Canto VI: The Heartbreaking/Story Episodes/Part III
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<— Part II|
6-35: Ticking Sounds
Pre-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Researcher |
W-we gotta run! |
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Heathcliff, The Heartbroken |
……. |
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ISHMAEL |
He's killing everyone… the researchers, the Dead Rabbits, even people trapped in the glass pods… |
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DANTE |
<If we were to get in his way…> |
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OUTIS |
Yes, Executive Manager. He will not hesitate to attack us as well. |
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DANTE |
<Even so… > |
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DANTE |
<We have to bring him back.> |
Post-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Catherine |
… So if she catches us red-handed, Nelly might give us the super sleepy smack. |
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Catherine |
Besides, the front gate has got to be closed and locked by now. |
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Heathcliff |
……. |
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Heathcliff |
This is… |
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Catherine |
Now, ready? |
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Heathcliff |
Ready for… what? |
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Catherine |
My, Heathcliff! Didn't I tell you to pay attention when I'm speaking? |
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Catherine |
Ready to race from the top of that hill to the gardens? |
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Catherine |
I'll win this time, I'm sure of it. |
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Heathcliff |
But Cathy… you don't have your shoes. |
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Catherine |
Heh, I suppose Nelly will have to lecture me, then. Doesn't matter, though! |
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Catherine |
Oh! See that magnificent house over there?! Why don't we head over there and peek through its windows? I want to see who lives in such a big house. |
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Heathcliff |
……. |
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Heathcliff |
Cathy, we can't… |
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Catherine |
Why not? |
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Heathcliff |
Because… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
If we go there now… they'll spot us… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… and sic their monstrously large hounds on us. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
One of them will bite your ankle. You won't scream, but… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… you'll bleed a lot. Enough to keep your wound bandaged for weeks. I regretted it, day and night, that it should've been me who was mauled in your place. |
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Catherine |
… And? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
The people in that house will take you inside to dress your wounds… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… and there, you'll meet… Linton… |
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Catherine |
How did you feel about that? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Everyone was entranced the moment they saw you… Of course they were. Because you are the most beautiful person in the world. |
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Catherine |
But… Heathcliff. |
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Catherine |
You left me behind in that manor. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
My heart sank to its deepest depths. Then, instead of hitting rock bottom, it kept sinking. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Now that I think about it, I felt… wretched. Miserable. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I was angry that you hurt your ankles. I hated that I wasn't a part of that posh picture with you and the others. But more than anything, I… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… felt that we could no longer be together… ever again. |
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Catherine |
That incident really drew Hindley's ire. So he ordered Nelly to completely neglect your care. |
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Catherine |
I stayed at this manor for five weeks… grew closer to Linton and his little sister Isabella… |
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Catherine |
… It was the stay which, eventually, became the reason you denied me for the first time. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
My life until this moment… they were the happiest times of my life. It was all I ever wanted. |
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Catherine |
But I must leave now. Because this is but a diary of mine. |
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Catherine |
You can't change the past. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I… I still cherished this day. The day I could run so freely across the gardens by your side… |
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Catherine |
I did too, Heathcliff. |
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Catherine |
That is why I wrote my diary. So that I will hold these memories to eternity's end. |
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Catherine |
My… most precious memories… |
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DANTE |
<Are you okay, Heathcliff?> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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ISHMAEL |
… How are you feeling? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Like shite. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
And miserable. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
These bodies… your wounds… I did that, didn't I? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Strange. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I thought… if I went wild, smashed everything to pieces… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… the weight in my heart would be lifted. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But no. Not this time. Not at all. This… this feels awful. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
How am I any different from that prick, Hindley? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Full of blind hatred against everything in front of me, desiring nothin' but destruction… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But the worst thing is… that I wanted to be like that forever. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Because… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I couldn't bear to simply sit there and do nothing. |
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DANTE |
<No. You're not like him.> |
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DANTE |
<Because you came back.> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
This time, sure. But what if it happens again? Who's to say that there won't be a next time? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Maybe Hindley, that prick, was right. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'm unsalvageable. Did I change? No. I deluded myself into believing that I did, like the dullard I am. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
This is what I do, what I am. A destroyer who brings ruin to everything until there isn't anything left to pulverise. |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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DANTE |
<If it happens again… I can't guarantee that I'll succeed, but I will try again.> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Hah… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, Clockhead. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You wouldn't know this, but… Well, everyone but you would know. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
When I'm starting to lose my mind, when I'm completely blinded and deafened… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
When I feel my sense of self, my very being, slowly fading away into the dark… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I hear that faint noise. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
That damned noise of a clock. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
It opens my eyes. Drags me back to reality. |
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DANTE |
<Well, that's…> |
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DANTE |
<Because I'm your manager. Bringing you back to your paths is what I do.> |
6-36: Isabella
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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ISHMAEL |
You guys might want to come take a look at this… |
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ISHMAEL |
Look at the corpse of the Dead Rabbits boss we defeated earlier. |
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ISHMAEL |
This… isn't Heathcliff from the other world. I don't think we've ever seen this person before. |
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Nelly |
Heavens, this is…! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I know her. |
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Nelly |
Miss Isabella, how… how could this…! |
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DANTE |
<Isabella?> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Isabella Edgar… Linton's younger sister. She came by this manor a few times along with Linton. |
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DANTE |
<They overwrote Linton's sister… with Heathcliff's Identity…?> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
He wasn't even real… We lost him. |
