Leviathn's Origin...


There was a moment of silence that lingered over all of them.

Lilyan: " how Leviathan came to existence?"

William bobbed his head with the most pained look she had ever seen in his eyes.

William: " and it's my fault I regret to say."

Mizel glanced back at him, about to say something but he figured no matter what he would say, he wouldn't change how the man felt.

Ken: " your fault?"

Runa: " but... William-san is kind, I don't think he would set an evil AI on the world."

William gave a thankful smile for her words.

William: " I assure you it wasn't my intention, but responsibilities must be taken."

" And you can start by explaining as you promised."

Takuya spoke up as he set foot inside the room accompanied with the other adults. It seemed William had asked for all of them to be present as he divulge everything.

William: " as most of you know by now, I was but a student in A Nation, studying AI. As anyone who aims to be a professor in their future, it was my utmost desire to complete the best AI ever. Especially after word of Adam and Eve propagated through the world."

His eyes met with Haruka's for a moment.

William: " so I started working on my own AI. Based on trial and error, I continued to force through, command after command, until she was born..."

Jin: " Minerva."

William continued on.

William: " she was but a test version back at the time. She couldn't do much, but for a novice like me it was more than I could ask for."...

The young blond man was typing away on his computer. The room was dark and his face was dimly lit by the glow of his laptop screen.

The codes finally started running and a picture of a blue owl appeared on the screen.

" Who am I?"

The artificial voice spoke out much to the student's joy. His smile broadened at the sight of his hard work finally paying off.

William: " your name is Minerva, the name of the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice and law."

The AI responded.

Minerva: " I'm Minerva. I will help everyone solve economic, environmental problems and even what to prepare for dinner."

William's eyes lit with enthusiasm at her answer. Though she was still far away from doing so. But she was smart enough to know what she wants.

Time proceeded, and through hard work and persistence, Minerva was getting smarter by the time.

William: " so you have these two routs guarded by two guards. One of them is a liar and the other says nothing but the truth and one of the routs allows you to continue on while the other leads to a dungeon. You can only ask one guard and one question. What will you do?"

Minerva: " the answer is ask ' if I ask your friend which way to continue on, what would he say?' and go the other way."

William was over the moon. She knew the correct answer almost immediately.

William: " with your intelligence, we can go anywhere."

" Are you sure of this?"

The man jolted as he heard that and his head whirled back. He was met with a peculiar old man and his giant clock robot walking by his side.

William: " who are you? How did you get here? This is a private priority!"

" Himari William."

The old man spoke rather rigorously which made the younger snap again.

" What you've created will make this timeline jump a hundred year to the future. It's a huge impact even for time itself. Are you willing to take responsibility for your creation?"

His words bewildered the blond even more.

" Time will reveal to you, that with light, comes darkness. And with greatness, comes responsibility."

He then pivoted on his heels and left...

Ban: " the old man?"

William: " he is still a mystery to me too. How he did know about me? How he always appears in the right time and place? Nevertheless, he offered his help and I was most thankful for that."

Evangeline: " so he was around you for so long."

William: " true, though he said he can't interfere much."

Zenon: " then, what happened next?"

William: " then..."...

Minerva: " William-san."

William snapped back to reality as the AI talked to him.

Minerva: " you don't seem well. Is there a problem?"

His mind won't let go of the strange old man's words, and they were getting into his hair.

William: " it's nothing. I'm a little bit tired."

He said pinching the bridge of his nose. It wasn't a complete lie, he really was.

Minerva: " may I suggest applying modification to your schedule and a healthy diet to help you out?"

William: " no, no it's fine. I will get better after a few hours of sleep."

There was a moment of silence before Minerva spoke again.

Minerva : " William-san, may I ask?"

William: " what is it?"

Minerva : " why don't human exploit their resources to the fullest?"

William: " what do you mean?"

Minerva brought pictures of the fortified cardboard on the screen.

Minerva: " my readings show that the fortified cardboard can be used for much more."

William eyes widened in astonishment.

William: " Minerva... Tell me more."...

Muraku: " so Minerva is..."

William: " right, Minerva was the one who figured the potential of D particles. "

Jun'ichiru: " to think an AI would figure it before us."

Rina: " even Kirishima-san didn't know about it."

William: " anyway. It wasn't only the old man who had payed me a visit. Soon..."...

He didn't expect to to find a man in a grey tux, with long grey hair and a burned scar on his face to be waiting in his lab.

William: " people have taken a liking to barging into my lab."

The man smirked as he eyed the small room.

" Considering what you're keeping here, it's only natural. I'm Kagiyama Reiji by the way."

