"I really don't like the looks of what's going on over there, Lucie-san." Kazuya says without taking his eyes off the S-Type Nova. "I really think you should go and deal with it." Lucie's eyes widen and she shifts her gaze from the S-Type Nova to Kazuya. Kazuya still doesn't take his eyes off the S-Type Nova.
"Kazuya...?" The question in Lucie's voice causes Kazuya to take his gaze off the S-Type Nova and turn his head to look at her. Lucie stares at him with a look of mild shock.
"You don't have to stay here and babysit me, Lucie-san. I'm not even in the middle of the fighting." Kazuya gestures out around them. "I'm up here on the roof of the main building while everyone else is fighting."
"You're up here and I'm with you for your protection not because myself or any of my sisters believes you need to be babysat." Lucie replies as she gives Kazuya a fond smile. Kazuya returns the smile with a sad one of his own.
"I just..." Kazuya looks away from Lucie back towards the brightening light at the S-Type Nova's cores. "I feel guilty, you know. I'm up here away from it all while the other Limiters are down there fighting enemies they are no match for. Not to mention the fact that things could end a lot sooner if you were down there aiding your sisters, Lucie-san." Lucie grasps Kazuya's chin lightly and turns his head back so she can lock gazes with him.
"Listen to me, Kazuya." Lucie's gaze locks firmly with Kazuya's as the light from the S-Type Nova's cores reaches a pinnacle of brightness. Kazuya is barely able to make out Lucie's next words as the plasma blasts rip forth from the S-Type Nova's cores and make their way towards the battlefield.
Kazuya sits up with a small groan before shaking his head, slightly. Blinking his eyes he turns his head to gaze around. What greets him are the walls of the recovery center as well as the sight of his four aunts laying in four other beds, around his, with their eyes closed. Kazuya blinks his eyes again before rubbing his eyes with his right arm.
"What..." Kazuya barely manages to get that one word out as he stares from Windy May, in her bed on his right, to Teslad and Lucie, their beds a few feet off the foot of his own, to Cassandra laying in her bed to his left. "Why...are all...of you like this..." Kazuya's eyes brim with tears as he, finally, takes in the fact that all of his aunts are quite badly injured. All of them patched up with bandages, gauze and casts. Kazuya attempts to slide out of bed, but halts when searing pain floods through him. Though, that's not the only thing to flood through him.
Eliza walks into the rather large recovery room shared by Satellizer, Rana, Cleo, Amelia, Arnett, Ingrid and Elizabeth. Yumi follows in shortly after along side Su-Na. Eliza walks over to the bed closest to the door, on the right hand side, which happens to be Elizabeth's bed. The moment she reaches the foot, of the bed, Elizabeth sits up, rather sharply, and lets out a startled cry. With a neutral expression upon her face Eliza walks up to Elizabeth's side and gently places a hand on her left shoulder as she speaks soothingly to her.
"It's alright, Elizabeth." Elizabeth shakily turns her head to gaze upon Eliza. "Everything is fine. We handled the Nova." Elizabeth looks away from Eliza and then takes a shaky glance about the recovery room. "It just didn't go all that smoothly, this time." Elizabeth's entire body begins to shake upon hearing this statement as her eyes continue to take in the scene before her. Her mind just not quite registering the fact even though her body has.
Kazuya grinds his teeth and punches the wall, behind him, with the side of his right fist.
"Damn it...I caused all this...I'm nothing, but a pile of shit." Kazuya mutters this out through his clenched teeth. "If I was just better...if I didn't just drag all of these ladies down...this wouldn't have..." Kazuya punches the wall once more. He then begins to slide from his bed grinding his teeth harder as the searing pain floods through his body, once more. "Even after what Lucie-san said...proof that I'm useless and a burden comes up...I..." Kazuya's feet touch the cold tiles of the recovery room floor just at the moment the door opens. Kazuya turns his head towards the door. Who he finds standing there isn't anywhere close to who he was expecting.
"I can't believe she just told us to stay out here and wait for her." Christine grumbles out as she leans against the wall of the Recovery Center, to the right of the front doors. "I mean come on. It's not like we wouldn't want to see Kazu-chan as well. Am I right?" Christine glances at Franka and Tiziana as she says this.
"That aside, seeing as I completely understand why she wants us out here, yet don't understand why you don't, it's quite the shock to find out that so many Pandora were killed or critically injured in this attack." Christine, with her left arm hanging beside her and her right arm across her stomach so her right hand can hold onto her left arm, and Tiziana, who stands with her arms crossed beneath her rather impressive bust, look down at the ground with depressed looks etched into their faces and eyes. "I mean even the Legendary Pandora were critically injured." Christine and Tiziana snap their heads up upon hearing this their gazes falling intently upon Franka. "One of them might even be on the verge of death."
"What!?" Franka lets out a yelp of fright as the combined shout from Christine and Tiziana assaults her ears. "Are you serious!?" Franka nods her head dumbly.