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Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Monika has been doing quite well ever since she recovered her wound from the fight with Noel. In fact, a bit too well that she's willing to take on more tasks for the work. She's more motivated because her love came back from presumed death scenarios also the other reason being is because she now met at least two of her alternate descendants and both of them seemed to be fine people. She's a bit happy because it means that everything, she's doing is worth it and most likely to have a good result.

She's right, for the most part at least. Recently she's been on to one of those cultist groups that's creeping in the city and so far, made no progress whatsoever. To be honest she's exhausted. Monika is not like Nova who can work non-stop and still does everything perfectly. She could ask Trazyn to help though, but she never asks too much from Trazyn, the reason being is that she always thought Trazyn is better than her, and she's a bit worried that if Trazyn finds out Monika isn't as good as he remembered, he would leave her for someone else.

Monika lays flat on the sofa in her office, she's too tired even to sit properly. It's been two days and there's no sight of the cultist group what's so ever. She takes out her phone and calls Trazyn but for some reason, he doesn't answer. Maybe Minka? She thought. After a few beeping noises their line got connected.

"What?" Minka doesn't sound happy at all.

Suddenly Monika realizes that she just had a fight with Minka and neither of them has apologized to each other: "Hey Minka… I just wanted to make sure that you are ok." Monika didn't want to say this, but the call was already connected.

"Yea? What do you want?"

"Don't talk to me that way young lady." Monika suddenly raised her voice a bit, she learned from Trazyn about how to discipline Minka.

"I'm… sorry." Minka's tone lowered, she sounds like a balloon that's deflating.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to talk to you that way, I wanted to ask, have you ever seen any cult-related event happening in this city? I might be hitting a lump…" Monika's face is burning red, she never wanted to ask for help but the current circumstances kind of forced her to do it. She's just too tired to think.

"Cult? I never paid attention to it, but I'll keep my eyes out for it." Minka regained her happy tone. She's that easy.

"Hey… maybe you want to come back for dinner? I heard Traz is making something special at night… Also." Monika paused: "Can you invite Emilia as well? If you can find her of course."

Minka's side is completely silent then she replied: "I will try." Then she hung up the phone.

Monika gets up from the sofa and checks on the file about the evidence again. None of those links make any sense, it is driving her mad. She doesn't even remember why she called Minka. Instead of getting tortured furthermore by work, she decided to leave the office and have a walk.

A few hours ago, Emila took the job of guarding the local lord's children, and out of four, she got the eldest daughter: Lisa Mordred. Despite being the oldest among all the children she's still a teenager who's going to school, at least this is what her parents thought. Lisa loves exploring and visiting around. In her eyes, it is her way of learning but in others, especially her parents, this is her way of escaping school and wasting time. Coincidentally Lisa was sent to the Acadmie, the elitist school on the planet and old school of the Terra sisters and Noel Vermillion.

Emilia's role is to keep her safe. But it only limited keeping her safe, at least this is what Lisa told her. Emilia personally wants to send Lisa to school because this is what her parents want. But Emilia doesn't want to give a bad first impression to her, that's why she didn't really say anything when they left home and headed in the opposite direction.

"What's your name?" Lisa walks in front of Emilia while looking confident.

"Emilia Terran." Emilia doesn't want people to know she's from the Terra family.

"Lame name." Lisa scoffs.

Emilia slightly frowned her eyebrows. She's trying to hold off her anger: "So… what do you want to do today? I thought today is the school day?"

"Why are you asking so many questions? You are here to guard my body not to ask stupid questions. Get on with time." Lisa's vibe is annoying Emila.

Get on with time? Emilia wants to strangle this girl so badly but unfortunately, her job is to protect her: "You know, I would appreciate some respect."

Lisa suddenly stopped walking and turned, she slightly squinted her eyes and looked up because Emilia is slightly taller than her: "Respect? Do you know you have to earn my respect? Also remember, you are nothing but a person who's obliged to follow me. You might look like a doll but try to also act like one."

Emilia's fist is shaking, she never sees anyone so infuriating, that of course except Trazyn, she blames everything that she suffered on him. But at the end of the day, she still came back to her senses. She just nods without saying anything back.

