The Black Hands of NERV Chapter 26

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Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion or Noir

The Black Hands of NERV
By Bissek
Chapter 26
The 1 ½th Angel

Nemu Sakamoto hated the Second Child’s cousin. She wasn’t alone in this – virtually every other member of NERV Section 2 working in Tokyo-3 shared that sentiment. Captain Arima had been a popular leader, and his former subordinates did not like the idea of letting the girl who openly admitted to killing him get away scot free. The insulting implication that the killer had so courteously offered to allow the Captain and his team to run away and save themselves and brought their fate upon themselves when they didn’t take the offer didn’t help. But what really aggravated Section 2 was the fact that the fourteen year old girl’s belief that she could take out ten men who had her outnumbered, outgunned, and surrounded turned out to be highly justified.

The only thing that had kept Section 2 from going after the Langley girl, legal immunity or not, was the fact that Agent Bouquet had made a point of explaining exactly how good the girl was, and that the only person in the world who stood a chance of taking her on and winning was the Fourth Child. As the only person in Section 2 who had fired her weapon in anger since signing up who wasn’t dead, her words carried a great deal of weight. Besides, most of Section 2 had seen how good the Fourth Child was, either first hand or in a recording, and they could easily figure out what would happen if they picked a fight with someone who was the girl’s near equal.

Nemu had been one of those that had witnessed the Fourth Child in action first hand. She had been there when the Most Holy Order of the Angels of Judgment had made their spectacularly doomed attempt to eliminate the Second and Fourth Children. She had watched as the girl defeated eight opponents before she had fully grasped that the men in question were opponents in the first place. She knew full well that if she had been one of those eight attackers, she wouldn’t have done any better. If nothing else, she hadn’t had the slightest notion that it was possible to kill a man with an ID card before the Fourth demonstrated exactly how to do so.

That wasn’t the only thing that Nemu had taken away from that incident. The dressing down she had received for failing to recognize a threat until her principal had neutralized it herself had been memorable. Not wanting to face anything like that a second time, Nemu had made an effort into improving her observational skills. Which was why she was the only member of her team to notice the Langley girl turn and leave the shelter while the others were glaring at the boy who was talented enough to crack part of NERV’s firewall and stupid enough to publicly announce that he had done so.

Turning to follow the girl, Nemu had to wonder what had inspired her to head towards the surface during an Angel attack. There wouldn’t be anyone out there to interact with, most of the buildings were retracted below the surface, so there wasn’t anywhere to go within the city, and all public transportation had been shut down for the duration of the emergency, so it wasn’t possible to go anywhere outside the city. What could the Langley girl possibly be doing?

The answer to that question was definitely something Nemu wasn’t expecting. She didn’t think anyone would be crazy enough to go outside during an Angel battle and call out “Here I Am!” to the Angel. The thing that made it even more unbelievable was the fact that the Angel apparently heard the girl from across the city and immediately broke off its attack on the Evangelions to go after her, only to be ripped to shreds by the foes it made the mistake of turning its back on.

Nemu shuddered as the girl she had been ordered to observe calmly turned around and re-entered the shelter. What in the world did those Les Soldats people do to the kids they commandeered to make them so dangerous that Angels would consider one of them a greater threat than anything NERV could throw at them?


The 16th Angel had been defeated. The Evangelions had returned to the GeoFront, and were being checked over for contamination. The pilots had returned unharmed, except for the fact that they needed strong painkillers to get over the psychic pain induced by being synchronized with their EVAs while they took damage (An unfortunately common occurrence. The single most difficult duty of the pilot’s physicians was working out exactly how much painkiller was needed to recover from the aftermath of their ‘injuries’ without using enough to risk drug addiction). With the immediate post-battle matters taken care of, the command staff of NERV could now focus on three questions that had come up during the battle. Why did the Angel break off the battle to go after the source of the second AT Field? Where did that second AT Field come from? And where was it now?

An examination of the terrain around the point the AT Field came from provided a possible answer for the latter two questions. There was a surface entry point to one of the emergency shelters within 100 meters of the point the AT Field manifested. That presented the very real possibility that the extra Angel had come from the shelter and returned there after the battle ended. Remembering the carnage that had erupted the last time an Angel got loose near one of the shelters, a video link was quickly established to the shelter. The bridge crew heaved a great sigh of relief when there was no evidence of a massacre like the 14th had inflicted.

