Hello. This is your pal, Jude Warble.

Important Note: I will not repeat the Deaths of characters on each Solo, Duo or Trio Ending because it will just consume the plotline and it would be a useless repeat. Just so you all know.

And with that out of the way, please enjoy this fanfic, and as always, stay breezy!

Unknown Location

A pair of crimson red eyes opened up to bright light.

Adjusting them, the person with said eyes blinked to adapt to the sudden light.

He then felt the gentle breeze around him, the softness of the vibrant green grass caressing his back, and the oddly beautiful scent that filled the air. He even saw something similar to a clear sky that was illuminated somehow, despite it not appearing to have a sun in it.

Shadow slowly forced himself to sit up and looked around. The scenery around him was rather beautiful, yet mysterious.

"Ah...That's right. I used The Seven-Pronged Prison on Crossed Thanatos to seal it inside of him. I'm pretty sure that there is no way that that was a dream. So...Where am I?" He muttered his question upon remembering what happened to him.

"Shadow Terios...You are finally awake"

"?!"

Turning his head towards the voice, Shadow looked into a point in the hill that he was sitting on its ground and saw a tea table and two chairs underneath a white umbrella.

But who was under the umbrella was the thing that drew his attention, as it was the person who called for him.

She was a woman who had pure white, almost porcelain white skin, so white that it seemed any semblance of color had been completely bleached from her existence. She had black eyes that shone with unnatural intellect, and it looked like it was the only living part in her entire body, as her long, waist-length hair, which had a black butterfly hairpin, was as white as her skin.

In contrast to both her skin and her hair, the woman was dressed in a beautiful, long, black dress, covering every inch of her body with the exception of her hands, neck and head.

From a glance, Shadow could tell. This woman, whose smile was plastered on her face, released an overwhelming amount of Miasma. He was familiar with the Miasma, considering the fact that he was sticking with Subaru for more than 3 months. Not to mention that she called him by his name...

This woman...Is dangerous.

"You have lots of names, indeed. What should I call you? King Shadow? Lancelot? Obito Uchiha? Tatsumi? Sol Badguy? Yuuki Terumi? Takehaya Susano'o? Raiden? Jack The Ripper? Isaac Westcott? Sosuke Aizen? Vegeta? Kratos? Chara? Alucard? Meta Knight? Tenma Yato? Valkyrie, The Goddess of Destruction? Nahobino? Omega? Kishin Asura? Giorno Giovanni? Giratina? Nier? Sepiroth? Antares? There are lots of names actually that are way even more than those. Want me to list them all to you?" The woman asked as Shadow was walking towards her as she listed those names to him. He then stopped upon becoming right in front of her, with the tea table being the thing that separates both of them from getting closer.

"...Who are you?" Shadow simply asked while glaring at the woman, who just simply smiled at him, but only ushered with her hand to the chair next to Shadow and in front of her on the other side of the table. Shadow simply stared at the chair, before staring back at her. He then sighed and took the chair and sat on it.

"For your question, hospitality must be in order first" The woman said before waving her hand, and out of nowhere a cup filled with steaming tea appeared in front of Shadow on the table. Shadow sighed in annoyance, before he took the cup and sipped on it, blinking at the weird taste.

Actually, it didn't have any taste at all.

Disregarding this, Shadow placed the cup back on the table, before silently staring at the woman, awaiting the answer of his question, only to cringe upon seeing the woman blush and avert her face to the side.

"Stop staring at me like that. You're making me, a shy young maiden, blush" She said, causing a tick mark to appear on Shadow's forehead.

"...Get to the fucking point already" He muttered behind his gritted teeth.

"You're no fun" The woman said pouting cutely, and a few seconds later, her smile returned, and she stared at Shadow once again, before answering his question.

"The Witch of Greed, Echidna. It's a pleasure to finally meet you...Shadow Terios"

At the same time. Mount Cordor

"We did it! All three of us!"

"That was...The strangest adventure that I've ever been part of"

"So many deaths 'cause of tha'creatcha. Ma' amazin' self doesn't know whadda do now..."

Otto, Heinkel and Garfiel released sighs of relief upon entering into the grounds of Mount Cordor, glad that the nightmare was over. And as the three stared at the close-to-set sun, they contemplated on their current predicament.

"Don't give up! We know...This is a hidden spot!" Otto exclaimed with a confident smile.

"Yeah, of course...THIS is a hidden spot"

"?!"

And the familiar voice shattered all of their hope, as Subaru EXE appeared in a small, brief flash of light, standing in front of the three males.

