Story Reader / Collab / Untold Naraka / Story

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.
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The Bottom of Blood - Side A

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No longer able to support its own weight, the broken mechanoid collapses onto the ground, incapacitated.

Lucia! We've immobilized the red faction's "leader"!

The blue faction's "leader" has been immobilized, too!

Right as Lucia gives the all-clear, the deafening sound of air sirens begins to ring.

What's going on?!

Alarm

Vital signs for both faction leaders have been terminated.

Cycle of War #*()——+& results: null.

Initiating removal procedure according to Directive Number 2 of the "Naraka Bastille Protocol" enacted by the School of Sapienism.

Humans and mechanoids in target areas, please evacuate the facility before the removal procedure is executed in your area.

All glory to homo sapiens. May the next "war" determine a champion.

The entire area is beginning to shake... What happened?

The entire cave is beginning to restructure... Wait, no! It's not a cave! It's one gigantic machine!

Understood...?

Unable to connect via long-ranged transmission with Babylonia. The cave seems to be jamming our signal.

Roger. The restructuring appears to be working its way inward... Maybe if we reach further inside, we'll find an answer.

...You've been sitting in front of the terminal for half an hour. Did you find anything?

I think you should come and see for yourself.

Hassen walks up to Celica's terminal and finds more than a dozen files pulled up on her terminal screen.

From newspaper clippings during the Golden Age to ground intel shared by the Forsaken.

All of which share a single commonality—the circular logo of the School.

What's this?

Even though the World Government was unable to catch any of its members, it did find many hidden facilities belonging to the School all over the world.

Lagerman Royal Arsenal... A warehouse in Port Bian'an...

Putting all this information together, it seems that the scope of the School far exceeds our expectations.

However, when troops entered the facilities, they found that the facilities had been emptied—no materials, no products.

But according to logistics data, the raw materials in circulation there would be enough to make both light and heavy equipment for a small army.

But whatever they made with these materials had disappeared along with them.

What could they have made with raw materials and machinery of this scale?

It seems like they've been long gone, but I still have a sneaking suspicion that...

...Maybe it's only just a suspicion.