Augma II Arc I

## Arc I: Weeping Angels

> *“We'll live. It's as simple as that.”*
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*Augma II Arc I*, also known as *Arc I: Weeping Angels*, is a mystery, sci-fi, and action visual novel written by Kamigigana and developed by Azalin. It is the the first arc of the *Augma II* series. The plot focuses on Shira Yamano, a boy who was involved in an apocalyptic event four years prior to the start of the story, and his life as he tries to make new friends and gets roped into the mystery of the city of Kirron.

A demo version of *Arc I* was officially released on January 25, 2020 on itch.io. It covers Chapters 1–3. It was planned to be removed from itch.io since it contains copyrighted music.

An extended demo version of *Arc I* was officially released on August 22, 2020 on itch.io. It covers Chapters 1–6 and has rewritten scenes, updated character art, and new CGs. It replaced the download of the original demo version of *Arc I* but still uses some copyrighted music alongside original music. A patch was released hours after the demo on Twitter to fix some mistakes in the release. It was officially updated on September 5, 2020 to include the changes made in the patch. A third update was released on September 15, 2020, which updated the look of the title screen and save menu.

On January 28, 2021, an itch.io page for the full release of *Arc I* was put up with the release slated for February 2021. On February 8, 2021, *Arc I* was officially released. On February 11, 2021, an update was released to fix a bug and some typos. Some time after the release of *Arc I*, the itch.io page for the demo was taken down.

On June 12, 2021, *Arc I* received a major update which fixed all the text errors and added new art. Also included in the update but not mentioned is the cleaned-up presentation, new sound effects, looped music, and an updated GUI. This update was primarily developed by Brimbel, who was not directly involved in *Arc I'*s development prior to this, and the additional art was provided by Kamigigana.

On June 12, 2023, *Arc I* was released on Steam and updated on itch.io, which included a massive change to the presentation, features, and script of the game.

## Staff

* Scenario/Direction: Kamigigana
* Illustration: Kamigigana, Bisoneet
* Music: Strung
* Programming/Quality Assurance: Aiyuu, Bisoneet, Lyntier, Centicen
* Sound Assets/Background Photos: Freesound, Kamigigana, /wg/, Wikimedia
* Additional Quality Assurance: Brimbel

## Main Cast

* Shira Yamano
* Loui
* Linna Coetequix
* Angenclöcken-0927 (Kat)
* Virnya
* Ragmir (Rags)
* Odin
* Roana

*See also Characters.*

## Summary

**Warning: this section contains major spoilers for *Arc I*.**

### Azure Dream

"Azure Dream" is the first chapter in *Arc I*.

Four years and four months prior to the start of the story, Shira Yamano faced off against a golden figure in an apocalyptic wasteland. The figure laments how Shira's failure despite his "wench of a seraph"'s blessing proves "that humanity has no potential to overthrow what truly governs them," before promptly decapitating him. After Shira's decapitation, an unknown character who "ring[s] the bell of the world's truths upon the highest point" appears before him to let him "try this again."

For four years, Shira suffered from the experience of that traumatic event, developing apathy towards other people and even his own life. One day, Shira met Loui Sunsa, who helped Shira slowly recover from his trauma by creating the Comfy Club together at Xentio Academy.

Four months later, Shira meets Linna Coetequix, who saves Shira from falling down a flight of stairs. The two return to the Comfy Club's room where Linna requests to join the club. After Loui's approval, Shira accepts her registration and explains the club's automatic registration process.

After school ends, Shira heads home before realizing he has to visit the Grave Stop to pick up his allowance from Ireina Gyasho. He turns around and walks to the Grave Stop, where Ireina hands him his allowance and mentions that Shira's house is unlocked. Upon hearing this, Shira runs out and heads back home immediately but stops when a door to the Verim Chasm catches his attention. Desperate to head home early, Shira walks through the door, but is instead sent to some stranger's home where the sky outside is dark. He goes through the Verim Chasm once more and finally appears in front of his house, where signs of an intruder are present. Shira rushes in to encounter the intruder in his office.

