Chapter 182: I Must Feast
"Damn it, this is all my fault. I should have considered the possibility that some of the Monster Queens wouldn’t stay in hiding and instead attack out in the open. I made a grave mistake, it’s my fault that Fyre was killed. If I’d only been more vigilant and considered every possibility, we could have prevented this," Jules thought to herself bitterly, a grim look on her face.
Ever since the Aeroraptor Queen’s attack and Fyre’s subsequent death, Jules had been blaming herself for it. Despite the others assuring her that it wasn’t her fault, she was firmly convinced that it was her fault.
She then glanced up as the door open, Siele stepping in.
"Hey, sis-...I mean, Commander. How are you holding up? Are you feeling any better?" He asked her, a worried look on his face.
"I-...I’m fine, Siele. Nothing to concern yourself over, I’m okay," She replied with a shake of her head, not particularly convincingly.
"Come on, in no world is that true, not with that look on your face. Like we’ve been telling you this whole time, you can’t blame yourself for what happened. It’s not your fault, this whole situation is unprecedented, we did the best we could with the information we had, no one else blames you for this," He responded solemnly.
It was the 20th of October, 1919, a couple of days had passed since the attack on the Monster Queens. All the Monster Queens had been successfully eliminated, with only a small handful of casualties, with of course, the exceptions of the Aeroraptor Queen and Fyre’s death.
The following day, the team of Detectors and Teleporters had been reassembled and sent out to confirm the location of the Aeroraptor Queen, but to their surprise, it was no longer there.
And no other Aeroraptors had been spotted in that area either, which could only mean that the Aeroraptor Queen had shifted to a new hiding place, along with all of her offspring.