- She arrived at the Nasod Foundry through the transporting funnel. Unlike the Black Crow, the foundry was connected to Altera Core, and was still partly running using the small remaining energy.
- Eve walked inside the foundry and stopped, her eyes following the rail installed on the ceiling to watch the manufacturing process of a Nasod.
- Click, Clack, the body was built with organized movement. The machine that was supposed to handle the following process looked like it was cut with something sharp. The bodies would build up to that point, only to fall listlessly to the ground when the machine did not function.
- There were already several Nasod parts scattered around the ground. But the manufacturing process continued, and the incomplete Nasod dropped to the ground.
 Eve: This... This can't...- PLOP, ... PLOP, ... and gain, PLOP. Every time the bodies would fall, Eve felt something slamming in her chest.
- Eve hurriedly examined the code for the manufacturing Nasods. A code that was brutally simplified after countless modification to increase the deadliness... Eve could not believe her eyes.
- These... Nasods... manufactured here, could not even be called Nasods. They had no chance to gain any will. They would just be machines that follow orders.
- Eve: I did not want this to happen when I activated the system core! Adam, why would you do something like this?
- Eve: These are not Nasods... You must know that... then why...
- Click, Clack, ... PLOP. Eve hugged her legs, unmoving, with the endless sounds of machinery and the bodies falling in the background.
 Remy: ... Moby: ......- The two drones waited patiently by her feet, occasionally nudging her, but were dispirited when Eve buried her head without response.
- Eve needed time to accept the situation. But the drones were worried something went wrong with her. Moby and Remy exchanged signals between them in worry.
- How long has it been? When Eve finally raised her head, she noticed that Moby and Remy were occupied, doing something to the circuit on the wall.
- Eve: ... Remy? Moby? What are you doing?
- Moby & Remy: !!
- Eve: El energy... Did you try to take energy from the Foundry?
- Eve: I'm sorry if I worried you. I have enough energy. I'm not going to power out any time soon.
- Remy: ~!
- Eve: ... To tell you the truth... I do understand that Adam did not wish for this to happen.
- Eve: The archived coding... I can see what Adam has done over the years.
- Eve: More efficient, more durable, more powerful... A build up of data to be proficient in battle in any environment.
- Eve: I'm sorry for Adam... but if the red-haired boy and the humans did not stop Adam when they did, we would have had another Nasod War in our hands. That should never come to be.
- Eve: But... What can I do? Can I find a way the Nasods can live with other races... all on my own?
- Moby & Remy: ~! ~!
- Eve: ... Huhu, you are right. I am not alone. I have you two, after all.
- Remy jumped in her arms when she raised them. Eve pulled Moby in her arms as well and pet them gently, looking at the circuit the two drones exposed.
- Eve: We can use this to remove the Foundry's power source. Moby, Remy, good job.
- Eve: There must be several more places where it's connected. Let's look for them.
- Moby & Remy: ~! ~!
- After blocking the circuit, Eve headed to the elevator. PLOP. The last body fell to the ground as Eve left.
- The foundry was now full of silence.
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