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  “My princess! We’ve lost tact with Frederich’s Squad! The east fnk is exposed!”

  “Tch…! Guilford, we’ll be going there now! Have Cudio and his squad take our pce here!”

  “Yes, my princess!”

  The dark clouds that came from the eastern side of the Tokyo Settlement area and loomed over the massive battlefield where Darlton’s army and the JLFs cshed, had finally arrived on the western part of the settlement, c the eokyo Settlement in dark stormy clouds.

  A few hours after the JLF uhe atta the southeastern side of the Tokyo Settlement and was met by Darlton’s army, another army numbering in the hundreds appeared on the west side, f her and her army to go and defend it.

  There was no rai for the moment, and the visibility was still as good as they would be during dusk and posed no problem for her and her soldiers.

  “Push the attack!!! Show them that we are not ohey could mess with easily!!!”

  elia’s invigorating encement was met with a resounding affirmative from all of her subordinates as they rushed to the eastern fnk of her army.

  Everything was going quite well. Uhe southeastern front where Darlton’s army was suffering from extremely heavy pressure and was slowly being pushed back by Tohdoh and the Four Holy Swords, they were able to hold their ground here.

  Guildford, two ston knights, and herself were still here to defend the viceroy pad the ter of Britannia’s gover and final hold on this nd.

  At this rate, she knew she could win in time. But she couldn’t help but feel uneasy. The reason being…

  Where’s that jet bightmare…? There’s not even a report about the crimson one or Zero yet…

  In addition to holding off the Bights and the JLF’s troops on multiple fronts, elia had been trying to ascertain all of their location.

  She and Guilford, along with her squad, had been reinf points where their forces were being pushed back to try and regain their position. In addition, they also came to see if the jet-bightmare or the crimson one resent. After all, the points, where her army was broken through, had the highest ce of them being there.

  “Not here too… Just where are they…?”

  elia looked around the battlefield as she stepped on a Gekka with her ill pierced through its chest.

  With her, Guilford, and her squad, they were still able to pletely have the upperhand against these new fifth geion knightmare frames belonging to the Japanese. Even against the Akatsuki, which seemed to be a seventh geion knightmare based on what she saw from the footage of Darlton’s army, she was still fident that she could stand her ground against them.

  But against the jet-bd crimson knightmare frames that even the La couldn’t stand a ce against… It would be extremely difficult.

  That is why she wao quickly find them aralize them with numbers.

  “Guilford, have you heard reports about their positions…?”

  “No. Unfortunately not, my princess…”

  Just then, a blinding fsh of lightning followed by a deafening crash of thunder echoed throughout the nd, and the two looked up to the sky at the same time from within their knightmare frame.

  “It’s about to rain… What a day…”

  A heavy sigh escaped her lips as she closed her eyes and shook her head, exhausted.

  “My princess, perhaps after this, you should-”

  Another blinding fsh of lightning and a crash of thunder filled the area.

  “Hm? What did you say, Guilford?”

  “....What was that?”

  elia turuilford, who seemed to still be looking at the sky with narrowed eyes.

  “What is it, Guilford?”

  “No, I seemed to have been imaginin- My princess! Look to the sky!!!”

  elia quickly turned her attention to the sky. And there she saw, breaking through the dark storm cloud, a massive flying structure ship with two protruding front “legs” with rge ons on top of it, and various other arsenals all over its body.

  A flying fortress… no, a flying ship. But a ship unlike any other they’ve ever seen in their lives.

  This size, and the few armaments that they could see from this distance… even the Avalon, Britannia’s most advanced airship and first of its kind, couldn’t be pared with this…

  “What in the world is that…?”

  Just then, she saw a rocket fired from one of the suthernds in the distance, heading towards the bottom side of the ship.

  And when it reached a distance of around a few tens of meters from the ship, the rocket impacted with a crimson wall that apparate out of thin air, and exploded.

  Soon, several more rockets followed, but no matter how much was shot at it, the result stayed the same.

  “A crimson shield… It even has su advanced defense system.”

  Guilford said in disbelief.

  For it to have such a powerful defensive system while flying at such a height… there was no hope for any nd units to be able to even harm that flying ship.

  “He must be there… This must be that man’s secret on.”

  elia was assured. This must be the Bight’s secret on. And Zero, must be there.

  But even if she khat… there was nothing she could do.