"What? But how? Three of us are alive!" Heinkel said in a mixture of shock and horror, before he saw a new existence appear out of thin air.

It was what appeared to be a maid, but her blonde hair was almost brown, with her jade green eyes becoming blood red irises with black sclera, and her right eye was completely gone, being covered by a long streak of stitches that ran from her right eyebrow, traveling onto her right cheek and all down to the right side of her chin.

"I guess you forgot about the girls" Subaru EXE said.

"Frederica-san?!" Otto exclaimed the maid's name in shock.

"Nee-chan?! What da heck didya do t' Nee-chan, ya bastard?!" Garfiel yelled his question in rage.

"No, this can't be happening!" Otto yelled with his eyes wide in shock, grief and disbelief.

"Deja Vu didn't work for you this time, huh?" Subaru EXE asked in a mocking manner.

"Deja Vu? Th'heck ya talkin' 'bout?!" Garfiel yelled, his angry voice was now laced with sobs at seeing his sister's reanimated corpse in front of him.

"Oh jeez...Deja Vu helped you three to survive. Some small fragments of memory are still inside your braindead heads. I guess you can handle it..." The abomination said, before the three males saw Subaru EXE teleporting away, leaving Frederica EXE there with them, who immediately transformed her hands to large brown fur-colored claws. Garfiel, how was the one that was most devastated by his sister's Death, with Otto racing him into that position of grief, gritted his teeth, and charged forward, only for Frederica EXE to deliver an uppercut to his chin, sending him flying away and landing on another platform of the mountain. Seconds later, Garfiel stood up to see Frederica EXE teleporting to him with the bloodied heads of Otto and Heinkel.

"If ya think that ya can get ma' amazin' self, ya betta' think again" Garfiel said.

"Garf, if you're smart enough, then just give up" Frederica EXE said.

"Sis, y'r stronger than that. Ma amazin' self knows it. Please don't force ma amazin' self t' do this" Garfiel said with his tone having a hint of sadness in it. It was then when he saw the reanimated form of his sister flash her claws.

"I thought Subaru-sama was joking when he called you 'musclehead'. I can't believe that you're my brother. You're so stupid" Frederica EXE said, causing Garfiel to growl in anger at her words.

"Sis, ya maybe the sister of ma amazin' self, but ya gonna regret this!" Garfiel exclaimed.

Frederica EXE swung her right claw, sending a blade of wind towards Garfiel, who stomped on the ground and swung his foot upwards, causing a slab of earth to form in front of him, blocking the wind blade, but it blew to pieces of rubble and sent Garfiel toppling away.

Immediately, Garfiel jumped to his feet, before he dodged dark crimson beams of energy that Frederica EXE fired from her mouth. Garfiel lunged towards her and delivered a punch to her face, causing her to stagger, but even then, Frederica EXE was grinning, causing Garfiel to gasp.

"What the...?!" He thought in shock, before gasping as the foot of Frederica EXE found itself planted into his stomach, causing him to cough out blood, before being sent flying away. The blow itself rendered Garfiel completely immobile while retaining his consciousness at the same time.

"Shit! I can't move!" Garfiel cursed as Frederica EXE jumped into the air, before descending towards Garfiel's immobile form.

Suddenly, Garfiel felt his entire body heat up, and his heart pulsated in a rapid rate. He felt that too much power started to dwell within him, and then...

"Rune Stone Skill: War Harbinger Tiger"

The words echoed inside of Garfiel's head, and not a second later, his body jumped away and avoided Frederica EXE stomping onto the ground where he previously laid. Garfiel then looked at himself and his palms, seeing a golden glowing outline covering his entire body.

Frederica EXE gritted her teeth at this, before charging once again at Garfiel, however...

"Wha?!"

"?!"

Just then, Garfiel's body moved away from harm's way. Frederica EXE saw this and her irritation rose.

"JUST DIE ALREADY!" She yelled before swinging her claws, but Garfiel's body kept on instinctively dodging her attacks without even taking in the commands of Garfiel's mind. All the while Garfiel was shocked at the sudden development within him.

He felt power rising up, brimming within his body, his mind, his soul. He felt completely different. As if he was reborn once again, but even better.

Grinning with newfound confidence, Garfiel stomped on the ground, before effortlessly catching Frederica EXE's fist, where she struggled to pull her arm away, but in vain, as Garfiel was way stronger than her.

He felt as if this amp made him 10...No, 1000 times stronger. He felt like he can take on the entire world.