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DANTE |
<… This technology they're using to summon Identities… it's definitely a lot like our own.> |
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YI SANG |
……. |
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MEURSAULT |
There have been a total of four separate instances of lightning strikes. |
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MEURSAULT |
The most logical course of action, from the perspective of our company… |
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MEURSAULT |
… would have been to wait until the Golden Bough becomes available to us. Just as Linton had suggested earlier. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What, hide in the barn and wait for the seventh strike of lightning like cowards? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What a helpful lot you are. Thank you kindly for your words of encouragement. You know what? We should've done that from the start… It was foolish of me to even— |
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MEURSAULT |
… Allow me to finish, Heathcliff. I am beginning to feel the need to practice hastening my speech. |
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MEURSAULT |
We have experienced consistent escalation of risk merely by moving about the manor. Moreover, it is growing increasingly difficult to ensure Heathcliff's safety. |
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MEURSAULT |
Therefore, in conclusion… |
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MEURSAULT |
… I judged that we may have to stop the lightning from striking. |
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MEURSAULT |
Even if that decision leads to our failure to obtain the Golden Bough. |
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OUTIS |
Agreed… |
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OUTIS |
It never appeared that the lightning strikes were a result of natural phenomena. It always struck at the most dramatic moments. Always on a certain trigger, killing the manor's power without fail. |
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GREGOR |
Okay, let's think about this. Let's think about the circumstances… |
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GREGOR |
… surrounding each strike of lightning. |
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ISHMAEL |
First one was… yeah, at the funeral. |
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ISHMAEL |
When they were reading Catherine's will… |
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RODION |
No, we can get a bit more specific than that. |
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RODION |
It was when Heath called out Catherine's name. |
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SINCLAIR |
The second one… |
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SINCLAIR |
… was when Linton said something hurtful to Heathcliff. All that verbal abuse… |
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YI SANG |
The third was when Hindley drew his last breath. And… |
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Linton |
Thus all is ruined… |
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Linton |
Isabella… my dearest sister. |
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Linton |
So this is how our reunion was to be. It feels like it was just yesterday that you left our home without a word… |
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ISHMAEL |
You didn't even write to each other? |
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Linton |
She did send me a few childish letters. That she'd met her fated partner… That she's found true love. But she couldn't possibly introduce me to this person, as I would surely refuse to give my blessings… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Do you even understand what you've done? |
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Linton |
I merely follow the path laid before me. |
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Linton |
… The lightning has struck four times. |
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GREGOR |
Yeah, we know. We know how to count, y'know… |
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OUTIS |
Executive Manager… I can tell from the way that man is speaking… |
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OUTIS |
… that he may know the conditions that trigger the lightning strikes. |
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Linton |
Lightning strikes… |
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Linton |
Each strike of lightning is a blessing… |
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Linton |
For it signifies that you have a place in her heart. |
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Linton |
I lied to you, Heathcliff. |
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Linton |
Our marriage… was never happy. |
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Linton |
But I have spent my entire life struggling to earn a place in her heart. |
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Linton |
Knocking and knocking so that she would let me in. |
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Linton |
Yet there was nothing. She never once gave me an answer. Even now, she remains silent. |
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YI SANG |
Linton. |
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YI SANG |
Nothing… none of that justifies the atrocity that you have committed in building this abominable laboratory. |
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Linton |
……. |
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MEURSAULT |
I have given some thought as to how so many people could disappear without leaving a shred of evidence. |
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MEURSAULT |
It cannot be said that gangs kidnapped them by force, for there were no signs of resistance. |
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MEURSAULT |
There have also been cases of simultaneous disappearances. Sometimes, even entire families would disappear all at once. |
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RODION |
You actually read… the whole article? |
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MEURSAULT |
Then, it can be reasoned that they weren't taken against their will. It would be more believable to say that they followed their would-be kidnappers willingly. |
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Linton |
……. |
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ISHMAEL |
Which means… the kidnapper was someone well-known. Someone with a decent reputation. |
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ISHMAEL |
What, did you offer them a job at the manor? Promise to treat them to a nice meal or something? |
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Linton |
……. |
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YI SANG |
An experiment to 'produce a human', or so it was called. |
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YI SANG |
Yet I cannot imagine a single human being for whom these heinous experimentations, all this sacrifice, this suffering… would have been worth it for. |
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Nelly |
Master Linton, even if it was Miss Catherine who asked you to do this, this is too— |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… What? |
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Nelly |
Oh…! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Catherine… she asked you to do all this? No, that's… impossible. |
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Linton |
Yes. I will not deny that everything was by Catherine's request. But it was by my will that every one of her requests were carried out to the letter. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'm asking you why— |
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Linton |
The 'why' never mattered to me. So I never asked her. |
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Linton |
All I ever cared about was endlessly endeavouring to carry out her wishes, to do as I was told. |
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ISHMAEL |
Yeah, still… why? With your family's wealth, you could've just lived out the rest of your days in complete luxury with money to spare. So why… |
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YI SANG |
Should T Corp. be made aware of what has transpired here… |
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YI SANG |
… you may be subject to a high degree of punishment, even if your family name were to mitigate it. |
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Linton |
You ask me why? Is it not obvious? |
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Linton |
Because I loved Catherine. Ever since the moment I laid my eyes upon her, to this very day. I have spent every single moment of my life pining for her. |
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ISHMAEL |
You're just desperately begging for her affection, blinded by your own obsession… |
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Linton |
Speak ill of me as you will. I care not. |
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Linton |
Because my joy comes from what morsel of affection she spared me. |
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Linton |
So… you have no idea how much I envied you, Heathcliff. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You envied… me? You? |
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Linton |
Even in her youth, when I would come to spend time with Catherine at this manor… |
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Linton |
She would always ask me the same question. |
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Linton |
"I wonder where Heathcliff has gone to? I wish he was here." |
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Linton |
