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" Bradson Captain !" Reina cried urgently in the control center in the dead of the night

" He is turning unstable !!"

" He is fighting it ....I See. "

Bradson Captain nodded calmly, watching through the surveillance system from his cabin.

One by one, the restraint belts were ripped off and thrown to the floor, This dark young man stood up from his wreaked hospital bed.

He looked up.

And Bradson stared back through the screen.

A stare between man and dark powers beyond.

...

.........

The morning practice was harsh, and as Yuri fought on virtual enemies, Firren noticed a thing or two, something in Yuri's fighting style has changed.

The doors to the training center then opened.

And then closed.

Firren frowned.

" That's enough for today." Firren spake and turned off the training systems for Yuri to rest.

" But commander...? "

Yuri thought the training wasn't over yet.

" Your moves are undecided and lacks determination."

Firren sighed,

" Too many distractions. Go answer the door."

Yuri went to the door.

" Neliya....?"

Neliya was standing outside the door, afraid that she might disturb Yuri practice.

But there is still things she needs to tell Yuri about last night.

Yuri understand,

Last night,

Story night.

" It's alright now, Yuri ! We've found Lima, she's fine..."

Neliya said uneasily

" ... We'll... Try our best to comfort her... And tell her it's not Yuri's fault..."

Yuri smiled to the loli, though still sad she was.

" Can you help tell Lima.... No. Thank you, Neliya, I'll apologize to Lima later myself. Thank you for telling me, Neliya."

Neliya the loli nodded timidly and scampered off.

" I am sorry, Commander !"

Yuri hurried back to training but accidentally kicked down the weapons cabinet, scattering the hard weapons with loud clatter

" Sorry......"

Yuri apologized quickly and fetch the weapons as fast as she could.

Firren too bent down and helped her fetch the weapons. If it were like before, Firren would be scalding her, but now he was silent.

" What happened last night ?"

Firren asked suddenly, caring his teammates in his own way.

Yuri dropped the sword rifle in her arms, half surprised by Firren's question, and more surprised Firren now cares.

" What.... What night ?" Yuri stammered, looking aside.

Nothing seemed to escape Firren's cold stare.

Yuri uneasily touched the runes and curves on the rifle in the ground

" It started last night..." Yuri began

" After finishing story time......."

...

.............

Last night,

the children, mostly the girls, after the village incident, decided to have a small night snack party. They also invited Yuri, to cheer her up for what happened to Vitas.

Yuri was saddened then, thinking she had carelessly caused Vitas' injury against the Dark Unerva.

After some time of chatting and laughter, The plates of snacks, now empty, as the Lollies, Lima, Neliya, Lucky, Tricia the silent child, Feira and Neruko, and finally Yuri sat around a circle, with the huge book of Papa Bradson in the middle, they began to read together in turns. Yuri decided to read for them, to keep her mind away from sad thoughts.

Yuri took a deep breath

Then there were Stars

Twinkling, giggling, among the black sky.

Mon loved them all,

And they loved Moon as well.

One day,

When the creatures were alive

And the world was awake,

A loli came to Sun.

" What's wrong, my child ?"

Asked Sun.

And the loli asked

" What is the color of Sky when you are away ?"

" There will be no Color."

Sun replied

" Only the terrible Darkness. Don't go there, my Child. You will be scared."

Sun warned the loli.

And the loli went home.

The next day,

When the flowers were blooming

And the Earth was breathing,

The loli came to Sun.

" What's wrong, my child ?"

Sun asked.

And the loli asked

" What does the world look like when you are away ?"

" There will be no world, my child."

Sun replied

" Only the terrifying Blackness. Don't go there, my Child. You will be lost."

Sun warned the loli.

And the loli went away.

That night,

The loli sat behind a rock,

And waited for Sun to go.

And as soon as Sun left

The Sky turned black,

And the loli was scared and alone.

Suddenly,

The loli saw a small light coming from afar.

