"How in the world are you even alive!" Leila's shock was so great that for the moment she had completely lost her aristocratic cool, and was visibly shaking. She constantly looked at him, looked down at the lower body which should not exist and then back at the German's face which merely smiled back. "I killed you!"

"Oh Leila my dear…" He murmured. "Such beauty the sunlight brings upon your face. You are as dazzling as you were when you laid your lips upon mine. Then tore me apart and left me to die." Jaegar spoke calmly, walking back and forth as his metal legs clunked loudly on the deck of the ship. "I can still feel it on my lips, such a taste I say. I wonder if it was the same for you Leila. Was it? Perhaps not, but I'll never forget it.

Oh!"

As if he had only just seen her, Lucy suddenly found herself being greeted by the man, a greeting she did not return with happy regards. "Would you happen to be Miss Lucy Lefenair?"

"What if I am?" She uttered murderously.

"Aye, Kaiser Jaegar. At last we meet."

"Sure, now get out of the way." Lucy growled.

"Oh no. You see I can't do that, in fact you see, you won't be leaving this ship alive. Neither of you will. You see…I noticed that there has been a slight problem. While I was being reconstructed, yes, I did it on my own, under my will, in near death. I overheard something over the intercoms, and I saw something on the screens." Jaegar raised his hand as if giving a grand and impressive speech.

"I noticed something that, truth be told kind of confused me. Please correct me, especially you my dear Leila. Did I hear that you wanted to kill Hector-Sama?" A strange chill ran down Lucy's back but not for a reason that she was afraid of Jaegar. Lucy was not afraid of anyone, well with the exception of herself. Most people wouldn't notice it but for some reason Lucy's mind became very keen on something. It was the way Jaegar was smiling, his facial expression that really unnerved her. His smirk wasn't as intense as Hector's, but, unlike Hector there was something lacking in his eyes. At first she wanted to say compassion, it was like the time she'd look at her own reflection in the past and see that deadly woman. Turning quickly to look at Hector, she also noticed that Hector's smile had, amazingly enough, dwindled. He was instead looking at Jaegar as if he too was seeing something completely different but, his smile still remained no matter how much it might have dwindled.

What was it?

"That's right Kaiser." Leila answered back sternly.

"And you Lucy?" His question caught her by surprise but she answered back nonetheless. "Yes."

"I see. Hector?"

"Eh?" The red coated man said.

"Have I done…good?"

"Good? What is good?"

"Something that pleases I think. Have I done good?"

"Do you think you have?" Hector replied back, and Lucy had to stifle her anger from lashing out on this useless and incomprehensible conversation. Still, she looked upon his face, trying to figure out what was missing.

"Heh…Perhaps Jaegar, but I have a question for you?"

"Yes? Hector-Sama?"

"Have you truly given it up?"

"…I will serve you, and I will give everything up to be by your side, die by your side, murdered by you if that's the case."

"But? You will give up that?"

Jaegar didn't replied directly to Hector, but instead looked over at Lucy with that same smile, calm, collect but that lack of, whatever it was, in his eyes. "If I killed you, would he praise me?" The longer she looked, the more confused she became. Hector's smile had, for the first time Lucy had ever seen, vanished. It was instead replaced by a frown. "Jaegar…" he uttered. "So that's what you've chosen, to be praised by me?"

"Yes."

"Heh…Then, to earn it, let's see what you can do without the lack of it."

And at last, the longer she looked, it finally hit Lucy. Kaiser Jaegar wasn't lacking something. He was lacking absolutely everything. There was nothing in his eyes; there was no murder, compassion, love, hate. There was absolutely nothing, no light, not even darkness. It was just eyes, on a face that despite the smile, lacked every single emotional output possible. Leila felt the chill because Jaegar was alive, rather understandable as she did tear him in half. Lucy, felt the chill because there was absolutely nothing.

Hector might look demented, his actions despicable, but at least he had something in his eyes.

But Jaegar? Nothing.