"Say." Lisa tilts her head sideways: "Have you heard there's a new antique store opening on the other side of the city?" Despite Lisa being a lazy schooler but she's indeed liked historical artifacts and the stories behind them.

Why would Emilia know, she's only been here for like three days: "No, does this mean you want to go there?"

"You finally asked the right question, I think in a few more years you can become a senior bodyguard in no time." She has a bossy tone, probably related to her parents. It's hard to not act like that when your parents are powerful lords.

Emilia shakes her head in hopelessness; she was never like this, but Minka was indeed a bit 'freeing' about whatever she was doing. Emilia has shown her personality trait quite early when she was young, since she was a kid she's more like a hero or a protector to everyone that's surrounding her. When she grew up and joined the army, she would frequently check on Monika just to make sure she was ok. She never knew about the reason, for her, it just felt right.

While walking on the street with Lisa, Emilia can tell the difference in structure compared to the ones in her world. This is unlikely because most of the buildings here are supposed to last for centuries. After about an hour of wandering around, they finally arrived at the antique store.

"Welcome, beautiful customers, what can I do for you today?" A blond young man smiles at them. Lisa was happy to greet but Emilia however instantly recognized this person.

"Hello, my name is Lisa, and I am a scholar of artifacts." Lisa's introduction is smooth like a silk blanket. That of course is a lie.

"And my name is Trazen, it is nice to meet a fellow college. And who would this intimidating being behind you be?" Trazyn and Emilia's eyesight crossed. Of course, Trazyn recognized Emilia, but this is not the time either of them should reveal their identity.

"I am Emilia. And I am her bodyguard." Emilia's answer has two meanings: One is that she's not shy to use her real name and the second is that she's warning Trazyn to not pull any tricks, or she will kill him.

"Nice to meet you too." Trazyn just ignores Emilia's piercing stare and proceeds to talk to Lisa: "Anyways young lady, what are you interested in? May I introduce you to some of the Artifacts from the distant planet of Serene?"

While those two are discussing the artifact, Emilia walks around the store while observing the collections. Suddenly she came across the owner, he's an old man with glasses, his hair is mixed between grey and white. And his accent is unrecognizable even for Emilia, which means he must be from a distanced planet.

"May I help you? Miss." The old man asks in a comfortable tone.

"Not really, I'm just here because of the girl." she points at the blonde girl that's having a fun conversation with Trazyn.

"Isn't lord No, I mean Trazen a wonderful person? He came here a few days ago and his knowledge is just so fascinating, even for a traveler like me his knowledge about history and artifacts is just so wonderful despite his young age." The owner apparently likes Trazyn.

"Wait, did you call him lord?" Emilia sensed something is off: "Can you please look me in the eyes?" she asked.

As their eyes contact each other, Emilia can see something is moving behind this poor old man's eyes. It is the mind shackle scarab that's infested in his head, and it belongs to one and only: Trazyn the infinite.

Emilia's sense of justice is telling her to reach out to her 'service weapon'. This pistol was given by Monika when Emilia was eighteen years old. The origin of the weapon is unknown but so far this weapon can switch to a different form depending on the will of the user and it is a weapon that can be used to kill a necron which also includes Trazyn.

But she didn't, Emilia forced herself to calm down. She feels sorry for this man, because the moment the mind shackle scarab is in, there's no getting out. This man is forced to be enslaved by Trazyn. She just pats him by the shoulder and walks towards Trazyn.

Emilia taps on Trazyn's shoulder and signs him to talk to her at the back valley, as they walk into the valley Emilia pushes Trazyn onto the wall and puts her gun at his chin: "Give me a reason to not kill you at this very moment!" Emilia's tone is full of hatred and sadness.

Trazyn did not flinch, because even Emilia kills him at this body, his consciousness will be transferred to the backup body which is located in the basement of this store: "Emilia, right? You do look like Monika."

"Shut up! And answer my question."

"If you are gonna kill me because you see the mind shackle scarabs I planted into the owner, I can already tell how far you have gone with your 'value'. However, I do remind you that you are taking a bit long for this valley confession and your little 'subject of protection' probably will be pissed because you are taking away her talk friend. If she noticed that you killed me here… What would she say to her parents?" Trazyn has a smug face. Emilia is seriously pissed off, but she retrieved her gun and walked into the store again with Trazyn.

