"Information can be more valuable than money itself." -Volpe

To find this artificial intelligence, we first had to gather more information about it, it would be close to impossible to find it on Greenterra without any clues that will lead us to it. But… even if we do find it, would we be strong enough to capture it? Maybe our father is going to go himself to capture her, I’m sure he’s really strong. I was on my bed ready to sleep; Misaki came to sleep in my room since she wanted to talk. As I was about to fall asleep, I heard Misaki saying,

“Hey, Yumi.”

“Hmm?”

“Don’t you want to recover all of our memories?”

“Huh? There’s no need for that, our father already told us our past life.”

“We both know that there has to be some stuff that he didn’t tell us.”

“Are you suspicious of father?” I asked with an annoyed tone, “were you always this rebellious?”

“I-It’s not that! I just feel like I’m missing a big part of myself…” I can understand how she feels, in fact, I also feel like that, but we promised our father that we were going to help him.

“A-alright… we can ask father about it tomorrow morning.”

“Yeah… thank you, big sister.” Big sister… I guess I’m not used to being called that yet, but I’d definitely put my life on the line for her well-being.

“Don’t mention it.”

Next morning, our father was writing some papers at his desk, we walked in and said,

“Good morning father.” He looked up, smiled and said,

“I’m a bit busy here, girls. Can it wait?”

“I-it’s important,” I said.

“Very well.” He said while placing his pen down.

“May I ask what you’re doing?” Said Misaki. He cracked his neck, groaned and said,

“The duties of a King is to protect the kingdom from the inside and outside while increasing the wealth and trade. Right now, I’m just signing contracts and making trades with other small angel communities.”

“But don’t you rule all of the angels?”

“I do, but they are all allowed to make their communities, and I have to play fair with them if I want my image to remain a genuine king that loves their people.”

“Don’t you?” I asked.

“Yes, but to an extent. I was also writing a letter to the Aizawa family; there’s a girl called Shizuka Aizawa in Greenterra that is giving humans a lot of our knowledge.”

“Really? Why would she do that?” I asked.

“Anyways, what is that you needed to tell me? Is it about your full memories?” He asked with a neutral face.

“Yes, how did you-”

“It was eventually going to happen. But giving memories back to people who died is near impossible.”

“Near?” I asked.

“If you both manage to find the damn machine, then we can use it to get your memories back.”

“Wow, it’s that powerful?!” Asked Misaki.

“Yes, it is incredibly powerful.”

“Then how are going to capture it?”

“That’s my job. I might struggle a bit though, so if I ask for your help, I’m expecting it. This machine is incredibly powerful. She could wipe out all of those humans in a day if she wished.”

“By the way, father,” I said.

“Yes?”

“Why are humans so important? And where did they come from?”

“Well, humans were a race made by Greenterra, the nature gem goddess. She never planned on having specifically humans, they just evolved from an earlier species of primates. Angels and devils noticed this, so we made a pact to give them singularities and the diamond of souls, and in return, we would use their race to experiment on them, so that we could avoid those mistakes within our society, though I’m not sure devils learned anything.”

“That makes more sense,” I said.

“The devils don’t know that the machine is lost, so we have to find it before they find out, because if they do find out, they will start another war.”

“Got it! You can rely on us, father.” I said.

“I will give you a spaceship to travel the solar system. This spaceship was made by the A.I, and it’s named Xlora. There is an exceptional training augmented reality room in it, and many other things.” He pulled out a book from his cabinets and said, “This is the manual for how to work the whole ship, pick one of you to be the pilot, and read all of it.” Misaki quickly grabbed it and said,

“I got it!” He gave us a strange-looking crystal button and said,

“This is the teleporter. You will be teleported to the ship, which is currently orbiting this planet, Caelum.”

“Thank you so much, father!” I’m surprised he trusts us this much with this spaceship, but I won’t take it for granted. Right now, Misaki and I just have to focus on getting stronger and search for things that can lead us to the A.I, Irma Tempest Airflow.

