Story Reader / Main Story / 17 The Surviving Lucem

All of the stories in Punishing: Gray Raven, for your reading pleasure. Will contain all the stories that can be found in the archive in-game, together with all affection stories.

17-0 Nightmare of the World

We are forced to step into the eternal night of death, and with different language and bodies, roar as one in the afterburn of dawn.

17-1 Pouring Rain

However, they are not the greatest threat nor are they the ultimate fruit borne from disaster. They are just a road sign.

17-2 Sinking Island

We were forced to stand on a sinking island, all of us.

17-3 Project Winter

In any case, this is the beginning of hope, but it is only just the beginning.

17-4 Will of Being Born

What happened to the girl and the boy is not an exception. We have different life experience but share similar nature and feelings.

17-5 First, "Joy and Sorrow"

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

17-6 The Great Evacuation

Anything that you are not happy about? Or are you still expecting your commandant to get up all of a sudden and tell you there is a new tactic that sacrifices no one?

17-7 The Stayed-Behind

The originally crowded basement is now left with only dozens of people waiting for Gray Raven to come back.

17-8 Life and Death

By the light of the daybreak, they see that the sloped path in the city has turned into a scarlet wave.

17-9 Second, "Freedom"

And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?

17-10 Within Reach

But there is no "would have."

17-11 Third, "Giving"

It is life that gives unto life.

17-12 Fourth, "Ship"

Who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Yet I cannot tarry longer.

17-13 Countdown to Life

Even though there is not much time left, she still sticks to her post.

17-14 Assemble Again

Gray Raven, Strike Hawk, and Cerberus gather in City 47 to plan for their next move.

17-15 End Train

We didn't know back then that the train was heading to the end.

17-16 Endpoint Countdown

We must be ready. This battle will decide the fate of all of our lives.

17-17 Smile of the Abyss

I think I heard someone laughing...

17-18 Gentle Monster

To seize the only hope, the girl has turned into a gentle monster.

17-19 Heaven of Pain

Dusk and silence, exhaustion and wounds, they weave together a web that binds the two of them to the bench they are sitting on, with no hope to escape.

17-20 Ring "The Bells"

With a will to give it all and an unyielding spirit to keep going.

17-22 Until No One Is Listening

The mist that drifts away at dawn, leaving but dew in the fields, shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain.

17-23 Fifth, "Farewell"

In this world, there is no rescue no matter when you make your prayers.

17-24 Sixth, "Death"

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

17-25 To Death →

―Start from the "death" of self and move into the future.

17-26 To Life →

― Start from the "death" of self and move into the future.

17-27 Scarlet Reflection

The data cache in it will control the form of the Punishing Virus. Think of them as Hetero-Sapiens or Red Tide Projections. They will transform with your cognition.

17-28 Seventh, "Love"

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. She melts herself for her desires to be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.