Canto VI: The Heartbreaking/Story Episodes/Part III
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<— Part II|
6-35: Ticking Sounds
Pre-Battle
Post-Battle
6-36: Isabella
6-37: Lightning Rod
Pre-Battle
Post-Battle
6-38: The Wild Hunt
Pre-Battle
6-39: The Wild Hunt 2
Pre-Battle
6-41: Impenetrable Path
Mid-Battle
Speaker | Dialogue | |
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[Heathcliff loses a Clash against a Peccatulum Irae??. Just as it prepares to bring its claw down on Heathcliff…] | ||
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when you no longer know which road to take… | |
[Vergilius appears on scene, defeating the Peccatulum in the blink of an eye.] | ||
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DANTE |
<…Vergilius?> |
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RODION |
Woah… Am I seeing things? Guys, is it just me, or is that…? |
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DON QUIXOTE |
S-Sir Vergilius… Most illustrious Color…! |
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DON QUIXOTE |
My deepest apologies, for mine alertness is not as keen as it oft is. Could this be a dream…? Is it truly thee? May I pinch thy cheek, to ascertain my suspicions? |
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Vergilius |
Sounds like you've got enough energy to flap your gums. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
Ooh…! What biting words! Forsooth, our very own Color has arrived indeed…! |
[The battle continues, with Vergilius added as a powerful uncontrollable ally unit.] [After a Wave or two more of Wild Hunt are defeated…] | ||
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RODION |
Why… why are you here? I mean, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be here, but still… |
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Vergilius |
I simply could not bear to walk past this familiar sensation emanating from underneath the manor. |
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Vergilius |
The thick stench of the husks… |
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Vergilius |
… and the terrible wailings. |
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ISHMAEL |
But you… you've never… |
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Vergilius |
… involved myself? No, I haven't. And I shouldn't have. |
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Vergilius |
But it is pointless to waste your time on those whose path has ended. |
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GREGOR |
On those whose path has ended…? You mean the Peccatula? |
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Vergilius |
Yes. |
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Vergilius |
I will handle this 'Wild Hunt' and the Peccatula born from the basement. |
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SINCLAIR |
But… there's literally no end to them. Can you… |
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Vergilius |
Yes. That is why I am handling this. |
[Blood pooled around the area converges on Vergilius, who Effloresces his E.G.O: a mantle made of blood, and a golden laurel crown stained with blood.] [After chopping through a few more waves of Wild Hunt and Peccatula…] | ||
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FAUST |
……. |
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FAUST |
… Vergilius. |
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Vergilius |
Yes, I am aware. I won't be receiving everything I wanted from the contract. I will have to forgo my avarice, make compromises, or even give up a few clauses. I suppose I'll also be summoned to some bothersome meetings. |
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Vergilius |
Yet I was compelled to come here nonetheless. |
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Vergilius |
Ah, so much for my determination to follow the great flow. … But I simply could not permit this stench, this sight to exist any longer. Even if it meant that I must swim against the flow. |
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FAUST |
Very well. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, I… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I don't do shite like leaving a family behind. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
At least, not… usually… |
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Vergilius |
You are all awfully talkative today. Whatever happened to following orders without questions? |
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Vergilius |
As you can see, I am not so weak that you must concern yourself with my well-being when there are much more pressing concerns. Besides, I know a more effective way of taking care of them. |
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Vergilius |
And… |
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Vergilius |
I once left this weapon in the care of a kid I knew. When I returned, he… who should have returned this weapon to my hands… was no more. This blade was all that remained, abandoned on the ground. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
The Gladius. |
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Vergilius |
My wish is that… |
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Vergilius |
… no one will ever have to understand the meaning of that sight. |
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Vergilius |
Family… |
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Vergilius |
A word I haven't heard in such a long time. What a… blood-drenched word it is. |
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DANTE |
<… Let's leave this to Vergilius. We have to keep moving.> |
[Victory for the Encounter.] |
6-43: The Golden Bough
6-44: Erlking
Pre-Battle
Post-Battle
Speaker | Dialogue | |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Give Catherine… back. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
… She is forever lost. Her consciousness is broken, scattered to a thousand places. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Shut up! You'll have to do much worse to make me give up! |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Gah…! |
[Meursault uses his E.G.O., Chains of Others, to bind Erlking Heathcliff.] | ||
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MEURSAULT |
He is bound. I cannot hold him with these chains for much longer; neutralize the target as soon as possible. |
[Encounter Victory.] | ||
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Nelly |
