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We can't win! These are bionic machines built purely for war! We're just some spec ops Constructs!

Shut your trap and just fight!

ROAR!

It's just like that one time... It's just like 'em tales... These bios are gunna wreck the ARU...

Where's dem Forest Guards at, aye?! Must be the work of 'em hybrids!

Damn you bobbing pieces of bionic trash! We MADE you! We're your master!

GO AT THEM! DON'T MIND THE LOSSES!

The ARU defenses and the bionic machines clash. Fear slowly creeps into the hearts of people.

This... This is just...

Martin and the other bionic machines arrive to see hell painted before their visual modules.

Nanami, we need to do something about this!

...Something's not right.

Huh?

Nanami has been silent ever since she arrived. She quickly scans the battlefield, confirming her suspicions.

ROAR!

Guess this do be the end of the line for me...

...

A bionic bear slams a fisherman onto the ground, but it does not follow up with an attack. Its claw remains hinged mid-air, hesitant at dealing the fatal blow. Yet—

Ack...!

ROAURGH!

Another bear model ignores the hesitant bear and barges in, stomping and crushing the fisherman.

...

Even the hesitant bear finds the gruesome ending unbearable, but there is no point to reproaching its companion. Brandishing its claws once more, it charges at the next target.

Damn you all!

...That one was a Corrupted, Martin.

Similar scenarios occur everywhere in the battlefield. Hearing Nanami, the other bionics enter into disarray.

That means some of us have been corrupted... If that's the case, then will the others...

No. It likely won't spread further. I think I know what the Corrupted are here for.

So what are they here for...?

They are here to instigate hatred... Someone is controlling the Corrupted to do so, while they sit somewhere safe to watch.