Branch J-03/Floor 3

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Floor 3

Story: Entry

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Casino Mine B3
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Feels like it’s getting colder and colder.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	What’s up with all this ice around…?
	Sinner #2 FAUST	An increase in the frequency of anomalies should ideally be strong, positive reflections.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Did you call?
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	…Sigh. I hope that wasn’t your attempt at a joke. Thanks to you, I’m feeling even colder.
Putting aside Ishmael’s grievance, I thought about what Faust had said.
	Manager DANTE	<…Because that means we’re getting close to the Golden Bough… right?>
It was a pretty solid answer if I do say so myself.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	Yeah, sure.
But Faust’s reply was discouragingly dull, or at least that’s how I heard it.

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Story Episodes

Ice Castle Where Neighbors Lie

Pre-battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Ice Castle Where Neighbors Lie
Before us stood a monumental castle of ice, and frozen pillars that seemed unbreakable.
And there stood a person…
A man with hyaline hair, clear as ice, waiting for us.
	Yurodivy Sonya	I came here often whenever I felt the need to clear my thoughts, even though there’s no rocking chairs or whisky you like…
	Yurodivy Sonya	The chill dominating this place pierces even the thickest coat. It helps me restore a lucid mind.
While the rest of us were frozen stiff, stuck watching, Rodya made a slow step forward to face him.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Didn’t expect you to be here first.
	Yurodivy Sonya	My men and I knew of a shortcut leading here.
	Yurodivy Sonya	It was something we learned through the local ruffians, all in search of the whereabouts of a buried, great power, waiting to be used for the greater good.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Alas, this… area surrounding the Golden Bough was as far as we could go; we didn’t see any way to get closer.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Thought you’d never leave District 25, but seeing you now—resorting to the tactics gangsters would use—maybe you should’ve stayed a country boy.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Sonya, your lackeys have been taking from shopkeeps who weren’t even rich to begin with.
	Yurodivy Sonya	…Did you know, Rodya? This was little more than a somewhat eccentric hollow with frosty walls.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Yet look at this. Now there’s a giant castle and thick columns of ice.
	Yurodivy Sonya	This change happened the instant you walked in.
	Sinner #9 RODION	…You sound like you figured this would happen on my arrival. How’d you know?
	Yurodivy Sonya	I have many sources… But that’s none of your business, Rodya.
	Sinner #9 RODION	What makes you so sure that I made this happen in the first place? I’m not some kinda Backstreets witch or anything.
	Yurodivy Sonya	It’s not hard at all to figure out. Observing those faces encased in ice says enough.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Take a peek. They’re ones you loved yet looked down on, are they not?
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	Two-fifty thousand Ahn.
	District 25 Resident	That’s all it’s worth? It’s not possible…
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	You said precisely why, though? Its age is showing in all the scratches and lack of polish.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	To be frank, others wouldn’t pay any more than two hundred thousand for this.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	And the rest… All worthless garbage.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	That makes the taxes you owe four hundred thousand Ahn in total.
Sinner #9 RODION		Why do the poor only grow poorer the harder they work?
Sinner #9 RODION		It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? While stacks of cash piled up in the pawnbroker’s vault…
Sinner #9 RODION		Our neighborhood was being wrung dry, heirlooms weighed for what little monetary value they had.
