Save in the Name of True Greed - Chapter 2

From the depths of the tropical jungle, five towering female forms began to rise into view from different corners of the island: Chizuru Sakaki, Kei Ayamine, Mikoto Yoroi, Miki Tamase, and Marimo Jinguuji. Each of the rapidly enlarging women was clad in the swimsuits they had brought along with them for the free time that they had hoped to enjoy after passing their exams, the outfits somehow growing along with their expanding frames: for Chizuru, a simple forest green one-piece; her rival, Kei, sported a maroon-colored bikini that amplified her ample chest and curvaceous figure; Mikoto and Tamase donned a yellow one-piece and pink bikini, respectively, each of which did their best to mask their petite features; and lastly, Sergeant Jinguuji was wearing an amber-colored one-piece that did little to mask her heaving bosom and well-sculpted body that she normally kept neatly suppressed in her United Nations uniform.  

Yuuko could only watch in both awe and disbelief as the exam candidates and her only friend continued to effortlessly enlarge, acres upon acres of fertile land bulldozed in an instant by their expanding feet, all to make room for them to continue their unexpected growth. To her classically-trained mind, what was occurring before the professor defied the laws of physics: each of the towering women were in clear violation of the square-cube law; their bodies should have collapsed beneath the pressure of their enlarged forms seconds ago. However, considering that they seemed to be growing without incident and remained perfectly fine all the while, Yuuko quickly theorized that something out of the ordinary - no, an impossible process - had to be occurring within their internal structures, an inexplicable organic activity that caused their skin and bones to become astronomically tougher at a linear rate to keep up with the difference between the square and the cube, thus allowing them to sustain their bodies as if they had never enlarged. However they had started to grow, and how they had managed to sustain their present forms, was a mystery that the scientist could not figure out despite her mastery of the laws of physics.

A full minute had elapsed from the time Yuuko heard the screams of her allies to the realization that they were growing larger with seemingly no end in sight. Out of the five titaness, Marimo was the closest one to Yuuko’s location near the encampment, the brown-haired teacher’s gargantuan tan toes plowing through the land before her best friend’s eyes, rapidly inching closer and closer with each second that passed.

No...This can’t be how it ends. Death by Marimo’s toes? I would rather face the BETA then to die in this… impossible way! Yuuko mentally steeled herself for the imminent death before her as the walls of Marimo’s toe flesh continued their relentless advance, the physicist refusing to believe she would perish before her work on this planet was complete. The violet-haired genius simply stared at the bulldozing feet before her as she found herself swallowed up in the gap between Marimo’s left big and index toes, accepting that escape was impossible. However, just as the instructor’s foot was about to run her over, Marimo’s growth, along with the rest of the members of the 207th Training Unit, came to an abrupt halt, leaving the bikini-clad scientist face to skin with the sergeant’s toe cleavage.

“Ehhh?” Yuuko blinked, taking a step back in utter surprise at her stroke of luck in somehow miraculously escaping death. Craning her neck upwards, Yuuko observed that Marimo’s toes towered over the commanding officer on all sides, each plump tan digit large enough to be a skyscraper all its own. “There...There’s no way this is possible. I have to be dre-”

“UOOOOO-WOOOOAAAAHHHH!” Tama’s childish, now-powerful voice exclaimed, her words easily echoing for miles. “Look at how huge we are! This is so amazing!”

“I know!” Mikoto enthusiastically agreed, letting her toes gleefully dance against the forest floor. “This is so cool! I wonder if I can see the base from here?”

“This is no time to be fooling around!” Chizuru commanded, the squad leader adamantly stomping her right foot into the earth as she adjusted her large bifocals, causing shockwaves in the surrounding area that almost caused Yuuko and Takeru to lose their footings. “This isn’t part of the test. This isn’t normal!”

“Big...” Ayamine observed her usual monotone, gazing down past her colossal chest at the miniscule jungle landscape beneath her.

“Everyone, just...keep calm!” a flustered Marimo took charge, her natural teacher’s instincts taking over and quickly calming her mind to lead her students, even though she herself was unsure of what to do in such an unusual situation. “Don’t move or do anything out of the ordinary. We need to figure out why this happened, so don’t take any unnecessary movements until we do. Understood?”