The loli quietly hid behind the rock and watched,

As light came nearer

And nearer,

Singing

" Nothing here, nothing there,

We are stars that shine elsewhere.

Nothing up, nothing down,

We are stars that shine anyhow."

And the Stars began to play.

The loli watched

As the Stars played funny games

And the loli laughed.

The Stars heard her laugh, and came to the rock.

" Was it you that laughed, rock ?"

Asked the Stars,

But rock didn't answer.

" Was it you, mother Cloud ?"

Asked the Stars.

" No."

Cloud answered

" It is a loli. And she wants to play too."

" Then where is loli ?"

Asked the Stars.

" You must find her. The loli is shy.

Finding her shall be a new game."

So the Stars went off in search of loli.

A star went to the river.

Another star fire up a tree.

When the other Stars went off,

One star stood up the rock where the loli was.

" Where will loli hide ?"

The little Star shed Cloud.

" Where will you hide ?"

Cloud asked the little star.

Somewhere near you

Somewhere I can see you

Somewhere you can find me

So the little Star climbed up the rock

And found the loli.

And they started to play,

Finding each other in the Dark.

Soon it was dawn

And the Stars are sleepy.

Cloud then said to the loli

" Don't tell Sun about us, sweet loli.

Keep it a secret, between you and the Stars."

The loli agreed

And slept beside the rock.

That day

When the birds are singing

And the wind was running,

The loli was sleeping.

" Wake up !"

The loli's shadow cried

" Wake up ! Sun is coming ! Wake up !"

And the loli opened her eyes.

Sun asked the loli

" You are sleepy, my child.

What happened when I was away ?"

" I was counting the sheep in the yard last night."

The loli answered

And Sun chuckled,

And went back to the Sky.

Night after night,

The loli played with the Stars around the rock

And made friends with the night.

One night,

While the loli and the Stars were running around,

The rock finally spoke

" Oh, where are the creatures that were alive ?

Where are the flowers that used to bloom ?

Oh, who heard the birds' last singing ?

Who saw the wind flee ?"

" What is rock talking about ?"

The stars asked each other.

They knew nothing if the living creatures or the blooming flowers.

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But the loli understood rock's song.

" Wise rock, wise rock,"

The loli asked

" What happened in the day under Sun ?"

" Oh it was me, and it was you.

It was he, it was she, it was It.

It was the shadow.

He she it swallowed the day."

" Then where was Sun ?"

The loli asked.

" Sun is injured, and his Light was hurt.

Call Moon ! And let him save the Day !"

Moon heard the rock

And flew to Sky with Cloud by his side.

Sky was grey and dark

And Darkness danced with its hands about.

" Sun ! Sun ! Where are you, burning Sun ?"

Moon cried

But only the whispering Darkness answered his cry.

" The shadow is too strong."

Mon said to Cloud

" The shadow was nothing, but All is his power.

It sees all, it knows all, it is nearly All.

I have only one way to stop the shadow."

" No."

Cloud begged

" You can't do it."

" I will find help from my friend, Red Moon.

You must wait for my return, dead Moon."

Cloud said.

Moon was undecided,

But Cloud was determined.

So Cloud became huge and sharp and came to the horizon,

There Cloud said to Moon

" Wait for me, Moon.

I made a string between us

So that we could still talk to each other when I am afar.

I must go now."

And Cloud jumped off to the horizons and flew away.

Moon waited,

The Stars and the loli waited by the rock.

One night

When the loli was resting on the rock

The loli's shadow walked away to find Moon.

The loli's shadow looked just like loli,

So Moon took her up to Sky

" What's wrong, loli ?"

Moon asked the loli's shadow.

" I am cold."

The loli's shadow answered

" Can I rest in your palm ?"

Moon chuckled

And gave the loli's shadow his palm.

Moon was careless.

As soon as the shadow went up the palm

It cut the string between Cloud and Moon.

Cloud was gone

And Moon flew into a desperate rage.

The Stars were also desperate.

" No, father Moon, No !"

The Stars cried

" Father will break the Earth !

