Arc 2 - Chapter 1: Hiroshige - Nomad library in Outskirt
"Interesting history about Orchust, i never know about that side of his past, to think he endure such despair. I think i can change my view on them a little bit. Maybe Or is not just an overlord, look at his past, a human like all of us."
"You can say that, they started as human afterall so there is no reason to hate them, just like human, they have desire and they have emotion... most of them actually but doesn't matter, the important thing is we have to understand everyone."
The history and music section of the library provide a lot of history about Orchust the grand conductor, it seem like he always appears as a gentleman. Even his appearance is perfect, a slim man but his movement have its own force, he appears before anyone as a powerful and charistmatic man. Everytime he appears on the podium, all of the performers follow his command in perfect harmony, he is not only control them, there could be connection between them. Of course, they're gone, when he turned back into the author they follow him and become instruments, perform with him, maybe they're enlighten by him. No one know the truth because no one can see his true emotion but i think he found something more that he accept his defeat.
"Maybe he know the truth of perfection ? Or he found something even more than perfection but no matter what i believe he found what's he searching for, that is why he accept his end. Even face it."
"We will never truly understand him, but look at the time, it seem like your history lesson is finished for today."
"You seem to know a lot about them Arih."
"You can say i do know a lot about them, now i think you need to take care some business about the news come from Rho. And maybe find a way to calm Phi."
"It's hard but not imposible."
The room where Phi stay is the most special place in the library, Sampi is the oldest of the Savant but she also sacrifice herself to protect all of her brothers and sisters. Savant is told to keep their emotion at the lowest point allow them not to trigger Sampi's power but in all of them a person failed to do that. That person is Phi, the youngest but also the most emotional person, grand master Musouka's disappearance and Sampi's sacrifice affect him so much that his voice become wailing and tear never stop flowing. Phi staying in a seprated room, Sampi's power affect the room turned into a crumbling world, everyday he singing in sorrow and pain.
"..."
"He is sleeping, we can't do anything now, but we hope you can success but if you can't we don't blame you. Sometimes the pain just carve so deep into the mind of a child and he can't run from it. Even we hope he can escape his pain but for now just leave him be, all the pain can be release when we felt asleep."
"Epsilon..."
"Don't be surprise, i know i can be called as snake but we all share our love for each other, Phi is not and exception. He is talented but sometime talent can't stop how we felt, no matter how talented, we still felt pain when we lose someone but for greater good we have to control ourselves. So the next time we met, don't consider we are automaton, we are living and breathing people just like you."
Leaving the door of Phi's room we goes into the main room, Alpha is enjoy his tea time, it seem like dried tea supply in this room is endless even in a world on the edge of its ending. But not only the tea time but the information that Rho managed to get about Jyllad, Rho can't give wrong information because even when a Savant got caught then have secret weapons to use in their proposal, after all they are protected by the command center. Jyllad is one of WORLD's hired guard dog, they work in the outskirt and it seem like they are a threat to the library.
"A weapon to destroy us all, is this a form they called as pathetic joke, i don't want to make this a laughable joke because it is. Zehir your command ?"
"They are a threat to the library it mean they are the threat to master Musouka, master Higeki and our family. Gather the information and take the leader to the library, we are still need to get some information out of them."
"About that, there are some other organization work with them in this outskirt."
"Don't worry Rho, i won't make you do the impossible. Pi, still there ?"
"I am still here, anything you request ?"
"You always want to test you new creation right ? Well then, now is your chance, that invention you created, to test its limit and it power, that may require a lot destruction then i believe this is enough."
"Well, then i guess i have to be on the front line this time, but that should be relaxing after all those lab work. So are you really fairy queen, our debut is here."
Fairy queen and fairy king, it seem like Pi and Omikron have great plan but their stage is where they shine, i am simply a person who will watch them. But Zehir's voice changed.
"Actually we all will have to fight for the library, everyone in every sector of Nomad, the battle against Jyllad will be a test for our grand finale with WORLD. I will stay in the library with beta as always to protect it and also direct this grand operation, with me will be some other operator."
"So i will go too ?"
"If you like, after all you are new master but with you going i guess we have one more job is protect you."
"Don't worry, i can take care of myself beside, i have friend on the other side of the mirror."
I will never forget you Haried and you even give me a gift before you left, the flag you and your people make to encourage us for this lasting crusade. Your flag, your inspration as the ruler of a world allow us to act rather than to just defend ourselves, why we have to wait for our moment, why not create it. If we don't be the first to move then how can we can make a world move with us, i can't understand Tyranium but i know their future is bright because they have a king who always on the frontline. You inspire me to become a better leader, and just like him, Orchust, a conductor always have to take the spotlight, always have to become the inspration toward other.
