This is not the date I wanted.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Erya, who was still half asleep, gradually woke up.

A month ago, the reversed elves almost razed the entire Tiangong City to the ground. Naturally, Honjo Niya's apartment did not escape the fate of destruction. With no choice, the homeless Niya could only move to the staff dormitory of Fraxinus EX under the arrangement of Ratatoskr.

After taking off her pajamas and changing into her clothes, Erya went to the bathroom to wash up.

"Ah...what a terrible expression."

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Erya put on his glasses, looked at himself in the mirror, and couldn't help but smile bitterly at himself.

Should I say haggard or slack? Although not as bad as Murasame Reion, Niya's face now looks just as ugly as when she was a rookie, working hard for a week to finish the doujinshi manuscript, and then woke up with a nightmare about a problem at the printing factory.

"Come on! Come on!"

Erya slapped his cheeks hard and tried to encourage himself.

After leaving the room, Erya first went to the staff cafeteria to have breakfast, then got up and went to the command room in the center of the bridge.

"Good morning, Ms. Honjo."

On the way, an employee of Fraxinus greeted Erya.

"Eh? Good morning... Uh, um?"

Erya greeted him awkwardly. Although she had some impression of the employee who greeted her, she couldn't remember his name.

"My name is Awashima, and I'm a third-class collector. I met him once five days ago."

As if noting Erya's embarrassment, the other party gave a brief self-introduction.

"Ah... Mr. Awashima. Thank you for your hard work."

"Yeah, so is Miss Nia."

After giving a polite reply, Erya watched the employee leave and couldn't help but touch his nose in embarrassment.

"Ah... How embarrassing. This airship has so many employees."

The number of technicians and general staff who stayed on the space ship for a long time exceeded 100. If we count the grassroots staff on the ground waiting to perform tasks, the number easily exceeded 1,000. To be honest, even after living there for almost a month, Erya still couldn't remember anyone's face except those in the command room.

"Come to think of it... Kotori-chan seems to have memorized the appearances and names of all the employees under her jurisdiction. That's pretty impressive."

After sighing involuntarily, Erya took a deep breath and walked into the command room.

——The global atmospheric spiritual wave concentration ratio detection has a progress of 3.65 percent.

——Fifty-sixth neighbor boundary coordinate tracking starts——Failed——Re-execution starts

——Lock the range of spiritual waves to Class E.

——Director Woodman replied that the acquisition of DEM has been completed.

——Begin to contact ground forces to recover the aerial ships and equipment deployed by DEM around the world.

The automatic door of the command room opened, and what appeared in front of Erya was the Fraxinus crew, who were excited and focused, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"Wow……"

Erya exclaimed unconsciously.

I remember that before yesterday, every time Erya came to this command room, there was always a depressing and decadent atmosphere. Whether it was morale or work efficiency, it was so low that it was unimaginable.

(Well, of course.)

Erya thought in his heart.

The reason why they had not given up on themselves before was because they still had the goal of revenge for the commander to support them, but after all, Kotori's subordinates were basically not of the fierce and violent type, so the effect they could achieve was very small.

Compared to the revenge battle, the goal of "restoring Kotori-chan's original state" proposed by Bilijiang yesterday is obviously more likely to motivate them.

Looking at the brown-haired girl sitting in the commander's seat and operating the computer, Erya took a deep breath and greeted her in a relaxed manner.

"...Good morning, Bili-chan, or should I call you Commander now?"

"…Morning, Niya."

Hearing Erya's voice, Mengyue raised her head, sighed helplessly, and corrected.

"Just call me as usual. I'm not the commander, just the acting commander."

"Haha~ Of course I know, Bili-chan."

Erya replied with a smile.

Just yesterday, the girl in front of Erya successfully gained the command of this airship through negotiations with Woodman and became the acting commander.

Although she is an agent, in the case of Kotori's disappearance, Mengyue's power is basically the same as that of the commander. The reason why she insists on this is probably to give the crew the impression that "Kotori will come back one day" to increase their confidence and improve their favorability towards her.

