Story Reader / Border Pact / Yazaki Reclaimed Land / 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.

NO.38 Maintenance Tunnel

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A slight breeze drifts through the empty streets. Distant sobs whisper of bitter farewells.

Testing, testing... Ahem, what's the situation over there?

All clear.

Long-range scans put the CPF at the center of the city ruins.

Finally, a chance to stretch my legs! Hey, what's this under my feet?

Commandant

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Loose parts? Let me check them.

I've seen a frequency converter like this one before, fixing the Engine's on-board camouflage.

As Celica gives her report, you seem to notice Sophia and Lucia acting strangely.

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According to my search log, the orphans here were used to train caretaker androids.

Lucia mentioning her search log unprompted? That's rare.

Sophia and Jamilah were here once. There are many children here. Wait, that is inaccurate.

If there are survivors here, we need to pick up the pace.

This used to be a seaside city according to the records. There should still be caretaker and child androids around here.

Androids are highly humanoid robots with machine learning capabilities. You can say they were predecessors of Construct Tech. However, according to records, these androids have some cognitive impairments.

When this area was evacuated, many military and civil-use mechanoids were left behind. There may be human survivors here.

According to the coordinates, you'll need to find the main power source of the CPF... and then reactivate it, though as with previous reactivation attempts, it will be dangerous.

For safety reasons, the control systems around the CPF were hastily destroyed during the initial evacuation.

Heavy radiation levels detected. We're likely to find the main power source on the other end of the tunnel.

Stop! We should not go further.

Why is that?

Because workers on the Engine warned us to steer clear of this place.

Sounds like we will face resistance up ahead.