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"It's a date, Mydeimos"

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"Why?"

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”Why did you? Take them away…FROM ME!”

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>>...It's your fault...Everyone died because of you...Whether it be Flame Reaver, Khaslana...or Phainon...>>

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[System Alert: NeiKos496 malfunctioning...Initiate Irontomb Project...]

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"Please...Do not take this personally, 'Lord Phainon', but harming yourself with Destruction won't kill you, after all, you are my perfect test subject built from what is needed for a vessel of Destruction...and I cannot allow for you to be ruined."

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[System Alert: Irontomb Completion 60%]

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"Golden blood is a blessing from the Blemished One. The Aeon of Destruction - Nanook. You are to be reborn as a Lord Ravager - Irontomb. I have great hope for your accomplishments as a Lord Ravager. For what is foretold, you will see what lies behind this Specter...I called Amphoreus."

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[System Alert: Irontomb Completion 70%]

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"No one will ever forgive you...The Chrysos Heirs? Like every incarnation of you, they saw you as an enemy, a monster. And then you slayed them, one by one, with your very hands. How did it feel to kill those closest to you? Especially that Kremnoan  Prince?"

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"S-Stop...Enough! I-It's all your fault! Y-You were the one who did this!"

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"Ah...But it was you who had the chance to save your fellow Chyrsos Heirs? Did you not? That Kremonen Prince had begged you not to kill him, but [laughs] in the end, you were the one who did it. I must say...I truly was not expecting you to kill him...and here I thought that the Prince mattered a lot to you. After all, isn't that what lovers wouldn't do to one another?"

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"S-Stop...Please...I-It was not my fault..."

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[System Alert: Irontomb Completion 80%]

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"This again? The "Outlanders"? Please...You didn't hesitate to get rid of them...the same as you did to your family, your friends and to your village...What was it called again?"

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"...Ah, yes, it was called Aedeas Elysiae...A place free from ...Well, I did program it that way...You are my most valuable test subject after all for a new Lord Ravager to be born. If it wasn't for PhiLia093, you would have never been gazed upon by Nanook. 

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[System Alert: Irontomb Completion 90%]

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"Let me ask you one last question as your 'creator', what do you wish for, Phainon, Khaslana?"

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"W-What do I wish for? M-My wish is to fulfil everyone else's wishes...If I can't fulfil them...Then send them on to tomorrow..."

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"I-Isn't that what you would have wanted? Mydeimos? For me to see your library...We could have been happy...Like those couples we've seen all the time...But you're gone...I-I don't know what to do anymore...I-I can't...Keep going on..."

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>>...You are a liar...You would have never been happy...Only Hatred fuels you, not this 'pathetic' so-called 'love'...Join us...WE SHALL BRING DESTRUCTION...ALL SHALL PERISH...>>

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[System Alert: Irontomb Completion 100%]

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