02 Journey of Torture





The Gray Ravens are assigned to a group operation to defeat a special Corrupted named the “Iron Maiden'' to acquire more information on the Ascendants. As the team is on the move to deploy their Iso-Devices, the Commandant received a connection request from a Construct named “Tifa” who was part of a squad whose commandant was KIA. It was found that Tifa had taken off her Inver-Device and was given a “power” from an enemy while the rest of her squad became Corrupted. The Gray Ravens eventually confronted Tifa after the Cerberus Squad failed to defeat her. Lee took an attack in Liv’s place before dealing the finishing blow to Tifa and the team was rescued afterward by Chrome from the Strike Hawks. A girl in white appears after the squads have left on their transport craft. She laments about how her sister has forgotten her.



They transported Tifa’s body back to their base to look through her M.I.N.D. for any possible information on the Ascendants. In her past as a Construct, Tifa was originally part of the Suzaku squad. She wasn’t confident in her own strength and was heavily dependent on her commandant to the point of eventually developing feelings for them. When her commandant was killed in battle, Roland appeared to give Tifa the power of the Punishing Virus and modified her body. Roland put her through a series of trials to ascertain if she had what it took to become an Ascendant. With her newfound power, she realized how weak humans truly are and how different things could’ve been with her commandant if she had this power earlier. Tifa went on a rampage killing the other construct squads before being found by Kamui from the Strike Hawks.