"Ah, Thank you for your suggestion about the store, Ms. Emilia. I could indeed use an assistant or two due to the numbers of customers we are getting." Trazyn looks like nothing has happened.

Emilia didn't reply but Lisa was impressed with Emilia due to the input Trazyn gave: "You know about management?" Lisa asks Emilia.

Of course, Emilia does, she's a major who worked on a trade ship. On the ship, she learned about management and the basics of trading: "Yes." She replied blankly she never thought her job was the only thing that's stopping her from pulling the trigger on this bastard.

"Anyways, Ms. Lisa, would you be interested in taking this little item as a gift?" Trazyn takes out a small pocket watch from the drawer, it has some beautiful lining to it, and it looks expensive.

"I can't take it, this must be worth a lot." Lisa surprisingly acts politely in front of Trazyn.

"Don't worry, young lady. This was from a watchmaker family; it is a token of trust and admiration. It is made of silver, so the real value is not so much. However, the meaning of it is indeed 'expensive' as you said."

Lisa looks like she's almost crying, for her Trazen is her knight on the horse, she always wanted to meet someone like this. Before this thing goes any further Emilia drags her away from the store. She couldn't let another girl fall for this bastard.

"This is some nice gift!" Lisa carefully inspected the pocket watch, she didn't want to stain it, so she put it in her handkerchief。

Emilia facepalms, the worst thing that could have happened, she can just hope that in a few days Lisa can forget about this whole thing so they can move on. But Emilia also caught the fact that Trazyn was surprisingly blending well with humans. This might be a dangerous signal but right now she doesn't know how to deal with it.

"Don't move, police!" Emilia suddenly feels something is poking on her back, she immediately twists the arm of the person behind and pulls the arms up.

"Aw aw aw." Minka said in pain: "It's me! Your beloved sister!"

Emilia proceeds to twist Minka's arm harder then finally releases her: "What do you want? Shouldn't I be the one arresting you?"

"No… I am here to-" Minka suddenly sees Lisa and it suddenly caught her interest: " Hey~ I am Minka. I am also Emilia's older sister. Nice to meet you."

"Hi…" Lisa is a bit weirded out by Minka. She feels like Minka is creepy and weird, so she unconsciously steps a few steps back and hides behind Emilia.

"Minka, i am working here. I would appreciate it if you could just move on." Emilia sounded serious.

"But this girl is the cutest!" Minka nudges away Emilia and puts both of her hands on Lisa's shoulder: "You know I am a colonel, so don't worry I will never hurt you!"

"Hey!" Emilia pushes Minka away and starts walking in the opposite direction to where Minka came from.

"Wait!" Minka catches up and blocks both of them: "Emilia, tonight we are going to have dinner together… so... Don't be late~" Minka lightly pinch Lisa on her nose and start walking off.

"She's weird." Lisa said.

"Indeed. That's why I don't really like her, but family is family. What can you do about it?" Emilia sighs.

"What is your family like?" Lisa asks.

"My father is… an Archivist So, he is not home most of the time. My mother is a soldier, a really good one and the kindest person I know, and you met my sister." She couldn't put a better word while describing Trazyn. After a few more hours of walking around the city, they eventually reached Lisa's house. Then they bid farewell. Now, Emilia is heading towards Monika's house. She's both excited and disappointed. Excited because she gets to officially meet with Monika, disappointed because she has to deal with her idiot, irresponsible sister and her bad, irresponsible father.

Before Emilia goes to their house, she feels the need to buy a gift beforehand. Strange that when it was Monika's birthday, she insisted on not bringing any gifts. Emilia thought maybe while she was younger Monika would act differently. She enters a store with a lot of gift options. After carefully looking over some options, she finally decided on taking one of the molds for the rose cake.

As she stepped out of the store she got greeted by the girl with a bright smile and orangish hair again: "Sister~ what did you get?" Minka winks.

"You really want me to arrest you, don't you?" Emilia then proceeds to take out the handcuff.

