故事模式剧情详表/野乃香
21-1
前置条件：购入Extant Anima曲包
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过See the Lights!
一段回忆坠入了Arcaea。
其中世界并不令人熟悉。
巨大的飞船基地内一片漆黑，成排的机械安静地停放着。这些机甲从某种程度上来说颇具人形，而少女
则位于其中一台之上。她还没有打开驾驶舱的门，而是双手抱着头坐在机甲的肩膀上，望着空洞的、几
乎无法辨认的、漆黑一团的天花板。
身旁，小小的机器人轻声播放着流传已久的歌谣——那是很久、很久、很久以前的事情了……这首曲子属
于她的故乡，属于那里的人民。但如今，那颗星球已变得寒冷、破败且毫无生机，而人类也早已学会了
适应浩瀚的宇宙和星辰。
那小小机器人继续放着音乐，在更高的地方居高临下地看着少女，仅有的一只眼睛向上翻了翻。
“科达！”少女立马朝它吼道，声音里满是不悦，“你又咋了？”
“……你就没有别的事情可以做了么？”机器人用独有的略为参杂电流声的嗓音发问。
“你是指‘行动前的放松’么？呵呵。”她回答，显然并不想继续这个话题。她稍微调整了一下姿势继续
瘫着，闭上了眼睛。“科达，明天才是重头戏，我全部的精力都会用在明天身上，而我今天什么也不会做。”
“你刚才那语气，像是在叫谁的‘名字’一样……”机器人说道，“我没有名字，S级驾驶员野乃香。”
野乃香睁开双眼，眉毛上扬，摆出一副惊讶的神情：“哇哦，没想到你竟然能听得出区别？”
“……不要借机承认好吗。”
“怎么，会让你不爽？”少女现在听起来似乎有点生气。
“是的，因为你们这个物种真的很蠢。”科达回答道，“你说的没错，没想到我又一次需要面对这个事实，
让我感到恶心。”
“呃……你应该不能感到恶心吧？对吧？”
“创造我的人显然认为在条件合适的情况下，我也有必要能够体验到这种感觉。”
“这哪里合适了？！你故意的吧，说话这么难听！”少女气得声音都提高了许多。
“那你是想要我正经回答么，S级驾驶员野乃香？”科达转换成了另一种平淡且单调的说话方式，只是语气
莫名听起来还是有些讽刺。野乃香随即坐起了身，然后懒洋洋站了起来。
“没错。”她回复道 。
“设计‘协观机’的初衷之一便是为了骗小朋友关心自家科达的状况的，只是现在看来对成年人也颇有成效。
虽然我并不算是一种生命，但我被设计出来就是要像活人一样说话的，就是为了让你们觉得我好像是一种
‘活物’，无论你们是主动还是下意识这么认为。”说了一长串，科达短暂停顿了一下。“毕竟，科达收集
来的数据可比监控数据的驾驶员要宝贵的多。”
“是么，作为驾驶员的同伴，你看起来比其他伙计要不友好得多啊。”野乃香闷闷不乐地评论道。
“出厂时科达自带几种不同风格的程序，我只是觉得现在这款最适合你罢了。”
“对对对，可太合适啦，合适到我想给你把电断了。算了，那既然是‘你自己’选择的道路，让我把你当成
活人一样对待，那你又在这里抱怨个什么劲？”
“因为这同样也会让你把我当成一个人来看待。毕竟贝加工程就是这么厉害，知道军队那帮人都想要什
么。所以，还是我说的那句话，你们这个物种太蠢了。”
野乃香瞪着自己的协同观查数据自动机……但最终还是移开了视线，没有继续接话。过了一会儿，她像
是想到了什么，嘴角一扬：“科达。”她指示道：“申请训练。我们去飞一会儿。”
正在播放的音乐戛然而止，伴随着的是机械充能和运转的嗡嗡声。“……请求已发送，”过了一会儿，
机器回复的机械声传来，“请求已批准。请于世界时幺八洞洞时前返回。”话音刚落，野乃香便迫不
及待地转身打开了身下机甲的驾驶舱舱门。
“还好这里作为前哨点有不少寻查型X8壳式机，但我还是很怀念能开实验机种的那些日子。”舱门开启
时，野乃香自言自语地嘀咕。
“你是不想活了吗，S级驾驶员野乃香？”科达质问道。
“你猜！”
她滑进下方驾驶舱里的座位，并在协观机进入后关上了舱门。驾驶员开始进行发射和部署前的检查，而
机器人则安静地驶入控制台一侧的指定端口位置等待着。点击开关，拨动小杠杆，然后看着显示屏在她
面前和周围逐一亮起；驾驶舱的显示屏开始启动并进入欢迎她到来的页面，而她握住操作手柄，调整好
坐姿好让自己舒服点。显然，心情大好的她抑制不住自己上扬的嘴角，此时正一脸期待地等着空管将机
甲从甲板上解锁。
巨大的声音自壳式机体内响起。她抬起双臂，向前迈步飞向气闸。飞过气闸后，闸门开始闭合，回到了
紧闭的状态。
她左右张望，拉下护镜。
她低头，看向她正驾驶的这台机甲的内部。
她咧嘴一笑。
她面前那扇巨大的门打开了，漆黑而又闪亮的宇宙展现在眼前。
这令她兴奋不已。
那道光……她已经迫不及待要与它重逢了。
A memory falls into Arcaea.
The world within it isn't familiar.
In the dark of an immense hangar, several machines sit quiet in rows. They bear human shape in a bit
of a way, and atop one sits a young girl at rest. She hasn't opened the cockpit door. She rests on the
shoulder of the war machine with her hands behind her head, watching the empty and almost
inscrutable ceiling.
A tune from a long time ago plays lightly nearby from a little robot: a song from where her people once
lived...very, very, very, very long ago. That planet is cracked and cold now. Humans, in this place, have
largely adapted to the stars.
The little robot playing that music...
...Looks down upon her from where it floats, and rolls its single eye.
Thus, she snaps at the robot.
"Coda!" she shouts, shortly following with a sharp—"What?"
"...Haven't you got anything better to do?" asks the robot in a lightly rumbling voice.
"Relaxing before we deploy...? Come on," she replies without wanting an answer. She readjusts her laying
position and closes her eyes. "Tomorrow is where all my energy will go. Today, I'm not using any of it, Coda."
"The way you say that...you're saying it as if it's a 'name' aren't you. Still..." the robot mutters.
"I have no name. 'Coda' is not a name, RS-R Nonoka," says Coda.
Nonoka opens her eyes, raising her brows and looking surprised. "You can tell how I'm saying it?"
"...Don't admit to it."
"Does it bother you?" Nonoka asks in irritation.
"Yes, because you creatures are very stupid," said Coda. "You are correct. Reminding me of the fact
nauseates me."
"You can't feel nausea...uh, right?"
"The makers of my model saw it fit that I should experience the feeling when appropriate."
"This isn't appropriate! Why are you so rude!?" yelps Nonoka.
"Would you like a serious answer, RS-R Nonoka?" asks Coda in a dull, seemingly sarcastic tone.
Nonoka sits up, and from there slouches.
"Shoot," she replies.
"The C.O.D.A.s are designed to fool children into caring about the condition of their C.O.D.A.s. This works
on adult humans efficiently as well. Although I am not alive, I am designed to respond in manners that
make you perceive me that way, be it consciously or unconsciously." It pauses. "Because the data a
C.O.D.A. gathers are more valuable than the Runner it monitors."
"You seem more rude than other Runners' Companions," Nonoka replies flatly.
"We're designed with several routines. This one is the one I've determined would work best on you."
"Ohh yeah, it's working. Working so well I want to shut you off. Anyway, if you're doing it yourself—
making me see you as 'living'—then why the heck are you complaining?"
"That, too, makes you see me as alive. Beqa Engineering knows what the military wants. Like I said:
you creatures are very stupid."
Nonoka glares at her Companion Observational Data Automaton...but pushes the matter no further,
turning her eyes away. A smile soon crosses her lips. "Coda," she says, deliberately, "make a request for
training. We're gonna fly."
Coda stops playing music and watches its charge, humming—"..." until it answers. "Request sent. Request
accepted. Return before Universal Eighteen-hundred." Thrilled, Nonoka turns and unlocks the cockpit
of the machine below her.