Roaring out, he reared his golden light-clad fist back, before swinging it at Frederica EXE's face, causing a booming sound to echo and send her flying away. Garfiel then followed by kicking his foot so hard to cause a shockwave to resonate throughout the entire mountain, bolting like a rocket towards his opponent.

"Golden Tiger: Battering Ram!"

Golden lines spun around Garfiel's fist, before he swung it at the moving corpse of his sister, and suddenly, a massive energy beam erupted from his fist, blasting a good chunk of a nearby mountain and blowing nearly half of his undead sister's body, who just gritted her teeth, not even feeling the pain, but was immobilized.

Garfiel was in awe as he looked at his fist that had steam coming out of it, before his grin returned to his face. He then jumped upwards and reared his right foot backwards. White light spinning around his

"White Tiger: Twilight Crescent!"

He swung his foot downwards, releasing a white energy arc that zoomed towards the reanimated form of his sister, passing through her and dispersing as it landed on its mark. Garfiel landed on the floor, the white light engulfing him gone as he looked at the shocked expression of Frederica EXE.

At first nothing happened, where silence screamed for the next few seconds, before suddenly, five mountains behind Frederica EXE got sliced to millions of pieces, crumbling down to dust as they scattered with the wind, and shortly afterwards, slash marks appeared on Frederica EXE's form, before her body was hacked to millions of pieces and black blood burst out on the field as Frederica EXE turned into a pool of blood within nothing but mere seconds.

Despite his victory, however, Garfiel had a sad look.

"This...Wasn' 'suppose t' happ'n..." He muttered sadly.

"How does it feel? To kill your own sister with your own hands?"

"?!"

Suddenly, a floating figure covered in shadows flew towards Garfiel, and from Garfiel's eyes, the figure appeared like a female.

"Who th' heck r ya?! Ma' amazin' self saw lots of s'prises t'day!" Garfiel yelled in a mixture of anxiety and anger.

"You don't even need to see my face, but..." Garfiel opened his mouth to cut her off, but she raced him to it.

"You need to survive!"

And right after saying that, white light assaulted Garfiel's eyes, before he was teleported away from Mount Cordor, leaving the pool of blood that was all that remained of his dead sister on the ground of the mountain.

Memory Fragment File#03

"Hiyah!"

"Guah!"

A kid Frederica, using a shield, bashes a kid Garfiel and sends him flying away, despite the fact that he was holding an identical shield.

"Sis...You're so brutal. R ya sure that y'r not a boy?" Garfiel asked rubbing his sore head.

"Garf! You shouldn't say that to a girl! It's rude!" Frederica exclaimed to her small brother.

"Tha's b'cause Ma amazin' self doesn't c ya as a girl! Not even a boy! More like a brute!" He yelled cutely due to his childish face, and yet that didn't save from getting knocked to the ground once again, courtesy of a punch to his left cheek, which left a sore red spot on said place, which Garfiel began to rub silently, fearing that his sister would do anything else to him should he open his mouth once again.

Then, a frown appeared on his face, which didn't go unnoticed by Frederica.

"What's the matter, Garf? If I hit you too hard, then I'm sorry" Frederica said with a worried look on her face.

"Tis not that..." He muttered under his breath, before looking at the floor that he was sitting on.

"Hey, Sis..." He called for Frederica, gaining her attention.

"What is it?" Frederica asked.

"D'ya think...That Mama...Left us...? Will she ever...Come back...?" He muttered his question sadly, but Frederica heard him well.

"Garf..." She muttered, not knowing what to say to her brother.

It has been already five years ever since Reisha Tinsel, Garfiel and Frederica's mother, went to look for Garfiel's father, and unfortunately, they heard that she got presumably killed in an accident while traveling.

It was even worse when Garfiel entered the Witch Tomb and saw his past, which in turn resulted in that scar on his forehead.

Frederica herself realized that she will scar Garfiel even more, as in a around five years she will depart to the Margrave Mansion to work there as a maid, which will result in her leaving Garfiel, and for him to hate her.

But she had to do that. After all, that was for the sake of trying to find anything regarding their mother.

So, Frederica did the only one possible thing that she could do to her brother: Hugging him tightly.

"S-Sis...T-Too tight..." Garfiel gasped lightly.

"Garf...Mom never left us...She...She loved us dearly...Please don't hate her..." She whispered, causing Garfiel to opt a downcast expression upon hearing his sister's words, before he placed his hand on her arm that was coiling around his neck.

"Sis...Promise ma amazin' self...That y'll neva' leave him..." Garfiel said to Frederica, who gasped lightly, before biting her lower lip, desperately trying to hold back the tears, and afterwards, she forced herself to smile for the sake of her brother.