### Angenclockën-0927

"Angenclockën-0927" is the second chapter and introduces Kat.

Shira encounters the intruder who reveals herself to be Angenclöcken-0927, an android which shouldn't exist given Kirron's current technology, and claims to be assigned to protect Shira at all times. After back-and-forth insults and questioning, Shira nicknames her "Kat." Shira also questions how Kat would even accompany him to school, and she responds by borrowing some of Shira's old clothes and forging a student record.

The next morning, Shira wakes to see that Kat stole a few million dollars overnight and left the money in his house. After Kat cooks breakfast for Shira, the two go to school.

After they arrive at school early, Shira enters the Comfy Club's room to explain to Linna and Loui who Kat is and what happened yesterday. After Shira finishes his story, Kat blows up the Comfy Club's microwave and Shira tries assaulting Kat but is defeated due to her overwhelming strength. Shira invites Kat as Member 4 of the Comfy Club and decides to play a game of chess with her to decide who throws the broken microwave away.

### Ragmir

"Ragmir" is the third chapter and introduces Virnya and Ragmir.

Shira loses the chess match and leaves school to go throw the microwave away. Linna accompanies him, suggesting to visit a cafe where they can talk about the Club Festival and what they'll present. After leaving school, Shira bumps into Virnya Kikonji, an archaic-speaking girl, along the way to the cafe.

After throwing away the microwave in a dumpster outside the cafe, Shira and Linna enter to discuss her investigation of Aeroseven's bankruptcy and the possibility of presenting this to the school. They decide to skip school and investigate Fenrir Storage, a storage company owned by a company that was owned by Aeroseven, and take a taxi to District C.

After arriving at Fenrir Storage, they hop the fence and begin trespassing, much to Shira's dismay. Shira picks up a stopwatch with the symbol of two overlapping squares. They encounter two storage units and after discovering one is locked, they break into the other storage unit. After messing around with some firearms, they break into the first storage unit instead. Inside, they encounter Ragmir, who goes by "Rags," a 2nd-year student at Xentio who is also investigating Aeroseven's bankruptcy. Rags points out a crate of blue, pulsating apples and displays their odd property of indestructibility despite being chewable. Shira steals one and then the alarm goes off, sealing off the entrance of the storage unit. Shira breaks a window and the three run away from Fenrir Storage, and after running all the way into the city, Shira decides to take Linna and Rags through the Verim Chasm.

### Verim Chasm

"Verim Chasm" is the fourth chapter and introduces Lilac and Odin.

After an anonymous phone call, Lilac, secondary protagonist and detective, arrives with the police to investigate the break in at Fenrir Storage. The police find clues from Shira and Linna's activities but are unable to find any fingerprints. Lilac uses magical powers to investigate and realizes she already knows the perpetrators. Lilac also investigates the blue, pulsating apples and steals one from a crate labeled "Aeroseven Shangri-La 2nd Branch." The police tell Lilac that the case might be a Zero Case. After finding out Waltrein Evenshire and Viera Renshin, two people related to the incident, are mysteriously missing, the case is promoted to a Zero Case.

After walking for two hours in the Verim Chasm, Linna points out a door that leads them back to Xentio Academy. Shira decides to take Rags up the stairs to the Comfy Club's room to sign him up for the club. Rags uses the club's automatic registration system to join and is assaulted by Kat who was sleeping the room with Loui. Shira, Linna, and Rags decide to take the elevator down and go to Shira's house.

After a few more hours, they arrive in front of Shira's house. They encounter a masked man who leaves without introducing himself. Shira opens the door to his house and sees Kat in a maid outfit, who somehow made it to Shira's house before them.

### Verynstryfe

"Verynstryfe" is the fifth chapter and introduces Verynstryfe and foreshadows the Bosatsu Kaikyou Totsugeki.

