Hey everyone!

Thanks to the last delay, this chapter in turn ended up delayed too. But luckily, it was much quicker to write up. That said, I had a blast writing this particular chapter. ;)

Hope you all enjoy it too - this one's got a bit more action than the average!

As before, I'd like to thank those who took the time and effort to give me feedback for the last update. Big thanks to GermanSheperdDog, NachtSchatten, SMRA, and Shaj95. You guys are awesome! :)

Presenting Chapter 25 -

°¤~ ▪《{Arc FOUR: Apple of Carpathia}》▪ ~¤°

PART FIVE

~ 025: Preserved Dreams ~

The crowd roars to welcome the first performing band as the Halloween-themed concert opens. The leader and vocalist of the band greets the audience in a lively manner before signaling for her fellow performers to begin their song with a catchy phrase.

Backstage, A2 listens silently besides RE:Mordred as they start their song. A while has gone by since Kai had departed to rescue Linnea from her captor. She had summoned her robotic attendant to her side in the meantime to keep her company while working on a program that will be used to assist Kai in his rescue operation.

Finishing the final line of the program, she sends it off to be automatically installed onto the Nymph and takes a deep breath.

"How are you feeling?" her robot asks her, still holding out a small tray containing a medical container and small cup of water.

"Much better now, thank you," A2 responds to it kindly. Turning to it, she notices what its still holding and adds, "You can put that away now."

RE:Mordred obliges and puts the medical tray back inside of an empty compartment inside itself.

Carefully, she gets up with RE:Mordred's support. Now able to stand, she straightens her dress and heads down the hall. Eventually reaching the stage area, she watches the performers from behind the curtains at the side. Although her eyes are focused on the performers, her expression indicates that her mind is elsewhere, lost in thought and worried about something else of far greater importance. Unable to enjoy the show, she turns from the musicians on stage to go elsewhere as the song enters its second verse. As she turns, she is greeted by the gaze of a girl in a sailor school uniform staring fanatically at her from beside her.

Curious and somewhat concerned what has the girl's eyes glued on her, A2 speaks to her, "Is there some reason why you are staring at me this way?"

Realizing her rude behavior, the girl snaps out of her trance. She replies, "Oh my god, sorry! But it's just… I really like your costume!"

"…Thank you," A2 responds somewhat reluctantly. The praise should really be directed to Linnea…

She turns to leave the area now that she knows the reason she was being stared at but the girl asks additionally, "Uhm…Can I ask if you're the one who made the costume?"

A2 returns her attention to the girl. She responds, "You're already asking…But no, I'm not the one who made this; a very dear friend of mine made it for me."

"Oh…" the girl responds, still examining her costume. She notes, "It's just…it's really well-made. Your friend must be really talented…"

"I thank you on her behalf," A2 replies.

She waits a moment to see if this girl has anything else to say. As she is about to leave, the girl asks with a friendly smile, "Is your favorite character Euterpe too, by the way?"

A2 replies, "Not really."

Interested, the girl then asks, "Then how come you're dressed as her?"

"My friend insisted," A2 responds simply. She then adds in hopes of ending the conversation, "I'm not actually familiar with the character or the anime. I've only seen the last episode so..."

"Oh my gosh!" the girl exclaims before she could even finish. She then insists, "Then you should totally start from the beginning and watch it all properly!"

"Huh?" A2 is somewhat taken aback by the enthusiasm of her conversation mate.

"It's like...the best anime of the year and Euterpe is just an awesome character." The fan girl continues.

A2 responds, "That's very general praise and I'm not actually sure its a convincing reason for me to spend between 480 to 600 minutes on 24 total episodes of an anime..."

"No really, trust me, it's totally worth it!" the anime fan girl squeals.

"I don't even know the full synopsis…" A2 points out.

"I'll tell you!" The fan girl offers. She then begins to ramble about it, "The show starts with Axel running from bandits while traveling to his nation's capital to become an apprentice sword smith and then in the forest, he stumbles into the garden of what rumors say belongs to a cruel hearted witch. Then he meets Euterpe, who's like everyone's favorite character, and they don't actually get along at first 'cause he's trespassing but she agrees to help him deal with the bandits anyway on the condition that he repays her by agreeing to do any and all reasonable requests she asks of him. He agrees but basically ends up her house servant so he kind of thought the rumors were true that she's cruel…"

A2 looks away and notes the somewhat familiar circumstances in the synopsis.