More confusing was the fact that the Magi had, after some further computation, refined its analysis of the AT Field pattern and classified the mystery Angel as the 1st Angel. Misato knew that declaration was impossible, as Adam had been lost during Second Impact. In any case, she had seen Adam herself before Second Impact. The thing was the same size and roughly the same shape as an Evangelion, had it showed up in Tokyo-3, it would have been noticed.

As Misato and the rest of her staff tried to figure out that mystery, two calls came in. The first was from a panicked Section 2 agent on the team assigned to observe Asuka’s cousin reporting that for some reason the 16th Angel had gone out of its way to try to attack the girl. Misato would have discarded that report as plainly absurd had it not come from the same shelter that the mystery Angel had been detected near. The other was from the Fourth Child.

“Misato?” Kirika said, her voice slurred by painkillers.

“I’m a little busy, Kirika. Can this wait?” Misato asked.

“I know where the other AT Field came from.”

That casual statement got the attention of everyone on the bridge.

“Where?”

“Get all of the Children and the Saplings together, along with someone from the Soldat investigation team. I’ll explain then. There’s no point in going over this several times.”

“Saplings?” She hadn’t heard that term before.

“Mireille, and Chloe, and myself.”

Why was Chloe involved? Was there something to the Section 2 agent’s report after all?

“Okay. Meet up in Conference Room 19 in an hour.”

“Good. That will give me enough time for my head to clear from these painkillers. Yumura out.”


Chloe wasn’t sure why she had been summoned back to Central Dogma. It wasn’t likely that there was going to be another interview about Soldat operations this soon after a battle. She just wished that she didn’t have to go in with Kensuke. The boy was so overtly thrilled about being allowed to enter the headquarters of NERV that he hadn’t seemed to realize that the reason he was being taken there was because he had just been arrested for breaking into a classified computer network. Kensuke might not be stupid (being able to get any data out of the secured sections of the Magi proved that), but he clearly lacked anything resembling sense.

Kirika was waiting for her at the entrance to Central Dogma. After what she had seen of the footage of the battle, Chloe was glad to see that she wasn’t hurt.

“Are you alright, Kirika?” She asked.

Kirika nodded. “I’ll be okay, but I’m starting to remember what we used to go through in our old job fondly. At least back then, we only had to worry about getting shot. That doesn’t hurt nearly as much as what the last three Angels put me through. Come along, the others are waiting for us.”

The two walked away, leaving Kensuke to be dragged off to the not so tender mercies of an annoyed Section 2, openly wondering what Kirika had meant about her old job and getting shot. The two continued into the giant pyramid in silence until they reached their destination. Inside the conference room, Chloe found Mireille, both of the other pilots, their guardian, the current acting Commander of NERV, and several people from the Soldat investigation team.

“So what is this about, Kirika?” She asked.

“Chloe, you remember how you told your cousin that the last time you saw me before coming to Tokyo-3 was during that run-in we had with the Hong Ye Pang Triad, right? After which you spent several months ill in a hospital? And that Mireille said that you hadn’t been expected to live?” Kirika inquired.

“What of it?” Chloe couldn’t see why this would be of interest to the group of people gathered in the conference room.

“You see, the reason you hadn’t been expected to live was because the disease you caught was rigor mortis. The last time Mireille and I had seen you before you turned up in Tokyo-3 was at your funeral.”


Every single person in the room gaped in shock at the announcement that girl that had come in with Kirika was dead.

“What are you talking about?” Asuka protested. “How can you say she’s dead? If she’s dead, who is she?”

“I know that Chloe is dead because I killed her myself, the day before I was first approached by NERV.” Kirika stated calmly. “The person you see here is a Nephilim, a half-Angel copy of your cousin made by Les Soldats in the same way that Commander Ikari created Rei in a botched attempt to make a copy of me. Only this time, they did a much better job of it. I know Chloe better than anyone else alive, and I couldn’t tell she wasn’t the original somehow returned from the dead.

“That’s the reason you don’t remember anything after that time in China, Chloe. The memories copied from the previous you must have been taken around that time period, so you never had the memories from beyond that point to lose.

“And unless I miss my guess, a person who is part Angel could potentially have some of the abilities of the Angels, such as AT Fields. Am I right in assuming that you’re the source of the AT Field that distracted the last Angel long enough for us to take it down?”

