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A dream is both virtual and reality, it is the image, voice, mind, and sense formed in the brain base on experiences and feelings. It is the extension of reality, it is the reflection of our true ego. No matter how imaginary it is, there is a solid base. Therefore, people can’t hide their true selves in the mental world.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8XfySjP1Q
That’s why Eleanor chose to enter Velvet’s mind world when she saw Velvet is at the edge of hellionizing, it is the way to find the cause or a way to talk. That is also the reason why Eleanor is trying to stop Velvet in the first place.
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She understands it is a correct action, yet it is not the right action to take in such a pathetic state. One’s appearance in the mind world can hardly be a lie and Eleanor saw the woman before her horribly beaten, wounds present all over her body and her left arm is lost. Such mental status reminded Eleanor about the moment in the earthpulse, Velvet giving up all hope, desperately fell and sat on the ground, admitting all the crimes she committed and be willing to be eaten by Innominat.
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“I have to die.” It is the sentence she never expected from Velvet at that time.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuz3z7oJcB8
Velvet was trying to ignore everything hurt her to move forward before that, it made Eleanor felt it is heartless and inhuman of Velvet being a daemon being to get through all the things so fast.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IMpwHhqi1
However, the fact is that Velvet just ignored herself on her way of vengeance, ignoring herself from further mentally broken down while all the pain truly accumulated deeply and heavily on her. It is never the pain a normal person can bear, and to Velvet, she never saw herself a human and her heart already broken so she keeps ignoring it. The result of ignoring the pain is the wound be wide opened by the enemy when she finally received a critical mental attack from the presence of Innominat in the image of her little brother.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70gF1fQDSl
Eleanor was shocked at that time, being unable to help her, and she can’t let this happen again. It is to help people in the first place to become the Shepherd after Velvet’s sacrifice. She can’t ignore the one in front of her who needs help.
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By the fact Velvet is hellionizing, the malevolence may cause her to lose her mind, her memory, taking ‘herself’ away from her gradually until the last perseverance the only thing left in her mind. Eleanor has seen many cases like this that the hellion forgot what caused it became one and forgot its name and became a mindless beast that loyal to their ‘perseverance in the first place’. It may not be that bad for Velvet by her strong will, but she can’t allow a possibility of it.
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Eleanor wanted to help her friend, but she could not do much, her aid of purification flame won’t sustain Velvet’s state long if Velvet doesn’t notice the problem. Velvet will need a true solution for herself which could only be found by herself. It is pointless if she isn’t relying on others but endures and encloses herself.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHxRtKrBAJ
Therefore Eleanor thought of stopping Velvet even if she has to fight her again or cut down her limbs in the mind world. No way to let her go destroying herself when she has already sacrificed once. That is a must to stop her as a friend.
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Yet, she is defeated by Velvet's resolution. She thought after being a Shepherd, being a seraph can change something about herself but it is not, after 1500 years, she lost to the same person again.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYi85LmXaZ
Doesn't matter if she is a daemon, a seraph or a human. The woman before her lived much shorter than her now but she is still stronger than her even in such state. Eleanor didn't even feel wrong with the fact that she loses again but she is feeling helpless for not being able to stop Velvet. Maybe it is because some part in her hind thinking Velvet is right because she feels sorry to Velvet that she can't protect Maotelus in that time. Now she lost to Velvet and once again being her technical servant, she will help Velvet regardlessly.
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Anything to help Velvet would be the only thing she possibly does now, thus Eleanor help to perform the plan to rescue Velvet’s new friends--Sorey and Edna.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPKsgXo409
“..........I must go to rescue them as soon as possible.” Velvet is desperate to rescue them even knowing who are they.
She was surprised when she first heard Velvet has been traveling with a Shepherd called Sorey. They have such opposite identities, not to mention that they both knew each other true past identity. However, considering Velvet’s revenge was completed, she was no longer a Lord of Calamity. It is not impossible for Velvet to accept a Shepherd to be her friend, someone just like Eleanor had become a Shepherd too after the journey with Velvet.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKFrW5rvMq
She believed the Shepherd is trustworthy and kind enough to earn Velvet’s trust, he must be a Shepherd that different from Artorius. Now maybe he is another one who can help Velvet from this state only if he is rescued.
