The Maid and Her Princess

Link Restoration (Shadow Forest 4/5)

IV.

「To all Unregistered Bio-lifeforms onboard: Pnaumen Superstructure is destabilizing. Collapse looms into Calamitous Levels. Leakage has been detected. 33.3334% M-Particles accepted. More are required. More are required. Please deactivate the infected Obelisk or risk total connection severence between Nexus Gates. Contamination Breach now detected in South Sector Columns A5 through G9.

Holy One, please make your way to the Observation Bay and reinitiate Link Restoration.」

That annoying voice interrupted the moment of closeness between the girls, but Audrey's confused expression made it seem like she did not understand it. Madoka drew away, cocking her head at the princess. How could she not understand it? Not that she herself knew what the heavenly voice was on about.

"There goes that strange alarm again," Audrey mused. "Remember when that spooky magic voice in the Hall of the Frost Queen talked to us? And the god of the Nexus Gate that we ran into during that Summer, last year? And also that Hesonoo robot's announcement. We're in some kind of the same situation experience, I guess. I heard it in English, yeah."

"I heard it in..." Madoka forgot already. It most likely was in Commoner, was it not? Last year seemed so long ago... "I think it's calling me, the Holy One."

"I hear bits of Royal and Noble," Audrey mused. "I don't quite understand it fully."

"Not English?"

"No," Audrey admitted. "Those Humans spoke in a different language than English as well, but before you passed out..."

She trailed off. Madoka thought hard for a moment about what language she could have possibly spoken if not English. If that Link Restoration was anything like the one in the Leyline, then could it be that language the annoying Crystal's spirit spoke in? She had no idea humans had different languages like the people in her world. That must be it. The words spoken by Ella were more elegant than English anyways.

"Sixth Form," Madoka mused. Audrey gave her an incredulous work. She clasped her hands earnestly. "I swear! The language is called Sixth Form."

"Wh— Please don't cry!" Audrey's eyes started to turn red. "I'm just super confused! Sixth Form sounds a lot different than English to me, but, how do you know it? You actually kind of know a lot of things that I don't—" She suddenly grabbed Madoka's wrists in a way that eased her heart. "Please teach me what the alarm said, sensei! Just like that time in the mountain!"

Madoka was stunned for a moment, but realized perhaps she was overthinking, replacing Her Highness's confusion for suspicion. Why was she feeling this way? Of the people she should trust the most, Audrey was the one who saved her time and time again. Thinking of this, she decided to repay the princess with honesty and repeat the strange voice's alarm in Noble since some of Sixth Form could not be translated properly. How or when she learned the language or where it even came from was a mystery for another time, Madoka supposed. She included the humans were speaking about the Uracksheegal crash landing and avoided the overwhelming feeling of guilt from seeing Audrey's face contorting in further confusion as she revealed more and more. After awhile, she breathed an exasperated breath though Madoka could sense something else. Was she impressed? Why? None of the alarm's content seemed like it was anything to admire.

"You're such a polyglot," Audrey concluded after all of that silent contemplation of hers. "You're a glot of polies!"

"Audrey," Madoka became annoyed with her. The alarm blared its sirens over her again, indicating that the spread of whatever infection the Uracksheegal was suffering from was getting worse. "I have no idea what you're talking about or what a poly whatever is, but it seems like if we delay any longer something bad will happen to the surface."