As it begins to open—
"I'm glad the Seeker X8 Husk is standard at this outpost, but man do I miss Running experimental Husks,"
jabbers Nonoka.
"You have a death wish, RS-R Nonoka?" asks Coda.
"Haha!"
She slips into the seat below her and closes the door after her Companion enters. It sets itself within a
port at the console as the pilot begins running through launch and pre-deployment checks—clicking in
switches, flipping small levers, and watching displays light up before and around her. The cockpit's
display begins to start up, welcoming her. She gets comfortable, holding the pair of handles that allow
her to Run the Husk, and with a new smile full of anticipation, she waits for Control to unlock the machine
from its dock.
Immense sounds rattle out, subdued within the hull of the Husk. She raises its arms. She steps forward
and begins to fly toward and into the air lock, which shuts tightly and powerfully behind her.
She looks left and right, pulling her goggles down.
She looks down at the body of the machine she's Running.
She grins.
And, a great door before her opens to the black and glittering void of Space.
Excitement fills her...
There's a Light that she wants to see again.
21-2
前置条件：完成21-1
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过Scarlet Lunar Empress
行至今日，无数场硝烟早已燃起而又熄灭。人类所到之处，纷争如影随形。正如野乃香所说，星球是为
弱者准备的“据点”，而像她这样的宇宙战士则更喜欢“脚不着地”的生活。
而今日她再次飞入宇宙，练习着简单的动作——因为她知道，正是这些基本功才能不断让让她在决斗和
对战中赢得最高的荣誉和最显著的胜利。当然除此之外还有一个简单的原因——“简单”本身。这是她最
喜欢的，也是最渴望的。
在自己不到200个月的短暂生命中，这个女孩看到了她的宇宙都为生活在其中的人们提供了什么。由此，
她知道了自己活着的最大的动力。
——“美”。绚丽多彩的世界映入她眼帘，驱使她向前，无论是遥远的漫天星云，还是在战斗中不幸与
她擦肩而过的破碎爆裂的壳和其中的驾驶员。这都是色彩之美，都驱使着她不断前进。
宇宙的声音是空洞的。因此在这里，视觉就变得尤为重要。在一片漆黑中，你所能看到的东西自然而然
变得弥足珍贵——如果不是宇宙中的关键物体，你将永远无法知晓自己正身在何处。
所以，她觉得这一切都美妙极了。
“野乃香。”通讯里忽然传来一个人声，一位少女出现在驾驶舱屏幕的一个小窗，“啊……在飞么。”
“光子！有什么事吗？”她开心地回应道。
在屏幕的另一端，光子转过身去看了看什么东西——可能是她的协观机——随后又转回镜头，说道：“我听说
桑普有帮佣兵可能在我们这一带进行侦察。”
“可指挥部目前为止也没有任何通讯啊。”野乃香一边操控着壳式机翻了个身，一边说道。
“还不是确切消息，而且他们最早明天才能让A级以下的那帮驾驶员行动，所以目前只有情报连的人知情。”
“那就是你。”
“那就是我。”
“可是他们不管怎样还是应该跟我提前说一声吧！外头什么事情都有可能发生诶。”
“跟你还有必要？你认真么？”
“好吧，确实，我可能不需要，但——”
“喂，就这样承认了，你真的一点都不收敛诶！”
飞行中的S级驾驶员瞥了一眼她的控制台和坐在那里的科达。
“周围有什么偷偷摸摸的可疑的东西吗，科达？”她问道。
“收集数据中。”科达回复道。“肯定。T51-D星团附近发现两台壳式机，型号特莱蒙650s——一般由桑普
下令部署。已将目标位置标记，但如需最终确认对方势力还需要进一步接近。”
“收到，会转达所有人。”光子回复道，接着又补了一句，“科达的侦测范围怎么这么‘好’啊。”
“很高兴你能这么想，B级驾驶员光子。”野乃香前面的小机器人回应道，而野乃香瞪了它一眼。
“野乃香，能不能管管你的协观机啊，它怎么说话这么难听啊？”
“哎，我就说是啊！！”
“行吧，总之，你是不是又要和他们交火了？”
“桑普那帮家伙不就是这样吗，发现目标就立即开火，根本不能相信他们。”
“好吧，总之注意安全。”朋友叮嘱道。
而她笑了。“可能吧！”说完这句话后，她立马中断了通讯。现在，最重要的事是部署交战系统。
野乃香眯起了眼睛继续飞行，而科达在旁边汇报着：“镜像系统运行中。启动热能。热能运行正常。加农炮
燃料准备中。加农炮系统已启动。”
“你好吵。”野乃香嘀咕道。
“你的意思是以后我都不汇报进行到哪个阶段了？”
“好好好，继续说吧，想说多少说多少，随便你……”
“识别身份中……识别完成。隶属势力：桑普。目标已全部识别。”
“好，这不得让他们见识一下我们之间的差距？”
“通讯系统侵入中。”科达继续报告道，接着，什么人的声音传了出来——
“等下——皇家联合军在这里做什么！？为什么没人告诉我们！？”那声音说道。还有另一个人声也传来——
“……这是——她？我们得赶紧——”
“你们哪也别想去。”野乃香打断了他们，接着那两个人受惊的声音便传来。“要是让我知道你们壳式机里
藏着科达，你们连离开T51都不要想。”
壳式机加农炮外表的手臂像鸟类的翅膀一样张开，两侧各放出了一台终端。它们向前推进，开始向附近的星
团扫射。
“可恶……！”一个声音恼羞成怒。“开火！”
“马、马上向科达转达……”另一个声音回答道。
“不是实时转达？还在用老型号？”野乃香嘲笑道，“桑普果然还是老样子。”
两台壳式机随后飞出，摆出了作战的姿势。
一场华丽而短暂的舞蹈就此上演。
毁灭性的激光束不断飞向她的壳式机——那是敌人在进行反击。激光束的发射速度如此之快，野乃香的
壳式机显然无法追踪。不过，她还是顺利避开了它们。这位S级驾驶员仿佛有先见之明般移动着自己的
机甲——因为这些光束的移动轨迹在她眼中是无数过往的战斗和训练。
壳式机的手掌此时正集聚着惊人的热能，而就在下一刻，她挥舞着手臂，横扫敌人的右侧。敌机在擦肩
而过时爆炸，导致更多的热能流入机甲内部。下一秒，刺眼的白光自机体内迸出，然后是什么东西裂开
的声音——自里向外，机甲零件很快散落四周，而里面的驾驶员甚至还没反应过来发生了什么。
而野乃香则开动自己的壳式机，朝的那个敌人推进，而敌人则将自己充完能的手臂像军刀一样举起，准
备与野乃香交战。
唰——两台壳式机手臂与手臂相撞。
野乃香自如地躲闪着敌人的攻击，但相比起躲避攻击，她更像是在跳一种优雅的舞。她将之前派出的两
个终端像穹顶般包围住桑普的雇佣兵……
砰——终端机接连开火，不断攻击着敌方。
最终，壳式机在她眼前被击穿，进而消散——如同她周遭的那些小行星一样，裂解成新的色彩。
一切又归于沉寂。尘埃落定，她欣慰地笑了笑，庆祝自己的胜利，而她的科达在一旁汇报着：“敌方均
已全部歼灭。科达传输信号已确认停止活动。”
尘土不断被卷起，轻轻搅动着这片已经平静下来的战场。野乃香自言自语着：“我真了不起，我真的太
棒啦。”而朋友则通过通讯迎合着：“没错，说得没错，你真的很棒。”
平静宁和的感觉重归，她现在的笑是平和的。她抬头眺望宇宙深处，再次看到了它，而她的心因此变得
更加温暖。
那束光……
那抹蓝色，就在那里，在近乎遥不可及的远方……
但在她眼里，它的美从未消减半分。
A hundred thousand conflicts have led to this moment in time. Wherever humanity has spread, conflict
has followed. Planets were found for the weak, as Nonoka would say, but Space-farers such as her are
more, and comfortable without earth beneath their feet.
She flies into Space today to practice simple maneuvers—knowing it is the fundamentals that have
driven her highest accolades and most noted victories across duels and combats. Moreover, what's
simple is simple. It is that, "simplicity", which she most deeply desires.