"Ohhhh, kinky." Minka pretends to look like she's aroused by the little tool.

"You are weird, you know that?" Emilia looks disgusted by Minka's reaction.

"Hey ! Don't talk to your dear sister like that. What did you get for them by the way, maybe I should also get them something." Minka's upbeat personality probably is the most unique thing among the Terra family.

"You are just really hopeless, aren't you?" Emilia dodged the question and proceeded to fix Minka's bow. And Minka took this opportunity to 'boop' Emilia on the nose.

Emilia probably doesn't know that, but Minka is doing all she can to pay back the pain it caused Emilia when she left. Her mission is essential, but it also mixed Emilia into it. This is probably why Minka is always trying to be involved with Emilia even though she knows that Emilia is here to arrest her.

"Why do we keep hurting each other?" Minka asks while walking together towards Monika's house.

"Because you always do these kinds of things. If you just follow the rules, our lives would be much simpler." Emilia craves a simple life, but the moment she was born, she was deemed to be involved in a complicated game of multiple-sided powers.

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"But what's the fun in that!" Minka really is similar to Trazyn in terms of her personality.

"Do you know how much our mother suffered because of this type of thinking?" Emilia suddenly stops walking, she doesn't like Minka simply because of the way Minka acts: "She's not the strongest person in the world, that's why we need to protect her!"

Little does Emilia know that this is exactly what Minka is doing, but Minka can't tell Emilia about any of it. It is depressing to hold a higher purpose like this, at some point Minka is jealous of Emilia for her straightforwardness without suffering a lot of consequences.

The rest of the way both of them were completely silent until they finally reached Monika's house: "Are you ready?" Minka takes a deep breath.

"It is a family meeting not going to war." Emilia is always annoyed by Minka's sense of drama.

The whole dinner went better than Emilia thought, Monika was really happy about the gift from Emilia. Trazyn and Emilia didn't really fight because they were trying to avoid each other in the first place. Minka, however, is just there to eat, she always missed the nice recipe Trazyn made thousands of years ago. After that Emilia and Monika hugged and bid farewell. Surprisingly Monika and their version of Monika act very differently according to both Minka and Emilia.

A few days ago, Trazyn made Monika give up on trying to take Noel away by force, not only because he thought it was a dumb idea in the first place. The second is that he noticed something was off with Noel at the base. He highly suspects that Noel Vermillion might not be human at all. This is exactly what he's going to investigate.

Trazyn activates his pocket dimension amulet, which is a technology that's used by the death mark unit. He watches every single move of Noel ever since the moment she woke up. For him, he won't even bother to observe Noel while she's taking a shower or anything like that. But he knew that if he mentioned any of this to Monika, she would definitely get jealous and make a fuss about it.

He noticed that at least from the external part, there's no port or anything that is able to connect Noel via a physical outlet. He wants to do a full scan again, but he needs to reveal himself, and right now he's not sure whether this is the 'friend' Noel or the 'God-killer' Noel. Trazyn did some research depending on the description provided by Monika, not after a while, he finds some matching information about Noel's alternative form.

Mu-12 or best known as 'God Slaying Sword' was a weapon developed during the dark age of technology. It was artificial intelligence's attempt on transforming human prisoners into weapons of war and the Mu-12 unit was the last of its kind. Naturally, it was the most completed version.

Due to this Trazyn was a bit suspicious about the real age of Noel, if she is the original host for the 'god-killer' unit then her age can go up to thirty thousand years. But this is not what Trazyn is interested in the most, he's more interested in the fact that Noel has a 'soul' but deep inside she's an android. Which is something Necron has been trying to achieve for eons. If they can retain immortality while being alive as a normal organic being, then this finding will make Trazyn the true savior of the Necron race.

After the shower Noel changes into good-looking clothes, just last night she and Erin have gone into a relationship. Just like Monika said before, Noel craves affection, and who's a better choice than a girl who looks like your childhood friend and she has a way better personality than her.

