Erhard told Derek that he was successful in eliminating Angie's Rosalia Virus infection. He sighed in relief and said, "Thanks, Dr. Muller. Professor Blackwell would have been saddened if his daughter had died because of the Rosalia Virus."
"Hmm, I didn't know that Ms. Thompson was the daughter of Kenneth Blackwell. Anyways, we should probably wait for the SWAT guys." Erhard said.
"Why don't we check up on Angie? I'm sure that it would be alright."
"Agreed. You're probably wondering why Ms. Ross is here, but I can explain that: Tomoe also dragged Tyler and Leslie along for the mission and Heather insisted on coming with us. It actually helped considering that Tomoe, Ms. Sears and Dr. Chase have been treating any injuries the SWAT team receive."
Derek went over to the medical truck to check on Angie and noticed that she was asleep for the moment. He noticed that she was really cute when sleeping. Dr. Stiles decided to rest his hands over her left hand and remained that way for aroud six minutes. She slowly stirred and then her eyes opened.
"H- Hello, Derek." Angie said.
"I was worried about you while you were being operated on. If. . . if you had died, I wouldn't have known what to tell your father."
"Thanks, Doctor. It kinda reminds me of what happened in Britain, but with our positions switched."
"Oh, you mean when I ended up with both Paraskevi and Kyriaki. That wasn't good for me at all. Since we've now been through a situation where one of us had to be operated on, it means that we've experienced a similar hardship."
"You're right, Dr. Stiles. I was worried about what would happen to you when two different GUILT strains had infected you at once." Angie said before getting to a sitting position and then hugging Derek. He was surprised by this gesture and hugged her as well for a few moments before ending it.
After five minutes passed, the SWAT team returned and said that 90% of the structure had been searched and that there were no escape routes detected. "We should probably accompany you guys. We don't know what Heinrich is hiding in the areas that haven't been searched yet." Derek said.
"You're right, Doctor." a member said.
"Angie, please accompany Dr. Stiles and the SWAT team. We have no idea if Heinrich's going to pull a fast one." Erhard said.
Derek, Angie, Erhard, and Heather all went with the SWAT team inside the manor. The team found a rather high chiral reaction coming from a locked room in the basement. After placing a breaching charge on the door and waiting nearby, the charge exploded and the team charged in. "What the. . .! Doctor, over here!" a member exclaimed.
"No, how could they. . . !?" Derek said as he looked into a research tank with two children inside, one of them being male and the other was female.
"They've made more Sinners!?" Angie exclaimed.
". . . Wer sind sie?" one of the children asked.
"Doctor, wh- what are they?" another SWAT member asked.
"They're living incubators. Their bodies are being used to cultivate GUILT! Heinrich, you. . .!" Derek said.
"Stop right there!" a third SWAT member said as he tried to block the way of a masked man that simply ran past and then stopped in front of the research tank.
"Doctor, look out!" Angie said as Heinrich von Raitenau came into view.
"Freeze! Don't move a muscle or we'll shoot!" the first SWAT member said.
"Our sublime plans would have been executed flawlessly, if not for you. But, it's still not too late!" Heinrich exclaimed.
"Nobody go near him! He may be armed with GUILT!" Derek shouted.
"I have underestimated you, Dr. Stiles. But I have learned from the past. I will not be taken as easily as my grandfather."
"What have you learned?! Look at these children! You're repeating the same mistakes all over again!"
"They are no ordinary Sinners. This is Karl, and this is Christine, my son and daughter." Heinrich said before pointing to the boy and girl respectively and conntinuing, "The Prince and Princess of a new dawn for mankind!"
The masked man pulled a syringe out and said, "Heinrich, you sly old fool. Do you honestly believe that GUILT can destroy humanity?"
"What are YOU talking about?" Von Raitenau asked the masked man.
"Even if GUILT were to destroy the current humanity, a better and stronger mankind would simply replace it and the whole thing would have to start all over again. Only the path I take can save the world. You and your children are needed, so in order to learn, take my blessing!"
The masked man injected the syringe into Heinrich before the leader of Delphi could do anything and then injected a similar syringe into the research tank.
"Aaaagh! My stomach!" Heinrich screamed.
". . .Vater. . . Vater!" Karl exclaimed.
"Aua! Ich habe Magenschmerzen!" Christine exclaimed.
"They're all in serious pain!" Angie shouted.
"Somebody stop that masked man!" Derek said.
A SWAT member shot at the masked man, but only managed to graze his body and the man got away, but not before being hit in the arm and dropping a note. Derek picked it up and read it out loud:
'Nous, the Teacher of Virtue.
'Humanity will always exist in some form or another. Your plans to destroy it will be for naught, for our people, the ones chosen by the Aeons will be immune. GUILT will never be able to take the lives of those chosen by us. Recant your absurd philosophy and embrace the power of Neo-GUILT. Nous will lead the way to true salvation.'
