Once we got on the road, we encountered a couple wild Nexomon such as a Florozard, Rapnux, and some common ones, which I caught the former two and sent them to storage, not wishing to part with my current partners still... but then, along the way, we did happen to encounter a certain very big Nexomon that I could tell surprised Nora.
"No way! A Tyrant!" she gawked as I looked at it with confusion. It was Byeol, the normal-type Tyrant that had literally no importance in the story. And it looked to simply be relaxing, even if it were floating in place... also, in terms of size, it was twice as tall as the Mentor, so roughly 12 feet.
"Is it just me, or does it look like it's loafing about?" I asked, me then looking at the Tyrant and speaking to it. "Mister Tyrant? What are you doing here? You're kind of blocking our way forward," I said, it then yawning and looking at me with its big starry eyes and its big smile.
"Ah, a fellow Tyrant to relax with! What do Eye owe the pleasure to you, my fellow competitor?" Byeol asked in a voice that sounded like a pixie from fairytales.
"Uh... mmm... you know what? How about you come with me, since it's clear you aren't evil," I said as I held a Nexotrap at it. And Nora looked at me in shock.
"You cannot be serious, Sunny! Any Tamer who owns a Tyrant is immediately denounced of all of their status!" Nora said with seriousness.
"Yeah, but what does that mean if it doesn't even want to attack us? If it's not dangerous, then it's surely not a bad idea to have a powerful Nexomon that could fight for good, right? I say give it a chance," Coco smirked.
"Thanks, Coco, just what I was gonna say!" Ross smirked in his brashness. I then simply touched Byeol with the Nexotrap and was surprised at how I caught it in one go. I then had to send one of my team back to base, which I decided to send back Mermella, but only because it'd take longer for her to get up to her evolved form. As for the rest of my team, they were getting close to their first evolved states.
"Okay, but if anything bad happens to you, I'm not taking any responsibilities," Nora frowned, me nodding at her. We then arrived at the Orphanage and proceeded to go inside, hearing scuffles from the left, right, and front of the entry room.
"I'll go to the left, Ross, you go right. And Sunny, you and Coco go forward. If any of us finishes our jobs before the others, assist the others, got it?" Nora said, me nodding as I then went to the room filled with all of the other orphans. And there were three different members of the Omnicron cult in here, each of them inspecting the kids intently.
"Not her... not her... UGH! Where is she?" asked one of them, me noting that she was female. I then simply proceeded to use one thing on her, that being me picking up a bat and smacking her in the back of the head, her then getting knocked out in one go, making the other two gasp and look at me in anger.
"What?! What'd you do to her?!" asked one of them, me speaking to them... by speaking in Nexomon tongue. And what do I mean by that?
"Mermer, mermella," I said, wondering what the result would be. The two looked at me in confusion as Coco simply started to chuckle.
"Nice, you learned how to talk English! But you just said: I hate professional bacon," Coco said, me smacking myself in the face as I then simply brought out my new ally. The kids looked surprised at the very tall Byeol as the two grunts then sent their Nexomon at him, but Byeol simply defeated them in one attack that I ordered him to use, that being Disruption Ray. The Nexomon they had were defeated in one hit each and the thugs then gawked as they looked at Byeol's starry eyes and then looked like they were scared.
"P-Please don't hurt us! W-We won't do it again!" the one guy said as I looked at Byeol with a smile.
"Byeol, buddy? Can you make sure these punks are detained?" I asked, him then giggling as I then saw him send some spectral mist to the two of them and all of them were now sleeping.
"Is that... a Tyrant? Why do you have a Tyrant, Sunny?" asked one of the different kids, me seeing they were all unharmed, but very frightened.
"He's a good Tyrant, we can vouch for him," I smiled, Coco then translating. I then returned Byeol to his Nexotrap so he wouldn't disturb them anymore.
"Um... okay... we'll get to work on tying them up while they're asleep," the oldest of the kids said as she then got some rope with the other kids. Coco and I then went to the right of the building to the kitchen, where we saw that Ross was chasing one of the thugs around a table like in the cartoons.
"Why not just jump across the table?" Coco asked, me smiling and speaking my mind, trying again to speak some words.
"Mel Mer, Mella Mermella," I said, which distracted the thug long enough for Ross to slam his body into him and get his hands behind his back, which Ross then placed cuffs on them!
"Great job, Sunny! Your stupid first words of English managed to distract him for me to catch!" Ross smiled at me.
"Ugh... what did I say this time?" I asked, Coco smirking at me.
"You just said the phrase: "I love destroying violent, cheese-coated chairs." I think you need a bit of assistance in how to talk English correctly," Coco smirked at me, me facepalming again.
"How? Just... how?" I groaned. We then heard a scuffle happening above us, meaning we had to go to the left and up the stairs behind the mentor's office. We did just that and found that Nora was trying to attack the bad guys, but she was a bit in over her head, since she was getting attacked by three at once and she wasn't using Nexomon.
"OI!" I shouted, that making the thugs look at me with confusion. "Let her go right now, or you're going to have to face my new friend!" I said, them then stopping that.