Of course, you must have been hiding from her. For you could not bear the sight of us. |
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Linton |
And believe it or not, it was not I who burned your letters. |
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Linton |
In truth, I would have delivered them to her myself had I had my hands on your letters. Because that was how desperately Catherine was waiting for your news. |
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Linton |
Once you left, Catherine… she shut herself off in her room, refused to eat, and withered away. |
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Linton |
Gazing into a mirror, day and night… until one day, she calmly emerged from that very room and asked me for my hand. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
A mirror… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… She mentioned the same thing in the diary. That she saw herself in the mirror. |
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Linton |
Yet we kept no mirrors at the manor we lived. |
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Linton |
The mirror she looked into was, according to her, a gift. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… A gift from who? |
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Linton |
If you would like to know what she saw in that mirror, what it was that she saw that prompted her to ask to marry me… |
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Linton |
… Why don't you ask the diary yourself? |
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Linton |
Ask that old diary that remains in obstinate silence before me. |
6-37: Lightning Rod
Pre-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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GREGOR |
… You're going to fight us? In your state? |
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Linton |
If you seek to disturb this experiment… then it falls to me to stop you. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What are you even looking to gain from this? By going this far? |
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Linton |
The same thing as always. I love Catherine, so I shall do as she wills me to. |
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Linton |
So that I may enter her room. I dare not wish to become a master of it; I merely wish that she would let me in… |
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Linton |
I wish that the sight of an opened door, that little gesture, would be more than enough. |
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Linton |
The thunder of every lightning that struck the manor… |
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Linton |
… was the sound of her breaking heart. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
…! |
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Linton |
With every heartbreak, the lightning strikes. The pain, the bereavement, the shock… are all manifest as lightning, then darkness… |
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Linton |
Thus, the lightning only indicates that the person in question was so important to her… |
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DANTE |
<Heathcliff, I think…> |
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DANTE |
<Nelly was right.> |
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DANTE |
<Catherine's still alive…> |
Post-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Linton |
So there isn't anyone left… |
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Linton |
I won't last much longer. |
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Linton |
This is how I was born. How I've lived my entire life. |
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GREGOR |
Yeah. Glad you know that. So why don't you— |
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Linton |
What… admit my sins and… surrender…? |
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Linton |
Ha ha… why would any of that ever matter to me? |
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Linton |
This is as far as I will go. |
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Linton |
As I have always told you… I have no regrets. |
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Linton |
I merely think that… we were both walking in different paces. |
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Linton |
And you always happened to walk ahead of me. |
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Linton |
Yet, even a sight of you from behind summoned butterflies in my stomach. |
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MEURSAULT |
This man will die without immediate and appropriate medical attention from a professional doctor. He is extremely weakened. |
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Linton |
Still… |
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Linton |
Catherine, I wish you would… |
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Linton |
… I wish my death would bring you even a trace of sorrow. |
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Linton |
Ah… did you hear… the thunder…? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
…! |
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Linton |
Catherine weeps for me. |
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Linton |
Oh… Catherine! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Wait, what are you— |
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Linton |
So now… is the right moment to… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… STOP! |
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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Linton |
Even if you will not permit me into your chambers… It's all right. |
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Linton |
I will await you within its walls forevermore. |
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Aseah |
To bring forth the pure form of humanity that once existed… was quite the simple task. |
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YI SANG |
……. |
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Aseah |
You never had any talent in the culinary arts, Yi Sang. So you wouldn't understand. |
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Aseah |
Any kind of Identity could safely and securely be applied to it, as long as the 'dough' is in its purest form. |
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ISHMAEL |
What happened to… Linton? |
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Aseah |
Can't you see? He's become a dough, a batter; a pure being free of dregs. |
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Aseah |
So that it would always yield the finest results, regardless of what other ingredients you mix into it. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You call that mass of flesh… human? |
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FAUST |
… No. Creation of a new human is but a stepping stone in that process. |
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FAUST |
Their ultimate goal must be to go even further beyond that 'dough'; they seek to reach the very origin… the primordial human. This is but a part of that process, merely an experiment along the way. |
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Aseah |
Oh… |
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Aseah |
Consider yourself fortunate that there aren't any other surviving researchers here other than myself. |
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Aseah |
If Director Hermann or any of the other higher-ups heard what you said, I'm sure they would be pulling all kinds of strings to take you in. |
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GREGOR |
Mother… dammit, I knew that woman would be…! |
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YI SANG |
The 'dough', the being you refer to as a human… I presume that one could apply any Identity from any possibility, no matter how distant and irrelevant the world, to that being… |
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Aseah |
Yes, Yi Sang. I knew that you would be most overjoyed to hear of this breakthrough. |
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Aseah |
This is the apex of what the Mirror technology is capable of. |
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Aseah |
Now all we have left to do is to leap from that apex, to soar beyond its limits. |
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FAUST |
From what we know, there is… another Golden Bough located inside the manor. |
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FAUST |
This 'dough' is a part of an experiment that can be conducted only with a preposterous magnitude of energy output. |
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FAUST |
So the Golden Bough to accumulate that much energy… |
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FAUST |
… must be located on the rooftop of this manor. |
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Aseah |
……. |
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Aseah |
Correct. The Golden Bough acts as a lightning rod, draws the merciless strikes of lightning, then harnesses it into a form of energy for itself. Your breadth of knowledge is starting to get unsettling. |
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Aseah |
Well, now that everything is in order… I must really make my exit. |
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GREGOR |
Not so fast! I'll get you and find out everything you know about what mother is planning— |
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Aseah |
Please, let us not waste each other's time by playing this pointless game of cat and mouse. |
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Aseah |
When the perfected Identity is applied over a dough, one such opaque, murky mist emerges. What a picturesque moment, most apt to bid you all farewell, is it not? |
