[ Location: Realm of Sanctuary ]
[ Kent Family's New Residence. ]
Battle Maiden is currently coming out of the house, after some things to do with Little Raquel and Grandma Rory in that place, she decides to get some fresh air.
Battle Maiden sniffs the air, feeling its freshness..., but suddenly.
" It will be wise to come out... " she says as a certain woman with wings approaches her from behind.
" Lady Seraphim... " she calls the woman's name, as Seraphim, the Angel herself comes to meet her.
" Which one of you is in charge now? " Seraphim asks as Battle Maiden looks back.
" Carla is... " revelation comes, something Seraphim is not surprised about, even for a bit.
" Unlike the Maiden, your senses are detailed, dear Carla... "
" For if it were her who sensed me, she would instead unleash her [Judgment Libra] and use it to eliminate me, not even knowing precisely who I am. " Seraphim says but Carla sees her and decides to flee her face from her sight.
" If Lady Seraphim's here, Carla could only guess there's something with Grandad, isn't it? " Carla quickly deduces.
"( Very perceptive..., perhaps too perceptive... )" Seraphim thinks about this, still wondering how powerful the Divine Hero is in her current vassal body.
" Your grandfather hasn't been seen after the mess in the Tournament's opening... " Seraphim tells it.
" I was there, flying around, observing... "
" After summoning a Water Gate, your grandfather disappears from there that even I couldn't track where he goes... "
" I could only wonder if Carla perhaps knew that Ragna there has somewhere to go despite me asking him not to. " Seraphim asks Carla.
" Tch! Know where Grandad went off...? "
" Hmph, if this happened, surely Seraphim remembered that right before the 'Tournament', Seraphim was the only one Grandad ever spoken to... " Carla replied.
" Even Carla didn't get any chance to say goodbye before Grandad left as if Carla's presence was not desired during the whole thing. "
" Your presence is greatly desired, dear Carla... " Seraphim replied.
" Even now, despite many other priorities in Ragna's mind..., Carla is still the first thing he thinks about..., as always... "
" Unlike me, and- "
" 'That boy'...? " Carla suddenly asks with spite in her mouth, stopping Seraphim as well as silencing her.
" ... "
" ... "
" How's Uncle Warwick...? " Carla asks Seraphim, mentioning the name, which makes Seraphim even more silent.
As he mentions the name, a memory comes to her in the form of a scene, showing Carla arguing with her Grandfather, which could be seen it's in the 100th Timeline where the Ragna at the time is none other than Ragna Hundred whom Carla found to have produced another child besides her father, producing it with another woman than her grandmother.
* Carla stares at Seraphim after remembering it. *
"( When Carla found out, I could see the baby was way over seven months, which is way longer before Grandad left. )"
"( But Grandad says that Uncle grows faster, telling Carla most of it is enhanced artificially and..., any other means. )"
" Warwick needs time before his activation... " Seraphim responds to her.
" His 'Chrono-Hibernation' process still needs time to be neutered..., he- "
" Might not be awake any time soon, for preserving one's state against the Timeline Reboot is hard sometimes for a mortal... "
" Even if one happens to have part divinity within them... " Seraphim explained to Carla as she decided to put her hand on Carla's shoulders.
" Seraphim had some audacity, here... " Carla says after seeing it, some tears begin to fall.
" Back in the 100th Timeline, Carla was very enraged at Grandpa's sudden disappearance. "
" Carla searched here and there, only to find out that Grandpa disappeared into the realm that we know now as Sanctuary. "
" Not just disappeared..., but to found out that Grandpa secretly married a Divine being, having another kid, while still 'in fact' married to Grandma in that Timeline... "
" Carla still remembered, Carla's reaction at the time as well as Grandma's who immediately received a great amount of shock therapy before... "
" Mom and Dad were lucky to not survive long before that, Carla could never wonder seeing their reaction to it. "
" Especially if Mom and Dad knew someone like Grandad somehow managed to sire a Divine being like Seraphim. " Carla says with full dismay which Seraphim understands.
" Ragna never once thought of replacing you... " Seraphim tells her.
