Jayr POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  Still sitting in Cratergann's cockpit, I calmly watch the se as the sudden deluge forms otlefield and gees a water wall around the Dai-Gurren.

  And soon after that, a gigantic aquatimen fortress resembling a tipede, whose name is Dai-Gunkai if I remember well, which serves as Adiane's fgship, bounces out of the water wall surrounding the Dai-Gurren and nds on its deck while holding it with its pincers.

  The Dai-Gunkai resembles a massive tipede or some other kind of worm, with a long body and many small "legs", that are actually fins, lining its sides.

  The bow of the vessel is shaped like a grinning face with eight eyes and a pair of scythe-like pincers, the bridge resembles that of a submari is decorated with four eyes and has funal segmented arms with huge lobster-like cws.

  (Image Here - Dai-Gunkai)

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  [colpse]Standing on top of the Dai-Gunkai is Adiane's personal Gunman, the Sayrune, which is mostly white colored with a vaguely humanoid appearand it has butterfly-like wings with intimidating eyes painted on them.

  The appearance of the mae is very suggestive, ostentatiously, it is inteo be a long face with a crest on te i-like googly eyes, and a fanged maw, but it also resembles a female body, where the crest represents the head, the eyes take the pce of breasts and the mouth forms the lower body.

  Moreover, this Gunman also has another form and transform into an alternate scorpion-shaped yout with a multitude of legs, huge cws, and a stiail, but sihis form is very aerodynamic it is mostly used to improve speed ier enviro.

  (Image Here - Sayrune)

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  [colpse]The Sayrune jumps onto the Dai-Gurren's deck with its arms crossed, then Adiane's voice is heard as she says, "You 't escape. Human scum."

  And soon after, from the Sayrune's elbows, four energy whips e out and slice the main ounted in front of the Dai-Gurrem's bridge making it explode, quickly dealing with the only threat that could have damaged her Gunmen.

  Then I notice Yoko running out and shooting with her huge rifle to buy some time for the Guo deploy, but before she could actually do something, I see a delicate-looking young girl of average height with long curly, light blue/pale blonde hair, which appears immaterial, floating and moving like a cloud with hair tips resembling the edges of a blue-gold cloud, peach skin and unique blue eyes with pink crosses "+" for pupils that looks like flowers, that I quickly reize as Nia rushing out and stand in front of the Sayruh her arm spread open, and hear her yell, "Halt, Adiane!"

  While this is happening, I also notice that Simon is running after her but stops when he hears her speaking, then Nia tinues, "The Spiral King Lenome's eldest daughter, Nia ands you... Stand down, Adiahe Elegant. Are you aware of who I am?"

  And instantly a strange silence falls otleground as I see everyone looking at Nia with stunned expressions on their face, especially Yoko and Simon, that are stunned by Nia's true identity, well more Yoko, because, from his face, it is clear that Simo know what is a princess.

  Meanwhile, hearing what she just said and the tone she used, I help but remember another famous character that many times said something simir, and tur into his iic catchphrase and mutter trying to imitate his tone, "Lelouch vi Britannia ands you...", then I excim, "Damn! They sound so simir... it's almost creepy."

  Adiane POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  I look at the little girl in front of me, and she indeed looks like that annoying princess, so much that I 't help but mutter out loud, "It 't be..."

  But soon, the image of my lieutenant, a tuna-like Beastmen appears as he ents on what I just said, "But it looks like Princess Nia."

  Hearing that, I shout back, "Don't be ridiculous!" then expin, "There's no way the princess would be outside the capital!" but the lieutenant says back, "No matter how you look at her, she's exactly like Princess Nia."

  Then an idea es to my mind and with a smirk I say, "Is that so? The's kill her and pretend we didn't see anything." but soon the lieutenant warns me just as I'm about to attack, "Adiane-sama, please watch what you say. The versations here are recorded." stopping me in pce.