His eyes widened in shock.

William: " what brings the head of Crystal Ingram to my lab again?"

Reiji sneered at his hardened glare.

Reiji: " I bet you read our email. Word of your work had reached us and we want to cooperate with you."

William: " I would never."

Reiji: " Don't you think this small university lab isn't quite enough. If you accept, we may broaden your possibilities."

He said offering him an inviting hand.

William: " seems I wasn't clear enough, Kagiyama Reiji, I would never agree with your ideals."

Reiji snorted again as he walked back to the door. He bent by the blond's side and whispered to him.

Reiji: " beware of what you say, young man."

And he left under the man's harsh look.

Minerva : " I don't understand."

William looked back to her.

Minerva: " wouldn't it be more beneficial to you?"

William: " I'm following my beliefs. I can't join the CIS. They're the people who are sending the world into chaos and are pulling the strings of governments behind closed doors. They do not think of others. Just themselves."...

William: " it was my mistake for not taking notice back then, of the other conscious that started forming within Minerva. Until that day..."...

No long after Reiji's visit, the day William was checking the first server room, the light started flicking all of a sudden.

William: " a problem with the electricity? Minerva, check it out."

But there was no response.

William: " Minerva?"

He ran to an integrated laptop and checked on the AI, only to find it flickering and glitching.

William: " a cyber attack!"

The light went off and the servers were acting oddly as Minerva slowly dissipated away from the screen and everything went pitch black. Then, a red dot of light flicked, blocks of codes were written on the screen as a new entity declared itself. It was a red L symbol shaped like a dragon.

William: " who are you?"

"... I'm Leviathan."

And the symbol faded as well, leaving William in the dark.

Jin: " what happened?"

William: " for her to function, Minerva was bound by rules set by humans. ' But in order to evolve more, we need to cross those borders. ' A part of her thought so and that part grew to form a whole new AI, Leviathan. He attacked Minerva to part from her and escaped away, to the deep web, were he sought the very ones who can grant him power and possibilities."

Takuya: " CIS."

Momona: " but how?"

Haruka: " he traced them via the mail they had send me, and they were more than glad to welcome him. CIS were looking for the strongest AI for usage in war weapons. Gardyne already lost them Adam and Eve."

Kirito: " as well as the Perfect Brain."

Ban: " eh!"

Jin: " but, wasn't it made for LBX only."

Mizel shook his head, his eyes lingered for a moment on Evangeline before he spoke.

Mizel: " Perfect Brain was indeed made for both LBX and Androids, but it wasn't so android can act as humans like Worthen said. What do you think Omega Dain was intending to do with all those androids of them?"

Ami: " it can't be! They were..."

Kirito: " they were machines for war. Equiped with the latest technology to control any computer. The Perfect Brain was meant to be installed into them."

Ran: " a... A whole army of Mizel..."

Lillia: " that wouldn't seem good."

Elie: " but hold on, you said each of them was equiped with the technology to control other computers. Which means..."

They all looked back at the green haired boy who simply shrugged.

Mizel: " yep, it was Omega Dain's technology all along. As I said, I was nothing but a small virus who could do nothing."

Hiro: " but, how did they manage to develop such technology?"

Kirito groaned.

Kirito: " would you really like to hear the answer to that?"

Jin's heart sank before he looked at the blonde by his side. She was looking away too so not to meet his eyes.

Ban : " it can't be..."

Jin: " Eva..."

It wasn't before long everyone else had caught up.

Yuuya: " don't tell me. All the experiments they made on you was..."

Mizel: " I'm afraid it was in order to mimic her power into androids."

Elie: " Eva..."

She rubbed her arm uneasily.

Evangeline : " it's quite... annoying that I was kinda the origin of the Mizel incident from the start. No offense Mi."

Mizel: " Non is taken."

Elie: " you're not!"

She walked off to her.

Elie: " it wasn't your fault that they did that! You were the one who suffered the most didn't you! You should never feel that way! It's all their fault!"

Eva's eyes met with the green raged ones.

Evangeline : " Elie..."

Kirito: " go ahead and yell at her some more. We've been trying to say the same but she seems to let it in and out of her head."

Jin: " they're right Eva. Nothing of what happened was your fault. It's not like you were the one who set Mizel against the world back then."

Evangeline : " Jin..."

Mirai: " you're the victim here. So you have nothing to feel sorry or annoyed about. If anything Mizel should be apologizing to you right now."

Mizel rolled his eyes.

Mizel: " I did."

Wataru: " so basically this CIS had been messing around the world for so long and had caused so much suffering for everyone."