"...I promise" She said.

And that was the first time that Frederica lied in her life, as in the future, that promise was never fulfilled, which left two gaping voids inside each of the two siblings.

Memory Fragment File #03: End

Unknown Location

A flicker of white light appeared within a vibrant place, and upon fading it revealed Garfiel standing on the floor of that bizarre place.

To Garfiel, however, he already knew the place.

"Tis dat place again...Why did ma amazin' self get teleported t'here?" Garfiel asked himself while looking around.

"Nah...No time f'dat. Where's that huge gem? Ma amazin' self can use it t'teleport to anotha' safe zone..." Garfiel said while looking around the place, yet he couldn't find the huge gem. It was then when something hit him.

"Ma amazin' self heard that strong people can detect power signatures. The First Sword Saint had somethin' like that. If he can do that, then ma amazin' self can do it too" Garfiel said before closing his eyes for a few seconds, before snapping them open.

"Tis in the Sanctuary. But...Why does it feel like ma amazin' self is floatin'...? Th'signata feels off..." Garfiel said before scratching the back of his head, and then sighed in a mixture of resignation and frustration.

"Ma amazin' self has already seen his life flash befo' his eyes...So ma amazin' self won't complain" He muttered before taking a deep breath.

"Ma amazin' self musrt look for somethin' here...Ma amazin' self can't fly..." Garfiel said, before he looked to his side, noticing a weird looking device that looked like a large dark purple orb planted on the floor. Being the ever-curious individual, Garfiel touched the orb with his finger, and then...

"Wha?!"

"?!"

Suddenly the orb shone a bright purple color, and before Garfiel could register what happened, he disappeared from the weird, seemingly floating place and the orb stopped shining.

Costuul. Nighttime

Blinking his eyes open due to the light that temporarily blinded him, Garfiel took a look into his surroundings.

He noticed that it was snowing, and the weather was so frigid to the point that even he was shivering slightly.

"Damn...Where th'heck did ma amazin' self got teleported...? It appears to be somewhere near Gusteko...But how th'hell did ma amazin' self came here...?" Garfiel asked himself but he didn't seem that stupefied because of that. It was more like that he was annoyed and a little scared of what will happen next.

"Ma amazin' self can still sense the huge gem from there. Ma amazin' self can probably manage it within th'day t'reach th'Sanctuary and the gem...But how did th'people there had their hands on that gem? Maybe Gran'ma used Magic t'teleport it to th'Sanctuary? But how did she know about its existence?" Garfiel kept on asking himself tons of questions, but it seemed that his head was about to explode.

"Ugh! Ma' amazin' self should stop talkin'! Th'people in th'Sanctuary might be in danger!" He exclaimed before dashing through the snow-riddled ground. He kept on running and running for a few minutes until his eyes spotted what appeared to be a corpse of a man. Garfiel kneeled towards the unmoving corpse, whose eyes was half-opened and blood was long dried on his body. Garfiel instantly knew the man, since he was a merchant that visited the Sanctuary on a monthly basis to sell his goods to them.

"Uncle Sigmund...And ma amazin' self had enough money t'finally buy that cool knuckle dusta' from ya..." Garfiel muttered sadly at the man's corpse, before his hand slowly and gently closed the man's half-opened eyes, then gently placed him on the floor. He then stood up and was about to continue his way towards the Sanctuary, only for Otto EXE and Heinkel EXE to jump from the window of a nearby house. Garfiel looked at the mutilated forms of his former companions, as both had blood coming out from their eyes that held black sclera and red irises, and their skins were deathly pale.

And the fact that they directed killing intent towards him made Garfiel take a fighting stance.

"Ma amazin' self should've known that ya would be here..." He said, before he saw Frederica EXE, Petra EXE and Ram EXE walking towards them and standing beside both of Otto EXE and Heinkel EXE. And the very sight of Ram EXE almost made Garfiel's heart shatter to pieces.

"Ram...Ya died too...? Tch! Ma amazin' self won't go down without a fight!" He nearly cried due to Ram's sight in front of him, but immediately steeled himself as he knew that he will die the moment he drops down his guard even by a little bit.

"Oh you want a fight? Does anyone want to try fried tiger meat?"

"?!"

Garfiel looked up to the sound of the familiar voice, only to see Subaru EXE floating towards him.

"You..." Garfiel sneered while glaring at the abomination.

However, before he could do anything, Subaru EXE flicked his wrist, causing Garfiel to float in midair, before he was blasted backwards at neckbreaking speeds, and then he fell right into a large river.

