"Tch..." Monika frowns when she sees the incoming visiting appointment from her sister. She shook her head, then sighed loudly. "So much for getting my rest." She then clicked a button on the console next to her. The gate opens and soon she hears some well sounded footsteps walking in. She stood up from her seat and walked up to her, she squeezed out a warm look on her face as she greets her sister, Nova.

"Sis... it's nice to see you." Monika greets Nova. She could feel her sister's cold aura around her as they both meet eyes, but she knows she has no choice but to talk to her sister. Monika smiled brightly: "What's with this sudden visit? Is it to talk about me abandoning my duties?" She says, but with no malice in her words, she just has to ask.

"Monika. I received reports that the hybrid settlements had been destroyed in a mysterious fashion." Nova's tone was cold, but she didn't sound hostile.

"Mysterious?" She raised her eyebrows. "So... what do you want to do then? Send in your troops and search for clues?"

"Of course." Her gaze is as cold as always. She stares into her eyes.

"Well, do what you have to do... Just make sure that my people are not involved in the investigation." Monika said firmly. She looks at Nova: "They have been through enough... I won't let any harm befall on my people."

"I don't care about them Monika, I know it was you!" Nova hissed through her teeth: "You are the only one that can do that to people Monika." She was glaring at her.

"Really? I wonder why I'm not aware of that?... Hmm... Nova." Monika shakes her head and lets out a sigh.

"Did Ravager tell you to do all that? Huh?! Are you just blindly obeying her?"

Monika frowns and her eyes narrowed into slits as she looks at Nova. "Of course not, you have no proof. And she asked me to leave my people out of this... But you didn't care about that... Right? You want to go into my home, and ruin my life like always. Isn't that what you're doing here? Is it so I won't do as you please? To destroy everything that I care for?" Monika clenches her teeth, her voice is shaking slightly.

"You were always a bad liar Monika." Nova shook her head slightly, with a stern tone, she spoke.

"Oh? So you want to play games with me now? Why don't we fight then?" Monika smirked and laughed slightly: "Surely you can win right?" She looks at Nova with a challenging stare: "You're not the strongest in this family." She said as she stared at Nova, and she could see that she was fuming with anger, and that only made Monika smirk.

Nova narrows her eyes and walks forward: "Is that so?" Her hand moves towards the pistol that's on her waist: "You want a fight, I'll give you a fight."

Monika's eyes began glowing red. She is already in fighting mode: "Then show me." Her tone is filled with malice and her aura was powerful enough to shake the ground slightly.

The tension in the air was thick enough to cut through it with a knife. It was like there was an invisible energy that was emitting from both of them, it was powerful enough to scare anyone. But to Monika and Nova it was nothing new for them. They've fought so many times in the past and now is just another time for them to fight out a solution.

The air was still and tense, the two sisters are just staring at each other, they don't even seem to breathe. Their eyes are locked and their gaze is filled with hostility, it was clear they were ready to kill each other: "Alright alright." A man's voice and a few clasp of hands suddenly sounded behind them, breaking the tension in the room. Monika and Nova turn to look at him. The man looks like he is in his 50's and he's wearing a fancy uniform: "Now... Let's ease up a bit alright?"

"Leonard, this is none of your concern." Nova glanced at her brother before turning her attention to her sister: "I am going to be serious, you should be too, sister."

"That's funny coming from someone like you, Nova." Monika looked at her with an unamused face and with her arms crossed in front of her, she said: "And you? What are you doing here?" Monika frowns and looks towards her brother.

Leonard chuckled. "Well, I can't leave the two of you alone... right?" Leonard said, with a slight grin. He had a carefree attitude towards them. It was something that Monika can't really understand: "And it seems like you two were going to fight. Well, you should let the big brother settle this then?" Leonard smiled: "What do you think Nova?"

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"Leonard... Monika, listen..." Nova turns to both of them: "You need to stop Ravager, she's destroying human lives for her own twisted reason. The Minka you know is long dead, whatever that thing is walking around, that can't be her. You need to understand that you're playing a dangerous game here, Monika." She says.

"How is what we are doing any different from what the inquisition did?" Monika looks at her: "You people murdered millions! Millions! You burned and killed just to satisfy your goals... And you say I am playing a game?!" Monika yelled at her. She then let out a heavy sigh.