Father will dry the Sea !

Father will end the World instead !"

But Moon won't listen

And flew to end shadow.

" What can we do ?"

The Stars asked each other

" What shall we do ?"

" We will play hide."

A little star said.

It was the little star that found the loli.

" How do we play hide ?"

The other Stars and the loli asked.

" Mother Cloud taught us before."

The little star explained

" You shall all hide, and wait for me to find you."

So they began to play.

The little star began to count numbers

While the others ran to hide.

The loli ran

And found the rock.

She his behind the rock and closed her eyes

As the World started to tremble,

And the Sky began to crumble.

Moon was ready,

And saw that shadow was doomed.

" I shall smite thee, here and now !"

Moon cried

As he took out his flute

And sucked the air.

Then came a painful sound

Stabbing the Earth and breaking down Sky.

The World moaned in pain

As it shivered, weeping for its ending.

Shadow was then shattered

And so was Moon.

Light started to burst out of the cracks in the Sky

And shone down in the lifeless earth.

Soon

Everything has fallen

And the World was silent.

The loli opened her eyes.

The New World before her was bright

But except light

There was nothing else.

Nothing here, nothing there.

Nothing up, nothing down.

For days the loli waited

For the little star to find her,

But the little star never came

Neither did the other Stars hiding far away.

Thinking of this

The loli began to cry

" Don't cry."

Said a voice

" Don't cry, living loli"

Said

The

Rock

" You are

Not

Alone..........

............

" Lima ?"

Yuri sensed something wrong in Lima's voice and so did the others, but it was too late.

Lima suddenly slammed the book shut, and threw the heavy book to the far end of the room before bursting out the room, slamming the door behind her in tears.

Leaving all the others petrified in shock.

.....

............

" I see." Firren nodded after Yuri told her what happened last night

" She has a emotional connection with the story... Mayhap it's about her."

" Yes !" Yuri gasped at Firren's knowing and consideration

" I think... It's something like... Like Before the Light."

" Before What ?"

Firren asked.

" It's.... Something Vitas told me."

Yuri said, and Firren slightly scowled at the mention of the wind dude

" What's your first memory, 隊長 ？"

Yuri suddenly asked.

" Huh ?!"

Firren was taken by surprise.

" What is it ??"

Yuri urged forward, leaning nearly onto Firren's muscular figure, so close Firren could take a glimpse of the gentle modest curves of Yuri's breasts underneath her practicing bra.

Firren sat straight and closed his eyes in Samurai manner. Trying to come up with something believable.

" Uh.....umm.........okay............I remember following my Starbreaker seniors to a simple mission. My first mission. It was rad."

Firren explained, remembering the past

" I was young and inexperienced. And all I wished, is to be a Leader StarBreaker with his own ship. I was young... With fiery spirits.... What ?!"

Firren scowled abashly, looking into Yuri's googly eyes, astonished that even a man such as Firren had an interesting youth.

" But 隊長 , don't you have a memory, before that ? Before you and your Seniors ? Before.... That Light ?"

" What light......?"

Firren brooded before he answered

" Even if there was, it won't interfere us now. What has past is behind us, and the past doesn't concern us anymore. We are after all, living in the present."

And Yuri was amazed, and let what her Leader said sink in.

Perhaps, Firren commander is right. It's better to let go and move on, but.... Thinking of Lima's sadness, and Vitas' words that were meaning something yet she Didn't understand, Yuri still wants to know.

Her curiosity, and her passion.

Leading her to a path that will change her life entirely.

While Yuri was thinking, she heard a soft fur ball whining in the corridor.

It's Elsa, Vitas' dog !

" Elsa !" Yuri came forth to the wolf pup. Forgetting about the qolf cub for like two episodes now.

" My puppy !" Cried a loli and scooped Elsa up before Yuri could

" Puppy~~~!"

Elsa whined in the loli's arms, wriggling to break free.

" Eh.. Momo ?"