"Murdering Hector! Unforgivable!" Even in anger, Lucy see's nothing in him. "People like you, humans or Diclonius to say such a thing with your insolent tongue is unforgivable! Tell me Hector-Sama! Tell me now, if I rid the world of these two, would you truly come to praise me? Would I truly be worthy of being by your side?"

"You'd have to complete the act first, and then…perhaps." Hector replied.

"Kaede, get ready." Leila murmured. "Do not let him get a shot on you; his gun's specially made to affect our vectors. Watch out!" Leila, already knowing Jaegar's gun used her vectors to swiftly move to the side felt the bullet slam against her side as she rolled. Quickly turning, Jaegar aimed his pistol at Lucy and fired. Reacting too slowly, she attempted to deflect the bullet which in most cases should've been simple. Instead confusion crossed her features as the strange bullet drove into her corporeal arm, grinding into it and suddenly all of her arms had taken a visible transparency look.

"Wh-what?"

"Damn Kaede! I told you to watch out!" Leila yelled who, in her anger did not pay attention and could only use her vector to stop the bullet from blowing her head open. The exact same thing happened with Leila Lahtela. "Shit." She cursed. "I was careless."

"Now that I've gotten that done, I can continue on with killing you two." Jaegar uttered coldly. "What the hell did you do to us?" Lucy yelled angrily, looking at her own visible vector and feeling a strange sensation in it as well.

"Aye? What do you think happened? I could never beat the two of you if I didn't do anything about your vectors. I just made the fight a little more fair that's all."

"So what!" Lucy yelled, bending low on her knees. "So you managed to make them visible, who cares!" Kicking off, Lucy rushed at Jaegar with murder in her eyes. "Fool!" Leila yelled, trying to stop Lucy from making a terrible mistake. Too late, the vector slammed into Jaeger's midsection, the metal creaking as the German gasped…and the vector stopped. It didn't tear him in half, it didn't pierce.

"What?" Lucy could only mutter a single word before she saw the gun pointed at her face. The only reason she wasn't shot dead was for the fact that Leila managed to pull her out of the way just in time. Neither of them had time to think about this strange occurrence and Lucy definitely didn't have time as she heard the loud sound of metal against metal. Jaegar had started a swift run, his body bent down almost streamline that didn't seem natural even for a professional acrobat. Perhaps due to his cybernetic enhancements, the speed of the German's rush caught them by surprise to the point where not only did Jaegar put away his gun, he had them both by the throat. Desperately ramming her vector into his throat, Lucy found it rather bizarre and downright frightening that his head was not coming off. As if flicking off a ill piece of dust, he threw them back, smiling that smile of nothingness. Lucy was just picking her head up after struggling to get up, cursing under her breath which soon became breaths of airless gasps. Jaegar's right mechanical leg slammed so hard into her midriff spit flew from her lips.

Once again, her face hit the hard metal of the s hip, sliding painfully before flipping back to her feet, only to feel the head of the gun on her abdomen. The shot was fired completely nonchalant, Jaegar might have done something as simple as blinked. The Queen had to be given credit, despite having a hole blown into her gut, she didn't scream once. She did however collapse, writhing in pain and brining out vector, placing it upon her wound.

"Hm? Regeneration?" Kaiser mumbled, watching Lucy desperately stich the wound up. "No wonder you're able to survive. However, a single shot to your head should end that problem shouldn't it…eh?" His arm jerked away, held by one of Leila's vectors. "Oh, my dear Lahtela please forgive me. I did not mean to ignore you."

"Quit the act Jaegar Kaiser!" Leila spat, angrily starring as he calmly begin to pry her inhuman fingers with his own. "Is it a strange sensation, when your vectors are like this? They are nothing more than normal fingers now. Such is the power of Anti-Vector Bullets. Do you know what happened after our little meeting?" He gave a casual shot to Leila's knee which she avoided.

"Dying is something that few people appreciate. Nobody really comes to appreciate life until they are at that very end of the rope. However, when a person gives up there reason they effectively lose everything. When a person commit suicide, they effectively lose every reason or right to exist. I have given up all reason, therefore I am beyond any salvation possible. But, I am willing to give up my reason for the praise of that man over there." Hector's dark smile widened as Jaeger faced him.

