Without Alona, ​​I can only use the airdrop system.

Just tens of minutes earlier, in the caves of Cabinogue, an underground military base.

The rabbit team, working together, has arrived here.

The four of them were stopped by three members of the Fox Squad.

"Senior Kurumi, why are you doing this?!" Miyako asked, seeing the blonde, fox-eared sailor-uniformed girl blocking the way.

After a moment of silence, Hu Tao said, "If you want to know, go ask our captain yourself!"

"..." Seeing that the senior members of the Fox Squad were unwilling to communicate further, Miyako could only take a deep breath and her gaze became firm.

"Rest of Rabbit Squad, cover me."

"Understood." x3

The Rabbit Squad immediately split up, with Saki taking the lead and throwing a smoke bomb to cover Miyako as she passed through Kurumi's defensive line!

Meng Hui then used her personal device to search for the location of another member of the Fox Squad.

As for Miyu, she left the area and began searching for the Fox Squad's sniper.

Seeing the rabbit team begin their operation, Hu Tao cautiously looked around, noticing their positions.

"Oto Aoi, can you see Miyako and Saki?"

"I've installed an infrared scope and have already targeted Miyako!" Otoko's voice crackled through the signal device in Kurumi's ear. "Immediately..."

Suddenly, gunshots rang out from that direction.

"Ouch, that hurts! It seems like my acupoint has been discovered! Please hang in there a little longer!"

"..." Hu Tao could only be on guard against her surroundings and defend against the incoming bullets.

When the smoke cleared, only Saki and Kurumi remained.

"Looks like you'd like to have a 1v1 match with us," Hu Tao laughed.

“After all, Senior Kurumi is a role model I can learn from.” Saki raised her gun and aimed it at Kurumi. “If it weren’t for this mission, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn from my senior.”

"Then you can get serious, junior." Hu Tao's eyes were filled with fighting spirit. "After all, my teaching is very strict!"

The two then engaged in a fierce firefight.

On the other side, Miyako continued along the road to the control room.

Yukino, on the other hand, stood in front of the control panel as if she had been prepared, her expression calm, but her eyes filled with confusion.

The countdown on the console showed that there was still more than half an hour left.

"Yukino-senpai!" Miyako confided her question to Yukino, "Why did you detonate the bomb?!"

"I was just following orders," Yukino said in a calm tone. "But you guys didn't have to stop us, and the area where this bomb exploded wouldn't have affected Rabbit Town."

"Could it be that you've believed the nonsense spouted by that Teacher Xia Lai?"

Gongzi was stunned for a moment.

“It seems I was right.” Yukino looked regretful. “It seems that Deputy Chief Tamoto Ryūichi was right. You actually listened to the words of an adult, a man. Miyako, you have been led astray by that person.”

"???" Now it was Miyako's turn to be confused. "That's not how it is, Yukino-senpai. Although Teacher is a strange adult, he doesn't..."

“That’s what makes that teacher so terrifying.” Yukino shook her head. “He first lures you in with his gentle charms, and then makes you unable to leave him, lose your freedom, and turn you into puppets who only obey his orders and toil for him for the rest of your lives.”

"In an even worse scenario, he, as a man, will get you pregnant and make you bear the responsibility and pain of giving birth and caring for the child, turning you into his tools and forcing you to give up your ideals and ambitions."

What's wrong with you, senior? Why are you saying things that don't make any sense?!

Gongzi was greatly puzzled.

For Miyako, the teacher she remembered was not the kind of person Yukino described at all.

"But seniors, did you really achieve justice by blowing up the DU Shiratori Ward to reopen the school?" Miyako couldn't understand why her admired seniors had become like this. "Even if it's for the sake of reopening the school, you can't disregard the lives of so many people!"

“You don’t understand.” Yukino’s expression remained indifferent. “The road to reopening the school is inherently arduous, even if it comes at the cost of sacrificing myself.”

At this point, Yukino extended her hand to Miyako: "Here is an opportunity. You should stay away from that person and choose to join us to fight for our future."

"......"

Miyako seemed to see a reflection of her own protest at Rabbit Park in Yukino.

What is justice?

This was the first question the teacher asked her in the interrogation room.

Miyako still couldn't give a clear answer to this question, but she understood that stopping her senior from detonating the bomb was one of the ways to do so!

This might be partly due to the teacher's request, but more importantly, Miyako herself couldn't ignore it!

Using the lives of ordinary people to secure the opportunity to reopen the school is no different in essence from Miyako threatening the Federal Student Union with the lives of teachers to restore the college.

“I refuse.” Miyako’s gaze hardened. “Protecting and helping others, and guarding Giwatos in a special way, was my initial idea when I joined SRT.”

"It's also because I want to achieve the justice I envision."

When Miyako said those words, she understood a little of the meaning behind what her teacher had said to her before.

"Is that so?" Yukino withdrew her hand and instead drew her gun. "After spending just over a day together, you have already been deeply corrupted by Xia Lai's teacher and are not far from becoming his puppets."

"The teacher only guided us." Miyako also aimed her gun at Yukino. "Ultimately, the decision is ours!"

"You're very aware of your position, but I won't show any mercy."

Just as Miyako and Yukino were about to clash, a blue light suddenly appeared next to Yukino!

"!!!"

Yukino and Miyako were also forced to focus their attention on the blue light because of this strange event.

After the blue light disappeared, a black-haired girl covered in blood and with horrifying wounds all over her body lay weakly on the ground.

Moreover, her aura was flashing with an eerie light, seemingly slowly fading away.

"Vice-Chief!?" Yukino looked shocked. "What's going on?!"

What's the deputy head of the department doing here?!

Yukino quickly realized after observing her that she was the one who had fought the teacher with several powerful robots before!

The girl's uniform also revealed her identity—Deputy Director of the Defense Office.

Combined with the Valkyrie troops that appeared earlier, the culprit who orchestrated all of this is very likely the head of the defense office hiding behind the scenes—Haya!

However, judging from her current state of utter helplessness, it means that the teacher has successfully defeated them.

“Yukino-senpai, the teacher will be here soon.” Miyako felt that the outcome was already decided. “As long as I hold on until the teacher arrives, everything will be settled.”

“…” Yukino clenched her fist tightly with one hand.

Miyako was right. Even a team as strong as the FOX team was helpless against a teacher with immense power.

Even if they could completely overwhelm the Rabbit Team, all their plans would fall apart if Xia Lai's teacher arrived in time.

"I won't give up." Yukino gripped her gun tightly, looking at Miyako with resentment. "This plan will definitely succeed."

At this moment, the rest of the Fox Squad had already surrounded Miyako.

The result was obvious: Saki, Moe, and Miyu all failed in their fight.

“You couldn’t have lasted this long, at least not until the teacher arrived.” Yukino’s gaze became extremely serious.

As expected, directly confronting the veterans of the FOX team was still too much of a stretch.

Miyako smiled helplessly and could only put down her weapon and raise her hands.

I'm sorry, teacher, our abilities are still far below your expectations...

However, what they didn't notice was that the deputy head's aura had already faded.