Chloe nodded slowly.

“That explains quite a lot of things that happened since I came here.” Chloe admitted. “When I went after Ayanami, she somehow made a barrier out of thin air when I tried to stab her. One of the men in the response team I ran into when I left the building almost shot me, but another one of those barriers appeared and stopped the bullet. Later on, I learned it was called an AT Field when I tried to create one on purpose and a NERV investigative team showed up outside my apartment trying to figure out where it had come from.

“Then when the Angel that smashed into the GeoFront came, I could literally sense it as it headed for the shelter. It went straight for the shelter I was in, and only attacked groups of people near where I was, ignoring anyone who ran a different direction than I did. I don’t know why, but I’m certain it was looking for me. Something that was confirmed during the last battle.

“There are other things it explains. Like why all of the various scars I picked up in years of training and fighting have disappeared. And why my appearance changed so dramatically when I was in the hospital.”

To explain the meaning of her last statement, Chloe reached up and put her hand to one eye. Peeling off a contact lens, she revealed the eye beneath it to be the same shade of red as Rei’s.


The members of the Soldat investigation team were very upset when they learned that their enemy could create half-Angel assassins. They were even more upset when they learned that if anything happened to the current Chloe, it was quite possible that they would be able to create a replacement Chloe, one who didn’t remember any of the events that caused her to change sides, and as such would be a loyal Soldat. Mireille morbidly wondered if somewhere in the world Les Soldats had a tank of albino, blue-haired Mireilles to complete their collection of half-Angel pseudo-Saplings.

The representatives of NERV were more concerned with the fact that the Angels considered the young Nephilim to be their priority target whenever they spotted her. They couldn’t really tell if the Angels could use the girl to trigger a Third Impact, but the Angels clearly thought that they could, and the possibility that the Angels were right was too horrifying to contemplate.

Then there was the revelation that Rei also had Angelic abilities, and had vanished along with Commander Ikari. Both sides found that part disturbing.

Fuyutsuki ordered a medical examination of Chloe to confirm that she was indeed a Nephilim. Given the implications that both groups had brought up, if their suspicions were true, then Chloe Langley had just become the one thing that NERV had to protect at all costs – and as a direct result of that, the single most important person in the world.

As Chloe went through a series of examinations intended to search for an S2 organ, Asuka considered what she had just learned. Her cousin was dead, killed by one of her coworkers. On top of that, she couldn’t really do anything about it. Given the skill gap between the two of them, there was no way that any attempt to avenge the death of her cousin would amount to more than a suicide attempt – one that would very likely succeed.

There was also the question of what she was to make of this new Chloe. She had treated the copy of her cousin as a member of her family for what amounted to the entire life of the clone. And the clone had done the same to her. While the relationship might have technically been a lie, neither of them had known that. As a result, the lie might as well have been the truth in the eyes of both parties.

That decided it, Asuka thought. If Chloe’s oldest friend couldn’t tell the difference between the original and the clone (Though given that Kirika hadn’t known that Chloe had liked her until she had been hit over the head with the fact, the part about knowing Chloe better than anyone had to be taken with a grain of salt), then the two were the same person for all intents and purposes. The new Chloe might be part Angel, but she was still her cousin.


Three pilots and one Nephilim sat together in an otherwise empty lounge while the results of Chloe’s various tests were processed. Kirika was giving Chloe a description of what her predecessor had done with her life after the two of her had diverged. Asuka was relieved when she learned that her younger cousin was not actually responsible for the death of her own parents. Shinji choked on his drink when he learned that Chloe had been naked during the kiss he had witnessed while trapped in his Evangelion. Both non-Noir pilots were horrified by the description of the original Chloe’s psychotic breakdown and death.

“In the end, everything that I’ve been blaming you for since you came here was something that was done by her, not by you, Chloe. And for that, I have to apologize.” Kirika finished.

“The scary thing is that I can see myself doing a lot of those things.” Chloe said, accepting the apology. “If someone was trying to kill me in a battle, relative or not, I would take them out first and worry about who they were later, if I ever bothered to investigate at all. And I know that I had seriously considered using what happened in Corsica ten years ago to separate you from Mireille.”

“And making passes at people while in the bath?” Asuka asked, not wanting to miss a chance to poke fun at all the others at once. The look on Chloe’s face was answer enough.