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Aseah |
Director Hermann's son, was it? I hear that you are a veteran of the Smoke War. Then perhaps this may be a familiar sight to you, if a tad different in a few places. |
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Aseah |
And Yi Sang, my dear fellow. |
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Aseah |
Live. So that I may have aught to look forward to in the time I have left. |
6-38: The Wild Hunt
Pre-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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ISHMAEL |
A perfected Identity…? |
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HONG LU |
… Who is he talking about? |
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Nelly |
He's… coming back. |
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Nelly |
Heathcliff… now fully primed… |
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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Heathcliff? |
Yes. I have returned. |
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Heathcliff? |
I, whose existence itself has become a sin… have returned to put an end to us all. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… You… |
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Josephine |
…! |
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Josephine |
… You accursed beast…! Infernal demon… you've finally come to take our manor, 'ave you…? |
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Josephine |
Mistress, I shall not let that interloper… who dared to stain the honour of our manor… |
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Josephine |
Gah, kaugh…! |
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Heathcliff? |
HAHAHAHAHA! |
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Heathcliff? |
Every Wuthering Heights, at the end of all things in every world, eventually became mine! |
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Heathcliff? |
Every single death Hindley and Linton suffered was pathetic and writhing. And that shall be an immutable truth for all eternity to come. |
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Heathcliff? |
Thus Josephine, it is only right that you are mine as well. |
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Heathcliff? |
You are bound to heed my commands. |
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Josephine |
M-Mistress, this vagabond… he's…! |
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Heathcliff? |
I tire of your ramblings of your 'Mistress'. She is nothing but a rotting corpse, her flesh decayed and bones desiccated. |
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Josephine |
……. |
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Heathcliff? |
Ah! Josephine, Hindley, Linton! All of their pitiful souls tangled and fettered to this accursed destiny in every world! I have seen you far too many times in far too many worlds. |
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Heathcliff? |
I shall take you away from here, you pitiful souls who remain bound to Wuthering Heights even in death. |
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Heathcliff? |
Thus approaches the final chapter of this tale. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You… you can't do that to Catherine—! |
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Heathcliff? |
Fine. I suppose we could play a game. It has been a while, hasn't it? |
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Heathcliff? |
Remember? We used to play games with Catherine on the rooftop of this manor. Why not reminisce upon that sweet memory, hm? |
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Heathcliff? |
If you wish to join us, pursue me. Pursue me and rise through the stairwell until your strength fails, Heathcliff. |
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Heathcliff? |
Oh, but it will not be that easy. Nor should it be. |
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Heathcliff? |
Your heart toward Catherine shan't be realized so painlessly. |
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Heathcliff? |
You must suffer more. Let desperation consume you. Become frenzied in your pursuit. |
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DANTE |
<The rooftop… > |
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FAUST |
Indeed, the roof houses the Golden Bough. When the two Golden Boughs come into physical contact with one another, they… |
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OUTIS |
… I can think of a thousand different outcomes. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't know what he's planning to do with Catherine, but… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We have to stop him… we have to…! |
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GREGOR |
Our retreat's been cut off. No way forward, no way back. |
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DANTE |
<Are they… Hindley, Linton, and Josephine from other worlds?> |
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FAUST |
They appear to be imperfect Identities, summoned from worlds chosen at random. It is the fate that awaits all those who become thralls to that Heathcliff. |
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FAUST |
A phenomenon in which a Mirror World entity wreaks havoc across the dimensions in pursuit of every Heathcliff… In other words, the 'Wild Hunt'. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
Like the Nocturnal March of a Hundred Demons. |
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OUTIS |
<So… there's no end to them?> |
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FAUST |
He is the conduit that has brought them all to this world. He leads this army at its vanguard, as its Erlkönig… or the Erlking. |
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FAUST |
This army will never stop until the Erlking's orders are withdrawn. |
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Nelly |
A brutal tempest… descends… |
6-39: The Wild Hunt 2
Pre-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Fuck… fuck! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
When I left this manor by my own volition, I… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I promised to myself that I would return a changed man. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
So that I could at least stand proud before Catherine. So that she won't be embarrassed of me. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But… look at me. I couldn't protect her in the end. I can't even get nearer to her or hold my weapons proper, like an idiot. |
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DANTE |
<Heathcliff…> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I know. I know that I don't… I know that I don't have anything to show for in my life. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I ain't educated. I've got a short fuse and a brutish personality. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Tell me, Clockhead… no, Manager. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
This endless, overwhelming flood… Is this what it's like to face my sins? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Was my life so wretched that I deserve to suffer this endless swarm of sins? |
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MEURSAULT |
There's… more of them. |
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MEURSAULT |
They number greater than the last. |
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DANTE |
<What should I…> |
6-41: Impenetrable Path
Mid-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
| [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
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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ISHMAEL |
… So how are there two Golden Boughs here? I mean, it's a rich family manor, but it's not like they're a corporation or a Syndicate. |
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HONG LU |
Mm… One was acquired by Linton, who spent nearly all of his fortune on it, and… |
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HONG LU |
I wonder how he got his hands on the second one? |
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MEURSAULT |
It is possible that there may have been an involvement of a third party that helped Linton and Catherine. |
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OUTIS |
With what information we gathered from this Aseah… all evidence seems to point to Director Hermann of N Corp. being our 'third party'. |
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RODION |
Right… hiring former Ring researchers of all people? That's not something you see every day. |
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Nelly |
So you have all been traveling with Heathcliff, collecting the Golden Boughs… Yes? |
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OUTIS |
… Yes. |
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Nelly |
Then you must have had to fight so many people in your journey. |
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GREGOR |
Hm. I suppose every day's been like a battlefield. We've all seen more than enough of our share of battles. |
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OUTIS |
Can't say I disagree with that comparison. Except we have tasted nothing but victory so far. |
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Nelly |
I see. |
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Nelly |
So… why are you looking for the Golden Boughs? |
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RYŌSHŪ |
Boredom. |
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RODION |
Well… maybe it'll lead us to loads of money? |
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DON QUIXOTE |
Aha! Because that! Is an act of justice! |
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ISHMAEL |
