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"The story thus far..."

Recapping the events in PHASE ONE of the Role-Play.

For anyone who is just joining but is facing a mile-long wall of text, someone who left the RP for awhile, or for anybody who just wants a brief review of the story without all of the reading... this thread is for you!

The basics and all you need to know about what is happening will be found in this little thread.

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Rhaplanca and Ishira get better acquainted at the inn in Pallieu for the night. They unwind and Rhaplanca debriefs Ishira on their mission, however she leaves out some information forbidden to leave the Eve of Reyvateils. The Goddess is missing.

Elsewhere Rhemi, a childhood friend of Rhaplanca and the Reyvateil responsible to sing for the duration of her lifespan to keep Ar_Tonelico alive, is being hacked by someone outside the Chronicle of Orgel. Her hymn has momentarily ceased causing the rapid decrease in tower function.

In the morning Rhaplanca and Ishira leave for Ce Palym through the Frozen Eye. Ishira's family spell is the only known method of passing through the Frozen Eye.

Rhemi's momentary lapse is lifted and she resumes her duty to sing for Rhaplanca's sake.

On their separate journeys to Ce Palym it seems the seeds of love have been planted into Rhaplanca + Ishira and Hikari + Gannon. However Hikari's dwindling health is making her journey difficult. The strain is affecting the undetected F.P.D. disease within her as well. Mana reveals the reason for her kindness and drive to help Hikari as a repentance for failing to protect a former F.P.D. Reyvateil. Mana and Gannon have both sworn to see their quest through to the end.

Rhaplanca and Ishira finally reach Ce Palym where Rhaplanca literally bumps into Noaah and Vegna, two very rare and mysterious male reyvateils with their own mission.

Meanwhile on there path to Ce Palym, Mana's sister Miko stumbles across their group and chastises her sister for her absence. A rocky and hard transition for their group as Miko is a little irritated by Hikari's presence and even jealous of her closeness to Mana.

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Hikari's condition worsens and thanks to Gannon's connection to the innkeeper they provide a free bed for Hikari. Hikari's delusional state from her F.P.D. disease causes her to ramble about not wanting to sing for the C.P.G. corp. before passing out on the bed.

Mana is confused by her words and leaves her to rest and plan on the next move with Gannon and Miko in the lobby. However, Gannon's apparent playboy attitude and innuendos with the innkeeper Melody disgusts the twins and forces them to return to their room to give Gannon some privacy.

Elsewhere, a mysterious and chipper girl named Nel with a forgotten past has made herself a home with a older woman in her bakery/cafe.

It seems the President and his assistant Naomi have begun their search for Hikari despite the dispatching of Noaah and Vegna. They use another imprisoned F.P.D. Reyvateil by the name of ECCHRA as method of hacking the Fau Pira and pinpointing Hikari's location. In an effort to slow Hikari's pace and deteriorate her heath, they use ECCHRA to unleash a virus into the Fau Pira despite the known danger on all F.P.D. minds.

Meanwhile Rhaplanca has second thoughts about including Ishira on her mission in fear of hurting him. She sneaks out of their room at night and Vegna tails her. They talk about there missions and Vegna finds a sick pleasure in revealing his to Rhaplanca that he is searching for the Goddess so he can destroy her and Fa Ciel. He also informs Noaah is included in this mission but Noaah doesn't know the truth, he thinks he is to protect the Goddess. Rhaplanca does not reveal hers but informs Vegna that there missions oppose one another. Instead of ending her there, Vegna decides to prolong his satisfaction by leaving Rhaplanca alone in the streets of Ce Palym. He has decided to abandon Noaah... for now.

Inside the room at the inn Hikari is fast asleep and Mana asked Miko to take a walk with her to patch things up between them. Mana's defense of Hikari causes the twins resolve things on the common want to protect Hikari. They return to the inn to check up on her.

