Even if Kaika seemed to be silently following them, she was still having a mental conversation with her accompanying Spirit, since most people wouldn't hear the Spirit Miki talk anyways or see her. [b]"Are you sure this is fine?...there is still a few more souls to retrieve and restore before they progress into Shadow Replicas..."[/b] Miki asked to make sure, since sometimes whatever Kaika did was unclear.

[i]It's fine...the Shadow Replicas would go for me anyways, I'm their biggest threat...[/i] she thought to Miki, and she briefly let out a sigh.
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Lelouch tried to fly the Shinkiro a bit more higher, but X had managed to attack the certain area of the defense system that the force field began to flicker a bit before returning to normal. "This would be a little easier to deal with if I had my entire fleet with me...I was never the greatest pilot, but all this Knightmare needed in the first place was a person with the intellect to handle the keyboard controls," Lelouch said, a little surprised that this single robot was able to partially damage the shields with just one attack.