This is not the date I wanted.

"What's wrong? Any other questions?"

Nanashi turned to look at Shidou and asked.

"Um..." Shidou hesitated for a moment before mustering up the courage to ask, "Nana Sin, are you interested in following us and sealing your spiritual power like Meng Yue, Tohka and the others and living a peaceful life?"

"I reject!"

Shidou was puzzled by Nanashi's rejection without hesitation.

"Why? We really have no intention of harming you. If you are willing to join, you will definitely be able to get along well with everyone."

"Well--"

After hearing Shidou's persuasion, Nanashi showed some intention on her face, but finally shook her head.

"I know all this. But I still refuse!"

"Why?!"

Shidou asked in confusion.

"because……"

Nanashi pulled her witch hat down to cover her face and said with a guilty conscience.

"…If I go back now, I will definitely be severely punished by Meng Yue."

“…Huh? Is that why?”

"Um……"

Nanashi nodded fearfully.

Hearing an answer that was completely different from what he expected, Shidou didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Shidou originally thought that Nanashi was wary and rejected Shidou and his friends' kindness because they had been treated coldly by ordinary people for many years. However, now it seems that Nanashi was more like a child who ran away from home because he didn't dare to face the scolding of his parents after doing something wrong.

However, he could understand Nanashi's feelings.

After all, recalling the murderous look on the girl's face at that time, Shidou couldn't deny what Nanashi said.

"Indeed, Meng Yue was completely furious when she was looking for you. The last time I saw her that angry, I was punched into the ceiling."

"Being hit into the ceiling?!"

After hearing Shidou's description, Nanashi's face turned pale and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Seeing Nanashi's cowering look, Shidou realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly changed his words to comfort her.

"No, it's okay. It was due to many uncontrollable reasons. Mengyue is actually quite easy to talk to. As long as you apologize sincerely, Mengyue will definitely forgive you."

"Really, really?"

Nanashi confirmed uneasily.

Shidou patted his chest and guaranteed Nana Sin.

"Of course, I will go with you to apologize. If Meng Yue is still angry, I can teach her a lesson with you."

"Ohhhh——that's a good realization!"

Mengyue nodded with great satisfaction.

“Ah ...

Nanashi and Shidou screamed at the same time.

"Hey, can you two stop looking like you've seen a ghost? It's very rude."

Meng Yue covered her ears with her hands and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Then Mengyue, please don't always appear so quietly, okay?"

Shidou said helplessly.

"Who's been missing? I just heard from Maria that the GPS signal on your phone suddenly disappeared, so I came to check it out out of concern. Then I saw you and Nanashi hiding here."

Meng Yue shrugged and explained.

"Well, although I have indeed received your apology, Nanashi-chan, even if it was an accident, it is not okay not to teach someone a lesson if you strip someone's clothes in the street without any explanation~"

There were crackling sounds between her hands, and a rather gentle and "friendly" smile appeared on Liang Yi Meng Yue's face.

Nanashi grabbed the corner of Shidao's clothes and hid behind him, trembling like a little squirrel. After Shidao smiled bitterly, he looked at Mengyue with a begging look.

"Um, Meng Yue..."

"Shidou, you said it too. You should take half of the responsibility for Nanazain-chan."

"Well……"

Shidou smiled bitterly. After realizing that words are like spilled water, he closed his eyes resignedly.

"…Be gentle."

—Boom! —Boom!

"it hurts……"

Nanashi squatted on the ground, holding his head with both hands, tears of grievance in his eyes.

Meng Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh... I feel refreshed. Since Nanashi apologized sincerely, I'll forgive you for this. Shidou, what happened just now?"

Meng Yue asked Shidao.

"Ah, actually..."

Gently touching his slightly swollen head, Shidao explained to Mengyue what happened when he met Alan at his home just now.

"That guy Allen..."

Hearing that Alan actually ran straight to her house and planned to torture Shidou to get information about herself and Nanashi, Meng Yue clenched her fists slightly, and her face changed from gloomy to bright several times before she took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in her heart.

"Well...anyway, it's better for you and Nanashi to be alright, Shidou."

After confirming that Shidou and Nanashi were not hurt, Mengyue felt relieved. Then, she put on a very serious expression.

"Shidou, Nanashi. Now there are two pieces of news, a bad news and a good news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"Um... let's hear the bad news first."

After looking at Nanashi, Shidou hesitated for a moment and then said.

"The bad news is that in a few dozen minutes, DEM will cause two satellites to fall into Tiangong City."

"What--"

Shidou and Nanashi both gasped at the same time.

"And it's not as simple as just falling. According to the analysis of Mariya and Maruna, a large number of bandernatch are installed on the surface of the satellite to open up a random field to offset the friction of the atmosphere. The satellite itself is also installed with a blasting technique. Well... Shidao, you just need to think of it as a super-large time bomb." Meng Yue exhaled slowly and concluded calmly, "In short, we don't need two. Just one of them falls to the ground, and everyone in Tiangong City, including the people in the shelter, will be destroyed."