In a short life that has lasted notably under 200 months, the girl has seen very much of what her
universe has to offer to those that live within it. And, from that, she has known her greatest drive:
—what is "beautiful". The gorgeous world around her meets her eyes and compels her forward. Be it the
sight of a distant diffuse nebula, or the sight of a Runner's shattering and bursting Husk, colorful, after
they have had the misfortune of crossing her path in battle—beauty has been beauty, and has driven her.
The sound of Space is empty. Sight becomes infinitely more important here. In the black, what you can
see becomes precious—if not crucial bodies in Space that define where you are...
She sees it all as kind of magical.
"Nonoka," she hears—a communication. Another girl appears in a small window on her cockpit's display.
"You're flying?"
And she replies brightly: "Mitsuko! What's up?"
On the other side of the screen, Mitsuko turns to something—likely her Companion—before turning back
to the camera. "I'm hearing Thumper mercenaries might be in our part of Space, scouting."
"I haven't heard anything from Command," answers Nonoka as she moves her Husk to turn over itself.
"It's not confirmed, and they're not letting RA-Rs and below out to Run until tomorrow anyway. Only
Info Class has been told about it."
"So you."
"So me."
"They should warn me anyway...anything can happen out here!"
"To you? Really?"
"I mean not really to me, sure, but—"
"You're so obnoxious."
The Rank S-Runner in flight glances at her console, and at Coda sitting there.
"Catch anything sneaking around us, Coda?" she asks.
"Gathering," Coda answers. "Yes. Two Husks near the T51-D asteroid cluster. Tremor 650s—usually
employed by Thumper. I'm marking them. I can determine their affiliation if we approach."
"I'll let everyone know," says Mitsuko. Then, she groans, "Such a pain the range on Codas is so bad."
"Happy to disappoint, RB-R Mitsuko," replies the little robot in front of Nonoka. Nonoka frowns at it.
"Nonoka, your Companion is so damn rude."
"I know!!"
"Anyway, are you going to engage?"
"Thumpers are EOS protocol. We can't trust them at all."
"Alright, stay safe," bids her friend.
She smiles, giving a, "Maybe!" and cutting the call. She flies forward and begins engaging
systems of her Husk.
Coda chimes in as she flies, her eyes narrowing. "Mirror system operating. Initiating Heat.
Heat operational. Preparing fuel for Cannister-Arms. Cannister-Arms operational."
"You're yapping," Nonoka mutters.
"Would you rather not know?" Coda replies.
"Yap away, yap away..."
"Identifying the two Husks' affiliations. Identified: Thumper affiliation, both."
"Let's terrorize 'em."
"Intercepting their communications," says Coda. A voice is then heard—
"Wait—Royals Military is out here!? Why didn't they tell us!?" says the voice. Another comes—
"...That's—is it her? We've got to go—"
"You're not going anywhere—" Nonoka answers them, and the two voices yelp. "If you've got Codas in
those Husks, they're not making it out of T51."
The Cannister-Arms of her Husk begin to spread like wings behind the machine, dropping a set of pods
from each. They each propel forward and begin scattering laser-fire toward the nearby asteroid field.
"Damn it...!" shouts one voice. "Engage!"
"I-I'll start asking our Codas to relay..." mutters the other.
"It's not instant relay? Old Codas?" Nonoka replies with a laugh. "Thumper hasn't changed."
Two Husks fly out, weapons raised.
From there, a short dance begins.
Lasers fly out toward her Husk in retaliation, and though they fire with a speed that the cockpit display
cannot track, they're smoothly avoided. Nonoka shifts her Husk as if in possession of foresight—but truly,
it is battles and training of the past that run across her eyes.
The palm of her Husk radiates with Heat, and in moments she sweeps across the right side of an enemy,
that palm outheld. It crashes against the Husk's cockpit, and more Heat flows into the enemy machine.
Filling with a white glow, the robot shortly cracks and splits before exploding wildly outward. The Runner
within was not even given the time to gasp.
From there, Nonoka pushes her machine to the remaining enemy, who engages with a palm of Heat of
his own—extended out like a saber.
A swipe. Arms striking against arms—
Nonoka, laughing, merely dances around her enemy, setting the pods she'd sent out earlier to surround
the Thumper mercenary in a half-dome shape...
Those pods fire.
The Husk before her is pierced and reduced—and all the asteroids around her as well,
fading into new colors...
All dust. She laughs, and cheers herself on as Coda announces, "All enemies reduced.
No C.O.D.A. transmissions were detected."
The dust blows across this now-done battlefield. Telling herself, "I'm awesome, I'm so awesome",
she receives a reply from her friend over comms—"Yes, yes. You are, you are."
And quiet comes back again. Her smile now is that of serenity. With that serene face, she looks out
into the distance of Space. She sees it. Her heart grows warmer.
That Light...
It's there, blue, and far away...
...and yet, she finds it as beautiful as ever.
21-3
前置条件：完成21-2
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过Dual Dependency
时间继续向前。
后一天，又一场作战结束后，她回到基地阅读消遣，但思绪却不断将她带往另一个地方。
她所看见的那束光……科达无法为她识别，军队里也没有任何相关记录。虽然科达见过，但从来没有其
他人能证明这一点。拍照或录像显然无法捕捉到它，也就没办法以图片或视频的形式存储在科达硬盘里。
因此，它就像是宇宙中的一个异常存在般。因为谈论这个，有人觉得她疯了；因为试图去寻找它，人们
都无法理解她。
但既然她的科达都肯定了它的存在的话——那她们也应该选择去相信它的存在。
因此，她完全有理由相信，在宇宙广袤无际的深处一定存在着某束蓝色的光，而那束光也定会像野乃香
描述的那样“绚丽夺目”。
“今天的部署任务完成的很不错啊。”走进野乃香的基地大门时，光子点评到。她们的目光相遇。
“近况如何？”光子问道。期间，她们的目光时不时会被懒洋洋漂浮经过的科达打断，而光子的科达则
一直在一旁倾斜着默默看着。
“我们准备去你说的那束光的那片区域来着。”光子靠着一排柜子，看向朋友基地的窗外，轻描淡写地
来了这么一句。而她的朋友闻声便不禁颤抖了一下，瞬间起了兴致。
“啊……真的吗！？难道……情报部要调查它么！？”野乃香激动不已，连珠炮似的问道，“我我我可
以转到情报部门吗！”
“我们并不是去调查它，野乃香。”光子回答道，语气里有些许愧疚，“我们又不是什么学者，而是军
人，士兵。”
“啊！好烦！我整个人生都在做错误的选择啊！”野乃香故作不满。
“你起码还有得选，S级驾驶员野乃香。”科达嘟囔道。
“你怎么回事呀！都不知道别人是在跟你开玩笑吗？”
“总之，”光子打断了她，“我们还是会比以往更接近那里许多。所以，如果你感兴趣的话……我可以
帮你一把。”
“……怎么帮？”野乃香疑惑道。她顿了顿，瞥了一旁正绕着基地飞的两个机器人一眼。“……喂，话
说我们要不要把它俩关了先……”
“不用，它们只会上报违纪行为。它们只会按照程序行事。”
“……那你的意思是……你有不违纪的方法？？”
“你到底想不想我帮忙吧！”
既然光子是那么了解她的人……
“哎呀，说什么呢，那当然啦！”
她赶忙答应道。
“我们去那里的时候，你可以跟着侦察队一起。”光子走到床边，在野乃香旁坐下，“指挥部应该会很
安心——我说真的，要是可以，他们巴不得S级驾驶员能多干点活，比如同时战斗和侦察之类。”
“‘要是可以’？所以还是不行咯？”野乃香问道。
“你的话，实际上得算是SSS级驾驶员了吧，所以……我觉得他们会非常乐意的。”
“哈，这样。”
“不过……我真的很想问，你为啥就那么执着于那束光啊？”
“你刚才那语气，像是觉得它只是一束光一样。这是‘那束光’，专有名词。它是独一无二的。”科达
听到野乃香这句话，不知为何有些躁动，像是气急败坏一样。
“噗，认真起来了这是，还专有名词，”光子悻悻道，“所以你还是没回答我，你到底为什么这么执着呢？”
“因为只有科达和我可以看见它……”野乃香轻描淡写地说道，而后向后一倒，躺在床上，“你不觉得这
很疯狂吗？或许它在呼唤我。哎，光子，你是真不知道我有多么在乎它！”
“这也太吓人了，我确实体会不到。”
“怎么会！一点都不吓人。”
“好吧，那假设它真的在呼唤你，那又如何呢？”
“我想跟它聊一聊。”
“怎么聊？像跟敌方驾驶员那么‘聊’么？”
“不是那样啦。”
“交心之谈么，嗯……”光子低声喃喃道，垂下头看向朋友心脏所在的地方，“……好吧，那我希望那束
光，嗯……完全跟你不一样。我希望它是一个圣人般的存在。”
“完全跟我不一样？？”
“完全跟你不一样。”
“你认真的？认认真真的？”野乃香直起身，手臂撑在床上，没好气地笑了笑，“认真希望它完全跟我
不一样？你知不知道我多少次为你两肋插刀，给你擦屁股啊！”
“不知道。”
“十二次。整整、十二次，光子！”
“哇哦，那看来确实有点东西，那这次就算是我还你一个人情吧。”
野乃香盯着朋友看了一会儿……
然后尖声大喊大叫着抬起手拥抱了她。
她笑了，光子也笑了，然后推开了她，手却根本没使力。
就这样，在漫无边际的茫茫宇宙中，属于两位挚友的时光仍在继续。
The day after, and after another combat...