He blinked at this, and was surprised that he was still alive and even being able to breathe underwater. He then saw Subaru EXE entering the large river, floating above him.

"Welcome to the very borders of Gusteko, Garfiel. This is the Sibarell Great Glacier" Subaru EXE said, causing Garfiel's eyes to widen in shock.

Gusteko? And in nothing but a short time? This thing didn't even use teleportation Magic, and yet Garfiel was now in Gusteko?

"They say that cats can't swim, but I want to prove the world wrong. So how about you help me?" Subaru EXE asked with a devilish smirk on his face, and with a snap of his fingers, the water within the Sibarell Great Glacier suddenly came to life, before massive currents started pushing Garfiel away in the depths of the river.

Despite having no problem in breathing underwater, Garfiel didn't know how to swim. The best he could do was maneuver his body around in the raging currents, but he couldn't go back as the currents simply pushed him like leaves in the wind.

Garfiel gasped as he saw several floating spikes in front of him, and the currents were already pushing him forward towards it. He had to maneuver his body around the spikes so that he would not be impaled by it. However, with each passing second, this process became increasingly difficult as the currents started to grow stronger, which in turn pushed Garfiel faster and faster.

"Kehehehehehehehehehe..."

"?!"

He heard the familiar laughter of the maniac that was coming for his life, before he saw him floating in front of him as he was pushed by the currents. He then saw as Subaru EXE pointed his pointer finger at him, before firing off multiple purple-colored, rhombus-shaped energy projectiles at him. Garfiel had to dodge both the spikes and the projectiles. Not to mention that he was already having a rough time trying to also dodge the ledges beneath the water, as one false move would result in more than just a head wound or a broken limb.

It didn't help that this abomination was changing positions swiftly as if he was flying in the air instead of swimming in water, it's as if he was ignoring the laws of resistance, and given that he was still shooting those projectiles, along with the currents that were increasing in speed by the second, it made Garfiel's objective to escape that creature harder.

After a few hours of swimming, or in Garfiel's case, being under the mercy of the currents, Subaru EXE suddenly disappeared, alongside the spikes and the purple energy projectiles. At first, Garfiel didn't understand, but he soon understood as he looked in front of him, with his eyes wide in shock and Fear.

It was a dead end. He was going to crash into a stone wall at the end of the river.

And with nothing to do and being short on time to react, Garfiel crossed his arms in front of his face, bracing himself for the impact...

BOOM!

The stone wall of the mountain at the end of the river blasted open, causing the water to flood, and for Garfiel to fall off to the ground from a few hundred feet. Fortunately, due to his physique, this was nothing, as he managed to stand up immediately, and even though he was wet and freezing, he didn't mind it at all.

"Where th'heck is ma amazin' self? Did ma amazin' self finally got out of Gusteko?" Garfiel asked himself, before his eyes widened in shock as memories suddenly assaulted his head.

"This...Happened before..." He muttered his shocked expression turned to anger as he gritted his sharp, spiky teeth.

"Ma amazin' self needs t'get away from that! Ma amazin' self needs to go to th'Sancutary post-haste!" Garfiel exclaimed before making a dash through the ground of the mountain, running for around a few minutes as silence screamed throughout the night, before suddenly.

SHIIK!

"?!"

Garfiel suddenly tripped over and lost his footing, falling on one knee, before gritting his teeth as he felt unbearable pain in his left leg. He then looked at his left foot and gasped in shock.

It was completely ripped off, and blood was coming out of the stump. What's worse, it wasn't regenerating.

Dazed in his shock, Garfiel didn't realize the floating blue short figure that was above him wearing white gloves and red and white sneakers, whose green pupils were shrunken and his eyes were completely wide open, bigger than dinner plates. Suddenly, a massive energy beam descended from the sky and onto Garfiel, instantly decimating him, not even leaving ashes or even atoms that would indicate that Garfiel was previously in this spot.

The beam faded, leaving a glowing yellow gem where Garfiel originally was kneeling. The blue figure landed on the ground and picked the gem.

"I NEED IT!" He yelled in the same manner as a maniac, before bolting away into the distance, running like a madman with unimaginable speeds.

Shortly afterwards, Subaru EXE walked into the scene, seemingly annoyed.

"That's strange. That weirdo was the first person whose energy I couldn't feel" He said before opting a thinking pose.

"But I felt that he was somehow related to this...Exetior. Maybe just one of his slaves" He muttered before sighing in frustration.

"My day is ruined. I need to visit Exetior. His slave is weird, and I don't like it" He said before flickering away in a flash of white light.

