"So this is the inner city, much warmer but the same pollution as the south, everything in the city is not really vibrant afterall. People walking without expression, they simply work because they were told to do that." (Higeki)

"I'm not surprise, everyone's will is taken from them and all that bind them is responsibility. I have to do this, i have to work, i have to do everything to keep my family alive, i have to live too, that is all what they have to say. I was one of them afterall." (Arih)

The building is colored in pale gray, compare to Arborine this is more of an abandon wasteland, the street is empty and people only use the railway system. But not everyone is perfect clone. Those don't want to fit in form small organization and that day came, the day Savant attacks WORLD, those small organization rose to power and never have something is enough of power. Those small organization goes into a war with themselves to see who will become the new world's order but nothing more than little bug feast on what left of a ruined kingdom.

"Careful there, those are the places we shouldn't go to. People live in the City and the library is located in the outskirt and of course the last place is the slum." (Arih)

"That is a little bit rude you know. We know this is a slum but it is not that bad of a place to live, better than become a clone in this city." (???)

"My old friend, Alfred."

"Not that old and who is this little kid ?" (Alfred)

"Who is he Arih ?" (Higeki)

"He is my ex-employer Johsan, but quit his job earlier than me then ran off alone to avoid being hunted down by WORLD. Quite of a cunning man." (Arih)

"We all have to abandon that place, sooner or later it will just killed all of us, we all experience what happen to both of us, there is no reason to killed our own will in that place. And you look quite fancy yourself Arih, finally found a new job ?" (Alfred)

"Just currently this boy's bodyguard and adopted father."

"Well, i am busy now, guess we can talk later. And Arih, glad you can move on from that past."

Alfred leave us and goes to the slum, but my target is not really the slum or the factory, to find something about someone you need to find their home, grandfather's old house and the laboratory should be the perfect place to find out some information about him. A normal house in the block, after the disappearance of him, the house is abandoned but the security system not allow anyone to enter easily, breaking in can result in death and the destruction of all research result.

"You know how to enter right ?" (Arih)

"Of course, this is my house afterall, or soon to be my house, now let just get inside, the air filter system still work so don't worry too much but you may surprise or i can say a little shock about the air in here." (Higeki)

The door open, Arih and I step inside and close it really fast to avoid any corruption getting beyond the closing door. Behind the door is not a normal room, it is a beautiful plain, a sight that no one can see in Altoris, I slowly remove the facemask. Grandfather is known in the ORDER for his unique ability, to manipulating space and time, sometime i wonder why a person powerful like him appear in this world. Every research about him is stored here, a shed in the green plain, Arih is shocked because he never knew air could be like this.

"Research about elemental golem, research about time and space manipulation of Kuoni Kyuseishu..."

My name on the document, or someone have the same like my old name... but how can something like this happen when grandfather is the one who gave me my old name. There must be something else i can look for but for now, the important thing is to look for is some clue about his location, any last word or letter. A letter in a red envelope appear on the table with a golden G wax seal on it, the envelope design is exceptional. No one in this world can made a beautiful envelope like this one, not open it yet but carry it along is not a bad option. But there seem to be nothing else so the next location we heading to should be the laboratory, the laboratory should be located in a place near the north.

"Arih, we should go there is nothing here can be useful. We heading to a place near the north next and put on the facemask, that place doesn't have a good air filter like this one."

The laboratory is located near the north, the only way to acess it is walking because there is no train station can connect to it. Walking from the house to the laboratory should only took 20 minutes, there is no other vehicle since there is no fuel for them after WORLD drain dry this world. But i guess the new i return to this world is known to a lot of small organization and WORLD is not an exception.

"Look at who came back to this place, an ex-soldier, got yourself a new look ? And what is that child... Higeki Kyuseishu, lucky bastard." (???) 

"Back off, Lurvis. I don't know what is your intention but a sadist like you must bear some ill-willed, i am no longer work for WORLD and this child, i won't hand him to WORLD or to you." (Arih)

"Then i guess the old WORLD's way, we take what we need."

No need for Arih i could just use dream eye but that will waste a lot of strenght, i would like to save it as last resort until we reach the laboratory. Without magic the battle is just like a normal human fight with knife and sword, no one use gun because it is expensive and not great at close distance. Pi's equipment proved to be useful against normal combat, Arih can easily defeat Lurvis but if every member of WORLD already know i am here then there is no reason to kill him. Erase a person's memories when they are weakened is much easier, so erase Lurvis's memories is easier.