"You... are so naive." Nova let out a long sigh: "You weren't there when the 'hybrid' first emerged. They weren't the people you see today. They weren't different, they were the same as the pure humans back then. It was some corruption that would spread rapidly and turn people into monsters. Those you see today are just the descendants of the people that had grown immunity to corruption. You are killing innocent people!" Nova clenched her fists as she looked at her sister:" You know what you are doing it's wrong but you don't want to admit it!" She yelled at her, and this time she was actually angry.

"You don't even know what you are saying! You know nothing about hybrids!" Monika shouted back, she clenched her teeth and her hands formed into a fist. She looked like she was about to strike at any second, but Leonard's words stopped them: "Nova, why don't you hear what Monika has to say? Red will explain, right?" He then turned to Monika.

"There's no corruption!" Monika glares at her sister: "It's a lie that the Inquisition fed you to gain your trust and they did a really good job on that right?! It was an archivist's experiment when he came, he used the hybrid's genetic code as backup plan, when he perished, the code would activate and any number of the hybrid race people would begin worshiping the archivist and try to revive him." Monika hissed, her eyes filled with anger:" Ha! You didn't know that, did you?" She shakes her head and chuckles: "That is what archivist wants to do all along! And he would have succeeded if I hadn't interfered."

"Oh really?" Nova throws a stack of photos on the table which then slides in front of Monika: "What you did was really impressive right? Even your own daughter had been possessed by him!" Nova shouts with fury: "And what did you do Monika?! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You were too focused on your 'plan'! You can't even protect your own family!" It was a photo of Minka destroying a heavily fortified lab. It was the place that was built to contain all of the archivist's creations from the war decades ago, when they got there everything was empty.

Monika stares at the photo and her hands are shaking slightly. Her eyes are locked onto the photo of her own daughter, She shook her head slightly. Her face is pale. She took a deep breath: "I... I need time..." She then suddenly rushed out of the room with tears falling down from her face.

"You did the right thing, Nova. Now follow her." Leonard looked at the door, and said: "The next part of this story needs her participation to work properly." He looked at Nova: "Don't worry. You don't have to say anything. Just keep her company. You've already said all the things you need to say." He smiled.

Nova let out a sigh and followed Monika out. Monika ran down the hall with her tears still running down from her face: "I need... to clear my head..." She says softly to herself, she keeps running until she finds a private room. She goes into the room and shuts the door behind her, she locks the door. Then she went to the balcony. Then a soft landing was heard: "Sister." She turns to see Nova standing there with an unamused expression, yet she's not glaring anymore.

Monika looked at her, then looked at the ground, she let out a soft sigh: "Nova... I need to think for a bit... I know I messed up..." She shakes her head slightly, tears still rolling down from her face: "Nova... what would you do? You have always been good at making decisions, right?... what would you do in this situation..."

"It's not a simple question. And it's not something you should ask of me either." Nova looks at her, but this time it's different: "You're Monika, not me, it's up to you to make this decision. I know you saw Minka as your own daughter but... The things she asks you to do? It's too much. Even if it is to stop the Archivist's evil schemes... she is killing innocents. We all know that's wrong." She shook her head slightly.

"I know I'm being a fool, I'm the one that ruined everything." She lets out a soft sigh and shakes her head.

Nova suddenly put a hand on Monika's shoulder. She smiled and looked into Monika's eyes. "I won't deny that I've made a few mistakes myself, I'm just human as well after all. But there's still time for us to stop her and the Archivist. You and I can do this, I'll be here for you Monika." Nova smiles at Monika with a small smile and gently touches her hand, trying to comfort her.

Monika stares into Nova's eyes. She then buries her head on Nova's chest and sobs, Monika hugs her sister tightly, her arms around Nova's waist: "Thanks..." She said softly, but there was a slight smile on her lips: "It means a lot to me Nova..." Minka then looks up with her reddened eyes: "I... I am so sorry for everything Nova."

"It's fine..." Nova's voice sounded sincere but her face still has that stern expression on her: "Let's stop her once and for all." Nova nodded to Monika with a smile.

"Nova... thanks..." Monika nods to her sister: "I have a plan but it requires us to talk to Trazyn and some of my friends from the adventurers guild. Let's go."