"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Derek asked.
"AAAGH! I DON'T KNOW, BUT AT LEAST THAT MOCKERY HAS A NAME! NOUS HAS NO PLACE IN OUR WORLD!" Heinrich exclaimed.
"The GUILT in their bodies must be reacting violently to Nous."
"Dr. Stiles, we'll need to operate on them!" Angie said.
As everyone got ready to operate, three members of the SWAT team went to clear out the rest of the manor.
"All three patients require surgery! We need to determine the order of operation." Angie said.
"Judging by what's going on, it seems that Heinrich is in the most danger. Heather, keep an eye on the children while I try to extract as much information from this lab as possible!" Erhard said.
"Yes, Dr. Muller." Ms. Ross said.
"Now about Heinrich, his liver's been infected with both Tetarti and Nous. Those Nous tumors will interfere with our efforts to get rid of Tetarti if they act at the same time. Our objectives are simple: Eliminate Tetarti, and Eliminate Nous." Angie said.
"There's no time to waste! Let's begin the operation!" Derek exclaimed.
Making an initial incision after sedating Heinrich, it was easy to treat the diverticula by injecting the right serum, but once they were gone and synthetic membranes were placed and affixed, a convulsion occured before a green tumor appeared near where a diverticula was extracted and then a second tumor appeared near it and a third tumor appeared near the right edge of the liver. Then the main body of Nous appeared as three Tetarti bodies surfaced nowhere near the Nous tumors.
"Tetarti and Nous have appeared at the same time! It will be difficult to treat the Nous tumors with Tetarti moving around." Angie stated.
Derek remained silent as he drained and excised the first, then the second and finally the third Nous tumor before attempting to drain and excise Nous itself. The first attempt forced Nous back into the organ as the Tetarti, one of which was blue, another black and the last one yellow, turned white. Dr. Stiles used the respective serum into the Tetarti that matched the serum's color. They quickly surfaced, but the black Tetarti was now purple and the blue one was now green. After they turned white and the colored serum was injected into the correct Tetarti, a Nous tumor appeared next to a Tetarti body going back into the liver, a second appeared near the top and the third one appeared in the center before Nous itself surfaced right next to the first tumor.
Derek was careful when he drained and excisted the first Nous tumor, but it was easy to drain and excise the other two before doing a second attempt to extract Nous. As Nous dove back in, the Green Tetarti turned black, the yellow one turned green and the purple one was now blue as they surfaced. Making sure to inject the correct serum, Dr. Stiles did so after the Tetarti turned they retreated again, a Nous tumor appeared at the bottom of the liver, then a second one appeared a short distance to the right, a third on the left side, and finally a fourth Nous tumor appeared in the center as Nous itself surfaced to the left of the last tumor. Draining the tumors as mildly challenging, but a third attempt on Nous could happen. It dove back in as the Tetrati surfaced, not even bothering to change colors. That proved to be a mistake as they got a dose of serum matching their color when they turned white.
This time the Tetarti remained up top as four Nous tumors appeared on the right side of the liver, one near the top right corner first, then one a short distance below, then a third a fair distance below it, and a fourth Nous tumor appearing in the bottom right corner before Nous itself appeared on the left side. The black Tetarti turned blue, the green turned purple and the blue one turned yellow. Derek treated the Nous tumors first and when they were gone, the Tetarti all turned white. Making sure to use the correct serum, Dr. Stiles defeated the Tetarti and made a fourth attempt to drain and excise Nous. The attempt succeeded for some reason as a convulsion occurred beofre Nous was eliminated.
"Chiral reaction is negative! Nous and Tetarti have been eliminiated!" Angie said.
"Do you think that Nous was somehow weakened by the Tetarti in Heinrich? It wasn't as difficult to remove as it was for Emilio." Derek asked.
"That's the most likely scenario. We'll need to close him up and then treat Karl. According to Ms. Ross, his condition's gotten worse."
After closing up the incision and disinfecting it before putting a bandage on it, Dr. Stiles moved onto Karl and made an initial incision after the reaction from him was Kyriaki and Nous. Treating him was easier since the Nous didn't start showing up until Kyriaki was defeated. After Karl was closed up, Derek and Angie finally moved onto Christine, who had Pempti and Nous affecting the right lung. Just like with Karl, Nous itself didn't attack until Pempti was defeated. With both of Heinrich's children, the Guilt had obviously weakened Nous since for each of them it took only three attempts to excise the main body to destroy it.
"It looks like all three of them have been operated on successfully. Great work there, Dr. Stiles." Angie said to Derek.
"Data retrieval complete! Now we can leave." Erhard said.