Trazyn however didn't notice any indifference, human relationships are still too complicated for him even though he is in one. At this point he still doesn't know how to feel about Monika, is it love? What is love supposed to mean to him? He does see Monika as the highest priority when it comes to ownership and protection. But is that love? Their 'children' traveled through worlds to meet them and from the way they act, Minka was satisfied with her family but Emilia? Her hatred towards Trazyn is still a mystery for him. However, he did pick up the fact that Emilia looks almost exactly like Monika except for the eye color. But he has no idea how to deal with this information yet.

While following them, Trazyn was a bit interested in this little village, technically this little town doesn't have an official name on this planet because it was built by a group of refugees after the Ork invasion years back. Would this place face its destruction by the inquisition? Maybe, but it all depends on the inquisitor who is in charge of this area. Trazyn never understood why they would drink the bean soup called: coffee. Monika said this little drink will boost your energy for the whole day but what Trazyn can just see is addiction and the illusion of energy after consuming it.

Noel and Erin proceed to enter a cafe, Trazyn shakes his head, for him humans are just too predictable, or he should use the word 'cliche'. But he still decided to follow in maybe to learn more about human culture. Noel seemed to be in her normal self-mode because the way she speaks and behaves just isn't the same way Trazyn met a few days ago. Their topic is just basic and normal, so it didn't catch Trazyn's attention. But what Noel did next shocked him a bit.

Noel brings out a ring with a diamond that is as big as a sunflower seed. Noel is proposing to Erin. Trazyn is shocked not because Noel is proposing but because of the property of that diamond. He recognized it because it used to belong to a lord that was under his ambush. In the end, he killed everyone, when he saw the ring, he just ignored it, because Trazyn can make as much diamond as he wants. It's just he didn't expect Noel would have it and use it for a proposal.

When he realized Noel was proposing, he hesitated whether to tell Monika or not. He can already foresee Monika is going to be frowning her eyebrow and looking at them fiercely. And ultimately say no because she feels responsible for her friends as well. Thinking about this, Trazyn has a bit of a grin on his face, maybe he should tell Monika after all, just for the sake of fun. Monika looks the cutest when she's mad and frustrated. Soon he sends a private message to Monika's phone and Monika reacts just as expected and says she's coming soon. She also wants Trazyn to reveal himself and make them stay at this cafe.

Trazyn shrugs, he then leaves the cafe and gets out of the pocket dimension, and pretends to find Noel and Erin by accident: "Oh, hello. Isn't this Ms. Vermillion and Ms. Flax?" He sounded surprised.

"Do I know you?" Noel asks because she's a bit unhappy about someone disrupting her proposal.

"This is Trazyn." Erin said: "He's Monika's boyfriend."

"Wait, I heard about you before. Aren't you a Nec-" Trazyn followed up before Noel could finish her sentence.

"Ah yes, I am a Negotiator. But nice to meet this half of you." Trazyn nods to Noel, his impression of Noel just dropped because she tried to call Trazyn a Necron in the middle of a crowded cafe.

"Why are you here? Outsiders don't really come here often." Noel suspected Trazyn's intention. She doesn't want Monika to find out, that's why she's making the proposal here.

"I was enjoying the scenery; did I interrupt something?" Trazyn's GPS tracker on Monika is quickly approaching, it looks like she's in a jet or something like that.

"Yea, I was proposing. Can't you see the ring?" Noel is mad that Trazyn is being so rude.

"Oh, I am sorry. Continue please, I am here just to witness it." Trazyn lays back on the seat and looks outside the window, he can already sense a sonic boom from far away. Monika should be here any second now.

"Erin, I know we've only met for such a short time but not only me and also my better half has come to agree with this… I know I am not the brightest or the funniest person to hang around with but… after all this time I can already tell our destiny has intertwined with each other." Noel gulps and slowly takes out the ring again. But suddenly a shake on the ground made the ring drop to the floor. Noel looks outside of the window out of reflex and suddenly she sees that girl with red hair and her iconic jacket.

Monika opened the door and Trazyn waved at her. She then comes over while Noel is looking terrified. She sits next to Noel, which is across from Trazyn. Without her saying anything everyone can already feel the tension in the air.

"Mon…. Monika?" Noel subconsciously moved a bit away from Monika.

