Canto VI: The Heartbreaking/Story Episodes/Part II

Overview

Story Episodes

Battle Chapters

Part I

Part II

Part III

"Wait!"

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6-22: Abyssal Basement

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement Stairs
This staircase descended for much longer than we had anticipated. We couldn't even guess how far we were from the bottom.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Is there even an end to these stairs…?
	Sinner #6 HONG LU	I wonder if this depth was really that necessary? The servants must've had quite the hard time putting these stairs together.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	If they operate under the identical mechanisms as our corridor, then there is a chance that they may not have been installed by hand.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	…….
There is a dark look on Sinclair's face.
… This is a grim reminder of our experience back in the basement of his mansion.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	This is… exactly what the basement at my home felt like.
	Manager DANTE	<Sinclair, what happened back then… it still haunts you, doesn't it?>
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Can't say that I've completely moved on from it…
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	But… I'm moving forward, little… by little.
	Manager DANTE	<… Yeah. I can clearly see that.>
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	… That's good. Sometimes, I'm not sure if I'm just imagining that I'm getting better.
	Manager DANTE	<…….>
A sudden yet familiar sensation tickles my head.
It is soon followed by a noise just as familiar.
The unpleasant sound of something approaching, dragging itself across the floor…
No… crawling…
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	Something's crawling this way… It can't be an Abnormality, can it? At a place like this?
	Manager DANTE	<No, this is… it's gotta be…>
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	…!
	Sinner #2 FAUST	The Peccatula.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	However, this place does not appear to be the Lobotomy Corp. branch, nor does it appear to be connected to one as Sinclair's mansion was.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	Correct. The L Corp. branch in T Corp. is a fair distance away from this manor.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Causeless effects. I fail to see why this is happening.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	As always, even in seemingly inexplicable circumstances such as this, laws of causality remain constant. There is always a cause to an effect.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	… Understood.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	Well…
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	I guess we'll find out what that 'cause' is at the end of this stairwell.

6-23: Abyssal Basement 2

Post-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement Entrance
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	I haven't the faintest idea as to who might be behind this, but…
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	… man, someone really doesn't want us reaching the basement.
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	We're finding more and more Peccatula the closer we get to the entrance.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Since we haven't come across any other entrances on our way down… I guess the only place they could be coming from is the basement.
	Sinner #9 RODION	What… the heck are they keeping in this basement…?
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	Don't the rich families with big mansions usually keep basements for…
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	… fancy, classy stuff like fermenting some good whiskey?
	Sinner #9 RODION	They also use 'em for storing treasures… Hehe, I have many fond memories of raiding their basements.
	Sinner #6 HONG LU	Hmm… It probably depends on the family, but if a rich family wanted to hide something they're doing, they'd do it in the basement.
	Sinner #9 RODION	Can you check the diary again, Heath? Maybe something new appeared on the pages like it did earlier.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	It can't possibly be that easy. This is just a diary, nothing more. You can ask these papers all you want, but—
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…….
	Manager DANTE	<… Is there something wrong with the diary, Heathcliff?>
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	I felt an odd sensation earlier. I dismissed it, thought it was just the chills.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	But I just felt it again.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	This diary… I ain't even sure how to put it… haah. The point is, I just had the strangest sensation.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	The same feeling I felt earlier when that glass window suddenly shattered all on its own.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	…….
	Sinner #2 FAUST	Heathcliff, if I may…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	I know! I know I must sound like I've gone barmy. But…
	Sinner #2 FAUST	No, Heathcliff. It appears rather obvious that the ink used to write the entries was not an ordinary ink.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	There is a small chance that your 'suspicions' may be true. That is what I believe.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	What are you two even talking about…?
	Sinner #2 FAUST	I would like to recommend that you open the diary yourself, Heathcliff.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…….
Heathcliff opened the diary with a somber expression…
… and once again, the ink stains on the page had transformed into a series of legible alphabets.
[Diary.]
XX/XX I once had a dream. A dream of my own death, or an eternal slumber. I found myself in heaven upon my waking. It was just as it was described in the books. I was surrounded by angels who sang a song for me. But at that moment, I also understood that I belonged elsewhere. I cried and pleaded with the angels to send me back… And the angels were so furious that they cast me out from heaven back into the middle of the violet flowers on top of Wuthering Heights. Only then did I truly awake in this world, sobbing for joy. Now that I reminisce upon that memory… … I no longer believe that it was a mere dream. It was just as real as the ghost from my youth that I have seen haunting this very manor… Yes. If we were in heaven, we shall be eternally miserable. Thus we must embrace the encroaching sins and descend into the world beneath.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Here it is again. The 'we'…
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	Most diaries are written in first person. Do you know anything about this, Heathcliff?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	No… She's never once mentioned this dream to me.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Though it may be baseless conjecture…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	But to say that we must "embrace the encroaching sins and descend into the world beneath"…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… Perhaps the diary means to instruct us to face the Peccatula and continue to descend into the basement.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	You're saying that Catherine… planned all this?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Mm. Though I remain uncertain if this is what Miss Faust had implied earlier, yet…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… Heathcliff, did it not appear to you that the diary is answering directly to your beckoning?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Right, it's not just me who felt that, then?
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Miss Catherine, she…
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	I don't want to speak so ill of the dead, but she seems a bit…
	Chief Butler Nelly	Yes, she was quite the character. And she could be a tad frightening, from time to time.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Nelly. Linton said… something about my letters being burned at the incinerator, didn't he?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	You think he's really the prick who nicked all my letters before they reached Cathy?
	Chief Butler Nelly	Well… I wouldn't put such behavior beyond Master Linton.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…….

