As Abigail, I caused trouble in infinite space.

"Unfortunately, it wasn't found, but I will continue the investigation."

"Please, Amy, what about that final resort?"

"The captain has made the arrangements. Asura should already be in the hangar for refitting."

"The last resort?" a member of the Administration asked Amy.

"Anti-ship reaction annihilation cannon, rainbow cannon."

Suddenly, a scene appeared in front of Chrono.

"Krono, we have new information regarding the Book of Darkness."

Hearing Lindy's words, Chrono asked excitedly:

"Captain, any new intelligence?"

“We’ve found the owner of the Book of Darkness. Her name is Hayate Yagami, and she’s Alicia’s friend. She seems to be an unaware little girl, and her condition isn’t quite good right now; she needs treatment. I’ve already sent Dr. Michelle to find you.”

"I understand. I will have people prepare the medical equipment and send people to retrieve the Book of Darkness."

"Yes, please, Chrono."

......

At that moment, Abigail was strolling through the city. Just then, Chrono's voice suddenly appeared in her ear.

“Abigail, we have found the owner of the Book of Darkness. Get ready, we are about to capture him.”

"Okay, I get it now."

After ending the communication, Abigail was puzzled. What was going on? Had Gale been discovered so quickly? Was it because of the doctor Alicia had found?

Similarly, Nanoha and Fate also received the news. When they learned that the owner of the Book of Darkness was Hayate Yagami, they were somewhat surprised. Although they had never met Hayate Yagami, they had heard Suzuka mention her many times in their conversations, and she seemed to be a pretty nice girl.

.........

"According to our investigation, Hayate Yagami should be inside that hospital. The encirclement is ready, and we will arrest Hayate Yagami next. What you need to do now is to prevent them from resisting with force."

At that moment, in the sky above Searing City, Chrono explained the plan for this operation to the three people beside him.

"Um, Chloro, I wanted to ask, what will happen if Hayate gets caught?" Nanoha asked Chloro from the side.

"Based on our investigation, Hayate Yagami is likely unaware of what her guardian knight did. Furthermore, we speculate that Hayate Yagami's nerve paralysis may be related to the Book of Darkness. Therefore, after bringing Hayate Yagami back to the Bureau, we will treat her body and then try to resolve the issue of the Book of Darkness. This time, we must resolve the issue of the Book of Darkness."

"In other words, if the problem with the Book of Darkness is solved, Gale will be fine, right?"

"Yes, if the information I found is correct, that should be the case."

"However, I do have a question..."

At that moment, Abigail suddenly spoke up.

"What's the problem?"

"You just told us that the problem with the Book of Darkness is due to its automatic defense system, the Dark Night Whale. According to the characteristics of magical devices, to modify the program, one must become its master. Once the owner of the Book of Darkness officially becomes the master, the Dark Night Whale will activate, exhausting the master's life and collected magic power, and then causing destruction. Do you have a way to solve this problem?"

"We don't know how to change the program or seal it yet, but in any case, let's bring the Book of Darkness back to the Administration Bureau and observe it first. We can't let such a dangerous thing continue to roam outside. Moreover, it seems that the current master is in danger of death because of the Book of Darkness, so we can't just stand by and watch."

"Nanoha, Fate, Abigail, I'm counting on you this time. You absolutely cannot let the Book of Darkness escape again. Many people have already died because of the Book of Darkness, and we cannot watch this happen again."

"Yes, Chrono, we'll do our best."

"Alright, the encirclement is now complete, let's move out!"

At Chrono's command, a barrier immediately enveloped the space surrounding the hospital.

"Listen up, you inside! You are surrounded. Surrender! You cannot escape."

"Damn it! We've been discovered after all!"

Inside the hospital, Vita looked out the window at the numerous mages in the sky and said through gritted teeth.

"What do we do now? They've sealed off the surrounding space, so we can't teleport away anymore."

“Since we can’t teleport away, let’s just break through. Shamar, you take Gale, Vita, and Lazarfi. You two come with me to clear a path for Shamar. Even if it costs us our lives, we must get Gale out of the encirclement.”

"understand!"

Let's go all out!

However, Gale looked at them with some confusion.

"Everyone, what's wrong with you all?"

"Swiftwind, we'll explain the details to you later. Right now, we have to leave with you. Please hold on tight to me."