“Yes, ma’am!” the trainees answered in unison as they saluted their instructor.

Yuuko had clutched her ears from the initial sound of Tama’s voice, anticipating the feeling of some sort of aural pain, yet she oddly suffered none. In fact, it was almost as if something had passively happened to the professor’s body as well without her knowledge, allowing her to listen to her gigantic soldiers without the drawbacks that a normal human would suffer in such close proximity. Whatever was going on, this spectacle before her was truly outside of the realm of scientific explanation, a phenomenon that not even the world-renown physicist could begin to ground in logic in any fundamental theorems of the myriad scientific fields.

I...really am not dreaming, Yuuko told herself, beginning to accept the gravity of the situation. This...should not be possible, and yet... No, I will find an explanation to this! This has to be an illusion or something. There’s no way someone like Shirogane could cause something like this to occur. Magic does not exist!

Determined to prove herself right, the bikini-clad genius began to conduct an impromptu analysis on the titanic women before her, using Marimo’s gargantuan toes as the main subject of her experiments due to their relative closeness and general familiarity with the researcher. The scientist began her observations by moving towards the sergeant’s big toe, finding herself cast in the shade given off by the immense digit. In comparison to the local trees around it, Marimo’s toes were easily several times larger than most of the island’s foliage; using a rough assumption of simply how much the colossal toes dwarfed the trees and cross-referencing it with her knowledge of Marimo’s height before her enlargement, Yuuko estimated that Marimo, along with her trainees, were 2 miles tall each, a fact that both astounded and alarmed the professor simultaneously. With the height calculation complete, it was time for Yuuko to proceed to the next phase of her research: making sure Marimo was actually physically present and that the toes that surrounded her were not mere mental hallucinations. Yuuko cautiously placed her right palm against the tan wall before her, lightly pressing into the soft flesh several times to observe its textures and elasticity while doing her best to not yet alert her massive friend to her location. “This is...actually Marimo’s foot…” she observed, watching as the wall of toe continually regenerated to its normal shape whenever the professor retracted her hand. “All of them… are real…” Yuuko took a few staggered steps backwards in defeat, craning her neck upwards as far as she could look, finding her view above blocked by two gargantuan orbs that were Marimo’s breasts, denying her the image of her best friend’s most-likely worried face.

“Um, Kouzuki-sensei…?”

Takeru’s concerned voice snapped the scientist back into reality, causing her to turn around to face the oddly-dressed cadet. Yuuko had no intention of ever admitting defeat to the teenager, but considering the spectacle of watching five low-ranking soldiers enlarge into multi-mile behemoths before her eyes, she was honestly interested in his explanation of the events that had recently unfolded. “Shirogane!” Yuuko commanded, her piercing crimson eyes glaring with a convincing burning anger at the trainee. “What is the meaning of...of this?!” she emphasized, pointing her right index finger at the towering group of women behind her without ever taking her eyes off of the young man.

“Oh, that? I granted your wish, of course,” Takeru smiled confidently.

“How is this granting my wish?!” the professor scolded.

“Well, you asked for a weapon that you could use to crush the BETA,” he explained. “I thought about what you wanted, and I realized something that even you know about yourself, Kouzuki-sensei: you’re a brilliant scientist and tactician, not a fighter. You’re meant to command others and have them do the fighting for you. It’s why you’re the Vice-Commander of Yokohama, so that you don’t have to go out there like everyone else on the front lines. You serve humanity better from the rear, ordering everyone to take the best actions possible to ensure that humanity has a future, and-”

“I see now…” Yuuko chuckled lightly to herself, her faux anger gently subsiding. “Because I wished for a weapon that you thought I personally could use, you took my words literally and thought of a means to make it happen. Hmmm...I see now…”

“Yes, exactly,” her subordinate nodded. “You’re always one step ahead of me, Kouzuki-sensei. Well, usually you’re several steps ahead of me, actually, so I’m not surprised you figured it out.”

