User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 13: The Truth

“Everyone,” Idenn began, “please… allow me to explain.”

Idenn had gathered Ken, Blake, Sakaki, and Soma in the briefing room of Anagura. On this day, she would reveal everything, the truth she had finally learned about herself and about the world whence she came.

“Like Blake, I come from the future… from the year 2117,” Idenn began. “By this point, the world had seen an unnatural increase in how quickly Aragami were evolving. Humanity had begun to die off at an increased rate, and I was part of a task force organized to discover the reason for these events. Unfortunately, we never did discover a singular cause… but what we did find were the Boundary Aragami, as you call them.

“A mysterious man, working on his own, had been engineering the Boundary Aragami for an unknown purpose. I don’t know where this man came from, but with the help of my fellow task force members, I infiltrated his base and engaged him in battle. Unfortunately…” Idenn paused, as if remembering something painful. “…all of my comrades were massacred, one by one, at the hands of one of the Boundary Aragami the man sent after us—the Boundary Hannibal I defeated earlier.

“By this point, both the man and I were severely injured. I had used Lifespring to banish the Boundary Aragami elsewhere across spacetime, but I was fighting a battle of attrition trying to deal with both the Boundary Aragami and that man at the same time. As bad as I felt about it, I believed that others would be able to deal with the Boundary Aragami in whatever time periods they appeared in—a belief that Blake so handily proved to me—but I knew I couldn’t very well do the same to this man, as he would just resume his experiments and create more Boundary Aragami wherever—pardon me, whenever he went. Left with no other option, I used Lifespring one final time…”

Everyone in the room swallowed.

“…and turned my blade on myself. I stabbed myself with my own God Arc, intending to send myself into the past to bide my time and regain my strength to return and fight him again—but at the last moment, he ran towards me and entered Lifespring’s radius. That means—”

“That he got sent over with you,” Sakaki finished. “In other words, this man, the orchestrator of the Boundary Aragami, is here, likely producing more Boundary Aragami as we speak.”

“That is correct,” came Idenn’s reply. “Additionally, my having used my own Oracle Cells to power Lifespring is likely what caused my memory loss in the first place.”  Idenn took a deep breath. “Now, I do not know if the Boundary Vajra we encountered was a new one or an existing one I sent back… but either way, we cannot afford to waste time. The Boundary Aragami will likely be appearing all over the world shortly, both from my having sent them back and from the orchestrator making new ones. As much as it pains me to get you all involved… I will need all of your help to eliminate these Aragami and find the mastermind. So please…”

Idenn bowed deeply to everyone gathered.

“Please… please help me! Please lend me your strength to put a stop to this threat!”

At that moment, however, she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Blake, who looked down at her with a knowing gaze.

“You don’t have to tell me twice,” Blake exclaimed. “There’s no doubt in my mind that everyone here would do whatever it took to help you achieve your goal.”  At these words, everyone present nodded emphatically.

“And besides,” continued Blake, “I’ve got a feeling that these Boundary Aragami of yours are related to what happened in my time…”

“…so now I figure I should come clean about everything… about the Great Fall.”

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