Story Reader / Floating Record / ER02 Cinder Burns / Story
Snow is coming down hard where the memory ends.
Right before his mind melts into the snowfield and turns blank... Noan has a dream.
In that dream, he is the only person who dies, lying alone in the snow. Everyone else is safe and sound, living aboard Asslam.
After his consciousness fades away, he has an agonizing nightmare.
In that nightmare, he survived the fall from the speeding train, saved by a Construct.
A mechanical firefly his friend gave him blocked the gunshot to his chest, saving him from a lethal wound.
He keeps crawling on the frozen field, accompanied only by his pain and the realization that everyone he cares about has perished this winter.
—Do you regret it?
The distant voice echoes by his ear once more through his memories.
—Would you have given that "evidence" away if you could choose again?
...
—Why the silence? Has your mind been assimilated by the memories of you dying?
The voice sighs mournfully.
—Hey. When I left Medical Center 09 to find you, I left some "gifts" behind on your behalf for those who rejected Ascendants.
Get back to them before the "magic" on you is gone and save those you want to save.
Appreciate the gifts of the Ascension-Network... then find me afterward.
...!
Waking up from his long trip down memory lane, Noan can still feel the physical pain from the memories of him dying.
Lithos!
He shouts for the Ascendant, but Lithos is gone after leaving behind his warning.
The medical center...!
If Lithos was telling the truth, then Medical Center 09 must be in great danger right now.
Even though he knows it is likely a trap, Noan cannot allow the Corrupted to slaughter the people there.
I'm sorry... I can't stay here!
