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Tales of the Rays: Fairy’s Requiem Chapter 7 Summary (Parts 1 - 5)

I’m still not over this chapter, so here’s a summary of the first half. I’ll do the last half sometime soon or when I have free time. In the meantime, if you wished to check out some untidy ramblings about the story, I have linked some of my relevant tweet chains under the cut. Please enjoy!

Note: I am open to corrections, in case you find something iffy about what I’ve summarized/translated! There are clearly some parts I paid more attention to than others, ahaha...

Part 1

The chapter opens with Luke, Tear, Mieu, and Jade talking among themselves regarding Luke’s condition and the fact that Lorelei was exoflected.

Ever since he heard that Lorelei got exoflected, Luke had been worried about disappearing. So far, his body showed no signs of breaking apart, but he's worried all the same. On Jade's end, he explains that when the seventh fonon is exoflected, it's turned into an approximate equivalent in Tir Na Nog thanks to encoding. So rather than the Seventh Fonon being exoflected, it's already been changed to fit the laws of the world. And since Luke had already been exoflected, it means that there already is an encoded version of the existing seventh fonons.

Their theorizing and Luke's worrying is interrupted by the rest of the Abyss cast filing in (Guy, Natalia, Asch, Anise). Who, well, discover that Luke was due to disappear. Natalia says there's no use hiding it from them, since she noticed Luke had been broody since he learned Lorelei was exoflected, and noticed something was up.

Asch demands an explanation from Jade, but Luke opts to be the one to explain stuff, and there's a small fade to black as everything is explained…

Asch TL;DRs the whole thing by saying that Luke was undergoing fonon separation prior to getting exoflected, and was due to disappear. When Luke got exoflected, his fonon separation halted due to the change in environment. Luke looks to Jade for confirmation, and he says yes and follows up a bit. Jade says that because Lorelei was exoflected, the environment is becoming quite similar to how it was in Auldrant. And while Luke's fonon separation has not begun, they need to be on alert for the possibility.

Asch: ...Tsk. Wherever we go, you really need some delicate handling, replica.

Luke: ...Sorry.

Asch: Who told you to apologize?!

Natalia: Asch! You've also been acting funny lately. Since you've heard about Lorelei getting exoflected, you've returned to how you were when we were first exoflected.

Asch: …!

Jade: Indeed, because it seems that Asch is under the impression that he's going to disappear.

Asch: ……….

Natalia: Huh? What's the meaning of this, Asch?!

Asch: ---Necromancer, am I going to disappear?

Jade: This world and Auldrant's conditions are too different from each other. I cannot say for certain with regard to the future.

Jade: But at the moment, as an original, your life is not in danger.

Jade: Lorelei was exoflected as a spirit here. Already, seventh fonon studies material from Auldrant cannot be used as references.

Then Jade says that Asch's fretting and impatience in their original world is no longer necessary here. And then proceeds to say that he's cutting off the explanation there and thinks it's unnecessary for him to go more detailed, since there's no one else that knows anything about fomicry more than him. Asch snarks back by saying that Jade's manner of speaking, as usual, is quite irritating. But he buys what Jade is saying, because he can't really imagine Jade lying to reassure him. Guy is rather curious why Asch thinks he's going to disappear, but Asch decides to opt out of the explanation because it's a long story. He does apologize for snapping at Luke and Natalia as a result of his misconceptions.

But then, that brings them to the matter of being unable to rest at ease with regard to Luke's condition. Jade doesn't deny what Asch said, and says it's the reason why he wants to speak to the spirit Lorelei. As it seems, fonons have been replaced by chiral particles in this world, and Jade is concerned about how the special characteristics got translated, since there's more to fonons than meets the eye. He's not sure if those other characteristics got translated into a chiral molecule property or was incorporated into anima, which is unique to Tir Na Nog.

So the concern now is that Lorelei's exoflection may have caused those rules to change as well, because of "layered processing" done at the time. TL;DR, as mentioned by Guy, it's necessary to speak to Lorelei just to determine how the nature of the translated Seventh Fonon changed.

This time, they're interrupted by Ix calling them over mirrage comm. It seems that an overseer from the Empire has arrived in the Auldrant territory, and the person's name is in the nexus list. His name is Ion...

Part 2

Mercuria is not happy, wondering what's taking Demitrius. Chigal tries to reassure her, but she starts musing about how Demitrius is keeping so many secrets from her lately. Much musing ensues, and Chigal ends up bringing up that Nuadha used to call Demitrius "kind poison".

Demitrius eventually arrives. As a result of his bargaining with Glastein from the previous chapter, it is revealed that Richter got turned into a Living Doll β. Mercuria is devastated to find out what happened to Richter, who doesn't recognize her at all. Regal has also been β'd, and they've come to take away Chigal and Junior. Chigal and Junior make a promise to Mercuria to return.

Mercuria ends up excusing herself despite Demitrius' apologies, and quietly starts scheming a way to get her subordinates back, as she now has second thoughts about whether Living Dolls really are the right way to go about getting Bifrost back. Lukius tags along as Mercuria sets off to discuss more of her plans in private.

