"I need the metal plate. The stone, too, if you see it, but the plate's more important for me." He wanted his Exsphere back, of course. Hated the thought of his mother's Exsphere in the hands of the doctors here. But the Key Crest was what he needed to make sure his mana didn't go completely out of control. "There might be two of them. My..." His tongue tripped and stuck on the word 'father,' but he floundered on how else to fill it in. "I... Someone I... I'm not the only one they did this to. Kratos..." He shook his head. That name probably wouldn't mean anything to Tsurugi, either. "They did it to another man from my world, so his Key Crest is missing, too."

The thought of what they'd done to Kratos made Lloyd's stomach turn. They hadn't even given him a false Key Crest to temper his Exsphere's power. If Lloyd was a bomb that could go off at any moment, what did that make him?

"I have no idea where they're keeping them, though."

Where did he even start to look?