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It was never supposed to be a combat mission.

Nergal’s Cradle screamed. The flesh hardened. The spires crumbled. The moon began to collapse in on itself, not from an explosion, but from a . It couldn’t process the infinite song. It couldn’t stop listening. Otomedius Excellent -NTSC-U--ISO-

The ISO wasn’t a memory. It was a . The ghost of the gray-haired pilot had written it as a final curse. A recursive paradox: “If the core sings, sing back a song that never ends.” It was never supposed to be a combat mission

But Aoba had downloaded the . The illicit, black-market data fragment that Esmeralda had flagged an hour ago. It wasn't a file. It was a memory. A ghost from the first Bacterian war. It showed a lone pilot, a woman with steel-gray hair and dead eyes, flying a black Vic Viper into a similar living moon. The ISO ended with a single line of text: “The core sings. But only the damned can hear the lyrics.” Aoba’s hands trembled on the controls. The others launched in formation: Tita with her laser-focused precision, Strue in her armored Goliath unit, even the wildcard Diol in her unorthodox Fairy type. They were a wall of firepower. The spires crumbled