"Tell me, Hector Havenfield. What will you do?"

*BAM!*

A vector to the face, knocking him to his knees, Leila swearing angrily.

"Aye! Hector Havenfield! Hector-Sama! Tell me! What will you do?"

*BAM!*

"Have I pleased you? I have given up my reason, I have given up everything but my own existence to serve you. So tell me, now in front of me? Have I gained your praise?" And there was a look of complete chaotic want in his eye. Hector Havenfield stood there, eyes close, the same smile on his face. "What will I do? You have given up everything but your existence, but…you have also given up your reason. It's a trifling question, for to give up your reason, is a most grievous sin. But you, Jaegar Kaiser bring an interesting case.

I…do not like the lack of reason. I do not like the fact that you've given up that which is most sacred." Every single negative word brings Jaegar down, until he's own his knees, eyes shaking with regret. "But…" A flicker of hope.

"…You have kept yourself, if not given up on everything else. Even in death, you still had a reason to live? You haven't given it all up."

"Aye Hector-Sama, I am not yet completely dead."

That was it! Finally Lucy saw it. Jaegar Kaiser was insane! That lack of everything in his eyes, he was completely insane! She had no idea what made Hector act the way he was, but she now knew he wasn't insane. Jager Kaiser however, gave up his entire reason except for a tiny percentage that he clings desperately on to.

"So, Jaegar, for keeping that one bit of reason…I praise you."

And, for everything in his world, Jaegar Kaiser is the happiest man in the world. "Feel free to continue, Jaegar Kaiser."

It's surprising how little pain there is despite having literal no lower half. Perhaps there's so much pain in the beginning that now, there's no reason to even feel anything else. But Jaegar is aware of one very vital thing, he is alive, dying yes, but still alive. Struggling, he crawls out of the door, surprising even himself that he has not collapsed due to blood loss or trauma. His body might be dying but his ears are as keen as ever, he can hard the cries and shouts of the soldiers and scientists and the fights of Lucy and the others.

Willpower keeps him going, crawling with his arms, dragging his dying corpse through the hallway. "Can't die…must…go…continue…can't die…must…serve…Hector." Amazingly he makes it across three long hallways and enters into a large chamber filled with mechanical strips.

It's fading, his mind is fading. He quickly clicks on the buttons and falls down on the table just as the metal appendages grip him by his arm and neck and raise him into the air. Tubes fly into exposed midsection, driving into body and inserting fluids to keep him alive. Oxygen comes into lungs as his destroyed organs are replaced by the serum while the machines begin working on his lower body.

Unable to do anything but wait, his eyes turn to the only television on the screen, watching the fight between Lucy and Leila. Killing either of them, even Leila doesn't even occur to him until he hears something that makes his blood boil. How dare they admit to wanting to kill Hector! The mere thought of such a sin makes his teeth grind together and the serum in his body boil unnaturally. He has only one reason to exist, to serve and live for Hector-Sama as any good person should. The world revolves around that man and he, Jaegar would be only proud to serve him! Kill Hector-Sama!

"Unforgivable!" He growls under his breath.

Metal attaches to skin, his veins and arteries split, entwined and sewn. He squeezes his eyes in pain as his nerves fixate on the metal but even then, he watches. He sees it all, hanging suspended in the air like a puppet. His murderous intent grows more and more as he sees Eneva Freza attempting to kill Hector!

"Unforgivable!" This act is vile, corrupt, horrible! Hector-Sama gave her freedom, he gave her a chance and this was her way of repaying him. There is only one cure for such sin, death! Execution! He nearly has a heart attack, ironically when Eneva attempts to take his heart. Kill Hector? Unforgivable!

There is no more reason, except to serve and fight and live for this man. He cares for nothing else now. Screws tightening into the metal calves, rods flex and his unfeeling legs twitch.