I'll knock that wretch unconscious! It is one of many lesser-known skills of Butlers to keep their foes neutralized. |
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FAUST |
Dante. Our foremost priority should be… |
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FAUST |
… finding out who it was that showed the Erlking Heathcliff about Heathcliffs and Catherines in every world. The one who opened his eyes to the Mirror Worlds. |
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DANTE |
<… I see now. Faust, you only have the potential to know all things… not the knowledge of all things.> |
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FAUST |
… If that statement pertains to me, then yes. But that is— |
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DANTE |
<I suppose I'll find out when it's your turn. One thing at a time, Faust. Let's think about this from the very start.> |
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FAUST |
Understood. The very first question we must ask is how Catherine suddenly gained a keen interest in studying the Mirror Worlds. Considering that she had led a relatively normal life before Heathcliff's departure, this behavior seems highly irregular. |
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ISHMAEL |
So it's pretty much a given that there was someone acting behind the scenes, egging her on… |
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FAUST |
Indeed. Someone who handed the mirror to Catherine, leading her to create the laboratory. Someone who had to have invited Erlking Heathcliff to this manor. |
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MEURSAULT |
It must be someone close to Catherine. Someone who she heavily relied on. |
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OUTIS |
……. |
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OUTIS |
Executive Manager. If you would allow me to voice a few suspicions. |
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OUTIS |
Do you recall what Nelly said, when we first discovered the Golden Bough in the basement? |
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Nelly |
[Recall.]] T-there! Is that the Golden Bough you were looking for…? |
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DANTE |
<Right… she did say that.> |
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OUTIS |
Executive Manager. She couldn't have known that we were actively seeking the Golden Boughs. We never shared that information with her. The only thing she should have known at that stage is what Catherine's will stated: that she was leaving the Golden Bough to Heathcliff. |
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OUTIS |
And… |
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OUTIS |
When we encountered the Dead Rabbits in the corridor… |
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OUTIS |
She claimed that the 'word on the street' is that we must be wary of Dead Rabbits with red eyes, but… as you are well aware yourself, in the 'streets', their eyes would not have had any color. |
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RODION |
Right? She wasn't even at an angle where she could see their eyes. |
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OUTIS |
It can only mean that she was already aware of that fact before we encountered them. |
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DANTE |
<Nelly…> |
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DANTE |
<Don't let Nelly anywhere near Heathcliff…!> |
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Nelly |
Now ascend to the rooftops… Heathcliff. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Nelly? Why are you talking to him…? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Do you still not understand? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
It was Nelly who invited me to this manor! |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
She summoned me here, gave me information I needed to utterly destroy that fool Hindley. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Oh, and it was Nelly who introduced me to that girl, Isabella. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Do not ask me why, for the answer is quite plain. Because we were both tired of enduring! |
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DANTE |
<NO!> |
6-45: Life, Stolen
Pre-Battle
Post-Battle
6-46: Expression of Love
6-47: Hearts Unbroken
Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
What a sorry ending to this tale, is it not? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
You have no idea of the lengths I've gone to destroy both Hindley and Linton. How much I have pushed myself to the brink again and again. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
This is my own heaven. It is finally within my reach. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Heaven? This shite is your idea of a heaven? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Look again. You're in hell. Right in the middle of it. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
When I heard the news of Catherine's passing, I… began to see her face in all things. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Even my very own face brought back her memories. Everything in the world became an unending reminder of who Catherine once was. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
A reminder of the fact that she once existed, only to be forever lost because of me… |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
So… to breathe, to let my heart beat… I had to think of nothing but that singular wish. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
That burning, unchanging desire. My wish. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
To kill every Heathcliff in every world. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Yes. That singular wish is the ultimate proof of my love. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Through my campaign, I have seen so many versions of Heathcliff. Some grew wrathful. Some begged for mercy, for their lives… |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
But in the end… they all admitted that they all had to perish for the good of Catherine, and willingly forfeited their lives. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I found no pleasure in my work. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