Back at Base, she thinks to herself in her quarters while reading.
The Light she's seen...it isn't something Coda can identify for her, and it isn't in any of the military's
records either. What's more, though Coda has seen it—nobody else has ever been able to attest to it.
Rather, it can't be kept as a permanent image or video in Coda's drives...
It's an anomaly of Space, it seems. Sometimes, she's been called crazy for talking of it, for looking for it—
But that her C.O.D.A. corroborates its existence—her comrades have to believe her:
They have to believe that there is some blue light in the far reaches of Space, which Nonoka is certain
is full of beauty.
"Good job during the deployment today," Mitsuko says as she enters Nonoka's quarters. The friends
meet one another's eyes.
"Something up?" Nonoka asks. Momentarily, their mutual gaze is interrupted by Coda lazily floating past.
Mitsuko's Coda watches it on a tilted axis.
"We're heading toward the area of Space your Light is at," says Mitsuko lightly, leaning against a set of
cabinets and looking out her friend's window. Her friend shivers.
"No way...Why!? Is...Info is investigating it!?" Nonoka asks, almost pleading. "C-Can I transfer to Info Class!?"
"We're not investigating it, we're not researchers Nonoka," Mitsuko replies. Her voice is half-apologetic.
"We're soldiers."
"Damn it! I've made all the wrong life choices!" Nonoka complains, unserious.
"At least you had choices to make, RS-R Nonoka," mutters Coda.
"What's with you? You don't understand jokes?"
"Anyway," Mitsuko interrupts the spat, "we'll still be a lot closer to it...You want me to help you out?"
"...Help me out how?" answers Nonoka. She pauses, and glances at the two robots floating through her
quarters. "...Should we turn off our Codas?"
"Nah. They can only report misconduct. They're programmed that way."
"...And...misconduct...is NOT what you're proposing, Mitsuko?"
"Do you want my help or not?"
And, knowing how well Mitsuko knows her...
"Yes!"
She answers hurriedly, waiting not a moment longer.
"You can be part of Scouting when we get there," says Mitsuko, coming to sit beside Nonoka on her bed.
"Command will be relieved to hear it, really. Trust me, they'd LOVE if they could get RS-Rs pulling double
duty combat and scouting..."
"'If'? So I can't?" asks Nonoka.
"You're more like an RSSS-R, so...they're a lot more willing with you."
"Heh."
"Honestly...why are you so interested in that 'light' anyway?"
"The way you say that...you're saying it as if it's a 'word' aren't you. Call it 'Light', capital L." Upon hearing
this from its charge, Coda oscillates in exasperation.
"Pft, put respect on its name?" asks Mitsuko. "Really though, why do you want to get to it so bad?"
"Because only Coda and I can see it..." answers Nonoka lightly, falling backward onto her bed. "Don't you
think that's nuts? Maybe it's calling out to me. Uuughh, Mitsuko! You don't know how much I think
about the Light!"
"Well that's scary. And yeah, I don't."
"No way, it's not scary at all."
"Okay so what if it's calling you? What then?"
"Then I want to talk to it."
"Like you 'talk' to opposing Runners?"
"Not like that."
"A heart-to-heart, huh..." saying this, Mitsuko looks down to where her friend's heart is. "...Well in that case,
I hope the Light is, unlike you, a saint."
"Unlike me??"
"Unlike you."
"Really? Really really?" Nonoka picks herself up onto her elbows, smirking teasingly. "Really unlike me?
Do you even know how many times I've saved your butt?"
"No."
"It's twelve times. Twelve, Mitsuko! A dozen!"
"Wow, that's a lot of times. Consider this me saving you one time, then."
Nonoka watches her for a moment...
...then reaches up and embraces her whilst squealing.
She laughs, Mitsuko laughs back and lightly pushes her away with no strength behind her hands..
A moment of friends continues, there, in the dark of Space.
21-4
“是要去什么地方吗，S级驾驶员野乃香？”
“是的……侦察不就是这个意思么……？”
“我真的……要是你是去你一直以来都叨叨个不停的所谓‘那束光’那儿，我保证……”
“我服了，你就消停一次，放过我吧。”
“喂——野乃香的科达，她是要去那里么？”
“嘁……喂，能帮我跟他解释吗？”
“……S级驾驶员野乃香是接指挥部指令，前往侦察指定区域。”
“认真的？……行吧，别跑太远。”
“哎呀知道了知道了！”
指挥部此前已转达此次行动的目的。
在即将到来的战役中，她们将占领另一个联合体的领土，而这片区域可能会是其中一个战略要地。
而野乃香所在的皇家联合体，其实因此还获得了“嗜血”的别称。因为事实上，正是因为最了解情况，
这个联合体才不断肆意扩张、侵犯并夺取他人主权。
而皇家联合自己强大的科研和教育实体贝加工程在这个过程中也发挥了攻坚力量，他们最终得以去到离
本土很遥远的地方扎根建国。帝国之下，其他任何联合体成为殖民地都是早晚的事，毕竟他们真是太愚
蠢了，即使死到临头也无法理解其中奥秘，也无法接纳这无可匹敌的力量。
所以，野乃香从来没有正眼瞧过他们。
无边无际的黑暗之中，侦察小队还在壳式机里探索着这片未知的区域。
但她和其他侦察队员仍没有发现任何生命迹象。
她小声问科达：“你竟然真的帮我圆谎了？……可是你为什么要那么做？”
科达歇息在机器的控制台内，抬身看向她，回答道：“因为你好声好气求我了。”
“‘好声好气’？你竟然还会在乎这种东西？”她回复道，注意力逐步往周遭完全静寂的虚空转移。
“我的程序被设计成了这样而已。”
“啧，你真的好烦人。”
“但你还是忍不住要跟我说话不是吗。”
“闭嘴！”
宇宙的这块区域越来越近在眼前了……
可那束光，却好似消失了般，不见踪影。
虽然它们已经非常接近可疑坐标，但直到现在她的壳式机和协观机伙伴都没有探测到任何东西——没有
任何东西跟那束蓝色的、总是遥不可及的存在有哪怕一点相似，她不知道那个存在是否已经移动，或是
因不好意思而躲着她。她决定继续搜索。
“S级驾驶员野乃香？”
“怎么了？”野乃香予自己的协同机以回复，但她仍然心不在焉，目光仍透过目镜不断游离在这空洞之处。
“虽然这套运行程序是我自己选来磨合你我的，但我其实并不理解它为什么对你如此有效。”
“你想表达什么？”
而她的协观机伙伴进一步解释道：“我接受输入进来的信息，然后向外输出。你可以理解为这都是
‘if-then’逻辑的代码，也就是说：面对任何问题，我的‘思考方式’是做非常简单的二元对立选择，
但这些问题的‘为什么’本身其实并没有编入我的程式。”
“但你不是AI吗？你不会自己找答案吗？”
“如果你是指‘人工智能’的话，我可能并非那类存在。”
“那又如何？有什么好纠结的？” 野乃香说着。正当此时，一团悬浮在太空中的气体吸引了她的目光。
她随即操纵着壳式机朝它们飞去，那是一团蕴含这紫与红的混合物。
“因为我完全是由你们人类定义的，我所作的回应和得出的结论都仰仗于你们的输入。而所谓‘智能’
的定义……则是不需要输入就能得出结论。不是么？”
“呃……”野乃香思考了会，“不啊？”
“‘不’？”
“对啊，不。我也需要‘输入’才能采取行动啊，”她瞥了一眼自己的科达，“所以，你又有什么不同？”
“……有趣。”这是科达的正面反馈。
“哈……！很高兴达成共识！”
“S级驾驶员野乃香……你真的看不见那束光吗？”
“我看不见——什么？”
她低下头，望向她的协同机伙伴。
“我注意到你已经有一段时间都在围绕着那束光打转，甚至有时还越走越远，就是从未进一步接近过它，”
机器人解释道，“你真的看不见它么？”
“你……”她停顿了一下，想了想才继续问道，“你能看见它吗……科达？”
“我无法展示给你，也无法将它记录下来。如果我尝试校准坐标的话，还会报错。”
“……”
野乃香的思绪又不禁飘忽起来。
“……”
……她。
“S级驾驶员野乃香，我请求对接到壳式机的协观气闸舱。”科达突然说道。
“——嗯？什么？……为什么？”
“我想我能够亲自带你去到那束光附近，或许你的感知能产生一些变化。”
“这——”
确定是一个好主意吗？她不禁想，而她也不知道自己为什么会突然有这样的顾虑。
