Nursefathers (before battle)

…….

Leaving behind the perpetrator of the carnage greeting Ryōshū on the other side of the security wall...

... we had no other choice but to make our way toward the lab.

Miss Ryōshū, perhaps this question of mine is one you might not wish to grace with an answer - and if it indeed is, do feel free to let it float past...

But what is your connection to these so-called "Nursefathers?"

Your relationship with them does not seem to have been brewed in mere bad blood...

And in the change in your countenance I sensed... a flash of something almost imperceptible.

I haven't put all the pieces together just yet, but...

They were...

"Nursefathers."

My fathers who forged the sword that I am.