6-24: Glass Pods

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	…….
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	What an ostentatious production.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	… Is everyone seeing this?
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	There are people… in those glass tubes. Their eyes are closed… no, some of them are open…
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	Are they… dead?
	Sinner #9 RODION	Dead or alive, it doesn't make sense either way. I just don't understand why there's something like this under this manor…?
The room was filled with rows upon rows of mysterious glass pods, each housing a completely still person inside.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	… They are all dressed in different garbs. I don't see any recognizable age or gender patterns among them.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Recall that large-scale cases of missing persons have been sweeping T Corp. lately.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Then…
	Chief Butler Nelly	T-there! Is that the Golden Bough you were searching for…?
At the end of the basement was a woman lying inside a coffin…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	CATHY!!!
… and Heathcliff was the only one who immediately recognized her face. She appeared to be at peace, as though in a pleasant dream.
	Sinner #12 OUTIS	… Look. There are machines attached to her coffin.
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Mm. I see two levers, both pointed downward.
Attached to the coffin was a Golden Bough, shimmering with the golden light we'd grown familiar with.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Cathy… Cathy, wait for me!
The room, the glass pods, the chaos… none of it seemed to register for Heathcliff. He began sprinting toward the coffin like a madman.
	Manager DANTE	<… Don Quixote?>
Don Quixote, who I was ready to see sprinting alongside Heathcliff, was standing still, aghast.
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	There… there ought to have been a misunderstanding…
	Manager DANTE	<A misunderstanding?>
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	What misunderstanding? Those people in the pods are clearly the same people who were kidnapped at T Corp.
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	Lo, at those who stand flanking the machines…
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	We have seen them afore at the manor, have we not?
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	… Fixers of the Öufi Association.
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	H-honorable sirs and ladies.
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	…….
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	Oft was I told that I am rather ignorant with the goings of the world and my surroundings, so I wish not to so carelessly assume…
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	Thus I must implore thee to answer us.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	All of you… out of my way. Now.
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	This area is off limits.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Off limits…?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	She's there. I can see Catherine right there, before my eyes.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	I won't let you fucks stand between us.
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	…….
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	Didn't expect them to get here so soon… well, we need to buy some more time.
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	Unlease the dregs.
The Fixers began fiddling with the lab machines…