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It is another surprise that Velvet met Edna, though she knew it is not really a good state of Edna, at least she is alive. Eizen has requested Zaveid and her to take care of his sister Edna, Eleanor feels sorry that she was not able to fulfill it when she was preoccupied with another mission. Now that Edna is trapped, thus, Eleanor thought that she must do something about that to redeem her miss.
Before Velvet awoke from the dream, they discuss to proceed with the plan separately at the same time. Velvet is going to proceed with the destructing order after informing the dark guild about the terrorist attack to the city to get empty city destruction if possible, she also in charge to search aid in rescuing Sorey. On the other hand, Eleanor is responsible for rescuing Edna and hacking the information such as the map for the rescue team to Sorey that Velvet asked from the guild. At first, Eleanor stated her desire to rescue both of them at the same time, but Velvet thought that will be dangerous when having the feeling that the mysterious man values Sorey more than Edna and also he may have special technique to handle seraphim.
The last thing kept in Eleanor’s mind was that Velvet asked for the method to cut the contract with seraphim. She said it was for safety sake, but that became a bad feeling to Eleanor that Velvet will cut the contract with her.
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As the information provider, Eleanor will take action first. She is amazed by the fact that a map to find the location of the facility is installed into her brain like a program. Maybe the man did something to her other than enslaving her consciousness and Velvet did warn her to be careful since this is supposed to be dangerous.
“He may have the technique to enslave you consciousness again. Be careful.” It feels like that Velvet doesn't want me to go either, but Eleanor is sure that she would not allow her to burn a town again so Velvet chose to be the role of the destructor.
“I am not going to be enslaved again as you have woken me up,” Eleanor promised.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZuTYCtjkt
“Very well.”
Tracing the information inside my head, Eleanor knows that there is no exact physical entrance for the facility as it is designed for the entry of only one person and it is to trap seraphim inside. The only way to enter is through the teleporting artes set in each Malevolent Crucibles, she was told that it was a way to accumulate a large amount of malevolence and purify or kill it at once, she believes now it is abused in creating stronger hellions.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KntzJuYqc
She remembered that she has been there but she is not herself at that time, there is an experiment to create stronger hellion or turn seraphim into dragons, and she was one of the seraphim brought to there too. For an unknown reason, the malevolence rebounded from Eleanor when it reaches her so she survived, but she witnessed the other unlucky one turned into a dragon. Maybe it is because her mind is suppressed back then, she can't fully remember it, but she believes the dragons were teleported to a place.
Now she entered one of the Malevolent Crucible and fight to purify it again while searching for the trace of teleporting arte. She is able to find it and arrives at a large white space with giant glass tubes and machinery. She saw the images of different types of dragons and hellions on the screen, urging her to find out more, but now the priority is to find Edna. She searches the surrounding and finds a staircase leading to the lower floor.
Eleanor finds a living-space-like room with a desk, cabinet, and bed there. On the desk, there are a computer and a book there. She opens the book and reads the contents in it to see if any information can help her, surprisingly it is a diary written in the ancient tongue.
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I shall record it in the diary, remind myself of not to forget my hatred, remind myself of the process of the plan.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrctNe0Oci
I awake finally after Claudin used his seraphic arte to seal me off. Guess he didn't kill me because of his oath ' not to kill'. Thanks to that I have a chance to awake in this world. Still, I don't know what's the time now, but I can feel that a powerful domain in the surrounding, that may be the reason why I am woke. Here is nothing like the surface of the earth, I know it is the earthpulse clearly as I was once planned to taint it with malevolence and the plan is not changed.
