The city of Brambledeep was howling.
Not with voices. Not with sirens.
With memories.
The Wraith Spark Fruit — once a carefully designed hybrid — had become something else. Something ambient. Something viral. It no longer simply responded to Ravina's emotions.
It echoed the city's.
Ravina walked the power lines like threads of silk, barefoot and untouchable, her body flickering in and out of existence. Den Den Mushi lines buzzed as she passed, whispering secrets not meant to be heard.
Every time she stepped through a transformer box or a radio signal, she absorbed more. Murders. Betrayals. Deathbed regrets. Screamed confessions of men long buried.
"This place is sick," she murmured. "And I've become its fever."
Below – Brambledeep's Old Quarter
Kaien arrived on foot.
No theatrics. No storm.
He wore a black cloak over his forgecoat, the Remnant Break Fruit sealed in a pressure-locked capsule on his back.
The city watched him like a living thing. Every light flicker. Every static buzz. Every overheard whisper.
She knows I'm here.
Good.
He wanted her to.
Flashback — Five Years Ago
Ravina sat across from Kaien, arms bandaged, holding her first incomplete core.
It hadn't bonded properly. A failed fruit.
She was shaking.
"She died because I was too slow," she whispered. "I want to never feel that helpless again."
Kaien had warned her.
"Power that starts in guilt ends in madness."
She took the fruit anyway.
He should've stopped her.
But part of him… wanted to see what would happen.
Now – Brambledeep's Lightning Vein Tower
Ravina stood in the center of her cathedral — a ruin overtaken by sparking cables, half-dissolved electronics, and melted radio towers.
Varn stood behind her, chest seared from overuse. His loyalty hadn't faltered, but his body was breaking.
"You've gone too far," he said.
"No such thing," Ravina answered.
"You're turning into something that doesn't remember being human."
She turned.
"I'm turning into something that doesn't need to be."
Kaien Enters the Dead Zone
Kaien stepped past the arc-wall — the invisible barrier where electrical systems began to fail, and memories distorted.
He felt her immediately.
Not physically.
Emotionally.
Kaien. Kaien. You gave me this.
Guilt slithered into his mind. Old failures. Names he'd buried.
Ravina was broadcasting his own regrets back at him.
You let me burn.
You didn't save her.
You wanted to see what I'd become.
Kaien kept walking.
"I brought you something," he whispered.
Forge Box: Remnant Break Fruit – Unsealed
The capsule hissed open. The fruit pulsed softly in his hand — white-veined, broken-porcelain skin like fossilized grief.
He didn't call her.
He just placed it on the ground.
And left.
Inside the Tower — Seconds Later
Ravina felt it like a shock down her spine.
A counter-resonance. Alien. Reversing her current.
She dropped to her knees.
Varn rushed forward, but Ravina stopped him with one hand.
"No," she gasped. "Don't touch it. It's a trap."
She reached for it.
The fruit whispered — not in words, but in silence.
It promised something she couldn't ignore.
Peace.
But at a price.
Forget.
Memory Vision — A Flicker
She stood again in the burning house.
Her daughter's scream echoed from upstairs.
She remembered the heat, the helplessness, the sound of the ceiling caving in.
She remembered her hand on the doorknob — and stopping.
Because she was afraid.
She never made it upstairs.
And she had never forgiven herself.
Back to Present
She stared at the Remnant Break Fruit.
Kaien's voice drifted into her mind like old ash.
"This fruit doesn't kill you, Ravina. It lets you go on."
"But you'll forget why you started walking."
She picked it up.
Tears streamed down her face.
And in that moment—
The tower exploded.
CP-0 INTERVENTION: Cipher Pol Aigis Zero Breach Team
Black-cloaked agents dropped from stealth airships, landing on cables and towers with surgical precision.
One agent fired a memory net — a Forbidden Tech weapon designed to freeze the mind in place.
Ravina flinched too late.
The net hit her.
The fruit fell.
Kaien, miles away, felt it the moment it happened.
His den den mushi screamed with white noise.
He ran.
Final Scene — In the Ruins of the Tower
Ravina lay unconscious, tangled in netting laced with dreamweed and psychic inhibitors.
The Remnant Break Fruit rolled into a puddle of rain.
A black-gloved hand picked it up.
The CP-0 Commander stared down at it.
He didn't speak.
But in his hand, his own devil fruit trembled.