Re-Xenoblade Chronicles 2

—⚔️—Flashback—⚔️—

Jin rose from his place on the ground, keeling. Seeing a young, frightened child in front of him.

"Y-you, little scamp! Do you know how much the Core you took was worth?!" an older man yelled at the child, hitting her hard enough for her to fall to the ground, hitting the floor.

"I stole it from the castle! Three years it took me to get it... And now...!" the man yelled, furious, the child trying to protect herself curled up in the corner in fright. The man grabbed the knife lying on his side table, and the woman on his bed pleaded with him, grabbing his arm, trying to stop him.

"Please! She's barely ten years old!" the woman pleaded, trying to hold him in place to stop him.

"Silence! Stay out of it!" he yelled and threw her away with force back on the bed. The child still curled up in the corner, frightened.

"If you die, it'll be as good as new. You brought this on yourself...!" he said with a twisted grin, raising the knife, ready to strike. But as he did, Jin moved from his place, having observed the whole ordeal, killing the man with a single strike of his sword. The child still curled up, scared out of her mind, stopped shaking when she heard his voice.

"From now on, I'll protect you," he said, and the young child looked up from her place, hesitant to what this man was telling her.

"I'll keep you safe, always..." Jin said and carefully reached out a hand and stroke her cheek.

"My name is Jin. What's yours?" he asked, and the child looked at him with big eyes. He removed his hand and held it out, and she took it, seeing the sincere in his eyes, and he helped her up on her feet again.

"...Lora,"

—⚔️—Flashback End—⚔️—

Jin opened his eyes, seeing that he was in his pod, regaining his energy once more. He turned a bit, seeing Malos walk up nest to him.

"It seems like sending Akhos was the right choice..." Malos said as he looked over Jin, who opened the pod and sat up, looking tired.

"You all right?" he asked, and Jin nodded.

"I've been through worse, I can handle it," Jin answered with a soft voice, avoiding Malos' looks.

"Jin... I swear I'll make your dream come true, so stop putting yourself at risk," Malos said, grinding his teeth in anger.

"There's ... still ... time," Jin sighed.

"Is that... part of your dream, too?" but getting no answer from Jin, Malos looked at his hands, wondering.

"What are we, in the end? This hunger, this thirst... is it really my own? Or is it someone else's? Hm, sometimes I can't tell," this catching Jin's attention, his head snapped up, staring at Malos, who looked at him questioning.

"What is it, Jin?"

"Something that boy said, how, what he felt when speaking to me, it wasn't really me he was talking to, I don't know what he meant by that," Jin said, and Malos looked at him.

"Was there something else?"

"He knew Haze... and about... Lora. He made her remember..." he said, looking at Malos with big eyes. That got his attention, a Blade was not supposed to remember after being reawakened. That was their cycle of life, after all.

—⚔️—

An Uraya ship, containing the leader of Uraya, docked at Indol, just like a warship from Mor Ardain carrying the Emperor of Mor Ardain. The Praetor having summoned them to a meeting to clear up what had just occurred in Temperantia.