Akane ordered her team to attack the Columns without mercy during their escape, much to Haruka's delight. Akane, Shiho, Haruka, and Mai gathered in Garderobe's courtyard with their bladed batons in hand. When the Five Columns returned from their latest conquest in their Robed forms, Akane stepped forward from her group to address Shizuru, who was somewhat baffled by her servants' appearance.
"We've decided we don't need you anymore, Mistress Shizuru, so now you have to die!"
Realizing this meant Akane's squad was about to viciously attack, the Columns prepared themselves for battle. The resulting 5-on-4 brawl turned out to be a spectacularly one-sided fight in the Columns' favor, as the Meisters who could still use their GEMs proved to be too powerful and too far in number for their rivals to handle. When the mutant task force was slaughtered, Shizuru was somewhat disappointed that her plans for Akane didn't succeed, but quickly rebounded by reminding herself the Columns had recently found an alternate remedy for their energy crisis.
Before the Columns War ended, Akane and her friends were buried as traitors and had their names stricken from Garderobe's service records. The Columns ultimately won the war and gained full control of Earl, but the contributions of Akane's group of altered Otome were erased from history.
THE END.