But Monika didn't react like what Trazyn thought, instead she hugged Noel tightly while breathing hard: "I thought I lost you forever..." She said it while sounding like choking on something:'' Please forgive me… I know I've been a bad friend… what happened to you is all my fault… I am so sorry."

Noel lightly pads Monika's head: "I never blamed it on you…really, maybe a bit. But just a bit that's all." some teardrops from her eyes as well, Noel is just easily influenced by emotion: "Sorry, I was being a bad friend as well… I never thought about how you would feel… and I shot you as well..."

Erin is just touched by this reunion of friendship; she covers her mouth with her hands. She almost cried as well but she managed to hold back the tears. Trazyn however did not expect it. To be honest, he's bored, probably why he doesn't have any friends at all. He thought he would watch a funny fight between those two, instead, he's just got a boring drama that looks exactly like the book he read in the past.

Trazyn doesn't really see this side of Monika. He thought Monika was a fighter, a soldier, and an interesting person who has a lot of irreplaceable qualities. Now Monika is acting like every single girl of her age. He sees them talking while holding each other's hands and laughing at what happened while each other was gone. They act like nothing bad happened between them and they never separated from each other. Maybe Monika only acts that way because of Trazyn. Just like Trazyn acts like a human when he's with Monika.

"Please, don't get mad but I and Erin are now… together..." Noel wants approval from Monika while they are in a good mood. For her, Monika's approval means a lot.

"But you are not… gay..."

"I am not but I am also not 100% straight."

"So, you are bisexual?"

"No!... it is complicated…relationship is not something that can be explained by one word..."

Looking at Noel's big round eye, she then glanced at Erin. She seems like also waiting for Monika's response. Monika then let out a long sigh: "Why are you even asking me?... It's not like my opinion means anything."

"No!" Noel holds Monika's hand: "You ARE my best friend! I will always need to be by my side! The fact that I'm in a relationship will have no effect on our friendship! I am still me!"

"What about the 'second' you?" There's too much information Monika is taking at the same time.

"I… i am still trying to control it..."Noel looks away, she's not sure as well: "But i promise nothing bad will happen!"

Deep inside Monika is against this, but this time she decided to let it slide: "I... think you guys would make a cute couple." She feels exhausted by just speaking those words. She glanced at Trazyn, noticed that there's a small grin on his face. To be honest, Trazyn didn't get any of the things they were talking about. He smiled because of how exhausted Monika looked from just saying some mere words.

Under the table, Trazyn steps on Noel a bit to get her attention then passes the ring which is dropped on the floor. Noel instantly got the meaning of Trazyn. She nods in gratitude. Maybe a proposal would be too much for Monika to take. From this little gesture, Noel can tell that Trazyn really does care about Monika. Deep inside she also approves of the relationship between Monika and Trazyn.

After a cup of coffee, Monika feels a bit better. She then told Noel about Minka and Emilia. Noel almost jumped up from the chair. She's really invested in these kinds of things. One of Noel's dreams is hanging out with Monika's children and then letting them call her: Auntie.

While they are all so invested in talking about nonsense, Trazyn is using his scanner to give a deep analysis to Noel. Now, he's 98% sure that Noel is an android. Because he got through into the population database of the imperium. The name Noel Vermillion has been mentioned hundreds of times in various reports. But none of them is important enough to make her famous. This is why she can hide under the detection for so long.

This might also explain why it is possible to add another personality into Noel's mind. Maybe due to various reasons, Noel has forgotten about the god-killer form. And whoever captured her has injected another personality to be able to take her over and activate the form whenever she wants. It is a genius design, but it also means that they need to find the person who did this in order to fix Noel. Trazyn already has various ideas, Beelzebub is the primary suspect, as she was the one that brought Noel to fight Monika in the first place. And they are related to the black praetor who has been causing some chaos on this planet. Dealing with human-related problems never got his interest except it would gain some collection for him. Trazyn thought a collection of the head of the black praetor might be a good one for his 'other dimension' collections.

At night, after making sure Monika has fallen asleep, Trazyn transfers his consciousness into a backup body while his human body is still next to Monika. The backup body starts changing into Trazyn's Necron form and eventually making an exact copy. He then takes out his staff and activates the teleportation. He's going to have a little chat with Noel.