While the twins are out Gannon heads to the couple suite with Melody. However, the playboy facade was just an act. Melody was really an old accomplice of Gannon's past escapades. She was a long time friend and knew Gannon's sorrowful past of losing a F.P.D. Reyvateil. Gannon reveals that Hikari is being pursued by the C.P.G. and suspects she is also a F.P.D. Melody, who truly does love Gannon even though the feeling is unrequited, fears that his past is doomed to be repeated.

Hikari has awakened alone in the inn and fears abandonment. She frantically leaves in search of her friends and stumbles upon Rhaplanca. The two befriend each other quickly and Rhaplanca reveals her mission to Hikari. Rhaplanca assured Hikari that she hasn't been abandoned and willingly waits with Hikari so her group to find her. They agree that they should join forces when Hikari abandons hope of reaching Pallieu.

Unfortunately Vegna was looming nearby to hear Rhaplanca's true mission, and even now he still wants to drag out his evil plot. He leaves Ce Palym.

Ishira has stirred from his slumber to find Rhaplanca and Yue missing and automatically assumes Vegna as the culprit. He frantically bursts into Vegna and Noaah's room to find Vegna missing as well. Noaah is shocked at the sudden commotion and disappearance of his comrade. After Ishira's initial suspicions of Noaah as well, they both go to search for there missing friends. Ishira and Noaah comfort each other of their worries while they search the streets of Ce Palym.

When Mana and Miko return to the lobby at the inn Gannon and Melody just arrived at the lobby as well. They had roughed themselves up to keep up their act. Gannon accuses the twins of not protecting Hikari and Mana lies and says they were just outside the door. Mana and Miko go to check on Hikari and unfortunately discover her missing. Mana lies again saying Hikari needs to be left alone and announces that her and Miko are going for a walk as she drags Miko outside. Gannon suspects the lie and confirms when he checks in on Hikari.

Now both groups are searching for their missing Reyvateils.

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The clamor of the battle in the streets of Ce Palym awoke Melody and Mana. Melody immediately rushes to Hikari, waking her up to get her out of the inn through a secret passage. Miko and Mana follow as back up, Mana taking up the rear and forcefully stopping a few C.P.G. corp. soldiers that got too close. Despite Hikari's willingness to fight the girls tell her not to overexert herself.

In the heated battle outside, Vegna sadistically wishing to toy with Ishira, Rhaplanca and Gannon a little longer, despite the nameless masked man's warning to leave. He begins to sing a dark hymme seeded with hate causing an ominous void to appear in the sky to obliterate his foes. Noaah took up his own hymme and sang against Vegna's, dispersing it to Vegna's irritation. Noaah officially renounces his affiliation with the C.P.G. and the nameless man's patience had run out. He summons more viral infected guardians and makes his escape with Vegna out of Ce Palym.

Back in the secret passage in the inn Melody urges the girls to go on without her. The three reach the streets of Ce Palym from the end of the passage only to find A.B.R.s and wolf-like guardians littering the streets. Hikari is forced to sing due the sheer number of enemies and Mana and Miko jump into action as vanguards.

With defeated the initial wave of guardians Gannon, appears to be an ally to Ishira's group now, sort of. He still insists on fighting alone and runs ahead taking on countless guardians. Rhaplanca, Noaah, and Ishira make their way through the horde a little more consistently with less energy wasted by Rhaplanca and Noaah singing together and Ishira defending against units that were too close. By the time Gannon reaches the girls he has exhausted all his strength and he is injured without realizing it. Miko quickly heals him with her Teru magic.

Finally Rhaplanca's group meets up and everyone's together. A quick blast of Hikari's song magic, that was a result of the voices in her head singing along, disposed of the final units around them, giving them time for a breather. But the effort was too much for Hikari to handle and she fell to her knees. Rhaplanca offered her healing song magic, but since F.P.D. can't be cured by song magic it did nothing more than ease her fatigue. Gannon rushed to her side, knowing full well that Hikari was suffering from F.P.D. and asked her if she heard voices, she confirms as fear arises in her.