"You hear that?! Nexomon talk! She's the one!" the one cultist shouted, me then frowning as I then sent out Byeol as they finally let Nora go. And when Byeol locked eyes with the trio of bastards, they then started to feel uneasy before then getting so stressed, they fell unconscious.
"What kind of power is that?... Can your Tyrant explain and then you and Coco translate?" Nora asked, Byeol smirking at that.
"Hehe, they just don't understand the true powers of laziness! Eye can stare at people to make them completely stunned before they fall asleep, having succumbed to the lazy stare," he smirked, me and Coco translating and Nora then smiling.
"Huh... sounds genius!" Nora smirked. "Okay, Ross and I will handle these goons from here. Mission complete!" Nora smirked as she then got the trio in cuffs and then led them to the entrance, me and Coco following. But on the way, I gasped as the entire world around me grew red and black... and I felt an overwhelming feeling of dread.
"Oh, you poor, fragile, human... you really underestimate my strength, don't you?" asked a voice that made me gulp. Dark and brooding, very gravelly, and reverb?
"Ziegler..." I growled as I looked around and he then spoke again.
"Don't worry, you're not on my hit list... yet... but I will get you when you least expect it. Little lady, you will know my power... in due time," he said before then doing an evil laugh... And Byeol then sent an attack to the right of me, me gasping as it managed to make Ziegler appear in front of us! I then readied my Nexotrap and threw it at him, the dark bastard getting inside of it... but then escaping without issue!
"Nice try, bitch... as I said, in due time..." Ziegler chuckled before then teleporting away in an instant, me looking at Coco and seeing that he was looking on with big eyes and tons of sweat pouring down his face.
"T-That guy... I couldn't move an inch when he was that close to us... he... he's damn scary..." Coco gawked, me leading him downstairs as I spoke to him in his ear.
"Remember, don't say a word to anyone but the mentor," I said, him nodding at me. We got to the entryway in time to see the last of the cultists leave the house in chains and cuffs, where Nora then spoke something important.
"That was so weird though, wasn't it?" Nora asked, that making the mentor look at her with seriousness.
"What do you mean, Nora?" the mentor asked.
"Well, when the guys that I was fighting heard Sunny speak her yips and barks, they said that 'she was the one'. I think those guys attacked the orphanage specifically to kidnap Sunny!" Nora gawked, me frowning at that.
"Hm... here, these are your rewards for a job well done," the mentor said as he gave us our rewards and, among them, was a golden Nexotrap. "Meanwhile, Sunny, you and Coco will meet with me in private. Nora, Ross, you go back to Parum and report back." The two of them looked confused at this statement, but they simply nodded in agreement and left. Coco and I then followed the mentor to the office, where he locked the door behind him and spoke to us.
"Okay, since we both know what's going on, I don't think I need to tell you this. You'll need to learn how to control at least some parts of your ancestry. Before you embark any further on your journey, you should visit the witch's apprentice, Eliza from the Immortal Citadel. Go south of the orphanage and continue through the forest path until you find the cursed city. She can be of assistance," the mentor said, Coco looking at me and me sighing.
"And I'm going to guess that you're not even going to bother with giving me the fake egg?" I asked, him shaking his head no.
"There's no need. You already know everything. Does Coco also know?"
"Kinda... I know she's a Tyrant's kid and she's royalty, but what does that mean?" Coco asked.
"It means that I am the daughter of one of Omnicron's children. I, as well as Dorothy, are the daughter of Nara, the Tyrant of Life and the traitor of Omnicron's children," I said, Coco nodding at me.
"Sounds cool... yet confusing," he frowned.
"Seek out Eliza as soon as you can. That way, you can learn specific skills that you wouldn't have been able to learn in the games," he said, me nodding at that.
"Yes, sir... by the way, how's Dorothy?" I asked, him smiling.
"She had to resort to hiding in a secret forest that Ziegler can't get to. I know he tried to attack you once you were alone. So, if you see him again, use that golden Nexotrap. It will catch him without fail," he said, me smirking at that.
"Thanks, mister G," I said, his eyebrow twitching and Coco looking at me in confusion. "And that's the only letter I'm giving you for now, Coco. Let's get going." Coco and I then left and I had to wonder... Eliza... how would she be able to help me? Not only that, but using Byeol to defeat those cultists made me feel kinda good, using a Tyrant to defeat bad guys. I just had to make sure not to use Byeol for many other instances, especially if strangers were nearby that might get scared by him.
"I've been to the Immortal Citadel during a small field trip with some of the other orphanage kids a while ago," Coco said, me looking at him with a smile. "It was there that I learned about the entire citadel consisting of ghosts for residents, caused by a curse that a witch made to save the people from an attack of Nexomon. Not even Ghost or Psychic Nexomon can harm the ghost citizens. But because of that curse, the residents can't really do too much. And the amount of ghost citizens outside of the place have started to increase lately. And I heard that the witch's aprpentice was trying to find a cure for the curse, but finding it hard, due to her being inexperienced," Coco said, me smiling at that.
"Thanks for the exposition dump," I smiled, him then smirking at me.
"Hehe, you're learning from the best," Coco chuckled.
"Indeed, I am. It just sounded like something you'd say," I giggled.