After Kat takes off the maid outfit, Shira has a discussion with Linna and Rags to swear off illegal investigations. Rags agrees but Linna declines, citing the fun of investigation and the ability to post bail thanks to her multibillionaire parents. Kat asks Shira to go to the convenience store with her to buy some food for dinner, and Shira goes along, despite it being midnight.

After walking to a closed convenience store, Kat decides to run away for seemingly no reason. Shira follows after her, noticing how the sky is dark, and upon catching up to her, she explains that she detected the prescene of Weishsquire. Kat explains the gray area of morality present within Kirron and Shira asks if its about the Seraphim Abraxas System. After Shira finishes lore dumping, Kat rips off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a symbol which causes a mental breakdown in Shira. Several figures appear to him in a "vision of red." After Shira recovers from the breakdown, Kat detects Weishsquire again and begins to hide. After a few tense seconds, the masked man makes a starling appearance and Kat reacts immediately to defend Shira. Kat tells Shira to call the true name of the Verim Chasm in order to escape, and he does so by calling out Verynstryfe.

Meanwhile, Lilac continues to investigate Fenrir Storage, this time without the police around. She uses more magical powers in order to confirm the identities of the perpetrators and leaves without a trace once she's done.

Shira investigates the Verim Chasm, which now has new rooms. Shira reviews his information of the past two days and his faint memories of the apocalyptic event from four years ago. After Shira finishes recapping the story, he meets Verynstryfe, the Augano which controls the Verim Chasm. After one failed attempt, Verynstryfe leads Shira through a door to his house, where Linna, Rags, and Kat are sleeping.

### Room Theory I

"Room Theory I" is the sixth chapter and introduces Roana.

The next day, at the forensics department of the police, Lilac reviews disappearance of Waltrein Evenshire, who was discovered to be dismembered in his own home. Lilac discusses with a police officer how the murder is unlikely to be related to the break in at Fenrir Storage. She also points out how the Evenshire's dismembered limbs form a symbol of two overlapping squares. After that, Lilac leaves and thinks about how recent Zero Case renewed her interest in the Visage Lock Zero Case, a completely unrelated case to the one at hand.

On the rooftop of Xentio Academy, Shira meets Roana, a girl with an interest in religion and philosophy. After talking to her, they part ways. Shira takes the stairs down but his memories of walking down the stairs are gone. Linna appears in front of Shira, who asks him if they're going to be skipping school to do some more investigation. Shira unrelatedly finds a necklace with a symbol of two overlapping squares in his pocket. Linna brings Shira to one of the school's elevators, which was duct taped shut with a sign the says "BROKEN DOWN." They decide to talk about this later and part ways, with Shira heading to his class.

### Room Theory II

"Room Theory II" is the seventh chapter and introduces Shinku Ebata and Faerin.

Shira enters class late where he overhears a girl who lost her ID talking to his teacher Mr. Reuatio and some police officers. The girl explains how she lost her ID after having walked through a seemingly endless staircase, and the police respond by taking her to the station and getting her a new ID. Shira thinks about how the usual procedure for lost IDs is much more lax and decides to skip class to go find the girl's ID.

Outside of his class, Kat appears in front of Shira. Kat asks for an explanation of what's going on and Shira complies by giving a recap of the last two chapters. Kat reasons that this is all the work of somebody with magical abilities, and Shira decides to take Kat along with him to find the ID. To get around the stairs being dysfunctional, Shira uses the Verim Chasm to get to the Comfy Club's floor.

After arriving in the clubroom, Shira and Kat's discussion piques the interest of Loui, who now begins to use full sentences. She reveals herself as Lilac, a member of the Kirron Detective Agency, and shows off Yuinoroxis, the Augano which allows her to enhance her senses to investigate crime scenes. After Shira shows off Verynstryfe and Loui explains how Shira and Linna's actions caused a Zero Case, Loui decides to take the lead on the case and leaves the room.