"…Then one day, he saves a girl from being pickpocketed and it turns out she's the princess of the kingdom, Marina. He also makes some friends during his studies and Euterpe didn't actually care what he was doing at that point but he also learns she's not as bad as he thought..."

A2 reacts slightly to that, but passively allows the other girl to continue.

"…Then war breaks out between his nation and an enemy one and the king requests aid from his subjects but doesn't order a draft 'cus he's nice. I kind of never got why he doesn't draft when he needed to, but basically Axel ended up enlisting anyway after his date with Marina 'cus he saved her from a bunch of thugs and the king was talking about the nation's problems with him and got him feeling all concerned. This made Euterpe really cold and distant with him though. Axel noticed and tried to see what was wrong but ended up falling in love with her even though Marina already liked him…"

A2 turns away and thinks for a moment.

"…One day an enemy unit invades but they don't do any real damage, just goes to Euterpe's house to pick her up. Axel learns she's actually a genetically recreated fairy made by the enemy and got really upset and because he defended her, he got tried for treason but Marina defended him and he even got ranked up and-"

"You're basically spoiling the whole show." A2 points out to her to finally stop her.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry for that!" The fan girl then tries to explain, "I got really carried away and-"

"It's fine," A2 tells her. She turns in preparation to leave, but asks, "In your opinion, what was it that made Euterpe such a great character?"

"Huh?" the fan girl looks at her surprised by the question. "Uhm…"

"You have went into far more detail than necessary for a synopsis, but I never did learn why Euterpe is so highly regarded as a character," A2 explains to her.

The girl answers, "I think a lot of people liked her because she was always giving her all to help others."

A2 waits for the girl to elaborate.

"The first was Axel, but she did a lot for Marina and other characters as well through the story. She didn't voluntarily help their enemies either, just forced to. She even died at the end for the sake of people she loved."

"I see, I guess that's indeed admirable," A2 comments. She then bids the other girl farewell as the first song of the concert ends, "I will go now, it was a pleasure speaking with you."

…

Out at sea, the LPF-01 Nymph flies swiftly eastward.

Inside the cockpit of the black titan, Kai struggles noticeably to interact with the machine. Although the machine is controlled fully by interpretation of his brainwaves through the N-Linker system and A2 had previously described the system as not 'hard to grasp', his easiest task so far had been obtaining authorization to use the machine by allowing A2's robotic assistants to register his brainwave signature. After that, actually piloting the machine itself could be described as suddenly having to control an unfamiliar, stronger, more sensitive body simultaneously alongside his real, biological one.

He is constantly overwhelmed by the extra load of environmental information being directly sent from the machine to his mind. The machine's eyes are capable of significantly higher visual acuity than his biological eyes are. The visible spectrum of EM waves are also expanded; he is able to see through the Nymph's visual detectors, signals from as low frequency as the infrared wavelengths to as high frequency as gamma rays. His hearing is enhanced as well in the same manner as his sight. The machine's equivalent to a sense of smell also allows for a higher understanding of the surrounding air content. His movement and movement strength for every part of the machine are also quantized and processed in the form of vector measurements in meters per second, degrees per second or joules per second. Had all this information been displayed on an instrument like traditional vehicles and planes, he was certain that he would have effectively been blind due to all the meters and displays taking up too much space to let him see outside.

Kai looks around on the machine's screen. According to the Nymph, he should be closing in to where Linnea's kidnapper told A2 to meet him at. The location seems to be in international waters, smack in the middle of the Atlantic.

He continues his flight calmly, coping with the strain of the extra sensory information to the best of his ability.

Eventually, he detects a large vessel ahead, first by the Nymph, then on screen. Believing that to be where Linnea is held, he flies closer, slowing down as smoothly as he can control.

However, he soon abruptly stops.

Although he cannot see it himself, the Nymph is detecting abnormal particle phenomenon all around him. Analysis by the program A2 uploaded a few minutes ago suggests that should he steer his machine into a space where the particle abnormality is, his machine's energy generation system's output will significantly decrease.

'So A2 was right,' Kai notes the presence of the trap. Linnea was just bait to bring her here.

