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[The blight would not stop.

The world's leading experts have been trying to find a cure, to no avail. Th blight keeps changing, keeps foiling all attempts at being fully understood. It's almost sentient, or at least more sentient than any disease that's been encountered before. People fear the disease jumping from what's left of the grapes into other plants, into animals, or even humans.

You can only watch as entire economies and ecosystems collapse. You can only bury your head in your hands as your own business comes to its end. The destruction of the clusters of grapes has not simply destroyed the wine industry, either-other businesses are being destroyed by the plague. Food, transport, retail, nothing is untouched.

You look on your own vineyard, its yield almost entirely blackened and dead.

This can't keep going on.

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A week has passed since everyone's arrival. No one has died, yet. But surely no one is holding their breath to see if they would survive this unscathed. They are veterans of the game, and they must know that whoever it is that is in charge demands their pound of flesh. The question is when it will happen.

It is the second week, after all-and when the second week of the game comes, death is not far behind. Not even when you wake up, feeling something different in your mind as you remember the truths you originally woke up with, deep in your mind. You feel...lighter, somehow, when you realize there is a change.

Even so, there are 15 strangers left in this place.]

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As far as I heard it, Marie was executed because she killed one person and attempted to frame Jonathan for it and the others saw through it. So she was executed just like any other culprit, except she stayed dead.

Halley then arrived to the temple and found us, she thought we were dead and was confused by it. So she left her army there to head to the Base and find out what was going on.

Those of us at the temple finished fixing up the machine we found, thanks to Naoya and myself being familiar with such things. It's a bit like a Soldat, but made to hold up to 15 people and a pilot. The others called it a mecha. We took that to the Base ready to fight Halley's army if needed to get our friends out and we broke into the Base. We arrived to find they had persuaded Halley to let all of us go and help us get out of there. In exchange we helped her to find a life as a human child away from her abusive aunt Marie because the only life she'd known was as a virus made to kill the person we were all inside.

[ ....

WELL THEN. That was actually a little more than he expected?? There wasn't a real showdown with a physical fight, but it sounded like things heated up for a bit. ]

...Sounds like all of you ended up having quite the time. Can't say I anticipated hearing any of that involving an army.

Not much of one though if seven of us in a Soldat could get past their siege. [She laughs a bit. The Red Army really was as pathetic as Marie.]

[ Wow...okay, yeah that did sound pretty bad. ]

Guess you've got a point.

I do admit, I know a bit now why Class VII thought they stood a chance against a Soldat now. Our reasons may be a bit different, but our determination definitely was very similar.