6-25: Imitations

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Sinner #2 FAUST	This is…
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	…!
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	They're crawling out of the pods! The pods that people are trapped in…!
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	N-no…! This shouldn't be happening…! Why are the Peccatula…!
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… Miss Faust.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	Speak.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	I am certain that you, with your gift of omniscience and brilliance… already hold the knowledge the rest are not privy to.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Yet you have deemed that there must be some things better left unuttered, thus you have not shared with us all that you know.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	So allow me to ask first.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	As this sight is all too familiar to my eyes.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	…….
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	I wish to hear your opinion on my conjecture, in case that I am found to be incorrect.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	This is an experiment on the subject of 'humanity', is it not?
	Sinner #2 FAUST	… Faust explains that the purpose of this experiment is to use the energy stored within the Golden Bough to utilize every strand of possibility. It is but one of many experiments made possible using the Golden Bough's powers.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	To be more precise, it is… it is an experiment to birth a human…? It is an experiment to create a certain kind of human.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	If we were to cast a wider net of possibilities… it can be assumed that this basement is merely an engine room where the power source is activated…
	Sinner #2 FAUST	… and that the entire manor itself has become a laboratory of its own.
	Manager DANTE	<… Sometimes, Faust looks like she's pausing to look at something before speaking.>
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	…….
	Sinner #6 HONG LU	Does any of this resemble what you've seen before, Yi Sang?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Resemble? Nay… they lie plainly before me.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	The machines of my very own design, my very research.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	This… is not what I had hoped my research would be used for. Not for such hideous purposes, not to exploit humans… not to 'produce' them…
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	… You're turning pale.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	… The fact that your research is being misused… isn't the only problem, is it?
	Sinner #6 HONG LU	Oh… is there something that you fear, Yi Sang?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	…….
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	What I fear…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Though parts of these machines are of my design, none of these could have been… Nay, I could not have, not without the assistance from my fellows…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Not without…
Yi Sang falls silent, unable to finish his sentence. He faces forward.
	Manager DANTE	<That man is…>
	??? ???	…….
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… You have recognized me long ago, have you not?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Do not stand there in silence; utter aught to me.
	??? ???	What better response is there for you than my utter silence…
	??? ???	… when the customary greetings, words of antagonism, and inquiries about your well-being all feel so inappropriate?
	??? ???	This is no different from how you had always remained a close fellow of silence then… no?
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	If you can speak so placidly, surrounded betwixt these abominable horrors…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… then you must have always been a part of this.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Aseah.
	??? Aseah	Well… it was not by my sole volition.
	??? Aseah	You must already know that I am not one for such grandiose ambition.
	Öufi? The Ring? ???	Hey, you shouldn't reveal yourself just like—!
	??? Aseah	They are already all aware of who we are. To hurriedly hide in the shadows when the light has already shined upon us is an unsightly cowardice.
	Öufi? The Ring? ???	We are getting tired of playing by your whims. We will make sure that they will hear of everything that has happened—
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	Oh, 'they'? Interesting, who might this 'they' be? Docents? Or Maestros?
	Sinner #9 RODION	What are you talking about, Ryōshū? They're…
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	I did say that there was something off about them.
I remember Ryōshū telling the Öufi Association Fixers to stop. That there was something off about them.
Then…
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	They're not Öufi.
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	They're nothing but cheap imitations.
	Sinner #3 DON QUIXOTE	Huh?!

6-28: Nostalgic Face

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	You… you were to be sacrificed for the ritual in this laboratory. You should never have been down here…
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	You are ruining our plans. Who sent you down here?
	Sinner #9 RODION	Well, I don't know if you guys will believe what we've got to say, but it was a diary.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Aseah… stop. Please.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Why do the faces of those I once longed to see… appear at such unexpected times, only to depart in such a hurry? I…
	??? Aseah	You do remember, do you not?
	??? Aseah	That I never had any talent in fisticuffs. Well, perhaps I may one day allow myself to use the Mirror as you do.
	??? Aseah	… This experiment would have been a tad more entertaining had you been here beside me all along.
	??? Aseah	Do not be so sorry for the brevity of this reunion, dear old friend. We shall see one another again in due time.
	??? Aseah	Regrettably, I must make my exit. I rarely ever leave work on time, for I wear so many hats.

6-29: Imitations 4

Post-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
Ryōshū stops one of the fleeing enemies with a swift swing of her scabbard.
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	Ugh…
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	I normally couldn't give any less of a crap about what kind of art the Ring makes.
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	But this one… I find this one quite interesting.
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	The Ring playing at being the Öufi… What is this, some kind of pop art?
	Sinner #9 RODION	They're… the Ring?
	Manager DANTE	<What's the Ring? The Middle's neighbor, or something?>
	Sinner #9 RODION	Neighbor… ha ha. Yeah, I don't really know much about them. What I do know is that they are all at least halfway insane. Obsessed with what's beautiful and all that…
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	They run their own gallery and display their own art, but none of their work is quite to my taste.
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	How… pitiful… you… do not understand the true philosophical beauty of Pointillism…
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	Is a Maestro involved in this? Where are they?
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	A Maestro wouldn't bother to be in a place like this, would they…? Besides, we're not even a part of the Ring anymore.
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	Then what are you?
	Öufi? The Ring? Researcher?	Ahahahahaha! You think I'd tell you that so easi—
Heathcliff tore the man's head clean off with a full swing of his club.
None of this chaos mattered to him.
Only the coffin he was walking toward mattered.
Catherine's coffin.