"If WORLD already fell then how could them still listen to that organization's command."

"WORLD's main force is defeated but their influence on this world is still far too great, the influence on technologies so they can easily have a lot of small organization work for them. So their main force now is nine small organization but they soon gain power, even in the end of world nothing is safe."

"So that should explain everything but what happen to those organization ?"

"They changed their name, became a part of new WORLD's army."

"Never have intention to join them ?"

"Just have enough with them already, now let's just head to the laboratory you mention about."

"You quite skillful for a common soldier i have to say."

"It is, now really made me really shy."

We continue our path in the city, the pale gray building, the slum, the black market and people try kept themselves alive and people robbing from other. Altoris is nothing more than what left of a spark, what left of a world is the correct word, we tread on destruction caused by human on their own. But different from other type of destruction or exhaustion of world's resources, WORLD use the resources to promote a part of society while causing the destruction to the rest. The world divided into three group, the first class, those who can have everything for themselves, and even can breath better air than other two group. Two other group is the worker and the small organizations, they consider two groups because the small organizations have even less privileges than the worker.

"So that is the current state of the world."

"But i thought you should know about this, you live in this world for more than 14 years afterall."

"When i was born, grandfather put on me a cognition filter and i am educated at home until ORDER fall and i am kipnapped to be use as a type of lab rat until my most faithful servant Sousuke help me escape."

"Sound really tough there."

"No, not really at least that is a happy moment, i made new friend and have good memories."

"Then why do you return to this world ?"

"I want to believe my grandfather still live somewhere in this world, i don't believe he is someone would lose that easy."

The structure of the east is said everything about this type of class conflict. The main city where the first class mostly live and a few high-end workers live there is seprated from the slum. While the slum is filled with pale gray building the city is high end building with four sections, each section have unique culture decoration. The city is seprated from the slum by a really tall wall, to enter the city, people require their identification and to join the city people need to complete tests or just use a lot of currency to buy their way in.

"That is why there is conflict between classes because workers and small organization is not even have enough air to breath while the first class have everything they can ask for that is why the conflict happen."

"Misery of others is the taste of honey."

"That is a correct way to speak about it but people soon learn their own places, the small organizations robbing the worker, the orgazations work for WORLD sent as a force to remain peace, the circle continue like that. So how can you change a world already full of surpression like that ?"

"My grandfather's way is to use peace and his voice but that won't work in a world where people filled with desire and envy for each other. In the past there were a person who control all over Altoris, Orchust the conductor. My method is a little bit similar, i won't control people but plant a seed of kindness into them, that is a blessing but also a trial."

"Isn't it a little bit childish ?"

"What are you saying, of course i am child, a child seeing everything in his eye, a world built with wonders."

"More like a thirty years old man trying to be a child."

"Hey, now that is harsh, everyone want to be a child at least one time in their life so when i am a child i have to treasure that moment. Now i think you are just envy that i am a child."

"Maybe."

But our journey to the Laboratory is not that simple, even Lurvis's memories is erased but grandfather's laboratory near the City. There are ten organizations work for WORLD, one of them is Jyllad Wanderer work as enforcer since we just saw them walk out of the city. Arih has a lot of information from his past, he know exactly about each and every organizations work for WORLD. Sometime i wonder how a common soldier know so much maybe he was an agent or elite but the truth will be reveal when we reach the laboratory, a device still active allow it to record every action of every single person in this city, the ORACLE. The knowledge about the ORACLE only grandfather, me and the savant know about, so there should be no one know about it. To earn someone trust is hard but to give someone trust is even harder.

"We should be close to that place now, only 5 more minutes of walking if nothing stand in our ways."

"That should be great but i felt something cannot be that easy."

"Don't worry, i will protect you, nothing will happen."

And then they appear, i know something wrong, something following us in the shadow, one of many organization work for WORLD, Kalifia. This organization focus on attacking straight without much thinking, they make brave soldiers but not really smart one. A selection is to mercy on them or erase them, can their existance benefit the new world ? Bravery is a good quality but listen to them more can found out more about them, talking first seem to be the obvious choice but if they won't listen then there is no point in trying after all they act without much thinking.