In the hallway outside the clubroom, Shira notices how the sky is dark and Loui notices a magical barrier in front of the stairs, right before noticing the presence of two people in the staircase. She forces Shira to stay quiet as the one of the two strangers notices them and walks through the barrier to them. Loui falsifies an explanation as to why she and Shira are on an unaccessible floor, and the stranger decides to introduce herself as Shinku Ebata. Shinku and the other stranger take their leave, and Kat appears once they left. Kat shows an holographic recording of Shinku and the other stranger's conversation in the staircase, all while translating it from Japanese. The other stranger is revealed to be Faerin Kegare, who speaks to Shinku about his desire to fill the Trailokya. The recording ends, and Loui begins to explain to Shira what the Trailokya is from context clues and assumptions, concluding that the two strangers from Kamaloka. Veryn interrupts, giving a hint to Shira in order to speed up their investigation. Shira decides to use the Verim Chasm to travel to a place where the sky was black, believing it to be connected to Kamaloka.

### Room Theory III

"Room Theory III" is the eighth chapter.

Shira, Loui, and Kat walk aimlessly through the Verim Chasm, and Shira leads them into the investigation room he set up in Chapter 5. Loui examines some of the things he marked down, and Kat decides to stay in the room for a bit to investigate it some more.

10 minutes later, Veryn gives another hint to Shira, and he decides to use the Verim Chasm directly instead of looking for a door. After a gravity mishap, the three appear back in the alleyway from Chapter 5. The same symbol which caused a mental breakdown in Shira now takes the form of a bird, which Kat explains is the symbol of a church called "Weeping Angel." The three walk in the opposite direction of the church, where Shira opens another door using the Verim Chasm. Shira suffers another mental breakdown and passes out.

Shira wakes up, finding himself on a floor of Xentio Academy that was inter-dimensionally sent to Kamaloka. He sees Loui and Kat, the latter passing out due to seraphs being unable to withstand cold temperatures. Shira decides to split up, leaving Loui to take care of Kat and look for shelter while Shira finds the girl's ID. Shira looks at a map of the floor and heads to the Table Pool Club.

### Weeping Angels

"Weeping Angels" is the ninth chapter and introduces Sforzando Ryuuzou.

Upon entering the Table Pool Club, Shira meets the masked man, who summons another person to bind Shira with chains before leaving himself. After the masked man leaves, Shira turns his attention to his opponent, a girl wearing a mask with horns. The girl cuts Shira, tasting his blood in order to confirm that he isn't a seraph. She applies some bandages to the cut, decides to place a helmet on him, and reveal the name of the masked man to be "Odin." The helmet activates and it's revealed that Shira is going to be a Visage Lock victim. Upon the helmet's final count, Shira is transported to a void where he meets Astralia, who blesses him with power. Upon accepting Astralia's power, the helmet breaks and Shira begins to stand off against his opponent. Shira discover that Veryn is no longer with him and learns Astralia's name.

Shira loses the fight, thrown out the window from several stories in the air and into the cold snow. The girl decides to let him freeze to death and reveals her name to be Sforzando Ryuuzou, a member of the Aeroseven Bosatsu Kaikyou Totsugeki. Shira stands up against her for a moment, explaining the warmth of friendship, which upsets Sforzando. Sforzando nearly unleashes her power in order to kill Shira, but is stopped by a gut punch from Shinku, who has appeared out of nowhere. Shinku hands Shira a lemonade-flavored vial which heals his wounds before leaving with Sforzando's unconscious body. Shira passes out in the snow.

