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22-7 The Hunters in the Snow

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Huff... We finally... won...

The blade of Ayla's gun lance flashes past, and "Rosetta's" huge body finally falls.

Sica holds the empty grenade gun, her body quivers due to exhaustion.

The weapon box you were carrying all this time... This is what was in it?

And ammo for Ayla's weapon and spare arrows for Lena. I only brought this gun just in case since I'm more familiar with this kind of weapon.

It wouldn't have worked earlier when we were inside, but I'm glad it was able to help now.

I'm impressed that you can identify its behavioral pattern so quickly. If it wasn't for your plan, this would've been a tough fight.

Ah, no... It's only because Rosetta is in Babylonia and I had the honor of meeting her a few times when I was training under Vanessa.

Humanoid hybrid Constructs are still very rare nowadays, so I had recorded down all of her information and battle data.

A classic valedictorian thing to do...

Rosetta is someone who can fight against the strongest Ascendant, Alpha. Even though this is not the real thing, it was still very overwhelming.

...That mechanoid really is something to be able to make this look exactly like the real deal. I also don't understand why he made a replica in the first place.

But if we need a representative for an Arctic Route Union-themed exhibition, then Rosetta is the most suitable.

I'm wary of the technology he possesses... Although I've never seen the real Rosetta in action, this imposter showed some quite destructive power, and together with those statues earlier, if Babylonia has to go against that...

He not only reconstructed a whole city, he also possesses the battle data of Babylonian Constructs and the technology to recreate it all...

Exposing all this to Babylonia just to use Constellia as bait to have the WGAA send members over to investigate?

I don't know... There's too little for us to conclude right now.

At least, as he had said, he doesn't wish to harm us.

Now we can only do as he said and explore these exhibits... Though this feeling like being led on a wild goose chase... is a bit unpleasant.

Well, the road is always rocky on the way to fight the final boss. That aside, I think we cooperated pretty well just now.

Sica's commanding is more calm than before too, that helped quite a bit.

I'll give her a five out of ten, don't let it get to her head.

From afar, Lena returns to the others after inspecting the area.

It's commendable that she thought of using specialized electromagnetic shells to restrict the enemy's movements, but if it hadn't worked, or if it was not created completely according to Rosetta's original data, then you would've exposed yourself to danger.

You could've used me for remote restriction, increasing the battle's efficiency...

Ah...

I found something interesting.

Without waiting for Sica to react, Lena throws something over to Ayla.

What's this?

Ayla opens her hand, a small data chip lays in her palm, the silver-white chip shines like the fake snow on the ground.

According to my scan results, this chip should have memory data on it. You can read it with the port us Constructs have.

This is... Cervantes'?

...Looks like this is the thing he said he "left behind."

There may be valuable information on it.

Then should we decide who reads it?

The three of them all look in the same direction.

All right.

I'll do it.