Interlude: Indomitable Spirit

 

The Trireme fleet was en route to Planet Libya.

Eunomia had departed on a solo course for Libya, while the other ships were turning back to initiate the operation to rescue the super AI Asia.

Unusually, Kou wasn’t inside the MCS. He stood instead at the foot of Unit 5, gazing up at it in contemplation.

「What’s on your mind?」

It was Arges who had come up and posed the question.

「I was thinking about something Phrygia said.」

「Oh?」

「When Indomitable activated, she shouted: ‘I’ll send a body to do battle.’ No Greek god or hero would say something like that, right?」

「Definitely not.」

「It’s a line from someone I know very well. So I’ve been wondering… is he inside Unit 5?」

Unit 5 stood there silently.

「Hard to say. It’s probably not him himself.」

「If it were, that’d be way too scary. We’d have to build a shrine.」

At last, Kou cracked a faint smile.

「Indomitable… Asia explained it to me as