On the other side of Azure Authority..
A girl who previously stared at Naku walked towards the dark alleys of the city of Azure Authority, and met a woman wearing a black robe, she removed the hood of her robe and revealed her beautiful face and silver hair with long ears which were elf ears.
"Sister Luna, I saw someone who looked familiar to one of our rebel members." The girl said to Luna, the elf woman who seemed to have gray eyes with a blank and cold look.
"Lumina, we're just here to deliver goods and look for information. Don't think too much about other things when we're in the enemy's base." Luna said with a cold, empty gaze but her soft voice made Lumina feel comfortable and calm.
"We can recruit him, Sis Luna... besides... I saw him pouring mana into the artifact, maybe he wants to let himself go. And... he seems to hate the Apostles from Project Ark, maybe he is hostile to them." Lumina said to Luna.
"...But I can't help you, because I have to do something more important down there. Will you be okay if I'm not around?" Luna said.
"Don't treat me like a child... I've also grown strong... so Sis Luna can go first, I'll recruit that person because our goal is the same, we need lots of strong people to carry out that goal." Lumina said while smiling at Luna.
"Then take care of yourself, I'll look for the broken weapons they threw away." Luna said while walking in the opposite direction from Lumina.
... Inside the Spiral Prison, Naku looked up where the prison room was distorted and very irregular.
"Nano, can you do a scan?" Naku whisper to Nano who was in his bag.
"I'm doing it, but it takes time..." Nano said while scanning all corners of the room.
"HOW IS IT? ISN'T THIS PRISON AWESOME?" Revil said in a loud and excited voice.
"..., go to hell you Project Ark" Naku said while frowning.
"Ooh, how rude~ but... this will definitely be fun destroying you in this prison!" Revil said while laughing out loud.
Naku then stared and looked at all sides of the room with high focus, before then running and jumping from one wall to another and climbing the Spiral Prison quickly.
"How about we play a game Naku?" Revil said while grinning. Naku, without caring about it, continued to run and jump towards the top of the Spiral Prison. However, the whole room then twisted and put Naku back under.
"Tch.." Naku frowned angrily gritting his teeth. Revil then snapped his fingers and made the floor Naku was standing on turn into very sharp thorn roots, Naku quickly jumped onto the wall and dug his fingers into the wall using layers of mana to hold on.
"Well... the game has started! WHAT CHOICE WILL YOU CHOOSE NAKU?" Revil said while laughing. Naku looked around but nothing happened, he then looked up which shocked him and became very upset.
"You psychopathic bastard..." Naku frowned at the scene above.
Millions of criminals who were held in Spiral Prison were forcibly pushed out of their respective prisons, millions of criminals fell freely from all the floors of Spiral Prison and were impaled by the thorns made by Revil. Naku was then shocked because Nano whispered to him the information about the scan results.
At the same time, a door appeared right at the top of the Spiral Prison and Naku saw that the light was real, which meant the door was the real way out but also feels a trap for him. Naku quickly jumped from one side of the wall to the other and used the criminals as footholds to climb up without looking back. But one of the criminals grabbed Naku's leg and said...
"P-please...! Please save me...! I still have my family waiting for me down there...!" A criminal who looks like a father cries pleadingly to Naku. Naku gritted his teeth and kicked the man's hand, causing him to fall and be impaled by the thorns below.
"SHUT UP, STOP IMITTING HUMANS WITH ONLY MEMORIES WITHOUT REAL EMOTIONS!" Naku slashed all the fallen criminals with intense anger and their bodies split open revealing iron bodies with machines that resembled organs which were exactly like how he saw Carlon's body after being made into an Ark.
Right in front of the exit, instead of entering it, he turned around and headed towards the right side wall quickly channeling his mana into his sword because the exit was a trap. At the same time, Lumina ran underground and saw walls with absurd patterns and channeled her mana into her sword. Lumina slashed her sword at the wall, but her attack was reflected and left her hand in pain.
"Ahh..!" Her sword was knocked away but she quickly caught it and channeled more mana.
On the other hand, Naku strongly slashed his sword at the wall but his attack was also reflected and almost made him fall.
"Ugh..?! Nano, what should I do..?!" Naku shouted while gripping his sword tightly and channeling more mana.
Nano, who had been scanning, managed to find out that there was someone behind the wall who was also trying to cut him.
"NAKU! SLASH ACCORDING TO MY COUNTDOWN!" Nano said loudly amidst the riots taking place in Spiral Prison.
"Three... Two..." Nano said while focusing on scanning showing a figure behind the wall who was preparing to attack.
"ONE!" Nano shouted and simultaneously, Naku and Lumina slashed their swords at the wall.
Both of their attacks hit the wall hard and caused the reflection of their attacks to flow into the wall instantly destroying it. Naku sees a girl walking in and pulls his hand to get him out of the Spiral Prison. The destroyed wall quickly recovered and closed.
"...You're the girl who was up there at that time." Naku said to Lumina.
"So you saw me in the middle of the city at that time, for now, come with me. You are already fugitives or perhaps labeled criminals by the Azure Authority, or should I say Project Ark" Lumina said while smiling gently at him.
