< System Space, Battle Maiden's Room >
" *Pant* *Pant* " Battle Maiden is currently meditating as she tries to calm her mind which suddenly bursts out with memories.
" Urgh, these memories... " Battle Maiden says as she suddenly remembers what Athena told her back then.
"( Don't reject it, my dear Avatar... )"*
"( Accept those memories. )"
" Back then, when I felt the same headache, I was drowned in the memories of someone... "
" I believed this belongs to Lord Athena's previous Divine Avatar, was it? " Battle Maiden asks herself as she begins to see memories where in those memories, he sees an old man, which after she tries to see the memory clearly again.
" Ragna... Twelve... " Battle Maiden says as she sees Twelve's face in the memories she's having.
As Battle Maiden sees him, he sees memories where the holder of the memories is having lunch with Twelve and also playing with him, living in a house where the two chat so intimately, but not like that of a husband and wife talk, but instead.
" This is more like a parent to their child, no, even far more than that... "
" Which reminds me, Twelve said back in his Timeline and the Timelines afterward, all Ragnas in every Timeline had a granddaughter named Carla. "
" If I remember correctly, wasn't the grandaughter known for being the Divine Hero back in the Timelines before...? " Battle Maiden remembers which made her remember what Athena said back then.
"( As I said, those are the memories of the 'one' before you... )"
"( The Divine Hero before you, in some other..., )"
"( Time... )"
" Some other, time... "
" Speaking of the time, in the 'Current Timeline' like what Twelve said, I remember that Lord Athena is a goddess who rarely picked any mortals to become their Avatar and by the record, I was her first... "
" So, when she said 'that'... "
" Does she really mean, the Previous Timelines...? " Battle Maiden wonders, she's still new to this all, still learning more about this which she tries to understand by correlating all the things she knew and felt based on what she remembered.
" This is driving me crazy if I could know more. " Battle Maiden wishes, but suddenly a rush of memories came into her, it fills her brain with information which made her body move without her will.
" Grandpa... " Battle Maiden suddenly says out of nowhere as she gets out of her room.
( At the same time. )
" It seems I gathered many Quantum Particles today, goodness gracious how the Spirit is unbreakable but weak by any means of strength. " Twelve said as he walked by himself in the aisle inside the System Space.
" Nah, but after Ragna Current unlocked the power of the Aether and obtained the Black Shadows, I will soon be prepared to at least fight again against the gods. "
" Like that time with Marticorax. " Twelve says to himself as he clenched his fist.
" Yeah, Marticorax... "
" You and your celestial pantheon might've been gone elsewhere, but soon, I will make sure you came to me by yourself... " Twelve clenched his fist, already could see things based on his visions.
As Twelve walked, suddenly he heard a faint voice, a shout that was calling him with a word he used to be familiar with.
" Grandpa...! " a voice calls him, with a tone and intonation that Twelve swears to himself he heard before, making him stop his steps.
" Huh!? " Twelve tries to hear it, as the voice starts calling again.
" Grandpa! Where are you...!? " said the voice which made Twelve confused as he heard it.
"( Isn't this the Maiden's voice? )" Twelve tries to sharpen his hearing.
"( I swear it is the Maiden's voice, but... )"
"( Her tone and intonation... )"
"( Why it felt and sounded like- )"
" Grandpa! " Battle Maiden suddenly appears before him.
" Kuakh! " Twelve was surprised as he saw her.
" Maiden, when did you come!? Do you teleport or something!? " Twelve shouts as he sees her, to which Maiden responds by hugging him.
"( This hug... )" Twelve feels it, as the Maiden hugs him, he slowly begins to feel nostalgic as if he was hugged by someone before.
< [Twelve Eye of Time] Activated >
< Flashback >
< 12th Timeline >
" Grandpa! "
" Carla's home! " Carla says as he hugs Ragna at that time, hugging him with full spirit as she's finally home meeting with him after doing her Divine Hero's work.
...
" Grandpa... " Battle Maiden says which made Twelve startled as he received it.
" Maiden..., what happened to you? " Ragna Twelve asks.
" Grandpa, it is me! " Battle Maiden says it as if she's someone else.
" I remember everything, I am here now, Grandpa! " Battle Maiden says which Twelve still didn't get it.
" Remember, what? "
" What are you talking about, Battle Maiden, you talk as if we've met before...? "
" You know our first meet is back in the Abyss Tower, right? "
" Perhaps you what you're referring is- " Twelve still didn't get which made Battle Maiden loosen her hug as she stood in front of him with a sad face.
" Maiden...? " Twelve still wonders what's going on, he tries to activate the 'Twelve Eye' for more visions but he suddenly sees a vision when Athena gives the Maiden something to her, making her receive memories that are not from her.
" Huh!? " Twelve sees it while seeing the Maiden crying in front of him.
" Grandpa, don't you recognize my calling anymore? "
" Does this body make you not realize who I am? " Battle Maiden asks while crying, making Twelve surprised.
" Wait, what do you say? "
" What do you mean by 'this body'? " Twelve wonders as Battle Maiden suddenly brings out [Judgment Libra] in front of Twelve.
" Grandpa forget, it is me... "
" Who else did you know could summon [Judgment Libra] back in our Timeline!? " Battle Maiden asks which makes Twelve ask himself more as the Maiden says 'back in our time'.
"( [Judgment Libra]? Back in my Timeline? )"
"( That is Carla, right, she's Athena's Avatar at that time alongside some other gods... )"
"( How did she- )" Twelve tries to connect things from what he sees from his vision, he wonders what's going on as Battle Maiden cries.
" Grandpa really forget, just because I reside in this body makes you not recognize my way of speaking and approach towards you... " Battle Maiden says as the 'Twelve Eye' suddenly shows him many visions of him with Carla.
" Wait, why are you mentioning that? "
" Who... are you? " Twelve asks as he begins to get things in his mind.
" Grandpa really forgot! "
" It is me, your- "Before Battle Maiden could say it, she suddenly stopped as she passed out, but Twelve quickly catches her before she falls.
" Maiden! Maiden! Maiden, hey! "
" What's going on with you!? " Twelve says while suddenly remembering Carla again.
" F*k, why this- "
" System! " Twelve calls the System as it shows up.
< "Yes 'Ragna Twelve'? " >
" Call the other Ragnas here, all of them! "
" Now! " Twelve orders the System while holding tight Battle Maiden's body.
" This can't be, I know you're an Awakener*, the 4th one, based on what I saw in my visions, but... "
" But..., but why... "
" If you're awakened with your Previous Timeline memories, why do you react like her, instead of what you used to be back then? "
" Why do you act like my granddaughter used to do back in my Timeline...? "
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*Athena gives the Battle Maiden her previous Avatar's memories in Chapter 114: Divine Hero Part 1
*Awakener.
Explanation is in Aux Chapter 1: What is going on? Part 1.
Battle Maiden's Status as the 1.111th Timeline as the 4th Awakener is in Chapter 113: Thunder Curse Part 4.
In this Chapter, Ragna Twelve believed she was the 4th despite him, falsely knowing what memory she was awakened with.