The night in the village is quiet, you can hear almost nothing because the shops close at night. Due to the lack of streetlight, there's almost pure darkness in Noel and Erin's bedroom. This is why Noel is so sensitive when she feels a glare of green light in her room.

When she wakes up, she sees a pair of emerald, green lights in the darkness glaring fiercely towards her. As she pulls out her revolver, but Trazyn holds the barrel: "Scream, and this whole village dies." His voice is deep and soul echoing, he never talks like this, at least in front of Monika. Trazyn purposely hides his inhuman side in front of Monika for various reasons.

Seeing Erin still asleep, Noel slowly gets up from the bed while grabbing some clothes and starts walking out of the bedroom. Her eyes are fixed on Trazyn, she's more shocked than anything at this moment. She can't believe that the nice and polite person she met earlier is now threatening her in the middle of the night. He's also in his Necron's form which isn't making this easier.

Noel gently closes the door after putting clothes on, then she notices Trazyn is already waiting outside: "What do you want?" Noel asks.

Trazyn didn't answer, instead he continued walking towards the outskirts of the village, he stopped until he reached a place that barely had any obstruction. He stabs his staff on the ground and puts his hands on the back: "Who are you?" His tone is blank.

"My name is Noel Vermillion. Daughter of the Vermilion family. Lieutenant of the Astra militarum and Monika's fr-"

"Cut the crap." Trazyn's voice is gloomy and impatient: "Tell me who you really are!" Suddenly a bolt of green homing lightning is shooting towards Noel. Noel dodged it but the second one hit her on the chest.

Smoke coming out of where it hits, it seems like Trazyn isn't kidding around. Noel slowly climbed up from the ground and prepared her battle stance. She's confused as to why Trazyn is attacking her.

Another lightning comes towards her, she runs to the edges of the field and starts leaping on trees. While leaping around, Noel shoots various shots at Trazyn but it all bounced off his necrodermis body. This is not working for Noel; it will be a matter of time until Noel gets hit another time and eventually goes down.

At this moment, Noel doesn't have a lot of choice besides letting her better half take over her. After a bright light, Noel transformed into her god-slayer armor. Without saying anything Noel starts her advancement. Blades fly towards Trazyn, but Trazyn simply slows his chrono sense and dodges the incoming blades flawlessly.

Trazyn opens his pocket dimension and throws out some small metal pieces. After a few seconds they start to replicate and soon become a swarm of scarab flying towards Noel. Noel summons her floating cannon and starts firing towards the swarm and eventually she's surrounded by a big black metal ball.

However, within Trazyn's expectation, soon there are some light cracks out from the ball, and Noel bursts out from the swarm, she then immediately flies in supersonic speed towards Trazyn. Trazyn then activates his dimension shift protocol, Noel went through Trazyn's body as if it was a hologram. But after Noel completely passes through Trazyn, in that microsecond. Trazyn solidifies himself and grabs Noel's ankle while she's still flying. A cracking sound came from both Noel and Trazyn. It seems like Noel's legs was dislocated and Trazyn's arm as well. But before it completely broke off, Trazyn did a back slam and threw Noel on the ground.

This action cost Trazyn's arm but also made sure Noel was not able to move for some time. Trazyn picks up the arm on the ground and it starts to fuse back together. He pulls up his stuff on the ground and starts walking towards the groaning Noel.

Trazyn uses the tip of the staff and stabs Noel. Noel grabs the staff and struggles to push it back. The reactor in Trazyn's rib cage is making loud noises and sending heat as well.

"Why are you doing this?" Noel asks while seeing the staff stab closer to her face: "What would Monika think about this?"

"You don't speak of her name, android." Maybe Trazyn doesn't dislike humans, but he surely has something against androids. In his eyes, they are made to simulate life. Which makes them have a deceiving look and without a soul. Partially he blames the harm on Monika to Noel. That emotion manifests itself after knowing Noel is an android. Just like Orikan said: Trazyn is probably the few Necrons that sometimes prefer emotion to logic.

