< System Space, Battle Maiden's Room >
Ragna and Battle Maiden had just seen the recent memory records, and he was surprised to see that mysterious woman.
"( That woman!? )" Ragna says in his mind as he tries to remember when he sees her face.
"( Oh yes, it's in that moment during that ritual I just did, the Twelve Eye gave me a lot of visions before it's Hiatus. )" Ragna says as he remembers what happened during the 'Aether Metamorphosis Ritual'.
"( Damn, even when I first see her in the vision, it scares me! )"
"( When I saw it, I see that I think I've faced her before either when I was Twelve or 69 or Hundred with the Carla in that Timeline. )"
"( But I simply forgot her name, hope that she would introduce herself... )" Ragna thinks to himself while seeing Battle Maiden being confused too.
" Confused? " Ragna asks Battle Maiden as she sees all that.
" Yes, even though this is actually a rewatch for me, it still confuses me... "
" About this woman, the one your uncle met in the Realm I and Athena identified as a Disaster Dungeon. "
" It's a goddess, Maiden. "
" A Fallen Goddess, older than the gods we knew. " Ragna tells the Maiden.
" You knew her? is she? " Battle Maiden asks as she wonders if.
" No it's not Indura, this is one older than even her, based on what my visions saw. " Ragna explains to Battle Maiden.
" Basically, I once faced this 'goddess' with my 'granddaughter' being the Divine Hero who harbored the power of the gods back in the previous Timelines. "
" I was merely her support at that Timeline, helping her as much as I can for her to make sure that goddess returns to her prison realm. "
" The realm that we see in the Memory Records just now, the realm you identified as Disaster Dungeon, or perhaps this is what the gods' like Athena and Loki told you? " Ragna asks which Battle Maiden then thinks again.
"( It must be them, trying to hide these things from a mortal like her back then. )" Ragna thinks to himself as he already knew that place is no longer a Dungeon or a Ruin, it's something worse.
"( Uncle really always loves to loot dangerous things that could let him enter treacherous realms or give him cursed blessings. )" Ragna says as he recounts what he sees.
"( But still, to think the two would meet is such a crazy thought for me, I never expected this will happen. )"
"( If she really gets her hands over uncle, then... )" Ragna was deep into his thoughts while Battle Maiden prepares the next memory record.
" Do you want to watch the next records, Ragna? " Battle Maiden asks Ragna nods while still thinking about it.
"( That goddess... )" Ragna says in his mind while the Maiden opens the next record.
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< Unexpected Meeting 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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< In the Unknown Realm. >
Artemis, Athena, Battle Maiden, and Loki enter the very realm, the realm filled with dark rocks and trees, the skies are black with no stars, as the place looks like a dangerous dungeon.
" This realm...? " Artemis says as they all entered the realm.
" It is, Artemis... " Athena says as she sees the very place, realizing where the hell they're all in just now.
" This place? " Loki says as he then gets into shivers.
" My Lords, gods... "
" What is this place? " Battle Maiden asks as she tries to stand up, the realm's pressure makes her unable to move despite her having sufficient power levels to enter.
" You were here!? " Artemis and Athena shout, asking Battle Maiden when she came.
" She came right when you enter, Athena. " Loki tells her, he was the last one who entered so he sees it all.
As the gods' wondered about Battle Maiden's involvement, Battle Maiden then calls them for help as she had trouble adjusting herself in this realm, with heavy breaths, rainy sweats, and a heavy body, as if the gravity in the place doesn't suit her.
" Athena, enter her body! " Loki orders Athena, telling her she must personally enhance her physical status for the Maiden to survive against the realm's pressure over her human physiology.
As Loki says that, Athena quickly enters Battle Maiden's body before it falls to the realm's very gravity as her Divine Power enhanced her human physiology, making her able to feel and walk normally in the realm she gets herself into.
" Thank you, Lord Athena. " Battle Maiden thanks her goddess for the support.
" Likewise, my dear. " Athena responded as they all walked into the dark forests, wandering around in search of the 'assassin'.
" I never thought the assassin who killed the Holy Priestesses would be him, Loki... " Artemis says while walking.
" You know the assassin? " Battle Maiden asks which Artemis looked at Loki.
" Of course I know, I am the goddess of the Hunt and the Hunters you now know, Maiden. "
" Hayden Wayne, the Hunter Association Leader's mother, was my Gifted Mortal. " Artemis tells Battle Maiden about it.
" If it wasn't because of her, I wouldn't approve the Hunter Association to exist in the first place, to even rival the Divine Inquisitors we made. "
" Was he one of your best Gifted ones, Lord? " Battle Maiden asks Artemis.
" Yes, she was one of the influential people in Trinia. "
" But aside from that, speaking of the 'assassin'... "
" I know him. " Artemis says.
" Who is he? " Battle Maiden asks.
" A person we knew so much but at one time he decide to cut contact with us for whatever reason... "
" I searched for him, this person, he was not just a mere Lower-Rank or High-Ranking Hunter, he was the first and the best, the First Hunter, Andrew K. "
" The 'First Hunter', he is the one that would define the next generation of Hunters afterward, the greatest and the smartest, he is what a Hunter is supposed to be, powerful yet tactical when Hunting his prey. "
" Back then, I, Hayden, and Loki always use his services to do our things, but... "
" He is now our enemy. " Athena says as she used Battle Maiden's mouth, taking control for a while.
" The bane for our purpose on using the Grand Holy Priestess this October, he must be eliminated before he does something out of the ordinary, he... "
" He won't be doing anything, for now! " a voice came, as a silhouette comes near the group.
" Who are you!? " Artemis prepares her arrow as the silhouette gets closer, walking abnormally as it approaches them.
" This voice, it can't be!? " Battle Maiden gasps as the person who came shows its appearance, a white blonde pale woman, with wooden arms and legs to cover up the dismembered limbs, and wood that covers her stabbed chest.
" ALICE! " Battle Maiden shouts as she sees Arisu, a great and surprising revelation that made even the gods' surprised as well.
" Imposs...ible... " Loki says.
" Weren't you... "
" Arisu is.. dying... " said Arisu but with a different voice as she leaked some bits of her presence.
" This voice, this feeling, don't tell me... " Artemis says as she now understands how could Arisu's corpse walk again.
" Yes, Artemis... "
" It's us... " Arisu says as six starlights appeared from her chest, head, shoulders, and pelvis.
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< Cutscene Ended >
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