  I click my tohen turn around and jump ba top of the Dai-Gunkai to retreat back to the capital ahe Spiral King for crification, at the same time, I yell to these is, "Hear this, human scum! This isn't a retreat. I'll be back!" then we dive in the uer river and rush back to the capital.

  Jayr POV - Jayr's Soulbouory - 1007 AFA-SW

  After Adiane's not retreat, I make sure that no other danger could befall the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade, then after beiain that they are safe I open a portal and go bay Soulbouory.

  Ba my vil, I'm greeted by Kamina's mournful scream, "Oh NOOOO! Not again! Damn it!!" hearing that, I move toward the living room ahe se of Kamina sitting on the ground in front of a s with a joysti his hands, and on the s the very familiar blood red letters that form the words, "YOU DIED."

  Seeing that, I sit on the coud ask, "Got once again tricked by a mimic?" hearing my question, Kamina turns around and shakes his head before he replies, "No, I finally learned how them. I just have to carefully look at the woode and see if they are cracked open slightly. If so I see their teeth if I ahe camera properly. Moreover, woode Mimics will have a t the front while normal chests do not."

  Then he looks back at the s and says with a tone full of frustration, "No the problem is that shitty headless snake dy and those green blobs, they keep killing me no matter how much I try!"

  Indeed Kamina is pying Dark Souls 2 in my living room, that is because I tricked him into thinking that this game will train his willpower or in his word his fighting spirit, and looking at the se of Kamina's character as it gets once more surrounded by the green slimes and killed by the boss, I 't help but think, 'Well, I didly trick him... pying hard games like Dark Souls does makes your willpower stronger, because only those with a strong willpower still persist despite the many failures they will face pying them.'

  But after seeing Kamina failing once more, I decide to give him some tips and say, "That won't do! If you do not burn the windmill in this area, the boss room will always be filled with green slime that will not only poison your character but also heal Mytha as well. Ahing, after setting the bdes of the mill afme, you will also gain access to Jester Thomas as a summon, which help you out."

  Hearing that, Kamina nods and says with aed tone, "Really!? Thanks!", and as he is about to ehe area where he will find Mytha the Baneful Queen, I remind him once more, "Before the fight, make sure to travel to where the windmill bdes are and burhis will make the fight easier by draining some of the poison in the boss arena. The arena is typically covered in poison, but when the windmill is burhe poison will only be on the edge."

  Then I add, "Mytha typically attacks with her spear two or three times in a row, before leaving an opening for attack. Wait for the opening and strike once or twice, then prepare for atack. Listen for screams, whidicate the magic beam attack that fires from her severed head. Finally, try not to stand behind her for too long. This will typically cause her to use her tail attack to grab the pyer, dealing harsh damage."

  And while I'm telling this, Kamina tio nod as he focuses on the s in front of him, at the same time, I 't help but notice that he is now starting to unsciously use his Spiral Power to improve his reflexes, and realize that his trol over his Spiral Power is slowly increasing as he pys.

  Seeing this, I nod and mutter in a low tone so that I won't distract Kamina from his run, "Take that! All those fools that said that gaming was a useless waste of time! I was always of the idea that used in moderation, gaming brings many advantages, it speeds up respoimes, ences teamwork, stimutes creativity, focus, and visual memory, improves strategy and leadership, teaches nguages, improves critical thinking, and many other bes..."

  Then I walk away while Kamina loudly yells full of joy for having finally defeated his enemy while thinking, 'Of course, there are still some basic guidelio follow, such as to not game for too much time, one or two hours at most, more than that harms the body and mind, especially in young children...'

  After a quick meal, I move back to the training area of my Soulbouory and once again start my training.

  I take a deep breath and focus, then I summon a green spinning ball made of Spiral Power and at the same time, I apply the Spin on it, and the ge is instantaneous, now the spinning ball of energy is green with traces of gold in it and at the same time, it is surrounded by a golden cloud of energy remi of electrostatic discharge.