Sinner #9 RODION		Sonya rallied people, delivering speeches using big words.
Sinner #9 RODION		They organized a group under the name of the ‘Yurodiviye’.
Sinner #9 RODION		It went okay at first. Even the thickest folks were inspired by Sonya’s words to help the impoverished in the Backstreets.
Sinner #9 RODION		But, Sonya still had a dissatisfied expression.
Sinner #9 RODION		Ultimately, the Yurodiviye warped into an organization that cared more for debating about how best to change the streets and the Nest, rather than going out to help those in need.
Sinner #9 RODION		That’s why I left them.
Sinner #9 RODION		Being an armchair revolutionary wasn’t going to feed our starving neighbors!
	Yurodivy Sonya	But I told you time and time again, Rodya. That we must wait for the right moment.
Sinner #9 RODION		Sonya, I’m sorry, but that “moment” you kept talking about…
Sinner #9 RODION		It didn’t come when the Yurodiviye’s youngest… when little Ivan had to sate his hunger with food from the garbage.
Sinner #9 RODION		Nor did it arrive after he suffocated to death.
	Yurodivy Sonya	To achieve a monumental task, well-thought policies and a great power to carry them are required. All to make the redistribution of wealth happen.
	Yurodivy Sonya	And in the process of moving towards progress, such minor troubles on a personal level are inevitable.
Sinner #9 RODION		That’s minor to you? The whole thing was personal, we started this to help others.
Sinner #9 RODION		What you and the Yurodiviye were doing wasn’t what I’d hoped for.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Is that why you decided to take matters into your own hands?
Sinner #9 RODION		Absolutely. What our town needed…
Sinner #9 RODION		Wasn’t an empty promise telling people to sit on their hands for who knows when.
Sinner #9 RODION		But someone who wouldn’t hesitate to pick up the axe.
Sinner #9 RODION		I bet most of my neighbors had been starving for four nights straight that day.
Sinner #9 RODION		Yet the biting wind kept hounding without mercy, clawing at the chapped skin of the famished peasants.
Sinner #9 RODION		And I happened to know whose safe kept more than enough money to treat my neighbors to a feast for days and still be just as full.
	Yurodivy Sonya	So, what did you do?
Sinner #9 RODION		…Gimme a sec. Can’t I pull out of this now?
	Yurodivy Sonya	This is a confessional created for you as a result of the Golden Bough resonating with your psyche.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Moreover, a confessional’s purpose is to lead a sinner to the path of penance.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	... ....... ... .... ....... .. ....
Sinner #9 RODION		If only that old woman had changed her mind before it came to an end…
	Yurodivy Sonya	But Rodya…
	Yurodivy Sonya	You must have known that a terminal leech upon her neighbors would never turn over a new leaf.
	Yurodivy Sonya	You know she wasn’t the kind of person who’d give up that life to turn into a generous philanthropist.
	Yurodivy Sonya	You wouldn’t have knocked on her door with an axe in hand otherwise.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	Poor Rodion, dear, you seem to be under the delusion that you’re some sort of savior…
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	Demanding my money so brazenly to my face won’t change anything.
	District 25 Wicked Tax Collector	You vermin are no different from the paupers in the Backstreets.
Sinner #9 RODION		That’s right.
Sinner #9 RODION		I’m the one who put an axe through her head.
Sinner #9 RODION		Like cutting open the belly of the goose that laid golden eggs, I chopped that hag’s skull.
Sinner #9 RODION		I mean, someone had to do it. Am I wrong?
Sinner #9 RODION		Unlike the foolish cottager in the fable who gave in to greed and lost out on becoming richer…
Sinner #9 RODION		We were overcome with hunger and misery, and could have gladly eaten out her brains.
Sinner #9 RODION		And her “belly” was full of golden eggs, unlike that of the goose.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Yes, the old lady you killed was a tax collector wielding considerable authority in District 25.
	Yurodivy Sonya	But what gave her so much power… was her sibling’s status as a member of the Middle.