He refocuses on the large cargo ship some ways ahead. Zooming in using the machine's vision, he spots a man on top of the ship's superstructure, dressed in some kind of pilot suit whose face is covered by his helmet. Beside him sits a familiar towhead already in her Halloween costume and bound by ropes to her own seat.

"Linnea!" Kai exclaims intuitively.

Below, hearing his voice projected and recognizing it, Linnea, responds in surprise, "Kai?!"

Beside her, her kidnapper looks up to the titanic, black machine with a pair of binoculars. Noticing some extra equipment on it, he mentally notes, 'This looks different from the picture in the data files I got for the machine…'

He turns to the bound girl at his side and asks in a low whisper, "Hey, how many people besides just you call A2 a 'friend'?"

Linnea turns to him. Recalling the way he taunted her about being A2's friend earlier, she retaliates his opinion of her friendship with A2 through her response, "I don't know, but Kai is also definitely her friend too!"

The young man gazes at her for a moment and analyzes her response. 'So probably just this dude it seems…'

He then takes out an N-Linker equipped handheld device similar to that of the one used by A2. Putting on the headpiece, he turns back to the Nymph.

High above them, unable to perceive more than fragmented words of the exchange between Linnea and her kidnapper despite the enhanced senses of his machine, Kai watches the actions of the man below. 'What is he doing?'

However, his thoughts are soon answered when he perceives the area affected by the abnormal particle phenomenon moving quickly towards his machine. He attempts to move from its trajectory but soon finds his energy generator's output significantly reduced. Unable to maintain his altitude, he descends as smoothly as he can towards the deck of the lone cargo ship visible to him, the particle anomaly following his movement.

Soon after his landing, he discovers that much of the machine has been shut down due to insufficient energy. The only systems remaining operational are the N-Linker system and the interfaces immediate to him in the cockpit.

He receives a request for communication from a nearby source. Presuming it is from Linnea's kidnapper, he approves of the request.

The kidnapper gets straight to the point, "Is A2 in there?"

Kai hesitates for a moment. Low on energy and unable to move his machine, he supposes there aren't many other options than to respond to him. Since he cannot see a benefit in lying, he replies honestly, "No, she's not."

"That's a shame…" The kidnapper comments on the other end. He notes mentally, 'But within expectations, I suppose...'

Keeping an eye on the disabled machine, he takes a moment to rethink the current situation. Based on the lack of additional names in Linnea's response, there is unlikely to be anyone else coming in A2's place. If he were to keep this 'Kai' dude trapped using the L-Jammer system Elena provided him, he could send A2 another message to get her to come here…

However, he takes note of the extra gear on the Nymph. While he was not provided with a datasheet to explain what they are, judging from looks, they seem to be some kind of ranged weaponry.

'Are those add-ons developed on request from the military?' He wonders. 'Guess A2 had this guy come equipped with them. She must've anticipated I'd use her own particle decay jammers against her then. Shame the pilot was too dumb to use them before he got nailed.'

The kidnapper then eyes Linnea briefly before turning back to the disabled black machine. 'But for someone else to have willingly came in her place and for her to have taken precautions for him, maybe…'

A red light on the ranged weapon catches his eye. He focuses on them with binoculars. Looking around, they do not seem to be connected to the Nymph at all other than being held by the hand of the Nymph. 'Are they powered using a separate energy system than the main machine?'

He is unable to finish his thoughts however, as the very weapon he is studying fires a projectile. Whatever was fired soon makes contact with something some distance below the surface of the ocean, resulting in an underwater explosion.

Inside the cockpit, Kai notes the explosion. 'Got one!'

Although he had no clue what the Linnea's captor was doing just looking at him all this time, using A2's program, he had managed to discover that the abnormal particle field influencing his energy systems seem to be generated by a set of nodes set up deep underwater and hidden from view. Luckily, the weapon A2 had equipped on the Nymph landed with him in such a way that it was practically aimed at one of the nodes. Now that his energy generation is slightly restored, if he could just destroy the remaining nodes…

Kai moves his machine's arm slowly at only a fraction of a degree per second to hit the next one.

On deck, the suited kidnapper curses, "Fuck me."

