Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter8 (section)

===Part 10===

Silber Löwe worked to reach its destination even as it shook within the rapidly flying dragon.

It planted its trembling legs firmly on the metal floor to walk.

Light shined into the corridor far ahead.

That was the exit.

“If only all three of us could have walked together,” said Silber Löwe after seeing that light.

“I know what you mean…”

Rose agreed but then raised her head.

“Bigger brother?”

“What do you need?”

“That almost sounded emotional. Has your Psyche Outer device broken?”

She looked to the back of Silber Löwe’s head.

The base of the cooling hairs was badly damaged.

She started to say something.

“…”

But she only smiled instead.

Silber Löwe continued walking.

It took another step as the entire ship shook.

Rose nestled herself against her brother’s face within that shaking.

“We had a lot of fun, didn’t we, bigger brother? With Sir Alfred too.”

“He…”

“Don’t bother. I’m sure he was seeing someone else in me.” Her smile grew. “I couldn’t keep it together right now if I hadn’t convinced myself of that.”

“I see,” said Silber Löwe.

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Rose mimicked knocking on its cheek several times.

“This kindness isn’t like you. But if you are going to do something for me…”

She breathed a false sigh. Even the sigh shook as Silber Löwe took a large step.

Rose shut her eyes.

“Bigger brother.”

“Yes?”

“Will you sing that prophecy for me?”

Silber Löwe did not nod.

But it did sing.

“The party begins and the village dances.”

Rose sang the next line.

“The dragon roars and the knights gather.”

A short pause followed.

Eventually, the Panzer took another step and their voices joined together to eliminate the silence and shadows in the shaking corridor. They sang a prophecy. They sang the song of the Messiah.

“The party begins and the village dances / The dragon roars and the knights gather

“The bride weeps uncrowned / Her words go unsaid and he never arrives

“Thus she is alone / She weeps and sleeps in this land.”

After singing the last line, Silber Löwe noticed something and turned its sight devices toward its shoulder.

Rose had vanished.

Silber Löwe walked in silence.

It still had its left hand inside its left chest to hold something there.

It walked.

Finally, it arrived at the exit that opened up onto the morning sky.

Just five more steps. Then it could jump out into the sky. It would arrive outside.

But instead it spoke with a smile in its voice.

“I can’t move any longer. I knew I didn’t have much time left.”

Slowly, very slowly, Silber Löwe spread its legs to shoulder width and stood firm.

The endless morning sky stretched out in front of it.

And the ground rapidly flowed by down below.

It saw the sky growing bluer by the moment and the dark forest down below.

It began to sing once more. This time a song passed down among Panzer Kavaliers.

''That which is filled with the blue sky.

''That which is covered by the red dirt.

''I name thee heaven and earth.

''Where the wind howls bravely.

''Where the sand dances gently.

''I view thee as heaven and earth.

''So that no one would grieve again.

''That which is endless and cannot be grasped.

''That which is vast and cannot be held.

''I am with thee.

Once the song was over, the man who had once been the Geheimnis Agency’s second in command laughed.

He laughed loudly.

So loudly.

“The last time I laughed the three of us were still together.”

After that, Silber Löwe’s sight devices began to go dark.

That was when a roar rumbled from the sky behind the dragon. Something was catching up to the soaring dragon by flying at even greater speed.

And catch up it did.

It raced between the blue sky and dark earth before ascending in a flash.

It flew faster than the Requiem dragon and took the form of the wind itself.

“The Sylphide.”

Those satisfied words marked the exact moment Silber Löwe’s sight devices went fully dark.

A moment later, the Requiem finally left its Panzer Emblem form and began to fall.

Two minutes later, the giant ship crashed into the mountains linking Berlin to Borderson and exploded, creating a massive crater.

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