The Tale of a Great Fixer Who Once Reached for The Dream/Floor 1
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Story: Entry
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Sancho |
Yet Aegis, Fixer of the Zwei Association, refuseth to let this destroy his spirits and sails once again to the great sea in a mere raft! |
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Sancho |
"My dearest compatriots! This trial is but a stepping stone that will bring us to greater heights! One day, we shall proudly engrave today's suffering upon our shields to remember it in better days!" |
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Sancho |
"Thus, this battle is far from over! Find thy courage! Charge!" |
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Sancho |
Then they looked at one another in the eyes, their determination forged in flames… ooh, what a line. |
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Sancho |
[Walking around her room.] Yet! The scores of enemies, already waiting for them in ambush from the shores, loosen thousands of arrows upon them, the sheer quantity eclipsing the very sun… |
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Sancho |
The arrows rained down their fury upon our heroes, yet they stood their ground with their ironclad shields…! |
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Sancho |
Yet, there is no shield sturdy enough to withstand such unending onslaught; even their iron shields began to crack… |
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Sancho |
And as the shields crack, the mental fortitude of his men began to splinter as well, and many were seen slowly backing away from the battle…! |
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Sancho |
[More walking around, eyes sparkling.] "Nay! We shan't ever give up!" |
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Sancho |
"I shall be thy shield and ward, men! Indeed, our iron shields are but tools that may break and splinter. But upon that moment, I shall be the shield by which thou shalt be protected from our foes' arrows!" |
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Sancho |
"The arrows may break my body, but they shall never pierce my righteous heart of justice!" |
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Sancho |
"Row, row! Leave me and push on, men!" |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
No matter what trial may stand in our path… we shan't ever give up… |
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Sancho |
Hm hm! The adventure of to-day was just as exhilarating as it ever was! It hath set fire to the passion in mine heart. |
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Sancho |
Dear… the most valorous Fixer… of the Zwei… |
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Sancho |
How farest thee? 'Tis my hundred-and-thirty-first letter. |
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Sancho |
Prithee, excuse my persistence. 'Tis merely that my passion cannot be well doused. |
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Sancho |
I am soon to be a Fixer myself. |
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Sancho |
And with thy teachings, I shall become a… Fixer most just and persistent who doth not know surrender. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
Forget not, O Don Quixote! Fixer of the future. |
| [Camera focuses on 'I Want You' Zwei Recruitment Poster on wall.] | ||
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Fixer in the Poster |
Forsooth, the foremost virtue of a Fixer must be, and always be the righteous justice. Thou mustn't turn away from the needy, and thou must always put thy entire being into helping them. |
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Sancho |
I am well aware of that myself! |
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Sancho |
Ah, mine adventure on the morrow shall be alongside the Tres Association. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
The Tres Association? Very well! A relatively fledgling, yet quite prolific, Association indeed. It is said that they specialize in tools and arms for the City-dwellers and its Fixers, as well as the Workshops that fabricate and maintain them. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
Hm… indeed, the Associations are established in the order of need for the City. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
Then I must bid thee farewell, until next time. Our next adventure shall be… |
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Sancho |
… The adventure at the Levinwastes of the Ruins, in which the heart of a beastly bird was pierced. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
I look forward to hearing thine exploits. |
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Sancho |
Forsooth. This adventure shall be, as all hath been thus far, a glowing victory! |
| [Knocking.] | ||
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Sancho |
……. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
I recommend you stay put inside. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
There is no way to tell what awaits you past that door. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
I am in agreement. |
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Fixer in the Poster |
Recall the tale of the Red Hood, who met an end most unfortunate from the simple folly of welcoming in a stranger. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
Yet… this knocking upon my gates… |
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Sancho |
… must mean that a soul seeketh mine assistance, wouldst thou not agree? |
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??? |
I believe I've afforded you sufficient restraint. |
| [Flash of red. Enter Vergilius.] | ||
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??? |
The build of this place is quite durable, my lady. |
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??? |
It should be able to withstand assaults from any pursuing Bloodfiends… no, even Bloodfiend Hunters. |
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??? |
It is an entirely different question if they can make it this far down to this Ruin, of course. |
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Sancho |
… Whoever… art thou? |
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??? |
I… |
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Vergilius |
… am your guide. The one who will guide your path in your real adventure. Please, call me Vergilius. |
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Vergilius |
My old… friend has told me that you are a Second Kindred… |
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Sancho |
'Second… Kindred'? Whatever art thou referring to? And… my fellow Fixers here have warned me that I mustn't leave the confines of this chamber… |
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Vergilius |
Mm. Do my eyes not remind you of anything? |
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Sancho |
P-prithee, do not glare at me with such terrifying gaze. |
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Sancho |
And there remains still one-thousand-seven-hundred-and-eight adventures of mine to embark upon. On the morrow I shall depart alongside the Tres Association, and the day after that, with the Hana Association, then— |
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Vergilius |
The Fixers on these posters… They're all from at least several decades ago. It is as my fellow has told me. So much of her slumbers… even her instinctive craving for blood. |
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Vergilius |
Your adventures with them are unimportant. And you won't have to listen to these Fixers anymore. Because… |
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Vergilius |
… doesn't an adventure guided by me, a Fixer bestowed with the title of a Color… sound much better than any of that? |
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Sancho |
…! |
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Sancho |
[Jumps up and down in excitement.] T-thou art a Color?! I have heard mention of such a thing from the magazines! That it is a title, an honor given only to the finest Fixers…!!! |
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Sancho |
I have heard tell that only a very, very few Fixers have been granted such extolment, for it hath been but a brief moment since such honor was established! |
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Vergilius |
Haah… I see that you wished to put every little bit of your past to sleep, even that smell of blood. I will respect your decision and treat you accordingly. |
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Vergilius |
Yes. |
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Vergilius |
I am the guide who will bring you all to the right path. |
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Vergilius |
You must come with me, for this journey demands your company. In return… |
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Vergilius |
… when the time is right, the promised timepiece shall come to be by your side. |
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Sancho |
Promised…? |
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Vergilius |
Yes. You are bound by a promise, just as I am. |
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Vergilius |
So… |
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Sancho |
Gasp… |
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Vergilius |
[Eyes glowing.] Remember these eyes. |
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Vergilius |
Remind yourself time and again every time you look into these eyes that hold the blood of a generation higher than your own. |
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Sancho |
I… have nary clue as to whatever it is that— |
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Vergilius |
I speak of the promise that will one day return to you when the time is right. |
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Vergilius |
Remember it, so that the unforgettable promise will one day return to you, so that you may keep it when the time comes. Even as it eludes you now. |
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Vergilius |
That is the condition of your adventure. |
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Vergilius |
If you are willing to accept these terms, then speak your name to me. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Don Quixote. |
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Don Quixote |
Thou mayest know me as… Don Quixote. |
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Sancho |
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Vergilius? |
Indeed, Sancho. |
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Vergilius? |
[Wearing Sansón's mask.] For all that passion you joined the adventure with, you were nothing but a pretender with a borrowed name. |
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Sansón |
There was but a singular path in your adventure. |
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Sansón |
The path laid by his teachings. |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho. I have conceived an idea most ingenious. |
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Sancho |
Please don't. |
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Don Quixote |
I intend to take part in the Bloodfiend War. |
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Sancho |
You don't mean… |
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Don Quixote |
Indeed. I shall stand with the humans. |
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Sancho |
Not everyone is going to like your 'ingenious idea'. |
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Don Quixote |
… Odd. You sound rather… unsurprised by my suggestion. Did you know that I would suggest as such? |
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Sancho |
I had a feeling that you'd be saying something like that soon. |
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Don Quixote |
Of course, the other Elders will come to lecture me or try to convince me otherwise. |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho. Expect many, many guests. Thus… |
