After learning that you possessed the underlying source code of the "Molten Knight," the forces within "Entropy Ashes" split into two factions.
One faction believed that, with the great battle against the Locust swarm imminent, it was unwise to provoke conflict. They needed to use tact to minimize your danger. The best outcome would be to keep you useful to "Entropy Ashes," slowly bring you under control, and extract the underlying source code of the "Molten Knight." They could deal with you afterward depending on the circumstances.
If you still had value to exploit, you could be allowed to live.
The other faction believed that you were ultimately an anomaly. No matter how gifted you were, they could not afford to go soft now. After all, their imprisonment of you had likely already turned you against them, just as you had said: "Friend or enemy, the choice is in your hands. At least before you imprisoned me, without a doubt, I was the former."
They also proposed a plan—a plan that could determine whether you truly possessed a trump card.
Although you had the underlying source code of the "Molten Knight," you had no equipment whatsoever in prison. Some therefore suspected that you actually had no way to use the "Molten Knight" source code from within your cell.
So they came up with a method—to test their theory.
If you possessed the "Molten Knight" source code, they would refrain from acting rashly for the time being.
But if you could not use the "Molten Knight" source code, they had their own means of making you hand it over.
And their plan was simple.
Someone had specifically investigated and found that a "Molten Knight" pilot named Firefly had an unusually close relationship with you. They intended to start with her.
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