The echo of precision
The victory over the Delkhar brought no relief.
It only confirmed something Edenfall had wanted to ignore:
"There are clans that don't need to feel… to be lethal."
For decades, it was thought that emotion was the axis of all human evolution.
That every destructive impulse, every cruelty, every blind obedience stemmed from trauma, fear, or emotional denial.
But the Delkhar, the Void Technicians, were proving the opposite: the absence of emotion can become a doctrine.
And that doctrine… had disciples.
Internal Report: The Rise of the Immunes
Riva presented a classified report to Akihiko and the Council:
73 cases in Edenfall Alpha of fully functional individuals with neural networks isolated from the emotional core. They were not victims. They weren't broken.
They were volunteers.
People who, after studying the Pure Form Manifesto,
had learned to simulate emotions until their bodies stopped producing them.
"They are not infected.
They are chosen."
Juno, still recovering, murmured: "And how do you fight someone who does not fear… nor expect to be understood?"
III. The Reverse Condor Plan – Ethical Containment Missions
Akihiko authorized the execution of the Reverse Condor Plan : A set of surgical operations to locate Immune cells and isolate them before they spread.
But with one clear condition:
"No executions. No forced rescheduling.
If we're going to defend emotion, we can't do it like they did."
Five active emotional intervention cells were formed:
Umbra Circle (sigil). Tonic Circle (lyrical support). Delta Circle (mobile environment). Fractal Light Circle (ethical intervention).
Led by Marek, Naeya, Lirea, and the newly reactivated Velos , a combatant with a multi-layered emotional memory.
The Assault on Nevnid – A City on Pause
The first operation took place in Nevnid , a neutral intermediate city. Intelligence indicated that a new Manifesto Autonomous Core was forming there .
But when they arrived, they found something unexpected:
There was no violence. There were no messages. There was no visible technology.
The city… was perfectly silent .
Literally. Not a sound. Not a cry. Not a song.
People walked, worked, looked at screens…
but without nuances, without expressions, without desire.
Velos attempted to establish a partial Akasha connection.
He received a psychoactive shock that left him in a coma for three minutes.
And on his neural recorder, only one message remained:
"To doubt is to retreat. To retreat is weakness. Form needs no history."
Sael and the Song of the Nameless Body
Sael had gone days without speaking.
Ever since Juno's emotional wound, something inside him was searching…
not for an answer.
But for a mirror.
And he found it in the dark archives of the Reverse Garden: An unfinished document titled "The Song of the Nameless Body."
When activated, it didn't make a sound. It emitted sensations projected directly into the body,
not the mind.
Sael interpreted it.
And he cried. Not out of sadness. But because he understood the Immunes.
"It's not that they don't feel. It's that they believe that feeling... is a weakness imposed by those who were truly loved."
That night, Sael composed a message for them: A story without words. A flower drawn with warmth in the palm of a hand. A sustained gaze that demanded no reciprocation.
And he sent it through the Akasha network to all registered Immunes.
The Return of Real Combat: Delta vs. Silent Frontier
Meanwhile, the Delta Circle located an expansion point in the Silent Frontier ,
an uninhabited area where new Immunes were trained.
It was a tactical, brutal, no-nonsense battle. The Immunes attacked with surgical precision:
They didn't scream. They did not stop due to injuries. They showed no fear or anger.
Naeya led the assault with internal desynchronization techniques:
"If they don't feel… we will make them fail from the biological rhythm."
Velos, still weak, rejoined and used his ability: "Fragment of the First Wound" ,
a technique that projects his enemies' first repressed emotion…without context.
Two Immunes collapsed. One trembled. The other self-deactivated.
But the leaders escaped. And they left a message in the air, etched in particles:
"Every tear is a trap.
Every hug, a debt. We will be form… even if we are the last."
VII. The Vote of the Emotional Council
Following the events, Akihiko gathered the council and proposed a fundamental reform: Create the First Code of Emotional Integrity for Edenfall.
A legal and ethical framework that establishes:
The right to feel. The right not to feel. The right to rebuild.
Because if Edenfall wanted to survive…
it couldn't be a dictatorship of empathy.
Riva supported it. Lirea cried. Sael signed it. Juno…
just said:
—"I rebuilt myself.
And I don't want anyone…to have to do it by force."
END OF CHAPTER 164