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Sancho |
… Yes, I will prepare cookies baked with cinnamon. The venerated Elder of B Corp. can't seem to stop coughing upon ingesting one of those. |
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Don Quixote |
… I had intended to suggest that you inform all of them of my 'absence' and lock up the castle gates. Yet I find your suggestion more enticing. |
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Sancho |
However, what truly concerns me is the resistance from your Children. |
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Don Quixote |
Ah, you needn't worry, then. |
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Don Quixote |
They are my Family. I am certain they will understand. |
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Don Quixote |
That brings me to a question, however. Sancho, how is it that you are still without Kindreds of your own? |
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Sancho |
I enjoy solitude. |
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Sancho |
I wish to live the rest of my life looking forward and only forward. I would rather not have anyone tag along behind me. |
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Don Quixote |
Speak to me again should that change. |
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Sancho |
It will not. But I will. |
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Sancho |
… This war will be a long and difficult one. |
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Sancho |
Difficult, because we will have to slay our own kind. |
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Don Quixote |
Indeed it shall be. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet… if we may break their faiths only by breaking their skulls… |
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Don Quixote |
… then it shall be a war worth fighting for. |
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Don Quixote |
Now that we are discussing this particular subject, Sancho… |
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Don Quixote |
Should the war end—well, in my victory, obviously… |
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Sancho |
Sure, sure. |
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Don Quixote |
Anyway, should the war end… |
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Don Quixote |
… I intend to build a place in which everyone may be happy. |
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Sancho |
… Happy? |
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Don Quixote |
What is that expression on your face? |
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Sancho |
It has been eons since that word left my lips. |
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Don Quixote |
Do you recall that place, this 'amusement park' she spoke of? The place where people scream and shudder not from fear, but from joy. |
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Don Quixote |
That is the kind of place I intend to build. |
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Sancho |
I still don't quite understand how one screams from joy… |
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Don Quixote |
In that land, Sancho… |
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Don Quixote |
There won't be any wearisome battles to fight. No constant fear of getting devoured… |
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Don Quixote |
There shall be only laughter. |
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Sancho |
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Sansón |
Though I was not a part of your Family, I suppose… I had once looked forward to the realization of his ambitions. As an observer, of course. |
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Sansón |
In this binary world, which has availed us with only two choices, to slaughter humans or to hide underground like rats… he alone was the dreamer who conceived of a third option. |
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Sansón |
Yet… |
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Sansón |
That was no laughter I saw there. They were wailing, wailing so intensely that it had long turned into something that only resembled laughter. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Starved Bloodfiend |
Let us… |
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Starved Bloodfiend |
Let us out of here… Or crush our heads… |
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Sansón |
No. You won't be leaving this place. You won't find death, either. |
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Sansón |
Many, many guests will be lining up to pay a visit to La Manchaland soon. |
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Sansón |
You recall your missions, yes? Though it has been two hundred years, I don't suppose you had a moment go by without remembering them. |
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Craving Bloodfiend |
Humans… humans…? Here, again? |
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Craving Bloodfiend |
It's a festival! The festival's not over! |
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Sansón |
……. |
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Sansón |
Can people change? |
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Sancho |
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Don Quixote |
A long, painful battle lies ahead of us. |
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Don Quixote |
The Bloodfiends that will hate and despise us will be countless. Their hatred will be inconceivable. |
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Don Quixote |
They will call us traitors to our own kind. |
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Don Quixote |
They will claim that our nature cannot change; that our existence is destined to prey upon humans, something they accept as an immutable truth. |
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Don Quixote |
We will be forced to sever our bonds with whom we had shared our suffering for centuries. Those who feel the very same disease that ails us. |
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Don Quixote |
Our only kindred spirits in this lonely world. |
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Don Quixote |
Thus, now is your final chance. |
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Don Quixote |
If you do not wish to participate, if you refuse, then I will not stop you. |
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Sancho |
I refuse. |
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The Barber |
Has she gone mad…? |
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Don Quixote |
… W-wait, really? |
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Sancho |
I know you won't let me go anyway. |
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Sancho |
Just as a child cannot stop being an offspring of their parent, even if they wish they were. |
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The Priest |
……. |
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The Priest |
On that day… when the Machine Purge took place… I was already a dead man. |
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The Priest |
The will of the Father is the will of my own. |
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The Barber |
I haven't had the chance to sharpen my scissors as of late. I'll enjoy this. |
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Don Quixote |
Very well. What of you, dear Dulcinea? |
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Dulcinea |
……. |
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Dulcinea |
Do as you will. |
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Don Quixote |
I am very glad to have my Children stand by my side. |
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Don Quixote |
Worry not, for I am the strongest there is. As you must all be well aware. |
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Don Quixote |
Instead, worry about what is to come once the war ends in our victory… |
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Don Quixote |
Worry about our lives thereafter, about how we will live on. |
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Sancho |
Well, how will you live on? |
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Don Quixote |
I do not know as of yet. However… I suppose… |
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Don Quixote |
… We should be able to lead a more joyous life than we do now. |
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Don Quixote |
To live without our fates bound to murder of a fellow living being… wouldn't you agree that such a life would be a better one? |
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Don Quixote |
You have finally returned to me, my Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
What joyous day this is… to have all my Children by my side, once again. |
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Don Quixote |
Have you said your greetings? You do not know how much we all longed to see you again, Sancho… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
What have they done to you? |
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Don Quixote |
Ah… this…? |
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Don Quixote |
When I could no longer count the number of stakes that have broken my flesh… when the counting itself lost its meaning… |
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Don Quixote |
I saw a light in the sky. And this… melded into my body. |
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DANTE |
<… Ah!> |
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DANTE |
<That's… the Fathoms of Ego. W-we should go after her, now.> |
Floor Map
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Story Episodes
A Borrowed Name
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Jia Xichun |
Is… is that really the same girl who embarrassed herself in a duel against the Cinq Fixer? How is she killing so many Bloodfiends with such little effort…? |
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RODION |
Was she hiding her strength…? No, that doesn't seem right. But… |
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RODION |
… She's a Bloodfiend…? |
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OUTIS |
How absurd. That creature, who deceived us with the false name Don Quixote, was a Bloodfiend all along? |
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OUTIS |
Hiding and lurking, pretending to be human… |
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GREGOR |
That's enough. Don't you think that's too much? |
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OUTIS |
I could be much worse if I wanted to be. But I have enough sense to hold myself back in front of the Executive Manager. |
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OUTIS |
The top brass of the company must've already been aware of this, obviously. Of this Bloodfiend, hiding in our ranks like a snake, biding her time for a chance to sink her teeth into us… |
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RODION |
But… those stories we saw earlier… |
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RODION |
She wasn't hiding it. She really believed that she was human, that her name was Don Quixote. |
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OUTIS |
"According to those stories we saw earlier", everything she has told us up to this point was a lie. Everything we've known about her was a lie. |
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OUTIS |
How many humans do you think this Bloodfiend has killed in the past? |
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OUTIS |
I understand the duplicitous nature of this company, yes. However, to subject me and the Executive Manager to such a high-risk situation, and to just let it happen is— |
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FAUST |
We have never 'just let it happen'. |
