Hey everybody, I hope you are all doing ok, and I hope you are doing everything you can do to keep yourself from getting the coronavirus. So in the last chapter, we saw Ben enter Nyu's mind again and saw another sad backstory of her losing another friend. And Ben got a glimpse of the mysterious Diclonius Institute, all the while making him a bit distrustful towards Kurama. What other dark secrets will Ben discover? We will just have to wait and see.

To the mysterious Mr. E: It was in the OVA as well, but it was not described as great. And yea, Lucy's backstory is pretty sad, yes it does not excuse her of her crimes, but can you really blame her? It was all a mix of both the bullying and discrimination and the DNA Voice's manipulations.

To demonicwolf1999: How she will react? Well just read the chapter and you will find out. This is going to play out mostly for the manga, with the 6-month Timeskip. You will just have to keep on reading and see. I will not spoil anything.

To Starlod Master: Thank you. OVAs are nice and it's good breathers form the more serious parts of the main series. I do, you can go to my profile and check them out. I did see that, and it was pretty good.

To gamecubenut: I'm not going to spoil anything, but who said that he lied? I mean sure there is a picture of a girl at the ending who looks like her, but it was never stated that it was her, sure she had the name but it was never confirmed if I remember correctly.

To Bloodguy: Sorry, Procrastination is a habit of mine.

To Akashic Records: Well if you remember, they did not know. Sure it was stupid of them, but remember, the professor threatened dot take legal action against them. Ben didn't know either due to tot eh same reason, he didn't know that the professor was Kakuzawa's son. Also, how is Ben out of character?

Ben 10 belongs to Man of Action and Cartoon Network

Elfen Lied belongs to writer Lynn Okamoto and Weekly Young Jump and the anime was produced by Arms and licensed by Sentai Filmworks


Maple Inn

Ben was laying down on his futon looking up into the ceiling. He couldn't sleep that night. No, he could not. After witnessing another horrible memory in Nyu's head, he had so many questions going on inside his head. Mainly concerning that area that Kurama had Nyu locked up in. He also remembered that Nana had horses well...did she come from the same place?

"*Sigh* All of this is making me go nuts." Ben thought. "I seriously need to get some answers on what is going on here." He thought.

"Just what the hell is that place? Some kind of lab? I need to figure it out." Ben said as he was trying to just get some sleep. But he just couldn't, maybe a glass of water and a cookie might help out.

So Ben got out of hsi futon and tip-toed into the kitchen, making sure to not wake anyone up. He went over to the cupboard and got out a glass and brought it over to the sink to fill it up. He also reached a jar on top of the fridge and took out one of the bird cookies from earlier.

Ben grabbed a cookie and took a bite out of it, savoring the yummy taste of brown sugar.

"So delicious." He said she took a sip of water as well. "I still need to find out more about that facility though." He said as he took another sip of water, after drinking it all he washed the cup very quietly dried it and put it in the dish drainer and tip-toed back to his room. Meanwhile, Mayu and Nana, who heard a bit of the commotion, came out and saw the older boy go back to his room.

The two girls walked back in their own room, Mayu had offered to share hers with Nana for the time being.

"Nana, what do you think is wrong with Ben?" Mayu asked the pin-haired girl.

"I don't know." The girl said as she shrugged her shoulders. She didn't do it to be mean, she really didn't know what was wrong.

"I'm starting to get worried for him. Tonight, he seems really off for some reason." Mayu said with a glint of concern in her voice. Ever since they met, and ever since Ben had kicked her stepfather's ass. Mayu has begun to look up to Ben, to the point where she viewed him as an older brother. And the way he has been acting tonight I'm worried about him.

Nana also felt it a bit, while she did not know him as long as Mayu did, but Ben did save her from Lucy. Not to mention, he also restored her arms and legs after they were cut off. After seeing the kind side of him, Nana was happier around him, where she also felt like he was an older brother.

"I bet we can get him to tell us tomorrow," Nana said with a girl as she leaped onto her futon and was about to go to sleep.

"Yea...I hope." Mayu said as she went to go lie on her own futon next to Nana's. As she was about to go to sleep, she still couldn't help but worry about Ben. Was it something about Nyu? Only time could tell.

Nana actually felt it too, was it something to do with Lucy? He went in her mind after all, what did he see? What could he have seen that made him act a bit hesitant tonight? She thought it might have been all the murderers that Lucy had committed over time and Ben was finally seeing for the monster Lucy was. Well...even so, that doesn't mean that he had to be upset about it though, Nana was hoping that Ben would be alright.