Momo the youngest loli among the younger children looked up at Yuri and cried out excitedly

" Yuri ! Want to eat Orion Ring ?!"

" What ?!"

" It's alright, Yuri. Trainings continue tomorrow."

Firren decided and stood up to pack his things in the cabinet.

And as Yuri bowed to her leader and left with Momo, Firren stood before his cabinet, holding up something small inside, watching it with a long, sorrowful gaze.

And Firren put it into his pocket.

...

.........

As Momo the loli led Yuri to the kitchen lounge, where Seito was cooking with lightning and many children were cheering excitedly.

Lo, Seito can cook, and with lightning !

" Wow." Yuri was truly amazed, a big gruff person like Seito can cook and take care of children.

" Heya !" Seito greeted Yuri

" You heard news of my mighty cooking ?"

" Not quite..."

Yuri sat down at the dining table

" What is a Orion Ring ?"

" Onion rings !"

Seito boomed heroically and passed the plate of well fried brown rings of foreign fragrance.

Before Yuri could ask any questions, the children all lunged forth and the onion rings were all gone.

" My Onion rings ! All gone !"

Momo cried and hugged Elsa tighter.

" boo, you are slow." Some kiddies jeered

" That's why she's a 'Momo'." Other kiddies jeered.

" Hey, that's rude..."

Yuri was about to protect Momo when Seito approached and cried

" Hark ! Wash your hands before eating !!!"

And brought a huge platter piled with a mountain of onion rings

" This Momo gets the rest of the Onion rings ! Boo to you !"

Seito laughed and the kiddies groaned for more.

" And you two !"

Seito pointed at Yuri and Momo

" Wash your hands !!"

Later Momo savored the Onion rings while Yuri and Seito sat, watching the loli dining with cute glee. Elsa the puppy now slept on Yuri's lap.

" Wow, Seitoさん, you've already gained their trust."

Yuri smiled at the children playing around.

" Gain their trust ? Nay."

Seito shook his head with a clever grin

" Children believe genuinely, they will trust anything they want to trust. And they won't betray this trust, unlike us StarBreakers and captains...

Children are pure. And they are those I can't betray."

" Woh...That is really a inspirational, Seitoさん." Yuri smiled, thinking of the children

" Perhaps The children... They know more, and remember more than we do..."

" Huh ? Do they ?"

Seito laughed.

" Seito さん, do you still remember, your First Memory ?"

Yuri asked abruptly.

" Hah ??? How can anyone remember that ? Ages ago !!"

Seito waved the topic off.

" Momo remember !! Momo remember !!"

Momo cried enthusiastically with fried onion rings still in her mouth.

" Swallow it first, you Momo !"

Seito muttered and cleansed the loli's greasy cheeks.

" What is your First Memory, Momo ?"

Yuri asked.

" Momo was flying in the sky !"

Momo cried happily.

" No no no, that's a Dream. Not your first memory."

Seito booed.

" But Momo was flying with Momo's Mama and Papa, and... And......."

And Momo turned silent and grim.

And Yuri hugged the loli and ended the topic.

" By the way, have you seen Vitas ?"

Seito asked

" They won't let me see him."

Yuri froze

" That's... Because they said Vitas needs seven weeks to heal...."

" Poppycock. It's already passed seven days, and they still lock him away. Something do be fishy..."

Seito grunted.

Yuri was melancholy immediately

" Why ? Why would they hide him away... From me ?!"

Yuri asked.

" That's because... they want to investigate him."

Seito deducted

" They want to investigate his 'Powah' !"

" ..... What ?"

" A 'Powah'."

"...... No."

Yuri shook her head

" You are bluffing me."

" No no ! ... Alright, That 'Powah' thing may not be it's real name, but There is Really something that the Demons all fear, a highly classified last resort of us StarBreakers to gain victory against whatever demon, even Arch Demons if we are lucky. It is our One Shot Endgame."

Seito leaned forward to Yuri and lowered his voice

" A StarBreak."

" A StarBreak....?"