Meanwhile in Seraca, Nel has had a long day helping her mother in her shop. Her mother promised Nel some time off tomorrow with her tomorrow and Nel excitedly agrees to it. As she readies herself for bed she tries hard to remember things before she came to Seraca, but the only thing that comes to mind is a hymme from her past that solaced her. She sings and not long her energy is drained from the hymme and she falls back on her back and into sleep.

As everyone is regrouping in Ce Palym and discussing their options the C.P.G. President's assistant finally locates them. She cuts their reunion short and snatches up Hikari to an airship using Melody as bait. Everyone can only watch in shock and anger. Naomi is revealed to be the cause of a similar situation in Gannon's past. The same situation was playing out now and despite Gannon's wish to avenge his lost love, he couldn't bring himself to take down the airship because Hikari was on board. The pain of his past being repeated caused him to take flight in his shape-shift form and pursue the ship down the tower. Mana immediately follows on foot and those who remain preferred to come up with a plan first. Soon after, when everyone agrees to follow, they tailed to other two on foot as well, descending down the tower. Unfortunately Miko and Rhaplanca are deathly scared of heights and Rhaplanca offers a safer method of traveling inside the tower but locating an entrance is half the battle.

Inside the airship Naomi attempts to trick Hikari into singing Calamity in order to protect her friends. She reveals the horrible truth about the failed Weapon before her, Gannon's lost love. She reveals the C.P.G. corp.'s plan to live inside the tower once the goddess is destroyed. She instills in Hikari that Fa Ciel has been oppressed by the goddess and if she sings her friends can be spared.

On the way down the tower Noaah reveals a little more information about Rhemi, the Life Giver, that the C.P.G. had obtained. Her location is still unknown but the knowledge that the C.P.G. doesn't know the location eases Rhaplanca a little.

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Mana discovers that Gannon found a lead when taking flight and decided to trail behind despite her exhaustion. She finally regroups with Ishira and the others much to Miko's comical relief. Just in time for Hikari's hymn to complete, but the transformed Fau Pira isn't doing anything...

Meanwhile Naomi, as Gannon's hostage by her own will, reveals that she has the best interest of the F.P.D.s in mind rather than the President who just wants to trash them as soon as their mission is complete. As soon as Hikari's hymn is finished she orders ECCHRA to release her hold on Hikari. She reveals that dives suppress the symptoms of F.P.D. and that there is a lost Hymn that reverses the effects done to the Fau Pira; it can even destroy the virus. Her priority was to administer a dive to Hikari first but Gannon interfered and snatched Hikari and jumped over the balcony attempting to fly her to safety to the rest of the group below. Naomi attempts to stop Gannon by ordering her troops to unleash fire while he's in flight. A little of Gannon and Naomi's past is revealed, apparently Naomi was set up to take the fall for the death of Gannon's lost love by the President. It seems that Naomi, Gannon, and Gannon's lost love had been friends not long ago.

The nameless man laughed at Naomi's failure and dropped an order from the President on her. She's to be transferred back to their headquarters in Daila. He suggests that she spends that time refining her project. This doesn't sit well with Naomi and she refuses to accept it, arguing that the nameless man is going to be transferred for his arrogance. She orders another round of fire upon Gannon despite the man's orders for her to cease. The man notices that the barrage surrounding Gannon is getting close to Rhaplanca below and he orders the troops directly to cease fire. Anger drives him to reveal his plan to Naomi about killing the Life Giver to draw out the Goddess and end her tyranny. He suggests that Naomi tend to the reyvateils for now, and let him take the next step for the C.P.G. Naomi ignores the man and continues to order treatment for the F.P.D.s. and the nameless man promises to bring Hikari back.

Below, the group watches in horror as two barrages surround Gannon and Hikari. The first shots missed, but the second barrage clipped one of Gannon's wings sending him hurling to the ground. Above all else he swore to protect Hikari so he used himself as a cushion from impact. Once they hit the ground the force separated them, Gannon taking the brunt of the damage and it showed. Now both were unconscious.