Realizing the situation, he changes his mind about keeping Kai here. Although he had completely locked down the Nymph's primary functions, he did not anticipate the Nymph would come with a separately energized ranged weapon and certainly not the misfortune that it would land pointed straight at one of the jammers. This would not have been a problem had Elena provided him a spare, but since she had insisted he take the minimum required jammers due to their production costs, the pilot inside the Nymph is now able to destroy the remaining nodes one by one. At this rate, even if he threatened the girl's life to keep the pilot from continuing to free himself, his life would eventually be forfeit.

Deciding that neither the prisoners nor his personal goal is worth risking his life or any grievous injuries, he quickly turns to leave the scene through the door behind him.

"Huh?" Linnea stares after him, having took note of him leaving.

She wonders what the man who kidnapped her will do next. However, she does not have time to elaborate her thoughts on it as another underwater explosion occurs, noticeably rocking the otherwise stable ship on which she is on.

"Hold on, Linnea!" Kai calls out to her.

Linnea looks to him with hope from her seat. "Okay!"

Having successfully destroyed the second node, Kai begins moving onto the next one, now able to maneuver a little more smoothly.

Meanwhile on the bridge of the ship, a couple of suited men watch their actions below. Their leader suddenly receives a call. He responds to the female voice on the other end and eventually replies, "Yes, no problem, we will get rid of the evidence then."

Nodding to his team, the group exits the bridge.

Below, Linnea continues to watch and brace as Kai destroys the third, then fourth, then fifth node, aiming at each quicker than the last. Having regained significant energy output by now, Kai is getting rid of the remaining nodes at an increasing pace.

"Three more 'til we can fly!" Kai notes out loud inside the cockpit, moving the machine's arm to one of the remaining ones.

His focus is thrown off for the next one however, as several explosions occur onboard the ship, mainly at the sides. Linnea lets out a shrill cry as she braces herself from her bound position.

Before either of them could react to the explosions, however, they notice the ship beginning to destabilize.

Linnea looks around through smoke rising from the damaged parts of the ship. She could feel her chair sliding slightly on the deck towards a side.

"Um…" she panics, turning to Kai. "Are we…still gonna be okay?"

Kai looks around him through the machine's senses. Not only is the deck slanted compared to before, but he is also noticing a continuing change in elevation. Did the bastard who kidnapped Linnea decide to scuttle the ship with explosives? He did just leave the deck earlier…Was A2 right about him having prepared some form of escape?

In any case, he can't bring himself and Linnea home without trashing at least 3 more of the nodes that are jamming his main energy systems. Since A2's prototype rifle is beginning to run low on energy, his next three shots are going to have to count…

For now, he carefully walks forward some distance and picks up the frightened girl before him to secure her safety. Meanwhile, he prepares to aim for the remaining three nodes, though with more difficulty than before due to the ship's movement from loss of buoyancy and general destabilization from damage. Estimating the change in trajectory to the best of his ability, he fires his first shot.

"One," he notes the accompanying underwater explosion and rise in the Nymph's energy output. He then moves onto the next one.

"Two…"

Around him, the deck begins to flood as the ship sinks. In the palm of his machine's hand, he could see Linnea's panicked expression.

"Kai…?" she whimpers, looking up at him. He didn't really have time to give her an answer of comfort earlier when she asked him if they'd be alright.

He continues aiming for the last node, however, knowing that until it's gone, he will have no control over his altitude. Noticing that he likely has enough energy for just one more shot, he takes a deep breath. Just as before, he estimates the effect of the ship's movement on his aim. When he feels there's no better he can do to ensure the shot hits its target, he fires.

Unlike before, this time, there is no noticeable explosion under the water.

Kai panics.

Did he miss? And if he did, can he somehow move out of its range? Or will he sink with the ship?

An increase in his energy output sends him relief however. While he may not have completely destroyed the last one, it seems he has at least reduced its efficiency. Noting that he has just enough energy output to hover, he immediately does so and moves away from the last node as swiftly as his energy system allows.

Once at far enough to escape the jammer's range, he takes a deep breath in relief. Bringing Linnea closer to the front of the cockpit, he opens his hatch and steps out to greet her.

"You okay?" he asks her.

The petrified girl doesn't respond verbally to him.

Noting the binds that still restrain her, he approaches her and quickly frees her. As soon as he does, she gets up from her seat and embraces him, which in turn surprises and trips him, causing them both to fall backwards onto the floor of the cockpit.

Kai is not immediately sure what to say or do.