It feels like purified now, it seems that the ideal of the descended seraphim is coming true. Afraid that I can't let it come true, I hope to see doom in human society with the descended seraphim. I am not gonna forgive the tainted human who will kill one for 'God' and 'Justice', I am not willing to see them turning great. I am not gonna forgive the seraphim, the so-call noble species that not willing to accept 'tainted creatures' and acting as the position of gods, also, trying to push me out from the group. The day they sent me with those voluntarily descended onto the earth to live with humans, they close the path to 'Heavenly realm' and expecting a doom of us. I am well aware of that, doom is just what I expected so I wait for that day.
And it never comes, despite the world had overflown with malevolence and suppressed by Innominat numerous times, the species still survived. Thus I whether abandon my role as observer and find a way to doom the world myself. Thus I met Claudin who is trying to stop me, he was a large obstacle to my plan of doom, we cannot understand each other so we fought, and I lost.
Now I awake again, it must be the chance for me to doom the world again.
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Day 5 in the earthpulse, I am finding an exit to the external world but I can't find it, it feels like someone is trapping me in a domain, causing me to walk back to the first start point every time. Thus I stopped trying to find an exit and cause a great explosion in the entire area instead, I see a seraph there saying him as one of the guardians in the earthpulse. I defeated him with my power and find out that Innominat is sealed now, which I am interested in who and how to do it. I continue to stray in the earthpulse, I can see random of the earthen historia there. Until I see an area in the earthpulse that obvious belong to the surface of the earth.
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I requested to see the earthen historia of how the Innominat was sealed and then I got to know about the story of the student of Claudin: Shepherd Artorius and the First Lord of Calamity. I thought it may be useful to my plan, so I take away one of the earthen historia and grabbed the female seraph away with me. I can just destroy the special area with the normin there, but it feels like unnecessary so I just left.
Since I find no exit leading to the upper surface on earth, I physically create a path to the surface.
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I awoke, I have learned the fast development of human technology, also see that the world is in a very 'cleaned' status in terms of malevolence. I have to consider a way to bleed malevolence fastly and efficiently. I thought of the curse on the seraphim immediately, a dragon will bring malevolence to districts in the rampage. Apart from this, I thought the technology of human can be used to doom the world, it is fun to doom the world with the technique they invented. Thus I constructed a facility with seraphic-arte-strengthened chambers to contain dragons, seraphim, humans with a laboratory there. I start the plan by letting some seraphim be tainted and turned into a dragon in the Malevolence Crucible, it is a constant thing, so I set a teleporting arte there.
Somehow, I think capturing human is just ineffective, so I start producing one instead, with the information in the earthen historia I have got and with the assistance of human technology and seraphic artes. I use the profile of the Shepherd and the first Lord of Calamity with reference to the resonance they possessed to create high-resonance homunculi, one set of them has escaped though.
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I spent years to prepare, to get more seraphim so as to get more dragons or to get the strongest dragon.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkM86PGf1fp
Later, I find it is boring to see just a few types of face of the homunculus, I decide to get more earthen historia.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ChORsrkGg
To get more earthen historia, I attack a Mayvin go let him escape in purpose to let him send a message to people.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0O9lnjoJX
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Read until here, Eleanor finds it is too awful to continue reading it, so she closes the diary and turns on the computer next to it instead, hoping to find something such as the map and prison code.
Fortunately or not, the knowledge of modern just somehow engraved into Eleanor's brain with the route to this facility together, so that she can access the data in the computer for the whole floor plan to find escaping routes and to find Edna's and Sorey’s location.
That is the first time she approaches the machine and computer after the seal is broken, the last time herself being conscious and taking action was 700 years ago. It should be strange that she is now using a computer to search for things smoothly and efficiently. She may only have the guess that it was the works of the owner of the diary to plant knowledge into one’s mind. After all, she was out that long time and she is ordered to assist Velvet in destroying, not a surprise that he has done something to her. For the worst case, he planted something to threaten her life, then she will be a burden to Velvet, and she would like to keep out such a possibility. This is another thing she shall concern, to take her own life under her control.
