Upon returning to the ARKS ship and bringing Matoi to the doctor, Xion briefly greets Ash when he is alone, saying that she is certain that he will be able to save many lives, and for now, that alone is all that is important for him to grasp before disappearing from whence she came. Zeno managed to hold off the assailant for a time, however, it was not until Gettemhult intervened that the group finally gained the upper-hand and warded off the mysterious threat. Shortly after, he and his comrades are attacked by a masked man who intends to kill both Matoi and Ash.

Upon catching sight of a bright light emanating from the sky near a great tree, Ash discovers Matoi slowly descending to the ground and pleading with Ash to kill her. He and his comrade Afin were spared that fate when they were saved by Zeno and Echo. On his very first day as an ARKS cadet, most of the unit that Ash was assigned to, Oribe Unit, was slaughtered by falspawn (darkers in the original Japanese version) on Planet Naverius. He suffers from a recurring dream in which he sees visions of people he has yet to meet, including a brief sequence where he is a small boy begging a woman in a lab coat to come with him. He also has no memory of events that happened ten years prior to AP 238, the year that he joined ARKS. Much of Ash's early life is shrouded in mystery, however, he did reveal that he was raised in an orphanage supposedly on Ship 74. Upon gaining his trust, however, Ash becomes a firm ally that will do everything in his power to protect and assist, as was the case with Afin over the course of the first episode, I've Been Waiting for this Day. Unless he trusts someone, he will refuse to answer questions or will give cryptic answers depending on the scenario. Ash is a man of few words and many mysteries, some of which he is unsure of himself.

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