# What are these statues doing here?

**Quest Group**: 40825749
**Steps**: 15

## Summary

Very odd, indeed. 
There's traces of the Ancient Stone Chamber all over the place.
Isn't this place a bit too far from the chamber?
What could possibly tie the two together?

## Walkthrough


### Step 1

- **Dialogue**: ...


### Step 2

- **Reward**: ...Just as I thought! These statues are the spittin' image of the ones 
back in the Ancient Stone Chamber!


### Step 3

- **Objective**: What are these statues doing here?

- **Summary**: Very odd, indeed. 
There's traces of the Ancient Stone Chamber all over the place.
Isn't this place a bit too far from the chamber?
What could possibly tie the two together?


### Step 4

- **Reward**: Hmm. But... something's not right.
Looks like the statue in the center's starin' off in a different direction, doesn't it?


### Step 5

- **Reward**: "Bow before the mighty King of Kabua!
This is the chronicle of Noir, the founding king."


### Step 6

- **Reward**: Let's not get ahead of ourselves—best read a bit more.
Could just be a wild coincidence, after all.


### Step 7

- **Objective**: You listen to Lafi's interpretation.

- **Summary**: "The king, after slaying his own shadow, caught a glimpse 
of the future's wisdom that the world would one day achieve.


### Step 8

- **Reward**: With that wisdom, he built a grand civilization,
and Kabua rose to rule the entire continent."


### Step 9

- **Objective**: And this "future's wisdom" is his memory?

- **Summary**: So what we thought was a prophecy was really 
just someone's memory all along...
That explains why the Cron Castle Explosion—just a single incident—
was described in such vivid detail!
Uh... wait a minute. Somethin's not addin' up here.
This doesn't match what we thought we knew.


### Step 10

- **Reward**: If Edana's second life starts earlier than the first,
they're supposed to lose their memories, right?


### Step 11

- **Objective**: Maybe it has something to do with "slaying his own shadow."

- **Summary**: Good catch. I was thinking the same thing.
There's definitely a clue hidden in that part.
It sounds like it's saying he didn't have his past life's memories
right from the start.
So then... Just like any other Edana, he lost his memories, 
started a second life, and then, after somethin' special happened,


### Step 12

- **Reward**: he got his memories back!
That could be our theory, eh? Hahaha!


### Step 13

- **Objective**: Sounds convincing.

- **Summary**: Alright, let's hammer out what we've got so far.
When Cron Castle went up in smoke, Noir Bartali III died.
But turns out, he was an Edana all along. He started a second life 
way back in the distant past, with no memory of who he was.


### Step 14

- **Reward**: Well, one thing's for sure—the scholars are gonna lose their minds over this.
Every question we had finally makes sense, doesn't it?


### Step 15

- **Reward**: Who'd have guessed we'd stumble on a secret this massive? 
My beard's tinglin'! Always somethin' new—this is why I love archaeology!