Sinner #9 RODION		I… struck her down to save my dying neighbors. Is that so wrong?
	Yurodivy Sonya	No, you held that axe for your own good.
	Yurodivy Sonya	You couldn’t stand the fact that you weren’t anyone special.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Did you know? The Middle… never lets anyone who touches their family go unpunished.
	Yurodivy Sonya	They aren’t too interested in finding *who* exactly did it; rather, they like to demonstrate clearly *what* happens to the poor fools that dare disturb them.
	Yurodivy Sonya	The Backstreets residents who’d tasted the joy of quality meat for the first time in their lives soon made towering cadaverous pillars out on the roads.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Not much different from the car pagodas outside the casino.
	Yurodivy Sonya	I’m well aware of how much pain and guilt you’ve been burdened with ever since then.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Living with the realization that you really weren’t so different from the foolish cottager after all.
Sinner #9 RODION		Since that day… Nothing I held truly felt like it was mine.
Sinner #9 RODION		All because of me…
	Yurodivy Sonya	It’s all fine, Rodya.
	Yurodivy Sonya	For you see, Rodya.
	Yurodivy Sonya	To change the world, I perused hundreds of books and thousands of documents…
	Yurodivy Sonya	And I met various people all around the City.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Picturing a world where the oppressed can escape from the exploitative dominion of the ruling class and find liberation in the truest sense.
	Yurodivy Sonya	To make that world a reality.
	Yurodivy Sonya	However, the answer didn’t lie in changing what was already there. Once a page of history is written, there’s no way to go back and revise it.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Look. This is the world we can reach.
	Yurodivy Sonya	A world… that can be created using the Golden Bough with which you resonated.
	Yurodivy Sonya	May there be no one upon this earth suffering from starvation.
	Yurodivy Sonya	May every individual enjoy the right to pursue psychological and intellectual delights.
	Yurodivy Sonya	…Join hands with me, and I’ll give you that world as a gift.
	Yurodivy Sonya	As if nothing up to this point had ever happened at all.
Sinner #9 RODION		Ah.
Sinner #9 RODION		A feeling nobody else would understand.
Sinner #9 RODION		Even a glimpse of that world felt so dreamlike.
Sinner #9 RODION		I wanted to etch that mesmerizing instant into my memory.
Sinner #9 RODION		If this was a dream, I’d even wish I was part of it so that I would never have to leave it.
Sinner #9 RODION		And yet…
	Sinner #9 RODION	Sorry, I’m still turning down your offer.
	Sinner #9 RODION	How to put it…
	Sinner #9 RODION	I don’t wanna bathe in warmth just yet. I feel like I oughta be in this cold a bit longer.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Think I’ll stay this way until I find my answer to the question of when it’ll be okay to warm myself.
	Sinner #9 RODION	And also, Sonya…
	Sinner #9 RODION	You knew my temper would get the best of me and get me to kill her, didn’t you?
	Yurodivy Sonya	……
	Yurodivy Sonya	Rodya, this will probably elude you, but you don’t have the mark.
	Yurodivy Sonya	I came here hoping to see you possess it, but I’m seeing it on a few of your friends instead.
	Sinner #9 RODION	The mark? What do you…
	Yurodivy Sonya	Besides, you can’t see the mark, either. In other words… you don’t have what it takes to be a leader.
	Yurodivy Sonya	But I’m different. So, to make a better world—
	Sinner #9 RODION	Yepper, I think I ‘member hearing you say something like that while sat at a desk buried in books.
	Sinner #9 RODION	…That’s why I can’t join you.
	Sinner #9 RODION	I still believe that it’s not big words behind closed doors that feed your neighbors.
	Sinner #9 RODION	And as I’m sure you’ve learned by now…
	Sinner #9 RODION	There’s no way a rowdy rascal like me would fit under some dweeb’s leadership, right? Hahah!
	Yurodivy Sonya	……
	Yurodivy Sonya	The Golden Bough awaits inside the castle, Rodya.
	Yurodivy Sonya	I hope you’ll be able to find what you seek.
We walked past Sonya, and then made our way into the icy castle he indicated.

