While training in the combat simulator, Rayet suffers a bout of PTSD as she sees a virtual representation of Nilokeras, the Kataphract that killed her father. Shortly afterward, Doctor Yagarai borrows the simulator program to help Marito deal with his own trauma from Tanegashima. Though the program is a crude visualization of the 1999 battle at Tanegashima, Marito flashes back to when an unknown Kataphract destroyed his entire tank battalion, and he decided to shoot John Humeray out of mercy when the driver couldn't escape the flaming tank wreckage. Meanwhile, Slaine finds himself a guest of Saazbaum, who admits he conspired to have the princess killed and rekindle the war with Earth in order to change the Vers Empire itself, but spared Slaine for a debt he owed to Slaine's father. Back on the Deucalion, Rayet struggles to empathize with Asseylum after being reminded of the time they took down Nilokeras. When Rayet finds Asseylum alone in the shower, she sneaks up from behind and strangles her with her own necklace. By the time Rayet regains her focus, the Aldnoah drive on the Deucalion shuts down, crashing the entire ship.