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OUTIS |
Fine. What now, then? |
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OUTIS |
It seems that we're not here to eradicate La Manchaland; because from where I'm standing, it looks like we're only helping it come together! |
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SINCLAIR |
Don Quixote… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
That is not my name. |
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Sancho |
That is the name of my Father. |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho. You… |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
I see… |
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Don Quixote |
… Not even you could change. Not even a little. |
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Sancho |
No. I haven't. |
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Sancho |
Nothing… nothing changed. |
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Sancho |
Look at me. |
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Sancho |
Your Rocinante has suppressed me for but a passing moment. I am still the same bloodsucking Bloodfiend who cannot survive without bleeding others. |
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Sancho |
Just as how your La Manchaland regressed to nothing but a hunting ground for us to prey on humans. |
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Don Quixote |
… Yes, it has. |
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Don Quixote |
I was wrong… |
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Don Quixote |
People… can't change. |
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Don Quixote |
We have no choice… but to live shackled onto the path dictated by this disease. |
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Don Quixote |
My Family, whom I love so much… have tried to convince me, to turn me to their side… |
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Don Quixote |
… yet I was too slow. I was the only one who didn't understand, until it was too late. |
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Sancho |
Nicolina, Curiambro, Dulcinea… is this their doing? Have they tortured you so? |
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Don Quixote |
Yes. A throne most fitting for such a pathetic lord, wouldn't you say…? |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho… I thought my heart would well with joy and happiness upon laying my eyes upon you again… |
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Don Quixote |
Yet there is only… sorrow… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
I thought you… at least you would have explored the world outside in my stead, experiencing adventures even more wonderful than the ones I've heard… |
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Don Quixote |
But this poor soul I see before me… |
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Don Quixote |
Is no different from me… nor my Family… |
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Don Quixote |
… Just a blood-starved, red-eyed victim of this sickness… [Voice grows distant. Exit.] |
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DANTE |
<The space we're in… it's changing…> |
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SINCLAIR |
His emotions must be affecting the Golden Bough… |
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ISHMAEL |
Inside the body of that Pallid Whale we encountered at the Great Lake… |
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ISHMAEL |
… was a Golden Bough, wasn't it? |
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GREGOR |
Yeah… burrowed deep into its heart. |
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MEURSAULT |
A form of existence similar to parasitism. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
So… what now? |
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DANTE |
<…….> |
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OUTIS |
Executive Manager. While that man with a Golden Bough in his torso may have once been a powerful being in the past, he seems to have been severely weakened due to an unknown reason. Just say the word, and I will— |
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RYŌSHŪ |
Foolishness. He's not the problem here. It's her—she smells different. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
Give me a heads up if you're going to ask us to fight her, Clock. I'd like a chance to burn a last cig before I go. |
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DANTE |
<I'm… going to try talking to her first.> |
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ISHMAEL |
I'll go with you, Dante. Guys, this way. |
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Sancho |
Back off. |
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Sancho |
You have brought me, a Second Kindred, here with an explicit purpose. |
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Sancho |
So that I may punish the Bloodfiends who have committed such sin against my Father. So that I may end his suffocating, meaningless existence. |
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SINCLAIR |
But we… we had no idea. It wasn't our intention to— |
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FAUST |
Yes, that was precisely our intention. |
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FAUST |
Only I and Dante, who remained conscious during the events of the WARP train, were aware of this. |
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SINCLAIR |
What… did you say? |
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FAUST |
… This omission… could not be helped. Faust is forbidden from being the first to share a Sinner's past. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
S.P.R.[1] |
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ISHMAEL |
But it wasn't just for Don Quixote. She hid Gregor's past. Sinclair's past. She didn't talk about either of them until they were ready to talk about it themselves… or were made to. |
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OUTIS |
… I believe it is false equivalency to compare this to those cases when it is evident that this was a case of subterfuge. She was an enemy in our midst, which makes your comparison moot. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Bloody hell… can't you see? Your reaction is exactly why they didn't tell us! |
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Jia Xichun |
… Messy. |
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HONG LU |
Ahh… it's because we all care so much about each other. |
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YI SANG |
Please, stop this. I fear that it may become rather untoward should we continue to spiral. |
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RODION |
Yeah. Hong Lu's little sister's here watching us, guys. |
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DANTE |
<I just hoped you'd… understand…> |
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DANTE |
<… and come back to our side. To be one of us again.> |
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Sancho |
To be one of you…? |
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Sancho |
But you do not know of our eons of suffering. You do not know of our battles, our struggles, our agony, our victories. I don't suppose you ever will. |
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Sancho |
I will slowly look into each and every one of those torturous moments and rekindle my buried memories. |
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Sancho |
And with every memory, it'll all rise to the surface once again. The wrath, the hatred, the loathing. |
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Sancho |
Thus… |
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Sancho |
… I can no longer be one of you again. |
Abject Failure 1
Pre-battle
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Don Quixote |
[Distant voice.] How glad I am to have you back, Sancho… With you by our side, this place shall be even happier. |
|
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Don Quixote |
My Family… has finally found true happiness. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Because they have suffered far too long… they deserve this happiness, more so than anyone. |
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Don Quixote |
With your return… to La Manchaland… we shall fill this place with even more laughter. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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OUTIS |
Laughter? What a joke. |
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OUTIS |
We are here to exterminate your kind. |
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Don Quixote |
… We have been through so much together, have we not? Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
Let us show them what we have lived through… to these ignorant outsiders… |
| [Static.] | ||
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Sancho |
You were… foolhardy. |
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Don Quixote |
Our foes were… Bloodfiends who had grown to the size of giants. Those who had drunk so much human blood that it was boiling, overflowing out of their bodies. |
|
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Don Quixote |
They were formidable foes. Our battles were… challenging. |
|
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Sancho |
Even there, you dreamed. |
|
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Don Quixote |
A hollow dream… nothing more. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Hark, my dearest compatriots! Art thou ready for this battle?! We shall soon strike the battlefield with our full might; speak, if aught ails thee! |
|
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
"Aught" ails me. |
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Don Quixote |
Ahem! O Sancho, thou art recognized! Speak thy mind! |
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Sancho |
Why are you talking like that? |
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Don Quixote |
'Tis only right that a Fixer-to-be must speak in a manner befitting of his stature. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Ah, and mine heart beats with such volition whenever I speak in such a manner. O Sancho, prithee, why dost thou not speak as I— |
|
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Defiant Bloodfiend |
KEEAAAGGHHH! |
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Sancho |
Because it's ridiculously juvenile. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Yet, I cannot help but cherish that day when we ran across the green fields together, tasting the freedom… |
|
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Sancho |
You were ambushed by Bloodfiends who broke your lance. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Yes. A lance… you had crafted me of your own blood. |
|
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Don Quixote |
It was… a mistake. I underestimated my foes; a rather unfortunate yet unshakable habit of mine. |
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Sancho |
I remember telling you to be mindful of them. |
|
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Don Quixote |
A powerful gust knocked me into the air before smiting me down into the grass… |
|
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Don Quixote |
… And you hurried to my side, didn't you? I remember your face, your breathing hastened from worry. |
|
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Sancho |
I wasn't that desperate. |
|
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Don Quixote |
As I lay upon my back, gasping at the sky from the shock… |
|
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Don Quixote |
… you appeared into that view. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Perhaps… it was that moment that led us to victory in that war. |
|
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Sancho |
You were already certain of your own victory even before the war began. |
|
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Don Quixote |
