33. Chat

As soon as true authority appears, you can no longer control them!

Now, either you can break the control of the Great Relic before these angry workers tear you apart...

Or... come quietly.

You think I won't detonate the bomb?

You want a showdown, here and now? I say let's do it. We both know the bomb was just an invitation.

You got what you wanted. I'm here now.

This is getting boring... Niz.

Huh? Where are we? What's going on...?

General Niz!

And Yulia... the traitor!

What's going on?!

What's going on?! Untie us you fools!

Oh... sorry.

General, what are your orders?

Assemble the workers and deactivate the bomb with ice and Echo Crystals.

Okay.

Now leave me with my old friend.

You were always better at mind games, Niz.

The squad you sent after me all pretended to be brainwashed.

So when you finally appeared they could help sway the group consensus, am I right?

Great leaders inspire loyalty in their followers. The cochleas of those Bifrost Elites were modified before they set out to prevent you from controlling them.

...

... I've been beaten.

C'mon, Yulia. No, you haven't.

Was your purpose really a coup d'etat? By such simple and vulgar means?

If you wanted to overthrow me, you should have established a power base, then started expanding your influence. But you knew all that, right?

Haha... You found me out.

You just wanted to talk to me.

Yeah, as equals. Not as a high official and a common criminal. Just a chat, outside.

But you're so busy and I was stuck in prison.

We can talk now.

Okay then. When are you going to help me clear my name and stop being a scapegoat for the whole of Bifrost?

...

Now's not a good time to discuss that.

But that's what I WANT to talk about. Seeing as you don't... Well, that's a shame. I don't think you've fully grasped the whole situation yet.

What...

There's someone else, on the Reactor control deck.

We're done, right?

Eriri hasn't contacted us yet, but Yulia broke the Great Relic's control so everything should be fine.

Sova! Sova! The woman!

Have you seen her? The one who brainwashed Snezhana!

Gura!

...!

Everyone! We are still in danger! Evacuate the plant!

I repeat! Evacuate the plant!

Okay. Eriri, get Snezhana out of here.

Awakener, you get out of here. Take Nanook and Sui with you.

You can't take on Gura by yourself. We'll both go.

But you might die.

We're already here. Let's just do this.

Okay. We'll both go.