Editing City Series:Volume6d Chapter1 (section)

===Part 8===

“!”

Hazel swallowed her words and suddenly realized the feeling enveloping her was fear.

Schweitzer’s words continued as if to confirm that for her.

“We will take this with us to the Hamburg Base’s Ton laboratory where the Messiah is headed. My men were listening in on your conversation and they tell me this is the only surviving serum.”

And…

“The Messiah will be injected with the same German Tons in Hamburg. A single serum cannot save you both. …Do you get my meaning, Berger?”

Hazel looked to Berger.

She wanted to say something and her lips started to move.

But she couldn’t do it.

Her lips were trembling. All of her was trembling.

She couldn’t look him in the eye and lowered her gaze, but that brought the bag Schweitzer held into view. The bag she thought she had hidden in that Potsdam locker.

…''I can’t believe they stole it.

All of a sudden, all her focus turned toward the Wheel of Destiny card she still held in her hand. Realizing what it meant for her to carry that destiny of ruin, tears filled her eyes.

“I’m…”

Her voice escaped her throat.

Her lips moved to form the words “I’m sorry”.

But someone forestalled her apology.

“Hazel.”

He started by calling her name.

“Can you hear me, Hazel Mirildorf?”

A single tear fell when she raised her head, but she did look at that young man in a black coat.

He looked a bit angry, but he was smiling. The Lives radiating from him were orange. He really was happy.

“Don’t worry, Hazel. I have just one thing to tell you: you don’t need to become a cat.”

She heard the words while viewing his Lives.

She repeated them a few times in her head and realized what they meant, so she responded.

“Okay!”

With that word, her trembling ceased.

Berger nodded and held Gelegenheit in a backhand grip.

<Neue Erde stands next to Der Held.>

<The New World rejects destiny.>

Lowenzahn revealed herself with her words.

“Did you really think I was dumb enough to use this with you around?” Berger asked her.

He put Gelegenheit away in his coat.

And then…

<The library grows bright.>

<The bookcases have all been removed.>

<The library is full of Geheimnis Agency soldiers.>

That became true and some new Aerial Words followed.

<Neue Kaiser holds an audience with the Messiah.>

With a creaking of metal and a blast of wind, the library’s window was smashed in from the outside.

Hazel wiped the tears from her eyes and looked back toward the window past the heads of the surrounding soldiers. She could see a giant white leg through it. It belonged to a Grösse Panzer wearing a Panzer Kleid.

That was Alfred’s Grösse Panzer, Neue Kaiser.

…''Is he using his Aerial Words to remote control his Heavy Barrel?

The strongest Buster, Der Held, Neue Erde, and several soldiers were inside the library.

Neue Kaiser was outside the library.

…''This could hardly be worse.

But when she looked back, she saw the same orange Lives coming from Berger who had his hand in his pocket. He looked entirely confident.

“So this is reality, huh?” he said, taking a look around. “I see.”

Everyone there wanted to say something to him.

Hazel saw the pressure building as they prepared to speak.

Dark red Lives – a mixture of protest, caution, and confusion – swelled out like a great wave.

Drawn by those growing Lives, Berger pulled his right hand from his pocket and slowly held it overhead.

It held a small device.

The device had a red and a blue button. His thumb was on the red one.

“Then this must be reality too.”

He pressed the button and the library exploded.

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