I must wonder if that was the moment I had begun to think that we could really change. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Watching you, who hated running all your life, breathlessly sprinting to my side… |
|
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Don Quixote |
… I thought perhaps we were all changing, little by little. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
[Distant voice.] Yet I… we… failed, Sancho. |
|
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Don Quixote |
And everything around us… is a record, a testament to our failures. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Look around as you will, Sancho. At our desolation… |
Post-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
|
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Jia Xichun |
……. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
So that Bloodfiend… is the same person as that friend of yours who saved my life earlier? |
|
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HONG LU |
Yep. Same person. |
|
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OUTIS |
Are you insane? Does any of this not register to you? The things she's been saying? This "Don Quixote" is no— |
|
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HONG LU |
Mm… but she's still the same person, from where I'm standing. |
|
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OUTIS |
Damn it… damn it all…! Cowards and milksops, all of you…! If that creature suddenly turns violent against us like an unpredictable animal she is, we'll— |
|
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DANTE |
<Outis.> |
|
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OUTIS |
… Yes. |
|
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DANTE |
<We're going to follow Don Quixote… I mean, Sancho.> |
|
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OUTIS |
But that is— |
|
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DANTE |
<Sorry, let me finish.> |
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OUTIS |
… Yes. My apologies. |
|
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DANTE |
<I can't know exactly what you're thinking. I can't read minds, you know. But I do know that you are unhappy about this.> |
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OUTIS |
……. |
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DANTE |
<I should be able to explain everything to you in due time. So…> |
|
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DANTE |
<… I would like for you to trust and follow me through this path, which I believe is our way to victory.> |
|
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DANTE |
<Remember how every mission we have done so far led to me resonating with the Golden Bough? And how that was the key to solving them?> |
|
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DANTE |
<It won't be different this time, proba— No, it won't be different, I'm sure of it.> |
|
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OUTIS |
… If that is your wish… |
|
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OUTIS |
… then it is my command. |
|
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DANTE |
<Sorry about forcing you to come along…> |
|
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OUTIS |
… Regardless of the outcome of this operation, and regardless of the soundness of your reasoning… I, Outis, did not fold before the authority given to you by your rank. |
|
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OUTIS |
My decision to follow you is based on your effort to understand and explain the potential risks I have pointed out to you. That is why… I comply now to your wisdom. |
|
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OUTIS |
Or, perhaps the memories of your past are subconsciously affecting your current behavior. |
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DANTE |
<I don't remember a thing, though…> |
|
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OUTIS |
Don Quixote… Executive Manager… Amnesia has certainly made things difficult for many of us, hasn't it? |
|
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HONG LU |
There are so many ways to erase people's memories in the City, after all. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
… Yeah. There are plenty of ways to remove people's memories, and that's just counting what's public. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
The most common method is moving someone's memory into a different object, or a person. Some parts of the City even sell them as local products. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Another is to completely destroy the memories. It's cheap, but because it comes with the risk of affecting other memories, only desperate Backstreets dwellers use this method. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
And… now we know the final method, which has so far been unknown, and remains inaccessible even now. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
The River of Oblivion… also known as Lethe. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Drinking the waters of this River allows one to bury their memories beyond the veil of their consciousness, to the point where they become uncertain, hazy, and dim like the memories from a dream. |
|
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HONG LU |
So that's what you've been looking for… Xichun. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Not exactly. It's a different stream, somewhere near the River of Oblivion. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
I suspect that the River I'm searching for has something to do with the immortality of the mind that our elders have been seeking so desperately. |
|
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HONG LU |
Ah. To be free from aging and death, right? |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Yeah, that old, tiresome thing. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
……. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
That's why these scant traces of this 'Bari' are so important to me. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
I can't tell you in any greater detail, but I see them. I can see her ancient traces here. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Come on, this is important to you too. If we want to survive as heirs, we have to find that thing that our elders seek, that immortali— |
|
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HONG LU |
I see. So this is where we have to go our separate ways. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Yeah. |
|
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RODION |
Leaving us already? |
|
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HONG LU |
The path diverges, and we must each take the other trail. It's time to say goodbye. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
… If your friend had really lost her memories from drinking the waters of the River of Oblivion… |
|
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Jia Xichun |
… then she has to be extremely disoriented. Coming to terms with the realization that those hazy, nightmarish visions were in fact her own memories, that they weren't just dreams, has to be… |
|
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HONG LU |
… Yes. It will be sad. And complex. |
|
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HONG LU |
After all, who is the dreamer? Is it myself as I had existed in that dream, or myself who has awakened from it? |
|
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HONG LU |
Well. Whichever it may be, whether it is a butterfly or not, I guess it will flutter away once again.[2] |
|
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HONG LU |
Thank you for letting me know, Xichun. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
… Yeah. I guess you haven't been spending your time chasing the clouds out here, brother. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
I'll see you around. I have a feeling we'll be seeing each other again very soon. |
|
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DANTE |
<……> |
|
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HONG LU |
If you say so, Xichun, then it will be so. |
|
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Jia Xichun |
Don't bother saying goodbye. It'll be a waste of time. |
Abject Failure 2
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
|
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DANTE |
<Don Quixote…> |
|
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Sancho |
A name that was once my salvation. |
|
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Sancho |
Our own kind had disowned us. The humans considered us hideous. |
|
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Sancho |
I'll admit. We were all smiling and laughing when we began laying the foundations of La Manchaland. |
|
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Sancho |
Because we truly believed in the delusion that we could subsist on smidgeons of blood and some 'hemobars'. |
| [Static.] | ||
|
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Don Quixote |
Gather around, all. We finally have a prototype of that 'thing' me and the Barber have been working on for years. |
|
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Sancho |
What is this, a brick? |
|
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Don Quixote |
Coagulated blood. |
|
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Don Quixote |
It has every nutrient we need to survive. |
|
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Dulcinea |
……. |
|
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Dulcinea |
Tastes like… pastel paste. |
|
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The Barber |
Flavor is a luxury, Lady Dulcinea! |
|
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The Barber |
This is the best we could've done with the flavor. |
|
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Don Quixote |
As long as we can get a steady supply of a paltry amount of blood voluntarily given by humans, we can continue to mass-produce these hemobars. |
|
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The Priest |
Oh… how splendid. |
|
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Don Quixote |
I plan to provide a steady supply of this item for our Family here at La Manchaland. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Remember. As long as La Manchaland survives, we'll be the pride and joy of all Bloodfiends. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Because we'll be the living proof that… we need not kill—need not consume blood to coexist alongside humans. That we need not be defined by our nature. |
|
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Don Quixote |
And I guarantee you, we'll be getting plenty of guests around here. |
|
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Sancho |
How can you be so certain? |
|
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Don Quixote |
Because the world outside was as dreary and austere as the world I'd been living in. |
|
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Don Quixote |
I am quite certain that deep inside, even humans… |
|
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Don Quixote |
… are desperately waiting for something to bring joy into their lives. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Which brings me to my subsequent point. What if I were to appear in person at the end of the Parade? What say you? |
|
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Don Quixote |
That would certainly get the crowd going with the applause and cheers, don't you think? |
|
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The Barber |
Of course! I will make you an outfit so dazzling that you may shine brighter than anyone else. |
|
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Dulcinea |
I doubt you'll surpass my popularity. |
|
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Dulcinea |
I am second to none when it comes to beauty, after all. |
|
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Don Quixote |