How could I, when I made it my mission to slay those poor, wretched souls? When all of them died so alone, unloved by all that is living, by the world? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Did you know that no one ever weeps for Heathcliff's death? So, the task falls to me to bury them. To shed my tears for them. Yet, only silence shall attend my own demise. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
No. Your method's all wrong. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Of course, I would have given anything to make Catherine happy. Anything. But… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… even you, who saw the possibilities of every world… missed something. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
What do you mean? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You said that in every world… Catherine and Heathcliff were destined to be miserable, didn't you? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But we could have been happy. We just missed that smallest key to happiness. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
No. No such world exists. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Because of me— No, us! Because of our existence, Catherine will…! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Haaah… Bloody hell. I'm telling you that it's got nothing to do with our existence. The problem was that I wanted to believe that it was. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
All I had to do… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
All I had to do was to get over my embarrassment. That little fear. I just had to scrounge up the smallest morsel of courage to open the door… and talk to her. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
……. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
… But how will you prove your theory when we have nothing left to prove it with? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
When my Catherine is long gone?! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Right. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I can't change the past, like you said. I can't prove it to you, either. Maybe none of this matters in the end, and Catherine might never wake up again no matter what I do. But… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I'm here anyway. On this rooftop. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Do… you understand what that means? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You, me… we're both wretches. I understand that… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But… I refuse to break like you did. Leaping from world to world, seeking to kill everyone that you deemed to be the cause of that misery… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… No matter how broken my heart has become. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Your speech rings hollow, Heathcliff, for the outcome is already decided. I will end your life and leap over to the next world to do the same. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Then what the hell are you waiting for? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Haah… your struggle is meaningless. You cannot destroy the Golden Bough. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I can't destroy it, no… but I can stop it from working. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
You mean to kill me? You? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
No. I will stab myself, just as you wished. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
… You're… what? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I see. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't exactly understand why, but this Golden Bough bein' imbued with lightning is a necessary part of your plan, innit? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What if I just… drained its powers? That'd cock up your grand scheme, won't it? |
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DANTE |
<Wait… how do you even know that, Heathcliff?> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I ain't educated, but you know I'm good at sniffing these things out. |
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DANTE |
<Heathcliff!> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Catherine… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'm back. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Please, open the door. |
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ISHMAEL |
Why… why did you stab yourself? Is this how you wanted this to end? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Because I need Cathy in every corner of this manor to hear my call. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
From what I've seen, the Golden Bough… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… connects the hearts… together. Look, I'm flying by the seat of my trousers here. |
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SINCLAIR |
What are you… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Catherine… has become Wuthering Heights itself. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't understand how that happened. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But if Cathy… if she saw the same mirror that Nelly and this git peered into… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
And if her heart was the same as mine all along… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I feel like I'd know what kind of choice she made. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Now that I think back on it… from the moment we set our foot upon this manor, Wuthering Heights kept pushing me away while the diary continued to soothe me. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We were never honest. Cathy, I… both of us. |
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SINCLAIR |
Heathcliff, what are you talking about…? |
[The Seventh and Final bolt of lightning strikes.] | ||
Would you like to hear a story, Heathcliff? Long, long time ago, Josephine told me a little tale. She said that there is a deep, ancient river flowing beneath this manor. Every architect said that this was not a good place to build anything, let alone a house. That nothing should ever be built atop this hill. Wuthering Heights was built here nonetheless. Over the unseen, hypogean river. Ever since I was a child, I saw… the ghost of my late mother, wandering the halls of this manor. | ||
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Catherine |
Nelly… can't you see that ghost? |
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Nelly |
I told you, Miss! There are no such things as ghosts! |
