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Fool glances through the door that has just been opened.
Door #9 it used to read. But now the letters were scrubbed to the side when the door opened.
"Hmm..."

Joe and that cockroach were chatting about something right now.
Fool had a somewhat uneasy feeling about it.
Could that guy really be trusted?
Well, first of all, the other cockroaches in this place had attempted to kill them.
Secondly, that Demon from before kept complaining about the Cockroach in this lab.
If he felt like he could trust Short, which he sort of felt like he probably could,
Then it logically followed that this guy was probably 'bad news.'

"Just what are you hiding down here?" Fool inquired.
He went over to join the two.
Inside he could see... well, it was not what he expected.
There was a Sleeping Boy inside of there.

Patry snickered to himself.
But, being a bug, it was more of a chittering noise.
"Kh-hh-h-h...."
"These are some of my greatest creations."
"Why don't you have a look around?"

Inside the room was the bed, of course.
In the corner were a series of White Pods, coagulated in the upper reaches.
It was sort of... well, a bit of a disgusting mess.
The impression Fool got was like some creature had laid a bunch of eggs and stuck them together over there.

"Messy.." Fool uttered.

"This is the Lightforge," Patry explained, showing off the lab a bit more.
There were several different types of weapon hafts, hilts, and holsters.
Coming over and looking down, Fool saw some weird stuff he had never seen before.
There was an odd sort of... material... floating around inside of the forge.
"Liquid Light," Patry explained. "And I created a place where it can be condensed and made into weapons."
"Sadly... the process takes quite some time."
Patry looked somewhat disappointed. "In all this time I only managed to finish one weapon."

Two thousand years? Maybe longer?
And he only completed one weapon?!
Just what the hell kind of Forge were they dealing with here...

Despite Patry's claim, however, Fool found two Liquid Light Arrows.
While the researcher wasn't looking, the robot took them and stored them safely away.
Perhaps he'd find a use for those later.
Maybe they didn't count as a full 'Weapon' project that had been completed, but...
It was almost a sure bet they were incredibly dangerous items.

"And what of the Sleeping Boy?" Fool asked.
That was what he was really wondering about.

"This is..."
Patry paused a long time for dramatic effect.
Actually, no.
He just didn't want to say it.
"... The Ferris Wheel Operator from Hell."

"His name is Vambrace."

The Demon sleeping in the bed finally woke up.
He gave a loud yawn and stretched out.
Just like Short, he definitely had the appearance of a young boy.
Was that a common trait of Demons? Fool would have to check on that later.

Vambrace had messy, dust colored hair.
He had a stupid, sleepy look about him.
Although, considering the circumstances, that probably made sense.

"... And what is he doing here?" Fool asked.

Patry let out a sigh.
"Vambrace was the weakest of the Demons I captured."
"For that reason I thought his soul wouldn't be as valuable to use in traditional grafting experiments."
"With my other projects upstairs, you see, I took the soul of a Powerful Demon."
"The goal was to Affix that Soul to something which I had control over."

"Making your own powerful slaves," Fool said.
Since he was a robot, his voice didn't betray much emotion.
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Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
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