NOISZ (Game)/Story/Stage 7A

## Story

As they travel through the portal to the human world, the main character has a vision of the past:

Several years ago, Arietta excitedly asks her older sister to listen. Arietta plays a song on the piano for her. Their father asks them to wrap up before their dinner gets cold.

At the dinner table, their mother and father talk about his interview that's going to air on TV. The father seems annoyed by the whole affair, but Arietta is excited to see her father on television. Their mother turns on the interview.

On the interview, the father explains his latest project, revolving around the discovery of a Library of Babel: a realm that contains all creation past, present, and future. He describes information as the opposite of entropy and that information is a form of stored energy.

Before he can describe his intentions, the father shuts off the television. He urges his children to finish their dinner and homework. Arietta wants to play the piano more, but her mother asks her to eat her vegetables.

Two years later, Arietta is practicing piano with an instructor. They ask her to play a piece, which Arietta does perfectly. The instructor asks Arietta how long she practiced. Arietta says she didn't have much time because of school. Then, the instructor shows Arietta a much more challenging piece she's never seen before. She plays this piece perfectly as well. The instructor wants Arietta to practice something else. She closes the book, but Arietta continues playing the piece correctly without seeing the notes that come next.

Arietta's mother tells her husband that Arietta no longer needs piano lessons, according to the instructor. The mother says that Arietta still wants to practice on her own, to which the father objects to. Arietta's sister walks in during the middle of this conversation. Her father tells her not to worry about it.

The next day, her sister is impressed by all of the difficult piano pieces Arietta is playing. Arietta explains that she can see the music and feel it guide her hands.

The vision ends, and the main character returns to the human world.

Wolf-Girl greets the main character and Karin and mentions the dire situation. The cracks in space have only grown more abundant.

"???????" complains about how much more powerful the target is than her new NOISZ Beast prototypes. She notices the return of the main character. She becomes excited about her plan is falling into motion and how the main character is becoming the perfect pawn to sacrifice in said plan.

As the main character and their friends approach the center of the disaster, Karin remarks that the sickening energy reminds her of a disaster that ravaged the World of Music years ago.

Everyone finds a dragon-like girl. The main character gets a strange feeling from her. "???????" explains that she is a NOISZ user like the main character. She states that Seiryu has fallen to corruption. If the main character can defeat her, then she will reveal everything Beyond concealed from them.

After the fight, Karin heals the main character.

As promised, "???????" describes herself. She says that two sisters lived happily, and their father was a scientist whose work centered around the origin of creativity. The two sisters stole the key to a building their father worked at. They opened the gate to another world, hoping to find the way to create the perfect music. The energy from the other world corrupted their forms.

Beyond appears, demanding Arietta to stop. Beyond tries to quiet Arietta herself, but is blocked by two others. Beyond warns Arietta about the dangers of using the mass-production prototypes, but Arietta doesn't seem to care.

Arietta explains that the NOISZ stripped away the main character's humanity and consumed their soul the moment they acquired it. She states that removing the NOISZ will kill them, which is a sacrifice Arietta and Beyond were willing to make. Karin attempts to lash out, but Arietta contains her into a small holding device.

Suddenly, a massive suit of armor towers over the main character. The energy absorbed into the NOISZ is yanked from the main character's body. They black out.

This concludes Story A.

## Song

Stage 7A's song is Kill The Deadline.

**Restrictions:** Cannot skip this battle.
Inversion is active.\*

\*The game does not list this here, though it is present.