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Nelly |
Why didn't you take your nap like I asked you to?! |
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Catherine |
……. |
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Josephine |
Ooh… Mistress… |
Catherine |
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Josephine |
I, Josephine, knew that you would one day return to our side. |
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Josephine |
That the river flowing beneath these lands would bring your grace back to this manor… |
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Josephine |
That, should my duties at this manor be complete, you would allow me to drink the river's waters… |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Nelly |
Miss, I… found an interesting mirror. |
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Nelly |
It shows you some fascinating things; I suppose it is a magic mirror of sorts? |
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Nelly |
I thought you might enjoy such an invention. |
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Catherine |
…! |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
Do you see that? I see… another ghost. |
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Nelly |
Miss, you are still very ill. Please do not let the chill winds sicken you further. |
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Catherine |
Why does that ghost weep so tragically? And why does she appear so… familiar? |
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Catherine |
I… I must gaze into the mirror again, Nelly… |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
You are… No other Catherine weeps as terribly as you do. Not in any of the worlds I have seen. |
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Every Catherine |
Because in this world… I am Heathcliff's murderer…! |
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Every Catherine |
We were just like you… desperately searching through every world we peered past the mirror… |
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Every Catherine |
But in no world are Heathcliff and I together in happiness. Our tale always ends in tragedy. |
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Every Catherine |
Thus suffering is all that remains! I have nothing to live for alone. I have no reason to go on. Ahhh… |
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Catherine |
Why can't Heathcliff be happy? Why can't *any* Heathcliff be allowed even an ounce of happiness? |
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Every Catherine |
There is but one answer. |
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Every Catherine |
That we are the cause of his misery. Because Catherine's existence is what brings misfortune to Heathcliff…! |
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Catherine |
……. |
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Catherine |
Every Heathcliff is miserable… because of me… |
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Catherine |
If I were to no longer exist in any world… |
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Catherine |
… will every Heathcliff in every world find happiness? |
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Every Catherine |
Yes, he will. So… it's not too late. For the sake of every remaining Heathcliff in every world… |
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Every Catherine |
Please, invite us to your world beyond. |
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Every Catherine |
So that we may kill you first… |
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Every Catherine |
… and move on to the next, to kill the Catherine of a different world. Again, and again… |
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Catherine |
Then… |
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Catherine |
… only then can every Heathcliff reach his own heaven. The heaven where I no longer exist… |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Nelly |
I have done as you ordered. I have used some of my… connections in the Backstreets… |
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Nelly |
… to bankrupt Mister Hindley. Last I heard, he gambled everything he had away. |
Catherine |
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Former Ring Researcher |
Don't worry about the results. We've done similar experiments in the past. |
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Former Ring Researcher |
It'll all work out as long as the laboratory is ready. |
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Catherine |
Certainly. The laboratory will be completed as you have requested. The price is not a matter of concern. |
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Former Ring Researcher |
And… like I've told you repeatedly… |
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Former Ring Researcher |
This method will overwrite your identity with that of another. |
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Former Ring Researcher |
Which is to say that your body should be free of consciousness. |
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Former Ring Researcher |
We've learned from one of our previous experiments that full, complete Identities can be summoned only when the body is empty. |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Hermann |
To summon a fully intact Identity… is an incredibly power-consuming procedure. |
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Hermann |
A single Golden Bough won't be enough to power it. |
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Hermann |
Lucky for you, we have recently procured ourselves a Golden Bough. |
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Hermann |
This Golden Bough, once installed on the roof of your manor, will collect all the necessary energy and relay it to the Golden Bough installed in the laboratory. |
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Catherine |
You are so kind. |
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Catherine |
What kind of payment do you ask in return? |
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Hermann |
Not monetary, that's for certain. Instead… |
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Hermann |
… allow us to make a 'dough'. That is all I ask. |
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Catherine |
A 'dough'? |
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Hermann |