“Why would you do such a thing?”

Shidao knew that Mengyue would not joke about such things. Hearing the desperate scene described by Mengyue, Shidao's face turned pale.

"Is it necessary to go to this extent just to kill the elves?"

"Who knows? If they were going to kill the elves, it would have been more efficient to set a trap to kill me. And as long as we leave Amamiya City on Kotori's airship, this plan will be completely ruined. I don't think that Westcott would come up with such an inefficient method."

Meng Yue shook her head, denying Shidao's guess. Although it looked very strange, but thinking back to the DEM meeting materials she read in the morning, Meng Yue probably had a rough idea in her mind.

Perhaps, this time, the opponent's target is not the elf and Shidao.

"So...what's the good news?"

Nanashi raised his hand weakly and asked.

"Well, about the good news~"

Meng Yue showed a mysterious smile on her face, and before Qi Zui could react, she hugged Qi Zui in her arms like a hungry wolf pouncing on a tiger.

“What are you doing?!”

Nanashi struggled and shouted with a blushing face.

"Due to the addition of the new member Nanashi-chan, after everyone's discussion, it has been temporarily decided that tomorrow's Halloween carnival will be turned into a welcome party for Nanashi-chan!"

"Oh? This is indeed good news."

Hearing Mengyue's words, Shidao was surprised, but then he quickly reacted and nodded with a smile.

“Ehhhhhhh!!?”

Nanashi couldn't help but let out a panicked cry.

"By the way, this is a decision. No protests will be accepted."

Meng Yue said this in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Wait, when did I agree to be one of you? And is now the time to discuss this kind of thing? The satellite is about to fall!"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with that."

She shrugged lightly, which made Qiqi feel depressed. The situation had obviously become quite serious, but for some reason, Mengyue still seemed to be very relaxed.

"Shidou, now is the time for you to truly demonstrate the results of your special training."

"Mengyue, you wouldn't..."

As if he understood something, Shidou's eyes widened unexpectedly.

"The first satellite that falls will be dealt with by Kotori and everyone on the airship. As for the second one..."

As she spoke, Meng Yue's lips curled up slightly.

"It will be up to you, me, Nanashi, and Tohka and the others who will arrive soon. We will be responsible for destroying it in mid-air before it falls into Amamiya City."

PS: Don’t complain about the title.

25 Breaking the Sky (Part )

==============================

"Commander! The satellite is starting to fall!"

"come yet……"

On the Fraxinus airship, after hearing the report from her subordinates, Kotori, who was sitting on the command platform, showed a solemn look.

On the large screen in the center of the bridge, the red dot on the map was falling from space to the ground in a straight trajectory. This was clearly an abnormal state. Normally, when a satellite falls, it will gradually fall out of orbit, orbiting the earth while being affected by gravity and the atmosphere, and burn up in the atmosphere.

Obviously, this is man-made.

"...the impact of a satellite of this size, plus the highest level of DEM's blasting technique, plus the bandersnatch random field amplification following the surface of the satellite..."

Ling Yin used a computer to make a simple calculation of the possible scale of damage caused by the satellite crash and concluded.

"Although the exact value cannot be calculated, at least it has the lethality of a strategic-level nuclear bomb."

"—!"

Even though they had been mentally prepared to a certain extent, most of the crew members on the airship still took a deep breath when they heard the news.

"And we have prepared two of these..."

Kotori felt the corners of her mouth twitching.

"They really think highly of us. Those lunatics at DEM."

According to Meng Yue, the satellite that is currently falling is acting as a bait. DEM seems to understand that Ratatoskr, located in Tiangong City, will not sit idly by. They specially arranged another satellite to drop after the first satellite attracted the attention of Kotori and others.

[Kotori. A large-scale random field reaction has been detected two kilometers away from our aerial ship. It is speculated that it should be the aerial ship of DEM.]

At this moment, Ju Ya's voice suddenly sounded in the airship. Then, on the monitor, a larger airship than Fraxinus appeared in the distant high-altitude clouds. Not to mention the creepy appearance, the mere appearance at this time and place had already expressed the hostility of the other party without any disguise.

[From the weapons, engine model, and hull structure...from the data comparison, this should be the DEM company's aerial ship Heptameron. 】

From the DEM data obtained by Mengyue’s hacker intrusion that year, Ju Ya quickly found out the true identity of the opponent’s aerial ship.

Kotori frowned slightly and muttered to herself all that she was thinking.

"I see. It seems that the enemy wants to fight with us to ensure the successful fall of the satellite. Indeed, even for Fraxinus, it is difficult to disperse firepower to deal with the enemy's aerial ships while preparing to shoot down the satellite."

I have to say that what DEM did was crazy and inexplicable, but the plan itself was very thorough.