In fact, Mengyue did succeed.

(But…what’s going on…this feeling of incompatibility.)

Erya frowned secretly in thought.

Indeed, thinking from the perspective of others, carefully observing the distance during communication, and gaining trust were indeed things Meng Yue was very good at before.

Yes, Liangyi Mengyue is still as considerate and reliable as before.

However, perhaps it is because of this that, in today's world where the environment has changed so dramatically, Meng Yue, who is calm and collected and seems to be the same as before, makes Erya feel happy but also a little at a loss.

(Forget it… Now is not the time to think about these things. Let’s get back to work.)

After shaking his head to get rid of distracting thoughts, Erya sat down in his seat and started his work awkwardly.

Although she often ridicules herself as a burden, Erya does not want to be a burden to others. Since the spirit crystal was taken away by Westcott, she often comes to the airship to learn as a trainee crew member in order to help.

Since she had learned a lot about how to use the detector from Reine at that time, she naturally took her place after Murasame Reine disappeared.

"Niya, are you still drawing comics now?"

After an unknown amount of time, Meng Yue suddenly asked her this question.

"...No. It has been announced that it will cease publication."

The work at hand could not help but stop, and after a moment of silence, Erya replied calmly,

"Rather, the magazine itself has stopped selling. The Shonen Blast company collapsed due to a space earthquake, and I lost contact with my editor. Even if I draw it, it can't be published."

"……I see."

After hearing Meng Yue's sigh, she continued to ask,

"Eiya, if the magazine resumes serialization in the future, will you continue to draw comics?"

"Say... probably not."

After hearing Mengyue's words, Erya pursed his lips and finally said something against his will.

She was worried that if she answered yes, Meng Yue would use Ratatoskr's authority to reopen a comic magazine, giving herself the opportunity to continue serializing comics, and then use this as an excuse to transfer her away from the danger zone.

"I can't adjust to the mood. Besides, it feels despicable that I am getting happiness without permission when everyone else is in such a bad situation."

"...That's it."

After saying this simple sentence, Meng Yue did not speak again, and the conversation between the two ended there.

(…Ah? Did I screw up?)

Looking at Mengyue's subtle reaction, to be honest, Erya felt a little regretful in her heart. She began to worry that she had misunderstood Mengyue's intentions and made the wrong choice.

(It would be nice if it was a galgame... ah, I really want to read the game and check the branch.)

Reality is just a rubbish game after all. Honjo Niya couldn't help but complain in his heart, then he buried his head in his work.

……

"Haha - I'm so tired~"

At night, the heavy tasks were temporarily completed. Honjo Niya, exhausted both physically and mentally, returned to his room. He didn't even have the energy to take a shower, and just fell into the bed.

"I always feel like I'm just a single office lady now..."

With such emotion about her current life, Erya stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time. Suddenly, she began to beat her pillow hard and went crazy in the room alone.

“Ah—I’ve had enough!! I want to read comics! I want to read novels! I want to watch anime! I want to draw storyboards for comics! I want to go to Akihabara right now and buy a bunch of peripherals, and sleep surrounded by beautiful girl figurines and handsome guy figurines!”

After venting out his dissatisfaction one by one, Erya finally lay on the bed exhausted, buried his head in the pillow he had just hit, and whispered in a crying voice.

"I finally had the courage to live... Why did it turn out like this..."

05 Ignore

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Restoring the reversed elves to their original state. Although it sounds very simple, it is thousands of times more difficult to achieve than imagined.

Now that Gokawa Shidao is no longer alive, it is impossible to seal the spiritual power of spirits by kissing them.

Sufficient human and material resources, preparation and implementation of prerequisites, prevention of possible emergencies, and repeated confirmation of the feasibility and comprehensiveness of the plan.

Any flaw in any link may lead to the failure of the plan.

Therefore, the first thing that Meng Yue and Er Ya, the sisters Or Shou and Ratatoskr need to do is not to capture the Reversal Spirit, but to design a manifestation device that can predict the time and place of the Reversal Spirit's appearance. This way, they can prepare in advance and turn passivity into initiative.