Lucy's Mind/The Orphanage

Lucy was walking down a hall, the hall of the Orphanage she was once in. The place where it all began...the place….where she committed her first kills. Lucy was not an idiot, she knows that Ben had seen her memories, her past, her childhood….Aiko, Kouta….

"He saw everything….my past….everything. So why the hell would he be nice to me?" She thought as she stopped walking and slumped down against a wall. "He knows what I am….a monster….a killer….why does he care about me?"

Lucy's legs curled up to her chest and she put her head in between them. This was a very difficult thing to think about. She found out about him going into her mind, a thing that made her even more curious about the boy. Just what was he? And what was his game?

"Maybe it is trying to find a weakness?" Lucy looked up to see a familiar figure, a figure she gave a hard look towards. It was the DNA voice, now taking on her current appearance, but with the wraps still on her face.

"I doubt that." Lucy said as she looked away from the figure. But the Voice retained that grin of hers.

"What do you mean child?" The DNA voice said as she knelt down to her. "I am only speaking the truth."

Lucy sent a glare at the voice. "Shut up!" She told her.

The voice scoffed and got up. "Believe what you want, but know this. That Tennyson boy needs to be eliminated soon, who knows? He might try to kill you." It said as it vanished away.

Lucy was looking at the now empty space where the voice once stood and looked down.

"Tennyson….Ben...if you know what's good for you. You'll leave Kamakura...and go back home." Lucy said solemnly.

"Nyu!" Lucy heard a voice and walked right to a doorway, and saw Nyu sitting down, with her legs swinging and drawing a picture with a happy smile on her face.

Lucy gave a small smile and turned away. "I wish I was like her...without these horns….I could live a happy life…"

As Lucy was staring down, Ben came into her mind again. He was like Kouta, he was nice, sweet, caring. Through Nyu, Lucy was beginning to feel something. Could it be...love? It shouldn't, Kouta was the only human she could ever love….right?

"Kouta…..Tennyson." Lucy said as the images of the two boys were in her head. "You're both too kind…" She said solemnly, as then the area began to grow dark. But something on Lucy's mind was intact. What was Ben Tennyson?


Maple Inn

The next morning, everyone had gotten up and gone into the dining room for breakfast, today was a delicious meal consisting of steamed rice, miso soup, and some yummy grilled fish, with a side dish consisting of eggs.

"Itadakimasu!" Everyone said with a smile as they began to dig in.

"Come on, dang it!" Well...almost everyone. Ben still had issues trying to handle chopsticks. And as such he was simply jabbing into the rice, or at least trying to get it. It was a sight that made Mayu, Nana, and Nyu giggle at.

"*Sigh* let me help you out, Ben." Yuka said as she grabbed onto Ben's fingers and helped him grip it right.

"Sorry Yuka, all I'm familiar with is eating with a fork." The boy said with a blush on his face.

"It's alright Ben." Yuka said to him.

"Not everyone is skilled with chopsticks for the first time." Kouta said as he took a sip of his tea.

"Can you blame me?" Ben asked with a deadpan expression as he took a bite of his rice.

Nyu took a glance over at Ben, and then over at Kouta, and she started to blush at seeing the two of them. Something was going on in her chest, every time she faced either one of them, her heart began to beat fast. But she couldn't figure out why though….it was so weird.

"So anyway," Ben said. "What's on the agenda for today?" He asked.

Yuka turned to face him, "Nothing really, Nozomi is coming over in a little bit for more studying, so I would like it if we can clean up a bit after we are done eating."

"Ok, sounds fair." Kouta said as he took a sip of his tea again.

"Good, Ben, you can handle the futons right?" Yuka asked.

"Got it."

"Ok, then Nyu and I can sweep the front porch, and Mayu and Nana can scrub the hallway. Kouta can take care of the dishes."

Kouta, however, was shocked about that. "What? Why me?"

"Just do it." Yuka said as she gave him a death glare.

"Yes, ma'am!" He said nervously.

"*Whip sound*" Ben said teasingly, much to Kouta's ire and making Mayu and Nyu giggle.

"Zip it!" Kouta said to the boy, causing Ben to smile cheekily and continue eating his food.

10 minutes later….

Ben was in his room, folding up hsi futon and making sure everything was all cleaned up nicely. After this, he went to Yuka's room and Kouta's room to do the same. After he came out, he saw Mayu and Nana scrubbing the floor a bit, and he gave a small smile at how Nana was slowly adjusting well to life here...now if only he can tell her about Nyu…

Speaking of, as the two girls were scrubbing up the floor, they still could not help but feel sorry about the boy they considered a brother. What did he see in Nyu's head that made him solemn? Nana was the one who wanted to know about it the most.