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By the time Eleanor finding for the information related to Sorey, she founds something suspicious enough to lure her curiosity. There is experimental data recorded in the memory drive on the computer, one of the files of ‘Project Clone’ presents with the thumbnail of Velvet’s picture, the experiment is about producing high resonance entity with sampling clone data from Earthen Historia, it is something mentioned in the diary. The people, who likely be related to the identity of Shepherd or the Lord of Calamity, were chosen. What she sees as the thumbnail of the file was the picture of Velvet’s Clone, named Beta, the second clone produced after Alpha, the clone of Shepherd Artorius. To watch carefully, the eyes color of the orange are the characteristic of the clone that different from their original. As stated in the report, the many sets of clones were created successfully, but the ninth set of clones were escaped with an unstable condition. It is said that the experiment based on the theory of the relationship between resonance and the hellion strength, said the resonance proportional to the hellion strength after hellionization. It aims to produce the strongest hellion in the world to bring grief to the world. Apart from the resonance experiment, advanced dragon farming and strengthening is also proposed to produce the strongest dragon. All to sink the world into the age of darkness again.
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Eleanor sends all these experimental to Velvet by a seraphic arte together with the building plans after finding the new exit route to Magiland, she is sure that even Velvet would be shocked by these projects.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZZi6qOLWc
Then she immediately finds Edna’s location to rescue her with the found password. She wished to rescue other seraphim too, but she is afraid that will cause a large commotion enough to make the enemy notice.
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“Edna, come with me!” Eleanor didn't think of the words for a reunion after such a long period, she may have already forgotten her. In fact, Edna shows a shocked facial expression when she sees Eleanor, maybe she still has some impression to the girl visited her in long long ago.
“I will explain everything later, please hurry up now,” Eleanor added to urge.
“Fine, I will go with you.”
As soon as Edna takes Eleanor's hand, Eleanor is running to escape from the facility with her.
“So, care to explain? You... look familiar.” Edna asked with doubts on the way of escape.
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“Yes. Let me introduce myself again, I am Eleanor, the seraphim turned from my human self of Eleanor Hume.” Eleanor tried to explain when she approached a machine to search for new escaping routes.
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“You had not visited me for several hundreds of years, even if you reincarnated into seraphim.” Edna teased.
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“That’s a pretty long story, and I am sorry for that. I may tell you a bit after leaving here and assemble with Velvet.” Eleanor tried to keep it short. She is sure that she will be guilty when telling the story, this is not good for the plan.
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“Velvet? You don’t mean the ex-lord of Calamity?”
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“......Yes, it is her, we assigned into a group and I managed to get back my consciousness after the reunion, we make a plan to rescue you and Sorey.” Although she disagreed with the name, she shut herself up to continue.
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“I thought she will just leave us alone.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmA0CeCnkjU
“I guess she sees both of you as her family, so she will do anything to rescue you both.” Velvet never tell about Eleanor about them in that deep, but she can feel it. From the resolution lied in her eyes when she fights her, she feels like Velvet is willing to rescue them even if that may cost herself. After all, she was ignoring herself when she thought she needed to avenge for her little brother. She will always do things regardlessly when it comes to the one close to her like her family. Eleanor is sure that Velvet valued them much.
“Anything….”Edna looks a bit sad when murmuring, maybe she thought of her brother, left her for a long time but keep sending letters to keep her safe and happy.
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“Unfortunately, she is under control by the man who captured you and Sorey.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKMDk3aU9h
“........I would like to listen to the whole story, after leaving here.” Edna finally understood the complicated situation.
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“By the way, I find an escaping route to a place near Magiland, do you know that place?”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7MuwycBCT
“That is the place we were caught.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihbl1nXCyo
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It has been around a week after the fight against the Mafia, the place called the Lost Tower is relatively stabilized after it and the dark guild called 'Wild Wolf' works for the society as usual.
Today, a mysterious person comes to the reception bar with a large robe, covering the face with a big hood. The person shows nothing not even the voice but simply walks in, this makes everyone in the place watching the person in caution. Zaveid and Beta come down to see what is going on when someone reports a mysterious visit.