Yes. A pure, uncontaminated dough. |
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Every Catherine |
Invite me, please… please… |
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Catherine |
Mmhm. The experiment should be complete soon. |
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Catherine |
Nelly. |
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Catherine |
I no longer fear the ghosts. |
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Catherine |
Because all fear stems from the ignorance of its origin. |
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Catherine |
Maybe that is why I was so afraid of talking to Heathcliff. |
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Catherine |
Because I could not know, nor could I understand his ever-distant heart. |
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Catherine |
What I had thought to be ghosts… were just us from the other worlds. |
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Catherine |
Suffering, in wretched pain, yet wandering the manor still, determined to end my life. |
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Hermann |
Now, after the lightning strikes seven times upon your coffin… |
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Hermann |
… the path to the other world will open, summoning the Catherine you want from the other world here. |
Catherine |
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Linton |
Once this coffin closes, that is it. You won't ever open your eyes again. |
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Catherine |
I know. |
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Catherine |
But this is not the end. I will always be watching over you, wherever you may be. |
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Linton |
… Your word is my command. Everything shall be as you willed. |
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Linton |
Sweet dreams, my love… |
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Hermann |
Oh, a 'dough' of such high purity can become pretty much anything. |
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Hermann |
What I seek lies beyond that dough, however. It's something more primordial, something at the far beginning of all things… |
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Hermann |
But for you, I present a different Heathcliff… |
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Hermann |
Not your Heathcliff who left you without a word, and doesn't even care to return. A Heathcliff who exists for Catherine… and only Catherine. |
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Hermann |
And the river that flows beneath your manor… will be of great help to the both of us. |
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Hermann |
It may be that your consciousness isn't lost forever. Because the deepest river… arrests them from moving on. |
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Hermann |
Perhaps you would have a front seat to everything that is to transpire. |
Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Hermann |
Don't you worry. We will make sure that this summoning ritual is a resounding success. |
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Hermann |
And just in case you forget… remember to hold steadfast. Remember that all of this is for the good of Heathcliff whom you love so much. |
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Every Catherine |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Catherine. |
6-48: Every World
Pre-Battle
Mid-Battle
Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Phase 1 | ||
[The Golden Bough brings color back to the Manor. Erlking Heathcliff reaches out to Every Catherine, despite the distance. Every Catherine does the same in return. The world around them both begins to glitch out between the storms.] | ||
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Where are you…? Come to my embrace, Catherine! |
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Every Catherine |
Heathcliff! |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Where… where are… I can hear your voice. Oh, please… |
[Erlking Heathcliff readies his blade against the Sinners.] | ||
Phase 2 | ||
[Heathcliff and Erlking Heathcliff rush towards each other before clashing. The screen cracks into purple shards before turning white and then shattering. Every Catherine then appears in Erlking Heathcliff's place with a despairing cry.] | ||
Phase 3 | ||
[Heathcliff dodges the Left Hand before countering the Right Hand. Before he can reach Every Catherine, the screen crack into white shards before turning purple and then shattering. Erlking Heathcliff bats away Heathcliff before calling his steed to battle.] | ||
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Erlking Heathcliff |
May you wake in torment, my dear Catherine. |
Phase 4 | ||
[Heathcliff and Erlking Heathcliff rush towards each other before clashing. The screen once again transitions back to Every Catherine, with the background now glitching to a multitude of different worlds.] | ||
Phase 5 | ||
[Heathcliff once again deflects the Hands. Before he can reach Catherine, the battle transitions back to Erlking Heathcliff.] | ||
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Please, Catherine. Appear before me and tear me asunder. Let me see your eyes as I expire.
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[After defeating Erlking Heathcliff or spending enough time in this phase…] [Heathcliff in his E.G.O, Bodysack and Erlking Heathcliff rush towards each other before clashing one last time. Erlking Heathcliff is thrown off his steed and stops back at the Golden Bough.] | ||
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Erlking Heathcliff |
No repose shall await us. |
[The Golden Bough's light fills up the screen.] |
Post-Battle
Story Chapters
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Inferno (Main Chapter) |
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Deviazione (Detour Tales) |
Intervallos | Intervallo I - Intervallo II - Intervallo III - 1 - Intervallo III - 2 - Intervallo IV - 1 - Intervallo IV - 2 | |
Mini Episodes | Season 1 - Season 2 - Season 3 - Season 4 | ||
Story Dungeon | Inferno | D-02 (Canto I) - J-03 (Canto II) - K-02 (Canto III) - Reminisced League of Nine (Canto IV) - Into the Dark (Canto V) | |
Deviazione | A Restauranteur's Fathoms (Intervallo I) - A Blade Fiend's Fathoms (Intervallo III) - The Final Problem (Intervallo IV) |