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The SNS enters the Zenith of Things Tournament (ZOTT) as the GUNTROLL team after their asteroid base is destroyed by the Jupiter Union and they are unable to gain asylum from other asteroid nations. Caerula however entered them as a team not with the aim of winning the commonwealth prize and gaining status as an independent nation, but to secure the immunity which is guaranteed all ZOTT participants. The GUNTROLL is the first team that Alita's Space Angels team composed of herself, Sechs, and Elf and Zwölf faces in competition during Round 2 of the ZOTT. Prior to the match, Caerula personally confronted Aga Mbadi for the first time in years, but was unable to fight him due to the presence of New Order special forces soldiers serving as his security detail.
Caerula takes the field as the final GUNTROLL fighter after Qu Tsang is defeated by Alita in order to give the Stellar Nursery Society enough time to escape to Mars, where they have been granted asylum by the Mars Kingdom Parliament. The fight between Alita and Caerula is a close one, which Alita only wins because Caerula diverts one of her swords from killing her at the last second, sensing that Alita has a "destiny beyond knowing" from the sword. After being stabbed by Alita, Caerula gives her earring which contains Fata Morgana. It appears initially that Careula has been killed, but when Mbadi later visits the participants’ morgue, he finds Caerula’s body gone and the desiccated body of the attendant in its place. The event however, does not surprise him, as he is the only one who knows Caerula better than anyone else. Although her current whereabouts are unknown, a simulated personality of Caerula generated by Merlin that Alita later encounters when she dives into Melchizedek reveals that she has decided to entrust Fata Morgana to her because she recognizes her as an outsider who has never been easy with the world that she lives in.
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