[center][h3][color=00aeef]Henri[/color] [/h3][/center]

[center][color=00aeef]La Trinidad de Manila Academy[/color][/center]

They were at war. It was obvious now. Unofficial military action had changed to official. Henri Janssens was no longer a peacekeeper, but a clear soldier. 

However, he hadn't been called back to Europe to join the rest of Task Force Laelaps. No, his place was here, in the South-East Asia, with his comrades and the largest action.

The meeting was full of revelations and shock, including to Henri. A living Noble Arm? These weapons certainly could do all kinds of strange things, and people had done a lot of research on the matter, but that was new, even for Henri.

He considered his own Noble Arm. Leonidas, an anti-NA shield born from Henri's distrust of Arms Masters. Could it also gain sentience? And if it did, would it be a self-loathing being, conflicted by its contradictory existence? 

Then again, Henri hadn't fed Leonidas other Noble Arms, nor had it gone for midnight snack, as far as Henri knew, so there probably wasn't a risk.

However, the other revelation was even more important. Another sentient Noble Arm, and Alan Turing's at that. Henri began to suspect that there was some sort of expansion going on. And this one planned to erase Noble Arms.

In a way, Henri could sympathize. Regular people lived in fear of Arms Masters, and even the benevolent ones possessed powers that could devastate armies or even cities. But he did wonder if False Turing's motives were altruistic. 

He did wonder, what this One True Timeline was like? Had it no magic at all, or did it just manifest differently. Not that it really mattered. The Director Bathala was right. They had to prepare for the threats ahead, and so would Henri.