" Yay. That is a Power only We StarBreakers have, an Ending Power strong enough to shatter worlds and decimate Demons.

Though strong, it costs our Light as well, and we too will disappear. We all have it, and we must use it wisely."

Seito pointed at his chest, and Lo, a symbol of Elden Lightning appeared

" Tis is mine, you have yours. But Vitas'.... his light is unique."

Seito sighed.

Yuri touched her chest and Lo, a sophisticated Elden rune like a piece of snowflake lightened up.

" How unique is it...Vitas' StarBreak ?"

Yuri asked fearfully.

" ..... I have seen it only once, and by accident.

It seemed... Dark. Unlike any color of the Stars. He has a Dark Star."

Dark

Dark Unerva.....

" Whenever I ask him, he'll just say he forgot. Why Don't you ask him ? Perhaps He might tell you ?"

Seito shhrugged

Yuri remembered what Varium said and jolted up off her chair.

Frightening Momo and Elsa.

" Woh, where goes you ?!"

Seito cried as Yuri raced out the kitchen.

" I need to See him now !"

He already knows,

He knows the past.

Lima knows too

They are sure

It hurts.

So he hides from me,

But still wishes to show me.

I need to.

I want to know more of the blue snow.

I want to know more about Mom.

I want to know more about the Past,

About who I once were,

And

Before. Light.

...

...........

" No."

Reina secretary snapped

" He is still in distress, he needs rest."

" Reina！It's been seven days ! You promised ! You promised !!"

Yuri cried desperately.

Reina secretary was torn apart. Yuri was like her little sister, but she must protect her, from she should not know, yet.

" Please...?"

Yuri begged, tearing up.

Reina is weak against Yuri's tears, and it nearly always work.

" NO ! Not even asking Captain Bradson will

help !"

Reina shoved Yuri to Bradson, for Captain Bradson has his ways around Yuri.

" Have a seat, Yuri."

Papa Bradson had Yuri sit, facing him in his cabin.

Bradson handed Yuri a chocolate bar but Yuri ate it not. She seemed serious, and eating chocolate is not the priority of this meeting.

" Well, what is it ?"

Bradson Captain asked, sipping his drink.

" Papa, I need to know something only Vitas knows right now."

Yuri proposed sincerely

" Can I meet him ?"

Bradson Captain brooded, and looked at a screen under his desk for a short second without Yuri noticing

" Alright. You may."

Yuri was surprised.

" But,"

Bradson said a but

" Under some circumstances...You have to do, everything I say, and only that. You promise ?"

...

........

Yuri was led to a room, far away from the infirmary. She was told Vitas was healing his wounds there, now seemed otherwise.

Now she stood before a thick iron room of great security, guarded by dozens of Androids.

Even Yuri herself has suited up her StarBreaker.

As Bradson Captain told her to.

" What's the meaning of this, Captain ?!"

Reina cried outside the room guarding the iron vault, where Bradson stood calmly, looking at Yuri and the iron vault open slowly

" You are putting Yuri in danger !"

" If done right."

Bradson Captain spake, calm and stern

" We can end this, here and now."

Reina couldn't understand.

" Captain, Demon signals approaching."

An Android reported to Bradson and Leina.

" Those are Ligers and some Dark Unerva."

Bradson observed the radar quiclky

" Send Firren and Seito down immediately. Reina, you will command the mission in my place."

Reina secretary looked at her Captain before heading forth

" Yes, Captain..."

...

...........

Firren and Seito rushed to the Armory center and came to their weaponry cabinets.

Firren gathered His fully repaired fire swords. Seito pulling his repaired Lightning Great sword up and hoisted to his shoulder.

And from their stations the two Starbreaker men took off their casual clothing to ready for suit up of their nano particle Starbeaker armor, and when Firren came out of the suiting station, Seito was already there, holding up something small in his hand.

" This, fell out of your pocket......."

FIrren looked what Seito took and his blood run cold.

It was what has always been kept in his cabinet, in his pocket, close to him.

