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NOW!!!
All squads, immediately evacuate from the core!
...
Fire!
Karenina slams the launch button hard in Babylonia's command room.
After some loud and low rumbling, a brilliant beam is fired at the relay satellite—
The entire Babylonia seems to have moved slightly.
The beam then passes through the special lenses on the relay satellite, traveling around the horizon and shooting toward the space station—
A few seconds later—
...Incoming!
Boom—
A high-energy beam penetrates the opening in the gravity room, striking the Punishing Virus Heteromer Core with pinpoint precision.
It fiercely burns through the core, rapidly vaporizing its surface...
The process is witnessed by every single member of Babylonia and the Forsaken troops...
Is it over...?
...
No...
After the beam finally disappears—
The blinding light gradually dims...
At the center of the platform in the gravity room, the burning shell of the Hetero-Core falls off, revealing a cube striped in black and red inside...
The smooth and delicate surface shows no signs of damage...
It seems that this is its true face...
...
What the hell? That was just a shell?!
It seems that all physical traits observed by the recon teams before...
...They are all a deliberate disguise.
What? Hey, Gray Raven! The second round! The second round is fully charged!
It's too late.
The space station receives the full impact from Babylonia and begins to spin. The relay satellite can no longer aim.
Meanwhile, inside the gravity room—
It's... gathering mass again...
What do we do, Commandant? There's nothing we can do now...
As long as...
We can still suppress it...
There will always be a second chance...
The space station slowly spins as the scene outside the "skylight" of the room continues to change.
More energy is being generated again... this time at its bottom...
What is it trying to do...?
...
This situation... If...
Damn...
Sunlight reflected by the blue planet shines directly into the gravity room through the skylight.
Could it be...?
...
A shockwave emits from the base of the Hetero-Core...
Wrapping some matters within, it ejects itself from the space station by pushing through the entrance of the gravity room...
...Heading toward humanity's home—Earth.
...
Watanabe is the first to react.
Forsaken! Retreat from the space station at once!
Roger!
The evacuation route has been sent to you, sir!
Watanabe turns around, bolting toward the exit of the gravity room.
Watanabe...
Only the stunned group from Babylonia is left in the gravity room...
Leaving the stunned Babylonia members behind...
