"I don't know what you are."

You don't have to know. Just let me know you're enough. I will keep calling until I find the person. Then I'll stop, because I won't have to call anyone.

"I'm Cardinal, loyal to—"

I don't care who you are. I'm interested in your essence. Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your abilities. How do you see the universe. How do you envision the universe as it should be.

"I'm telling you I'm Cardinal General because this status is important," Cain said sharply. "I have my job. My duties. ”

A duty that you hate. A duty that makes you more and more discouraged. Follow someone who seems to you to be weakening. Pledge allegiance to a cause that seems too cautious to you. Day after day of frustration, because no one can think as clearly as you do. No one dares to agree with the way you want to behave. No one has that power.

"My duty is to take this place for the Demacian Empire. I don't believe I'm talking to an antique weapon. I believe I am being exposed to quantum variation. It's my own mind at work. ”

So I'm hallucinating, isn't I?

"This place is an anomalous space of great scientific significance. You are the main object of this. I...... I imagined the sounds to be because of the anomalous energy that remained here, and-"

Najuri has been there for a long time, haven't you noticed?

Cain stood up. He looked at the precision clock on the interactive panel. Najuri had been gone for almost an hour. An hour? How could it be ...... so long?

Time is just another illusion, and you will soon be able to dominate it.

"If I'm qualified?" Kai Cain said viciously. He turned around and began to climb towards the surface.

He ignored the snickering behind him.

There is no sign of anyone.

"Najuri?"

The communication connection is blank. Something must have happened. Syndicate again? Zago's people? Cain should have heard the gunshots.

He drew his pistol and quietly walked forward.

The prisoners remained in the caves, silent and terrified. They just blinked when they saw him come in. "What about your guards?" He asked. No one answered.

He came up to the girl, Sona, and helped her to her feet.

"I saw the thing that drew you here. I see it. What is it, tell me. ”

She didn't answer.

"Sona," he said, "you have to speak. Come on. ”

She glared at him. He held the pistol a little tighter.

Don't waste her. She's invaluable. Don't you get it yet? You're going to need her.

Cain pushed the girl back. He walked to the entrance of the cave.

The blade of the Flying Warrior nearly cut off his head. Kai dodged, his blade slicing into the rock. He killed the soldier with two pistols. The corpse slid against the wall to the ground.

Rigaud. Nagiuri's men. A good soldier.

They're not good enough, are you enough?

They pounced on them from all directions. The light-collapsing missile lit up the cavern corridor. He returned fire, knocking out two more before turning and kicking another soldier away. He staggered backwards, his hand over his visor. Cain snatched his broadsword from his hand and slashed him in half.

He nimbly turned, striking the other soldier diagonally upwards with the hilt of his broadsword. Switch backhand. The blunt tip of the hilt struck the attacker behind him in the abdomen. Revolve. The blade of the sword sliced through the target.

Someone shot at him. Light collapse bullets. Block, block, block. The broadsword swirled in his hand, and the titanium plating absorbed the energy and bounced the bullet away.

"What the hell is going on?" He roared.

"You don't deserve it!" A voice roared back. "It shouldn't be given to you!"

Nagiuri's voice.

Cain sped forward. One of the oncoming flying soldiers was kicked in the leg by him and pinned to the ground.

Vecchilan crashed into both of them from the side. The squad leader is heavily armored and has a power-boosting component. She punched. Cain tried to parry, but her charged gloves broke the hilt of the broadsword. Cain roared, bounced back, dodging the next blow, and plunged the shattered tip of his broadsword into Vecchilan's chest.

Sbix lunged at him, and Cain struck him through his nose with his eagle-beaked hand knife, killing him with a single blow.

"Stop your people, Najuri!" He shouted as he tried to move in the light of the hole. "You're crazy!"

This is the test.

"Nagiuri! We've been tricked! It's not really you! ”

"Oh, that's me!" A voice echoed. "This is me, the real me. The first time it was so real. I've seen it all now! See what the world should be! ”

"Najuri!"

A pair of armored iron fists wrapped around his neck from behind, tightening and tightening, and Kai Cain began to gasp.

"Najuri is right," he heard Solipas' voice. "You're just a fool who has made a fortune, Cain! Full of confidence! It shouldn't belong to you! You don't deserve it! ”

Cain bent over and threw Solipas over his shoulder. He fell heavily to the ground.

"Who should that be?" Cain asked. "You?"

"Obviously!" Solipas bounced and drew a knife. "It chose me! It says I'm the one! I heard it with my own ears! ”

A flash of light flashed, and Solipas' head evaporated. His body collapsed.

"Lie!" Korla said tremblingly, rubbing forward a little bit. His eyes widened. His pistol was still aimed at Solipas. "It's me! He is calling my name! ”

"We've all been tricked," Cain said.

Korla suddenly turned his gun on the cardinal general.

"All of us, Korla. All of them. It is manipulating us into killing each other. ”

"Perhaps, but it doesn't lie," Mr. Korla said. "Won't lie to me."

"We don't know what it's going to do. Put the gun down. ”

Korla roared. "I know what it's going to do. It will make you who you are supposed to be. I saw it, it was clear. It will possess you. Makes you ...... Perfect. Let you see the meaning. Let you know who you can trust. Who deserves to live to die. ”

"Not really," Cain said.

"That's it! It tells me! He told me I was the one. ”

He fired, but Cain was already moving. The bullet grazed his lower back, and he burrowed under the arm that Korla was aiming, breaking his arm.

Korla fell to his knees, clutching his elbows. Cain snatched the pistol and tossed it aside.

"It told me," the soldier said, sobbing.

Cain walked past him, but he grabbed Cain's leg. Cain finished him off with a merciful bullet.

He walked to the entrance of the cave. "Najuri?"

Najuri was waiting for him, spear in hand.