"Then, you shouldn't help me or you will also be labeled a criminal by them." Naku said while catching his breath.
"Oh, that's okay, because I've already been labeled a criminal by them." Lumina said.
"..." Naku looked at her in silence.
"My name is Lumina, you?" Lumina said while smiling gently at him.
"Naku." Naku said.
"Hmm... you look alike like someone in our rebel organization.." Lumina said as she walked around him.
"I want to ask... do you know someone named Hana?" Lumina stopped right in front of him and looked at him curiously.
"..Hana..? ...Hmm.. I don't know.." Naku said while holding his head which was a little sore.
"Then... do you know about this flower?" Lumina took a beautiful, burning black and yellow flower and showed it to Naku.
"This... UGH!" Naku felt an abnormal headache and made his knees buckle and fall.
"N-Naku..? What's wrong..?" Lumina quickly helped Naku to lean against the wall.
"AAGH..!" Naku screamed in pain while holding his head.
Nano then came out of her bag and surprised Lumina.
"Uwah..?!" Lumina reflexively backed away.
Nano then scans Naku and finds that he only suffers from amnesia.
"Naku..." Nano knew that it was impossible for Naku to experience such pain if it was just normal amnesia, but because her not-so-sophisticated scanning function could only detect normal amnesia, she felt sad and looked at Naku who was in pain.
Lumina circulated mana in her palm and made a root with white flowers wrap around her hand gently, she then directed it at Naku and made Naku calm down a little.
"Is that sleep magic?" Nano said looking at Lumina.
"Yeah, the sleep magic I try to change the way it do a little." Lumina said while continuing to channel her mana to calm Naku.
...
Naku was in a dark subconscious but there were several glass shards that reflected his memories which were gradually recovering, he then saw a new glass shard that complemented one of the glasses. The glass shards combine into larger glass shards and reveal a slightly more complete memory.
In the middle of forest, which was raining heavily..
"Hana..! protect your little brother and wait for mom and dad okay?" A man said while looking at a little girl holding a sleeping baby boy gently in his arms.
"Dad.. dad and mom will come back, right..?" Hana said while crying hugging her sleeping little brother, Naku.
"GET INSIDE QUICKLY HANA..! PROTECT YOUR BROTHER NO MATTER WHATEVER HAPPENS, MOM AND DAD PROMISE WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK TO YOU-" Not having time to finish his words, an explosion blew him hard, hitting the trees and destroying them.
The explosion set the door of the house on fire and was blocked by tree trunks and large rocks, leaving the two children trapped.
Hana ran into the basement of their house and cried while hugging Naku.
"D-dad.. mom.." Her tears continued to flow and her chest felt tight because of her sadness.
Naku, who was asleep, then cried and made Hana even sadder.
"S-shh.. Naku.. it's okay.. big sister is here..." Hana said while trying to keep smiling even though her eyes were full of tears. Naku slowly stopped crying and fell asleep in Hana's arms who hugged him gently.
...
Suddenly the memory was interrupted and moved to another memory.
...
"Hey Naku..! You fell asleep in this flower garden again?" A girl with the same eyes and hair as Naku said while looking at Naku who was lying down from above.
"Sis... do you like flowers?" Naku got up and sat next to the girl.
"Of course...! Big sister really likes it!" Hana said with a wide and warm smile, making Naku very comfortable and happy just by seeing that smile.
"I found this flower in a cave when I was playing in here." Naku showed Hana a beautiful burning black yellow flower.
"UWAH~! The flowers are so beautiful!" Hana said while looking at the flower with a happy face.
"Sis.. mom and dad promised that they would come back, right..?" Naku said while looking at Hana with a sad expression.
"... Of course..! I'm sure that mom and dad will come back one day, i will continue to protect Naku no matter what happens!" Hana thoughtfully lowered her head before smiling at Naku.
The fragment of memory was interrupted and made him regain consciousness.
"?!" Naku opened his eyes and felt like he had just had a nightmare but also felt very nostalgic.
"Naku!" A worried Nano flies towards Naku.
"Nano.. I'm fine.." Naku said and looked at Lumina who released her sleep magic.
"It's good that you're okay..." Lumina said and smiled at him.
"That flower... is it Hana's?" Naku said to Lumina.
"Hm? How do you know?" Lumina was shocked and looked at Naku in confusion.
"Because... Hana is my big sister, and the one who gave her the flowers was me." Naku said looking at Lumina.
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In a ravine in the middle of the barren land, Luna jumped down into the dark ravine and saw lots of human bones and corpses, she walked along the ravine and found something she was looking for.
"Found you." Luna walked towards a woman with golden blonde hair in knight armor who was lying on top of a pile of corpses.
Luna saw the woman's face shattered on one side and showing parts of the ark machine inside, but the woman was still conscious and continued to repeat her words which was smiliar what happened to Nano.
"...P-project.. ark.. I-I'll kill.. you.... s-all.. d-d-you s-devils.." The woman said in a broken voice.
"It seems like your language module was damaged... and almost all of your functions were also damaged by them, Elidia." Luna said looking at Elidia who kept repeating her words in an annoyed but halting tone.
Luna then lifted Elidia and took her out of the ravine in the barren land.