6-30: Where It All Went Wrong

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Chief Butler Nelly	Heathcliff!
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	Tsk… and it was just starting to get interesting.
	Manager DANTE	<… What are you going to do, Heathcliff?!>
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Obvious, innit? I'm going to get Cathy out of there. Out of that experiment pod, a machine, a coffin… whatever it is.
	Manager DANTE	<But what about…>
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	But what about all those people in the glass pods…?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Don't think you can stop me with your meaningless pleas.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	You already know what a heartless bastard I am. You know how much I've been waiting for this moment.
	Chief Butler Nelly	Heathcliff…
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	W-wait. Give us some time. There has to be a way to shut down the power supply.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	Then we'll pick up the Golden Bough from this coffin, then—
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	DON'T! Don't lecture me! Don't you even try. Do you really think you can change my mind?
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	…….
… Maybe this is the time to beat the sense back into him, like we discussed earlier on the bus.
And that's when…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I knew it… You were all nothing but a band of thieves, eh…? Coming to pilfer my home…
	Chief Butler Nelly	Mister Hindley…!
	Chief Butler Nelly	You. What order did you give to the Dead Rabbits?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Boss.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Where have you been this whole time? Do you even have any idea the state the Dead Rabbits are in?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Not to mention the rumor I heard. They said that the Dead Rabbits were long—
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Woah, Heathcliff. Take it easy, lad.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	This was my home, dammit…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I nearly had that game. It was mine! If only that bloody bastard hadn't gotten that card…
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	But… Mister Hindley.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	I did advise you that such problems require a deeper consideration.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	When everything suddenly starts going wrong in your life…
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	… the cause has got to be lurkin' somewhere, hidin' out of your sight.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	… Right. I've given it some thought.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I've given some thought to when or where everything went wrong.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	And I see it now. The cause of all this misery…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	It's because of that thing that everything went wrong.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…….
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	That day… that one bloody windy winter night.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	When some lowlife, vagrant child arrived at my home, before my eyes, with the broken pieces of my violin.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	That's when everything went wrong.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	He should've died that day. Succumbed to frostbite, all alone…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	… in some colourless Backstreets shithole.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	… Calm yourself, Mister Hindley.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	I've got to tell ya that I am runnin' rather low on manpower. There is no need to waste our strength against 'em.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	No! I can handle them! I'll have you know that I—
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	—have gone through several augmentation procedures and was sent to a boarding school by your father where you learned how to fight?
Hindley glared at Matthew with a look of reproach for a moment, as though he was about to lash out at him for cutting his sentence short… then scoffed.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Haah… I was once… the master of this manor. Not like you lowlife hooligans who crawled in here, looking to reave what does not belong to you.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Stay out of my way, then.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I'm going to kill that mangy dog… I should've killed him when I had the chance.

6-31: Obsidian Grass

Post-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Gah… Agh… Shite…
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Haha. What did I tell you, Mister Hindley? Again and again?
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Beware the obsidian grass.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	…!
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	You… You…!
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	…….
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	Wait, wasn't the Dead Rabbits boss supposed to be working for Hindley?
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	So why…
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	… why does it look like he is provoking Hindley to fight us? Why is he trying to rile him up…?
	Sinner #13 GREGOR	And what's that about the obsidian grass?
	Sinner #9 RODION	Haha… Don'tcha get it?
	Sinner #9 RODION	He's talking about black clovers…
	Sinner #9 RODION	Like playing cards for poker. The shape and the color…