In order to achieve this function, two spirit angels are indispensable.

A miracle that possesses powerful calculation and analysis capabilities and can predict the near future - the Sage of the Dawn.

Possessing all knowledge of all things in the world, past and present, it represents the miracle of omniscience - the Whispering Chapter.

Meng Yue's original idea was to provide the necessary information through Whispering Pianzhi, and then use the Sage of Dawn to analyze the data and infer the time and place where the elves would appear.

However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is very bleak.

The Dawn Sage's future predictions can only cover the next few seconds. Although a few seconds of prediction in a battle is enough to change the trend, the amount of information provided by the Whispering Chapter on a global scale is too huge, so it is very difficult to predict the time beyond 0.1 seconds.

According to Meng Yue's idea, the prediction range must be extended to at least one month to pass. This is obviously not enough to detect the time when the elves appear in the world.

As for the Dawn Sage's other ability - Future Peering. Although there is no time limit, Meng Yue directly ruled it out because the controllability is too low and the future peeped into cannot be changed.

Therefore, in order to overcome this problem, Mengyue asked for the help of Ratatoskr.

Design a manifestation device that amplifies the angel's function, study the factors that need to be prepared when making predictions, filter out data in the "Whispering Announcement" that is irrelevant to the prediction, and reduce unimportant information when the "Sage of the Dawn" predicts the future - through various optimizations, the range of future predictions can be extended to the target value as much as possible.

Although it was a vague and difficult plan, fortunately, Kotori's crew was better than Mengyue had imagined. After several discussions and explorations, they basically determined the specific direction.

The frequency of the elves' appearances, the physical condition of the employees, and the scope of what she can bear - after taking all aspects into consideration, Meng Yue set the goal to be completed within half a month.

However, plans can never keep up with changes. On the ninth day of the project, a space earthquake struck a small town.

[——Received on-site disaster report, confirmed by Lingbo reaction——Identification code: Berserker (Berserker)——Space earthquake scale: AA——Determined death toll... 30151 people——Missing——320756 people. ]

Ju Ya on the screen slowly reported the local disaster situation. Although most people were missing, looking at the horrific and desperate situation on the screen, it was probably only a matter of time before the number of deaths was confirmed.

——35 people died. This number was like a heavy boulder, pressing everyone present to the point of suffocating.

Regret, self-blame - such feelings began to spread in their hearts. Even when Yoshino froze the city with millions of people, they did not feel as guilty as they do now. If they could have completed the function of predicting the appearance of elves earlier, they would have been able to allow residents to evacuate before the spacequake occurred.

They didn’t want to see more innocent people die. With this belief, everyone in Fraxinus was racing against death, giving up the little sleep time they had left and rushing to complete the project.

Then, it was March 3th, the thirteenth day of the plan.

"Ratziel (The Sage of the Dawn/The Whispering Chapter)."

As Mengyue shouted, a dark blue mechanical bow and a black leather book engraved with a cross appeared in front of her.

Put the angel into the groove of the matching shape. Soon, the Sage of Dawn and the Whispering Order began to flash with a flickering halo under the stimulation of magic, as if they were breathing. The branches and leaves at the rear end of the airship quietly stretched out, flashing in coordination with the angel.

[Angel detected, scanning started - scanning successful - mission started. ]

——Gulu.

Swallowing subconsciously, the crew of Fraxinus EX didn't even dare to blink. With dark circles under their eyes, they stared at the progress bar on the big screen.

[Mission completed——]

About ten minutes later, the screen switched to a large world map with dozens of red dots scattered across the map. Next to the red dots were notes of the corresponding elf information.

——识别代号：Princess（公主），现界时间：6月10号7时58分，坐标（10.5N，10.8E）。

——识别代号：Diva（歌姬），现界时间：4月19号17时36分，坐标（55N，36E）。

——Identification code: Witch, time of appearance: 5:9 on May 23, coordinates...

——Identification code: Efreet (Flame Demon), time of appearance: April 4th...

……