04 Forgotten Sand





By the time the Gray Ravens are able to reach Kamui, Roland had already fled the scene. Even though Kamui was corrupted, his infection threshold was still low. They escape from the crumbling estate with Kamui and into a desert where their transport craft was left destroyed by Roland. The team is ambushed by a corrupted bionic sandworm, Vassago, which is extremely sensitive to movement and smells on the surface.

While on the move, they encounter Watanabe, the leader of an organization called Forsaken at a nearby old military base. He used to be a Construct of Babylonia before defecting and creating this organization for troops who were abandoned by Babylonia and the World Government during the Great Evacuation. He expresses his recognition of Lucia for helping him in the past although she does not remember him. Watanabe also gives the Commandant a gift of some mint leaves as an offering. The group follows Watanabe and they are ambushed by Corrupted. The Forsaken takes this opportunity to separate Liv from the group and drives off with her while the Gray Ravens dealt with the Corrupted. The scent from the mint given by Watanabe earlier attracts the attention of Vassago once more and it gives chase to the Gray Ravens, before it is eventually defeated.



Liv connects her M.I.N.D. to a security robot named Zack at the estate who fought off the Corrupted for them while they made their escape earlier. Even after that fight, it was not severely corrupted. She looks through its memory shell and finds a record called “Operation Grand Retreat.” In the past, a girl named Emma spends her last day with Zack and Leon, their butler, before she goes to Babylonia. The master of the estate, Copperfield, makes sure the citizens have evacuated and the defenses are turned on in his estate before leaving, but Emma appears to be in danger. Zack saves Emma from the Corrupted and takes her back to her father. They finally leave for Babylonia but Emma is reluctant to leave Zack and Leon behind. Leon reassures her that their data is already backed up so they could be with her in Babylonia too. At that time, Zack was already infected but Leon takes Zack to a static-lock chamber – the result of Copperfield’s research that most likely controlled its infection level.