Lucy's fight with Relatus, watching her turmoil and hatred. Does she truly know what it is to lose? Lucy has never lost a fight physically, but for the first time she's lost a fight mentally. He watches, pleased as her throat is slowly crushed by Relatus' chains. Then once again, they talk of killing Hector.

"UNFORGIVABLE!"

And his body is complete, his mind is lost but for the purpose to serve, but he is complete. Dropping down, he feels his rebirth and his mind erased of all unnecessary construction. The first thing he does is return back to the place of his "death" and retrieves his gun. Then he hijacks the black jet and heads off, he doesn't care about killing the other people. All that matters is his undeniable loyalty to Hector Havenfield.

That is who stands before Lucy and the others.

That…is Jaegar Kaiser.

*BAM!*

"Dammit!" Vector's effects as so, though Leila's punch sent Jaegar backwards, of course her simple punch could never kill him. She somehow thought he wasn't even concerned, and wondered if he just took it to mock her. Her arms were now visible and he was more than capable of dodging them.

*BANG!*

Too slow, a bullet hits her in the leg, forcing her down. Then another into the other leg, one in the right arm, left arm. Leila Lahtela is on the ground panting, attempting to stifle the tears from running down her face. It's painful so nobody would berate her for crying, but even now she's too damn proud. Now he aims for her head, and gasps as the trigger hand is yanked behind him by a black chain.

"Relatus!" Lucy yelled eyes wide. "Eneva?" She soon uttered as the silver haired Diclonius came out with…

"Kouta…Nana…" Sure enough there were the two, alive! Gloriously alive! The dark smirk on Hector's face widened again and clapped. "Bravo! Bravo my friends! Bravo!"

"Kaede! I've got him!" Relatus roared, holding his chain tightly so that Jaegar's arm was forced behind his back. Not wasting a single second, Lucy rushed at her enemy putting her vector's together. Perhaps a single blow wouldn't work, but she'd pound his face in until his brains flew out no matter how many times she had to hit him.

"Tsk? As if that…could work on me!" Jaegar yelled pulling from his brown suit another gun and firing it. Lucy barely avoided the shot before Jaegar begin to fire at Relatus who unfortunately did not have the reflexes that Diclonius had. "Relatus! Hold on!" Lucy yelled putting her vectors into his gunshot wound while Leila again viciously attacked Jaegar despite the wounds riddling her body.

Gunshots went off almost in perfect synchronization as the two aristocrats moved in a way that might have been dance. Though they seemed equal physically, mentally Leila was on the losing end because unlike her, Jaegar had already lost everything. "Such grace you do have my beauty." Me said politely, avoiding a blow to the neck. "Don't mock me!" Leila screamed another one of her blows avoided. If only her vectors weren't so negatively affected.

"Mocking? These are manners my dear aristocrat, certainly you understand that?"

She can't stop the kick and feels what might be her entire left ribcage shattering. The fingers grip around her throat and again she's casually tossed away before Jaegar quickly turns around, gun raised up to Relatus' face. The man's shocked features registering as he can clearly see the man's finger on the trigger. The gun fires just as Relatus' chain jerks his arm to the side hitting Jaegar in his gut. He wraps more of his chains, attempting to bind his arms together. The German apparently understood this because he reacts immediately, he reaches inside and pops out a third gun that seemed to float in mid. Wasting not a second longer, the chains bind the man's arm behind him yet it doesn't stop Jaegar from attacking. Mouth wrapping around the pistol, his tongue reaches to the trigger and fires as his eyes widen maliciously. It was due to Leila's actions that he's again saved from the brink of death.

"Murdering…Hector…is…unforgivable!" Each word is said with spite yet with that same callous smile of insanity on his face.

"Kouta."

"Lucy."

"Don't call me that."

She can't even believe her next words were that, but perhaps it's just shock of all that has happened. "My name is Kaede." She muttered with fresh tears in her eyes, hugging him so tightly. Nearly kissing him had her brain not registered what exactly was happening and knowing now wasn't the time unfortunately. "Oh Nana!" And she hugged the Siplitet with all of her might. "You're like a sister to me. I know we never got a good start, but I appreciate everything you did for me, even if I didn't appreciate you in the beginning."