“....So, what do you want?” Assuming the person may not see Zavied, Beta asked the person.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwBfEPISsM
The person doesn't directly respond with voice but writes words on the paper, the strange thing is Beta cannot recognize the words.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFCgufJUcr
“Huh?” Since Beta can't understand what is written on the piece of paper, she is thinking it is a joke.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBKG0I4CqV
Zaveid takes the paper and reads, and he is surprised, that is the words used in the Age of Asgard Unification, the Age when Velvet was the Lord of Calamity. It is never supposed to be some language to be easily mastered and written so smoothly by modern people. There are only several possibilities of this person, an ancient seraph or an archaeologist or the most ridiculous possibility-- an ancient person.
Those are the words written on the paper, it is not written in fine handwriting that you may just remove the possibility of an archaeologist, the handwriting seems from a person not usually write. Now that the possibility left are ancient seraph and an ancient person----possibly Velvet or Sorey then. If that is the case, the more reason for the person talks instead of writes it, that means there is a reason the person chooses the harder way to express the request.
“Ok, let's sit down in the room and talk, follow me.” Knowing that the person in front of him may see seraphim, Zaveid invited the person to the reception room and try to talk with her and Beta proposed no disagreement.
“ ....So, what do you want?” Assuming the person may not see Zavied, Beta asked the person.
The person doesn't directly respond with voice but writes words on the paper, the strange thing is Beta cannot recognize the words.
“Huh?” Since Beta can't understand what is written on the piece of paper, she is thinking it is a joke.
Zaveid takes the paper and reads, and he is surprised, that is the words used in the Age of Asgard Unification, the Age when Velvet was the Lord of Calamity. It is never supposed to be some language to be easily mastered and written so smoothly by modern people. There are only several possibilities of this person, an ancient seraph or an archaeologist or the most ridiculous possibility-- an ancient person.
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<I have an urgent request.> Those are the words written on the paper, it is not written in fine handwriting that you may just remove the possibility of an archaeologist, the handwriting seems from a person not usually write. Now that the possibility left are ancient seraph and an ancient person----possibly Velvet or Sorey then. If that is the case, the more reason for the person talks instead of writes it, that means there is a reason the person chooses the harder way to express the request.
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“ Ok, let's sit down in the room and talk, follow me.” Knowing that the person in front of him may see seraphim, Zaveid invited the person to the reception room and try to talk with her and Beta proposed no disagreement.
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“ So you may state your request.”
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<Please evacuate the people living in the city as much as possible.>
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“ ........Care to state the reason?”
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<There will soon be great explosion involving the whole city of Ladylake, it would cause massive damage>
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“ Why would you know?” Zaveid felt strange that the person knows about such a thing when the days in present are relatively peaceful in the city, unless the person is actually the instigator or the executor.
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<I only ask, are you do it or not?> The person doesn't want to explain and no answer is given to the question.
“Very well, we don't do work for free, what is the reward?”
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<Believe me or not, your friend Sorey is caught and trapped in a place, here is the map and the method to go to that place. I will just give you these before you evacuate the people, it is your choice to go get the reward or not.> After writing the message, the person gave the map to Zaveid.
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The message is suspicious that the person knew Sorey is Zaveid's friend, making Zaveid doubts it more.
“Who are you?”
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<It is not important, just remind you, it will be dangerous for a seraph go there, a human is better.>
“You are trying to persuade me to send her instead.” Zaveid looked at Beta who stands next to him.
“I am okay with that.” Beta answered.
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<You can say that, it is all I have to say, and it is your choice to take the request, the time limit for the request is half a day.>
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“ Pretty harsh work, but I will take it.” Zaveid still thought it is suspicious in content, but he can't bear the loss of Sorey, he chose to believe it first.