The nameless man makes his way through the C.P.G. building, pondering how long he must keep up his charade for the C.P.G. He stops by Vegna's room and requests his assistance to seek out and destroy the Life Giver. He decides to search the Eve of Reyvateils for information on the eternal singer's location, purely a stealth mission.

Back outside, Rhaplanca administers healing song magic to Hikari and Gannon, but this can only sustain them until they get get to medical help. The group tries to think of a place of refuge and decide on Behdla. Unfortunately, Nel's responsibilities to her mother and her shop prevented her from joining. The group doubles back to the tower entrance on the outskirts of Seraca, Gannon on Ishira's back and Hikari on Mana's. Rhaplanca navigates the group through the tower to Behdla and Mana navigates once outside the tower. Mana's knowledge of the world was a blessing. Everyone is on the verge of collapsing with exhaustion but they manage to get their injured friends to a doctor.

Gannon and Hikari are given beds and the doctor examines Gannon's fragile state first, the diagnosis is rest and medicine for a days before he can even move. Between that and the song magic he was going to recover. He examined Hikari in the next room, although she was not physically injured her diagnosis was much more scary, a coma with no guarantee of her waking up. Her only hope is someone to dive into her and ease the stress on her mind. Rhaplanca offers to proxy dive for Hikari if there is no other alternative. Only, the dive shop isn't very reliable in Behdla, the machines constantly break. Ishira decides to check into the inn in this downtime and leaves the rest of the group, bringing back two room keys. He and Mana talk over when to treat Hikari, now or when Gannon wakes up? Either way the machines had to be fixed first. Ishira practically forces Rhaplanca to rest at the inn while Ishira and Mana take care of the dive shop. Rhaplanca was so exhausted, knowing that there wasn't much she could do at the moment, she gave in and rested after taking a bath. Miko and the others remained at the clinic. Miko administered more medicine to Gannon and insisted on staying to make sure their friends recovered.

At the dive shop an overly-romantic dive shop owner puts the moves on Mana who retaliates with her gun blade. He informs that a mechanic from Daila has not showed up to fix the machines. Mana almost breaks down from exhaustion and emotions but decides to scale down to Daila alone to fetch the mechanic. Ishira stays to help the owner however he can. After seeing how the owner acted around Mana, he and Mana decided to watch him around their reyvateils. The owner doubted that anything could be done without a mechanic and kicked a machine, which actually quick fixed that one machine. Ishira took a more tolerable approached and cleaned out a control panel and reset a switch, causing it to power up as well. Before cleaning the rest, he hatches a devious plan to scare the dive shop owner. He informs that the reyvateils he travels with are cold, heartless women that want nothing to do with men and makes up horrible reputations for the girls. Satisfied by the owner's horror, Ishira spends the rest of the day cleaning the dive shop, but in the end only the first two powered on machines were still working.

Ishira decides to test them out with Rhaplanca after dinner. She agrees and fails at her initial 'character role' Ishira forged for her, but once she caught on she quickly re-instilled fear into the dive shop owner by playing the part. After killing the dive shop owner's spirit, the proceed with their dive. Ishira succeeds and completes Rhaplanca's second level.

Meanwhile at the clinic, Gannon was having a hard time coming to consciousness, the pain from his injuries kept putting him under. But soon enough, he was healing enough to use magic. Eerily he had begun to freeze his bed down to the floor. Miko countered protectively with fire magic, causing Gannon to awaken. He was still too weak to sit up, but just strong enough to tease a girl.

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While Rhaplanca scans the Binary Field for Hikari's hymn code while still submitting most of her focus on the proxy dive, Gannon seems to not need the safety net of the proxy dive. He is aided by a deeper representation of herself, a sexy and sultry Hikari and a song magic, Solara. The sexy representation of Hikari suggests to fight back against the virus invading Hikari's mind.