Was she that scared?

Did her kidnapper do anything to her before he arrived?

She was quite a sheltered girl until recently too. To first get kidnapped and then be in danger of sinking with a scuttled ship…Even if she suffered no physical injuries that he could see, this must have affected her quite a bit.

He could hear her soft sobs and feel her warm tears wetting his shoulder.

Though still unsure how to treat her, he gently places his arms around her and tells her, "It's okay now. I'll take us back to campus."

She continues to cry and sob, but responds shortly with a nod. "Okay."

…

A loud cheer sounds from the audience as a duo of performers finishes their piece. They bow to the audience and soon returns to the back stage area. Soon after, a young man, dressed as a Halloween themed version of the school's mascot, runs excitedly onto the center of the stage.

Waving to the audience, he asks them, "How did you all like that?"

The audience responds loudly and collectively in cheering voices, some giving shout outs to specific performers as well.

The man in the costume jumps happily in response and waves. He then continues the show, "Next up, we have a beautiful nocturne by the lovely Seraphina Fenice, or Sera as she likes to be called by her peers!"

From the audience Linnea's and Sera's friends cheer especially loudly.

Stepping aside to get ready to retreat from the spotlight on stage, he adds, "Everyone, please give her a warm welcome!"

Following his line, the stage darkens. When the spotlight next lights, a veiled witch in a purple dress and cloak is illuminated. She stands still as the audience cheers her on. Linnea's and Sera's friends however, suddenly become silent.

Backstage, the two girls who had been gossiping earlier whisper amongst themselves.

"I'm surprised those two girls showed up after all," one of them says.

"Yeah, everyone was ready to change stuff up too when the show started and they still didn't show," her friend comments.

On stage, the witch steps forward towards the center of the stage. Taking a deep breath, she begins to sing in a powerful, but delicate vibrato.

"Deep inside of my heart, there was a voice crying out to me

I smiled along, even though it shook me to do so…"

Behind the curtains in the back, one of the girls asks the other, "Was this what we rehearsed?"

"…Starry nights under the moon, I questioned my own decision

Even so, I forced myself to believe this was for the best…"

Continuing to listen to the a cappella while watching the witch approach the concert piano, the other girl responds, "I don't know…but I don't think so, what's going on?"

Up in the control booth, several people including the technicians look to each other in confusion as the witch begins to accompany her singing using the keyboard instrument on stage.

"What's going on?" the director of the event asks the rest. "Who is that?"

"Not sure, but that's not even one of performers." Her assistant responds to her. He comments however as he watches her enter the chorus of her song, "She's pretty good though."

"So should we pull her off the stage?" one of the others asks.

"Think it's too late for that," the assistant director responds. "I mean, her performance is good so if we do, it'd just look unprofessional…"

"I guess we let her finish then?" the director concludes, still confused and stunned by the unprecedented situation.

…

Flying steadily back to the campus that they've made home, Kai glances down at Linnea who is sitting on his lap, still clinging to him. For the most part, he has succeeded at calming her down. The two of them have been flying in silence so far.

As he returns his attention to the machine's trajectory, Linnea finally speaks. "Thank…you."

"Hm?" Kai glances back to her.

"For saving me," Linnea clarifies. "You've helped or saved me quite a handful of times already, but, I thought I should thank you again anyway."

"You're…welcome…I guess," Kai hesitantly tells her, returning his attention to their flight.

He is not quite sure how he should've responded to that. While it's not the first time someone has thanked him, he wouldn't say he commonly gets thanked for so many things by the same person in the span of a little more than a month.

That, and Linnea's expressions of gratitude have been rather oddly deliberate. Is there something else she is trying to express? She certainly was trying tell him something a while back…

He shrugs off the thought.

If she has something to tell him, she will eventually do so. If not, it's probably not his concern.

He glances at her again to check on her. She seems to be looking rather dejected at the sunset displayed on the screen. Concerned for her, he asks, "Something the matter?"

Startled, Linnea responds, "Oh, no…it's nothing!"

Kai turns back to piloting, but Linnea decides to tell him truthfully. "Well…actually, it is something."

Kai keeps his eyes out for any aircrafts ahead, but continues to listen.