Shira wakes up, assisted by a stranger who brings him back inside the building he was thrown out of. He begins to walk through the building, discovering the floors are of an insane, elegiac nature. After walking the floors and meeting a few people there, he eventually works his way up back to the Xentio Academy floor he was originally on. As he does so, the lights flicker and the screens begin to broadcast a message from Yeiren Euyoura, the previous CEO of Aeroseven and spokeswoman for the BKT. Yeiren announces that Sforzando has been harmed and that the task forces of Shangri-La are going to shoot civilians on sight. The broadcast is interrupted when Yeiren is shot dead by Ashegone, who introduces himself as the first of the Schattenmonds and ends the broadcast by shooting the camera. Shira begins to take in the events and reasons that the place he is in, Kamaloka, is actually called Shangri-La and is in a separate dimension from Kirron and that the S.A.S. allows for interdimensional living. Virnya appears before Shira, offering to mend Shira's now broken coat. Virnya begins to explain that Odin Novasacht has backed off from Loui and Kat, who have both already left through the Verim Chasm. Virnya decides to implant the fruit of Miroku Bosatsu into Shira's heart, allowing him to understand foreign languages and receive Virnya's powers if she was to die. Virnya requests that Shira wear a maid outfit in return and Shira agrees. Veryn interrupts and decides to forcibly pull Shira out of Shangri-La, ending the conversation.

Inside the Verim Chasm, Shira explains his meeting with Astralia and Virnya. Veryn responds and decides to meet Shira in person to explain some more concepts to him directly. Veryn puts on a slideshow and explains the power system of the Etherius Equation, the Goddess of Seraphs who made it, the Overseer who rules the universe, and the other power systems such as Amaranthus Codex, Nehanzou, and Ragnus. Veryn explains that the Verim Chasm is an Augano which takes up all tiers of the Etherius Equation and that Astralia is his second Augano which only activates upon dying, granting Shira a form of immortality. The discussion ends with Veryn remarking about the universe and the inability for beings both human and 4D to understand it.

### Seraphic Interstice

"Seraphic Interstice" is the tenth chapter.

Shira returns to the Comfy Club through the Verim Chasm and reads a letter from Loui, who writes that Kat has left to return the girl's ID and that they should take a break on Sunday before continuing their investigation. Shira lies in chair and falls asleep.

The next morning, Shira wakes up and opens the door to see Roana, who has come to borrow the coffee maker. Loui wakes up, starts undressing in front of Shira and Roana before coming to the realization of what she's just done. They decide to go to the school's cafeteria to grab some breakfast. On the way down the staircase, Shira receives a text from Linna saying she won't be at school for the weekend. After grabbing their meals and decide to head back up to the clubroom to eat there. After eating and watching a movie, Roana heads off, leaving Shira and Loui alone in the clubroom. Shira decides to go on a walk in the rain and asks Loui to accompany him. Loui complies, and she begins to tell her life story as they walk.

After they're done walking, they resume their investigation, with Shira explaining to Loui everything that happened in the last few chapters. Loui reveals that Odin has a brother, and after throwing a blue apple only to have it splatter as it hits the wall, they begin to suspect Rags. Loui reveals she modified Shira's automatic registration system to get around multiple IDs and reveals Rags' fake ID and his real name: Ragmir Novasacht.

### Weeping Angels II

"Weeping Angels II" is the eleventh chapter.

Past 10 o'clock on the rooftop of Xentio Academy, Shira calls Rags over to have a talk with him. Rags appears and Shira confronts him about his true identity, and Rags confesses that eh was working with the Weeping Angels all along. After explaining his Augano, Quieron, for being responsible for the indestructible apples, Shira asks for Rags' backstory and Rags complies, saying "to grab a bag of hypothetical popcorn."

Rags' flashback (officially referred to as Chapter 11.5, Devil Child's Hymn in *Arc I'*s code) takes place several years ago. Rags talks about his indoor lifestyle compared to Odin's outdoorsy nature. Rags also talks about how Odin was his only friend since Rags' ability to change weights ruined his chances at a normal lifestyle and his other friend, Freesia, disappeared without a trace one day. In the midst of all this, Odin decides to take Rags to explore a large forest. They encounter a skyscraper in the forest and explore the inside, Rags reads some odd emails and Odin slips on some blue blood. Rags catches up to see what Odin fell on and they both see the corpse of an android. Odin touches the corpse and it begins to say 14 chess moves. Rags decides to run, carrying out Odin's now unconscious body, leaving before being able to hear the corpse's warning, "BEWARE...OF ALBEDA." After running out of the forest, Rags collapses on the ground. Odin gets up and a vortex appears in his left hand. Their parents suddenly appear and Odin activates his power on them, Rags blacks out before he sees anything but already realizes that his parents are now gone.