It was an old wrinkled piece of a vague dull picture,

A photo,

An old photo.

A photo of a bunch of children, standing before some kind of building.

With some grownups.

One of the grownups among many.

Looked familiar, to Seito.

...

...........

The iron vaults opened,

And Lo Yuri saw, to her astonishment,

Dark Vitas, strapped to a seat inside !

Yuri gasped ! And ran forth.

" STOP, YURI."

Bradson Captain's voice ordered inside Yuri's helmet

" Do as I say."

Yuri complied, for she had promised to do only what Bradson Captain said.

Reluctantly, Yuri stepped back.

The Dark Vitas, covered in dark goo like substance snaking out of that orifice in his chest, looked up slowly.

"..... Yuri....?!"

This Dark Vitas seemed surprised.

By what Bradson Captain had cooked up.

Bradson Captain then cleared his throat, and said into Yuri's ear

" You have five minutes."

" Yuri ?! What is this....?! Bring me the Captain !!"

Vitas cried angrily, slowly becoming a beast.

Yuri was shook, and frightened at the sight,

Vitas is now a Dark Unerva !!!

" Papa...how could this be...! Is there a way to turn him back ?!?!"

Yuri cried through her microphone.

" You have five minutes."

Was all Bradson Captain said.

...

...........

" Seito, give it to me. Please."

Firren spoke, trying to keep his voice calm.

" Where did get you get this ?"

Seito asked, his voice trembling

" And why..Why am I in this ?! What Is THis, Firren ?!?!"

" Just give it back, Please !!!" Firren cried, but Seito started to tremble, and moan, the photo of himself and the children, and the building, it was whispering many voices all at once into his mind like needles peircing his brain in and out all at once.

And Seito let go of the photo,

Giving out a beastly cry of berserk fury, lightning bursting all over him, and the armory center.

.....

.............

Yuri mustered her courage and stepped forward one step

" Vitas !"

" Yuri, you have no idea what you are doing... !!"

Vitas cried.

" That's why I am here !"

Yuri cried back

" I need to know, I want to remember what is Before my First Memory, what is Before the Light !!!"

Vitas paused, and looked at the Bradson Captain outside the room in disbelief

" This is not...."

Vitas stammered but didn't finish, And turned back to Yuri

" .... We Dark Unerva are cursed with the memory of the Dead Earth."

Vitas began, speaking quickly

" You are better than us, and better off without it !

Things Before the Light will only haunt you !"

" But my forgetting has hurt the people around me. Lima... You...."

Yuri said, with tears in her eyes

" I feel that I have betrayed you, and those I love that I know are out there, but have been forgotten.... I know they are out there... Waiting for me to remember."

" No, Yuri."

Vitas shook his head

" They never wanted you to remember. All They ever wanted was you to be safe, and move on. Because they love you."

And Lo Vitas groaned, and he is turning back to his true Dark Unerva form !

His Rage ! His Hate ! ! His deep Lust for Yuri even Vitas himself couldn't control !!!

" I don't want to let you all go like this !"

Yuri shouted

" I... have forgotten.. My mother's face... I am afraid.. And I hate myself for feeling nothing towards those that are dear to me.... What if one day... I forget this feeling... Of Love ?!"

" You Fool ! ! !"

Vitas screamed, his Darkness had finally caught up to him

" You insincere slut ! You forgot us All, Because You Killed Us ! ! ! That's right !! You Doomed Us All !!!! I you forgot because of your guilt ! Now you speak of not letting go ...?! Say it again when you remember, Yuri !!!! Say it Again !!!"

Yuri froze.

Yuri, terrorfied by what she saw and looked at Bradson Captain from a surveilance camera on the wall, but Captain seemed to be waiting for this moment.

" Demon signals approaching, Captain."

An Android reported again.

" Good. "

Bradson Captain nodded, but saw something odd through the map of his ship on his other side acreen.

...

..........

" AAAARRRGHHHHHHHHHH !!!!"

