Anya POV:

"You okay, Anya?" Shu asked me as he had been allowed back to the front lines after we let Nene escape with Himiko, having to take out the robots in the process. I sighed in response and shook my head.

"Why... Why am I trying to help that monster?" I sighed with tears in my eyes. "He hurt all of us... he destroyed entire cities in his madness. I can't even blame the disease because he did the most horrific act when he was back at full power and without disease... SO WHY DOES MY BODY HELP THAT ASSHOLE?!" I exclaimed angrily as I shot some bullets as we proceeded forward, us emerging into an area that had some more robots, me seeing that we were in some kind of hotter area than before.

"I think this may be some kind of furnace area. Wait... I see Nene up there!" Jibral exclaimed when he saw Nene at the very top of what looked to be some kind of pyramid made of machinery and pipes. And I sensed Himiko's essence near him. But Nene's essence? It was incredibly low.

"Time to go to them. Anyone wish to get up there quicker, or should we take out the enemies on the way?" I asked my allies.

"We'll take out the enemies before going there," Jibral said as we then rushed forward to the furnace and I began to let my fingers start firing, minus my ring finger. I still kept my promise. Not a single shot would be fired from it ever again. I killed a bunch of robots with the bullets I used, as Mystic Mermaid had helped by buffing me with her magic to make the bullets much stronger. We managed to defeat quite a lot of robots, around 30, before we finally reached Nene and Himiko, her blocking our progress to Nene.

"Stay back, please," she said with seriousness in her voice.

"Do you have any idea as to what this madman has done, Himiko?! He deserves nothing but the worst!" Shu exclaimed at her.

"I apologize, but you must blame the disease... and I apologize if he did anything to you," Himiko said as she then did something I didn't expect. She produced the ultimate healing shadow. The Moonlight Asura, a four-armed goddess with two swords in the top hands and holding two ancient staves in the bottom hands.

"Himiko, apologies, but I cannot even begin to explain what Nene has done to us humans! He killed 30 people from Shu's village, tried to poison the Devee village by polluting their fountain with a poisonous flower! He forced floods to torture a city once a year, he encased a city in a barrier that no one could escape from, he froze all of my Noluta villagers in ice, even making my mother incapable of walking ever again, forced a tree to eat entire people in a village, INCLUDING MY AUNT AND UNCLE, tore apart entire cities when he split the world in two, and look what the fuck he did to my body!" I exclaimed at her as I then took my head off and she gasped.

"M-My... My Nene... he did all of that?... For how long has he been doing this?" Himiko asked in shock.

"For over 10 fucking years. He was only stopped after we tried to defeat him in battle, but even though I shot a bullet through his brain, he resurrected himself in this cube! And he split the world and tried to say that if we refused to accept him as his ruler, he'd have our world experience unending natural disasters by his hands! If it wasn't for me helping some humans gain their inner magic, the world would've ceased to exist!" I growled angrily.

"I apologize... I never knew... just know that I still must protect him... I love him..." Himiko said, me growling at that and about to point my fingers at her before Jiro put my hand down without haste.

"Don't, Anya! She's not the one to blame! Besides, Nene isn't the threat we face right now. The threat we face as of right now is the Balaur Shadow that came from this cube," Kluke exclaimed at me, Himiko gasping again at that information.

"T-The Balaur shadow?... Oh my god... then that means... this cube... it was the Ultimate Ancient Factory," Himiko gawked, me wondering what she meant by that... but then something from behind her made me gasp. It was a large claw! And I already knew what it was from.

"NO!" I exclaimed as the claw grabbed hold of Nene's limp body and Himiko gasped from behind her. It was Szabo and the other robot generals. And they grabbed hold of Nene and began to walk off.

"Let him go right now!" Himiko exclaimed as she tried to give chase, but she fell down a trapdoor and down to a lower level!

"HIMIKO! Okay, now we need to split up! We need a team to go after Himiko and we need another to go after Nene and Szabo!" I said with seriousness.

"I'll split off here to go after Himiko. I'll bring along Kluke, Sahlia, and Shifa to go after Himiko," Jibral said.

"Good luck, Jibral, we'll move on from here. Besides, I'm detecting more bomb robots ahead where Nene was taken," I said with a sigh as we went forward, the others following me... and before I took another step, I heard a voice from behind me.

"Wait a minute! I'm goin' with ya, hon!" I heard my father exclaim as he literally fell down on my back from the ceiling.

"Ow... well, good to see ya finally joined up, pops. Zola said you stowed away, though I didn't expect you to fall from the ceiling... agh... let's just go on," I groaned as dad got off my back and we continued forward.

"And next time, Anya, think before you point," Kesu frowned at me.

"Fine... I let my anger get in my way again," I groaned as we pushed on. And I knew I had to give Zola a call.

Zola POV:

When I finally got a call from Anya, our group had already made it to the next room and we had gained a new ally we hadn't expected. Apparently Yasato and the other Servant Robots fled to the cube after the disappearance of their underground home thanks to Nene. But when they entered, they found they couldn't leave and Yasato had come across a special item that he called a Soul Engine. And what did it produce from him? A Pegasus shadow! He had magic like Kesu did, despite being robots!

"Zola? You read me?" Anya asked when she called me.

"Yeah, I read you, Anya. Guess what? The servant robots from the underground city? All of them and Yasato are here in this room we just finished and Yasato has something on him that'll be useful in the future," I smiled at her.

"Really? What would that be?" Anya asked.

"A Soul Engine is what he called it and it gave him the shadow of a Pegasus," Fushira said to her.

"A Pegasus?! Then that can only mean he obtained the Pricey Pegasus, which has spells exclusive to buffing items before usage! Make sure he stocks up on items and uses those spells to up their power, because that's the best way to maximize his shadow's power," Anya smiled at me.

"Understood," I said to her. "And what's your status?"

"Well... see, Himiko tried to defend Nene, and when we told her of the Balaur Shadow, she claimed that this cube was called the Ultimate Ancient Factory... what that means, I don't know, but she didn't have time to explain because Szabo kidnapped Nene and Himiko fell down a trap hole. Jibral has a separate team going after her, so we're a few men short chasing after Nene," Anya sighed.

"I see... did she sound surprised when she heard of Nene's evil?" I asked her.

"She did. But she still said she loves him... how can she care so much for someone so evil?" Anya frowned.

"Don't think about it too much. Besides, like you said, he had a disease that ate away at his sanity. He's not the same person he was when she was with him in the past," Sura-Sura said with her calm voice.

"Yeah... I guess you're right, Sura-Sura... fine. Next I see him and he's in danger, I'll help him... but if he so much as even attempts to attack me or my friends, we won't help him anymore, got it?" Anya frowned at me.

"Of course," I said to her.