Lobotomy E.G.O::Solemn Lament Yi Sang/Identity Story
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Speaker | Dialogue |
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Yi Sang |
Nay, I have rested well enough. Oft I am summoned for work, yet I despise it not; thus there is no need for you to worry. |
An invisible bell resounds two pleasant, high-pitched rings. | |
The only sounds within the containment unit are the child's voice and the bell. | |
Yi Sang |
You worry that I may be overstraining myself…? Perhaps I would say that, were the current workload much worse than usual. Yet it is as burdensome as it always has been, thus familiar; which in turn makes it rather… passable. |
But the child replies as though he is engaged in a mutual conversation with something. | |
It is likely that the Abnormality with the head of a butterfly is directly transmitting its voice to this Agent. | |
Yi Sang |
In fact, I find this work—this dialogue—rather pleasant. A conversation with you seems to broaden my perspective on things. |
The Abnormality chatting with the child is a rather difficult entity to manage. | |
T-01-68, also known as Funeral of the Dead Butterflies. | |
This Abnormality is rather choosy about which employee gets to manage it. | |
Those with an unjust heart find nothing but a waste of time conversing with it… | |
… and those that are rash of heart will quickly find themselves exhausted. | |
That is what makes this child a most fitting employee to manage this Abnormality. | |
He has an appropriate amount of both a sense of justice and patience; and despite the fact that he is suppressing the Abnormality's impulses, he does it through a gentle method of engaging in a mutual dialogue, not by force. | |
The Abnormality is probably intelligent enough to recognize that it is an attempt to manage it, but it does not allow it to bother him. | |
Whichever was the case, it was rare to find an Agent whose mind does not immediately crumble upon conversing with it. | |
Yi Sang |
Hm… |
A dull sound of a bell echoes once. | |
Yi Sang |
Ah, I was merely watching the butterfly resting upon the back of your hand. |
Yi Sang |
They are… those with no place to return, thus are bound to rest upon you. Is that correct? |
Instead of a bell, the large butterfly atop the Abnormality's head slowly flutters its wings. | |
A behavior equivalent to a nod, perhaps. | |
Yi Sang |
Should you perish… will the butterflies flutter away again? |
Yi Sang |
As one sits, only to rise again. |
There is no easy way to comprehend what this child is saying. | |
It is rather difficult to understand what he means— He should know that 'death' is not a concept applicable to the Abnormalities. | |
But… | |
… the clear, almost refreshing sound of the bell conveyed that this Work session yielded a positive result. | |
The Abnormality quite enjoyed that response. Probably. | |
Yi Sang |
Mm. Then I shall take my leave. Until next time, fare well. |
With that, the child exited the containment unit. | |
He stands there for a moment, gladly enjoying that brief moment of respite… | |
Ryōshū |
Still trapped in a daydream? |
Yi Sang |
… Captain Ryōshū. |
… only to be awoken from his ruminations by the child with a cigarette in her mouth: Captain of the Safety Team. | |
Ryōshū |
Treating Abnormalities like they're people will only complicate things. |
Ryōshū |
Don't make me S.I.T.[1] |
Yi Sang |
… I am only giving it the impression of it. As you are well aware, this Abnormality is— |
Ryōshū |
At least try to hide your grin when— Tsk. We don't have time for this. |
Announcement |
[Warning. Dawn of Violet Warning. First Warning Trumpet Activated. All Suppression units in each department—] |
Yi Sang |
An Ordeal descends. |
Ryōshū |
Yes, it does. You're coming with me. |
Yi Sang |
… I don't suppose there is any need for that. |
The child wields the guns imbued with butterflies and stands back-to-back with the Captain. | |
Ryōshū |
Tsk. Things aren't going according to plan. |
Yi Sang |
What, pray tell, does in this company? |
Ryōshū |
… Stay here and hold the line. |
Ryōshū |
If you survive but every single containment unit of this department falls, I'll kill you myself. Got that? |
Yi Sang |
Ah, that is a manner of death I would very much prefer to avoid… |
The child mutters with an exasperated frown while the butterfly bullets continue to blast from his guns. | |
He'd grown into a very skilled employee over his time here, enough so that he could exchange a few banters with his colleague as he engaged in combat. | |
Yi Sang |
Will you not assist, Captain? |
Ryōshū |
I'm heading to visit the Information Team to pick up the 'bullets' they moved from the middle layer. |
Yi Sang |
The bullets… I see. The bullets must be the Shield-type bullets the manager and the Sephirot fire to protect us, then. |
Ryōshū |
Hmph. I prefer the bullet that bursts everything it touches. Isn't there true beauty in blast an annoying coworker's head apart? |
Ryōshū |
But I suppose the useful ones get to live. |
Ryōshū |
The Control Team Captain ordered her men to move the bullet stock from the middle to the upper layer. For some 'information training purposes', she says. |
Yi Sang |
Ah. Is it Captain Faust of whom you speak? |
Yi Sang |
Then the training cannot have been her 'purpose'… only an 'excuse' to ensure we have access to the bullets. |
Yi Sang |
As that level of preparation appears rather unnecessary for Ordeals of Dawn… patently, a calamity of greater magnitude is nigh to unfold. |
Ryōshū |
It'll be a waste to use the bursting bullet on someone useful like you. |
Yi Sang |
I heard tale that the Sephirah in charge of Captain Faust's department maintains quite the… dangerously high standard for her subordinates. |
Malkuth |
[Testing, testing! Can you hear me, upper layer employees? I will be in charge of the operations for this Ordeal, so please follow my directions!] |
Ryōshū |
She can try to come up with something airtight, but she's not smart enough for that. The Captain must have prepared those countermeasures for such emergencies. |
Yi Sang |
Ah, yet the more complicated the structure of a thing is, the greater the room it is for holes to go unnoticed. |
Malkuth |
[And I mean all of you, Training Team, Information Team, and Safety Team! I know that our employees can handle this!] |
Ryōshū |
Hmph. I suppose she's not lying. Considering that an employee who 'can't handle it' is no employee at all in her eyes. |
With that, the Captain spun around and disappeared into the other side of the hallway. | |
Yi Sang |
Haah… |
Left alone, the child turns the muzzles of his handguns toward the violet creatures. | |
Yi Sang |
Fruits of Understanding… have you not lost your ways? |
He carries out his duty, firing butterflies as lost as his foes. | |
Yi Sang |
I mourn you… bloom, and be the path for one another to follow. |
In solemn silence. |
Footnotes
- ↑ "Say It Twice."
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