Rhaplanca has made no headway in locating Hikari's hymn code. When it comes to third generation reyvateils, Rhaplanca is utterly uneducated and doesn't know that they do not have a hymn code. She resorts to dive into Hikari as well through her proxy without a visible body and locates something similar to the Binary Field connected to Hikari's cosmosphere. Easily penetrated through Hikari's soul space, a scan released a flurry of information on F.P.D.s and this new server the Fau Pira that has been tainted by humanity. This information erupts a shockwave of anger within Rhaplanca.

Meanwhile, Nereus and Miko decide to grab some food and talk about stopping at the weapon shop. Miko learns about Nereus' flashback of a Hikari that he hopes to be the Hikari Miko knows. Nereus turns out to be a dessert-a-holic and loves fudge most of all. After the two order soup and funbuns, plus his OWN order of TWO double fudge surprises, they discover their eyes are bigger than their stomachs and ask for boxes and the check. Nereus insists on paying and taking the food back to store at the inn before heading to the weapon shop.

Inside the proxy dive, Gannon and the sultry Hikari, along with Solara, blaze through a dangerous and painful path to Hikari's Boundary Gate, much of the danger to Hikari's soul space was due the the higher level Hikari using too advanced of magic in the upper levels, to fight off the virus in this level to ease Hikari before attempting to install her memories. Solara's attempts to thwart the virus on her own were unsuccessful but Gannon stepped up and decimated the virus through brute force.

In the town of Behdla, outside, a promiscuous young man stumbled, buzzed, through the streets looking for a pretty young girl to drink with. Simultaneously, the mechanic assigned to fix the dive machines that day shows up. Between her anger for losing a paying job and her distaste for fellow reyvateils, she chucked a wrench at the machines and left without a word. Outside the shop she spots the promiscuous man and acknowledges him but would rather not be bothered by a drunk. The drunkard eyes the mechanic and assesses that she is pretty cute and decides to woo the unrefined beauty by inviting to her dinner at the cafe. Appealing to the food, the wily mechanic fakes womanly charm to score a free meal. Just as they were about to leave Mana, who followed them outside, interrupts them to ask why the mechanic acted with hostility. She explains her anger of losing her job, and shows her dislike of divers 'sick fantasies' that wasted her time. Finally, she refused to apologize, stating that reyvateils were no good to the world. Mana states that apologies are nothing to her and warns that the 'coincidence' should not be repeated and sends them off. The mechanic's likewise attitude bids farewell and returns to trying to score a free meal out of a drunk. The two get more acquainted. The mechanic introduces herself as Irika Stone and boasts about being the best Dive Therapist in Seraca, ironically. Then the drunkard introduced himself as 'The Great Suran Orianu' who has never lost in war or love. Irika shrugged of the flamboyant showboating and his pet names, determined for the free meal. Back inside the dive shop both Ishira and Mana take the lesson to heart and agree that they both must be more vigilant.

Meanwhile back in Ce Palym, Melody assesses the damage done to her inn and does what she can to tidy up. While doing so she discovers Hikari's stuffed Pepen was left behind and hangs onto it for safe keeping.

