Kira went outside with Gunvolt at 8 that night to look at the stars while Lumen made a grocery list. She brought her own jacket, for reasons left in ASG2.
"Hey look, a satellite. Do you see it? It's a little over to the right." Gunvolt spoke.
Kira looked to where Gunvolt was pointing, took one look at that satellite and ran. She screamed before running into the house to warn Lumen
"We gotta go!" Kira shrieked.
Lumen looked up from her list in panicked terror. Gunvolt calmly entered the house to see what the trouble was.
"Star Dragon, Satellite, we, all, die." Kira cried shakily.
"It's not the Star Dragon satellite. You don't have to worry about that. Unless Nova's controlling it at the time or you lose control." Gunvolt assured.
Lumen gave him a glare to let him know that wasn't a good thing to say.
"Kira thought we were all going to die." Lumen notified.
"I thought Nova was the only one who could acess it. It's going to take some time getting used to this." Gunvolt muttered.
"Did someone ever secretly hack the satellite so Nova could use it?" Kira wondered.
Moebius nodded.
"Maybe I should wipe him out or switch the controls back over." Kira theorized.
"What you should do right now is go to bed. Everything's been taking a toll on you. I'm sure this is a lot for you to process. I felt the same way when I first began working for QUILL." Gunvolt commented.
Kira nodded before going off to do her bedtime routine and go to sleep. When she woke up around 7, Kira went right to the kitchen.
"Not even a good morning? What happened?" Gunvolt remarked.
"I wasn't even given the chance to have a good morning before my mind was assaulted by some not so good images." Kira complained.
"What were they?" Gunvolt asked.
"You don't wanna know, not until after breakfast at least." Kira retorted as she grabbed a biscuit Lumen made and placed it on a saucer.
She grabbed a pork sausage patty and put it on the biscuit. Along with cheese and hot sauce, it was complete. Lumen re-entered the kitchen after Kira took her first bite. She stared at the girl with shock and horror.
"Kira, please tell me you didn't use that saucer." Lumen begged while pointing to the small plate Kira had used.
"Yeah, why? is something wrong with it?" Kira questioned.
"Kirin, that plate had raw pork meat on it!" Lumen shouted.
Kira stopped chewing on her second bite and put her breakfast sandwich back on the saucer. Regardless, Kira swallowed her second bite. She knew she was already doomed and didn't want to waste food. A look of disgust came across her face.
"This hot sauce is too sweet." Kira gagged.
That's when Gunvolt went back in the kitchen to see what was going on.
"Kira ate a breakfast sandwich off the same plate we had that sausage." Lumen elucidated.
"She's not sick is she?'' Gunvolt worried.
"We're all sick, just not with food poisoning." Lumen reminded.
Just then, Kira was hit with yet another flashback. This one was short as well so there was no talking. Corvette was sitting at the right of a meeting table while the other delegates appeared as they did in ASG2. A couple of differences were Nova and Dr. Kamizono being present. Kira was glad she didn't see more.
"Gandolf was right when he said 'Are you suggesting that the morning will be good whether I like it or not?'' Kira sighed.
"Why's that?" Gunvolt pondered.
Kira sighed again.
"I can't believe you know this. But I can't believe even more that I'm about to add to that knowledge." Kira responded.
Kira then began to explain her incredibly short flashback.
"Well that's not a nice way to wake up in the morning." Lumen commented.
Kira walked back to her room to fix her bed and hope she wouldn't get sick.
"I still can't beliieve she hasn't suffered worse yet because of this stuff." Gunvolt remarked.
"I'm fine, I am the picture of health." Kira assured before slipping on a sock in her bedroom doorway.
"Yeah, if it had a broken wrist and sprained ankles." Gunvolt retorted.
He looked Kira up and down to make sure she was okay, which she was.
"You really need to be more careful. Just because you're lab created does't mean you're invincible." Gunvolt cautioned.
"Especially when you think about her immune system. Since she was lab created, Kirin's body had no chance, reason or need for an immune system. So she had to build one from scratch." Asimov explained.
"Again with the scary!" Kira exclaimed.
Lumen giggled. Suddenly, Kira was faced with another flashback. She was glaring at Dr. Kamizono at S-FIT in another dark hall. She was under the influence of the anesthesia.
Kira had a Lux Ballista ready behind her and fired it. As soon as she did, Kira was met with a Septima Sealer Bullit to the neck. Then she found herself chained down yet again. This time, it was followed by electrocution.
After the flashback, Kira was rather upset.
"How many times is this going to happen in my life!?" Kira snapped.
"Are you talking about being forced into team bonding with Zeno?" Lumen assumed.
"Puh-lease, the only way I'd do that is with extra strength heavy duty glue." Kira remarked.
"I'd heard of this guy named Akito that Sumeragi recently hired. Do you know him Kira?" Gunvolt questioned.
"What!? He's real!? He's not supposed to exist! Please don't tell me he has rustled black hair, brown eyes, round framed glasses and was wearing the standard Sumeragi uniform with a height of six feet and an inch..." Kira groaned.