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It has been days after the capture, Tartarus does not talk to Sorey and time flow is meaningless in the room. He cannot count the day since the incident.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP5zvyyV9k
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All Sorey may do is to remember the memory with his friends. Those adventures he goes with his friends. Until the day Sorey was captured, he was finding Mikleo, but he didn’t meet him. The past life including the new one was nostalgia for him when comparing to the dry jail life now. Every day he lives with new events. he was scouted by Gramps when sheltered in Elysia with the thunder. he got to know different things in the world in the journey of Shepherd. He got to know more about Velvet and the human normal life in the Tewks village.
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Sorey was accompanied by the joy and kindness of everyone in those days.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzn3uh83vh7
Recently, he even got his birthday.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxL0Z6MRv1
In Elysia, the days are not recorded as human standard, and time is not a really important thing to seraphim. The concept of birthday is not important and not common among Seraphim as they live a very long life.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgQbfIicpu
Thus Sorey didn’t get the exact time flow and his birthday is not decided.
As co-workers were celebrating one's birthday, Velvet asked for his birthday too, but he can’t answer when he had no idea.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aiD46jJDU
“Then lets 26/11 be your birthday.” Velvet suggested a date as Sorey’s birthday.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAXSsiJ4Fx
“eh?” Sorey was shocked at that moment.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRfNnPDSXy
“I heard it is the Thanksgiving day, it would be full of joy and celebrating that day I guess.” She smiled, imagining how the day will be.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXOQpc4yKP
“...but why?” Sorey asked doubtfully.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3pl5d1ImR
“Birthday is an important culture in life, it is the day to celebrate you born and your existence. You should at least have one too.” Velvet explained.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VDwT9RyO4
“...Thank you! I will gladly have it! Then what about yours?”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2s1LTJkivW
“What?”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIepn3s4nv
“Your birthday, I should remember your birthday to celebrate! You give me such precious things!”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5PXYyLzD5
“.....That’s not a big issue, you don’t need to be that serious.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AnLInJiI2
“But you said it is an important culture in human life.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgzkuBdEtB
“.....ah….true, but the day I gave you is randomly set.” well, Sorey felt that obviously the date is carefully considered.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBKo0PXougf
“I don’t think so. Anyway, I want to have your birthday too. It is not fair that only you get my birthday.” Sorey insisted to have her birthday.
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“........Actually, I forgot.” Not lying, Velvet valued her brother more than herself, she was too busy taking care of her little brother and after that, she experienced 3 -year jail life. After all those incidents, she didn’t care and couldn't care about a thing like her birthday, so she forgot it.
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“..oh……..Then, I will set one for you too, it is 1/5!”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKUsoKw0z3
“The International Labour Day huh? Why is that?” Velvet recalled the meaning of the day in the modern, just gets the strange idea to have a Labour Day as the birthday.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwR7Wn6GD6F
“You are a workaholic, so this reminds you to get enough rest for yourself!” Sorey chuckled when he explains.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsRJaT4WvF
“.....Fine, fine. I will gladly have it too.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoO4xyFxApd
It is a small thing to make Sorey happy enough for a day, his life is full of things like this, and he treasures the days that much.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sT9kgcmyH
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All the memory in the past just pushes his desire to leave here further grows strong.
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The door opened and Sorey sees Velvet is standing there beside the door.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ovRWJYqre
“Velvet?!”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl9zMNEL3p
“Sorry, it is Beta.” focusing to see, Sorey noticed her orange iris, that is Beta’s eyes.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltn5PqpYzv
“If you want to escape, then follow me. I will try to explain to you on the way.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hhX1pZBD1
Sorey immediately follows her out.
She told a lot of information on the way like a person informed them about the attack on the city and the situation of Sorey. The person requests them to rescue by sending the map to them so she is able to rescue me out.
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“Only you?” Sorey asked if Beta comes alone to such a dangerous place.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnZSFdL6yr
“You are not confident to me, but not only me.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyw6KgmHXRF
“No, it is not, just worrying about your safety.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOGJcIvOI4
“Thanks then.”
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As soon as they meet some controlled seraphim to stop us more people and seraphim come out to encounter.
