< Arisu (Alice) Tsuchimikado Part 1 Opened >
< CG Cutscene Played >
< This Memory Record will be shown based on the Battle Maiden's memories plus some things she get to know from others at that time, plus again some knowledge she gets after Ragna Twelve helped her know more about what happened at that time with his 'Twelve Eye of Time', transferring past visions to her before she confronted Player Ragna Current. >
( October 2020 )
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< Tsuchimikado Tower's Hangar, 111th Floor. >
" Come on in, Orianna-san! " Arisu says to Battle Maiden, calling her by her real name just now.
" Ari-, how did you...? " Battle Maiden asks her, but before she could finish, Arisu immediately tells her she got the name from Lord Athena who also participate in her discussion with Lord Loki back then.
" They told me so much about you, sister Orianna," she tells her.
" I must admit, I am quite uneasy when they told me about you at first, but... "Arisu tells Battle Maiden while dragging her inside to go the lift in order to go to her Floor.
" It turns out that, despite your defection... " she hinted at Battle Maiden's blind conditions.
" You are a very skilled warrior, you even walked without any cane to help you," she says, seeing Battle Maiden walking bipedal normally without any helping support despite her sightless condition.
" Well, I can't say... " Battle Maiden says.
" After all, for years, while living my life... "
" The more I used to it, I don't feel like I'm blind anymore...I... " Battle Maiden then stops for she then senses something.
" What is it, sister Orianna? " Arisu asks as she then senses it too.
" Arisu-sama? " said her subordinates to her but she holds it.
" Ah, I see... " she says while opening the black glasses that she wears.
Her eyes then went to her left, piercing through any materials as she stares at the one watching from the darkness, from the tower near them.
" Keukh! " said the person who watched them as he then prepares his sword all of a sudden while his other hand still holds the binoculars in order for him to see his target.
" So that's the Grand Holy Priestess of Japan, huh? " he says to himself while still watching the girl who stared back at him from far away.
" The Grand Priestess is Gifted with a Gift Eye, one which sight could pierce any material, either from make-constructs, nature objects, or even living flesh. " said his contact, talking to him still using the man's communication device.
" Oh shit! She had the eyes of Sauron now? great! " the man says as he said the reference based on his contact's description.
" What did you say? Sauron? who are you- "
" Watch movies sometimes you idiot, every modern people who delved into the internet knows that reference I just said. "
" I bet even your kid knows this thing, it's from LOTR... " he says to his contact.
" She will never know... " said the contact.
" I've forbidden her from knowing every useless fictional thing in order to shape her per my desires. "
" While you, western people, always concocting your kids with useless fantasies like- "
" Anime or Manga or some shit! you Asian people are also the ones who participated in the increase of popular fantasy for kids. "
" I bet your girl had some hidden 'husbando' (Anime Husband) posters inside her room and you just didn't know it. "
" So shut up and don't be so rigid! "
" Besides, I'm working to fulfill our contract here so please don't criticize and just tell me what you should've told me about this target so I can kill her! "
" Fine! " said the contact, probably going to inspect the daughter's room from now on.
As the contact thinks about it, the contact begins to unravel more information about Grand Holy Priestess Tsuchimikado while the man here, the assassin, the Bounty Hunter, is currently having a starring contest meters away with the Priestess as she takes in the Battle Maiden he managed to affect, somehow...
" She's a big prey, for sure. "
" Going to need extra muscle for this one, this predator," he says as he sees the Priestess leave the hangar with Battle Maiden.
" Sad I've wasted my Predatorus eggs onto those three ships earlier*, should've sparred some for this Priestess," he says to himself, regretting his waste over the Predatorus Eggs over the Indian Ocean Massacre.
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( Outside the Cutscene. )
" Tsuchimikado, huh? " Ragna says after witnessing the last Memory Record, he witnessed all of the cutscenes and takes a sigh.
" That's a tough target, she's five years older than me and already achieved so much to vessel Five Diviners at once. " Ragna says as he praises the Grand Priestess Arisu for a bit.
" Well, didn't you have many achievements yourself? " the Maiden asks Ragna, recounting Adrian Waterson.
" You know that despite not being able to become a Divine Avatar like Lady Alice (Arisu), you are so powerful to even kill one, didn't you? "
" Adrian? god? "
" Oh please, you of all people knew he was a fake one, a facade! " Ragna responds for he didn't take too much credit from it.
" If you want to credit someone for his death, it should've been Twelve, 69, and Hundred. "
" They buffed me, you know? " Ragna tells her back.
" But, speaking of being enhanced in power, being 'buffed'? " Battle Maiden asks while saying the word, which was new to her for she didn't play any video games in her life before.
" Wasn't Adrian who's being overly empowered at that time, he literally absorbed many things before both of you clashed. "
" Yeah right, he did consume many people with his [Avarice] at that time. "
"( He even wanna consume Yukino at that very time too, thank goodness I arrived in time even if it was against my very will at first. )"
" But still, to me, that kind of victory is not enough. "
" For it is quite an ego for me, or my selfish desire to defeat an enemy using my pure strength and... "
" But Ragna Twelve to Ragna Hundred's strength is technically your strength though... "
" Weren't you all one, one existence but from different times? "
" Yeah... " Ragna responds to her as the Maiden searches the next Memory in her Window.
" Regarding that, I must say that judging by strength and power... "
" I think you and Lady Alice are quite a match, based on my judgment. "
" After all, as I remember her and by seeing you fight Adrian within the System Space, I could say that both of you already had the slightest chance to even fight the gods by yourself. "
" Aside from Lady Alice being a Divine Avatar due to her being a Grand Priestess. "
" I see, so I'm technically stronger then? " Ragna asks, concluding that by all means, he should be stronger than the Grand Priestess herself since he had his own power like Ki, Mana, and Aether whilst the Priestess only become that powerful by simply being filled more with the power of gods.
" I would've concluded so easily, for this could be uncertain. " Maiden says as she then founds the Records she wants to show.
" Do you like to see more of her, Ragna? " the Maiden offers.
" Please, show me. " Ragna gets more interested for she wonders what kind of person Grand Holy Priestess Tsuchimikado is to even threaten 'his uncle', the assassin.
"( In the cutscene, despite Uncle Andrew watches from the Dark... )"
"( I could get a glimpse that he drolls some sweat after she knows his location. )"
"( Typical anime stare that could pierce any materials as they already sensed an enemy. )"
"( If she could do that, then she must be a force not easily to be reckoned with. )"
"( My guesses for the plot, my uncle will use his ingenuity or something, this is my theory. )"
"( Well, I'm only a watcher here, so let's watch more to see what he will do, shall we? )" Ragna smirks, can't wait to see more.
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Extra:
* Read Chapter 237: Massacre
Note:
Grand Holy Priestess Tsuchimikado always use fashionable clothing, from head to toe, she even uses fashionable black glasses to cover her eye in order for her to not witness any imperfections in the world, that's what she often said. (author's note.)