Of course not, Dulcinea. None shall claim greater beauty before you, who are as incandescent as gold. Even still— |
|
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Sancho |
If this meeting is about to devolve into frivolity again, I will now take my leave. |
| [Static.] | ||
|
|
Sancho |
Yes. Just as he had expected… |
|
|
Sancho |
… La Manchaland began teeming with human guests. |
Abject Failure 3
Post-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
| ||
|
|
DANTE |
<Abnormalities, here…?> |
| [Camera focuses on L Corp. logo on the wall.] | ||
|
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DANTE |
<… Huh, yeah. How come there's a Lobotomy Corp. logo inside La Manchaland?> |
|
|
YI SANG |
Perhaps… |
|
|
YI SANG |
Mm, now may not be the appropriate time, for too much is still veiled in mysteries to utter with certitude. |
|
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DANTE |
<Oh, uh…> |
|
|
DANTE |
<… Okay. Let me know when you're more certain.> |
|
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YI SANG |
Mm, I shall. |
|
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DANTE |
<Okay, then… let's get back on track and keep following Sancho.> |
The Great Adventure
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
 | ||
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Sancho |
More and more Bloodfiends are starting to suffer. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
Sancho. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
How rude of you to attempt to lecture our Father? |
|
|
Sancho |
I am only notifying him of what I am seeing out there. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Ah, Sancho. I have been discussing with Dulcinea about the pathing of the Parade. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
It seems that your Area is the most popular out of them all, Dulcinea. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
Of course. It is in nature of all things to be helplessly drawn to beauty. |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
……. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
I don't think I've ever seen the two of you exchange more than three sentences with one another, now that I think about it. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
You're both Second Kindreds of mine, aren't you? Sisters. Would you like to be the 'big sis', Sancho? |
|
|
Sancho |
Absolutely not. I detest this idea. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Then perhaps I would suggest a 'lil sis'— |
|
|
Dulcinea |
I will now take my leave, O Father. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
… Also. |
|
|
Dulcinea |
Please, consider our suggestion regarding that Relic. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Yes, I will. |
| [Static.] | ||
|
|
Don Quixote |
You come at the most appropriate hour, Sancho. Behold, for I have found us a Relic yesterday. |
|
|
Sancho |
You're still searching for them…? |
|
|
Sancho |
I thought you had given up on the idea. The Knight of the White Moon identified the last one, which you had gone through considerable lengths to obtain, mind, was but a forgery. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Yet the merchant claimed that this one was of genuine quality. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Behold the hatch-pattern here; it is identical to the depiction of the helm worn by the founding Fixer of the Hana Association. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Compare it next to this illustration. Do you see the resemblance? |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Sancho |
They duped you. Again. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
… Dammit all, I had a feeling. Damn that peddler to hell. |
|
|
Sancho |
Why are you so desperately seeking these trinkets? |
|
|
Sancho |
You are powerful enough without the crutches these Relics provide. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
It is not for their strength that I seek them. What I truly seek is the body odor of the Fixers who had once worn them, their histories, the tales they have to tell… |
|
|
Don Quixote |
… You look like you're looking at a nutcase. |
|
|
Sancho |
What a relief. At least your eyesight is in fine health. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
This won't do. I would much earlier have those Relics in my hands by going out there myself. |
|
|
Sancho |
That's all well and good, but did you hear what I had to report earlier? That… |
|
|
Don Quixote |
… That Bloodfiends are suffering? |
|
|
Don Quixote |
I did not expect this path we walk to be an easy, paved road. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Yet we will overcome this together, as long as we manage to acclimatize to this. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
You seem to be doing quite well yourself, for one. |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Oh, and Sancho… I have conceived an idea most ingenious. |
|
|
Sancho |
What is it this time…? |
|
|
Don Quixote |
It is truly ingenious this time, so I shall allow you to take a deep breath before I say anything. Are you ready? |
|
|
Sancho |
Yep… |
|
|
Don Quixote |
Won't you set off on an adventure by my side? |
| [Static.] | ||
 | ||
|
|
Sancho |
How did the consultations go? |
|
|
The Priest |
……. |
|
|
The Priest |
All are at peace. Tranquil, as they always are. |
|
|
The Priest |
Speaking of which, did you take your daily dose of hemobar today? |
|
|
Sancho |
I did. |
|
|
The Priest |
Very good. |
|
|
The Priest |
Ah, I heard through the grapevine that you were preparing to embark on an 'adventure' with Father. |
|
|
The Priest |
The sheer idea of it… |
|
|
The Priest |
… I can hardly wait. |
|
|
Sancho |
You… No, it's nothing. You may leave me, now. |
|
Sancho |
||
|
Sancho |
||
| [Static.] | ||
 | ||
|
|
Sancho |
We could never get used to it. |
|
|
Sancho |
The lack of blood… It's incomparable to having one's favorite food taken away from them. |
|
|
Sancho |
It deprived us of everything that made us happy. |
|
|
Sancho |
Drenched in misery, naively hanging onto the belief that everything was going to be okay. Slowly, we… |
|
|
Sancho |
We grew deprived. |
|
|
ISHMAEL |
So that's… |
|
|
ISHMAEL |
… when the two of you left La Manchaland to go on an adventure. |
An Internment For Those Who Could Not Abandon Their Desire 1
Pre-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
 | ||
 |
Corroded Bloodfiend |
I didn't… I had no idea something could taste so delicious…! |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
How did we even survive for so long without tasting something this delectable? How could we ever forget this sensation? |
|
|
HEATHCLIFF |
Dammit, the Bloodfiends found us. |
|
|
MEURSAULT |
They are corroded by an Abnormality. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Y-you… the blood you've spilled thus far… We followed your trail of blood… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Oh… I miss it so much… |
 | ||
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
The day when we had our first accident at La Manchaland… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
The blood dripping from one of our guests… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
We crawled on all fours on the floor just to have a taste of it… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Oh, the elation I felt then… |
|
|
Sancho |
Yes. That's where it all began to fall apart. |
An Internment For Those Who Could Not Abandon Their Desire 2
Pre-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
|
|
OUTIS |
Which Area are you supposed to be a part of? |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
We… are Bloodfiends who did not laugh… So we are not a part of any Area… We're… exiles! |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
To this prison… an internment for those who could not abandon their desires… |
|
|
DANTE |
<… Huh. Doesn't this 'prison'… remind you of the containment units of Lobotomy Corp.?> |
|
|
YI SANG |
Really? Then… |
|
|
YI SANG |
Mm, we have thus far encountered numerous sights of the former L Corp. logos. |
|
|
YI SANG |
Then, it stands to reason that… a Lobotomy Corp. branch was constructed here, upon La Manchaland's sealing. |
|
|
DANTE |
<Then… where'd the branch go…?> |
|
|
YI SANG |
It may be that, in the wake of La Manchaland's reopening, it was cast to the earth below; or, perhaps, this park of amusement has devoured it as the Whale of the Great Lake has done. |
|
|
YI SANG |
Howbeit, this is but a dubitable theory of mine, for we are bereft of further requisite information to be certain. |
|
|
YI SANG |
Hm. Such is all I have to say, yet it may be rather discouraging to hear words of such little substance after being left in the dark for so long. |
|
|
FAUST |
……. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Ah… Lady Sancho… you have returned to our side… to deliver us… |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Do you not… recognize me? |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
We… fought together in the Bloodfiend War… Together… we massacred multiple Families of Bloodfiends… |
|
|
Sancho |
Yes, I recognize you. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
When you disappeared from this place with Father… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
And like always, we started a Parade… like always… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
A parade full of… many happy, happy humans… |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Father wished to find the perpetrator, but… how could he… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
… when we were all in on it? |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Once we smelled blood… we were blinded to all other things… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
… and the Parade continued and continued and continued… and La Manchaland never closed… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
That's when I finally realized something, Lady Sancho. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Even if we were to be punished for a long, long time… for what we have done… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
… we were happy at that moment, so much so… that even eons of incarceration couldn't deter us… |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
The second the blood touched our lips, we felt… life. |
|
|
Corroded Bloodfiend |
Why… why have you forsaken us…? |
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
An Internment For Those Who Could Not Abandon Their Desire 3
Pre-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Sancho |
……. |
|
|
RODION |
H-huh? Why are they attacking Don Quixote? |
|
|
YI SANG |
… A familiar face we encounter… |
 |
Camille? |
Hnnnhhhhhh… |
|
|
HEATHCLIFF |
Wha? What's that bastard doin' here? |
|
|
ISHMAEL |
Huh, right. I thought they were staying away from the three main Areas because they had a different mission from the rest of us? |
|
|
MEURSAULT |
It can be suspected that the change in La Manchaland's structure due to the influence of the Golden Bough has caused them to be swept up among the Bloodfiends. |
|
|
GREGOR |
Huh, swept up? |
|
|
RODION |
Mmh… gotta say, I never liked the guy. But seeing him like this… |
|
|
FAUST |
Dante. |
|
|
DANTE |
<… Yeah. I know what you're about to ask.> |
|
|
DANTE |
<That's… Camille's been corroded. Maybe he resorted to using E.G.O gears or E.G.O Gifts from the Lobotomy Corp. branch…> |
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MEURSAULT |
I can confirm the presence of Paula, his companion. |
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SINCLAIR |
…! |
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SINCLAIR |
Corroded…? Then… like… back at the basement of my home… |
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YI SANG |
Mm… I recall a phenomenon of similitude occurring at K Corp. Perhaps he was assimilated into an E.G.O, the powers of which he could not hope to withstand… |
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FAUST |
It indeed may have been the case that he resorted to the use of E.G.O to even the odds against the numerical disadvantage against the Bloodfiend horde. |
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GREGOR |
… Sacrificed himself for the battle, huh. Haah… |