### Weeping Angels III

"Weeping Angels III" is the twelfth chapter.

Continuing Rags' flashback, a year later since the incident and no one can remember their parents besides them. Odin acts insane in his room locked up while obsessing over sins. Rags talks about his reclusive lifestyle of being anonymous on the internet, One day, Odin stopped making a sound and Rags went over to Odin's room to investigate. Upon finding it locked, Rags uses his weight manipulation ability to try and force the door open. However, Rags is briefly interrupted by Quieron, who reveals themself to be Rags' Augano and predicts that Rags will be bounded "inside this infinte tatami prison" that Quieron resides in. After that brief meeting, Rags resumes breaking into Odin's room to find him missing. Rags sees that a message was carved into the back by Odin, who writes about his ambitions in starting a religion dedicated to the seraphs. Two strangers appear, a blindfolded man and a green-haired woman, to seize Rags according to Odin's orders. After one punch from the green-haired girl, Odin appears before Rags, who explains how their parents were fakes. Rags decide to join the Weeping Angels in order to infiltrate and betray them to seek justice for his parents, no matter how fake they were.

Back in the present, Rags explains how those two strangers were the highest-ranking members of the Weeping Angels and how if Odin's vortex, his Aethium, erased their parents, then it should erased Rags and Odin if they were actually their children. Loui appears before the two of them and questions the validity of Rags' story. She then predicts Rags' phone ringing with a call from Odin, who calls to say that Kat has been captured and that Rags should return to the church. Shira decides to ask Rags to invade the church and take back Kat together, and Loui offers to join in with her sword. Linna suddenly appears in front of them, offering to join their battle and reintroducing herself as a former member of the BKT.

### Overseer

"Overseer" is the thirteenth chapter and the climax of *Arc I*.

A brief interlude of Seiva talking with the BKT members happens. Seiva orders four members to search for Ashegone, inviting the BKT to invade Kirron.

In the Weeping Angels' church, Kat is restricted by chains and conversing with Odin. The chains are useless due to Kat's strength and their conversations fruitless as they have already been conversing with each other for half a day, extracting everything they know out of each other. Odin reveals his plans with a large, mechanical bird to act as a reanimation of the Goddess of Seraphs and takes off his mask. Kat opens the door to the church with her blood, where Shira, Loui, Linna, and Rags all appear. Odin gives up his hostage Kat, but is interrupted by another four persons: Krieger, Younora, and Sforzando who have all shown up to betray Odin, along with a 4th person clad in white. Krieger seizes Kat and the 4th member threatens them all with a gun to stand down. Shira takes a stand, deciding to test out Astralia's immortality by getting shot in the head. The 4th person introduces themselves as Irogaya Nanahiro of the Black Lotus Society and shoots Shira in the head. Astralia activates and Shira blows away Irogaya with a punch, who then retaliates by strapping a bomb collar onto Kat and teleporting away with her. Shira continues the fight with Sforzando instead, but the two are interrupted by the mechanical bird activating, seizing the two and taking flight.

All of the members of Comfy Club are separated, each facing off against a different opponent: Loui vs. Younora, Linna vs. Krieger, Rags vs. Odin, and Shira vs. Sforzando. Loui wins against Younora, using her sword powered up by a time limit and her Arcanas to defeat Younora's sense of justice. The two part ways, promising each to live until their rematch. Linna wins against Krieger, using her forge to sustain herself in battle to tire out Krieger and her obsessiveness. Linna promises they'll have rematch where she wishes for Krieger to prove herself and the two part ways. Rags and Odin drag each other up to the rooftop of a building where Virnya and Obsidian were relaxing. Odin tells the two to get out, and then they begin their fight with no other spectators allowed. The fight involves a bloody fistfight without using their powers, where obscenities and insults are thrown about in face of unending stamina and brutality. The fight ends in a tie, with both feeling that their brotherly love for each has grown in the face of death.

