While waiting for Yoko's mother to arrive, Erica shows Finch her father's book. Traumatized, Erica retrieves a book of old Martian folktales which her father had said was priceless treasure and returns to Finch to learn he found someone claiming to be Yoko's mother. Realizing her false memories of her family were made up based on an idealized billboard outside her bedroom window, Erica remembers she had tricked some thieves into killing her parents and then gleefully burnt the house down herself. Erica suddenly regains her memories that her father was an abusive alcoholic grave-robber who sicced the family dog to attack her for entertainment, costing her an arm, and her mother was a psychotic prostitute who'd stabbed out her eye with a fork. Erica's home district turns out to be a war-torn slum underneath a damaged part of the dome, littered with unexploded bombs and Erica's house is nothing but a burnt-out shell. Įrica is returned to her hometown of Curie Stadt, eagerly telling Yoko and Finch about her amazing family but as they draw closer, she begins feeling phantom pain in her missing eye. When the Säule supporting Cydonia Territory's baldachin is destroyed, they are rescued by the Gartner of Beine 244, Mui, who demands they sacrifice their lives to repair the Säule but is ordered to release them by her superior, Priesterin Neff. The Papagei Corps dispose of the bodies and blame the rival Winde Corps for the massacre, with Yoko and Erica being picked up by Finch, who returned to the town half a day late and missed the massacre. Mamiana is then suddenly attacked by the Papagei Corps, who destroy the town and slaughter its inhabitants, including Ninon and her friends with Yoko and Erica being the only survivors solely due to propaganda purpose. The next day Ninon apologizes to Yoko and Erica for bullying them and invites them to her hideout at the village pump station, showing a kinder side to herself when she reads a Martian folktale to Yoko. Reluctant to get involved with the Kunstlers, the bounty hunters deduce what had happened and that Yoko must have been left at an orphanage. Ninon's friends bully Yoko over her mechanical body until Erica intervenes, sparking enmity between her and Ninon - who wants Erica as her servant.Ī trio of bounty hunters looking for Yoko - Das, a cyborg gunslinger Rocco, a spider-like cyborg and Gillatin, a bounty-hunter clad in black armor and wielding a whip-sword - come across a group of soldiers killed by Grünthal - the same soldiers previously seen in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order who were forcing Yoko and Erica to cross the minefield. The two are left at an orphanage in the town of Mamiana, the matron leaving them in the care of a girl named Ninon Silber - the leader of a group of bullies and the self-claimed heiress of the Flammarion ruling family. In Sputnik Calendar Year 373, during the chaotic Martian civil conflicts leading up to the Terraforming Wars, a young cyborg girl named Yoko befriends a cheerful one-eyed girl named Erica Walt while being treated by a nomadic medic named Finch, who equips Yoko with a remote control to help her better control her completely mechanical body.
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