"I really wonder what Ben saw in Lucy's head last night." Nana said as he scrubbed.

"Hey Nana," Mayu said to her. "Why do you keep calling her Lucy?"

"That's her name, it's Lucy. I don't know where you called her Nyu from."

"Well, Ben told me that they called her Nyu because she is always saying that word." Mayu said to her. "But it's good that she is learning new words though." As she said this Mayu was still scrubbing the floor.

Nana remembered when Ben told her about trying to be civil with Nyu, and so far she wanted to, and she did want to try. But how could she? The girl TORE her limbs off! Thank god that Ben was there to restore them. Then again….she saw how Ben acted last night after he came back from inside her head...what happened in there?

"Ben...what did you see?" Nana wondered in her mind.

Meanwhile, Yuka and Nyu were both out on the front porch sweeping up some of the leaves that were still there from last night. All they were doing was sweeping the leaves off to the side on the lawn, with Yuka making a note to take care of them later.

"Kouta…" She thought. "That kiss we shared back at the shrine...did you feel anything for me? I know it's been a long time since the festival….but I just want to know..." She said as she gave a small frown. As she was doing this, she was unaware that Nyu was playing with one of the leaves, with her putting the leaf on her nose and giggling to herself.

Yuka stopped to see what Nyu was doing and gave a small smile while giggling. "Still though...I really want to learn more about her, I still wonder if Nana might have connections to her, due to their horns and stuff like that."

Kouta was inside the kitchen and scrubbing up the last dish from breakfast. After he put it in the drainer he sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"Phew, that takes care of that." He thought. As he was looking into the sink, images of Nyu were coming up in his head. "I can't deny that she is cute, with her hair and eyes. And that sweet smile." He said with a smile. "But still...I honestly feel like I know her from somewhere." He said as he got a confused look

As if he pushed a button a flash from his lost memories striked up briefly, causing him to instantly grab the sink and put his left hand on his head and groan and tremble. "I swear. That's the second time it's happened."

Kouta sighed a bit as he then grabbed a small cup and filled it up with water, as he took a sip of it, Yuka came into his mind again.

"I swear, I don't mean to be mean to her...it's just, it seems so long ago...the festival. My brain is still kind of fuzzy from trying to remember it." He said as he then dumped the rest of the water from the cup into the sink.

Meanwhile, Ben was done finishing getting all the rooms together, as he was coming out of Yuka's room, he still saw that Mayu and Nana were scrubbing the floor while giggling to themselves. Something that made Ben smile at.

Then something came into his head. Lucy has that weird voice thin in her head….and since he scanned her, that means he got a copy of her DNA, ergo he had a Diclonius sample in his Omnitrix...could he….also have a voice in his head?

"I might have to see….for all I know, it might be like Alien X…" He pondered in his head. "Well, I'll just have to wait and see." He said as he then left himself to his thoughts.

5 minutes later….

Kouta, Mayu, and Nana were all sitting down in the dining room. Mayu fou8nd a job that might be useful for Nana...being in charge of Wanta's food dish.

"So she's in charge of Wanta's meals then?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes," Nana said to him. "There's still so much for me to learn, but I promise that I can learn them to earn my keep here." She said determinedly, but inside she was worried that might not be enough for him.

Kouta, however, gave a smile. "Well, as long as you do something, then that's fine with me." He said as Nana gave off a curious look. "All we want for you is to do your part around here." He said with a smile. A smile that Nana returned, but then she saw something that sparked her curiosity.

"Hey, who's that?" she asked. Kouta looked at her confusingly before turning his head to what she was pointing at.

"Oh...that's my little sister, she died some time ago." He said solemnly before getting up and going to take the photo of her off of the shelf.

"She died?" Nana asked. At this point, Nyu also came into the room, looking confused but listening to the conversation.

"Yea," Kouta said. "Before she died..I said something really mean to her, I can't really remember what I said, but I always regretted it. No matter how badly I want to apologize...I think I lost my chance." He said with a solemn look.

Nyu, who had been staying quiet for the time being, finally spoke up. "No! No No!" She said, causing Kouta and the other two girls to look at her with surprised looks. "Don't cry Kouta!" This just made the boy even more confused and surprised. "Please don't cry!" She begged.

"But Nyu, I'm not crying." He said, trying to calm her down, but as soon as Nyu looked into the picture, she began to tremble and shake as tears started to pour out of her eyes.

"No more!" A young boy's voice called out to her, this just made Nyu breath hard, and Nana looked at her, worried that Lucy was about to emerge.

