PART IV: AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE BLACK MAGE

Chapter 11: Angler Company

• After the invasion of Odium, Senya intercepted a transmission from her father ordering for Cosim, who had returned to Angler Company headquarters, to be captured. Resolving to rescue her brother, Senya entered the destroyed headquarters in the middle of the stormy seas of Grandis, where she discovered that her father had marked her as an intruder after anticipating her betrayal.

• Fighting through the Angler Company robots, Senya hacked into the communication channels and spoke with Cosim, who revealed that he had turned on their father after seeing a memory of his former life that had been repressed by his memory chip. After hacking the chip, Senya witnessed memories of Cosim being created as a cyborg by their father, programmed to obey him completely.

• During Cosim’s first mission, he was tasked with handling several rabbit Anima intruders who had come searching for their missing friend. After killing them, Cosim met with his father, who showed him his perfected heart, modeled as a purple imitation Godsphere, which he hoped to use in order to become a true Adversary. He then laughed that even the failed attempts at creating a perfect heart had been useful, and that it was evidenced by Cosim. Following this, he dispatched Cosim and his other children on missions to harvest power for the Godsphere.

• On one such occasion, Cosim was shot by a sniper for the Primacy in the deserts of Arcus, causing his memory chip to malfunction. This caused him to have a memory of his father kidnapping a rabbit Anima as several other rabbit Anima cowered in fear. Just then, Senya’s transmission into Cosim’s memories cut off as security tightened in the building. Senya continued fighting past waves of robots and reached Cosim.

• As Senya attempted to free Cosim, her memory chip began malfunctioning as she saw Cosim’s memories of himself witnessing the rabbit Anima’s memories, in which the Anima was turned into a cyborg by their father. Believing that he himself was the rabbit Anima, Cosim realized that the rabbit Anima whom he had killed years ago were his own friends.

• After awakening in Arcus following him being shot by the Primacy, Cosim found a toad in a floating hoversuit repairing him. The toad introduced himself by his nickname, the Hand of God, and revealed that Cosim’s internal machinery was extremely curious, as it appeared as though someone had replaced all his organic parts with cybernetics. Realizing that he had once been human, Cosim was enraged by what his father had done to him, for which he returned to headquarters and caused the robots to turn on each other.

• Thinking on his father’s words about how his own body was evidence of the failed attempts at creating the heart being useful, Cosim concluded that his own heart was a failed attempt at the perfected heart inside his father. Back in the present, Cosim revealed to Senya that he had stolen the power source inside their father’s heart, and that he had returned to headquarters to destroy the power source and their father’s body, though the nature of his failed heart had made it impossible to disentangle the power source from the heart.

• With no other choice, Cosim gave his heart to Senya and tasked her with succeeding where he had failed by destroying the heart and their father’s body. Before powering off, Cosim also asked Senya to find his true origins by questioning their father. After Senya escaped, she placed the heart inside herself, causing her to see a memory of Cosim confronting their father after reprogramming the robots, in which he stole the power source inside his father’s perfected heart before escaping, for which his father had forced his remaining children to harvest more energy.

• In the end, however, Senya realized that the fact that she had seen someone else’s memories - Cosim’s - after taking in the heart, just as Cosim had seen the rabbit Anima’s memories after taking in the heart, meant that the rabbit Anima’s memories did not belong to Cosim. Because of this, Senya resolved to defeat their father and learn the truth about Cosim’s true roots.