Shamar came to Gale's side and said to her.

Although he didn't understand the situation, Hayate trusted Shamar and the others, so he reached out his hand and was picked up by Shamar.

"Alright, it all comes down to this."

Meanwhile, the mages in the sky were observing the situation at the hospital. Several minutes had passed since they surrounded it, but there had been no movement inside. Therefore, some of the mages prepared to enter the hospital and arrest their target.

However, just as they approached the hospital, several magic balls suddenly flew out from it and hurtled towards them.

"You are not allowed to come near Gale!"

Vita charged out wielding the Steel Earl, and under her attack, these ordinary mages were sent flying.

Immediately following Vita, the others rushed out as well. Their goal was clear: to break through in one direction and send Gale outside the barrier so they could use teleportation to take Gale to other worlds.

However, while ordinary mages cannot effectively stop them, the Bureau is not without powerful mages as well.

Just as the four of them were about to reach the edge of the barrier with the wind, four figures suddenly appeared in front of them.

"you......"

Seeing Nanoha and the others blocking their way, Vita roared loudly:

"Get out of my way right now, or I won't be so polite!"

Nanoha shook her head at this.

"No, I can't let you pass. We just want to save you."

"If you want to save us, let us go!"

"..."

"Hmm, it really was just talk!"

"No matter what you say today, we will not let you leave."

"Then we'll fight our way out ourselves, Steel Earl!"

Steel Earl: "Fill!"

"Rocket Hammer Strike!"

Without a word, he directly attacked Nanoha, either directly or as the Steel Earl.

On the other side, Signam also wielded Rebandi and attacked Fate, while Lazarfi faced off against Elf.

Finally, Shamar looked at Abigail floating in front of them today.

Aren't you going to attack us?

“Our mission is merely to stop you, and you have Gale with you, making you a support character. There’s absolutely no need for me to take action. We just need to wait until Signam and the others are defeated.”

Although Abigail's words made Shamar feel very uncomfortable, what she said was true.

"Abigail?"

At this moment, Hayate Yagami, who was being held in Shamar's arms, looked at Abigail floating opposite him and said with some confusion.

"Yo, Gale."

"Abigail, why are you attacking Signam and the others? Aren't we friends?"

"Of course we're friends, but you probably don't know what Signam and the others have been doing behind your back."

"??? Shamar?"

Gale looked at Shamar, who was holding her, with some confusion.

"Shamar, you still have some time, so tell Gale what you two did before."

"..."

Don't you want to talk about it?

"Samar, tell me, what have you done? You haven't done anything bad, have you?"

"..."

Seeing that Shamar remained silent, Hayate Yagami understood that they seemed to have indeed done something bad behind his back. However, Hayate still didn't believe that Signum and the others would do anything too wicked.

“Abigail, isn’t there some misunderstanding? Signam and the others are all very good people, and they have no reason to do anything bad.”

"No, they have their reasons. Everything they did was actually for you."

"for me?"

Hayate Yagami was even more confused.

"But I've never asked them to do anything!"

"Gale, stop talking. I'm sorry, we kept it from you."

“Shamar…”

"Actually, we are secretly collecting magic power for the Book of Darkness, but we have never harmed anyone's life. At most, we just extract their magic power. After extracting it, we will recover after a few days of rest. And most of the time we hunt magical beasts and obtain magic power from those large magical beasts."

"But why did you do that?"

“There’s nothing we can do, Gale. Your nerve paralysis isn’t actually due to your own condition, but because the Book of Darkness, lacking magic power, absorbs its master’s magic power, which is why you have physical problems. Once we’ve collected all the magic power from the Book of Darkness, your illness will be cured.”

"Oh, is that so? But I said I didn't need to do that. It's just that I can't walk, I'm already used to it, and it's never good to hurt others."

“Swiftwind, at this point, I won’t hide it from you anymore. Because of the corruption of the Book of Darkness, your life is in danger. If you can’t gather enough magic power in time, you will die. We can’t watch you die like this, so please forgive us for disobeying your orders.”

When Shamar got to this point, her emotions became somewhat unstable. After all, what they had done before, although it was for Gale's good, could be considered a direct disobedience to their master's orders, which was the most shameful thing for them as knights.

However, at that moment, Gale reached out his hand and touched Shamar's face.

"I don't blame you, after all you were doing it for my own good."