It's all just a part of our contracts. I don't know what they're planning to do with the Golden Boughs, though. |
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Nelly |
So none of you even know why you are collecting the Golden Boughs. |
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Nelly |
… Aren't you scared, Heathcliff? |
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Nelly |
Doing everything the company asks you to do, without asking a single question… |
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Nelly |
Do you ever worry about… what comes next…? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Nelly. I've always had a singular goal. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We all do. Because Clockhead keeps reminding us of our individual goals. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
So… no. I've never been afraid. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
And now, I have but one goal. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We have to go after that git. We can't let him take Catherine to the rooftops where the Golden Bough is. |
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Nelly |
But… |
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Nelly |
Isn't it too late now…? We are slow, yet he is swift. |
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ISHMAEL |
This is the only way to the rooftops, right? |
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Nelly |
Yes. |
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OUTIS |
Agh… that bastard keeps sending those dregs after us… |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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DANTE |
<Faust. I'm asking this out of pure curiosity, but…> |
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FAUST |
Do ask. |
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DANTE |
<There's gotta be a good reason my head is, of all things, in the shape of…> |
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DANTE |
<… a clock, right?> |
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FAUST |
It can be said that its shape was not determined randomly and without intent. |
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FAUST |
As every shape is followed by concepts and symbols adherent to the laws of causality. |
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DANTE |
<And the Golden Bough has powers that I am yet to be aware of.> |
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FAUST |
You are not asking a question. You are asking for a confirmation. |
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FAUST |
If that is the case… |
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FAUST |
Simply do as you will, as one seeks the stars in the night sky. |
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| [Golden Bough Resonance - Pigritia. Embrace the Past, Build the Future.] | ||
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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SINCLAIR |
Woah…! Do you feel that? |
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SINCLAIR |
We're… faster. Fast enough to outrun our enemies. |
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FAUST |
This is not temporal acceleration, to be precise. It would be more accurate to say we are in a temporal deceleration field that slows everything except us within a certain radius. |
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RODION |
Whatever it is, we'll catch up to him in no time! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, Clockhead. … Is this your doing? |
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DANTE |
<I… think so.> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Everyone I've gone through in my life… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Either ignored me, scorned me, or I simply lost the plot before we even had the chance to build anything. It was always a mess. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But you, Clockhead… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What is wrong with you…? Why do you still hold any hope for me? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You needn't go this far for my sake. The company won't give two shites about any of this. The other Sinners won't, either. So why are you… why are you trying so hard? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't deserve any of it. I ain't worth— |
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DANTE |
<Because…> |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
……. |
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ISHMAEL |
Heathcliff, focus! He's getting away! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Bollocks… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Let's crack on for now. |
6-44: Erlking
Pre-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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Erlking Heathcliff |
…! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Stop… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I won't let you get away this time. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Give my Catherine back, you git. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
… Even if you were to pursue me, even if you were to grab me… |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
It will change nothing. Catherine has already left you. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
That is the most undeniable truth, isn't it? Shovel up the soil and exhume her body for all you want. But this is an immutable truth. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
There she lies, wearing an ineffable, ethereal smile. She always is. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I know. But I am trying my damnest to change it. So shut up and— |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Hahaha! Change it? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Allow me to relieve you of the struggle. You will suffer, longing for her for as much as eternity permits… Searching for Catherine, who is long gone from this world… |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
… until your heart finds peace. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Every strand of despair leads to the same answer. At the end of every path, you will mutter to yourself. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
That once your repentance is complete, you shall lie beside her in that coffin with your cold, still heart. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I merely mean to lift the years of that suffering from your shoulders. Join the other Heathcliffs in their trail of penitence, and I shall grant you the early peace of your heart that you so deserve! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Sod off! I don't need your shite idea of 'peace'… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
That's… not how I want to find my peace. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I wonder if you would say the same thing, even with the revelation that all of this… is exactly what Catherine wanted? |
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
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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HEATHCLIFF |
Nelly… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You… betrayed me? |
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Nelly |
This manor has never been on your side. Not even once. |
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Nelly |
And Heathcliff, I find it rather vexing that you would use the expression 'betrayal'. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Tell me… tell me why. |
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Nelly |
You've really changed, Heathcliff. |
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Nelly |
The old you wouldn't have bothered to ask even a single question before swinging that big club at my skull. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'm asking, because it's you! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Do I really have to destroy… even our childhood? |
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Nelly |
……. |
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Nelly |
Heathcliff… what are you most afraid of? |
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Nelly |
I… wasn't afraid of the ghost that Miss Catherine claimed to have seen. I wasn't afraid of the tempest that sometimes shook this manor. Or how violent Mister Hindley would get when he was drunk. |
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Nelly |
Until one day… I became afraid. |
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Nelly |
I became afraid of an old woman whose heart and body were aged beyond their years. |
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Nelly |
I was that old woman. An old woman who suffered because of you, Heathcliff, and Miss Catherine in every world. |
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Nelly |
Round and round you and Miss Catherine went, both plagued by the hatred, the misunderstandings, the terrible obsessions… |
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Nelly |
And I, in every world, was always dragged under that wheel of destruction, suffering and struggling to my last haggardly breath. Again, and again, and again… |
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Nelly |
The worst thing… |
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Nelly |
… was that all of us were ignorant of our doomed fates. I hadn't even an inkling that the two of you were consuming every minute of my life, little by little. |
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Nelly |
So… I showed it to her, too. |
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Nelly |
I told her that… it was a mirror shard that showed the beholder whatever their heart wished to see. |
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FAUST |