Part 3

Ix, Mileena, Karia, Kocis, and the Abyss cast arrive in the Auldrant portion of Tir Na Nog--Daath, specifically. Tear muses about the fact that the capital of the section is called "Daath", while Natalia and Asch worry about Woodrow given the previous chapter's events.

In the meantime, Luke and Ix are musing about the fact that this was around the place where the fake Jade had surfaced back in the day. Karia bemoans the fact that the real Jade isn't like the fake, who was kind and gentlemanly. Jade pretends to be hurt over this fact, much to Karia's consternation.

Luke then asks after Anise, who says she's fine. Ix then comments that she seems to be filled with sorrow whenever Ion's name comes up and wonders why that's the case, but then backpedals a bit and says she doesn't have to say it if the Auldrant people think it's unnecessary to say so. Jade encourages her to speak up about it--and Mileena as well (for a separate matter)--as the continued survival of the world depends on it.

But before they could go any further with this line of thought, Karia shrieks, as she finds something rather horrific in the middle of the town…

...a Jade statue.

Kocis: Whoa, what’s the meaning of this…?

Asch: What’s a statue of this guy doing here…

Anise: I-is this for real…

Guy: That’s a work of art right there, Jade!

Should Mileena take a souvenir photo?

Jade: I will kill you, Guy.

Their surprise tour is cut short by a familiar shriek, which Ix seems to recognize.

???: Khhh! Call the one responsible for this! Now!

Ix: ...Huh? That voice, could it be…

Jade: Oh? Is it your acquaintance, Ix?

Ix: What?! No, but, isn't that--

Local: Oh boy, it's Dist the Reaper. You guys should probably get out of here.

Local: That guy… He just came here yesterday, but he seems to consider St. Jade as some sort of rival.

Luke: Oh… And I was relieved that we haven't seen much of him lately.

Asch: …

Natalia: Asch?

Mileena: Everyone, it'd be bad if we ran into Dist, so let's hide by the shrubbery over there. It's quite troublesome.

Jade: I have no objections. Everyone will be keeping a distance from that broken drainage pipe.

To no one's surprise, Dist seems to have taken major issues with the Jade statue and wants to destroy it. And Jade, for once, finds himself agreeing with Dist.

It's around that time that the overseer Ion appears, who Dist greets. Asch proposes they strike, while Luke comments that the overseer Ion seems to be in the same state as Woodrow before. And Natalia surmises that this Ion got Living Doll β'd. It's around this time that Jade gives the go signal for them to jump in and try to save Ion.

Part 4

The party defeats the guards, and Guy asks Dist to hand over Ion. Anise still doesn't have so many words to spare and is acting a little strangely. Dist tries to shake her up by going as far to refer to Ion as the "master that she got killed", to which Anise responds that she's not easily that shaken up, and proceeds to go in for the kill...

However, Asch stops her. Anise is not happy and says he's attacking the wrong person. Asch says there's no mistake about what he's doing. Asch says he has some business with Lorelei. Dist asks if Asch is betraying Jade and the rest of the gang, to which Asch more or less roundaboutly says yes to. Though not without calling him "The Runny", much to Dist's chagrin.

Whatever the case is, Dist welcomes the prospect, since with Asch by his side he can further fomicry research, and he doesn't really care so much about the Empire's goals.

At this point, Dist has the group cornered with his robots, but Ix and Mileena have a trick up their sleeves, which is a transfer gate. The party (minus Asch) uses that to escape.

Asch is left with Dist, and demands that he be taken to Lorelei. Dist isn't too sold about being ordered around, as well as where Asch's loyalties lie. He needs more proof that Asch has betrayed Jade and the rest before doing so.

Back in the base, Ix suffers from side effects of using the transfer gate. Jade says he will explain things once they get Ix to their clinic.

Part 5

Meanwhile, in the Salvation Front, Marcus has gathered his troops to do some relocation work. He plans to start using the Altamira base they acquired from the casino event--a decision that is met with much protest. But it's a necessary decision given the danger of being in the Heimdallr from that point forward.

Phil continues to fret about things, and Sync pushes him to tell the truth to Ix. Because the longer he puts it off, the more difficult it would get.

One of the Salvation Front members pleads with Marcus again, but the conversation is interrupted by Sync, who spots an unconscious Barbatos, who was captured and turned into a Living Doll previously. The soldier with them speculates that Barbatos may have escaped from prison.

Marcus gets some info from an imperial soldier that had been chasing Barbatos, and tells the the Salvation Front soldier to escape along with the others while he and Sync take care of business there.

Some tweet chains I made regarding the chapter:

Untidy screaming about the chapter in general

A small correction to the above 2am rambling

Scene 6 stuff, regarding the OCs finding out about the events of Abyss and more Jade and Anise feels

Last scene stuff, mostly regarding Arietta and Sync and Asch’s “betrayal”

#tales of the abyss #tales of the rays #jade curtiss #luke fon fabre #asch the bloody #anise tatlin #tear grants #fon master ion #natalia luzu kimlasca lanvaldear #mercuria #sync the tempest #marcus #ix nieves #mileena weiss #karia #kocis #my translation

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