Finally accepting that what Takeru - or rather, whomever this Takeru was - could do was real, the scientist began piecing together the events of the day in her head, beginning to lay out a rule structure of how the auburn-haired teen’s “wish system” worked. Earlier in the day, Yuuko had used her first wish on a “full bottle of high quality alcohol” without any further specifics, and she received a full bottle of the rarest liquor on the planet. In her second wish minutes earlier, the physicist had asked for “a weapon that I can use to crush the BETA”, a statement that the cadet interpreted based on his knowledge of the professor and her skills, resulting in the enlargement of his squadmates and instructor to their present heights. Based on the results of both wishes, Yuuko now had a basis of how to structure her final wish in order to achieve the best possible results without any error of interpretation on Takeru’s part. Now, all the bikini-clad genius had to do was come up with her final wish...

“Hey guys, I just realized something!” Tama suddenly and cheerily noted, causing both Takeru and Yuuko to gaze over at the titanic pink-haired catgirl, breaking the latter’s chain of thought. “Where’s Meiya-sama?!”

“She’s right,” Marimo nodded in agreement. “I don’t see Mitsurugi anywhere. She didn’t get killed during the process, did she?”

“No way!” Mikoto piped up. “There’s no way Meiya-sama would be defeated by something like this! MEIYAAAAAA-SAMA!” the young girl began to shout as loud as possible. “WHERRRRRE ARE YOU?! COME OUT ALREADY AND STOP HIDING!”

“She’s right!” Tama smiled. “Meiya-sama, if you’re alright, please say or do something to let us know you’re safe!”

Far down below on the forest floor, a small form studied a tan-colored wall that loomed before her. “To think… such an incredible thing could occur…” The woman reached out, extending her hand carefully to touch the towering structure. Her delicate fingers pressed into the slightly pale skin, indenting into it lightly, though too lightly to be felt by its owner. “Such scale, and such softness…” she quietly noted as she stepped back and tried to take in more of the epidermis before her, the skin that bulged out slightly rounding upwards over her head to cast her in shade. The woman’s breasts bounced gently in her own swimsuit - black on one half, white on the other, alternating sides between bikini top and bikini bottom - as she continued to backtrack, her long blue hair, done up into an impressively high tail, swaying behind her in the gentle breeze. She continued to move backwards, her long, well-trained legs clearing jungle plants beneath her as more of the foot came into view - the side of it, to be precise. What she had just touched was, in reality, the outer side of a foot that, as she looked upwards along towering, powerful legs, revealed itself to belong to a girl with black, short hair and an incredible bust.

“Ayamine, this is truly impressive,” Meiya Mitsurugi said as she turned and studied the other giant figures nearby. They towered over her similarly, especially the woman with ruffled brown hair. “And Instructor Jinguuji…” She counted off her other squadmates, identifying them nearby from where their towering legs rose upwards from the jungle into the sky - a very full sky at this point, considering all of the legs and bodies looming over the island. There must have hardly been any room left. “I should contact Shirogane, and find Professor Kouzuki,” Meiya said firmly, nodding to herself. “If anyone can discover a solution, it would be h-” The cadet stopped as her body suddenly shook, the powerful surge coming not from an external source like the footstep earthquakes caused earlier. Meiya fell over, gasping slightly as the jungle floor rushed up to meet her.

The blue-haired trainee turned and threw her arms out to catch herself before the impact, her hands digging into the black dirt of the land. However, her perspective was wrong. She blinked, her sapphire eyes scanning the thick greenery below her: it was… farther away from her than she expected? Her arms were clearly touching the ground, even if the ferns below that had been knee-high were now only equal to her mid-forearms… and receding quickly. “And me as well?” the young girl said in alarm as she turned and glanced to the side, noticing that the trees seemed dramatically shorter. Meiya felt something leafy on her back and raised her hand just in time for her head to pass through the jungle foliage. A warm wall thumped into her from behind, or more precisely, she thumped into it. Meiya turned to look at what she had impacted, viewing the side of Ayamine’s foot; her own rear end had rammed into it as she neared its height, the trees already starting to dwindle below her. “Ah-” she began before she was interrupted by a thundering noise.