“Goodbye, and remember, Honor from divinity.”

“Honor from divinity!” We left and walked outside to teleport to the spaceship.

“So… how does this work?” I asked myself.

“You should have asked him.” Said Misaki.

“He was already busy enough!” Misaki grabbed the teleporter and pressed the crystal button while saying,

“Just press this thing-” we suddenly got teleported in some open capsule in a strange-looking room. There were many flashing light around the walls together with cameras. There was a strong metallic odor together with many beeping noises from machines that I had no idea of how to work, but Misaki got the manual so hopefully, she learns most of it, and then she could explain some to me.

“Wow, this place is… different.” Said Misaki.

“Since our culture in the angel kingdom is more leaned towards the old classical times of castles and architecture, yeah, it is really different.” We walked out of what seemed to be the teleporter room, and soon arrived at two corridors. We kept walking through the one that seemed to be the main one and we arrived at the front lobby. Every wall, floor, and ceilings were white with some black, making everything look even more futuristic. There were plants in each corner of the lobby with some sofas at the bottom left of the room to relax in front of a beautiful view of the planet Caelum.

“That's our planet?”

“Wow… it’s so beautiful.” I said. The planet had two rings that the people in heaven call the haloes.

“Wait, there must be a map of the solar system around this manual.” Said Misaki as she rushed through the book to find a picture. “Here it is!”

“We’re far closer to Greenterra than I thought,” I said.

“How long would it take us to reach that planet though?” Suddenly, we heard someone say in a courteous tone,

“Seven months to be precise. Well, it can take more or less depending on the planet’s orbit.” I quickly turned around. There was a man standing with a suspicious, yet gentle smile.

“Who are you?” Asked Misaki with a worried look while readying up her weapons.

“H-hey! No need for violence, I come in peace!” He had narrow eyes which appeared as if they were almost shut, together with short purple hair which he wore in a bowl cut under a white fedora hat that matched with his dress suit. If he has purple hair… then could he be… Daku?!”

“Wait, Daku?!” I said.

“Daku? Who’s that?” He asked with a confused expression. “My name is Volpe.”

“Volpee?” Asked Misaki with a grin. I’ve never heard such a name before.

“N-No, it’s an eastern name, you pronounce it, Volp-eh, not Volp-ee, I-I find that quite offensive.”

“Who are you? And why are you here?”

“If you’re wondering why my hair color is different, it’s because I dyed it.” Ah, father did say that he started brainwashing humans into thinking that multi-colored hair was normal.

“But why is a human on the ship?” I felt no angel energy coming from him… but at the same time, I didn’t feel devil nor human energy either. I wasn’t afraid of him though, I mean, what could he do? He looks so frail and weak.

“Oh dear, then let’s get straight to the point.” He said while softly seating on the sofa. He was wearing a white dress suit with a long white coat with two small purple chains that he used as belts wrapped around his pants. He had black fingerless gloves on, and black shoes that also had chains wrapped around them. He looked like he was around 22 years old.

“Don’t get too comfortable, we still don’t trust you.” Said Misaki.

“Please… violence is not my forte, so let’s just set things with a civil conversation.”

“I agree,” I said while sighing and seating parallel to him.

“Your ‘papa’ is not who you think he is.” Huh? What is he saying? All our father has been until now is kind and nothing else.

“Hmm?” Said Misaki with a concerned look.

“He has helped us and taken care of us until now… I won’t let someone talk badly of him freely like this.”

“P-please, Salamander,” he said while putting his hands up. “All I’m doing here is trying to help you.”

“I don’t trust you…” I said while releasing my sword and held it up to his neck. I had a very bad feeling coming from this man.

“Let him talk, Salamander.” Said Misaki while slowly brushing my arm away.

“T-t-thank you, Chaos.” Said the man.

“You better say something before I can’t stop Salamander anymore.” Said Misaki.

“Y-yeah! Well, first of all, I got valuable information about who Irma is.” Irma? How does he know about her?

