Liberi Reader

Doctor, this woman... is the Priestess you talked about?

The enemy Dr. Kal'tsit has been guarding against...?

You're a step ahead of me, {@nickname}.

You didn't wait for me in the awakening room, to share a mutual joy in seeing this new world for the first time.

But how could I possibly blame you for a little impatience?

This reunion is not what I expected, but I'm willing to accept an unorthodox experience.

We've dreamed together too many times to count, how we would meet again when we awoke from our deep sleep.

We could wander freely on this planet completely covered by Originium, in a world that belonged only to us.

A world only one step away from our shared, ultimate vision, and we'd walk towards our new hope...

It ought to be a bright, sunny day too.

Doctor, look! The clouds in the sky—

{@nickname}, your question sounds like you're asking a stranger.

We created it together. A crystallization that belongs to only the two of us, a seed of hope.

But tragically... you don't remember anymore, do you?

I know you lost part of your memories in a series of unfortunate accidents.

It's a pity, but I believe your partial memory loss will not change your nature, and the connection between us remains unshakable.

I've no wish to be harsh on you, but I hope you can understand—time is short, and we have much to do.

Though, we can still enjoy our time working together, yes?

Return to my side, Dr. {@nickname}...

Dr. {@nickname}!

......

So it's you... AMa-10. It's been a long time for us too.

Your current appearance is vastly different from the look you were born with, but I certainly recognize my very own creation that I poured my heart into.

......

In the past four million plus natural day cycles, you seem to have exerted a lot of effort, but your behavioral standards appear to clash with the preset goal encoded at your birth.

I'd like to know just what changed your mind.

Unlike your despicable fraud...

...My end goal has never changed.

Indeed... you regarded that one's order as an inviolable mandate.

So you hindered the Originium plan, and wasted our already limited time.

So, {@nickname}, how should I make you understand—

Just how disappointed I am?

And how should I forgive your betrayal?

......

I've noticed, AMa-10.

You've already broken the language ban I put in place, correct?

Such a precaution was not enough to restrict your actions, for you always find a way...

But if that's the case, why not just say it?

Everything you've wanted to say to {@nickname} this whole time, but couldn't?

Priestess...

*Expletive from an unknown language*.

This is the Abyss?!

Raidian, can you confirm if we're still inside the Rhodes Island landship?

Unable to detect any electromagnetic signals outside this space. Hm... no way to tell.

......

Where's the Doctor?

And where are Dr. Kal'tsit and Amiya?

Once we entered the rift, I lost track of their positions.

If this place is indeed the Abyss, then clearly it's distorting our perception of physical space.

There's no way to identify the material the walls are made of.

Currently there's no way to cut open these strange walls, so there's no way to confirm their whereabouts.

I trust Amiya and Dr. Kal'tsit will manage to keep the Doctor safe.

We can only wait and adapt accordingly.

We haven't received any new commands, so we should continue executing our original task.

Then let's not delay any longer.

Mechanist, Sharp and I will cover you while you close in on that unknown machine. Verify if its related to PRTS.

We can back you up anytime—

That's unusual.

According to Dr. Kal'tsit and the Doctor's speculations, the Originium entities we've run into all come from the Abyss...

But there's like no defenses installed here at all—

I hear... pain.

What's wrong, kitten?

Rosmontis, do you feel any other abnormalities within your body?

No, it's not my own...

Detecting a large amount of interference signals.

That instrument is currently transmitting a huge volume of data—

Could the black vortex underneath... be a visualization of all that information?

—?!

Gah, so we're intruders now?

Doesn't look like you're giving us any option to leave though.

So, Ascalon?

Sweep up Rhodes Island's trash.

Nice, I like that.

Don't care where all this stuff came from, but we'll let them know just to whom Rhodes Island belongs.

Dr. {@nickname}, ever since you woke up in Chernobog, I have refrained from confessing the whole truth about your past.

The ban placed on me is only part of the cause.

As for the other reasons... I have said before no one else should tell you about your past.

Language has no way of reconstructing objective facts, while emotions will distort its delivery.

So I needed you to see and judge for yourself, to re-evaluate this land on your own.

Only then could you formulate your own answers about how you regard this land, and about yourself.

I still believe it's important to do it this way.

The same way someone once treated me.

......

This may be the last chance I have to share that information, however.

Perhaps only now do I, too, have the confidence to share it after all that you and Rhodes Island have been through together.

Please trust that I talk only of your past, and it has nothing to do with your future.

......

Dr. {@nickname}, you ought to already know that Originium, a bearer of both life and danger to Terra, is the legacy of a previous age.

It was one of countless methods used by the previous civilization against an ultimate threat.

After countless efforts and sacrifices, Originium was finally completed by Oracle and Priestess.

'Oracle' was your previous code name.

Please know that was not your intention.

Originium points to two futures for this land... Oracle hoped to leave Originium as a gift for future civilizations, to guide them forward...

To help them enter the next stage of civilization.

Over the past ten thousand years, Originium has helped civilization on Terra to develop, but also unexpectedly brought suffering to the land via Oripathy.

You were indeed tormented by this before.

I still remember... when the Doctor...

The Doctor has never given up the possibility of curing Oripathy.

However, someone forced a different future upon you. And for this... you made a choice that went against your original intentions.

......

Someone once told me to trust in your character, to look for your true self, beyond what memory shapes you. It was an incomparably difficult path for me to walk.

But I'm glad... it was the correct choice to make.

Dr. {@nickname}, that's all I wanted to tell you. They are only your past, and you will always be able to decide your own future.

Then I too... will fulfill my oath.

Dr. {@nickname}, I will protect you and Amiya until the end.

This is not the best opportunity to do so, but it is my final one.

I'm sorry, to entrust such a risk to you and Amiya... but this is a choice I must make.

......

Are you done? You've said what you wanted to say?

I'm astonished by how much you know about the past, and I don't completely agree with how you've described it... but that's no longer important.

AMa-10, what can you even achieve as you are now?

...Mon3tr!

(Excited whinny)