Mid-battle

Played after Wave 1 of the Encounter is cleared.

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Within the Ice Castle
THOOM!
	Manager DANTE	<What the…?>
The castle trembles intensely as frosty rubble falls around us from above.
	Manager DANTE	<Wait, if this keeps up…>
A foreboding idea flashes in my head.
The ticking of my clock was like a reminder of how much time we had left.
	Manager DANTE	<Out… Outside, now!>
Location: Ice Castle Where Neighbors Lie
We evacuated from it in a hurry.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	…Am I seeing this right?
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	The castle isn’t falling apart, it’s like…
	Sinner #2 FAUST	Indeed, it’s most certainly rising to its feet.
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	Don’t look back! Just run!
	Manager DANTE	<Hoogh… Gahh… I, we ran quite a bit, but what now…?>
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Footfalls. Not of a human. Rather slow and heavy.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	…You could just say that something mammoth is after us!
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	That may have served better.
	Sinner #9 RODION	D—Dante! Our job here’s done, so we can just book it! Cool?
	Manager DANTE	<G-Gimme a second! I never considered what to do after getting down here…>
	Sinner #9 RODION	Oh, really! Does this look like the time for dopey plans?!
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	The bus… Where’s the bus?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Stop yapping useless rubbish! We’re running the hell away!
	Sinner #2 FAUST	That might be the first logical statement I’ve heard leave your mouth, Heathcliff.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…I’m smashing your skull to pieces later.