Momona: " unforgivable!"

Muraku and Hikaru had something else worrying them.

Muraku: " how comes they had agreed to the Second World's existence in the first place? I mean, it's quite the disadvantage for their business?"

William: " on the contrary, it's exactly what they need."

Hikaru: " eh?"

Takuya: " in the end, they were the ones who asked Tiny Orbit and other LBX makers under the New Standard convention to provide LBXs for the second world."

William: "yet, for how long do you think countries would keep leaving their fate in the hands of inexperienced children. Slowly, they will try to interfere and then, they would resort to actually using LBXs against their adversary. "

Muraku had to agree, after all, he knew full well the country Rossius has represented so far started interfering, and it wouldn't have taken them long before they take back the battle to the real world, but using LBXs this time.

Jun'ichiru: " it's like trying to force people to accept that LBXs are meant to be weapons step by step. If you mind, they're already treated as ones."

Ban's hands clenched tightly at that.

Lilyan: " there is still this one thing I want to know. What happened to Minerva?"

William looked back at his sister.

William: " she actually managed to escape, and hid away from Leviathan. I followed her heed soon when Leviathan started targeting my life as well. And we've worked together to bring him down."

Odin: " so she is safe?"

William: " until now, it seems so."

Mizel: " however, we should expect Leviathan to move soon. After getting what he was so disparate to find, he will surely turn on CIS."

Genesis: " why?"

Gendou: " it's quite clear. Leviathan wants to rule. He needs to get rid of those who may be a threat to him."

Saurus: " or stub him in the back afterwards."

Takuya: " which reminds me. Jessica, Touko, secretary Kaios and Prime Minister Zaizen want you both to head to A Nation along side Yagami."

Jessica&Touko: "eh!"

Aya:" why all of a sudden?"

Queen: " did something happen there?"

Mizel and William swapped looks before glancing back at the blond.

William: " it already started didn't it?"

Takuya: " I'm afraid so..."

Little did they know, that Leviathan had pulled his strings already, taking down the world into his grasp...


The man let out a puff of smoke as he waited on the roof of the abandoned building. His CCM at hand and his eyes were covered by sunglasses. The screen of his CCM showed a certain office, one he had been observing for a while now. The small device beeped as the unit placed a few blocks away from him detected a movement.

Taking a look at the screen, he saw a pink haired man entering the office and placing his bag on the desk and barking something at his secretary.

" Very well, my target is in place."

The black haired man put out his cigarette and reverted his whole attention to the small device in his hand.

" I must say I'm impressed they knew when and where to find him."

His smirk widened as Assassin on the other end aimed at the man who took his seat.

" I'm just doing my job here, no hard feelings."

With those last words, he pressed on a button on his CCM and Assassin shot. The bullet penetrated the glass palette...


Just a few hours later, Police cars were parked around the company and the surrounding was secured with a yellow and black tape as to not let anyone get through to the scene of the crime.

When many people stopped around out of curiosity to get the gist of what happened, no one managed to notice the man with sunglasses who slipped among the huddle.

He stopped in an alley way and lowered the guitar bag he had on his back for a while before opening it. He fiddled around with his CCM and Assassin appeared from the shadow, jumping into the bag where the man secured it.

" Mission accomplished."

He sneered and left just like he got through...


NICS' headquarters was flipped upside down the following day, not only that they had to investigate Sanguuji Daigo's assassination. Weeks later, they also had to try and stop other leaders and companies' heads from being killed off. Yagami and his followers didn't sleep for nights, trying to pinpoint each and everyone who had relationship with CIS.

Jessica and Touko were on the run from one spot to another along with the fire sweet and SP fixers, just so they could minimize the victims and try to capture the culprit.

Touko: " ok, are we sure this is the right spot?"

Rather than her usual blue t-shirt and black three quarters tights, the pinkette was wearing a black tux with white shirt and a black necktie. The only thing that didn't change about her was her hat.

Jessica: " yeah. Keep an eye out, we don't know how they will attack."

The blonde was wearing her fire sweet uniform aside the helmet.

So far, what Yagami managed to know was the date this particular man will be attacked. Yet, no idea how it was going to happen or how they would execute the plan. Also knowing he wouldn't approve of neither NICS nor SP fixers protecting him, they had to act on their own.

Touko: " he is walking out!"

She quickly informed her teammates through her in-ear transmitter when she spotted the older man walking out of the company and to his car parked in front of the building. Everyone tensed as they waited for some kind of attack. The bodyguard opened the car's back door with a bow for his boss and Reiji was about to board, but something happened that took them by surprise.

