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She smiled, and her silver eyes held no fear. Only love.

“Grimoire Weiss,” Yonha said, her voice brightening. “Are you going to protect him?”

She tilted her head. A gesture so familiar, so her , that Nier’s heart cracked. “I remembered,” she said. “I remembered what I am.”

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“Or you can take the fragment. You can remember everything. Every moment of the twelve thousand years. Every face of every Shade you killed that was once a human being. And you can use that memory to break the cycle. To restore the Gestalts. To bring back the humans.”

Outside, the storm broke. Rain the color of ash began to fall. Kainé looked away. Weiss closed his eye.

“I know, for example,” said a voice as dry as old parchment and twice as arrogant, “that the Baron’s library is guarded by a Shade the size of a house that sings. Not metaphorically. It actually vocalizes at a frequency that liquefies the inner ear. A fact I have mentioned fourteen times.” She smiled, and her silver eyes held no fear

“I am not,” Nier replied.

Their village was a cluster of stone huts clinging to the side of a cliff, protected by a crumbling wall from the Shade-infested wastes beyond. Nier was not a farmer or a shepherd. He was a fetcher. A hunter. A killer of shadows. He did it for the only currency that mattered: gold to buy the lunar tear extracts that kept Yonha's coughing fits at bay.

Nier shook his head, drew his one-handed sword—a simple, worn blade—and ran forward. He did not have magic. He had muscle memory and desperation. He ducked under a sweeping claw, rolled through a puddle of black ichor, and drove his sword into the central maw. “Are you going to protect him

It was called the Archivist.

He reached for the girl’s hand.

Then it collapsed into a puddle of harmless, oily smoke.