Seito boomed berserk, lightning bursting here and there like a frenzied tempest of thunderstrikes.

Reina rushed in just in time to witness

" Firren !!!! What Have You---"

" Not Me !!!!!" Firren shouted back

" it's...."

And Reina saw the curled wrinkled up photo in Firren's tight grasp.

" You got to be kidding me...!"

Reina hissed and rushed in to the Starbreaker station and suited up her pink red Starbreaker armor with photon machine guns on both wrists.

" There are Demons and Dark Unerva below, I'll get some droids and deal with that ! You deal with him !!"

" But...!!!!" Firren tried to negotiate if he could be the one dealing with the demons but Reina has already set off.

Through instinct, Firren fire sprayed onto the charging Seito's face and escaped his lightning grasp around his airpipe and crawled off quickly for life.

The Dark Unervas below, riding on Demon Ligers came closer and closer to the Betelgeuse.

....

..........

" I.... I......"

Yuri felt dizzy, she felt her blood run cold.

She couldn't fully understand, but that notion of herself, failing lives,

Watching them die,

Watching them Children Die !

That long lost feeling of Dread,

Regret,

Guilt,

All returned, stabbing like knives into her abdomen.

Yuri screamed and cried, falling to her feet.

" Yes... You are the worst, Yuri. You are a murderer........ UGHHH !!!!"

And Vitas tried to fight back the Rage and Negativity of The Darkness inside him, shaking off the Demonic thoughts and was about to cry back to Yuri

" Yuri ! ! ! No......"

But Vitas saw it was too late.

His Dark Unerva Rage has somewhat awakened Yuri's Fears.

Fears that Yuri had, but were forgotten deeply.

Yuri's mind now falls into full Chaos.

She couldn't remember what it truly was, but deep down some of it, the feelings and the Guilt has crept out of her dark place.

...

..........

" Lima, Wait !!"

Neliya and Lucky and Tricia cried out to the running Lima, who was stopped in front of the Iron Vault.

The Lollies heard the dreadful screams of Yuri inside.

Lima had sensed a disturbance in Yuri and came, and heard what it was.

" It's Yuri !"

Lucky cried

" What happened to her !? Is she alright ??!!"

Instead of breaking the door to save Yuri, Lima turned away sadly, in tears.

" Lima....??"

Neliya asked the crying Lima, but Lima just cried.

This is what Lima wanted, to let Yuri remember. So that she will not be alone in a World where everyone has forgotten the past.

But at what cost ???

Lima knew she wished for Yuri to remember, but seeing Yuri in pain like this, she felt bad. She now understood her selfish want is Yuri's pain.

" Five minutes have passed, Yuri."

Bradson Captain spake sternly, caring not of Yuri's pain of the past

" Now Stand up."

Yuri shook her head with tears.

" STAND UP, YURI ! ! ! ! !"

Bradson Captain boomed with never before heard anger.

Yuri Stood up.

" Now leave the room, Yuri."

Bradson urged with care.

Yuri looked up at Papa Bradson.

She didn't know what to do.

She had failed many lives Before the Light, she knew Vitas is right, though the memories vague and unclear, she felt those words were true.

Then what Now ?

What of Vitas, and End the past ?

" Yuri, turn away and leave the room."

Urged again Bradson's voice far far away.

" What are you going to do with him, Papa ?"

Yuri asked in tears.

" I'll to do what I must."

Captain Bradson spake sternly, with a heavy heart.

"......You will destroy him, as a Demon...too....?"

Yuri asked bravely, to which the Captain didn't answer. And Yuri knew that is what must be done.

Vitas, though resisting the Rage and wildness of the Dark Unerva powers,

Still smiled

" Let me go, Yuri. It's alright.

Let go."

Yuri closed her eye, ready to take her next step.

But then, suddenly.

The vaulted room exploded ! ! ! ! !

A Dark Unerva below the Betelgeuse shot a Demonic Long Beam,

Hitting straight at the Iron Vault's direction.

[........To be Continued]