After Chloe had managed to regain her composure, she asked “What about the Trials? The other me failed the moment you killed her, but I’m still alive.”

Kirika looked puzzled. “I hadn’t thought of that. I doubt that the rules cover the possibility that one of the Saplings could return from the dead after the Trials ended. It’s not like it could have happened before now.”

Chloe nodded. “First serious controversy in the Trials since 1429. It’s too bad that the only people with the authority to make a ruling are trying to kill all of us.”

“What happened in 1429?” Shinji asked curiously.

“In 1429, a Sapling named Jeanne ended up being the only Sapling of her generation to survive the training process. Since Noir is a title meant for two, not one, the High Priestess of the time had a great deal of trouble figuring out what to do with her. She was eventually sent to try to prevent the English, who at the time were not under Soldat influence, from gaining control of France, which they did control.”

“She succeeded in changing the course of the war brilliantly.” Kirika continued. “Then she got caught up in her own propaganda about being a god-sent warrior charged with protecting France from foreign control. She decided that foreign control included Les Soldats.”

“Her superiors learned of her defection before she could take any major action against them, and arranged for her to be captured and turned over to political enemies, who had her burned at the stake. Her tale is generally considered a caution about the dangers of excessive pride and disloyalty.”

Shinji and Asuka winced. Be too prideful and we’ll arrange for you to be burned alive. That was a rather nasty lesson to teach to young children. Then Asuka, who’d been schooled in Germany and had studied European history as a result, made the connection.

“Jeanne… you don’t mean Jeanne D’Arc?!” She gasped.

Chloe nodded. “You’d be amazed at how many events in history were shaped by Soldat influences. If the investigators ever find the main historical archives, virtually every history book about European history from 1100 onwards will have to be rewritten, along with African history from the 1300s, Asian history outside of Japan from the mid 1500s onward, and all countries founded by European colonies from the moment they started. The investigators might actually find those records, come to think of it. Last I checked, they were at the manor, and the investigators already know where to find that.”

“Why not Japan?” Shinji asked.

“Iemetsu Tokugawa learned of Les Soldats and considered them a threat to his rule. He evicted virtually every foreigner in the country and restricted all trade, foreign travel, and international relations to very strictly controlled limits just to keep them out, a policy his successors continued for two hundred years. It worked, which is why they made a point of overthrowing the shogunate as soon as the controls loosened enough to allow them to regain a foothold.”

Shinji was taken aback by the thought that the two centuries of xenophobia known as Sakoku had actually been a labor of generations to hold off the forces of a shadowy conspiracy, and that the civil wars of the Bakamatsu era were the conspiracy’s revenge. Somehow he doubted that any of the various conspiracy theorists out there had managed to guess that one. Then Kirika groaned.

“What’s wrong, imouto?”

“I just realized… The people who are most likely to find those archives are the French. When they do, they’ll learn that Jeanne D’Arc was a Sapling who turned against her controllers, just like me. Those people are determined enough to turn me into a national hero as it is. When they find a point of commonality between me and one of their country’s patron saints, they’ll never leave me in peace.”

Asuka looked at the Fourth Child and laughed. After all of the troubles they’d had lately, worries about overenthusiastic hero worshipping was a refreshingly simple thing to have to deal with.


The results of the examination came in. The medical scans revealed a spherical ‘tumor’ within Chloe’s lower abdomen that bore a high degree of similarity to the fragments of S2 organs recovered from the various Angel battles. The Magi then did some data extrapolation and decreed that it was quite possible that if that S2 organ was combined with one from an Angel, an Impact-like event would occur. Chloe Langley was the key to triggering Third Impact.

“So there is a horde of monsters seeking to destroy the Earth, and in order to do so, they have to sacrifice a specific young maiden for unknown reasons. It sounds like a generic movie plot. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve seen the Angels come after me with my own eyes, I’d think this was a joke.” Chloe muttered.

Asuka nodded. “It does seem like that, doesn’t it. Of course, if this was a movie, there would be some brave hero fighting the Angels and seeking to win your heart. I don’t see anyone like that around here, do you?”

“Asuka, Chloe?” Shinji said, walking into the room. “Mireille and Kirika are about ready to leave.”

Asuka and Chloe started giggling. Shinji didn’t dare ask why.