6-32: Violin

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	The obsidian grass…? Ha… hahaha…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Dammit, I see now. It was you. It was you all along!
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	No, it was always like this.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I was surrounded by those opportunistic, backstabbing fuckers whose only goals were to suck my fortune dry…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	There never was a place for me.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Not even in here, this vast manor of Wuthering Heights.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	WHY? It's that bloody vagabond who invaded our home! Why… why should I be subject to such—
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	… Huh? Who's that…?!
	Manager DANTE	<…?>
Hindley begins flailing his arms at nothing, then speaks into the void.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Yes, exactly, you understand…! All I wanted…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	… all I wanted was a small, fancy violin. That's all it was. But he tossed me to the mud pits in the rain like I was a rabid dog…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Yes! I remember every single word of what my father told me! OF COURSE I DO! I can even recite it from the top of my head!
	Manager DANTE	<He's distorting…>
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Hindley!!! I regret that I cannot bring myself to consider a reprobate like you as my own child. That boy, Heathcliff, is more like my son than you shall ever be! HAHAHAHA!!!
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	All those who found themselves at the edge of suffering, as my old fellow Dongrang had…
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	… muttered aught to themselves. As though they were conversing with an invisible partner.
	Sinner #1 YI SANG	Then…
	Manager DANTE	<Meursault, can you stop this, like you did last time?>
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	It is impossible. I am attempting to approach him, yet I feel an equal force pushing me in the opposite direction.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	… Unlike the case with the Monolith, this is a Distortion occurring as it normally should. Faust explains that such Distortions occur as though it has been ordained by fate itself. Once the sequence has started, it cannot be stopped without a strong will from the subject of Distortion.
	Manager DANTE	<Then…>
	Sinner #2 FAUST	… Yes. He will Distort.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Yes. Yes… Of course.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I have no reason to protect Wuthering Heights anymore. Not a single one!
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	This place that never once welcomed me… This 'home'…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Can't you see? Wuthering Heights is rotting away.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	This sickening, rotting stench that penetrates your nostrils! Gah… Can't you feel it? This rot?!
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	You…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Hahaha… this isn't much of a surprise, is it? It has absorbed so much hatred over the years.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Even Catherine must have hated me as she expired.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	So…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Wuthering Heights, this decaying manor… must crumble.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	It is simply as it should be… haha!

Mid-Battle

Played when Hindley, The Reaved Lamenter is brought down to 40% Max HP (829 HP).

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Where is Heathcliff?
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I haven't a clue. Most likely dozing off in some corner, like the lazy bum he is. Oi, Heathcliff! Where the hell are you? 'Lady Catherine' has finally returned!
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Chop chop, come on out and bid her welcome like the other servants have.
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	…!
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Heathcliff! What are you sulking for…? Have you forgotten me?
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	…….
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	How insolent, Heathcliff. I don't recall ever permitting you to act so disrespectfully before my dear sister.
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	Why… are you… laughing at me?
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Huh?
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Why… would you say a thing like that? I… never laughed at you.
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	I simply wanted to know why you don't appear very happy to see me. It's been so long since we've last met.
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	And… my, you are so dirty!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	… Hah. Dirty?
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	You're right. That's just the way I was born.
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	I like to be dirty, and I'll be as dirty as I want to be!
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	What are you… Heathcliff!
Wuthering Heights Catherine		The day when Heathcliff denied me for the first time…
Wuthering Heights Catherine		I've never seen a prouder smile on my brother than when he watched it happen.
Wuthering Heights Catherine		I wonder if Heathcliff, who stormed off to the barn…
Wuthering Heights Catherine		… was weeping.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Catherine, you shrew… You dare conspire with your husband to take my home away from me?
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	The only thing my father ever… ever gave me…!
Wuthering Heights Catherine		I did not want the pain from your youth to hold you back from living your life, dear brother.
Wuthering Heights Catherine		The same pain you wielded like a cudgel to thrash Heathcliff. To hurt me.
Wuthering Heights Catherine		I will try all I can so that you may recover.
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	…….
Wuthering Heights Catherine		But if you would rather choose to abandon every opportunity that was ever given to you… if you would rather walk yourself into that abyss…

Post-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	I know this for certain…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	That Catherine died… because you dared to set foot in our manor, interloper.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	You… you are but a wretched devil…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	… that never should have come to our home…
[The Third bolt of lightning strikes.]
Location: Wuthering Heights Fireplace
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	Well…
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	Your father likes me more than he likes you.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	…!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	You might be the one warming yourself by the fireplace now, but…
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	I'm the one your father truly cares about. Me, a poor child from the filthy Backstreets.
Wuthering Heights Catherine		Oh… poor Heathcliff. He should never have said such a thing.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	You… you fucking mutt…!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	Come on, hit me if you wanna. I can take it.
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	What do you think your father will have to say when he sees the wounds you've inflicted on me?
Wuthering Heights Catherine		His words would turn into thorny roots and bury themselves in my brother's heart as long as he lived. No matter how many times he thrashed Heathcliff to exhaustion, no matter how much time passed after our father's death, they remained.
Wuthering Heights Catherine		Yes. That is when Hindley began to believe…
Wuthering Heights Catherine		… that Heathcliff was here to take everything he ever had.
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Give it back…
	Earnshaw Family Hindley	Give it back…! My home! My violin! My future! Aaaahhhhhh!