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OUTIS |
It may as well be that he simply tapped into a power he did not understand. However… I must say that he met an honorable death. It must have been a valiant struggle to the end. |
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DANTE |
<… Come on. Let's help them find peace.> |
200 Years After the Departure 1
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Don Quixote |
No Syndicate shall ever dare invade thy village again after my demonstration of might. Haven't I declared it upon mine arrival that no task is beyond us? |
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Townsfolk |
And you weren't kidding! Thank you so much, Don Quixote and Sancho. |
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Townsfolk |
But, um… how could we repay you…? We don't have much money… |
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Sancho |
Your running shoes look like they could fetch a nice price… |
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Don Quixote |
Fie on thee! A Fixer doth not dole out justice based on promise of capital. |
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Don Quixote |
Still, if thou truly wishest to help, then… wouldst thou behold this flyer? Prithee, spread the word, invite thy fellows and families to this place. |
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Don Quixote |
My most loyal squire, Sancho, shall present thee a better explanation. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Ahem, khm… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Don't just stand there, Sancho. Say something. |
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Don Quixote |
You are supposed to be… my loyal assistant of sorts here. |
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Sancho |
I… refuse to speak in that manner. |
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Sancho |
It's ridiculously juvenile. |
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Don Quixote |
It is that very ridiculous juvenility that adds color to life, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
Besides, how else will humans truly see us as just and valorous Fixers otherwise? |
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Sancho |
It still eludes me how this embarrassing manner of speech has anything to do with being a Fixer. |
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Don Quixote |
Right, right. Let us try this again. Yes? |
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Don Quixote |
Hearken to me, Sancho! My loyal squire! |
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Sancho |
… Haaaah… |
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Don Quixote |
Hark, San— |
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Sancho |
V-verily! |
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Sancho |
Thou mustn't relent, no… matter the hardship. |
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Sancho |
Slow not thy running pace until thou arrivest at thy destination; though hidden it may seem, perseverence shall see thee through. |
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Sancho |
Through to t-the L-la… La Manchaland of… uh, dr-dreams… and… hopes… |
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The Barber |
However… O venerated ancestor, the First Kindred, our Father Don Quixote… |
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The Barber |
[Still bloodied.] I'm sorry. We couldn't possibly live up to those knights in your tales… haha… ha… ha…! |
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Sancho |
Nicolina, the Barber… |
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The Barber |
When Father's eyes lingered on us, he wasn't really looking at us. He gazed beyond where we stood, to the faraway lands… |
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The Barber |
So… so… we told him to go on an adventure he so wished to embark on. |
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Sancho |
We're supposed to love him. More so than anyone. |
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The Barber |
I know! I loved him, too! I looked up to him, I praised him, I spoke of his greatness between my every breath! |
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The Barber |
Do you think you're his only Child? I am too! We are! We all are of his noble bloodline! |
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Sancho |
What you've done… is filial impiety. |
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Sancho |
We smelled the carnage upon our return to La Manchaland once our adventure was over. |
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The Barber |
Yes… Burning with wrath, he descended upon La Manchaland amidst its festival to deliver swift retribution for our transgressions. |
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The Barber |
Haha… haha…! But it was so much fun. That sense of satisfaction, that fullness… |
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The Barber |
Father did not find it within himself to forgive us. But we were prepared for that! That was exactly why we told him of the Relic's whereabouts after all. |
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Don Quixote |
Behold, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
The legendary Relic, Helmet of Mambrino we had so fervently sought is before us. We have the Barber, the Priest, and Dulcinea to thank for telling us of its whereabouts. |
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Don Quixote |
But why… |
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Sancho |
What is it? |
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Don Quixote |
… It's nothing. |
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Don Quixote |
What is with that expression, Sancho? Is the ending of our adventure so truly disheartening? |
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Sancho |
I must wonder how… our Family at La Manchaland fares. |
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Don Quixote |
They must be faring quite well. They are kinder, gentler souls than most. |
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Don Quixote |
Let us hurry back. Bari must be waiting for our arrival. She has always been a step ahead of us. |
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The Barber |
Ah, Sancho… you would have understood had you been here with us. |
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The Barber |
The blissful, nearly ecstatic taste of human blood after such a long drought. Its flavor was madness. |
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Sancho |
No, that was a horrible sight. |
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The Barber |
How odd, though. |
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The Barber |
That you, who was our Father's most loyal Child… was the first to flee. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
I did not flee. |
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Sancho |
He forced Rocinante on my feet, and… |
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Don Quixote |
… Do you understand? You must continue the adventure in my stead. |
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Sancho |
N-no… |
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Sancho |
Let me fight with you. I will fight by your side, even if— |
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Don Quixote |
Follow Bari. She will lead you away from here. |
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Sancho |
Rocinante, stop! Stop walking, NO!!! |
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Sancho |
I don't want to leave, I don't! Why do you refuse to obey me…? |
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Sancho |
Please, please! I don't want an adventure, stop! Please! |
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Sancho |
Please, Rocinante… |
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Sancho |
Don't take me away from here… |
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The Barber |
Ha ha… so that's what happened! That is why our Father was so weakened, why we could not see even a trace of you anywhere within La Manchaland when the dust settled. |
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The Barber |
Always stuck to him like glue, glaring at us with that haughty, condescending look whenever we approached… |
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Sancho |
I… never thought to condescend you. |
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The Barber |
Lies! You never wore the clothes I'd made for you… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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The Barber |
What… why are you looking at me like that? |
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The Barber |
It's disgusting, isn't it? We've become so hideous, haven't we? |
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Sancho |
The masks sewn onto every Bloodfiend's face here… |
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Sancho |
Was it your doing? |
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The Barber |
Hahahaha! Of course it was! |
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The Barber |
Who else among us could manage such intricate needlework? |
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The Barber |
I sewed the masks onto their faces, needle by needle! So they can be happier! So they can be more flamboyant! |
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The Barber |
So they will never… have to take them off again… |
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Sancho |
What I want to know… |
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Sancho |
… is what happened here at La Manchaland during my two hundred years of absence. |
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Sancho |
What we found at the end of our adventure was no Relic of legends… it was a cursed Relic. |
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Sancho |
That must have been your plan all along. |
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Sancho |
Because defying our Father is so… terrifying and so unnatural to us… |
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Sancho |
You needed him to be gone for a while. To suppress that natural revulsion. |
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Sancho |
Was that the only way you could scrounge up the courage to rebel against him? |
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The Barber |
How long… |
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The Barber |
… did you seriously think La Manchaland had left? |
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The Barber |
Rebellion…? Defiance…? It wasn't something so simple. |
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The Barber |
While you were daydreaming, prancing around with that Knight of the White Moon… |
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The Barber |
…we were dying a slow, painful, unbearable death. |
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The Barber |
'Oh no, a Bloodfiend doesn't die so easily,' he would say. |
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The Barber |
No, we don't. But that existence was no different from death! |
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The Barber |
There is no meaning to life without human blood! Nothing! |
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The Barber |
No tomorrow to look forward to, nothing to spark our happiness. |
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The Barber |
Still, we had to laugh! Because we were bound to love our Father! |
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The Barber |
For two hundred years we laughed and laughed!!! |
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The Barber |
When all… when… when all I ever wanted was to live as a Bloodfiend should! |
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Dulcinea |
[Still bloodied.] … Enough. |
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Dulcinea |
She won't ever understand us. |
