Akane briefly looked toward her two doomed comrades, then brought her knees to her chest and let her cat tail coil across the floor as she continued sulking. If this was how Mistress Shizuru really wanted things done, this was how it would have to be.
In the morning, the team was dressed in medical gowns and wheeled on gurneys into Garberobe's hospital unit. After the three shared a final tearful farewell together, they were each injected with a toxic serum that caused their nanomachines to painlessly stop their hearts and quietly put them into an eternal slumber. The Columns briefly considered giving Akane and her team memorial plaques in the Otome Catacombs, but they soon decided the fact they had been fighting a war between Robed Meisters with lowly mutants was a dirty secret they'd rather cover up. The bodies of the three executed women were secretly buried in a remote location outside of Garderobe.
The Columns later won the war and unified the world, but the contributions of Akane and her squad were never known to history.
THE END.