Discoveries

**Discoveries** is the 2nd chapter of Azure Luminosity.

## Summary

The mysterious girl slowly moves through her house, hoping not to alert the Adept she saw. She eventually reaches her equivalent of a garage, before grabbing a gun and hiding in there.

Gunvolt, meanwhile, continues exploring outside, and comes to the conclusion that an Adept ruined the neighborhood, but he can't figure out the Septima this Adept possesses. He then notices five people exiting a nearby building, and quickly realizes those people are working for Sumeragi, despite the fact that Sumeragi should have been overrun. These five soldiers were looking for Minos who they could interrogate to figure out the location of iX. They noticed Gunvolt and mistake him for a Mino, so they attempt to interrogate him. However, Gunvolt explains that not only does he not know who iX is, but he's also an Adept.

The soldiers immediately ask Gunvolt why he isn't working for Sumeragi, but Gunvolt simply points out that he has no reason to, before asking why Sumeragi hasn't been overrun by Eden. The soldiers simply point out that Eden was wiped out by Sumeragi. The soldiers then tell Gunvolt that Sumeragi's supervisory AI would gladly take Gunvolt as a subordinate, given how well Adepts are treated at Sumeragi, while also pointing out that the AI threatened to kill them for being Minos, a term Gunvolt is unfamiliar with. The soldiers simply decide to either kill Gunvolt or let him come with them. Since Gunvolt wouldn't comply, the soldiers attempted to kill him.

The sound of the ensuing battle were heard by the mysterious girl, who thought iX returned. She travels upstairs to see him, only to come across several dead Sumeragi soldiers and Gunvolt. She immediately attempts to shoot Gunvolt, who easily disarms her. The girl explains that iX isn't in the building, but Gunvolt still doesn't know who iX is leaving him confused. The girl notes that the Adept who nearly killed iX didn't sound like this. Despite this, she knows it doesn't change her situation and points out that due to being an Adept, Gunvolt wants to subjugate Minos. When Gunvolt asks what a Mino is, the girl explains that it's a term for non-Adepts.

Gunvolt points out that he doesn't want to subjugate Minos, but instead wants Minos and Adepts to coexist. The girl attempted to punch Gunvolt as she explained that she learned from iX that all Adepts want to subjugate Minos, and that Gunvolt was an alternate timeline counterpart of the Adept that tried to kill iX, confusing Gunvolt due to him being unaware of an alternate timeline, and how there is nobody known as iX in his timeline.

Being confused, the girl stops attacking Gunvolt and asks if an unknown man had become the Luminous Avenger iX, only for Gunvolt to point out that if he is from an alternate timeline, then iX doesn't exist. The girl realizes she's been attacking an innocent person the entire time, and apologizes, before pointing out that she thought all Adepts were bad. Gunvolt tells her that he's heard people who express similar views.

The girl learns about Gunvolt's name, while Gunvolt learns that the girl is named Kohaku. Kohaku tells Gunvolt to come down to her underground hideout so she can explain to Gunvolt what's going on, due to him being from an alternate timeline that's most likely different. On their way down, Gunvolt and Kohaku talk about how Eden's fate when they attacked Sumeragi was completely different in their timelines. Kohaku then notes that Gunvolt isn't the Adept that tried to kill iX. She wonders if the two have different genders between timelines, or if they're different people entirely.

## Characters

* Kohaku
* Gunvolt
* iX
* ???
* ???

## Trivia

* Bulborb channel 3 was wondering if he should combine this chapter with Explanations, but decided to split them apart.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anonymous in this chapter. Name revealed in Explanations