The first 174 lines.
Finally found you.
First Lt. Messer's back.
Right.
Chaos Ragna division,
salute First Lt. Messer Ihlefeld!
Brainwaves, vitals, and neural responses all normal.
Everything seems fine regardless of what test we run.
Did you really see it?
While I was singing, I suddenly saw this weird place.
It was so open and cold...
I was really scared.
They saw right into us. All the way.
Some brain hackers got into your consciousness?
Barging in without even saying hello...
That's one way to get on my bad side.
But who?
The Wind Singer.
The Wind Singer?
So Mikumo and Freyja made contact with the Wind Singer?
Yes.
During the last battle, we detected abnormal bio-fold values around the two of them.
We're still analyzing the data,
but it appears that the Protoculture ruins caused the singers to interfere with one another.
The power the song of the wind holds might shake the entire galaxy.
By the way, Kaname...
Yes?
Are you sure you don't want to take a day or two off?
I'm fine. Thanks for your concern.
Okay, then...
What about yourself, captain?
I'll manage.
This is the problem.
Yeah.
What is?
Look at that.
He managed to shoot the cockpit,
and hit precisely the heart of the pilot.
What a stroke of bad luck.
Right. No human could pull that off.
He aimed for it.
That damned White Knight...
The energy transfer circuits have been overloaded, so we'll just give you a new machine.
Thanks.
No surprise.
That was quite a battle to behold.
He was nowhere even close to Lord Keith's level.
It is but natural that some lowlife challenging the White Knight would meet his fate.
Lord Keith?
Could you wake such a wind?
What did I say?
Your rune.
Everything was burning.
Only flames and heat.
Was that Windermere?
I'm terribly sorry.
The technology of the Protoculture and its effects are still not fully understood.
You must be tired. Please rest.
The resonance of the fold waves is increasing.
I have arrived.
Come.
Your Majesty.
Berger, why are you here?
I have news for His Majesty.
The capabilities of the Protoculture's great legacy, Sigur Valens,
have been analyzed up to 60%.
It can now be activated.
What?!
Roid, alert all forces.
We are mobilizing.
Do you intend to go yourself, Your Majesty?
You mustn't in your condition!
The wind is crying.
None of it rings from your rune.
You are hiding your own uncertainties.
Do you fear for Heinz?
He felt the enemy's song, has he not?
How do you know?
I could feel the disturbance of his wind in my rune.
If this so-called Walküre is this powerful, we must strike with matching preparations.
Henceforth, I will personally take control of all our forces.
Your Majesty.
Why are you so concerned about the well-being of Prince Heinz?
It is my duty as his retainer.
Even against the will of His Majesty?
He is the Wind Singer.
The great Protoculture bestowed that gift upon us Windermereans.
Prince Heinz might become the king of all Protoculture.
The Protoculture again...
The power of the ruins, the song of the wind, the water and the apples,
are all things they gave to us.
I recognize your achievements in making use of all that.
But you're forgetting something important.
What exactly?
Our lives are short.
We have no time.
Did we not vow?
Me from the skies, and you with your wings folded from the ground,
would make this nation strong and free it from its tainted past.
I still feel the same.
I see.
However, you were too slow.
Too slow?
Soon, time itself will not matter.
Messer...
He told some movers to get rid all of his stuff.
Guess he was always prepared to die or something.
That's just like him.
We have no time to mourn.
We need to fill the gap he left and fast.
We'll probably get someone from the Alpha or Beta Platoons.
Someone to replace him?
You look unhappy.
The Delta Platoon lost 37% of its combat potential.
Can you cover that by yourself?
Scared?
Windermere's not gonna wait.
I know.
Hayate!
Let him be.
It's probably the first time he lost a comrade.
Music is mystery!
Music is life!
Music is energy!
Music is hope!
Keep it up! In the end, it all comes down to stamina!
Keep it up!
Music is life!
Music is energy!
Music is hope!
If we were stronger, we might've saved him.
Music is love!
Music is mystery!
Music is life!
Music is energy!
Dammit!
Music is hope!
Music is love!
Music is mystery!
Music is life!
Dammit!
Music is energy!
Sending visualization to the main monitor.
What's this?
The coordinates of the Protoculture ruins annexed by Windermere so far.
And these are the places that reported hearing the song during the last battle.
It could be heard on all planets with ruins?
No.
Even on planets without them?!
Furthermore, analysis of the ruins in the globular cluster shows
that the lines connecting them form a field that covers all the planets.
Which means...
This is what the Windermereans were after.
Shall the ruins on Al Shahal and Ragna fall,
they could put all 8 billion inhabitants of the cluster under mind control.
They'll be coming, and it'll be soon.
We need reinforcements.
I've already asked Lady M.
Now, we pray they make it in time.
They took everything from Windermere on that day.
Our wind. Our lives. Our pride.
That shameful day our land was scarred.
But the days of shame will soon be over.
Today, we mobilize all our forces
to annihilate the earthlings and those allied with them.
We will retake all the ruins
and secure the Starwind sector.
We, the true inheritors of the Protoculture, shall free the globular cluster!
May the wind grant us glory!
Arise, Sigur Valens!
The target is Al Shahal!
Has it really been revived?
It is no dream, Lord Roid.
The heritage of the Protoculture, this ship you excavated,
the Sigur Valens, now takes on the skies again.
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