6-33: Matt

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Ha ha…
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Ahahahahahahaha…
He did not seem to mind at all that his client had died right before him.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	What are you laughing at, boss…?
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	What's he doing there… right next to the coffin…?
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	His motives are unknown. But I see that an additional lever has attached itself to the coffin.
	Sinner #8 ISHMAEL	When did it…?
	Sinner #5 MEURSAULT	Immediately after the power outage.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	What's…
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	What's there to not laugh about?
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Oh, how I've spent days upon days wishin' he'd survive no matter how long I had to wait. That he'd survive until I could be there to watch him die with me own eyes.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	I imagined it every single day. Wonderin' what kind of death would befit a prick like him.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Yet every time, there was something so unsatisfying about the way he went out. There was always something… missing.
	Sinner #4 RYŌSHŪ	"Every time"?
	Sinner #2 FAUST	…….
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	But this one… oh yes. I quite enjoyed this one. A dog's death, stinking with that hideous stench of defeatism…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… So pulling that lever kills the power. But I doubt that's the only thing it does. Am I right?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Are you going to pull it?
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Yes, I am.
Before anyone had the chance to stop him, Heathcliff bolted up to the machine and grabbed the Dead Rabbits boss by his collars.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	I knew that something was off about you earlier.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Now, I can think of two possibilities.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	One. The gaffer's lost it while I was gone, and it's going to be up to me to beat the sense back into 'im.
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	…….
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Two.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	He's some deranged lunatic who's only pretending to be the boss. Some mental fuck who should never be allowed anywhere near Catherine.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	If you're really him, you must know at least know your own name. What is it?!
	T Corp. Gang Dead Rabbits Boss	Matt.
	??? ???	… I suppose he didn't go by 'Matt' here, then?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	What…?
	??? ???	… I've grown complacent. I wasted quite a lot of time and effort in an attempt to learn his mannerisms.
	??? ???	Just like this.
	??? ???	Seat your arse down and pour me a pint, Heathcliff. What a bloody gloomy day it is.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	You… You!!!