“Mitsurugi,” boomed the voice of her fellow cadet as she carefully squatted down. Nearby, Ayamine’s heel lifted along with a large part of her foot, the sole raining tree, rock, and dirt down beneath it. Even as Meiya’s size continued to rise, the heel soared up above her, causing a chill to run down her spine. If she was beneath that when it came down… “You okay?” came the thundering voice again as Meiya turned and saw huge fingers swoop in towards her.

“Ayamine, I am well! You don’t need to-” Meiya called, but her voice was plainly too quiet to be heard. Acting on reflex, the swordswoman quickly somersaulted to the side, putting all of her combat training to use. Huge fingers that had been carefully coming in to scoop her up instead dug into the earth, tearing up a huge swathe of jungle. Meiya rolled, thankfully away from the heel, and into Ayamine’s toes. She turned and scrambled onto the barrel-sized pinky toe, climbing across the neighboring digits as she evaded yet another grab. The smaller girl perched herself on the larger’s big toe and waved at Ayamine, yelling up at her. “I do not need assistance!” she called, but her voice was again not loud enough for her comrade to hear her assurances.

“It’s dangerous if you crawl around like that,” Ayamine said, a small smirk on her face as it loomed above the star trainee. The look did not inspire a great amount of confidence in Meiya; she turned as if to run, only to feel the ground shake. A huge foot slammed down before her; it was smaller than Ayamine’s, but still huge. The impact knocked her back onto the big toe, which was still a bit larger than her.

“Meiya-sama! You’re so small!” Mikoto exclaimed as she squatted down to look at Meiya from above her. The boyish young girl was normally dramatically shorter than Meiya, but right now, she filled the sky. A TSF, or even a battleship, would be like a toy to the girl! Even a Hive might be little more than an anthill to one so large. The toes that surpassed Meiya’s whole body in size curled before her, and Meiya was now fully aware of how easy it would be for someone even at her size, to whom the jungle treeline was below ankle-high now, to be crushed by those casual movements. And then, a THUNK sounded from above. As survival savvy as Mikoto usually was, common sense often evaded her. With her focus on Meiya, the teal-haired girl paid little attention to the also-squatting Ayamine. Their heads met with a resounding sound as Mikoto tried to stand back up to her full height. Mikoto made a great amount of noise, Ayamine much less so, but both of them fell backwards onto their rears. Swimsuit-covered asses slammed into the jungle island, shattering much of it and obliterating a large amount of the jungle itself both underneath them and through shockwaves.

The sudden overturning of Ayamine sent Meiya herself tumbling, rolling down Ayamine’s foot. She could feel her own size increasing still, faster now it seemed as she hit Ayamine’s ankle with a grunt and fell aside. She stood slowly after taking a second to catch her breath, turning and noticing that she was now the size of Ayamine’s foot as it stood on its heel. Thunder sounded again as not one, not two, but four other huge feet slammed down before her. Instructor Jinguuji and Miki, Meiya noted as she looked up at her colossal allies.

“Mitsurugi, Ayamine, Yoroi, you alright? Yoroi, you need to pay more attention to your surroundings,” the busty sergeant said as she leaned over to look at the three. Breasts that compared rather favorably to Meiya’s entire body filled her sky as she waved up at the woman.

“I am fine, Instructor Jinguuji!” Meiya called. Her body rumbled again, and she nearly fell over. A familiar feeling ran through her entire being.

“Mitsurugi?”

“Meiya-sama?”

A second later, Meiya’s head slammed into and between Marimo’s chest as her body rose like a rocket launched for orbit. The softness of her instructor’s bosom was beyond her expectations, raining down all around her, yet it only lasted for a few seconds before Meiya trembled yet again and rose past Marimo, her own chest enveloping the Sergeant’s head. “Even larger?!” Meiya exclaimed as she turned, looking downwards. She had already surged beyond the size of anyone else, yet Meiya’s body continued to grow, her feet rumbling across the remains of the island and flattening the jungle as Miki suddenly found herself needing to jump aside. Behind her, Ayamine and Yoroi scrambled to escape heels that were surging towards them. “What in the world could be happening?” Meiya exclaimed, her eyes widening as her body added thousands of feet a second onto her powerful, toned frame. Her height had already been in the miles, but now it was erupting into the dozens.