One of the favorite topics of the students of Tokyo-3 Junior High on the first school day after an Angel attack was the question of how many of the Children would be showing up, and in what condition. Given that NERV had apparently been down to one pilot until shortly before the last battle, and that the footage Kensuke had shown to everyone in his shelter showed that NERV only won the last battle by the skin of its teeth, everyone was expecting the number of pilots to show up for class to be low, with said pilots in bad shape. Because of this, everyone was pleasantly surprised to see all of the pilots (minus Ayanami, who had since been removed from the class roster) show up unharmed.

Nobody asked the pilots for details about why two of their number had been out for so long, nor did they ask about what had distracted the Angel at the critical moment during the final battle. The people who had been in the shelter with Kensuke had understood why the boy had been taken to NERV HQ far better than he had, and spread the word that prying for more details than what they had witnessed would probably get Section 2 to come after them as well. But the knowledge that openly seeking information could get them in trouble didn’t prevent them from watching and hoping they let something slip. This was why there was a crowd watching when Chloe opened her locker and a large pile of assorted silverware fell out.

“What’s with the silverware?” Shinji asked.

“I don’t have a clue.” Chloe said. Emptying the remaining utensils from the locker, she found that a note had been wrapped around one of the forks. Opening it, she saw a familiar if highly unwelcome query:

Do you want to become one with me?
To be of one mind and body?
It is a very, very comfortable feeling.

“Nagisa.” She snarled, crumpling the note. She gathered all of the utensils and dumped them, along with the note, into the garbage. “He just will not take a hint.”

“Why would he think this would get your attention?” Shinji wondered.

“Well, it’s not like he would know that Chloe’s idea of the proper way to make a move on someone is to walk up to them and kiss them in the bath.” Kirika said.

“This coming from someone who, after having someone walk up to her and kiss her while bathing, still couldn’t figure out that the girl in question liked her until it was explicitly pointed out to you.” Asuka countered.

“Touché.”

Everyone within earshot had to pick their jaws off the ground. Judging by the tone, Kirika’s comment hadn’t been a barb aimed at an enemy, it had been a teasing comment, which had been countered by Chloe’s cousin just as lightly. The feud between Kirika Yumura and Chloe Langley had somehow come to an end.

Then there was the content of the jibes. By the end of the day, the entire school would know that Chloe was a lesbian with the romantic subtlety of a brick, and that Kirika was completely clueless.

“W-When did that happen?” One startled listener blurted out.

“That incident? Oh, that was practically a lifetime ago.” Chloe said with a smile.


During the period breaks throughout the morning, the students of class 2-A managed to extract an explanation for what had been going on between Chloe and Kirika. Apparently the incidents (Still undescribed) which had led to the conflict between the two were ultimately caused by Chloe’s frustration that her frequent and increasingly blatant attempts to get Kirika’s affections were all thwarted by Kirika’s stunningly impressive inability to even notice that Chloe was trying to make a pass at her. This romantic ignorance was aided by the fact that after Kirika had developed amnesia (from which she was now apparently recovering), she couldn’t remember who Chloe was, let alone what previous attempts to win her affections had been made, and that (by Kirika’s own admission) the girl that Kirika had been when she had been at that boarding school with Chloe couldn’t have defined the word ‘love’ without consulting a dictionary. Ultimate resolution of the issues had come from Asuka figuring this mess out and hitting Kirika over the head with the highly obvious facts she should have seen for herself years previously. Nobody was able to figure out if this resolution also meant that the two were now in a relationship or not.

“But what was with that fork?” Hikari asked at lunchtime. “I saw you when you got that fork the other day. You looked like it was the single greatest day of your life. Then you find a mass of silverware in your locker this morning and only acted confused. What was going on with that?”

“Oh, this?” Chloe replied, producing the utensil in question. “It’s an private thing between me, Kirika, and Mireille. I doubt anyone else would know the meaning of it.”

“But a fork?”

“I don’t suppose there’s anything wrong with telling that story.” Kirika said. “It was the second time I’d run into Chloe after I’d lost my memories. She’d shown up at Mireille’s apartment one evening. Mireille was rather suspicious given the fact that neither of us had given Chloe our address, but since she’d been helpful the previous time we’d met, I invited her in for tea.”

“While she was making the tea, Kirika grabbed a fork and hid it up her sleeve, waiting for a moment when I might let my guard down or make a threatening move.” Chloe continued.