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Dulcinea |
Besides, our Father has finally woken up from his delusions and came to his senses. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Dulcinea |
Clearly, from that look on your face… |
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Dulcinea |
Your adventure wasn't very fulfilling, was it? |
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Dulcinea |
I almost prefer that naive look from earlier. |
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Dulcinea |
I still hated your eyes, twinkling or not, but… |
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Dulcinea |
At least they were bearable to look at. |
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Sancho |
What do you mean… our Father woke up from his delusions? |
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Dulcinea |
When you embarked on your long-awaited journey of dreams, astride Rocinante… |
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Dulcinea |
… we remained trapped in here with Father. |
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Dulcinea |
Of course, he was furious with us, who failed to see as he did… |
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Sancho |
… Thus he sealed La Manchaland away. |
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The Priest |
[Still bloodied, but his mask mended.] And nothing but two-hundred years of darkness remained. |
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The Priest |
Even as we used the powers of the Relic to pervert our natural law, to suppress our taboo… |
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The Priest |
… you will never understand our pain of having to stake our own Father's chest. |
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The Barber |
Do you remember? The Priest, that fool, tried to kill himself! Hahaha! |
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The Barber |
Tears streaming down his face, bawling… you have no idea how funny that was! |
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The Priest |
A punishment we deserved. |
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The Priest |
We have not only gone against our Father's wishes, but also committed the capital sin of bringing him harm. |
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The Barber |
Were we… really that wrong? |
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The Barber |
For two hundred years, sealed within La Manchaland… we had nothing… |
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The Barber |
Bloodfiends resorted to digging through dirt for rotting beast carcasses… |
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The Barber |
I was trapped in here with nothing but their anguished cries, seeking death over this torturous existence… |
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The Barber |
From cries, to mad laughter, to despondent wailing… hahahahahaha! |
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Sancho |
Get out of my way. |
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Sancho |
I must talk to him myself. |
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The Barber |
You? You, who abandoned us and fled with Rocinante? Now you wish to talk to him? |
200 Years After the Departure 2
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White Moon Bari |
Quiet, huh? |
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White Moon Bari |
But it's not such a peaceful place. Even now, they are observing us. |
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White Moon Bari |
……. |
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White Moon Bari |
There will be more wars. After the war of humans and Bloodfiends, I mean. |
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White Moon Bari |
I can see it. The war against the nebulae beyond the Outskirts is all but written. |
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White Moon Bari |
Humanity's inability to find satisfaction is the very hunger that leads to war. It is an inevitability. |
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White Moon Bari |
… Look at me. Talking the ear off of someone who's about to forget everything. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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White Moon Bari |
I know I said this already, but let me say it again. |
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White Moon Bari |
You won't remember anything once you drink from this river. |
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White Moon Bari |
Me, your Father, your Family. All the stories we've shared, including this very conversation. |
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Sancho |
I know. |
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White Moon Bari |
Once you drink the water… I will lead you to the place where you will reside. |
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White Moon Bari |
I saw an abandoned lighthouse not far from here. It's unlikely anyone would find you there. |
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Sancho |
… Okay. |
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White Moon Bari |
So that's it, then? |
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White Moon Bari |
But how will you… live on? |
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Sancho |
I don't know. |
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Sancho |
I've lost everything. And now I prepare myself to lose even the remnants of what once was. Do you think that question means anything to me? |
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Sancho |
You ask a question better asked once I slumber. |
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White Moon Bari |
……. |
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Sancho |
Once I drink the river's water… |
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Sancho |
Leave me. |
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Sancho |
Thank you, Bari. For everything. |
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Sancho |
But the river merely made me forget my instincts as a Bloodfiend. It did not free me from them forevermore. |
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Sancho |
Because we… are forever bound to our base natures. |
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Sancho |
Through my Father's Rocinante, I could hide every aspect of Bloodfiendhood from the rest of the world… |
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Sancho |
… but it only left me drifting in a ridiculous dream. |
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Sancho |
Now I am awake. Bare of feet. |
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Don Quixote |
Yes. Thus… it reopens… |
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Don Quixote |
This … La Manchaland. |
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Sancho |
What happened here? |
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Don Quixote |
A tale as old as time. |
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Don Quixote |
They could not forgive me… and I could not forgive them in turn. |
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The Barber |
Open the gates… |
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The Barber |
Father, Don Quixote… please! Don't leave us here in the dark! Forgive us! |
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Don Quixote |
Still… you refuse to share my will… |
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Don Quixote |
Do you still… fail to understand…? La Manchaland… must remain sealed forever… |
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The Barber |
Th-then… we… have n-no choice… |
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The Barber |
I… I want to feel… I want to feel happiness again… |
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The Barber |
It's… your turn, Priest. |
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The Priest |
……. |
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The Priest |
Forgive not our sins, O venerated ancestor, our Father in blood. |
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The Priest |
And please… please… |
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The Barber |
Do it now… STAB HIM!!!! |
| [Flash of red. Sound of flesh penetrated.] | ||
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Dulcinea |
……. |
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Horrified Bloodfiend |
Ah… ahhh… |
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Horrified Bloodfiend |
For… forgive us… |
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Horrified Bloodfiend |
No, please save us… |
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Horrified Bloodfiend |
If you won't… |
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Horrified Bloodfiend |
We'll make you suffer… with the rest of us…! |
The Fate of the Afflicted
Pre-battle
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
For two hundred years… they tortured you… |
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Sancho |
My Father… |
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Don Quixote |
It is… not their Fault, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
The sin is mine to bear. The sin of dreaming an impossible dream… |
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The Barber |
You won't ever understand our unimaginable suffering. Comfy in that oblivion, which took even your instincts as a Bloodfiend away… |
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The Barber |
Our pain… of being deprived of blood… for two hundred years… |
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The Barber |
Our pain of having to stab our own Father with thousands of stakes… |
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The Priest |
But then… |
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The Priest |
… an answer to our prayers arrived. |
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The Priest |
From the heavens cascaded a light most warm. |
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Dulcinea |
Warmer than the light that was forever taken from us… |
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Dulcinea |
Gentler than my last memory of the sun as a human… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
Sansón. |
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Sancho |
Which Family is he from? |
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The Barber |
I don't know… Why should any of that matter? Family? Elders? All those meaningless concepts, washed away by two hundred years of pain! |
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The Barber |
What I do know, is that he saved us from this torturous hell. |
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The Barber |
That's… when La Manchaland opened once again! |
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Sansón |
It pains me terribly to see you in such dire states, my Relatives. |
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Sansón |
You all look… absolutely terrible. |
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The Barber |
Oh… oh… |
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The Barber |
Light… so warm… |
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The Barber |
Throat… dry… thirst… |
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Sansón |
Now wake up, everyone. We must prepare to greet our guests. |
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The Barber |
Gu…guests…? |
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Sansón |
Yes. Guests. Guests who will willingly supply their fresh blood for all of you. |
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The Barber |
Blood… I yearn for… blood… |
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Sansón |
So get a wardrobe change and freshen up. Let us start a festival louder, more flamboyant than before. Enough to captivate our new guests forever here. |
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Sansón |
Ah. The disgraced First Kindred. The Father of the Manchegan Bloodfiends, Don Quixote. |