整理好思绪后，她还是将自己的协同机放行，进入气闸舱。一段时间后，它腾空浮起，于壳式机前部的
驾驶舱就位。
“走吧，S级驾驶员野乃香。”协同机在通讯中提议。
她在机器中穿行，跟着机器体内更小的机器探索。
她的心跳开始加重，这种感觉就好像……在跟某首曲子共鸣。
她看向指引着她的科达。
而科达转过身来面对着她。
“S级驾驶员野乃香，我们到了。”
“……这是？”
“在此之前，我想先问你一个问题，如果你愿意回答的话。”
“什么……我……行啊。”
“是这样，”科达用自己单调无趣的唯一一只眼睛看着她，继续说道，“我一直很好奇所谓的解谜游戏，
你觉得它们的目——”
突然，协观机伙伴的底盘猛地塌陷进去，一个巨大的凹痕赫然出现，而科达当即停止了响应。
“怎——柯……科达？”她的嘴巴颤抖着，发出细微的音节。
一个破碎的声音——那是属于她的科达的声音，自壳式机的通讯中断断续续地传来：
“SSSSSSSS级乃乃乃乃……”
“科达，你怎么——”
“乃乃乃乃乃野乃香香……快快快快走走走……撤撤退退退退——”
自科达碎裂的独眼中……
那束光——那抹蓝色——就这样迸裂开来。
血一样的蓝自伙伴破裂、粉碎、横断的躯体流下，直至残骸已完全废弃。
"You going somewhere, RS-R Nonoka?"
"I am...Isn't that what it means to scout...?"
"Girl, if you're trying to head toward that Light you always talk about, I swear to God..."
"Ugh, lay off of me."
"Hey—Nonoka's Coda, is she trying to go to the Light?"
"Pssst...could you lie for me, please?"
"...RS-R Nonoka will scout the area as requested by Command."
"Really? ...Well, alright...don't go too far."
"Yeah!"
Command had relayed before the trip out here...
This area of Space might in time become a strategic location in an upcoming campaign to take another
Commune's territory.
The Royals Commune of which Nonoka is a part...they are sometimes called bloodthirsty because of this.
In reality, they spread and commandeer and seize control because they know best.
They, along with Beqa Engineering, their own laboratories, and a powerful system of education, have
very efficiently created a proper empire within the far reaches. Any other Communes are merely potential
colonies, too stupid to understand sophistication and power even when it strikes them across the face
with a palm full of Heat.
Nonoka has always thought nothing of them.
Now, they explore this reach...this unknown area in the dark while safely in their Husks...
And her, along with the regular Scout team—they have thus far found nothing indicating life.
She whispers to Coda again. "You actually lied for me? ...Why?"
Coda, sat within the machine's console, looks up at her and replies, "Because you asked nicely."
"You care about that kind of thing?" she replies, turning her attention to the quiet void around them.
"I'm programmed to."
"God, you're so annoying."
"And yet you reply."
"Stop that!"
As they had neared this part of Space...
The Light seemed to have disappeared.
Even now, although they scrape so close to its suspected coordinates, her Husk and C.O.D.A. both detect
nothing—not a thing like that blue and always-distant presence. She wonders if the presence has moved—
wonders if it's shy, and she continues.
"RS-R Nonoka?"
"What?" Nonoka answers her C.O.D.A., still distracted, eyes still wandering across this hollow place through
her eyewear.
"Although this routine is one I selected myself to connect you to me, I am in actuality not able to understand
the reason that it works so well upon you."
"What do you mean?"
Her Companion continues. "I receive input and give output. The statements could even be reduced to
if-then logic. That is to say: very simplistic binaries. The 'why' of these questions themselves were not
programmed into me."
"Aren't you an AI? Can't you learn?"
"If you are referring to Artificial Intelligence, it is arguable that I am not such."
"What's the argument?" Saying this, a cloud of gasses hanging in Space catches her eye. She pilots her
Husk toward them, and the purple and red that they hold.
"I am only defined by you creatures. The responses I arrive at and conclusions that I make rely on your
inputs. What defines intelligence is...coming to conclusions without a need of input. Correct?"
"Uhh..." Nonoka thinks for a moment. "No?"
"'No'?"
"Yeah, 'no', because...I need to receive 'input' to respond or act, too, right." She glances at Coda. "What
makes you any different?"
"...That's interesting," Coda responds positively.
"Oh...! Glad you think so!"
"RS-R Nonoka...can you really not see the Light?"
"Can I—....What?"
She looks down at her Companion.
"I have noticed for some time now that you move around or away from the Light but never toward it," the
robot continues "Is it invisible to you?"
"You..." she thinks before continuing. "You can see it...Coda?"
"I am unable to display it or record it, and attempts to assign it coordinates continue to result in error."
"..."
Nonoka thinks again.
"..."
...She keeps thinking.
"Dock me into the Husk's Companion Air Lock, RS-R Nonoka," says Coda.
"—Huh? What? ...Why?"
"I should be able to physically guide you toward the light. Perhaps that will change your perception."
"Is that—"
A good idea? She wonders. She then wonders why she wondered that.
Steeling herself, she allows her Companion to enter the Air Lock, and moments later it floats up in front
of the Husk's cockpit.
"Let's go, RS-R Nonoka," says her Companion through comms.
She follows the small machine in her large one.
Her heart thumps, and she feels almost as if...she can hear some kind of song.
She looks out at her guiding Coda.
It turns to her.
"RS-R, Nonoka, it is here."
"...It's...?"
"And, I have a question if you would be willing to answer it."
"Wha...I...s-sure..."
"Alright," says Coda, staring through its bored-looking eye. "I've often wondered about puzzle games.
What do you think is the p—"
Suddenly, an incredible dent manifests atop the chassis of her C.O.D.A. It stops communicating.
"Wh—...C...Coda...?" she whispers, shaken.
A voice—that of Coda's, but crushed, begins to sputter through the Husk's comms:
"RS-S...S-S-S...No...Nono..."
"Coda, are you—"
"N-N-N-Noooono..ka-k-k...Go...Re...trea—"
And out from Coda's cracked eye...
...bursts a flood of Light—blue—
bleeding from her friend's breaking, shattering, splitting, and soon discarded body.
