Action, post-mission

[im_not_asking]

[Action]

*Have Forte going down a hall, muttering to herself. She seems... Even more on-edge than she was a few days ago during the music incident..*

Useless... Completely useless... Should've brought a gun, one shot and maybe I could've downed some cables...

[Voice, Private to Misato]

Still got some of those beers around? I need a drink. Preferably a

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[but_my_caaake]

Forteee! *wave wave* Hey, Forte, what's wrong?

[im_not_asking]

*Forte doesn't even wave back.*

... I failed entirely.

[but_my_caaake]

Eh? Forte? No way!

[im_not_asking]

... We couldn't have won. We're lucky we escaped with our reputations intact.

[but_my_caaake]

Forte... *pouts* We need to do something to cheer you and everybody else up.

[im_not_asking]

... Just let me be for a while, all right?

This... Isn't that simple.

[but_my_caaake]

Eh?

[im_not_asking]

... Have we made any real progress, Milfeulle?

[but_my_caaake]

Now that you mention it, I've been worried that we'll never get to Rhome, too.

[im_not_asking]

I mean beyond that.

Back home.

[but_my_caaake]

Of course we have! We're the Moon Angel Wing!

[im_not_asking]

I didn't mean the Wing as a whole. I'm willing to bet that Mint, Vanilla, and Ranpha have Eonia's forces wasting themselves on a wild goose chase, weakening him slowly but surely.

But will the White Chalice ever be in a position to help with truly turning that fight into progress towards his proper defeat? We don't even know Eonia's limits. For all we know, that mech we saw had nothing on his fullest capabilities.

[but_my_caaake]

I guess so... All we know is that he beat the first and second fleets.

[im_not_asking]

Which may mean little given our unique potential, or mean even the Chalice's allies aren't going to be enough.

[but_my_caaake]

We can't let this go on, though.

[im_not_asking]

I know.

But there's so many fronts here that it's quickly becoming hard to say which can be fought and which should be fought...