6-34: The Beast

Pre-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
Location: Wuthering Heights Basement
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	What the hell do you want?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Hindley, you, and your mysteries… everything. I'm tired of it.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	If you won't talk, then I'll…
	??? ???	Ahaha…
	??? ???	What, kill me?
	??? ???	You're going to kill… *me*?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	…!
	??? Heathcliff?	I suppose introductions are unnecessary.
	??? Heathcliff?	I am you, as it is plain to see. And I have clawed my way back from hell.
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	… H-how can there be two of the same person…?
	Sinner #2 FAUST	They are… not the same people.
	Sinner #2 FAUST	This one is an Identity.
	Sinner #12 OUTIS	Identity…? He's an Identity?
	Sinner #11 SINCLAIR	So he's a Heathcliff… from one of the Mirror Worlds?
	??? Heathcliff?	All those who challenged me, stood in my way. All those who humiliated me.
	??? Heathcliff?	I intended to find them one by one, to give them deaths that befit their crimes.
	??? Heathcliff?	And in the end…
	??? Heathcliff?	I would kill… the one who killed my Cathy… with my own hands.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	My Cathy? The one who— Who… no, what the bloody hell are you talking about?!
	??? Heathcliff?	Obvious, is it not?
	??? Heathcliff?	It's you. And… me.
	??? Heathcliff?	Do you still fail to understand? We are her murderers.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	What a load of rubbish… talk like a normal person or…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Wait.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	How much do you know about Cathy's death?
	??? Heathcliff?	I have no love left for anyone in this world. This world has none to spare for me, either.
	??? Heathcliff?	I had but two paths before me. Death, or inferno… because I was already cast into the depths of hell upon Cathy's demise.
	??? Heathcliff?	But you…
	??? Heathcliff?	I watched you going on your puerile adventures, dreaming of some saccharine, heartfelt reunion with her.
	??? Heathcliff?	Thus, I have journeyed to this world. To devour every one of those hours.
	??? Heathcliff?	So that you may be stained with the same despair that painted me…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Stop talking in circles!
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Are you saying that you're the one who killed Cathy?
	??? Heathcliff?	Us, Heathcliff. It's us.
	??? Heathcliff?	That's what we are. How we were born to this world.
	??? Heathcliff?	A witless brigand. A vagrant. A thing wrapped in a filthy, stinking rag of a sack.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	A witless brigand…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… Yeah.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	That's what I always was.
	??? Heathcliff?	Tell me, Heathcliff.
	??? Heathcliff?	What was your first thought…
	??? Heathcliff?	… when you first heard the news of her death?
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	If she was killed… I would pursue her murderers to the ends of this earth…
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	… and kill every last one of them. Whoever that may be.
	??? Heathcliff?	YES!
	??? Heathcliff?	A bloody wretch like 'em! … Should not be allowed to live. … Don't you agree?
	??? Heathcliff?	You could kill them and tear their corpses from limb to limb a hundred times, but it still wouldn't be enough.
	??? Heathcliff?	Because it won't even compare… to the terrible suffering that awaits you.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	And I… I am Catherine's murderer… I am the wretch that killed her…
	??? Heathcliff?	Endless, excruciatingly sleepless nights lie await in your future.
	??? Heathcliff?	Though you will not see her, her beckoning voice shall haunt and torment you until you draw your last agonising breath.
	??? Heathcliff?	Can you not hear her? Cathy, she weeps!
	??? Heathcliff?	You would not know this, but it snowed the day they buried Cathy. I stood there alone by her grave, nothing but the cold, wintery gust to accompany my vigil.
	??? Heathcliff?	Ah… I hear the howling blizzard still.
	??? Heathcliff?	Where are you, dear Cathy?
	??? Heathcliff?	Resenting me still, from whence I shall never reach?
	??? Heathcliff?	You are beside me, are you not? Not under me—but with me, upon this very earth!!!
Though he looks just like Heathcliff, he appears beaten down, distraught, and insane. Heathcliff from another world mournfully roars Catherine's name.
	??? Heathcliff?	Yes, Cathy… torment me. So that I may never rest until my very last breath!
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	Cathy… You… no, we…!
	??? Heathcliff?	Yes. Break me to a thousand shards.
	??? Heathcliff?	So that I may be driven mad with suffering!
	??? Heathcliff?	So that Cathy may forgive me… even a little.
	Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF	STOP!!!

