"I thought you're dead..." - Phantylia exclaimed as she hovered out of the crashed ship, accompanied by some of her men.

"I did. But my death was... Greatly orchestrated. I managed to fool the Divinity, and even the #4."

"But how come you are here..?"

"Answer does not meet the required satisfactory, begin elimination."

"Wait wait wait! No! Our ship was severely damaged by the space pirates! That's why we are here to begin with!"

"Continue. And I shall evaluate, whether you should all be exterminated here or later." - Rubert said. "You are disrupting me and putting me in grave danger by coming here."

"Wait! I cannot die here yet, what would the other Lord Ravagers and the Legion think if you of all people kill me here? They would know! Is that really what you wanted?" - Phantylia tried to convince the machine, but to no avail at all.

"I need not to worry. I caused a great war, and I can do it again. But, letting you survive and walk away from here is too dangerous." - Rubert said, one of its mechanical limbs turned into a blaster, charging up and aiming at Phantylia. "I shall make sure no one discovers my existence, at least for another 50 Amber Eras."

"Tsk.. How about this, I have a proposal."

"There is no-"

Phantylia interrupted the machine.

"You will not have to fight alone next time, if you are truly aiming for the eradication of the organic life forms of the universe, then why not join forces with the Legion?"

"... Elaborate."

"If you let me go now, not only I will not tell a single living soul about this, but also making sure you get a seat in the Lord Ravagers' Roundtable, with your intellect and your thirst for a form of destruction, I can be sure that several of them will be welcoming you with open arms." - Phantylia said, and was relieved to see the blaster started to tune down at last. "There is also the Warforge, which, I am sure all of your machines will greatly enhance, allowing your army to reach a different height, even further than how you could imagine."

"Proposition is amusing to me. I accept." - Rubert lowered the blaster.

"Good... But not yet, I am on a mission, a crusade, of sorts..." - Phantylia said.

"I understand, I do not expect the promise to be fulfilled that quickly. After all, I still need some time for myself."

"... But why are you here of all places?"

"I fled and allegedly retired on this planet."

— — — — —

"Also, despite everything, not even Fuli can beat his own Memokeepers at being creepy stalkers. They will always be there observing you and you can't even tell, then they will sometimes put you in a fake scenario in order to extract your memories without you knowing." - Akivili said.

"Huh... wait what about Fuli?"

"Fuli is different, THEY do observe and sometimes stalk, but thanks to THEM that the Cosmos has been alerted of many different threats. Remember the prank Aha pulled on Xipe?"

"Ohh... So... Fuli is a reasonable stalker?"

"Yes. While his memokeepers aren't. They are all creepy ass stalkers who copy paste your memories without any specific reason."

"Huh..."

"Anyways. I wonder how Acheron is doing with the task I handed over to her, she should be done with it and come back at any moment now."

"..."

"Yeah she got lost again, didn't she?"

Meanwhile in the Garden of Recollection.

Memokeeper 1 : Mmmmm I just got a piece of memory from the Jade about secret planetary trades

Memokeeper 2 : Boring, I have this from a traveler from afar, trying their best to save an entire nation from the abyss but only using one type of power and a severely downgraded sword

Memokeeper 3 : Please, you all are tripping, I got the memories of two scientists making out

Memokeeper 1 & 2 : Dayum that's really good, you won the prize of being creepy today

Acheron : uhm....excuse me, where am I?

Memokeeper 1, 2 & 3 : all having seizure

— — — — —

"Anyways, my child, would you like to learn about the story of how Aha ascended?"

"Hmm... I heard that the Masked Fools all talk about it before, it's like when Aha climbed some sort of the Tree of Creation, THEY witnessed a baby fell over and laughed so hard not only it echoed throughout the galaxy, but THEY also ascended in the process. It's something that... I find it very hard to believe."

"Well, if you have doubts about the information's reliability, I will tell you this, my child. Aha is not Mythus, and the Masked Fools are not History Fictionologists. Interpet with that information with Aha's ascension however you like."

"Hmm.. Speaking of History Fictionologists... Is it possible for them to die?"

"Yes and no."

"Huh?"

"Although their Paths differ, the Elation and the Enigmata, especially their followers do have a lot in common. You can never know what they are up to when you are around them, their motives are always shrouded, concealed from ordinary logical thinking. Such was what happened with that Gallagher guy you met on Penacony, who is dead by now, but not actually."

"Huh?"

"If he really is a History Fictionologist, he is not really dead at all, just that the identity as Gallagher you know now have ceased to exist. This is really common if you have a close relationship with some of those History Fictionologists." - Akivili said. "One time... I remember aboard the Express, there was this one guy who was the second in command of the security, was in love with an Omen Vanguard, their relationship lasted for a few months before she abruptly disappeared without leaving any trace behind, that guy went depressed for a while and then found out that she has adapted a new identity as a Memokeeper."

"Huh?"

"In the span of 10 years, this exact thing happened over and over again, after being a Memokeeper, she reappeared as a Masked Fool, a Knight of Beauty, an Architect, an Arbitrator,... Damn now I think about it, it's like marrying a cosplayer girlfriend, your girl will be appearing as a completely different person sometimes, which could probably bring some new and fresh experience, maybe?"

"..."

"Now that I think about it, if that guy gets accused of cheating, I won't even blame him, like how he is supposed to do when she adopts a new identity every once in a while."

"Huh..."

"You seem to be speechless, my child. I agree, the topic of our gossip has been vague lately, that is why I shall be bringing in another member to our talk show." - Akivili said as THEY stood up and walked over to the storage door, opened it and went inside to find something.

Moments later, THEY came out with an old-fashioned computer and a monitor out, plugged it to a stable power source.

"Uhh.. are we going to game?"

"No. My child, this is in order for another friend to join in the conversation."

"I thought you-"

"This one is fine, his existence is as concealed as he is protected by Enigmata, no one can find him here as long as he is here within my domain."

Akivili pulled out a disc, and then put it in...

The machine started to run, the lights blinking and the monitor lights up, the hardwares inside started to work intensively. Moments later, an image appeared.

Stelle immediately stood up in surprise and has her guard up the moment she realized what that is, #27 of the Genius Society, Rubert I, the one behind the Emperor's Mechanical Wars.

"Praise the machine."

The machine voice beeped from the monitor, as Akivili took a step back.

"Hey, it's been a while, tin can." - Akivili greeted him.

"Not you again. I am not going to search Idrila lew-"

"Nope."

"What was that?" - Stelle asked.

"Nope, nothing my child just... some binary code gibberish hehehehe." - Akivili said as THEY slapped the computer.

"I suppose you are here this time for Xipe's le-"

"Nope!"

"So it is Ena-"

"Nope! Shut up! I am here for a different reason!"