Unknown Location

The scene changed to a landscape that was red from top to bottom, and as a floating, one-eyed anthropomorphic hedgehog with pale blue, almost gray skin was floating around the red platform, a flash of white light flickered behind him, grabbing its attention, only to see an unfamiliar existence in front of him, yet he immediately recognized the identity of the foreign existence, despite said existence possessing a white-haired Human.

"Oops. Sorry to interfere with your big, creepy...Red temple. In any case, I want to discuss something" Subaru EXE said to the one-eyed creature, who stared at him in silence for a few seconds before opening its mouth to speak.

"Follow me, Young One" The one-eyed creature said, before he flew forward and Subaru EXE followed him. A few minutes later, they arrived to the presence of two anthropomorphic hedgehogs. One was light blue in color and had light blue eyes, while the other was the same as that anthropomorphic hedgehog from earlier that killed Garfiel, except that his skin was deathly pale to the point that he can be mistaken for a ghost. He also had crimson red irises and black sclera, but unlike any of Subaru EXE's slaves, this guy did not have blood running down from his eyes and the corner of his eyes seemed to be slashed.

"Thank you, Pervision. Greetings, Exeller. Long time no see. I see that you had a new body upon entering that new world, and it is taller, not to mention a Human. Anyways, why did you come here? I heard that you achieved considerable success in dominating that new dimension. Isn't that right?" The dark blue anthropomorphic hedgehog greeted Subaru EXE before rapidly cutting to the chase. However, this last phrase caused Subaru EXE to opt a downcast expression.

"Dominating? Yeah, of course..." He muttered his answer. It seems that Exetior, a Seither Archdemon, is still unaware that he is talking to a Highest, and a Zero-Class at that.

They were enemies, but their goals aligned. Even if the method of approach is similar, yet different from the perspective. So lying low about his identity would be the best option, considering the fact that should Exetior know about Exeller's identity as a Highest...Let's just say that the palns of both of them would be ruined.

Not that it was the first time he visited him for the reason that he was here for right now.

"Can your 'girlfriend' stop looking at me like that? Or does he want to see me in a dress as well? You do realize that this isn't the first time this happens, right?" Subaru EXE asked with an annoyed look directed towards the light blue hedgehog that was standing next to Exetior. This also caused the former to opt an annoyed expression, gritting his teeth and crossing his arms under his chest as he glared at Subaru EXE.

"You already know Negagen, Exeller. Fear not. He has decided to watch us. You already know that he is weary of anything that might pose a threat to me. He is just overprotective. He tried seeing through your intentions by reading your mind, but then again, I doubt that he can do that against someone like you" Exetior said, causing Subaru EXE to smirk at him.

"I know what to do if someone else tries invading your thoughts. You know, keeping my secrets to myself" Subaru EXE said, causing Exetior to nod at this.

"Good. If he's disturbing you, I can ask him to leave" Exetior said, to which Negagen took the obvious hint, before silently walking away, and that was a sign for Subaru EXE to get to the point.

"Let's move to the topic. In short, one of your slaves killed the Parallel World version of Knuckles in the dimension that I'm conquering, or did something to him, and took something from him as well. I was surprised. I couldn't sense his energy signature at all, and I couldn't even read his thoughts. But instead, I felt that you were connected to him. So to the point: Will you give me that thing that was taken from Garfiel Tinsel?" Subaru EXE explained, before demanding the thing that was taken from the dead Garfiel.

And this caused Exetior to be...Confused.

"My slaves? All of my slaves are already demonized. And how did this...Thief looked like?" Exetior corrected his war comrade, before asking for the shape of the 'thief'.

"He looked like Sonic. And he was really fast and was able to fly. He was even completely unaffected by my time stop" Subaru EXE answered.

"That means that it wasn't the result of those girls that have escaped yet again from my grasp..." Exetior muttered underneath his breath, before turning to Subaru EXE once again.

"So you say that he looked like Sonic, was fast, can fly, was unaffected by your Arcane Time Magic and you weren't able to sense him or read his thoughts?" Exetior asked, causing Subaru EXE to point at him.

"Instead of his energy, I felt a little of yours. So I thought that he was one of your slaves" Subaru EXE said, causing Exetior to blink, before gritting his teeth.

"My energy...So it's him again...How is he doing that?" Exetior asked out loud, causing Subaru EXE to roll his eyes.

"Oh, this draaaaaamaaaaa...Let's get down to business. Who is that guy?" He then asked after sarcastically mocking Exetior, who didn't seem to be bothered by it.