"It's just…well…I'll probably miss my chance to perform since I didn't get to the concert hall to check in with the staff in time...that's all…" Linnea tells him, her eyes beginning to tear up. "I was looking forward to it so much too…and everyone encouraged me for it as well…and all the work I put in to write the song and time I spent practicing…"

Kai feels bad for her as he watches her cry yet again.

While he wasn't there to see her go through every detail of the process, he did see how nervous she got at pretty much every step of the way and how she prioritized it over many other things she could've done instead. Even though the other day she said that she isn't sure about making singing a full-blown career, she was still passionately working towards today's concert.

He holds her tighter to him as a way to comfort her. "It's okay."

Her tears do not stop, however.

"The most important thing is that you're now safe," Kai tells her. He further tries to cheer her up, "Maybe they'll hold another concert next year. But if not, and if you're serious about singing, I'm sure A2 can ask her brother to help you out. You'll get another chance some day."

Linnea nods. She wipes her tears away and tries to stop crying to the best of her ability.

After this, they continue their flight in relative silence for some ways with Linnea wiping away the occasional tear. Outside, the sun is about to disappear beyond the horizon.

To break up the silence a bit, Linnea asks, "So how come you came alone with A2's machine? How did you know where I was? The man who kidnapped me mentioned that his target was A2, so how did you end up getting involved?"

Reminded of A2 now, Kai mentally scolds himself as he remembers the state he left her in when he ran off to rescue Linnea. After securing Linnea, he should've contacted her to make sure she was alright. Besides, no pun intended, but A2's probably still worried sick for her…

Kai answers Linnea meanwhile however, "When A2 found out what happened to you, she was going to come save you herself. She fell sick at the last minute."

"I see," Linnea responds. She then adds with a smile, "I'll thank her as well the next time I see her then."

Kai notes that with a relaxed smile.

Noting their position relative to campus, he begins to descend so he can drop Linnea off. He recalls Linnea mentioning to him that all her friends were going to be at the concert. Even though she has likely missed her chance, he could at least drop her off where her friends are at. Besides, if she's really lucky, maybe she might get to perform just in time, though he doubts this to be so given what she told him.

Finding an empty spot in front of the concert hall, Kai lands gently and kneels down with the machine. Opening his hatch, he helps Linnea climb off onto the ground.

"Thank you again for saving me," Linnea tells him while waving once she is on the ground before dashing off to the door of the concert hall.

Kai smiles, watching her go.

Having fulfilled his word to A2, he takes out his phone to text her his report. He is surprised however, when he finds his phone turned off. Attempting to turn it back on, he realizes he must have forgotten to charge it the night before and so it must've died sometime while he was rescuing Linnea.

'Guess I'll contact her the other way…' He notes, recalling the pair off earrings they share.

Switching on the disguised communication device to allow both transmission and reception, he tries to get a hold of her, "A2, you there?"

To his surprise, only music is audible on the other end.

"A2?" Kai calls her name again.

Did she leave her earring with transmission turned on by mistake? What is she doing right now? Is she attending the concert? That song sounds like something being performed live and close by to the earring.

He continues to listen to the intense and emotional arpeggio being played on piano on the other end. Eventually he realizes something.

'Wait…'

He turns to the concert hall in disbelief as he begins to hear the audience roar through the earring at the end of the song.

'It can't be… That song is…'

…

Linnea runs and runs with every ounce of energy she could muster through the halls backstage. The chance is low, but she wants to at least try her very best to the very last moment. They've probably changed the line-up since she didn't check in, but even so…even if it's just by some remote chance…

She stops to catch her breath as she reaches the area immediately behind the curtains of the stage. Some of the other performers and stage crew take notice of her presence as well and watch her with some concern.

Beyond the curtain, the crowd roars in response to the school mascot announcing Linnea's name and turn to perform.

Dumbstruck, Linnea looks up. "Wha…How?"

She slowly steps through the curtain onto the stage regardless.

As the spotlights shines on her, she could hear her friends cheering her name. "Linnea! We love you!"

"Just try your best, Linnea!"

Hearing her friends' voices, Linnea snaps out of her stupefied state. Looking around her, a wide smile forms on her face and her eyes glitter with tears of relief and joy.

Without another thought, she happily runs up to the standing microphone that's been prepared for her.

Hm...Hope you guys enjoyed that. I have some stuff I need to do IRL though, so I'll try to update as soon as I can.

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