"Th-Thanks Lucy-san."

"Kaede."

"K-Kaede-san."

"And thanks so much Eneva." Lucy said to the silver haired Diclonius girl who nodded politely but gave the battle glimpses every so often. "Kouta, you have no idea how worried I was. I promise I'll never let anyone hurt or torture you again. You helped me so I had to help you." The Queen said somewhat surprised by the perplexed look in Kouta's eyes. "Lu-I mean Kaede. The thing is we were never hurt or tortured. Of course his words catch her by surprise. "Huh? I heard you guys screaming, you all were being hurt so badly. Kouta, for one moment I seriously thought you had been killed. I may have a bit of a psychological problem but I'm not deaf."

"I'm sorry Kaede but physically I was never hurt. I always missed you, and my heart always ached but, the thing is I was never actually hurt."

Lucy blinked in confusion looking at Hector who she had been positive had been torturing her friends and her lover with joy. "Yuka, Mayu, Nozomi?"

"As far as I know none of them were hurt." Kouta said before Relatus and Leila came up, breathing heavily. "Holding up well Leila?" Relatus asked, mostly rhetorically as he could easily tell neither of them were holding up very well. Still the Finnish woman answered him anyways. "Absoutely dandy, damn if I could only use my vectors to their full potential."

"Now you know what we humans feel like."

"This is no time for jokes Relatus."

"Kouta." Lucy began. "You and Nana have to get away, I'm sure there's some boats, please get away."

"No! I won't lose you again." Kouta began, his words filling Lucy's soul with pure happiness, but shaking her head with a sad smile. "I'll deal with Hector and Jaegar, but I've come too far to lose you again. Yuka and the others are safely back on the mainland. Kouta…" She kissed him so passionately there on the burning ship with bullets and vectors flying around wildly. Breaking apart quickly, she looked at him with a smile of pure bliss. "I will never forget what you did for me, my friend, my lover."

"Lucy-San, sorry, Kaede-san is right." Nana said. "They can handle it, Kaede I'll bring Kouta back safely."

"Thank you Nana." Lucy said before turning back to the battle, her attention caught by Jaegar who smiled back, insanity flickering in his eyes. He hesitated not a moment and ran at her as Kouta suddenly put his arms out defensibly in front of Lucy. "No! Kouta!" Nana cried out as the fist flew out. Lucy's vector grasped Jaegar's arm, holding it tightly as her dark expression bore into his face. "What are you doing, Jaegar Kaiser? Did you really think I'd let you hurt him? No amount of insanity will ever account for that. You dare to hurt that man, who I love, now that is an act…

UNFORGIVABLE!"

Swinging him around once before se slams the German on the ground hard, blood spurting from his mouth, Lucy unleashes her rage upon him. Struggling back on his feet, Jaegar instead doubles over from the vector to his gut, clutching and gasping but smiling nonetheless. Doubled over, he rapidly fires as Lucy dodges and swerves in the attempt to avoid lethal shots. "Kouta." Her voice is stern but there is so much love in it. "Please go, I can't fight at my full potential if I'm still worried about your safety."

"Y-yes Kaede." Kouta murmurs, taking Nana's hand and running across the ship. Nobody attacks them and soon they are out of her sight before she crosses her arms, letting the wind rush around her. Her vectors run wild, still visible but now stronger as they tear across the metallic hull of the ship. "Let's end this…" Murder in every syllable of her voice, a voice that is answered by the resounding crash that deafens ears from Hector's powers. A massive explosion from the center of the naval battleship as the colossus is split down the end, Hector laughing maniacally. "Yes! Hurry! Come on! Kaede Lefenair!" Now things become intense, due to Hectors mysterious yet overwhelming powers, he had caused the ship to crack in two. His deadly sights were direct only on Lucy before he too rushed at her like a madman.

The final had come.