Rhaplanca had switched back over to the Binary Field to check for a link between the two servers, her anger still intact. ECCHRA stumbles upon Rhaplanca's intrusion in Hikari's cosmosphere and materializes in the Binary Field to acknowlege Rhaplanca who assumes the girl to be the connection the Fau Pira server she was looking for. Rhaplanca questions ECCHRA about the Fau Pira's purpose to the humans. ECCHRA replies that the Fau Pira was originally something pure long ago as something to live in harmony with Ar Tonelico, but now it is unknown who exactly wants to use this twisted server that causes suffering to so many F.P.D.s trapped in a nightmare of emotions inside their own server. ECCHRA voices the plea of the F.P.D.s to be freed from the tyranny of whoever defiled their server. Rhaplanca denies any good coming from humanity at this point and agrees to do whatever is in her power to stop the Fau Pira and the F.P.D.s from being abused any further. ECCHRA leaves Rhaplanca with the unknown focus to destroy. She decides to place the Fau Pira above her mission to sing at the Chronicle of Orgel selfishly. Which unknowingly invited a seeker virus to infiltrate her cosmosphere to infect her server, Ar Tonelico. She calls upon another self to take care of the intruder to which only the representation of Rhaplanca's will to be free of her mission replied to the call. Rhaplanca's denial of humanity put this representation as the highest authority at that moment, a mistake she didn't realize because this representation and it's outlook was unknown to her. Bewitching (the representation that answered the call) was going to carry out the mission, but a second thought arose: an out to the mission Rhaplanca was chained to. Bewitching decided to drop the virus into a lower level and escaped to her own level without the moderator personality monitoring the proxy even knowing.

Meanwhile, Gannon defeats the virus on this level of Hikari's cosmosphere and progresses even further into the proxy dive. He and the sultry Hikari, aided by Solara, finally locate the Hikari of this level and Gannon is left alone with her to reinstall her memories. Gannon's honesty and patience gained her trust and she hands the 'key' over to him to install. In a tender embrace, he administers a painless install and Hikari paradigm shifts. At the altar the sultry Hikari congratulates them and both personas wish him back. End Hikari's first level.

Hikari awakens in the real world to a commotion. Rhaplanca has found out her error in her cosmosphere. Although Hikari and Gannon have awoken, Rhaplanca is in a critical state of her choosing and will not wake up. On the verge of death, the group in the dive shop argue over what to do to save Rhaplanca. Ishira practically jumps into a dive pod to save her but Mana and dive shop owner pull him back and warn him of the danger. Luckily Rhemi, who had sensed Rhaplanca in the Binary Field right away, materialized in her soul space to bring her back to sanity. Showing her trademark tough love Rhemi convinces Rhaplanca everything is going to be fine. They decide together not to tell Rhaplanca's friends about the mishap, but Rhaplanca should be dived into regularly.

Rhaplanca finally wakes up and Ishira immediately wants to take her to the inn to rest. Hikari was shaken with guilt and ran from the dive shop. Rhaplanca wanted to follow but she was too weak to walk and passed out from the exertion. Ishira took her back to the inn and Mana and Gannon acted as damage control for Hikari's emotions.

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Rhaplanca joins Hikari in the bath and at first it's a little awkward, but eventually the Reyvateils are able to warm up to each other and talk.

At C.P.G. Corp, Naomi is reassigned after the President discovers her attempts at researching the Fau Pira and the F.P.D. Reyvateils. After he dismisses her, a soldier comes in claiming to have seen Mana and Nereus. He reveals that he's been keeping tabs on him for awhile, and now grows suspicious of their haste to repair the dive shop in Behdla. He decides to deploy troops to occupy the small town.

Meanwhile, Miko begins having visions of what she fears to be the future. She keeps it to herself, however and tries not to worry the others. She begins acting a little clumsy, making the others a bit suspicious but they say nothing.

As Rhaplanca and Hikari are in the bath, they begin to open up to each other more. Hikari asks Rhaplanca if she is all right, stating that she'd heard Rhaplanca had done a Proxy dive to help Hikari. However, she fears that since their Cosmospheres were linked at that point, the virus that Hikari had in her Cosmosphere could have been easily transferred to Rhaplanca's. The ß-type Reyvateil denies it, saying that she was certain that viruses from the Fau Pira cannot affect Ar Tonelico, however knowing that she is lying; she has indeed been infected by that virus. Hikari begins to feel ill as though she is relapsing, but in turn tells her own string of lies to Rhaplanca, reassuring her that she only has a headache. So the two decide to end the bath session for now and find Gannon and Ishira.

