06 Alloy Contamination





The Gray Ravens stay at the Forsaken camp because they have been assigned a new mission in a city nearby with Kamui and Watanabe joining them for their own purposes. Kamui talks with a mysterious figure in his M.I.N.D. who claims to have helped him stave off the Punishing Virus. He wants Kamui to accept him and let him take over his body. Meanwhile, the group investigates the city and finds a factory used to create more Corrupted. The Corrupted they encounter are slightly modified from their usual models and Lucia wonders if the Punishing Virus is sentient enough to make these changes to their “designs.” Nanami also joins them to help clear the Corrupted. The further they go, the more Kamui’s condition deteriorates until he runs off and turns off his comms without an explanation.

The Gray Ravens and Watanabe decide to prioritize destroying the factory first and they go about setting up explosives. While the Gray Ravens are planning where to place the explosives, Watanabe is perturbed by Nanami’s appearance on the team after she has been serially harassing those at the Forsaken camp. They later encounter a Corrupted nun that recognizes Lucia. Soon the explosives start detonating and they make their escape, with Nanami and Watanabe taking a different path.



The Gray Ravens are able to find Kamui but Vera arrives to execute him. Lee calls in a favor from her to have her let Kamui go, but Bianca from the Purifying Forces is sent to purge any defectors or corrupted Constructs. Lucia tries to help Kamui to escape albeit unsuccessfully and Chrome intervenes at the last minute to delay Kamui’s execution.



Liv is surprised that the Corrupted that attacked them was a Sister. Lee explains that during the Golden Age, religion was on the decline so the Church replaced many of those in the clergy with androids because machines would never waiver in their faith. Liv looks through the Corrupted’s memory when she was still “human.” Her memories go back to when she first arrived in the city with over a hundred children in tow. She and the children are almost denied entry but she is able to convince the soldiers that the children are healthy enough to be able to work in exchange. Even though the Sister acts like she is annoyed with having to take care of the children, she still cares for them. When the factory in the city became corrupted by the Punishing Virus, she sacrifices herself to save many of the children even though she is slowly being corrupted. The Sister is chased by another Corrupted further into the factory and she tries to kill herself but could not do so. She ponders the meaning of her life as a machine who serves both God and humans and thinks back on the fate of the two girls she met at a church shelter long ago.