“She never did. At the end of the evening, she took my hand and pulled the fork out of my sleeve. She’d known that I was armed the entire time.”

“Kirika let me keep the fork.”

“And then she carried the fork around with her almost constantly for months. She lost it around the time when things between us got totally out of control.”

Aside from the fact that Chloe apparently found nothing wrong with stalking the object of her affection, the story made the girl seem like a tragic figure. How desperate for a sign that her love was returned had Chloe been that being allowed to keep a holdout weapon was seen as a symbol of hope? How fixated had she become that something that her perceived beloved had seriously considered using to attack her with became a long-treasured possession, simply because it had been hers? And given the fact that Chloe was carrying the replacement fork around with her, that fixation hadn’t died yet.

Somehow, the students of 2-A knew that the story of Chloe Langley and Kirika Yumura wasn’t over just yet.


The Human Instrumentality Committee was of mixed opinions concerning the revelation about the newly discovered Nephilim.

“Les Soldats has seized control of Adam! We cannot allow this to stand!” SEELE 03 demanded.

“If something is not done, they could ruin our plans for Instrumentality! We must destroy this Nephilim at once!” SEELE 07 agreed.

“No. Should the Nephilim be slain, they could create another one, one that we cannot influence, or even know the whereabouts of. Until we find the facility in which the Nephilim was created and secure Adam, we cannot afford to destroy her.” SEELE 04 objected.

“We know exactly where the Nephilim is, and can easily track her movements now that we know who she is. There is no need to rush on that end of the operation.” SEELE 06 chimed in.

“Since every faction involved in the search for Les Soldats has a reason to seek out this facility, we should have no trouble finding the resources to do so.” SEELE 05 mused.

“True,” SEELE 02 concurred. “And since the only reason she has acted against operations of interest to us is because of her orders from Les Soldats, who she no longer serves, she is no longer a threat to us.”

“Agreed.” SEELE 01 said. “Depending on the means we use to bring about Instrumentality, Ms Langley could be a potential tool, an obstacle, or inconsequential. Until we have dealt with the remaining Angel, however, it is a moot point. And given the most viable method to initiate Instrumentality at this time, all we really need is for her to not interfere.”

“And what of the final Angel?” SEELE 03 inquired.

“He was potentially of use to us in tracking down the so-called ‘Angel Assassin’. Now that we know exactly who she is without his assistance, his usefulness has come to an end. All that remains for Nagisa is to fall to NERV like all the other Angels have. At which point we can enter the final stage of our plans.”

With that pronouncement, the obelisk representations of the SEELE members flickered out one after another.


The information took a rather roundabout path, but the reports filed on the investigation into Les Soldats were eventually located by a hacker in the employ of Les Soldats and sent up his chain of command. At the top of that chain of command was Gendo Ikari, who had removed the rightful holder of that position and assumed his various virtual personae.

Reading the recent report about the meeting that had occurred after the attack of the 16th Angel, Gendo smiled. He now knew who had stolen Adam from him. Furthermore, it seemed that the Angels were of the opinion that a Nephilim created from Adam would be sufficient to trigger Third Impact. If that was the case, then his Scenario was returning to something approximating its proper shape…

“Rei?” He said.

“Yes, Commander?” Rei replied.

“I have new information for you concerning your assignment.”

As Rei listened to the briefing, she realized that her new purpose dovetailed nicely with her personal objective. Her target was the same person who had killed one of her earlier bodies. The girl was also a known associate of the pilots who had betrayed another of her bodies to her death. In the case of two of the pilots, including the one who had stolen her original purpose and then further compounded her crimes by murdering all of Rei’s extra bodies, that association was lifelong. Dealing with this Nephilim would be a good start at punishing those that had betrayed her...

Rei smiled.


A/N: Over the course of their campaigns, the pilots have had (via Evangelion proxy) had limbs broken, limbs severed, been exposed to lava and acid, been pummeled, been thrown, been strangled, been impaled, and been deep-fried in LCL (directly, in that case). Given all that, I find it quite likely that when they get back from their sorties, they need painkillers. Lots of painkillers.

No, there is no Mireillequarium.

Jeanne D’Arc is also known to history as Joan of Arc. Given the age and purpose of Les Soldats, it’s unthinkable to believe they haven’t had a major impact in history, both in the region in they originally started out it and elsewhere.