The glass shards can make countless cracks in the hearts of humans. |
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FAUST |
It shakes the very foundation of one's existence. |
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FAUST |
The knowledge of Mirror Worlds can suck the meaning out of every struggle, everything that one has worked for their entire life… |
|
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FAUST |
… and plants the seeds of doubt in their heart. |
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FAUST |
Doubts about the very path one seeks to take in their life. It's… |
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FAUST |
… enough to make them attempt to meddle with the selves in other worlds. Believing that it is the right thing to do. |
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FAUST |
If someone has shown Nelly that mirror… then that must have been precisely their intended outcome. |
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YI SANG |
… Yet, a mirror technology that allows for such high degree of interactivity must be… |
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Nelly |
Then… everything began to unravel all on its own. |
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Nelly |
She conversed with someone on the other end of the mirror for a long time. Someone who was suffering as much as she was. |
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Nelly |
Then the laboratory began to take shape. |
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Nelly |
Oh, she mustn't have known even in her wildest dreams. She never once doubted me, even as she closed her eyes forevermore in that coffin! As naive as any other sheltered child, a caged bird. |
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Nelly |
I suppose it wasn't only naïveté, but also her own temperament. She was the kind of person who always had to be the center of everything. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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Nelly |
But please, do not deny every memory we've shared together. |
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Nelly |
The pity I felt for you as they abused you, wishing that you would live your best life, a life better than anyone else's… were all my honest feelings. |
Post-Battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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Nelly |
Miss Catherine was… difficult from time to time, but I do not wish to deny even the times we've spent together. |
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Nelly |
I even miss the late Mister Earnshaw Senior from time to time. |
|
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Nelly |
No… I never lived a life full of hate, animosity. I am just struggling desperately to change my destiny. |
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Nelly |
To get here, I worked myself to the bone… trained and worked harder than anyone else to become a Chief Butler… |
|
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Move… |
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Nelly |
… You still endeavour to reach the rooftops? I must tell you that it is a fruitless effort. That other Heathcliff is already there. |
|
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Nelly |
And that is how this tale shall end. |
|
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Nelly |
This is the better ending, isn't it? You two couldn't even summon the smallest courage to talk to one another. |
|
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Stop it… |
|
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Nelly |
You two always believed everything I told you, without even one iota of doubt. Every little twist, every little nudge I made in my tales… taken as truth. |
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Nelly |
… No, Miss. He hasn't sent you any letters. Though I am quite certain that he must be living a good life somewhere out there. |
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Nelly |
I'll send the invitation, Miss. It's still that same Heathcliff who didn't even bother to write you, but… when he sees this, he will have no choice but to return to this manor. |
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Nelly |
Well, I don't recall her ever opening a letter. |
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Nelly |
Seriously, once she has her mind set on something, no one could convince her otherwise. No one… |
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Nelly |
You two have mired more people than you could imagine into your business. Yet you do not even talk to one another, nor do you ask questions. |
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Nelly |
Do you really believe that you even deserve to move on? With such slothfulness? |
| [End flashbacks.] | ||
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Nelly |
No more. This tale ends here. |
6-46: Expression of Love
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HEATHCLIFF |
Yeah… It's… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… over. |
| [The Sixth bolt of lightning strikes.] | ||
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SINCLAIR |
Another power outage… |
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DANTE |
<… Huh? Where did Heathcliff go…?> |
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HONG LU |
Yeah, he disappeared all of a sudden… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
What are you talking about? I'm right here. |
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Nelly |
A predictable ending, is it not? He returned to the Backstreets. The place where our dear Heathcliff belongs. |
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Nelly |
Poor Heathcliff. Once again he turns his tail, tasting nothing but defeat and despair. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Stop… stop it. I don't want to hear any more of it! |
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Nelly |
Pitiful… isn't he? He would not have changed one bit, no matter how much time he spent in your company. |
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Nelly |
Look at Heathcliff the Erlking. Heathcliff the devil. |
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Nelly |
The very same end that awaits Heathcliff. |
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DANTE |
<I disagree. You probably can't hear a thing I'm saying… but I still do.> |
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DANTE |
<Because…> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'm hurting. I don't want to be here anymore. |
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Catherine |
… So I must marry Linton in the end. |
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Catherine |
Because it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
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Catherine |
Marrying Linton would give me the means to help Heathcliff. I could make him a better person. |
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Catherine |
So he must never know the immense love I have for him. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Cathy, I'm sorry. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I've disappointed you. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Because I was too afraid to hear your true feelings. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I know. This future… is a future that will never come true. Not for us. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I wrecked everything with my hesitation. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I hurt more than just us; I hurt Nelly, too. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I have to start… fixing the things I've wrecked. |
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Catherine |
……. |
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DANTE |
<Because…> |
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DANTE |
<… I don't want my Heathcliff…> |
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DANTE |
<… to live the rest of his life in regret.> |
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DANTE |
<That is why… despite everything…> |
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DANTE |
<I want Heathcliff to forge on to the rooftop.> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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Catherine |
Those flowers bloom in places like desolate moors or steep cliffsides. |
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Catherine |
So they may appear more lonely than anything else in the world. |
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Heathcliff |
……. |
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Catherine |
Do you want to know why I still love this flower the most? |
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Catherine |
All other flowers lose their colours and fade as they wither away. |
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Catherine |
But this flower… even as it withers and wilts… |
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Catherine |
… remains the same colour. |
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Catherine |
So when you're gone, I will dry these flowers and decorate my room with them. |
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Heathcliff |
Uh… what, like make rings of them flowers? Don't say something so foolish. |
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Heathcliff |
Why would I ever leave you? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
So stupid… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I never once realized what she meant by those words. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Everything you've ever said, Catherine… was an expression of love. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, I'm back. |
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DANTE |