21-5
前置条件：完成21-4
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过Extradimensional Cosmic Phenomenon
迂曲耀眼的
迂曲
迂曲 曲曲 耀耀耀眼的
光瀑为你
倾泻而下。
耀眼的
那首歌，你听见了吗？
那便睁开眼睛，到我这里吧。
壳式机沐浴在光瀑中。那束光沐浴在那束光沐浴在那束光中。那束光在她身前，像一片
一片蓝色的花海一样在宇宙之中展开好似一个奇特的图案这图案她之前见过你见过隔着
遥远的距离那个美丽奇特的图案拜托现在打开你的心交心她说道光子光子光子真是一个
好听的名字对吧对对对对对对对？野乃乃乃乃乃野乃香对的野乃香是一个名字没错啊啊
啊啊啊啊是的没错是的这是这里如今为你为你为你这是一朵花你见过它吗？非常它十分
蓝
它真的很蓝它真真真真真真真真真蓝那具协 同 机残骸不见了，拜拜拜拜拜托多亏了，
科达，它重复我。它重复我，它通过自己自己自己全在一块全全全全全全全全部都在
这里这些从来都是你都是你而且你寻找到的都是你而现在你看见了不是吗当然！当然！
当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！当然！！！
就如科达此前经历的一般，壳式机机体也开始断裂、分崩离析，我能感觉到有一股蓝色如手指般在我的
眼睛和头骨里蠕动。这是一种你能听到的光，它是如此美丽。太美了，太美了。它是如此如此如此美丽。
如此如此如此如此美丽，包裹着我，包裹着一切。这是一种我可以看到的光，跨越两个地方，跨越三个
和四个地方，跨越上千个地方。无穷无尽的地方——我以前怎么就没看见呢？
一个
微笑
自我的脸上绽放。
它好像把我的心吃掉了，哈哈哈哈哈哈。
不说话吗？不说话啊，不，什么言语都苍白无力。
欢迎。我感到自己很受欢迎，欢迎你！欢迎，嗨！嗨！
感觉真不错啊。
除非亲眼目睹，你不会明白的。
不，你无需多言。
我会找到你！
我会找到你。
——
——让我去会会侦察队的人吧。
A maze of
maze of
A m aaa aze of
Light, has arri
arrived for you.
A blinding
You've heard the song?
Now come and open your eyes.
The Husk is enveloped in Light. Light is enveloped in Light is enveloped in
Light. Light is before her, and spreads across Space like a flower field a field
of blue flowers in a wonderful pattern a pattern she has seen before You've
seen it in the distance that wonderful pattern please now open your Heart-
to-heart she said Mitsuko Mitsuko Mitsuko is a verryyy verryyyy pretty name
yes Nonono no? No Noooonoooookkaaaa yes a name that is NONOKA yes
ahhhhh yes so yes yes this is here now for you for you for you this is a flower
have you seen it? Very it's tremendously
Blue
It's tremendously blue it's treeeemendously blue that body C O D A is gone,
pleeeeaaase thank this, Coda, for repeating me. For repeating me, For through
itself itself it is all together it is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall here this was
always you was always you and what you found was you and now you can see
can't you Of course! Of course! Of course! Of course! Of course! Of course! Of
course! Of course! Of course! Of course!
The hull of the Husk begins to rip and split apart just like Coda, and I can
feel a finger of Blue inside of my Eye And Skull, wriggling. This is a kind of
light that you can hear, and it is so beautiful. It is so so beautiful. It is so so
so beautiful. So so so so beautiful wrapping into me and into everything.
This is a light that I can SEE across two places, across three and four places,
across a thousand places. Infinite places—how hadn't I seen it before?
A
smile
cracks across my face.
I think it ate my heart, ahahahaha.
No words? No words, no, this has been more than words.
Welcome. I feel welcomed, welcome you! Welcome, hello! Hello!
This feels good.
I don't think you can understand it unless you've been there.
No, you don't have to say anything.
I'll reach you!
I'll reach you.
—
—Let's greet the Scout team now.
22-5
前置条件：购入Chapter Experientia曲包
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过Factorder
终于，一切结束了，缓慢而彻底，那抹蓝色横扫了一切。
崭新的太阳缓慢升起，漆黑而空洞，在宇宙中静默着。
使徒在王座的阶前完全静止了下来，陷入了永久的静默，与她的壳式机融为一体。她的胸口高耸着一支
长枪，同样静默，同样静止。
王座现在空无一人。
整个世界已然翻转。
然而，人们曾发出的所有呼救和呐喊却仍旧飘荡在她们机腔的每一根械管内。
他们曾经存在的证明，也已全然消逝。
不再会有见证者见证他们。
现在，一切只剩下“色彩”，一种包裹「一切」的美。
这是一张色彩的网：它的辐线和支柱在空寂的飞船和荒芜的月亮中穿梭、闪烁。
每个星球也将改变。他们将见证完美，他们将渴求完美，直至成为它。
这即是她所找到的，属于那束光的变形记。
而现在，使徒已逝，她离奇的回忆刻入了碎片之中。
而现在，她再一次迎来了重生。
又一抹奇异的笑，这双见证过美的眼睛……
将为Arcaea再次张开。
And it ends, slow, as the blue runs throughout.
A new and black sun unfolds, and its howl is silenced in space.
The herald, set fast and fused with her Husk at the foot of the throne, is silent too with a lance towering
up from her chest.
The throne is empty.
The world has turned.
And those pleas that were cried from humanity drift across the strips of their vessels.
Once being, they are all gone now.
There will be none to come to see who they were.
This is now all "Color". A beauty has clutched "everything".
And it is a web of Color: its spokes and pillars crossing and shining between hollowed ships
and barren moons.
Every planet will soon change too. They will see perfection, they will yearn for it, and transform.
That is the metamorphosis of the Light she found.
And now she dies, and her strange memory is beckoned into glass.
And now, she is born again.
Another strange smile, and eyes that have seen beauty...
They spread and open once more in Arcaea.
22-4
前置条件：完成22-5
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过incomplete the one
一道道高柱自虚空中冉冉升起——惊艳且华丽的蓝色，美到令人屏息，但蜷缩在人形机甲内的光子却眯
起了眼睛。
她朋友则站在崭新的、巍峨如宇宙本身一般的王座前，背部和手臂张开来，延伸到难以想象的远处——
或者说，站在那里的是她的壳式机，而她坐在其中。即便在遥远的此处，光子也能感觉到朋友在彼处的
笑容。
她告诉自己要站起来。她紧紧抓着控制台上的手柄，顺畅地驾驶着，将自己的长枪准备好。
光子向前推进，恐惧与喜悦的呐喊从坐在控制台中的机器人伙伴的通讯中传来。她的协同机伙伴似乎在
忌惮什么，但光子仍没有停止向前推进。
然而，情况并没有朝有利于她的方向发展。身为S级驾驶员，野乃香无疑比光子强很多，更不用说现在她
还得到了恐怖的助力。再一次交手在所难免，而光子将彻底失败。
如今，所有兵力已被尽数歼灭——整个共同体的末日已然来临，他们的壳式机和战舰如今已在这片阴森
的战场上化为一块块墓碑，王座的出现更是似乎让这一切变本加厉。
但，她仍然选择向前推进，不久后她便来到王座前——为了和自己的朋友再次决斗。
可怖的碰撞——
全力以赴，她们的武器相互冲撞在一起，她的壳式机开始发出响声。两道影子缠绕着，野乃香挥舞着机
械臂，猛烈射击着，但在光子看来这更像是一种戏耍而非进攻或施压。野乃香的每次躲闪仿佛是一种刻
意的准许，她疯狂的笑声与色彩自光子的科达疯狂涌出。汗水逐渐显现在光子蹙紧的双眉上，她感觉自
己的心脏开始绞缩。
然而，就算是现在——
——不知为何，她仍在希望着，希望能够仅凭自己的言语撕裂她面前的这台壳式机。
然而，能做到这点的却只有武器。随着时间的推移，野乃香的进攻开始变得致命起来，光子的长枪也终
于找到了着陆点。
光子的武器毫不留情地碾过野乃香外层的躯壳及内里的躯体，那具外壳和她本身一并颤抖起来。
在扭曲的广袤星辰中，两名少女漂浮在最奇异的光芒之中与天空描绘的地平线下。
野乃香最终还是倒在了命运脚下……
……光子也终于意识到，她的身躯也已被那束光捕获。她笑着，模糊的视线望向眼前的屏幕，与野乃香
的狞笑相视。她的科达陷入了永寂，不再会发出任何声响，任何呼唤。
当光子的壳式机开裂并解体开来，将内里的驾驶舱暴露给了宇宙的真空中时，野乃香最后一次朝她的朋
友倾诉了什么。
“谢谢你，”野乃香向她轻声坦白道，“是你打破了这具躯壳。”
光子的双眼不自觉瞪大，她的呼吸变得越来越稀薄。在她生命的最后几秒，她再度看了一眼眼前的一切
景象：
那抹蓝色自野乃香的壳式机中缓缓溢出……然后以极快的速度开始侵占整个星系。
高耸的王座如今空无一人，而其早已失去行动能力的、正在死去的使徒在王座前诡异地笑着，一颗全新
的、漆黑一团的恒星正缓缓升起，其因极乐而发出的尖啸声难以令人忍受。
Columns rose up from the void—columns of a gorgeous and compelling blue, but crouched in her
humanoid machine Mitsuko narrowed her eyes from them.