“Hmm? Go on.” Said Misaki.

“Wait, you surely don’t expect me to say things like this for free.” He said while smiling.

“Well, it’s not like you have a choice now,” I said.

“Who is the one that needs to know the information the most here? Don’t you have to find Irma?” He’s right… even if we do kill him, we will never find out about Irma. I sighed and said while putting my weapon away,

“Very well, what is it that you want?”

“And it better not be something weird!” Said Misaki.

“Oh, don’t worry, I’m a simple man! I just want the same back. Information.”

“What kind of information?” I asked. He coughed and said,

“Well, how about… how about you tell me what the king is currently up to? You surely would know since you’re his daughters.”

“No way in hell, that would be us backstabbing him!”

“Very well, then I guess there’s no business to be had here.” He said while getting up and walking away. It’s alright, Misaki and I will find another way to know about Irma.

“He is writing a letter to the Aizawa family about his knowledge of Shizuka.” Said Misaki.

“Chaos?! Are you serious?!” The man stopped. Looked back with a grin and said,

“So, he knows about Shizuka Aizawa… oh dear, that’s not good, that’s not good at all.”

“Now tell me the information about Irma!” Yelled Misaki.

“Alright, alright. I’m a man of my word.” He took a deep breath then said, “Irma is currently in Greenterra as you already know, and she has children.”

“What?! But she is a machine!” I said.

“She obviously made them herself so she wouldn’t feel lonely. She also lives in South Greenterra. Now, if you want a name, then it will cost you a bit more information.”

“That wasn’t the deal!” Yelled Misaki.

“I never said I was going to tell you everything now, did I?” He’s right.

“What else do you want to know?” Asked Misaki.

“Chaos! Stop! We can’t just tell him everything!”

“Do you both currently have a divine gemstone?” He asked us with a smile. We both looked surprised for a second, then he said, “Judging from your reaction, you do. I noticed the green hair and green eyes on chaos, and the orange highlights on Salamander, so…it’s not just hair dye and contacts, is it?”

“I… I won’t tell you that.” Said Misaki.

“Perhaps this will change your mind.” He pulled out his phone and showed us a video of our father stomping and beating that same civilian who refused to pray without mercy.

“W-What…” I said. I couldn’t believe that our father was hiding this… from us. He kept stomping and beating that person with a pleasureful grin on his face together with a scary laugh. “Learn how to appreciate your gods! You ungrateful piece of trash!” I stopped the video and said,

“T-That’s enough…”

“So? Care of telling me now?”

“I told you something was off about him, Salamander.” Said Misaki with a sigh.

“Yeah…”

“Well, Volpee, I have the radiation gem, while Salamander has half of the sun gem.”

“Just as I thought! Both Misaki and Yumi have the gems. Then that’s less work for me! How grand!” Huh? What is he talking about? Wait, how does he know our real names?!

“How do you-”

“I’m a man with many connections, Yumi.”

“Now tell us Irma’s name that she uses in Greenterra!” Said Misaki.

“Hmm… I had to show you a video to gain that information, so I don’t think this deal is fair.”

“What, but you said-”

“Eh, I say many things, but if the deal if unfair, then I can’t work with you.”

“You little…” Misaki readied her weapons and aimed them at Volpe.

“C-come on! Don’t kill me now! I’m just a businessman that travels place to place in hunger of information about the mystery of this universe! That’s all! I swear!”

“I hate saying this, but he could be of great use to us, Misaki,” I said while sighing.

“Whatever.” Said Misaki while putting her weapons away.

“We will meet again, but for now just act as nothing happened, or your papa will be suspicious.” He walked around a corner.

"Hey! What are you after anyway?!" Said Misaki as we chased behind him but as we turned the corner, he was gone.

“Misaki… what if telling him those things was a bad idea?”

“Well, we need to know where Irma is, either way, right?”

“Yeah, that’s true… she is a genocide machine.”

“She has children though…” Said Misaki.

“So? She still killed millions.”

“I guess that’s true…”