<Heathcliff!> |
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ISHMAEL |
Where the hell did you go? You blipped out of existence when the lightning struck, and… |
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HONG LU |
Are you okay, Heathcliff? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
No. It hurts. It still hurts like hell. But… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I will move past you and make my way to the rooftop, Nelly. |
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Nelly |
… You're… what? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Heathcliff the Erlking will not be my future. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You, him… you both had access to every knowledge, but made the same choices anyway. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Not me. I'm going to make a different choice. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… Thank you so much for looking after us, Nelly. It must have been very hard. |
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FAUST |
Among the three individuals mentioned in Miss Catherine's will… |
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FAUST |
Since Hindley and Linton are now both clearly deceased… |
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FAUST |
… it can be said that, at least on paper, the ownership of Wuthering Heights has been transferred to Heathcliff. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I'll give you a new future, Nelly. I'll give you freedom. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
So start writing as you will. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Write your own tale. Or whatever else it is that you wish to do. |
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Nelly |
I'm… free to go…? I've been… freed? Then I… I can finally… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
The hell are you lot doing down there, faffin' about? Come on up. |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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DANTE |
<For the first time… I really have no idea what you're thinking right now.> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Thinking? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't really 'think' that hard, mate. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I just clearly know what I have to do. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
That's all. |
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… |
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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… |
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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 |
…! |
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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… |
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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 |
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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… |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Catherine |
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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. |
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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
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HEATHCLIFF |
No. |
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DANTE |
<The seventh lightning has struck…> |
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DANTE |
<She's… being overwritten by a Catherine from a different world…> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Please don't do this, Catherine. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I endured everything for you. Everything at the manor. Everything I suffered out there. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
All I ever wanted was to see you again… to return to this manor, to meet you… |
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Every Catherine |
……. |
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Every Catherine |
Catherine! |
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Every Catherine |
Why have you changed your mind?! Have you forgotten our wish? |
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Every Catherine |
You have spent countless days and nights watching how Heathcliff suffers! The suffering that we have inflicted upon him! |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Catherine |
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Every Catherine |
Does it not matter to you, what happens to every Heathcliff in every world? Are you truly so selfish that you feel detached from its consequences? |
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Every Catherine |
I am Heathcliff. My greatest miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I have watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself! |
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Every Catherine |
If all else remained, and he were annihilated… no Catherine should seem a part of that world any longer! |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Cathy! You are here, somewhere…! Where are you?! |
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DANTE |
<The Identity… something's gone wrong with the summoning.> |
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FAUST |
It is likely that Miss Catherine's will is intervening in the summoning. |
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ISHMAEL |
She's… refusing the summoning? |
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Every Catherine |
Do not obstruct me! Summon me, if your love for Heathcliff is true! |
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
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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DANTE |
<Faust. If… if things don't get any better…> |
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DANTE |
<What will happen to them?> |
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FAUST |
Erlking Heathcliff, once he kills Heathcliff of this world for good… will leap over to other worlds to slay other versions of Heathcliff. |
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FAUST |
If Catherine's summoning succeeds… she will become another Catherine who leaps between every world, creating more Catherines like herself. |
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DANTE |
<… To what end?> |
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ISHMAEL |
… To an end where there is nothing but the silence and the lamentation of both Heathcliff and Catherine. Wouldn't you agree? |
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DANTE |
<…Huh?> |
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DANTE |
<There's a sound… coming from my device… > |
| [Dante's tablet is brung up. Dante's Notes is brought up, but all the entries are unresponsive; Someone types into the interface:] | ||
| Catherine > Dante. Catherine > I see that you write a diary of your own. Dante > ……. Dante > I wouldn't call it a diary. It's not like I record what happens every day in here… Catherine > That counts as a diary still. Catherine > It is a record of your life. Dante > Then… I suppose it is. Dante > Catherine. Catherine > Just before the break of dawn, during the quietest hours of the day… I would write in my diary. Catherine > Especially on days when I suffered from fevers. I could not bear to keep going without vomiting every fault of mine on a piece of paper. Catherine > I was always honest with my diary. Catherine > But… Catherine > It seems that I could never be honest anywhere else. Catherine > While I hid my true feelings from the ones I loved… while refusing to communicate myself… I became angry at those who couldn't understand me. Catherine > Heathcliff shall never know. Catherine > He will never know how much I… Catherine > How much I… Heathcliff > No. I have to know. Catherine > Heathcliff? How did you…? Heathcliff > I needed a lot of courage to get here. Heathcliff > Catherine. Heathcliff > It’s all so easy for you. For you to topple me… Heathcliff > For you to ground me up until I'm nothing. Heathcliff > I was so happy whenever you came to visit me. A single glance from you in my direction could brighten my entire day. You were almost like a calamity. Heathcliff > And I have always, always… Heathcliff > … always loved that very calamity that swept over me like the tempest, Catherine. Catherine > ……. Catherine > Thank you. For having the courage. Catherine > Finally, our hearts… Catherine > … are no longer broken apart. Catherine > Dante. May I borrow your diary for a moment? Catherine > The Golden Bough has far more impressive powers than any of us could have ever imagined. Dante > What powers…? Catherine > It has been bringing your own wishes to reality, has it not? Catherine > So… Catherine > The key to my Heathcliff's happiness… Catherine > ……. Catherine > … is in your diary. So I… … looked down at the screen of the device I carried. Something I used to think was nothing but a tool for recording things. | ||
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| [An interface similar to the game's main screen fires up. Clicking other areas of the screen leads everything, except the 'Clear All Cathy' button on the bottom left, to darken.] [Clicking on the 'Clear All Cathy' button and Proceeding…] | ||
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| [The progress bar reaches 20%.] | ||
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Catherine |
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| [The progress bar reaches 50%.] | ||
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Catherine |
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| [The progress bar reaches 75%.] | ||
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Catherine |
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[A Golden Light fills the screen.] [Cleared All Cathy.]