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“We seek help from the Scattered Bone and a seraphic guild too. Haven’t told you? we are in a close collaborative relationship.” Beta stated quite big news to Sorey that he is astonished at the moment.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhJYqrhsEX
“I see.” Sorey then smiled and relieved when he realized the sentence finally. He thought if Beta really came alone, that would be very dangerous to her.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARvuJdsbZ5
“Did you get a piece of news from my brother?”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0diLEnoLQ
“No...I am sorry.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGcqsgK1eC
“Nevermind.”
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When Sorey thought it is safe, Tartarus stands in front of them.
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“Where are you going? Sorey, and welcome back, Beta.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2sNir5bmr
“....Who are you? I have no idea what you are talking about.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIHxlBRcPl
“You don’t need to know, there are substitutions. White mice.”21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpuQkjfXsb
“................We go immediately.” Beta exclaimed and pull Sorey’s hand, running to the opposite direction immediately.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOdErCc6DZ
Sorey can feel her body shaking, it is obvious that she is afraid of the man. Almost like the one who wants to escape from here is her. Tartarus just smirked and stood there, obviously to let Sorey go on purpose, he doesn’t care at all, he has a way to make him back if it is needed and indeed there are substitutions for a normal human with resonance, he has already collected enough information to make a clone.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQmSYdrPD3
Now Beta runs forward without hesitation like a map is in her brain.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GOdTzxgaR
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With the aid of the sudden attack of the combination of assassin and seraphim from Magiland, Sorey and Beta managed to escape from the facility with the straight forward running. However, the attack is not successful, there is a large amount of captured seraphim from the supporting team. They barely retreated safely while getting a large loss.
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Sorey sees Velvet in the surrounding forest on the way and he managed to persuade others to leave first. He thought it would be a nice talk and he should apologize for his sudden disappearance from that night. He feels sorry to Velvet when he broke his promise to be safe.
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“Velvet, it has been a while for reasons. I am truly sorry for my sudden disappearance and I miss you a lot.” Sorey apologized sincerely, he is afraid if Velvet will be mad at him, but he is ready for that.
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However, Velvet didn’t say anything, this made him worry.
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“Are you waiting in the town all the time.” Sorey tried to guess Velvet’s concern but he still gets no response. Instead, Velvet takes a deep breath like she is preparing for some actions.
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“We may travel together again, right?” Sorey was worried that Velvet is that mad so that she didn’t answer him.
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Finally, Velvet shows a response---points her blade towards Sorey without a word and then attack.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdr68Z2wuw
Sorey has no choice but to fight back.
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“Why are you attacking me? Velvet? I know I did wrong to leave secretly, but we may talk! Can’t we talk about it?” He continually searched for an answer, but Velvet escapes the gaze from him and still not answering.
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She is not responding and keep attacking with moderate speed and power, obviously not attacking in full power. Maybe she has her reasons, but she is not willing to answer any of Sorey’s question to her now.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5z8exL2cuo
The battle continues like sparring until a seraph joins the battle.
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“Yo, you guys seem to enjoy the fight, mind me to join?” The half-naked seraph is not asking permission but directly joins the battle, which makes Velvet in a relatively serious mode of battle. The battle enters a white-hot stage.
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In the middle of the fight, Velvet looked suffering and held her neck with eyes closed in suffering expression. When the eyes are opened again, they turned red, and Velvet starts fighting like a berserker. Zaveid sees the situation is not right and forms the pact with Sorey again but we didn’t use the Armatus against Velvet as they think it is not necessary.
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However, because of the temporary oversight, Sorey was caught by her and then was slashed from the right shoulder by a sword. He could feel a lot of blood escaping from his chest, his body temperature is decreasing. Velvet didn’t continue to attack at this time, but she was scared and sluggish, she looked at Sorey with the expression almost crying out with pain.
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Her eyes also returned to the original soft and bright golden eyes. However, these eyes now reflect her fragile and negative inner state.
