Part 24: Relocation.

Update 24:


This area is the next target. Not yet. Not yet at all. Not on this update, anyway. There are other things to be done.



No, not yet.
But why is a ship there?




"Are you going to miss it?"
Just... A little.

"A place like this holds on to everyone's memories.
Sad memories are thorns in th esearching eye. Happy ones are droplets of gentle life.
I remember someone telling me that our lives are journyes across an endless wasteland of corpses..."


Okay.


Miss it?
"You're leaving a place filled with the memories of people who lived here.

It must feel sad, to reflect on all the time that has passed here."







"Why do you always get to devour the enemies that *I* weaken!?

I need to gain power somehow. What is wrong with that?"


And to prevent this situation, you must acquire Mutual or Shared Karma for the ones on the bench, and AP Divide for everyone.


"Why do we need to kill each other in order to earn a place in paradise?
... *cough* Never mind. Forget I said anything."
Killing in order to get to Paradise does not seem very... Logical to me. Isn't killing normally frowned upon, eh?





"I won't let anyone take her... Ever again."
Little possessive, eh?




"Relocating to a new base never used to affect me, but now...
It makes me sad."
No durr. Before, a relocation was just a matter of necessity, and there was no feeling involved, before the Atma was granted to everyone in the Junkyard, they all were like Gale.










"I deployed a scout to confirm the area's safety. Let us wait for him to report back."



That's pretty much all that is interesting in the Embryon's former base.


Time to see if anything has changed here. And to get a couple of trinkets that were left behind.


She is the only one in the Junkyard that requires no food to keep alive. And she has strange abilities. Very strange abilities. Like that little skill she has that makes everyone obey her.




But... Isn't Cielo a dude?



She has not. She needs no food.




"Please don't do anything dangerous."





ALSO, selling this. This is useful, you know.




Goddamnit, the Blue Wall should not look greenish. Oh well.




Oh yes.




Heat gets skills that would be quite useful for Cielo. Especially THE voiding and nulling skills.
He probably has them already, though. Hooray for a newgameplus.




Aaaand a Red Wall. That can't be accessed. Not yet.



"That red wall appeared out of nowhere and sealed off the basement.
The guys guarding Him were trapped inside, too..."
"Him?" Oh boy. This surely shall not be relevant later, will it?   Yes it will. 






Yellow walls can be dealt with now.


Not too bad, eh?
All the Noises go to Serph.

Let's see this.


Uh. What?



"Oh... My head hurts..."





"I had intended to make use of the Solids' manpower."
He means that rookies are appearing all over the place, just like in the Vanguards' place.
And/or, like Bat, there are rebellious assholes that refuse to obey Serph and company and need to be eaten.




Yes.



"Be careful there, bro."
See?





"Sign me up, boss."
Eh, I don't think Serph has much of a rythm thing going on. Cielo, maybe. But not Serph. Heat is too angry to dance, and the less one says about Gale, the better.
No idea about Argilla, though.





This is just the same.



Let's see this.


Uh. More like Heat.



"She is ticking me off."
Wait what.


Then this one.




"Er, I mean... It's good to know that you're safe and sound."




"Nice to meet you, new boss."




"I'll do anything I can to help, sir."
At least someone ended up relatively happy out of that whole affair.






"Power, knowledge...
This tower is a monument to such ignorant greed.
If our destiny is to survive by feeding off of others, what does God intend by showing us light?
Hm...?
What was I saying?"
What the hell was Sera channeling there?





"But, how? Isn't a cat a small animal?"
That Cat is special, you know. It is the ONLY cat in the Junkyard. He is very mysterious.
And looks like Gouto.





"Well, I did have some help."
He means the cat.




"Now is the time, Serph. We should act fast."





The Brutes are quite assholish.


NEXT TIME: The Deserted Ship.