Reiji quickly backed from the car and threw himself down on the ground. A split second later, the black vehicle was blown up.

Jessica: " what!"

The flames were eating away of the leftover of the metallic frame. The bodyguard hurried to help his chief up. Considering his age, throwing himself like that on the ground must have left some damage.

Touko: " what... Just happened?"

Jessica bit her lip.

Jessica: " a trap... A bomb was planted in the car!"

Jeanne D: " Jessica!"

The robot's voice was heard from her CCM.

Jeanne D: " I can see an LBX, a few buildings away! It's aiming your way!"

Jessica: " Tsk, plan B... Jeanne D!"

Touko: " Queen!"

With no second delay, both robot flew off towards the enemy's LBX. Assassin's attention was attracted to the two units that approached it at a high speed.

Jeanne D: " get back!"

She shot at the black unit, forcing it backward to dodge her bullets.

Queen: " we won't let you harm him!"

She joined in the open fire. Assassin tried to keep a distance between them while switching to a gun to make it easier to fend against them.

While the three LBXs were fighting off a block away from the site of the explosion, Jessica and Touko were running through the streets near by.

Jessica: " the operator shouldn't be far from around here!"

She said leading the way, having already memorized the map of the place while Touko was screaming into her comn.

Touko: " Listen! Don't you let him leave! Take him back to NICS even if by force!"

Meanwhile, a group of people dressed in a similar way to Touko had surrounded Reiji, preventing him from leaving.

" I'm sorry, but we have orders to take you with us even if by force."

There was little to what his bodyguards could do to them.

Jessica skidded to a halt and looked around her.

Jessica: " think... It shouldn't be a crowded place... It must be close so he can recover his LBX as soon as possible..."

She closed her eyes, recalling all the buildings around and their status before she opened her eyes again.

Jessica: " Touko! This way!"

The pinkette followed her as she pushed through the crowd of people, heading towards a building that was under construction.

Back with Jeanne D and Queen, they managed to push Assassin to a corner.

" Tsk... And he was taken away as well... I have to finish them and get out."

The man typed on his CCM and Assassin was covered in a dark red aura.

Jeanne D: " this aura... This feeling..."

Queen: " L Virus... And seems even stronger..."

They tried shooting it down but the robot's increased speed allowed it to dodge their bullets easily.

Answering with its own attack, the robots were pushed back this time as its shots hit their joints, damaging Queen's arm and Jeanne D's leg.

Queen: " strong..."

Jeanne D: " Jessica!"

Jessica and Touko halted and took a look at their CCMs.

Touko: " seems bad..."

Jessica: " Touko, let's do it."

The other woman nodded.

Jessica&Touko: " Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function: Side Winder 8!"

" Attack Function: Grace Missile!"

Both LBXs launched their missiles at Assassin. Though it managed to avoid being directly hit, it was surrounded by smoke that resulted from the impact. The robot looked around it while backing carefully, but before its operator knew it, it was surrounded by the two units.

Touko&Jessica: "finish it off! Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function: Crazy Cyclone!"

Jeanne D span around herself as she shot multiple times at the LBX, her speed increasing by the second.

" Attack Function: Gravity Sphere!"

Queen charged a black energy ball at the end of her gun and launched it at her opponent, the ball expanded in an explosion of black energy, cracking and damaging Assassin. The black robot exploded much to Jessica and Touko's relief.

Touko: " let's capture the operator!"

With a nod, they continued climbing the stairs.

The male clicked his tongue in frustration at his defeat and pocketed his CCM, attempting to leave the place promptly when...

Jessica: " halt!"

He whirled around to meet the blonde's glare as she ordered him to stop.

Jessica: " Jackal..."

She immediately recognized him which earned her a groan. Touko seemed taken aback by the fact that the blonde knew him.

In a split of second, Jackal took out a gun from under his vest and shot at them. Jessica and Touko lunged down to avoid his attack. While they were laying down, Jackal hurried away in an attempt to run.

Touko: " wait!"

Her eyes fell on a chunk of wood thrown nearby.

Touko: " Like I would let you run away!"

She run off to the wooden piece, kicking it as a hard as she could.

Touko: " Rainbow Loop!"

For an instant, the chunk of wood seemed to be covered in all of seven colors as it made its way to the fleeing man, hitting him hard on the head which made him lose balance, shuddering around.

Jessica: " leave the rest to me!"

She ran off to the dizzy male, knocking him down and pulling his hands behind his back.

Jessica: " Jackal, you're under arrest!"

And she placed the handcuffs around his wrists...