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9-3 Lose Again
Ayla informs Gray Raven the gravity room's mechanism. At that moment...
Bang—
Target sighted. Recycling now.
Wait... What's that?
Ayla notices the extremely high corruption level of the tall enemy, and realizes what was happening.
But just when she starts to attack, Selena is already ripped off the terminal—
The enemy then turns around and takes Ayla's strike with his broad shoulders.
What?
Ayla does not hesitate for one second. She unleashes numerous attacks with her scythe.
Strangely, the enemy does not want to engage in the fight. Instead, he keeps moving back.
Once he reaches the cabin door, he leaps toward the gravity room's core area...
After bumping into Gray Raven in the gravity room, Ayla follows Gabriel to a shattered floating platform—
Boom—
Gabriel flips over and fires a shot. He uses the counterforce to jump through the opening on the wall, which is a result of the previous blast.
Ugh—!
After the heat from the explosion dissipates...
Oh no...
Before he gets away, I must...
Just when Ayla is about to follow him, a mechanic claw protrudes from the edge of the platform.
?
The claw continues to climb toward the platform surface, finally revealing itself.
Humans... must be... destroyed...
It is Korolev. After the battle with Gray Raven, it fell into the vacuum turbulence, but somehow managed to survive space.
Destroy...
Now of all times!
Hah—!
Before Korolev could attack again, Ayla cuts its remaining structure in half, completely annihilating it.
However, she has also wasted precious time.
Ayla looks at the opening to space—
I must hurry...
Right at this time—
A huge beam goes through the opening and hits the Punishing Heteromer directly.
The gravity room is a mess...
Ayla struggles to maintain balance on the floating platform. She keeps telling herself one thing.
I mustn't stop. Otherwise, Selena would...
One by one, she keeps leaping toward the next floating platform.
Jumping, dodging, spinning, and slashing through anything in her way.
Step after step, Ayla finally makes it out of the space station.
There are huge explosions on the low Earth orbit in the distance. But Ayla has no attention to spare—
Selena!
Still, she is one step too late...
The door of the capsule, where Gabriel and Selena are in, has closed. The launch procedure has been initiated...
Wait... Selena!
Ayla runs with all her might on the outer surface of the space station.
But the capsule has already taken off. No matter what she does, it only moves further away...
Only the heat from the capsule's exhaust flames remains, scorching Ayla's body.
...
All she can do is to silently watch the capsule as it flies toward Earth.
Earth...
Ayla mumbles to herself. She already knows her next step.
There's still a chance... There must be...
Selena, wait for me...