Her friend stood before the newly formed and cosmic-towering throne, its back and arms stretching to
wretched distances. Or, Nonoka's Husk stood there, and Nonoka sat within it. Even from here, Mitsuko
could feel her friend's smile.
She told herself to rise. She gripped the controls at the console and piloted well. She equipped her lance.
As cries of fear and happiness bled through the comms of the robotic partner sitting in her Husk's console,
Mitsuko pushed forward. Her partner Coda almost seemed afraid, and still Mitsuko pushed forward.
The situation had not changed in her favor. Rank S-Runners like Nonoka were a gulf above Mitsuko's
Rank, and now Nonoka had changed horribly. They would fight again, and Mitsuko would fail.
Entire forces were gone now—whole Communes had come across the last days and their Husks and
warships now made tombstones of the grave battlefield. And, still, the Color expanded. The appearance
of the throne had only seemed to encourage it.
But still she pushed forward, and soon she met her friend before that throne—to duel again.
A horrid clash—
As their weapons met in power, her Husk began to rattle throughout itself. The two turned about one
another with Nonoka's swipes and shots in (to Mitsuko's eyes) obvious signs of "play" rather than "pressure".
Nonoka allowed every parry, and her laughter and color would now and then sharply erupt from Mitsuko's
Coda. Sweat formed at Mitsuko's brow, and her heart began to twist.
Even now—
—she wished, somehow, that talking could pierce the Husk before her.
But only a weapon could do such, and in time Nonoka's play proved fatal—and Mitsuko's lance found
its mark.
The weapon tore violent through Nonoka's hull and body, and she and her craft shuddered.
In the twisting cosmos, two girls drifted surrounded by strangest light, and sky-painted horizons.
As Nonoka succumbed...
...Mitsuko realized that her body, too, had taken that light. Wheezing, she looked bleary-eyed through her
screens: to the wicked smile that Nonoka still wore. Her Coda went silent. No voices were calling anymore.
And Nonoka spoke to her a final time—as the pieces of Mitsuko's Husk cracked and splintered and
exposed her cockpit to the airless void of space:
"Thank you," Nonoka told her, "for breaking this shell."
Mitsuko's eyes widened. Her breath was stolen, and she took in the final sight with the last seconds
of her life:
That of the Color blue crawling out from Nonoka's husk... and from there swiftly churning throughout
the galaxy.
The throne sat empty, and the impaled and dying herald smiled before it, a new and pure dark star
forming above and beginning to scream throughout the skies in ecstacy.
22-3
前置条件：完成22-4
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过CHAOSBLAST
光子眼睁睁地看着一批又一批壳式机爆裂开来，以及正不断以惊人的速度撕裂他们的野乃香。
“住手……”她的声音不再连贯，“住手，野乃香！你的目标难道不是我吗！”
而野乃香的声音又一次渗入光子的壳式机内，直入核心。语气难掩其笑意，她的朋友如此回答：
“这可是你说的，这下我只是在重复你了哦。
光——子——你终于来来来来来啦……！”
光子不禁咬紧了牙关，操控着壳式机的双手握得更紧了些。
又一次交锋，而这次交锋依然注定不会胜利。报告表明，野乃香已经持续战斗了数日，而许多比光子还
要优秀的驾驶员已经牺牲。她之前也跟野乃香交了手，结果就是自己的壳式机失去了一条胳膊……这次
行动，这种战术毫无意义，光子只不过在做无用功罢了。
但，抛开这一切，她还是想相信……
相信自己的声音，自己的呼唤，能够到达远处的她。
但光子无法否认的是，随着破坏的蔓延，随着那抹颜色不断侵蚀着宇宙空间，人们都在尖叫，都在呼救
时……
……她……她也无法再否认眼前的美丽景色。那一刻，她又在屏幕上看到了野乃香。
“你，你看见了——它。”
话音刚落，色彩从野乃香的头发下卷曲而出，那是她变黑的右眼，倒映着光子面色苍白的脸。野乃香又
笑了。
“所以，来吧，跟我来。”她说道，一股全新的力量自她遥远的壳式机中喷涌而出。
又有数百名驾驶员陨落了：一道由爆裂的噼啪作响的声音和死亡组成的彩虹，还有野乃香在过去的几天
里带来的所有破坏与色彩，翻涌着尽数落至地平线上的一点。
好似一个在宇宙中跳动的心脏，好似有什么东西将要迎来新生。
它吸引了光子的视线……
在野乃香创造出的漩涡之中……
……就在她的壳式机背后，一个扭曲的、蓝色的王座，巨大、令人生畏，自太空的空洞中诞生了。
Mitsuko swore under her breath as she watched swathes and swathes of Husks burst throughout space
as Nonoka's vessel tore at terrible speed through them.
"Stop..." she uttered. "Stop, Nonoka!! You should come after ME!"
And again, Nonoka's voice bled into Mitsuko's Husk. Hearing laughter in her tone, her friend answered:
"A mirror to your voice.
M—...M-Mmmiitsuko, you h-h-have to come to me...!"
Mitsuko grit her teeth, and gripped the controls of her Husk tightly.
Another engagement wouldn't succeed. According to reports, Nonoka had been tirelessly fighting for
days. Many pilots better than Mitsuko had already fallen. She had fought Nonoka already and had done
nothing but lose one of her own Husk's limbs... this practice was futile, and Mitsuko was dreaming.
She still wanted to believe in spite of it all...
She wanted to believe that her voice, if any, could reach the other girl.
But she could not deny, as the destruction spread, and as that Color bled more and more through
space—people screaming and rapidly sending out distress signals...
...she could not deny the beauty of what she was seeing. And at that, she saw Nonoka's face in her
screen again.
"Y-You see. It."
Saying that, color curled out from beneath Nonoka's hair where her darkened right eye now sat, and
Mitsuko felt herself going pale. Nonoka grinned again.
"So. Come," she said, and something new burst out with overwhelming force from her distant Husk.
A hundred more pilots fell: a rainbow of bursting, crackling, and the dead, and it and all the destruction
and color Nonoka had brought over the last days swirled down to one point on the horizon.
It felt like a heart beating through space. It felt as if something wanted to be born.
It drew Mitsuko's eyes...
At the center of the vortex Nonoka had created...
...just behind her Husk a twisted and blue throne, awesome and immense, was crafted in the hollow of space.
22-2
前置条件：完成22-3
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过Welcome, Queen of Fiction.