Down below the growing woman, her squadmates quickly splashed out into the ocean. “Shirogane? Commander Kouzuki?” Meiya asked as she looked down at the shrinking world around her. Tiny bits of the island poked out from before her toes, but not much. Her heels already felt dampness behind them. Other nearby islands looked more like green splotches in the brilliant blue ocean beneath her. Her body rumbled on, unstoppably. If her squadmates had answered her question, it was now she that was too large to hear it.

“Shirogane, are you trying to kill us both?! Stop her!” Yuuko turned and yelled at the young man as Meiya’s toes began to rapidly encroach on their position. Unlike when she believed she would face certain death at the hands of Marimo’s expanding form, the professor could instinctively feel that the still-expanding cadet before them would not give them the same luxury.

“Relax, Kouzuki-sensei,” Takeru smiled, seemingly calm about the impending doom before them, “Meiya would never hurt us.”

“Have you gone mad?! I order you to-”

Before Yuuko could give her command, the unstoppable wall of flesh that was Meiya’s right foot engulfed the duo, crushing them both instantly beneath her ever-increasing weight as her growth continued unabated.

So, this is how I die…Not by bullet or BETA, but by...this…?

“Kouzuki-sensei?”

Shirogane...I’ll make sure to make him pay eternally for this in the afterlife, if there even is one…

“Um, Kouzuki-sensei?”

I can hear his voice even now, haunting me from the grave…

“Kouzuki-sensei, are you alright? Come on, wake up…”

Yuuko could feel herself back in her body, a force tugging on her right arm, urging her to awaken as her eyes began to reopen, her vision focusing on the area around her. The genius scientist found herself lying on the jungle floor, the area around her still perfectly intact and free from any signs of destruction.  “What? I’m...still alive?” she blinked, placing her right hand over her forehead to gather her bearings. “What...happened?”

“The sudden impact knocked you out for a moment, Kouzuki-sensei, but we’re fine now,” Takeru explained, helping the Vice-Commander back onto her feet. “You protected us, actually. Go ahead and take a look around us.”

“Where...Where exactly are we?” As Yuuko slowly stood up, the realization of what had happened to her slowly began to reveal itself as she immediately noticed that, absent the small area of jungle around them, they were surrounded by a moving sea of tan that surrounded them on all sides, the endless wave of flesh somehow forbidden from entering an invisible spherical ten foot area around the duo. “Don’t tell me we’re actually...under Mitsurugi?”

“Yep! I told you Meiya would never hurt us. Well, not that she could ever hurt you at least anymore,” the cadet chuckled lightly.

Curious as to what mechanisms were actually in place, Yuuko extended her right arm towards the edge of the safe space around her, attempting to feel the expanding flesh that was Meiya’s growing sole. As she was about to touch the still-growing foot, Yuuko could feel a transparent barrier blocking her from proceeding with her experiment any further, keeping the physicist’s hand safe from being ripped off and crushed into oblivion were she to poke outside of the zone of protection.

So they can’t hurt me no matter what happens now, hmm? she theorized. I was right, Shirogane did something to me as well in bringing about this wish, though what properties he gave to my body were hidden compared to the others. Quite the unexpected boon. However, I grow tired of all these surprises, and if there’s anything else he’s done to me without my knowledge, I’d rather not have to find it out the hard way a second time... “My my, you’re certainly quite full of surprises today, aren’t you, Shirogane?” Yuuko grinned slyly as she turned back towards Takeru, placing her left hand atop her head as she bent her right arm so that her elbow rested against her waist, her palm facing upwards as she took on her usual faux-amazement stance. “Not once, but twice today you’ve nearly had me killed. Don’t think I’ll forgive you for this so easily.”

“I’m sorry, Kouzuki-sensei,” Takeru apologized, “but I didn’t want to ruin the surprises until your wish was complete.”

