Brother specially made for ."
Enju waved the daggers proudly.
"I think they're called Calculus Daggers…"
"They're Gauss Daggers. Though I suppose you were close."
Drake could not help correcting her from the side.
But in the next mont, Kagetane Hiruko fired several shots in succession, dragging his attention back.
"Boy, your destined enemy is ."
Although Kagetane Hiruko was already covered in blood, he seed unable to feel pain and launched a self-destructive assault against Drake like a madman.
"Destined enemy? I'll pass. I'm not used to being obsessed over by n."
After seeing all of Kagetane Hiruko's techniques, Drake had already grown tired of the battle.
"It is ti to end this. Biting Embrace."
In the next instant, a layer of glowing blue ice crystals covered the edge of the Bio Blade.
Biting Embrace, one of the Bio Blade's bio attunents.
It used condensed glacial ice as the blade and executed a three-hit sword technique, with the final strike freezing the enemy.
"First slash."
"Second slash."
With two consecutive strikes, Drake directly shattered Kagetane Hiruko's repulsion field.
He raised his blade high and looked down at the enemy before him.
"Third slash… that is enough."
The breath of frost erupted the instant the third slash fell.
The effect applied by the third attack of Biting Embrace was called Ice Age.
Hidden beneath that gorgeous na was a terrifying effect capable of freezing even life itself.
"If you still wish to continue fighting …"
Looking at Kagetane Hiruko's corpse, now covered in ice crystals, Drake said in a low voice,
"Arise."
In the next instant, blazing shadow flas erupted from the inside out, shattering the solid ice.
The man who walked out of the black flas like a demon ca before Drake, removed his black top hat, and bowed in salute.
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