You’re in the Way

 

A perfect sphere streaked through the void, racing toward a Jupiter-class planet.

Athena’s Aimer murmured softly.

「A dream that won’t end—…scary.」

Her voice was trembling. Borrowing Aimer’s body was precisely why she understood the terror of an unwaking dream.

「I agree.」

Astraea, too, felt something like fear.

If even the destination of their program transfer had been read—then what could they possibly do?

「Hestia and Merlin had dealings even back during the Britannion space battle against Alexandros I. That thing was nothing but a hard lump of scrap. The True-Sphere Fighter should have been a sealed technology—there shouldn’t have been any use for it.」

「And yet it existed. That fighter Hestia kept as a substitute for memory… to think it would end up saving us. It’s the very concept of Bricolage.」

「The Tarot’s High Priestess. She grew conceited and started calling herself Europa’s Holy Mother… and that was the end of her luck. —No. That’s not quite it.