"I...I don't know. When I demonized the first trinity and started trying to demonize the girls...Through simulations, he started to appear. Sometimes he somehow violated the course of the simulations, preventing me from completing the demonization process. Some of my demonized slaves were killed at some point in time, but no one could really describe the killer's look" He said, before taking a piece of paper out of a hammerspace that seemingly existed behind his back.

"When he broke my simulations, he left some notes. And he signed this by my name" Exetior said, showing the piece of paper to Subaru EXE. The paper read as follow:

"You made me do it again...This time specifically to test your guesses, isn't it? You want to track me down? Find me and get rid of me like before? Hehe...It's useless. You can't track me even if I'm right behind you. But don't worry. We'll meet again. But not now. When the time comes"

Note left by Exetior.

"Maybe that was Sark? Maybe not. That would be too clever for him. Rather than showing intimidation, he would immediately inform the Highests if he wanted to betray you" Subaru EXE said with confusion plastered all over his bloodied face.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Exetior asked with his head tilted to the side, and this caused Subaru EXE to smile.

"No, it's nothing" He said.

"By the way, the Human whose body that you took. Is he still alive? Or did you completely break him?" Exetior asked.

"You mean Subaru Natsuki? Yes, he is alive. I'll tell you even more. He hears us and sees us, and I sometimes talk to him" Subaru EXE answered, to which Exetior smirked at this.

"Alright. What are you planning to do next?" He asked.

"I'll unite with that Eldritch Horror bitch Nyarlathothep, and we'll reset the timeline. If that works, then Garfiel will be fine" Subaru EXE answered.

"Good luck with that. I think you will need it. But if you meet this 'thief' again, try to remove him as fast as possible" Exetior said before snapping his fingers, causing a large crimson red ring to appear in thin air behind Subaru EXE, who turned around to face it. But before he could jump into it, he looked at Exetior from the corner of his eye with a mad grin on his face.

"Before I leave, here's my advice: Hire a janitor. Your floors are dirty. Bye" He said before jumping into the ring, and upon seeing that, Exetior shook his head slowly with his grin still plastered on his face.

"What an insolent fellow..." He said.

Between the borders of the Kremaldy Forest and the Sanctuary

"Hmph. Somehow I knew that I would find you here. You're pathetically predictable, Nyarlathothep"

Looking in front of him, Subaru EXE saw as the human-sized shadow faded, revealing a slender dark-skinned woman with emerald, green eyes and hair, and was wearing a female business suit.

"Hi, Exeller" She said with a calm face.

"What's the matter? Alice didn't want to show up? She got cold feet or something?" Subaru EXE asked sarcastically, to which Nyarlathotep sighed in a mixture of frustration and pity.

"I understand that you are angry from Alice because you think that she didn't fulfill her promise to you, but-" She couldn't complete her phrase as Subaru EXE cut her off.

"Blah Blah Blah...Let's get down to business. Garfiel is dead...Well, you already know that, right?" Subaru EXE said, to which Nyarlathothep stared at him blankly.

"And you did that, I suppose?" She asked.

"So much intelligence for the strongest Demon of the Cthulhu Mythos. If I'd done that, I wouldn't have talked to you. Anyways, he was killed by some 'thief'" Subaru EXE answered with a mocking tone.

"Another Demon from another universe...We would have felt him, right?" Nyarlathotep asked.

"Exactly...Is what I would say normally...Anyways, I need your powers to reset the timeline, and yes, Nyarlathotep. I know that you have the power to do that. Let me go to the Master Emerald already so that I can make sure it's safe and nothing has been tampered in it" Subaru EXE said.

"Very well..." Nyarlathotep sighed before snapping her fingers. In the next instant, the Master Emerald was in front of them.

"However...It won't be me that will do the timeline reset" Nyarlathotep said with a smile.

"Huh? What are yo-?!" And before he could finish his question, light shone from the chest of Subaru EXE, and a voice echoed throughout the world.

"I want them to live..."

And just like that, the white light engulfed the whole world, where silence is what followed as this world was left behind.

Memory Fragment File #04

"Don't move, punk!"

"See, Otto? I told you he won't remember my name"

As both of Subaru and Otto entered the Sanctuary, Garfiel prevented them from investigating the Witch Tomb. They were trying to dispel the barrier around the Sanctuary to allow the Irlam villagers to return to their homes and celebrate the Snow Festival as well.

"Ma amazin' self is sick of your jokes! Ma amazin' self is givin' ya a last chance! Leave!" Garfiel yelled while cracking his knuckles, which in turn caused Otto to shiver, but Subaru seemed unaffected by the intimidation.