"So you do know about him." Gunvolt confirmed.
"I just wrote about him because I didn't have any other ideas at the time!" Kira huffed.
"Did anyone tell you you're capable of using Cross Overflow to attack?" Asimov notified.
"That was an option!?" Kira shrieked.
Asimov nodded.
"I hope you learned that teleporting yourself to the sanatorium's basement thinking nobody's there to catch you is a bad idea right?" Asimov reminded.
"Huh? I'm confused. What exactly are you referencing?" Kira asked.
Kira only learned what Asimov was talking about after a flashback. She was in a room standing on a 3-rung step ladder. There was a file on the top shelf on the white 5-tier bookshelf in front of her. As soon as Kira went to grab the file, she was grabbed instead.
She didn't know who did it, but someone got ahold of Kira's left wrist. When the flashback ended, the poor girl was startled.
"Uh, just out of curiosity, does the sanatorium include a white five tier bookshelf in the basement?" Kira questioned.
"Apollo, sanatorium." Moebius explained.
"Of course, it just had to be him. He couldn't just stick to minding his own business now could he!?" Kira complained.
"Well you did invade his house during work hours." Asimov commented.
"He can't mind his own business if you're minding it too." Lumen agreed.
"Why did you have Kirin and I fight anyways? There's really no point if we're on the same side." Gunvolt rambled.
"It doesn't matter if she's working at Sumeragi while you have a job there." Asimov elaborated.
It was then that Kira remembered. She was being chased by 2 massive bolts of lightning in a dream. Apparently, it was no longer a dream.
"R-r-r-r-r-r-r, remind me to never get on his bad s-s-side." Kira squeaked as she cowered behind Lumen.
Kira randomly began laughing.
"What's so funny?" Gunvolt inqueried.
"Nothing, well, nothing that you'd find funny anyways." Kira laughed.
"You do realize that nurse was simply trying to do her job and didn't deserve the massive swearing out you gave her right?" Asimov lectured.
"I think the workers at S-FIT have seen worse and done worse." Kira rebuked.
"She worked for the hospital. But after the encounter she had with you, I wouldn't blame that woman if she quit and moved South of France." Asimov remarked.
Kira suddenly had another unexpected flashback. She was walking past a no trespassing sign on a chain link fence. Kira saw Akito. She asked him for directions to a Sumeragi facility and he gave them to her.
Once in the building, Kira saw a bunch of students in uniforms. She took the left corridor to go somewhere else. The entire building was made of metal, including the elevator Kira sat in. During her travelling, Kira passed a round roof turbine with black smoke coming from it.
When she was where she needed to be, Kira was met with resistance. A woman with black hair and a police officer uniform with a black skirt. Kira dodged the woman who was busy trying to place cuffs on her. Kira did this twice before she was tasered and blacked out.
Only then was Kira grateful for the expulsion. She was kicked out of school because of something someone said. She never did figure out who got her banned from every school in the country. She didn't want to figure out if she was forbidden from every school in the world.
Suddenly, a wave of an unknown emotion began to wash over Kira. A surge of memories lashed at her with a feeling of being pulled down. So, she felt there was no other option but to talk about it with Gunvolt. Right after she stopped feeling miserable. Until then, Kira stayed in her bed with Moebius and moped.
"I wonder if this is how Sistina feels." Kira whispered.
"Pity, brainwash." Moebius notified.
"So I brainwashed her into pitying me?" Kira assumed.
"'Separate." Moebius corrected.
"So I brainwashed her after she began to pity me?" Kira realized.
Moebius nodded.
"Are the Binding Brands real?" Kira pondered.
Moebius gave no response.
"Do any of Copen's relatives know about my existence?" Kira asked.
She turned on her console and awaited an answer. Zed's image was displayed.
"It's someone other than Apollo? Are you sure?" Kira worried.
Cayman's picture was loaded. Kira began to grow concerned. Maybe she wasn't specific enough and forgot to include Copen.
"Did I forget to include Copen?" Kira pondered.
Serpentine could be seen onscreen.
"Are you thinking I'm delusional?" Kira joked.
Moebius used Shiron's image so Kira wouldknow he didn't think she was crazy. Kira proceeded to ask if Copen's mother was alive. Followed by the concern of her knowning that Kira existed. Sistina's photo precceded Cayman's, giving Kira a yes for both questions.
"What about Nori?" Kira theorized.
Sistina's image was generated again. She asked if this was a for certain fact. The pink haired woman's photo could be seen again. That's when Kira remembered that she had a system.
She associated the characters with ASG songs. It was possible that Moebius was aware of this. After Sistina's image loaded the second time, Kira played the game to rack up Kudos. After reaching 1,000, Sakura Efflorescence began to play.
When she was done listeing to the song, Kira knew why it played.
"You knew I wanted to listen to that song so you pulled it up didn't you?" Kira noticed.
Prado's picture was seen. Just then, Kira remembered a dream she had a while back. It was eerily similar to the one she had last night. The previous dream Kira had was actually a nightmare.