  Looking at the result of my training until now, I mutter with a grin, "Yes, this is the result of the perfeioween Spin and Spiral Power! A truly infinite self-sustaining form of energy! In fact, if I let the trol over this ball go, it will tio produce more and more energy, in fact, in this state, this small ball is capable of p my whole vil until the end of times! And the most absurd thing is that to produce it, I didn't even use more than a pickle of my Spiral Power!!"

  But then I calm down and dismiss the ball of Spiral Power, and say, "I have to practice with this some more, as I still need a few seds to use it, something that be fatal, especially in lightspeed battles where I exge millions of p-destroying blows ihan a sed. And after that, I must try te all my energies into a superior one... Of course, I have to be careful with that, I don't want to destroy the universe by mistake..."

  And so, for the rest of the day, I tio get familiar with the Spin infused Spiral Power, then in the evening I prepare dinner a it with Kamina, and while eating I also tell him about Simon and the other's situation, of course, I avoid going over the specific details of their emotive state, but I don't hide to him the fact that they are still m him, especially Yoko and Simon.

  Hearing that turns makes his face grim, but as he hears of the meetiween Simon and his future wife and how he saved her and held her hand, a silly grin forms on his face as he mutters, "That's my Ototo! The great Kamina-sama is proud of you!"

  Then I tell him about the Dai-Gurren Brigade meeting with Adiane and the revetion of Nia's status as princess and daughter of the Spiral King Lenome, something that stuns him for a few seds before he once again starts to ugh out loud.

  After dinner, I retire to my room and jump on the bed to rest a ready for another day of stalking, I mean, another day of proteg the Dai-Gurren Brigade from the shadow.

  Adiane POV - Earth, Teppelin - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm kneeling with my head lowered in front of his majesty, the Spiral King, as he says in a questioning tone because of my ret failure, "Adiahe Elegant esg from the enemy? What kind of joke is that?"

  Hearing that, I quickly reply trying to expin, "Sir! But the cowardly enemy has taken Princess Nia hostage." but he decres, "You fool. I have already abandoned Nia. I don't care about her."

  Shocked, I raise my head a, "Abandoned?" then I once again lower my head and tio try to expin to him the reasons behind my as, "But... I didn't receive any information about this."

  But his majesty ighat and questions me, "Do you think it's acceptable to speak like that in front of me?" and hearing the clear annoyan its tone, I quickly reply, "No."

  Then his majesty says, "Adiane... Esg to proteeone who is no longer a princess is a serious crime. How absurd. Hahaha!" which makes me shake in terror and truly fear for my life as his majesty showed many times how ruthless he be to those that disappoint him.

  So I quickly plea l my head even more, "Your Majesty, please give me one more ce!" and he asks with a clear warning in his tone, "Ohhh! Are you telling me what to do?"

  Again I reply as fast as possible as my life depends on this, "Not at all, yhness!" making him ask, "Then what?" and I expin, "Sir! To demonstrate my loyalty, I will take the Seyrune, and before suomorrow, I will annihite the humans, together with Dai-Gunzan, and eliminate Nia."

  It seems that his majesty accepted my plea as he says, "Very well." then he adds, "However, you won't get another ce. Go."

  Hearing his and, I quickly dismiss myself and start to move toward the hangar where the Seyrus.

  On my way there, I meet a familiar Beastman with bandages ed on his face to cover the wounds he retly received in the previous battle.

  His appearance is more humanoid than most other Beastmen, except for his cat-like eyes, shark-like teeth, and rge cwed paws in pce of ventional human hands, with short ptinum blond hair that reaches to his in the front and his shoulders in the back, he is Viral, a subordinate of the te Thymilph.

  He wears a brown jacket adorned with shoulder pads and fur colr with matg pants and bandages from his knees down to his simple bck pointed shoes, he also keeps with him a rge knife, resembling that of a butcher's.

  (Image Here - Viral)

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  [colpse]As Viral notices my presence, he stands in front of me and greets me, "Adiane-sama." and it is clear that he wants to ask me something.