Ishira and Rhaplanca talk in confidance, with Rhaplanca confiding in him about the virus and they are both debating diving to purge the virus before it becomes too serious. She mentions that she does not believe that she has been as badly infected by the virus as an F.P.D. Also, having learned of F.P.D.'s, she explains to Ishira a little more of what she's learned of Hikari and the other F.P.D. Reyvateils.

At the same time, in a seperate room, Hikari and Gannon are debating diving as well, to hopefully halt progression of the virus and/or to stop an F.P.D. outbreak in Hikari. She hesitantly asks Gannon if he could dive into her, and then leaves the room quickly, embarrassed that she'd asked such a thing.

Out in the kitchen, Nereus begins choking, and Mana resorts to a rather painful and brutish way of unlodging the item stuck in his windpipe. Miko disapproves and scolds her sister, only to cause a scuffle between the two yet again. Mana storms off and runs into Hikari and Gannon, letting them know that she's going to go and have a few drinks somewhere to let off some steam. Soon after she leaves and Rhaplanca and Ishira appear. Miko and Nereus decide to test out his mask outside of town in the meantime.

Hikari rushes out before everyone else, still feeling extremely shy and intimidated about Gannon diving into her Cosmosphere. Not looking, she bumps into a young girl. The two catch their bearings, and suddenly feel a strange attachment towards one another. The girl mentions that she is visiting the doctor on a sick visit and Hikari offers to walk with her but the offer is declined. Rhaplanca catches up after the girl leaves and the two Reyvateils talk. Hikari fails to mention the girl and the strange feeling she'd felt, but does confide in Rhaplanca that she's apprehensive about allowing Gannon to dive. Rhaplanca empathizes and in doing so, accidentally lets part of another secret of hers slip out.

The foursome enter into the dive shop, meeting up with the amorous dive shop tech, Zek yet again, and the dives begin.

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Nereus goes to warn the group of the danger while Miko sets off to find Mana.

Miko meets up with Mana, who is helping patients escape the clinic, just outside of the building and witnesses panicking from the rumors about the F.P.D.

In the meantime, Nereus finds that Hikari and Gannon are both conscious out of the dive and tells them about Miko's vision of the future and that the town is in danger. To confirm his story, Hikari begins to exhibit signs that she is reacting to an F.P.D. nearby and in a trance, goes to where the other F.P.D. is. She arrives there and is shaken out of her trance when Miko and Mana approach her.

In Seraca, meantime, a young man going by the name of 'Cecil' goes into the shop where Nel works only to come in just as C.P.G. soldiers try to apprehend her.

Back in Behdla, Gannon joins with Hikari, Miko and Mana and Mana confirms that there is an F.P.D. outbreak happening. Before they can make any escape plans, the Reyvateil inside the clinic goes completely berserk, destroying the clinic. Miko rushes in to protect the villagers, putting herself in harm's way. Mana and Hikari follow in an attempt to help but find themselves in trouble as well. Gannon saves the day by distracting the F.P.D. long enough for them to get organized. Hikari begins to sing her Song Magic and Mana, Gannon, and Miko start fighting. Soon after Mana gets thrown into him, Nereus joins in on the fight as well. Several destroyed buildings and a grueling fight later, the fight ends and the sick Reyvateil regains her sense of self and the group decides to take her with them.

Meanwhile, Naomi summons a Reyvateil named Tessia in hopes that the Reyvateil will be able to capture Hikari. She warns Tessia not to act rashly as she may see some familiar faces from her past travelling with the F.P.D. Weapon. She then readies and departs for Behdla to capture Hikari under Naomi's orders.

After the battle, the group realizes that the C.P.G. are coming and quickly. Hikari tries to dig Rhaplanca and Ishira out of the pile of rubble that was the Dive Shop but was destroyed by the F.P.D. Gannon attempts to help her and they manage to save Zek, but before they can do more, the C.P.G. arrives and they are forced to flee, Gannon dragging a grief-stricken Hikari away.