  “Guilford, order the jets to sortie…”

  “Yes, my princess.”

  Knowing all nd units would be useless in face of such monstrosity, elia correctly judged that they’d o fight it using fighter jets.

  However, just then, her eyes widened when they saw a shadoearing from within the massive airship.

  “What is that…?”

  The shadow began to grow increasingly rger, and finally, they both realized what it was.

  “My princess! That’s-!”

  “So it finally appears…!”

  elia immediately ordered all of her s quad members to gather as she watched the figure of the crimson red knightmare frame desd from the skies.

  “Open fire!!!”

  Immediately, all units within her squad opened fire with their rifles and bazookas, targeting the falling crimson knightmare frame.

  But something, elia realized, seemed to be different as she could see the crimson knightmare clearer and clearer.

  Its right arm seemed to grow and became rger than it was before. But the most obvious ge was the x-shaped devi its babsp;

  And in the moment… she realized what that device was.

  The moment they opened fire, and their bullets and rockets he crimson knightmare, it evaded everything.

  The crimson knightmare dodged to the side, evading every single bullet they shot. And it tio dodge their bullets in mid air, dang through the hail of bullets as it tinued desding.

  “That’s… a float system?!”

  elia couldn’t believe her eyes… She couldn’t believe that the Bights could possess such teology.

  The float system was an advaeology currently being developed by Earl Lloyd Asplund. It was first installed on the prototype knightmare frame, Gawain, which beloo her brother. And ter, it nned on being installed on the La as well.

  However… such teology was still uesting. It had not been used for actual bat purposes.

  But this agility in the sky, the ridiculous evasion it dispyed in mid air… There was no doubt. This was a true float system teology, or at least, the version that the Elevens somehow mao create. And judging by its performance right now… they’ve surpassed Britannia’s current progress with the float system.

  The Guren dahrough the sky as it desded at rapid speed. And when she came inte, she reached her right hand forward and ope.

  Six der-shaped devices shot out from its forearms, and crimson lightning began to crackle.

  In the moment, elia, Guilford, and every single knightmare frame in their squad were bathed in crimson red light as a deafening boom echoed.

  “What the-?!”

  “What was that light?!”

  “I-I ’t move!”

  All of their knightmare frames shut down as red light filled their cockpit. And before they realize it, every single one of them, aside from elia and Guilford, were struck down by the Flight-enabled version of the Guren named Guren Kashoushiki.

  “Kuh…! You dare…?! I will not let you harm my princess!”

  The moment Guilford could finally move his knightmare, he immediately aimed his rifle at the Guren just as it had just fihe st member of his princess’s elite guards, and shot.

  But to his shock, with an uny rea speed, the Guren noticed his attad jumped back, evading it, before taking to the sky once more.

  “I won’t let you run!”

  He aimed his rifle up turen as it flew to the air. But just as he was about to pull the trigger, a dark shadow streaked down before him.

  “What the… When did you appear…?”

  Before him, the jet-bightmare nded on the ground with his crimson swords in hand. On its back was a simir x-shaped device which he reized as being the same float system as the one on the Guren.

  His rifle split into two, ao the ground.

  And just as he was about to strike with his goldehe bightmare rushed towards him and disappeared.

  In a blink of an eye, he noticed that his nce had been cut in two, his arms and legs had separated from his torso, and his ssh harkens pierced and broken.

  Dread filled his heart as he watched the figure of the bightmare stood before her princess…

  “My princess! Run!”

  “Against ahat could take to the skies… You know it’s useless to run, my knight… But I appreciate the thought.”

  elia took a stah her nce as she faced the jet-bightmare frame that mao take out her knight in a blink of an eye.

  She knew she could not possibly win… And she could not run. But it did not matter.

  She was elia li Britannia. The Chief General of the Imperial Army, the sed princess of the Holy Britannian Empire, and a knight.

  She would rather die in bat than die upon running away.

  “e at it, ace of the Bights. While I might not be able to defeat you, don’t think I would run and surreo you. I will fight to my st breath, and I will make sure to thhly damage your knightmare to the point of disrepair.”

  The Excalibur stood in silence, unmoving.

  And just then, a familiar voice resounded from above.

  “As reckless and stubborn as ever, I see. Princess elia.”

  She looked up, and to her shock, another knightmare frame of bd silver with a float system slowly desded from the skies.

  “Well then… Shall we talk?”

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