"What's wrong?" Mayu asked Nana.

"Oh..nothing, I just had that feeling, that's all." She said as Mayu sighed in relief. Nyu then grabbed some scissors and took off.

"Wait, where are you going with those scissors?" He asked as he followed the honored girl out of the house. "Nyu, wait!" He called out. Mayu And Nana got up and looked at each other with confused but concerned faces.

They heard the door slide open and turned around to see Ben come in, a face of confusion.

"Is everything alright?" He asked.

"Not really, Kouta was just talking about his sister, and NYu all of a sudden started crying, and then she took some scissors and ran out of the room." Mayu said.

Ben looked at her with confusion, what could a story do to make the girl upset? Of course, he couldn't complain, after witnessing her memories and whatnot. Well, they had to find her before she did something dangerous. "Alright, then, let's go follow them." He said as the two girls nodded and started for the door where Kouta and Nyu took off.

Ben stayed behind a little bit to go over and pick up the picture of Kanae and looked at it. He was confused as to why seeing her pic made Nyu cry...unless...it brought back another painful memory? Ben would have to figure this one out. But for now, he had to help them find Nyu.

Ben went outside of the room to find Kouta, Nana, and Mayu standing together.

"You guys find her?" Ben asked.

Kouta sighed. "No, she took off super fast. I don't know where she might be." He said with concern.

"Alright, don't panic, I'm sure we can find her. Mayu, you and Nana check upstairs." Ben said.

"Got it." Mayu said as both she and Nana went upstairs.

"Kouta, let's go see if she is in the back." He said as the two boys walked to the door that led to the back.

"Why did she grab scissors?" Ben asked.

"I don't know, but we better make sure she doesn't do anything stupid with them." He said.

Meanwhile, outside. Nyu was looking at the scissors with a sad look on her face, and she took them….and opened them up and put them close to her neck? What was she going to do?!, and all that was heard was a snip…

Kouta and Ben both went outside to see if she was there, and looked around.

"Nyu!" Kouta said, Ben turned to see him looking at her and she was kneeling down nearby. As they both walked towards her, she looked to face them and said.

"I'm not Nyu." she said, causing the two boys to look at her with surprise. As she got up, they both noticed she cut off all of her long hair, and now it went down to her neck.

"That...that's the same look she had when she was younger…!" Ben thought inwardly, why did she do that? Although to be fair, he could not help but find her really cute.

Nyu walked over to them both, well mostly to Kouta. "I'm Kanae, I forgive you." She said to him as she then put her hands on his shoulders "I forgive you, Kouta!" She said.

At this point, Ben walked back a bit to give them both some space. He was also wondering about what she might have been talking about.

He wasn't the only one watching, Mayu and Nana came outside to witness the even unfurling before them as well and came up to him

"Nyu wants to be his little sister." Mayu said with a small smile. "So she can forgive Kouta and make him feel better." She said. Ben smiled and ruffled her hair, causing her to smile and blush a bit.

She, however, looked over at Nana, who was still looking at her. "What's wrong?"

"You weren't wrong...she is a nice person." Nana said as she looked on, she then looked at Ben. "Ben, what did you see in her mind last night?" she asked.

Ben trembled a bit of her mentioning what he saw, he took a deep breath before calming down a bit inward. "I'll...tell you both later, I? Promise." He said as he still looked on.

Mayu looked at Ben again with a concerned look, but relented. "C'mon Nana, let's leave them alone." She said as she escorted the horned girl back inside, leaving only the two boys and another girl outside.

Nyu was still looking upset to see Kouta cry and was begging him to stop. "I'm sorry," she suddenly said, much to his confusion. "I'm sorry." she said again.

Kouta was confused at first, but then remembered about the shell she broke when she first arrived. That must be it!

"I see, you're still upset about the shell." He said.

"That's what she is upset about?" Ben asked.

"I think so."

Nyu was still apologizing and apologizing. As Ben saw her, he couldn't;t help but feel like she was apologizing for much more than the shell...Just then Nyu instantly grabbed her head and cried out.

"Nyu!" Ben said with concern in his voice, and Kouta then brought the girl in for a tender hug.

"I don't know why but I feel like I have known you for a long time." He said as Nyu then buried her face into Kouta's shoulder. "Thank you Nyu, I care about you as well." He said with a small smile.

Ben couldn't help but feel jealous about the hug she was giving him, but he didn't' say anything about it, nor was he mad at either of them. But for how she acted...there must be something else...what else did Lucy do?

