TEXHNOPHILE.Before arriving at Lux, Yoshii warns Ran not to reveal his future to anybody, including him. Ichise finds himself in a research laboratory, where Eriko "Doc" Kaneda is currently developing texhnolyzed prosthetic limbs for an operation. After his mother had died during an excavation, her body was stored as a substance known as raffia inside a container. Doc gives a nearly famished Ichise some water, and then shows his detached arm to show him that he has nowhere else to go. Onishi is confronted by an assassin of the Salvation Union after raffia, but shortly kills the assassin after being shot in his texhnolyzed leg. Doc reveals to Ichise that she used raffia as a biocircuit for the texhnolyzed limbs. Onishi knocks Ichise out before he tried to punch Doc in the face.