"Sorry, buddy. But the path is blocked. You can help us, though" Subaru said.

"An' lead ya t' take th'people outside th'Sanctuary? No way in hell!" Garfiel yelled, causing Subaru to grit his teeth.

"I told you! Those people have homes to go to! You're imprisoning them! We have to shut down the barrier!" Subaru firmly said.

"Oh, tha's it! Ma amazin' self shall beat ya t'a pulp!" Garfiel yelled before charging towards Subaru, who took off with a smile on his face, as his plan to distract Garfiel enough for Otto and Shadow to safely escort the villagers back to Irlam Village.

"Hm?" Otto hummed in confusion as he saw the walls of the Witch Tomb light up and some strange drawings were seen as he was standing outside the Tomb.

An image of giant, rectangular-shaped entities.

An image of horrific, blood-clad entities.

An image of translucent, light blue entities that appeared to be made out of water and shaped into a humanoid form with disproportionally long arms and legs, and what appeared to be a round pink brain located in their 'heads' that looked like it had fins protruding from the back.

An image of a large, purple-colored moon, where floating entities that were wearing white and black cloaks and surrounded with chains all over their bodies, were flying behind said moon, where each cloaked entity had either scythes, large crosses, or some sort of a weapon that looked like a silver, 'L'-shaped object that had a very long hollowed cylinder.

Each 2 sides appeared to be taking two opposing sides. The rectangular-shaped entities and the cloaked figures led by the large purple moon were opposing the water-made entities and the blood-clad demon-like creatures.

What was above them, however, piqued Otto's interest.

Another four giant entities that stood above those opposing entities.

One was a giant black and gray humanoid being, with its head appearing like a giant mouth with no eyes and had multiple layers of teeth and had a long neck.

Another was a giant, thin gray and silver dragon with large claws and arms with two sets of jaws.

Another was a giant, humanoid being, with a large circular shield and a large red sword that appeared to be segmented, and it also appeared to have four legs that for some reason had wheels attached to the bottom instead of being normally flat like any other Human being.

The last one was also humanoid, but it gave the vibe of a bug. It looked similar to the first black and gray humanoid being, except that he was brushed white in color, with what appeared to be an enlarged version of those 'L'-shaped objects that the entities wearing cloaks had was in its hands. That being also appeared to be the largest out of the four entity standing in the middle.

Narrowing his eyes, Otto saw one last thing standing in the middle of the two opposing sides and right below the floating giants, specifically three individuals, and they looked awfully familiar.

One was red-haired and had a beautiful sword in their hand.

Another was black haired and had a shining yellow katana in his hand, and what appeared to be yet another 'L'-shaped object in his other hand.

And the last one...Was the most familiar to Otto: An individual that had white hair and was holding both a dagger and a whip.

Otto blinked once, then twice, and in the third time he blinked, the drawings vanished, which in turn caused Otto to blink even more in confusion.

"What was that...?" He thought.

Memory Fragment File #04: End

And Done!

Another chapter, featuring Garfiel, and the 'I NEED IT' Junter!

I'm sorry if the chapter was too short. I was bustling with ideas for various characters, but a little for Garfiel. Sorry, Gorgeous Tiger. But you have to wait for a little bit to take your screen time.

Also, we finally saw Exetior. He will be featured in that story as an antagonist as well, but in a latter arc, since that arc is Exeller's.

Next thing to be addressed is that I'm thinking of making a separate story, like an EX Side Story, that would feature what happened within the one-year timeskip between chapters 1 and 2. Let me know if you guys want to see it soon so that I will start working on it after finishing Arc 3 of this story, but do keep in mind that it will be from Shadow's perspective, featuring what he did within the one year before he and Subaru met at the Loothouse in Lugunica.

And as a response for Reaper10398, before you even say it, I was planning to include all the other EXE Sonic Demons into the story, all in one Arc, probably Arc 4, where they will serve as antagonists. Of course, the main antagonist of that Arc will be Exetior, but if I'm going to give you all a spoilers, the final antagonist of that Arc would be...A side character.

Also, in response to how Subaru will react, of course he will be devastated, and by now, he will already realize that not everyone can be saved within the carnage that will happen within the three years of Hell that all of them will suffer by the other entities invading his world.

By the way, I think you guys already know what I mean from the fourth Memory Fragment File, and if you don't know what I mean, then read the cosmology of : The Nightmare, and you will know what that war that Shadow is taking is about.

Next Chapter: Round 2. Ending 3: The Worst Best Father.

Until Next Time And Next Chapter!

Jude Warble, Out.