“我们现在已经完全丧失理智了，B级驾驶员光子！”她的上级摇晃着她的肩膀大声惊呼，“她只喊了你
的名字，所以赶紧进壳式机里头去她那里看看！”
于是现在……
她坐在自己的壳式机的驾驶舱内，等待着部署指令。她的科达在控制台的待命位置抬头盯着她，眼神仿
佛充满了同情。
毋庸置疑，此时损伤已经十分严重……而那抹奇异的颜色……
……在他们已经向后撤退的情况下也已逼近了他们目前所在的区域。万物在那颜色中诞生，又在那光芒
中毁灭，而S级驾驶员野乃香正是它的使徒。
“B级驾驶员光子，你一块来吗？”她在基地的气闸舱等待的时候，她朋友问道。她能看见汗水从她的脸
上滴落。“……说不定，她并不会对你真的做什么。”
“指挥部……是这么想的……”光子回答道，试图让在控制台上颤抖的双手冷静下来。
气闸舱门打开了。
广袤宇宙中，一张蓝红相间的画卷徐徐展开。光子和其他五名队友相继出发。
时间不断推移，他们早已将基地远远落在身后，另一个联合体的增援也将在已确定的战场区域与她们会合。
而她们此次行动的目标仍然孤身一人……没错，野乃香接连突破了一个又一个派系、一支又一支军队、
一个又一个作战单元。她的目标十分明确：直奔光子与其他人逃向的基地。与此同时，她还不断
尝试联络光子，向她发送某种奇怪的请求。
终于，当光子望向宇宙深处。
闭上眼睛。
当她再次睁开双眼的时候，她队友驾驶的壳式机全部被尽数歼灭，被奇异颜色沾染的部件分散摊开在宇
宙中。此时，一个声音——拥有同样颜色的声音，逐渐渗入她的科达中。
“光……子……你来啦！”
“野……乃香……”光子回答道。
她已经听闻野乃香的科达已经失去了联系，但莫名其妙地，她仍然能够同她交流。不知道为什么，这一
点比她周遭陨落的所有队友还要让她感到毛骨悚然。
“它需要打破最后的枷锁，完成孵化……！”野乃香激动地喊道，她的脸出现在朋友驾驶舱的显示屏上。
尽管光子已经在报告中得知……但冷不丁见到野乃香以全新的样貌移动着、说着话……
她想要靠近她，真的。她想要她拥抱她，而就在这个想法开始萌发时——她猛烈地摇了摇头，重新让理
智占回上风。报告中也有写到：如果足够接近这个色彩的“使徒”就会感到不明的强烈吸引力。
光子让自己冷静下来……并将武器准备就绪。
“好的，那你就去帮那束光——”野乃香开口，可光子打断了她。
“我会把它熄灭，就是这样，野乃香。”
野乃香则笑了笑以示回应。一场激烈的双人角斗之舞就此上演。
光子尽力了。
但她仍然失去了壳式机的一只手臂。
因为野乃香的存在本身比她的战斗技巧更令人震撼……光子的动作完全跟不上她——出击前发愣过久，
或无缘无故地开始大笑，毫无缘由。
老实说，这根本不算是对战，已扭曲的野乃香完全就是在跟她玩过家家，无论她对这个世界崭新的天空
有什么宏伟愿景，她都无法被人理解——完全相反，必须有人要阻止她。
于是，她开始朝自己的朋友大声喊话。壳式机与壳式机猛烈冲撞着，她用自己的机甲朝野乃香吼道：“赶紧
停下来吧！你是真的疯了，什么都不记得了吗！？”
然而，她得到的回答只有：“我全部都记得……所以我才会……不惜一切，光子。”
而当光子正想要开口回击时，支援赶到了现场。
……而野乃香为了和他们会面，早已离开了她身旁。
"We aren't operating on sense anymore, RB-R Mitsuko!" her superior had shouted this as he shook her
by her shoulders. "The only name she called for was yours. Get in your Husk and fly to her NOW!"
With that said...
She now sat in her Husk's cockpit, waiting to deploy. Her Coda looked up at her from its place in the
console—to her it looked sympathetic.
The destruction thus far had just been undeniable...and that strange color...
...It had already reached their sector after the retreat, and all it had come in contact with had become
twisted. Things were born and undone in the color—in that Light, and RS-R Nonoka was its herald.
"RB-R Mitsuko, you're coming with?" said a friend of hers as she waited in the station's airlock with sweat
beading down her face. "...Hm. Maybe she won't try to get you."
"That's what...Command is hoping..." With this reply, Mitsuko tried to steady her trembling hands on the
console.
The airlock opened.
Outside, a canvas of blue and red spread throughout space. Mitsuko and the others—five other pilots all
headed out.
In time, the station they had left was far behind...reinforcements of another Commune would meet them
where the active battlefield had been determined.
The target was alone as ever...Nonoka had, by herself, torn through faction after faction, army after army,
and unit after unit. Her path had been clear: toward the station where Mitsuko had fled with the others.
Even had that not been obvious...she had made strange requests for Mitsuko time and again.
Now Mitsuko looked out into space.
She closed her eyes.
When she opened them again, her comrades' Husks were all broken and spread around her in space,
dashed with that corrupting color, and a voice—a voice of that same color came horrid through her Coda.
"Mii...tsuko... You're here!"
"No...noka..." Mitsuko replied.
She'd heard that Nonoka's Coda seemed to be missing...and yet she could still communicate.
Somehow, that fact shook her more readily than her fallen fellow soldiers around her.
"It needs to hatch...!" Nonoka exclaimed, her face appearing in her friend's cockpit display. Mitsuko had
already seen it in reports...but seeing Nonoka's new appearance moving, speaking, and so changed...
She wanted to reach out to her, really. She wanted to be embraced, and as she began to feel that—she
shook her head violently, and reason won out. There had been reports of exactly this: of a compelling
force when encountering this "herald" or the color...
Mitsuko steadied herself...and readied her weapons.
"Good, you'll help the light—" Nonoka began, and Mitsuko interrupted her.
"I'll snuff it out. That's all, Nonoka."
Nonoka only grinned, and the two at once began a whirling duel.
Mitsuko did the best she could—
She lost her Husk's arm in the process.
Nonoka's presence, more than her piloting, was simply too overwhelming... Mitsuko repeatedly would
lag in her own movements—gaze too long or begin to laugh in spite of herself at nothing. Nothing.
Truthfully, it was no battle. This twisted Nonoka was playing a game, and whatever grand vision she had
for the new sky of the world...it could not be understood, it only had to be stopped.
So she cried out to her friend. She slammed Husk against Husk and in their robotic armor screamed at
Nonoka, "You've got to stop! Don't you remember anything!?"
And to that she received the prompt reply: "I remember everything, and it's why I d...do anything, Mitsuko."
Before Mitsuko could argue this, reinforcements arrived...
...and Nonoka split from her, in order to meet them.
22-1
前置条件：完成22-2
解锁条件：采用野乃香通过AlterGate
什么奇怪的存在自宇宙深处爆发了。视线被分裂成两半，一抹新的光芒与新的色彩——也是新的噩梦——
自其中诞生。
野乃香重生了。她感觉生命力源源不断从身体中迸出。
她与自己的壳式机融为一体。她将视线放到和她一起来的分队身上。
她向他们展示光明的力量，赐予他们死亡。
这篇故事中不存在任何教训。
在无限且永恒的存在中蕴含着无限且永恒的可能性。
奇异的光吞噬了一个强大帝国的王牌。
恐怖由此诞生，并随她蔓延至整个星系。
她的变异马上就在军队之间传开了。人们四散而逃，而光子也一样——即使野乃香一直在呼唤她。她将
自己藏起来，直到事态越来越失控，她才再次站了出来。
光芒逐渐开始吞噬整个世界，而作为光的使徒，野乃香需要不断地鼓励它，鼓励她所见到的那永恒的美。
于是，她伸出手，不断伸手，让天空更加绚丽。她知道，在每一次死亡的尽头，悲伤能够为色彩——为光
创造一个王座。它将永存。它将永存。它将永存，你已在那里见过它，在中心呼唤：它将存在，并将被
赞颂。
自此：
一颗新星迎来了它的黎明。
世界也将变得完美。
这篇故事中不存在任何教训。
在无限且永恒的存在中蕴含着无限且永恒的可能性。
在确定性中，这种可能性当然存在：
而当使徒消亡之后……
……她将在另一个世界里醒来。
Something strange burst out from the depths of space. Vision itself cracked in two, and a new light and
color bled out from there: a new terror.
Nonoka was born anew. Nonoka felt her life soaring out her body.
She became one with her Husk. She set her sights on the unit she had come here with.
She showed them the Light, and left them dead.
There is no lesson to be had in this story.
In existence, infinite and unending, there are infinite and unending possibilities.
The ace of a powerful empire became swallowed by an alien light—
Horror was born of her, and spread throughout the galaxy.
Reports of her corruption came soon. People fled and Mitsuko—who Nonoka began to persistently call
for—retreated too, and hid until she was inevitably dragged out as the chaos grew worse.
The light began to consume this world, and as its herald, Nonoka needed to encourage it—to encourage
that all and forever beauty she had seen and so she reached. She reached, and reached for more and
colored the sky more, and she knew at the end of every death, the sorrows could create for the Color—
for the Light a throne. And it will live. It will live. It will live, you have seen it there, at the center and calling:
it will be, and it will be praised.
From this:
A new star could dawn.
And the world could be perfect.
There is no lesson to be had in this story.
In existence, infinite and unending, there are infinite and unending possibilities.
And with certainty, this possibility exists too:
After the herald would perish...
...she could awaken in another world.