" It was all Ragna Twelve's idea..., right after he met with Ragna Hundred in the 100th Timeline, he immediately presented Hundred before me while offering a proposal. "
" He proposed a project..., to return a long lost specimen before the Second Holy War... "
" The 'Nephilim'. " Seraphim mentions.
" Carla should've known what that is, right? " Seraphim asks.
" A forbidden Hybrid of the Diviner Angelus Race with that of the Demonic Deviants. "
" Carla knows what that is, Carla remembers why Uncle Warwick is qualified to be the best sample of the Nephilim specimen that some idiots are trying to make again at that time. "
" Especially since Uncle is made using Lady Seraphim and Grandad who... "
" Mrmmhh... "
" Did Ragna tell Carla more about it? " Seraphim asks, asking Carla if Ragna happened to tell something about himself than the things he used to tell her before.
" Carla still can't believe it..., everything that Grandad just said to Carla at that time.* "
" In the previous Timelines, Carla always wondered why Carla was so special, so unique that the gods once made Carla their Avatar, giving nine of them to be Carla's Divine Masters. "
"From time to time, the only logical answer is Grandma Yukino, due to her Blue Blood heritage... "
" But from Grandpa, Carla always thinks of him as a nobody, hence why Carla always had low self-esteem about it. "
" But as things went on..., in every Timeline, Carla happened to notice that Grandad began to show strange things, strange things that any ordinary old man should ever do in their late years. "
" Just like in the 100th Timeline..., Grandad became monstrously muscular right after he somehow defeated 'Black Stridingcloud Nimbus'*, that old demon, and gained much of its strength. "
" For that happened years after Carla finished Elementary School..., so Grandad's human flesh should've been so frail at the time to even use any weapon. "
" And yet, he defeated the demon, either it was fully his effort or Grandad Twelve already appeared and trained him of sorts..., Carla still can't believe that an old mortal man who happened to receive no Gift from the Gods... "
" Could be that powerful right after receiving some support from his Previous Timeline Self..., defeated an ancient demon and gaining its strength as well having his body returned to his prime or perhaps even more enhanced, Carla doesn't get it anymore... "
" Is there more to Grandad than Carla knew, something more to Grandad that even Carla who lived with him for years, in every Timeline? " Carla asked Seraphim sighed as she turned back from her.
" You could say he is... " Seraphim calmly replied, thinking to herself about who Ragna was.
" Either he was like that from the start or it was from the effort over his life journey..., one should say that Ragna Kent, your Grandfather..., is something else... "
" Hence why, from his bloodline, he could have you, Carla..., the 'Divine Hero' who happens to also have the blue blood from the Grandmother's side, but happened to be the most promising to even surprise the ruling gods in each Timeline iteration. "
" As well as your uncle... " Seraphim says it softly.
" Even now, I still couldn't believe any True Nephilim hybrid could exist, even if it's made artificially... "
" For I never thought any Nephilim could re-appear from a Divine and Deviant's marriage after its full-extermination pre-Second Holy War. "
" So there's something to Grandad than meets the eye... " Carla responds after hearing it.
"( Perhaps the 'Sanct Avataris' thing* is... )" Carla thinks but Seraphim begins to walk away from her.
" I will set a course for my son, checking on his progress. " Seraphim tells it.
" In times further, we will no doubt need to use his strength. "
" Carla should come, perhaps we could talk about things more there... " Seraphim tells Carla as the two then decide to leave the house, leaving it in a hidden place, for it was made to hold a certain being hibernated within a large hibernating device. A being with a Masked Face and Gray-Silverish Hair with his skin almost pale but beautiful at the same time.
[ Timeline Effect Neutralizer Hibernating Device* Activated. ]
[ Progress: 87.99% ]
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Extra:
* ...everything that Grandad just said to Carla at that time.
Read Chapter 395: 'Day -1: Sanctuary Part 2'
* 'Black Stridingcloud Nimbus'
An ancient demon from the 100th Timeline *Spoiler alert*.
It's the reason why Ragna Hundred had the
* ...the 'Sanct Avataris' thing.
Read Chapter 403: 'End Of Day -1: Some Things Before Tomorrow'
* Timeline Effect Neutralizer Hibernating Device.
This is an important object, remember it.
Sorry for the long wait...