“Oho?” the scientist feigned disinterest, though she was secretly intrigued by the plural word in the cadet’s sentence. So there may actually be some left he’s still not telling me about… “Well then, since we can’t really go anywhere until Mitsurugi has finished enlarging, whenever that may be, mind explaining what you’ve done to me? Am I to suddenly find myself exploding outwards from this barrier at any time like the rest of them as well, hmmm?”

“No, of course not, Kouzuki-sensei,” the teenager explained. “Like I said, you’re meant to take charge from behind, so it wouldn’t make any sense to do that. But what I did to you? Well, let’s see here…” Takeru paused briefly as he scratched the back of his head for a moment, trying to recall the full gamut of abilities he bestowed the Vice-Commander of Yokohama. “Well, I just pretty much made sure Marimo-chan and the others couldn’t really hurt you in any way. After all, with them being so large and strong, they could accidentally crush you or something, and then how would they be able to carry out your orders? That’s what this barrier does, it pretty much makes sure that you’re invincible, Kouzuki-sensei. I got the idea from Kaiser’s shields from Valgern-on. Pretty neat, right? Oh, and don’t worry, the others can’t really feel your barrier either, so I’m pretty sure Meiya has no idea she’s accidentally crushing us beneath her right now. Without it, we’d both be dead by now for sure!”

“I see,” Yuuko nodded, tapping her right index finger against her chin, though knowing not what this ‘Valgern-On’ Takeru spoke of was - she immediately assumed it was another creation of the boy’s avid imagination without wanting to inquire further into the matter. “Well, at least I don’t have to worry about any future assassination attempts in case the UN begins to protest the progress and methods of my research… So, I’ve got my own personal barrier that pops up whenever I’m in danger, hmmm? Anything else you’re keeping from me?”

“Hmmm...Not really,” Takeru shrugged. “Oh, that’s right! I remember from watching these old giant monster movies as a kid of how loud the monsters’ voices were, so I made sure that you could hear them all just fine without getting hurt by their voices too. Other than that, I think that’s pretty much it.”

“...Shirogane, are you absolutely sure that’s all you did to me?”

“Yep, that’s everything. I’m pretty sure of it,” he affirmed.

He didn’t bother giving me a way to coordinate with them at all? Yuuko visibly frowned. How am I supposed to communicate with them when they can’t even hear me at their heights?! Shirogane, you fool…

“Hey, Kouzuki-sensei, I think Meiya’s slowing down!”

The human-sized duo looked upwards as the sea of growing flesh surrounding them began to decelerate, gradually coming to a grinding halt as Meiya’s incredible growth spurt came to an end. By the time she had finished enlarging, the island vanished beneath her toes completely, ground into oblivion under her vast weight. She was not sure what her size exactly was, but it was truly huge. The others clustered around her feet, her toes towering over them. “And if you are miles tall yourselves...” Meiya pondered out loud. “How vast does such a situation make me?”

Below, her toes wiggled slightly. Huge tidal waves were spawned by the mundane motions, an incredible amount of water surging out and swamping nearby islands or bowling over her squadmates. “Apologies,” Meiya boomed. “But such destruction…” Her jaw set. “Such strength has a proper application.”

Meiya’s eyes turned to the mainland, looking off into the distance. The world unfolded beneath her like a map, the sheer altitude of her head - which she noted did not require oxygen anymore, somehow - making her vision clear. Towers rose from flattened earth in the distance: the scourge of humanity known as the BETA Hives. The cadet’s feet lifted off of the ground, raining ocean water beneath her as she began to march powerfully towards the home of her enemies, her mighty footfalls knocking her allies off-balance with every step she took as her impacts sent shockwaves across the globe.

“Meiya-sama, where are you going?!” Tama called out to her much larger squadmate, hoping that she would receive a reply from the blue-haired goddess.

