Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter7 (section)

===Part 1===

Lowenzahn heard a voice coming from the car radio while they moved from Cologne to the mountains for shelter. She listened to Jeanne’s voice with a bitter-looking Schweitzer seated next to her.

“I must apologize for failing in the mission you revealed yourself for.”

“Understood. But we did hit Dog Berger with Ton bullets, didn’t we?”

“Yes, we have confirmed three hits by Bermark Vier.”

“Then withdraw your unit immediately. We are already in the mountains.”

Jeanne acknowledged the command and ended the transmission.

The car shook in the following silence. They were descending a dark mountain road.

The mountains were visible through the windshield. Only the backs of the mountains could be seen thanks to the red lights coming from distant Cologne.

“The sky looks incredible.”

There was a river flowing through the sky.

A river of bombers lit up by only a few searchlights.

A few explosions disturbed that river’s surface and more lights rocked the ground. From there, the constant explosions were low in volume but broad in sound range. Much like an echo.

Schweitzer groaned over those overlapping noises while holding the wheel in the driver’s seat.

“This is a first.”

“For what? Us being beaten so badly?”

“No,” he said. “For your prophecy to be wrong.”

She fell silent at that.

In that silence, their speed increased and they drove around a long right curve.

The red lights were a bit more distant than before.

“It’s certainly a problem.” Lowenzahn’s shapely eyebrows drooped and her voice was nearly drowned out by the wind. “Having trouble…trusting me anymore?”

“We managed to keep Dog Berger here in Germany…so it wasn’t entirely a waste of time.”

“True. But…this may be best for the Geheimnis Agency’s future.”

“In what way?” he asked.

“The Agency must throw me out eventually,” she briefly explained. “This failure gives them an excuse.”