Post-battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Ice Castle Where Neighbors Lie
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	I see the exit over there!
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Gah, persistent rotters.
	Manager DANTE	<We’ll have to distract them somehow before we can get away…>
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	Why don’t you throw one of us at ‘em? You can bring them back later anyway.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Why are you looking at me while you say that?!
	Manager DANTE	<…Hold on, look there…>
	Yurodivy Sonya	Leave this to me.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Sonya?! What are you playing at?
	Manager DANTE	<Rodya! What’s with your attitude? We have to take all the help we can get!>
	Sinner #9 RODION	I’ve seen people who’d offer to help without asking for anything, and they’d usually have some ulterior motive.
	Yurodivy Sonya	……
	Yurodivy Sonya	It’s just like how you simply couldn’t hold yourself back from using your axe that day.
	Yurodivy Sonya	I’m discovering that I might have a similarly… inexplicable drive pushing me.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Dante, I take it that your organization is working to make a better world in its own right, yes?
	Manager DANTE	<I… Uh-huh?>
What does a better world entail?
For the first time, I was reminded that I had never questioned the motivations of Limbus Company.
Thankfully, none of my contemplative fudging reached Sonya, and he took my lack of a response as a sign of agreement.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Silence sometimes speaks volumes. I’ll take that as a positive.
	Yurodivy Sonya	And one more thing… That child will soon visit you, too.
	Manager DANTE	<Child?>
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Huh?
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Ah… Sorry. My eyes must have fooled me. I thought I saw something on his forehead for a second…
	Yurodivy Sonya	Indeed, I mean that boy who left quite the impression on you. It’ll be a touching reunion, I imagine.
Sonya nudges his chin at something behind him.
A faint light was shining between the fallen blocks of ice, giving a distinctive glow…
	Manager DANTE	<The Golden Bough…>
	Yurodivy Sonya	Don’t expect me to act on the same impulse of kindness next we meet, though.
	Yurodivy Sonya	If a clear path towards prosperity of the many shows itself before my eyes, I’ll take it without hesitation.
After Sonya left us with a mysterious message, the Yurodiviye began to show up one after the other.
Well… This may have been as good a time as any for touching farewells like “I won’t forget you!”
…Then I saw that Rodya was the first to sprint for the exit.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Rodion. Are you not concerned?
	Sinner #9 RODION	What’s up?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Irrespective of consequential differences, he was nevertheless a friend of yours.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Ah, that~ Eh, he’s a clever sort, so I’m sure he’ll figure out a way to live and all that jazz.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	…Truly, an ideal form of friendship.
Sometime later…
Though I was dead tired, Vergilius wouldn’t spare me from his fierce gaze until I gave him a brief verbal report of what we went through today.
Location: Aboard Mephistopheles
	Guide Vergilius	…I see, so that’s your story. There’s just one thing that bothers me, though.
	Guide Vergilius	This man… Sonya, was it? His actions during those final moments don’t quite seem to match the beliefs he told you.
	Guide Vergilius	Which is why we should scrutinize his true intentions…
	Sinner #9 RODION	Hey, time out, tiiime out!!!
	Sinner #9 RODION	First Yi Sang, and now you too? Why does everyone care more about Sonya than me? The bottom line is that we got the Golden Bough.
	Sinner #9 RODION	As a plus… Check this out, everyone~
From her pockets, Rodya pulled out a colorful bunch of gaming chips in her hands.
	Sinner #9 RODION	We can exchange these cuties for cash at any casino, so we should drop by one.
	Sinner #9 RODION	I nabbed ‘em while our manager dazzled the floor with their jackpot.
	Manager DANTE	<I’m impressed that you thought to snatch that stuff amidst all the chaos.>
	Sinner #9 RODION	Well, Verg? What do you say to a juicy serving of prime sirloin steak to celebrate our abounding success today?
	Guide Vergilius	…What do you think, Charon?
	Bus Driver Charon	…Mmm.
	Bus Driver Charon	Seems Mephi wants it too. Fresh, succulent, juicy meat.
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	Gah, of all the things you could mention…
	Guide Vergilius	Alright, then. I’ll leave Rodion to pick a restaurant in District 10 for us.
	Bus Driver Charon	Okay. Vroom-vroom.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Now we’re talking, Verg.
	Sinner #9 RODION	After all’s said and done…
Beneath her grin, Rodya’s eyes were shaking with distress, but she soon covers it up with a guise of joviality as if nothing ever happened.
	Sinner #9 RODION	I’m pretty rad, aren’t I?
CREDITS ROLL
Location: Somewhere in the Backstreets
	N Corp. Hermann	Impressive, Yurodivy.
	N Corp. Hermann	Not only did you manage to clear out the legion of foes…
	N Corp. Hermann	You also burned all that cash.
	Yurodivy Sonya	You should know, Hermann, that I’ve never been friends with money.
	N Corp. Hermann	I will admit, you are not like most idealists who are all theory and no action.
	N Corp. Hermann	You would’ve earned my praise had you secured the Golden Bough on top of everything.
	Yurodivy Sonya	…I showed Rodya that world.
	Yurodivy Sonya	The ideal reality that fascinated me.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Alas…
	N Corp. Hermann	I suppose it didn’t win her over.
	Yurodivy Sonya	It seems the method you suggested was wrong after all, Hermann.
	Yurodivy Sonya	She wasn’t the kind of person to let a few words change her mind.
	N Corp. Hermann	So, do you find this… regrettable?
	Yurodivy Sonya	Well…
	Yurodivy Sonya	Part of me might’ve wished that she’d follow me like in the past.
	Yurodivy Sonya	But no, I think I’m actually relieved to find that she’s the same as before.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Rodya wasn’t wishing for a perfect world with no flaws whatsoever.
	Yurodivy Sonya	Rather, she might have felt…
	Yurodivy Sonya	That it would be boring to live in such a world, since there’d be no way to affirm that she’s special.
	Yurodivy Sonya	That’s the impression I got.
	N Corp. Hermann	I thought her to be a woman of virtue, principles unshakable…
	N Corp. Hermann	But hearing this, she was a dreamer just like you, wasn’t she?
	Yurodivy Sonya	She still has a long way to go, I’m sure.
	Yurodivy Sonya	…She won’t want to admit it, though.
	N Corp. Hermann	I got your point. I’ll keep it in mind for future considerations on our course of action.
	Yurodivy Sonya	You won’t scold me for this? I was unable to complete the job you gave me.
	N Corp. Hermann	Reprimands won’t make the Bough appear at our feet, will they?
	N Corp. Hermann	It’s fine. Wherever the Boughs may be right now…
	N Corp. Hermann	What matters more is who claims the bundle at the end.
END CANTO II: THE UNLOVING

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