Shira and Sforzando face off atop the bird, currently heading towards District D. Sforzando invites Shira to take to the first hit, but Shira declines and is subsequently heavily injured. His actions upset Sforzando once again, who begins to call on ancient Dragon Gods to teach Shira a lesson. Shinku appears to in order stop Sforzando from doing this and throws Shira off the bird and onto a roof away from the fight. Shira passes out and into Astralia's domain, who expresses no wish in speaking with Veryn. From there, Shira and Veryn watch the fight through Shira's unconscious body.

Sforzando calls upon her 15 Dragon Gods to fight Shinku, who in turns uses the Corpse Immolation Technique to stay on par with Sforzando. Four members of the Bosatsu appear, Makesshou, Faerin, Bansen, and Reisen, who decide to interrupt their fight for fun, as a distraction from their mission of searching for Ashegone. After Shinku and Sforzando survive the onslaught of attacks from Makkesshou, Faerin, and Bansen, Ashegone appears and interrupts the four Bosatsu members. Ashegone calls for a temporariry truce and they relunctanctly agree. Shinku and Sforzando's fight continues, but not before being interrupted by Seiva suddenly appearing. Having been dragged out of Shangri-La and into Kirron, Seiva's sudden appearance brings all of the action to stop. Seiva monologues for a bit and declares the start of the Ninth Offset War, the dissolution of the universe on Christmas Day if the Bosatsu win. Seiva then calls back all of the Bosatsu to Shangri-La, and all of them except Shinku return. At the end of this, Veryn decides to have Shira forcibly to go to sleep.

### Checkmate

"Checkmate" is the epilogue of *Arc I*.

25 days after the events of Chapter 13, Shira wakes up in his bedroom. He sees Shinku, Loui, and Linna gathered in his living room, who inform him that he was asleep for the whole 25 days, school is canceled for a few months, and that the government is blaming the now-mostly-repaired destruction on a non-existent terrorist group. Rags and Odin visit, having left the hospital early. Odin explains how he is no longer their enemy and Shinku explains why she left the Bosatsu. Shinku and Odin join the Comfy Club as Members 6 and 7, but Loui informs them they have one more person who's joining.

After using Shira's Verim Chasm to travel, they arrive at Rags and Odin's old house. Virnya appears, explaining that she bought the house and remodeled it through her connections. She joins as Member 8 and offers to help rescue Kat and prepare for the upcoming Ninth Offset War. The group enters the house except Odin, who stays behind to take a walk.

After the rest of the group leaves, Odin begins to monologue about the real truth behind the mystery of *Arc I*, and how all of the events were manipulated by him, all according to Helix's 14 chess moves. He reveals that his true intent was to bait out Seiva into acting early and to free Helix, and he ends his monologue by expressing his pleasure for when he will eventually meet Shira face to face.

> *This is where the Trailokya collides. The Ninth Offset War — all shall crumble before the Tenth.*
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## Trivia

* In late 2018, the script of *Arc I* was publicly revealed for fans to read and give feedback on. Many elements of the script version of *Arc I* were completely changed in the following years and since then the script has been taken down.
	+ Changed elements include removed and added scenes, different character appearances, and even plans for interactive segments.
* *Arc I* was originally slated to release in October–November 2019 but was delayed to November–December 2019, March–April 2020, May–June 2020, Summer 2020, November–December 2020, January 2021, and finally February 2021.
	+ One of the reasons for the delays was because of Kamigigana's hard drive spontaneously failing with no chance of recovery. This led to the need to redraw the sprites. Kamigigana's art skills eventually improved even more, leading to a second redraw and what are now known as the "updated sprites."
	+ The main reason for the rest of the delays was due to the constant rewrites of the script as Kamigigana's writing skills improved from when he wrote the earlier version of the plot.

## External Links

* *Augma II Arc I* on the official Azalin website
* *Augma II Arc I* at The Visual Novel Database