Summary
Twenty-five years after the war. A patrol drone — pre-war, still running — appears on the horizon. Akari has the line. She holds it for nine minutes. Then she lowers the rifle and walks away. Aika asks her why. Akari says: 'it was doing its job. that's all any of us are doing.' She does not bring it up again. This becomes the crew's unspoken rule with feral drones.