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Erlking Heathcliff |
Where are you, Cathy?! I wish to have you in my embrace again. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I have felt your presence all along. I knew for certain that you have been haunting me. |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
You lie not beneath the cold earth; you are beside me, are you not? |
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Every Catherine |
Heathcliff! Why do you refuse to embrace me? |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine…! |
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Every Catherine |
Do come to me, Heathcliff! Whisk me away and embrace me in your heart—the gust here is too cold; my body is turning into ice. Only by your warmth shall the frost thaw! |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
They were… |
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Erlking Heathcliff |
I see… I let my conviction… blind myself to the other possibilities… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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Nelly |
Finally, there isn't anything left. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Nelly… are you taking the Golden Bough? |
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Nelly |
But Heathcliff… |
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Nelly |
You are a good, kindhearted boy, aren't you? I'm certain you understand. |
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Nelly |
I suppose I will bring this to the one who first showed me the mirror shard. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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Nelly |
You know it's futile. |
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Nelly |
You and your friends… have fought battle after battle, pushed yourselves past the brink of exhaustion. How will you stop a Chief Butler who has waited for this precise moment? |
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Nelly |
They can turn the clock, but I will no longer be here once the hands turn once. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Sure. I can't stop you now. But… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But I'll get it all back. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
The Golden Bough. My Catherine. |
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Nelly |
……. |
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Nelly |
Catherine? Who are you talking about? |
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Nelly |
I can't say I understand what you are talking about, Heathcliff. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… I know. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
That name no longer means anything to you or anyone else. Nothing but an ink stain remains where she once stood. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
But she's never been clearer to me. So, so clear that it can never be erased. |
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Nelly |
Well, if you are that desperate… then I hope your wish shall come true one day. |
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Nelly |
It is said that the Golden Bough can make any wish… any heart… come true. |
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FAUST |
The Golden Bough is burnt white. It appears that someone has made off with the other. |
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DANTE |
<Nelly… took the other one. The one that's intact.> |
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GREGOR |
She must've taken it to her. |
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GREGOR |
… Hermann. |
| [The Sinners recover the burnt-white Golden Bough.] | ||
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
This isn't a failure. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We'll get it back. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Even if our hearts may be broken apart, if I give it my all… we'll be connected once again. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
As they did, even in the world where Catherine and I were both dead. |
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SINCLAIR |
Is Catherine… the name of the person in this coffin? |
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SINCLAIR |
I'm sorry, everything feels so… foggy… |
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FAUST |
The coffin and the person that lies within will be taken back to the headquarters by the After Team. |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
No. I'm still… not okay. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Those flowers… are called heath. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
The loneliest flowers that take root and bloom in the wild moorlands… But they're also flowers that survive no matter what devastating tempest comes their way. They endure it all and wait. |
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DANTE |
<Wait for… what?> |
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HEATHCLIFF |
I don't know. The time, I suppose. |
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GREGOR |
Woahh! Go after it! GO! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, it took off. Where the bloody hell are you lookin' at?! |
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SINCLAIR |
Well, maybe you should've told me that first?! |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Oi, I told you to send 'em this way! I'll smash your head in once this is over! |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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DANTE |
<Long time no— Wait. Why are you… how do you still have color?> |
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Demian |
Because the light is yet to reach me. |
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Demian |
Because a star is an unfathomable distance away. |
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Demian |
Do you like flowers too, Dante? |
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DANTE |
<Um…> |
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DANTE |
<I think I've come to like them.> |
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Demian |
Imagine that there was a single rose you've taken care of for a long time. |
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Demian |
Your room was always brimming from the sweet aroma of that flower. |
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Demian |
But one day, you leave the rose behind to go on a long, long journey. |
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Demian |
In your journey, you come across a large garden… and there, you see thousands of the very same rose you once cared for. That sight… brings you to tears, and you drop to your knees. |
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Demian |
… Why do you suppose that is? |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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DANTE |
<Because I've finally come to understand.> |
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DANTE |
<That the one I truly loved was the rose I'd left behind.> |
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Demian |
Correct. |
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Demian |
Even though there are thousands of roses in this world, there is but one rose that is mine. |
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Demian |
You've watered it diligently, cared for it, even as its thorns pricked your fingers. So that your care makes its aroma bloom. |
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Demian |
I suppose that's how it was for Heathcliff and Catherine as well. Knowing that there are infinite Catherines and Heathcliffs in countless worlds… they wished not for the happiness of infinite Catherines and Heathcliffs but for the happiness of each other. Because to them, each other was the one that truly mattered. |
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Demian |
But it would take most people a long, long time to understand that. Because most people are foolish. |
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Demian |
Do you understand? Once I learn to properly love my very own flower… |
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Demian |
I no longer need to protect the thousands of other roses in the world. |
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Demian |
People of this star care for thousands of rose blossoms in their own gardens… but still fail to find what they really desire. |
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DANTE |
<… But what of the other flowers that have already bloomed?> |
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DANTE |
<What happens to them?> |
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Demian |
You will find the answer to that question yourself… |
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Demian |
… when you can draw me a sheep. |
Story Chapters
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| Main Story | |||
| Detour Tales | Intervallos | ||
| Mini Episodes | |||