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“......Sorry.” She whispered and escaped from Sorey quickly.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSjAi5KNmyV
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Getting out from one of the Malevolent Crucible that near Magiland, Eleanor and Edna keep running in the forest. They stop to rest when they think it is quite near to the edge of Magiland, they rest under a great tree and starts a conversation, Eleanor told the whole present situation she knew to Edna when they are waiting to assembly with Velvet and Sorey according to the plan.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfXd25gCBs
“Even without my brother there, she doesn’t have much luck,” Edna commented after hearing Velvet’s situation.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfWuZkLs5A
“....Indeed, that is why she can accept Eizen easily and see his curse as nothing.” Eleanor agreed, then continued the storytelling.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPDuSB5mgc
In the middle of the storytelling, Eleanor felt great pain from her heart, just like the pain she received when she was influenced by malevolence but this one is stronger.
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Soon, she realized that her pact between Velvet and herself is broken.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDdR1jj67B
“Velvet!” She thinks it must be something that happened to Velvet so she cut off the pact, she can’t help but worry.
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“What’s the matter?” Edna asked with worry when she saw Eleanor’s painful expression of a sudden.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39JpoJovRR
“....I guess Velvet broke the pact with me, I feel like something happened on her. The last second before I noticed the pact breaking, I felt a deep pain in the heart like the malevolence effect.”
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“Anyway, calm down. Let’s try to assemble with other first, so that we may figure out the way to help her.” Edna tried to clam Eleanor.
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“You are right…” Eleanor managed to calm down when she related her human experience that similar to this case. This is never the first time she got a situation like this, now she can only hope that Velvet is fine while searching the way to help.
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Finally back to the main plot!21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24NXXoizDu
???: you just push the state into another dire situation!21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xKZwyVNkE
Me: right, almost the direst situation as planned, I want to create a situation to let something happen…... I somehow want to write Sorey vs Velvet because every time I google "Sorey X Velvet" I will see the discussions discussing who is the stronger one. Although I kind of skipping the battle description this time, it is because I need to write it again in the next chapter. I create the plot while trying to merge the plot of TOZ and TOB, that is one of the reasons why it becomes so dark in the middle.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgo46AVBRK
Sorry I created a lot of exotic setting to build up the part of the story of the boss Tartarus, some of them pretty forcing, but I decided to make the character a homunculus a long time ago that is why they have a nearly identical face. It is funny that the original inspiration is a girl who looks like Velvet in . So. Anyone guess the Edna’s rescuer right since Ch27?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFYyZlARzr
Let’s organize the timeline properly. First Eleanor entered the facility and find the list of required data, then she escapes with Edna. The guild took action once they got information from Velvet( received from Eleanor), then Beta rescue Sorey. Sorey arrives Magiland too after the escape, but he then meets Velvet and has an unexpected fight while at the same time Eleanor and Edna arrived the edge of Magiland and Eleanor was explaining the situation for Edna. After a certain time from the fight, the pact is broken.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacRsfU0cfw
For some detail setting about the little mentioned short memory by Sorey:21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUOHnAOHO9
I find there is no material set of birthday for the characters so I set one instead.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PbzzzfACb
Velvet’s birthday 1/5, the international labor day, and also to be a birthday for Taurus, I really think that if she has a Constellation, it would be Taurus.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAQ0LMaPdH
Sorey’s birthday 26/11, the Thanksgiving day, I think a day like this would suit a Shepherd. It is in the range of Sagittarius, not completely identical in the general characteristic, but some part of them indeed similar.
Well, it is just some memory pieces created to give reasons that Sorey cares for Velvet or to explain the depth of their relationship. Let say I make them trapped and so I can write memory pieces when having a blank to explain about things I just skipped between ch4 and ch5. I thought if I tell the story following the time sequence, it would be extremely slow progress while it is already slow progress in joining casts in TOZ and TOB by now. Thus, I am pretty sure that I am abusing memory and dream in the recent chapters while I am telling the story of the boss in the same way.
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