He then turned to see Yuka looking through the door, and she had a face of sadness and walked away. Ben saw and frowned a bit, it seems like Yuka had a thing for Kouta after all.

20 minutes later…

Ben was sitting on his futon in thought. There is something else, Nyu was apologizing a lot to Kouta, and while he thinks that it was due to the shell...Ben couldn't help but feel like there was another reason for her to apologize a lot.

"There's gotta be something else…" He wondered. "But what could it be?"

Meanwhile, Nana was sitting down in the dining room and looking into her cup of tea. For the whole time she was here, she was wary of Nyu. Worried that she might turn back into Lucy. But so far...she didn't, also Ben had told her a bit of what might have happened to her.

Nana couldn't kill her...no she couldn't she already promised Ben, plus as he said, she would at least try to be civil with her. As long as Nyu was not Lucy again….then she might be able to live with them.

"I have to go tell that man that I am not going to do it." she thought as she then got up. Mayu was coming from somewhere and saw her by the door.

"Hey Nana, where are you going?" The young girl asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I am going to go for a little walk." Nana told her. "I won't be gone for long."

"Well..ok, just make sure to come back soon though," Mayu said cautiously. "And don't forget to wear a hat to cover your horns." She said.

"Alright!" Nana said as she made her way outside.

(Eyecatch featuring Ben and Lucy facing off against each other)


(Eyecatch featuring Nana looking up into the sky, thinking about Kurama)

Yuigahama Beach

Over at a nearby beach, the hitman Bando was sitting down by an old boat, he was looking around in disgust.

"So much trash around here, I need to get rid of it all for when I face that pink-haired bitch again." He said, he then looked down at his robotic hand. "Thank god that the circuits didn't break down or something like that."

As he was looking at his hand, he heard some footsteps and looked up to see who was coming.

"Oh, it's you." He said it was Nana who had approached him. "Well, what do you want, kid? And why the hell are you grinning?"

"What are you talking about?" Nana asked. I wasn't grinning." She said, but she couldn't help but giggle a bit, making Bando a bit irritated. "But...you told me that you didn't have a place to call ho weight, but it seems like you found one. That makes you a liar."

Bando scoffed at her. "Whatever, anyway. Did you find the honored girl yet?" He asked

Nana trembled a bit as he asked this. This was her chance, her chance to tell him, her chance to finally please Papa! Part of her wanted to...but then again, she didn't want anything to happen to her new friends.

"Well?" Bando asked in an irritated voice.

Nana was remembering the kindness of Nyu and remembered Ben going to explain to her about Nyu...she couldn't forgive her for almost killing her...but she owed Ben her life for saving her.

"No, unfortunately, I couldn't find her." Nana said as she lied to the man. "I can't do it...I'm sorry Papa, but I just can't abandon my new life and put the others in danger….and Lucy...or Nyu...I am just so confused about what Ben tried to tell me."

As Bando was muttering under his breath about her being useless or something, Nana gave a loud gasp as her eyes went wide, she sensed something...something..malicious. She looked up to see an airplane flying overhead.

Nana stared at the plane long and hard as one thing came to her mind.

"Who?!" She wondered with fright in her voice.

On the Airplane, Isobe was sitting down with Mariko, who was strapped together with a helmet on her face and constricted in a straight jacket. Mariko's body also trembled a bit.

"There's another one…." she said through her mask.

"Huh?" Isobe asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I said there's another one….but it doesn't seem to be Lucy though….I can kill her too right?"

"Number 7…or Lucy." Isobe thought with dread.

Back at the beach, Nana was still looking up into the sky as Bando also took note of it.

"What's up?" He asked. "That Chopper looks unusual to you or something?"

Nana was still trembling, she could feel another Diclonius...only...it was nothing like Lucy, this one felt...stronger…

"It's not her…" Nana muttered as her breathing went hard. When Bando ask3d her what she said. "NO, IT'S NOT LUCY, IT CAN'T BE HER!" She suddenly screamed, causing the former SAT operative to look at her, bewildered and confused.

"The hell's up with her?" He thought.

Nana could feel the other Dicloniuss presence and get scared. "I sense extreme evil….what should I do?" She wondered in fright. But another thought came into her mind….was the target her? Or Lucy?


And that is that everybody, so I know in the last chapter that things were going to get interesting, and we got a glimpse. All I can say is that things are going to go crazy for the upcoming chapters.

Again, thank you guys for reading and liking this story so far, it makes me happy to see you all enjoy it :)

Anyway, don't forget to read and review, I am always happy to hear from you guys and happy to answer any questions you might have for me.

Wee you all next time, as things are about to go down