Noel's flying blade flies towards Trazyn again, making him stop attacking Noel and step back: "I am not an android!" Noel screams, she couldn't stand straight because she can't control one of her legs.

"Is this what you told Monika? Is this what you've been telling her while your very self starts hurting her?" Trazyn slowly walks towards her, he's taking his time. He never found a reason to fight but this, this is personal. Anyone that tried to harm Monika soon or later will face Trazyn.

"It wasn't me!" Trazyn's lightning attack is coming in dozens, while Noel counters it with her laser cannon attacks. Noel has a flying advantage compared to Trazyn but she's still struggling hard.

"Why is Monika even friends with you? All you do is keep lying. You lied about your identity, your friendship with Monika, and even at this very moment, you are LYING!" Trazyn activates his gravitational drive and pulls Noel on the ground, pinning her unable to move: "With your death, Monika will find peace. With you gone there's one less uncertainty." Trazyn slowly walked towards her while manifesting a phase blade.

Noel tries her best to move but the crushing pull from the ground is making her body constantly stick to the surface. The glowing green light seems like screaming for death with every step Trazyn is approaching Noel.

"You would not do this if you cared about Monika!" Noel screams, this is not a response to trying to buy time. She's also pissed because Trazyn kept saying she's lying to Monika, but she doesn't even know what he's been talking about.

Trazyn lifts Noel up by holding her neck with one hand: "What do you know about Monika?"

"More than you ever did!" Noel kicks Trazyn's face, even the death mask is peeling off, Trazyn doesn't care. This is not his body after all: "Do you think Monika will still love you after knowing you did this?! Also." Noel takes a deep breath while gasping for life: "Screw you! I don't even know half of the things you are talking about, and you are just fighting me without reasons!"

Trazyn's death mask is completely broken, there's wire sparking in his face. Half of his vision is damaged due to the struggle kicks, but he doesn't care. Today he wants the truth, he puts Noel down and holds her head with both of his hands and crouches down while making eye contact. Noel feels like his hand is steadily heating up and soon her vision goes all black and scenes she has never seen flash before her eyes.

Noel sees how she was manufactured; she sees the war of AI and the dark age of technology. She sees the death of the entire planet before her while she is covered in blood. It was at that moment, she gained sentience. She voluntarily plugs off the communication cable and starts heading into the void. She then decided to refresh all her settings every two hundred years. The people who raised her will be guiding her throughout her first 18 years of life than letting her go. It was programmed by the nanobots the moment they made contact with Noel. Both of the Vermillion parents are like this. The nanobots will insist on making Noel a daughter of their own. Same for Monika and same for everyone who had a close relationship with Noel.

After the vision, cold sweat came off Noel's face. She can't believe the image she just saw and then she realizes she's back to her usual form, and the voice of 'Alice' is nowhere to be found: "Is Monika…?" Noel's voice is shaking.

"Yes." Trazyn's tone is harsh, after knowing about the history of Noel, Trazyn did a scan on Monika's brain. There was some trace of nanobots. But Trazyn can't take it off unless he kills Monika. This is why he's doing what he's been doing.

"I am… so sorry... " Tear coming out from Noel's eyes, she can't believe any of these things, but it all feels so familiar: "I never wanted to do this…. I just wanted to live a normal life..." Noel then looks up while her face is full of tears: "Do whatever you want, I won't fight anymore." Her body is trembling and she's sobbing hard.

He points the blade on Noel's head, she's not defending anymore. Maybe knowing the truth will break someone. Maybe he has been spending too much time with humans and thus getting influenced by the way they behave. Or maybe Noel at this moment made him think about his darkest time. During most of Trazyn's low points of his life, he endured it. Until Monika showed up. That human girl went into his life and made a mess. But it also made his life more enjoyable than any time before. All he wants is to make Monika happy. But he almost forgot that Noel is one of the few friends Monika has.

Thinking about this, Trazyn paused. He then retrieved his blade and hit Noel on the head to knock her out of consciousness. The second day, when Noel woke up, she realized that she was still sleeping with Erin and with a severe headache. She still has her memory intact, but she decides not to tell anyone about this night. She doesn't hate Trazyn about this, but she surely thinks there would be so many other ways to do this.