“Tamase, there’s no point in trying to reach her,” Marimo quieted her trainee as she and the remainder of her squadron watched their star soldier stomp off into the horizon. “Just as we were unable to notice her before, the tables have now turned on us. It would be impossible to get Mitsurugi’s attention at her vast size. All we can do is hope she knows what she’s doing…”

“Meiya-sama…”

Meanwhile, back on what little remained of the obliterated examination island, Yuuko and Takeru watched Meiya’s abandonment of the rest of her unit from their significantly lower vantage point, the invisible barrier protecting them dissolving into nothingness once the largest of the cadets had taken several steps away from their location. Yuuko surveyed the extent of the damage caused by Meiya simply standing in place as she grew: save for the small patch of land preserved by the barrier, the entirety of the island had been ground into nothingness against the sea floor, a perfectly-preserved, massive multi-mile imprint of the swordswoman’s sole now in its place, while its sister print could be seen several miles away, an equal amount of devastation evident in its permanent etching into the planet’s surface.

“All this damage...and Mitsurugi did not even have to move a single inch…” Yuuko noted aloud, impressed with the level of destructive capabilities the titanic warrioress possessed, even when she was not trying to cause any harm.

“Pretty powerful weapons, huh?” Takeru smiled, hoping Yuuko would compliment him on a job well done for granting her second wish with aplomb. “With our friends this strong, the BETAs’ days on Earth are numbered with you in command of them, Kouzuki-sensei!”

If only there was a way in which I could control Mitsurugi, then perhaps you’d be right, Shirogane… the scientist quietly thought to herself, not wanting to completely prove the naïve cadet wrong in his assessment of the situation. Yuuko closed her eyes in deep thought as she turned away from Takeru, who himself was presently fixated on the massive bikini-clad Meiya slowly moving further towards the mainland. So, Marimo and the others are titanic, and I’m supposed to lead them without a means to contact them? No, this won’t do at all, Yuuko shook her head in disapproval of her own thoughts. I could simply use my last wish to do just that, but that leaves a myriad of problems left unsolved - bringing them all under control, making sure they follow my orders, the various controversies that are probably already beginning to bubble in the UN and around the world through sightings of Mitsurugi, and the larger problems left of the remaining BETA not only on Earth, but on the moon, Mars, and elsewhere. A solution to all of these problems cannot be pinpointed through a narrowly-tailored wish, and if I am to use my last wish properly, only a truly comprehensive answer will suffice. I would need absolute authority and power in order to-

Suddenly, the violet-haired vixen halted her train of thought. Of course, that’s the only answer... she smirked wickedly. It was always my goal to rule the world like its goddess if I needed to in order to make sure I could successfully bring about Alternative IV, but…if Shirogane can actually do this correctly, I can mold myself into an absolute - no, the absolute Goddess - of everything and everyone. With the mess he’s created and the lingering problems still left to solve, this is the only logical wish I can make...especially if he’s right that no matter what I do, I won’t be able to figure out a way to complete Alternative IV in time...I will not let Alternative V be put into operation, no matter what! I will succeed where the other mes have failed! I simply have to frame my wish in such a way that even Shirogane’s wild imagination won’t be able to screw it up... Yuuko turned around, facing the young man whose eyes were still glued to the sight off in the distance, sighing as she noticed his teenaged tendencies making themselves known. Honestly, Shirogane, at a time like this? she visibly sighed before composing herself. “Taking pride in your work, are we?” Yuuko teased, attempting to grab the young man’s attention.

“H-Huh?!” the cadet stuttered as he was brought back to reality by the voice of his commanding officer. “I-I was-”

“Relax Shirogane, I’m only kidding,” she smirked, asserting her dominance in the conversation yet again. “However, considering the gravity of what you did for my previous wish, I shouldn’t waste any time between my second and third. So, Shirogane, I’m ready for you to grant me my final wish.”

“Already?” Takeru blinked. “Well, Kouzuki-sensei, since this is your last wish, please, for the sake of humanity, you must wish for the BETA to have never existed!"

"Oho? Are you giving orders to a superior officer, Shirogane? I already have my last wish in mind, so I order you to grant it…” A sinister grin formed on Yuuko’s face as she spoke her wish slowly and carefully, emphasizing each syllable so that Takeru would understand her clearly:

"I want the power to wipe out every last BETA in existence, so… I wish for you to make me into an all-powerful, unrivaled goddess - the one and only supreme Goddess that rules over all."