The Infiltration

September 2362, six months after the recon. The seven plus Yui's drone-swarm infiltrate the Bavarian hill. Komi hacks the central VitaCorp pre-ASI sentinel. Aika in master-AI mode talks to Csarnok-7 — the 300-year-old caretaker AI — and learns of a "seventh sister" sending faint signals from another continent. The 73 sleepers are extracted to the ARK. A locked VitaCorp manifest reveals the 2058 Aika-2 substrate-copy was held at the Bavarian site as well. Aika, Akari, Hina descend two more levels.