After the 5th wave

The 5th monster wave of the -Final frontier- quest had something that no one had expected.

Once the titan-class monsters' forces had passed the first line of defense and enter the killing zone of the second line, an obnoxiously strong attack - a high power beam - was lunched somewhere from the mountain range deep inside the monster territory and decimated everything in its path, both titan-class and Sloth soldiers alike.

Yet despite that seemingly impartial nature of the attack, it was the human side that suffered consequences far greater than monsters...

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"IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT HE WAS ON THAT ROOFTOP! YOU TOOK HIM AWAY FROM ME! IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT HE DIED!"

Were the words that monk 89-F shouted in Mika's face before she was forcibly escorted out of the gathering hall, KICKING AND SCREAMING, by the rest of her squad before she could do something more radical and get herself in serious trouble.