She was running on a sidewalk behind Asimov who had his gun. While running, Kira passed by a blacked out Black Badge on the right of the sidewalk. Then she realized that dream she had last night may have been real. Last night, Kira had a nightmare that she was stuck kneeling with her wrists held behind her back by the "Dancing Dead" himself.
The only problem was, he didn't exist. Kira decided to ask again, just to make sure. After seeing Shiron's picture, that was all Kira needed to know. Until she realized something else was missing from the truth.
"Was than an Image pulse I was working on that became successful?" Kira hoped.
Gunvolt's image gave her the confirmation she needed.
"Second try." Moebius confirmed.
"That's good to know. But, does Nori truly know about my existence?' Kira commented.
Kira caught a glimpse of Prado onscreen.
"Okay then, what about his aunt?" Kira pondered.
Apollo's picture was loaded.
"No, we know he's aware of my existence already. Or are you saying she doesn't know?" Kira noted.
Kira saw Cayman's image.
"What about Copen's uncle?" Kira inqueried.
Sistina's photo was seen.
"I don't know if I should be grateful or feel bad that she was the only one left out." Kira laughed.
Kira's mind was then brought back to the nightmare she had quite some time ago. She was confined to a device on a wall. After trying to retaliate against the nurse in front of her, said nurse stabbed Kira with a needle 3 times in her left elbow.
"I guess that happened while I was under the influence of that anesthesia." Kira remembered.
Moebius nodded.
"What about the time where I had that gas mask on in the hall? Then I panicked, used those Septima swords and burnt a hole in the mask with my Angered Explosion before running off?" Kira wondered.
"Psycalibur." Moebius corrected.
"Asimov's here, he wants you to tell GV about Moebius." Lumen notified.
"But he already knows about Moebius. There's no need to tell him what he already knows." Kira stated.
"Asimov, hate." Moebius warned.
"You don't like Asimov?" Kira muttered.
Moebius shook his head.
"What about Elise? Do you like her?" Kira queried.
Zed's picture was loaded before Kira turned off her console. Once she was seated on the couch, Kira had to sit with GV since Lumen was busy sewing one of Gunvolt's regular tops.
"He thinks I've been going crazy!? Even Elise can see him! I have her watch him while I'm on duty!" Kira exclaimed.
"What is that you're holding?" Gunvolt questioned.
"This is Moebius!" Kira huffed as she held up the aforementioned ruler of the Primal Dragons.
"So, what's different with him in this universe?" Gunvolt pondered.
"He was born exactly at midnight on December fifteenth, two thousand four, two days after I was. We fused as soon as he came into existence. I didn't know we were ever fused until recently. The only person in Sumeragi that knows about him is Elise.
Somehow, none of the ATEMS Knights know that Moebius is alive. Zed definitely knows. I never even bothered to check if Layla holds any knowledge of him. Maybe I should do that now." Kira lectured.
"Not right now. You need to finish explaining." Asimov demanded.
"There's nothing else to explain. All that's left to say is I didn't want you to know about him. Even Moebius agreed that keeping his existence from you was ideal." Kira added.
Gunvolt didn't know if he should be happy or sad. On one side, he appreciated the idea that Kira and Moebius didn't want to cause him any trouble. But on the other hand, he was upset that Kira and Moebius felt like they were a bother to him.
"Layla, unaware." Moebius stated.
"Layla and Luxia are unaware of his existence too." Kira informed.
Kira remembered how Layla and Luxia were never seen near Moebius in ASG3. She went through the wiki fandom and found something else interesting in the trivia section of the Firmament page. It said the same machine Joule was contained in there was the same as the one GV was in. This was supposedly seen in the OVA.
Kira didn't want to believe it. She swore he was never contained in anything like that. Unfortunately, both Kira's eyes and the OVA proved her wrong. But, regardless of this, Kira felt this wasn't true.
In her mind, GV was stuck in a tall glass tube, almost like a cylinder with no top. And the cylinder could be lowered into the floor when not in use. She knew it was also made of bulletproof glass. Kira knew this was an incredibly important detail so she went to find Gunvolt and ask.
She found him talking to Lumen. With the hopes of not interrupting, Kira tugged on Gunvolt's coat. He turned around and saw Kira.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Gunvolt wondered.
"I needed to ask you something. In the OVA, I saw you were stuck in the same machine as Joule. Is that what they kept you in for experimentation?" Kira asked.
"Not at all. What they kept me in was far different from that. It was more like a glass cylinder." Gunvolt explained.
"I thought so." Kira remarked.
"Wait, you knew about tht already?" Gunvolt interrogated.
"I was just talking to Moebius about it before. I simply wanted to ask and make sure." Kira elucidated.
Kira remembered a nightmare she had and noticed it was a little too realistic. Kira was in a hospital with khaki tiles dotted with some splotches of red and green. The ceiling was white and contained some white and round LED lights. The walls were white as well. On her left, Kira could see a desk against a wall. It had the same shade of tan as the floor and tall glass barriers reaching to the ceiling from the desktop.