  Looking at him, a strong irritation starts to rise, and I say, "Viral, is it? I heard you received some serious injuries." but he replies, "Not at all. I will be able to return to my unit tomorrow. My inability to protect Thynilph-sama was the greatest failure of my life. So I would like to ask you- Guah!?" but hearing him say that, the irritation has growronger, and I instantly sp him in the face with my tail.

  My sp makes him stop and looks at me with fusion in his gaze as he says, "Adiane-sama..." and as if nothing happened, I and, "Go on... I'm listening."

  He once again straighten himself and tinue from where he left, "The attack w- Guah!" and I sp him again making him bleed from his nose, "If possible- Yuck!" and again, "I would like- Urg!" and again, "to- Dah!" and again, "apany- Grah!" and again, "you." and o time venting all the frustration I feel over Thymilph's death and my ret failure.

  Then I yell, "Tymilph was io me for many things. But it no longer means anything now he's dead! Didn't this all happen because you're a coward!?".

  Hearing my question, Viral once again raises his head and says, "Th-that's why I want another ce." but I ast him while saying, "I've already decided to go by myself tomorrow. Go hide in your hole. I will be the oo avehymilph." and once again walk toward the hangar, ready to kill them all ond for all for daring to take Thymilph away from me.

  Simon POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm sitting on the deck of the Dai-Gurren with my head down looking at the floor, in front of me ys the i Lagann surrounded by some other useless scrap as I tio question why it doesn't work anymore.

  But from the er of my eye, I notice the figure of a tall man with a well-built physique and spiky blonde hair, that wears a bck, sleeveless shirt, bck pants, and bck shoes, he is Kittan Bachika the only male member of Bck Siblings.

  (Image Here - Kittan Bachika)

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  [colpse]He and his sisters, Kiyoh, Kinon, and Kiyal, are the only survivor of the Bachika Vilge that was destroyed by a unit of the Beastmen Human Eradication Army under Viral's and, and before joining the Dai-Gurren Brigade, they lived their lives hunting down the Beastmen using oil bombs as their main ons.

  He crouches dowo me and says, "Hey, Simon. I'm giving you an order as Leader. Ask Nia for information about the enemy."

  Hearing that, with my gaze still focused on the ground, I ask, "Why me?" but he just says, "e on, just do it. You're the ohat brought her here. Do something. Listen, she's smart, so be prepared."

  And so I find myself aloh Nia on the bow area of the deck as she says, "Kittan-san taught me a lot of things. He said my father has been doing a lot of bad things to the people on the surface. Although I don't think my father would do any of that without having a reason. I don't think the people here are bad either."

  Still sitting on the ground with my head lowered, I expin what I know to the best of my ability, "It's not like we did anything wrong. The Spiral King is the bad guy. He's the one."

  Hearing my words, Nia asks, "Do you hate my father?" and without hesitation I reply, "Of course." then she follows with another question, "Do you hate me too?"

  This time, I don't know how to answer her as my feelings are quite plex, so I decide to just tell how I feel, "I don't know about that." this doesn't stop Nia's curiosity as she asks another question, "Then, why do you fight?"

  I simply reply with, "I fight because my Aniki did. Because my Aniki believed in me." a few moments of silence fall between us until she calls my name, "Simon." and move my gaze from the ground to her ahat she is smiling at me as she asks, "This "Aniki" person, who is he?"

  Hearing her question, I think for a few seds, then I start to tell her about Aniki, I briefly tell her about our time together at the Giha Vilge, our various attempts to escape to the surfaeeting with Yoko and the ges that followed, the adventures and fight against the Beastmen on the surface, then I talked about that dreadful battle where we won at the cost of losing Aniki forever.

  After hearing my story, Nia rests her hands on the rails and looks at the sery in the distance, and says, "I see. In the previous battle..." as her words linger.