Post-Battle

Speaker		Dialogue
[Heathcliff rushes at the defeated Heathcliff?, and begins to pummel him using his E.G.O, Bodysack.]
	You... and everything that crushed me under their feet, built this wall between me and Cathy...
[The Sin Affinity of the damage dealt turns to Wrath; the frame of the E.G.O animation changes to correspond with the frame used during E.G.O Corrosion. The Total Damage Dealt reaches 300 before turning into glitched symbols.]
	"I'll shove all of it in this bag... drag it to the end of inferno...
	... and pummel it as hard as my strength would allow...!
	??? Heathcliff?	Every Catherine… was destined… to be miserable.
	??? Heathcliff?	Because of Heathcliff.
	??? Heathcliff?	That is why… I must kill… every Heathcliff, in every world.
	??? Heathcliff?	You would have… done the same.
[Heathcliff? dies.]
Location: Wuthering Heights of a Distant World
	??? Heathcliff	Is she… dead?
	??? Heathcliff	Tell me everything. Please, give me a true history of the event. How did… How did C-Cathy die? Did she pass away with the same kind smile on her face?
	Chief Butler Nelly	Quietly, as a lamb.
	??? Heathcliff	And—did she ever mention me?
	Chief Butler Nelly	She could not; for her senses never returned. She lay with a sweet smile on her face. Her life closed in a gentle dream… may her final slumber be a peaceful one.
	??? Heathcliff	No…
	??? Heathcliff	No… May her… May Cathy…
	??? Heathcliff	… May she wake in torment!
	Chief Butler Nelly	Wha… what?
	??? Heathcliff	I… I-I… I… I killed Cathy, didn't I? I am her murderer, aren't I?
	??? Heathcliff	Haunt me then, Cathy! Be a ghost and haunt me, be with me always! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you. I cannot live without you!
	Chief Butler Nelly	H-Heathcliff?
	??? Heathcliff	Cathy, you… may you not rest as long as I am living! And nor shall I!
Location: Aboard Mephistopheles
	Manager DANTE	<Why'd you leave Wuthering Heights? It's where the love of your life lives, isn't it?>
Location: Abo*#d Mep@istopheles
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Yeah, Clockhead. You've asked me that question once.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		But that was a wrong question to ask. … You should've asked me why I endured, not why I left.
Location: Ab&#$* M#$%ito@#eles
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		The thrashings, the humiliation, the scorn, the pain, the starvings… I could endure it all. I just had to weather it, let it pass over me. That's what I always did, anyway.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Despite all that, I decided to leave Wuthering Heights behind because…
Location: &*@#!#$ @#%&@@&#^%les
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… because I finally realized something.
Location: Wuthering Heights Past
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	… So Linton will be made quite affluent soon. If I were to marry him… I shall be the greatest inventor of the neighborhood, no? Perhaps I shall be awarded the 'Inventor of the Year' award from T Corp!
	Chief Butler Nelly	Then… what of Heathcliff, Miss Catherine?
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Nelly, please! Don't say such foolish things. It would degrade me if I were to marry Heathcliff.
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	We'd both be destitute if such a thing were to happen.
[The following images flash in quick succession within the space of a second.]
Tell me. Tell me why you couldn't bear to remain at Wuthering Heights anymore.
Location: &*%@#!#$% @#~*
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Because I finally understood that Catherine…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… did not love me.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		And if I had to stay here and watch her marry Linton, right before my eyes…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… I would have done something so violent, so brutal against Linton… or even against Cathy.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I could not stand that. Not even the idea of it.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		So I ran.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		From this manor that degraded me, made me a wretch.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		From this manor that taught me love, only to deprive me of it.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… No. I was always a wretch. From the moment I was born.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		A lowly thing like me should not have been allowed to be here in the first place. That's why I tore myself from it.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		But… I've never given up on Cathy.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I only wanted her to realize that she was wrong. To regret what she's done. So that she'll one day return to me.
But… what about now?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Pointless. It's all pointless.
Then… what can you do now?
	Öufi Öufi Assoc. Director	'As per the deceased's wishes, the will shall be read out aloud here, at Miss Catherine's manor…'
	Edgar Family Linton	'Catherine, she's… dead.'
	Edgar Family Linton	'We were married.'
	??? Heathcliff?	‘Catherine lies dead… because of you.’
	??? Heathcliff?	‘Do you still fail to understand? We are her murderers.’
	??? Heathcliff?	‘Every Catherine… was destined… to be miserable.’
	??? Heathcliff?	‘Because of Heathcliff.’
	??? Heathcliff?	Behold! The fragments of every possible world!
	??? Heathcliff?	In every world, in every single strand of infinite possibilities… Heathcliff breaks her heart, condemning her to a death most wretched.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		My head hurts.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I'm bleeding. And this…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… this is the sound of my… distant self bashing his head against the tree trunk.
	??? Heathcliff	I'm back…
	??? Heathcliff	I said I'm back, Cathy…
Look at him. What do you feel?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… Is that even a human?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Isn't that thing just a bundle of waste, wrapped in a filthy rag that only resembles human flesh?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I've changed? That I'll show her how I've grown as a person?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		No. Of course not. It never could have worked from the start.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		How could it, when I'm not even a person?
What do you think of yourself, Heathcliff?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Do I even deserve to speak as humans do?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I, who killed Catherine…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		You, who deprived me of Catherine…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… Must be a thing lesser than a savage beast.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Then…
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		… why should I even keep pretending to be human when I am not?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		If they were right… that if I really were to become nothing more than a howling, savage beast…
A wild, heartbroken hound, abandoned by his master…
… that is the shape of your heart and its desire, isn't it?
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		Yes. I shall become an infernal hound; snarling, tearing at the fabric of the City… And I will shove its remnants into this sack… and grate it across the broken earth.
Sinner #7 HEATHCLIFF		I curse myself… and everything that did this to me and Cathy…
Then it can be as you wish.
[Sounds of tearing cloth and surging flesh.]
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Run, Heathcliff!
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Run!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	Cathy, your ankle…!
	Wuthering Heights Catherine	Go! I said go!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	I… I promise I'll…!
	Wuthering Heights Heathcliff	I promise I'll come back for you.
[The Fourth bolt of lightning strikes.]
Welcome home, Heathcliff.

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