"I hope this battle will give you inspration for your song."
"I only hope it will be enough to pull Phi from his despair, he does nothing wrong or his emotion, i know Savant's teaching is to control your emotion but a child can't do that is nothing wrong."
Losing someone you love is painful but i am not the right one to say that, i don't know if grandfather truly gone but Phi saw all of that, Sampi disappeared in front of his eyes. I don't know that feeling but i know when you can't save someone you love so much that is the moment when everything around you collapse. And a small child have to bear that pain, maybe that is the reason Sousuke put a dream on me, so i don't have to face that reality. Maybe i was in the same room as Phi.
"Ignorance is a bliss sometime, i experience the same pain like Phi but i have another method of dealing with it."
"Hiding in your dream ?"
"Yes but Sousuke never know my true power, what i left in my kingdom of slumber. They all sealed that power from my memories, maybe for my own good, maybe inside me is some memories that i never allowed to know."
"Now you know ?"
"No, i just know something there but i don't know what is it."
"Maybe she can help but we don't know where is she yet. Omega has always been a mysterious person, she not staying in the library but wandering or i should say phasing through worlds in a half concious state. But when we need her the most, she will always appear before us and unleash her power on anyone threaten our life. Like a big sister."
Omega, if i recall correctly, there is no secret can be hidden from her, she can travel into the deepest of concious and trapping people in their own mind. Her appearance in the past is a mystery and it's always a mystery because of her power and her bond with Sampi. Sampi can turn her power into something else, something much more fearful, Omega can make anyone's mind her world then with Sampi, i can't imagine the reality if that happened.
"We should depart in a few days, Delta this should be your chance, show us your changes in the way you act."
"I won't let return like a lifeless corpse this time, trust me."
Delta fully recovered from nearly five weeks of recovery, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer, and Delta learned it the hard way. The once prideful knight became a different person, still a cheerful person but in his mind is a different story, much more cautious and learn to watch his move. They say time refine people maybe it is correct for delta, only taste defeat you learn how to win.
"May our judgement be like your blade master Higeki."
"Strike fast and dispose everything against our family, may we not bound by blood but our soul sing the same song, our heart beat the same beat. A bond deeper than blood."
The train arrive soon and abroad it is something different, the train's condition is much better than those in the city, only used by the member of the Savant. We abroad the train, even when we inside a tunnel, we still can see the sky above. The outskirt isn't affected by the smoke so the sky is clearer than the city, as long as it shine so bright we can still witness it. The silver moon and the star that the smoke in the city can't hide its light, the starlight of the outskirt is real and not some illusion made in the city.
"You seem fine Delta."
"I can say i was in good hand, inside my dream i saw a kid with white hairs and very cute ears. Is he your friend ?"
"Not just a friend, we are more than that, we shared the same heart beat, i care for everyone but he is the one i will do everything to protect."
"And am i right if i say he is the reason you want to success, to return to him ?"
"No, it is our mission to protect Arborine, while the rest of us stay back to protect it, i choose to return to this world to stop them from invading every world."
"Like your grandfather ?"
"Like him."
Our conversation cut short with the emergency report from Theta, WORLD made their movement to reinforce Jyllad and also heading toward the library. How could they know the force leaving but Beta ensure us everything will be alright and we should only focus on the current task. Of course i trust him, the legendary moving thought, if he fail then it would be the shame for all of us.
"Don't worry about the library, i will take care of the guests, you only need to focus on your job."
"I will help you too."
"No need for such thing, just stay in the room Zehir. I can take care of this matter on my own and master Higeki, keep them safe and keep yourself safe please."
A quick nod to Beta and the train arrive the station, Rho already prepare our place to stay and spying on Jyllad. Look closer Rho is much like a big brother, he is a charismatic man but under that face is something else. We stay in one of the abandoned house in the Outskirt, from the window we can see the Jyllad base and their activities. They did checking the houses near their base but Grandfather's technology of cognition filter hide us and with Pi's augmentation, we are close to undetected but it take time to prepare.
"When there are two towers with same height, one must crumble. The outskirt hold a tactical meaning to us the Savant but also to grandfather's research of nature recovery. Uninvited guest is so annoying."
"Don't worry, we will get rid of them soon, any guest enter our house without the invitation are considered to be rude, we have to taught them the correct manner."
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