  I nod and firm it with a simple, "Yes." Nia then says, "So that means everyoes me. I guess it's only natural." feeling the sadness ione I feel the urge withio fort her, moreover, every time we fought together I never felt that Aniki was fighting with hate in his heart, and so I say, "Nobody... hates you or anything. I don't think my Aniki was fighting out of hate. I 't say for sure, but... No matter how bad that situation, he'd always be ughing. How I say this... Aniki was..."

  Suddenly I hear Yoko's voice beside me as she finishes my sentence, "An incredible idiot." then she requests, "I want to hear about him as well."

  And so I start to tell them that story with a grim and sand tone as even talking about him still hurts me so much that I feel like getting crushed under a pile of rocks, "Long before we met Yoko... there was oime where we tried to escape our vilge. But along the way, there was ahquake, and we were trapped."

  All of a sudden, Yoko interrupts me as she mutters, "This story..." as if she wants to say something, but then she shakes her head and says, "It's nothing, go on."

  Hearing that, I tinue my story, "I was afraid that I'd be crushed to death like my parents. But Aniki... He told us to keep going and enced us... smiling the whole time. My hand stopped shaking and I started to dig again. Whenever I was digging in a daze, the earth would say, "Try digging here. It's soft." I would just follow that void dig until we finally were saved. But if we'd given up back then, we'd all be dead. We were saved... all thanks to Aniki. Aniki didn't give up even at the end. He was always like that. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be able to do anything. That's why I... I have to shoulder Aniki's share and bee like him. That's all I do."

  But soon Nia ents catg our attention, "That's wrong." then she spreads her arms and says, "Didn't you e to save me even though you were alone?"

  Hearing her question, I try to expin, "That's..." but she doesn't let me and says, "Simon, you'll be fine on your own! Why are you so fixated on this "Aniki" person?"

  I look away from her and say, "Why!? Nia... You don't know anything about Aniki." to which she decres ripping my wounds open once more, "I 't know about somebody who isn't here. But, you shouldn't depend on people who aren't here."

  I'm about to cry once more when Yoko yells, "There's no way you could uand Simon's feelings, is there!? Nor could you know anything about Kamina!"

  And Nia replies, "I may not know anything about his Aniki, but I know Simon. Simon isn't a helpless perso he's always fixated on a person that isn't here."

  At this point, Yoko grabs Nia from her arms, pulls her closer, and says, " Do you know who you're talking about!? Do you know whose fault it is that Kamina died? And you, you're trying to lecture us!?"

  Nia shocked by her outburst quietly says, "I apologize." Yoko realizes that she lost trol as her go, and starts to walk away, but after taking a few steps she stops and says, "It's just as you say. No amount of sadness is going t Kamina back. We uand that. If we fet about him, things might be easier. But still... It's not that easy... to just fet about him, is it!?" then she walks away.

  After a few moments of silenia ents, "That person is g."

  I then mutter, "It's not really your fault." and Nia decres with strength ione, "I want to know more about all of you."

  Jayr POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm back to stalking, erm, proteg from the shadow of the Dai-Gurren, and just in time to watch all that drama between a still depressed Simon, a curious Nia, and Yoko who pretends to be strong while still being one of the people that is suffering the most.

  Seeing all that, I 't help but mutter, "Thank my sexy Goddess that this character growth arc is about to end! When I was young I always hated this part of the story. Well, I still do, but now I also uand the y of it. And I have to say that Nia is surprisingly sharp... I had never noticed this when I watched the anime, but seeing it live, it is clear that she is clearly aware of Simon's potential just like Kamina. And she is als t it out and help him out of his depression, only she cks experien this field and ended up hurting both him and Yoko."

  Then I take a closer look at her and ent, "Her royal upbringing for sure was no joke, in fact, even from this distance, I easily tell that she is also trained in martial arts, and her body hides way more power than it seems. In fact, in pure physical power, she is even strohan Kamina...Huh?"

  I stop and focus on the distance as I sehat Adiane is bad is quickly closing into the Dai-Gurren, but this time, she is alone, and so I mutter, "It is finally time for round 2!"

  Odyin