Joint Operation: Executor Elimination
E-everyone! Are you ready?
Yup! All set.
Then from this moment on, the Monastir Knights and the Voyager Savior Party—
...and Executor Tyria's joint operation to eliminate Gille...
Will commence!
Dawn was just beginning to break.
We assembled in a forest just outside Monastir.
Call it a joint operation all you like, I'm still the one who has to do most of the fighting, aren't I?
Didn't you agree to form a joint front because you believed our strength would be useful?
Yeah, that's right. I don't take bets I can't win.
...Try learning from that, Luna.
H-hmph!
I'm counting on you.
Honestly, if it had only been the others, I would've refused.
No matter how I looked at it, the odds would've been too uncertain.
But with [you] here...
...I figured we wouldn't lose.
Just like before, the way Tyria spoke carried a strange sense that she already knew me somehow.
Hmph... I'm just saying.
Anyway, I'm not expecting much from you.
Just create a brief opening against Gille.
If I get even that much of a chance, I can land a decisive strike.
Which means you'll need to act as bait and draw Gille's attention.
So? Can you trust me enough to turn your backs to me?
Yes. That's what I intend to do.
...Hmph.
Once Tyria drew Gille out, Charlotte, Carmen, and Asherah would support her and attack from all directions.
Luna, Smile, Omega, and Frey would lie in ambush deeper in the forest and create openings with ranged attacks.
And I would coordinate our side's response in sync with Tyria's movements.
Then shall we begin?
How are you going to call Gille?
There's a signal beings of the Void use to contact each other.
I'm planning to send one I've never used before.
She'll probably come charging in completely furious.
What kind of signal is it...?
Hehe. You don't need to know that much.
Tyria raised her hand toward the sky and muttered something under her breath.
Just as the trail of violet energy stretching into the sky faded, a sudden silence fell over everything around us.
The sound of the wind, the rustling of leaves, the faint chirping of insects...
The surrounding noises that had clearly been there just moments earlier vanished, as if they'd been cut off from somewhere.
At the same time, the [chilling sensation] we had felt several times recently wrapped around all of us again.
She's here.
...
Hello.
...Are you insane?
Sending a signal like that...
And what exactly is this situation?
I gave some thought to the conversation we had earlier...
In the end, you just barked orders at me and left, didn't you?
You should've at least listened to my answer.
...And what might that be?
Monastir is my territory.
What happens here is for me to decide!
What is all this...?!
We're here too!
Carmen! Let's go!
Leave the defense to me!