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Sansón |
Have you any idea how saddened the other Elders would be to see the state you are in? |
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Don Quixote |
… Such a warm glow… |
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Don Quixote |
What nature of… light… is this…? |
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Sansón |
It is the light of a Golden Bough. |
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Sansón |
It will take root deep, deep within your heart… |
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Sansón |
… taking your desires, your subconscious as its nutrient… |
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Don Quixote |
Ah… |
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Don Quixote |
I… hunger… |
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Sansón |
The bough which your last Child will one day come to claim from you. |
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Don Quixote |
I… am now bound forever to this place, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
For that is best for La Manchaland, best for my Family. My responsibility as their Father… |
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Sancho |
There once was a time when you rather would choose death over causing harm to humans. |
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Don Quixote |
We… cannot defy our nature, Sancho. This is simply what we are. |
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Don Quixote |
Not even you, who left here to explore the world, an adventurer astride Rocinante… |
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Don Quixote |
… was fated to return here now as a Bloodfiend… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Many… humans will loathe and abhor our very existence… |
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Don Quixote |
But… my Children must feed on their blood… and find… true happiness… |
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Don Quixote |
Here, at La Manchaland… where there is… only laughter… |
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Don Quixote |
Thus, dear Sancho… |
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Don Quixote |
Why not remain here with the rest of us…? Be with us who are cursed with the same sickness that ails you…? |
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Sancho |
And you're happy with this sorry state you're in? |
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Don Quixote |
Can't you see that… I am no longer the only one with claim to my body? It must be used… for the good of my Children who await salvation, protection amidst this terrifying world of misfortune… |
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The Barber |
Father. The guests who accompanied Sancho here… are here to lay destruction upon La Manchaland. |
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The Barber |
We will kill them… and feed you their blood. |
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The Barber |
You remember well, don't you? Blood untainted by pathetic begging and struggling… The blood of those who so bravely seek to kill us… boils much, much hotter. |
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Don Quixote |
Indeed… my Children. |
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Don Quixote |
You all speak true. Then please, kill them and lead La Manchaland once again into the festival of dreams… |
The Carousel
Pre-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Nicolina… Curiambro… Dulcinea…. |
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Don Quixote |
… None have ever loved me as fervently as they have. |
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Don Quixote |
Gallop on, dear Sancho, and strike our foes. |
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Don Quixote |
Like… the days of yore where we vanquished the giants… |
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Don Quixote |
Strike our foes with a heart that knows no fear… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
I… see… |
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Sancho |
I thought I had been galloping onward, toward something… |
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Sancho |
… but I was only going in circles. |
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Sancho |
I am but a hollow shell, a mere vestige of a thing, trapped on a carousel to nowhere… |
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Sancho |
A madwoman slumbering in a sweet dream of galloping astride a steed across a vast field, feeling the cool breeze against her face… |
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DANTE |
<Don Quixote…> |
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DANTE |
<You can still hear me, can't you?> |
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DANTE |
<Don't listen to him. Please, you're…> |
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Sancho |
No. She is no more. That person you once knew is dead. |
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DANTE |
<……> |
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Sancho |
Perhaps I wished that… 'Don Quixote' would forget I ever existed. |
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Sancho |
Yet I am returned here. |
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Sancho |
So that I may never forget what I am again. |
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Sancho |
So that I may pronounce the dream ended. |
Mid-battle 1
Played when Sancho reaches 80% HP.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Sansón |
……. |
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Sansón |
So what happened to them, you ask? |
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Sansón |
Let us watch how this tale plays out. |
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ISHMAEL |
She's… really strong… Don— I mean, Sancho, I guess. |
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OUTIS |
Bloodfiends of La Manchaland have all been significantly weakened due to two-hundred years of imprisonment and the lack of blood. |
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OUTIS |
But she… |
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OUTIS |
Looks like… a Second Kindred isn't a foe we can reasonably contend with. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Well… when have we ever fought anything we can reasonably contend with, eh? |
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HEATHCLIFF |
We'll die, revive, try again, and eventually wear 'er down. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
D.R.D.R.[3] strategy against this one is meaningless. |
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OUTIS |
… Even her regeneration is incomparably faster than the one we met aboard the train. We will not win this battle by attrition. |
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DANTE |
<Are you… going to keep standing in our way?> |
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Sancho |
Yes. |
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Sancho |
I will stand in your way. |
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SINCLAIR |
S-so what? What are you even going to do, huh? |
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SINCLAIR |
What… do you want to do to La Manchaland…? |
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Sancho |
I will do my Father's bidding and transform it into an image of his design. |
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Sancho |
I'll kill you. Then I'll find more humans to kill. Feed their blood to my Father. Like a good Bloodfiend I am. |
Mid-battle 2
Played when Sancho reaches 60% HP.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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DANTE |
<Don… Quixote…> |
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Sancho |
I'll tell you again. That is not who I am. |
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Sancho |
That fool who used to twinkle her eyes at you, shoving some ridiculous idea of a dream before you is dead. |
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SINCLAIR |
What if the dream still… continues? |
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DANTE |
<Sinclair…?> |
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Sancho |
My dream… |
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Sancho |
It ripened and ripened until the rot set in. Thus it fell to the earth and burst. |
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Sancho |
It is broken. All that remains is the decaying carcass of the dream. |
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SINCLAIR |
La Manchaland manifests to devour humans, yeah… but it eventually disappears again. |
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SINCLAIR |
Look, on one hand, it's trying to hurt us humans. But on the other hand… it keeps trying to hide away, too. |
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SINCLAIR |
Even as he lies there, his body torn apart by thousands of stakes… he's been trying. |
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SINCLAIR |
Perhaps your 'Father'… even he— Maybe he— |
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Sancho |
……. |
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SINCLAIR |
This… is what I think we must do. |
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SINCLAIR |
… We have to go back. |
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SINCLAIR |
To the birthplace of that dream. |
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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DANTE |
<The Knight of the White Moon.> |
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Sancho |
… Bari. |
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Don Quixote |
Ba…ri… |
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Don Quixote |
I haven't… uttered that name… in such a long time. |
| [Static.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
A human. At my mansion. |
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Genuflecting Bloodfiend |
A-apologies, your worship. We should never have let her through, but she… she wields all kinds of fantastical weapons. She demanded to be granted audience with you, Father. |
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Don Quixote |
A Bloodfiend Hunter, are you? And you've managed to break through my Children's vigilance? |
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Don Quixote |
… I commend your skill, human. It cannot have been easy. |
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Don Quixote |
So, what is it that you seek from this audience? |
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Don Quixote |
Is your wish… to be obliterated without a trace? Or is it to join my Family? |
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White Moon Bari |
… Neither. |
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White Moon Bari |
I am here to challenge you to a duel. |
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Don Quixote |
… A duel. |
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Don Quixote |
I am not like the other Bloodfiends; I have no interest in killing humans for sport. |
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Don Quixote |
However, I am also not so generous a Bloodfiend to let a human who dared to walk into her own doom simply saunter away without consequences. |
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White Moon Bari |
Humans and Bloodfiends are at war out there. Did you know that? |
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Don Quixote |
Just a pit fight between unquenchable Bloodfiends and humans who learned to transmute their hatred into delight. |
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Don Quixote |
I care not for such degeneracy. |
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White Moon Bari |
Why do you refuse to take a side? |
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White Moon Bari |
Should a Family of your might take a side… it would mean the decisive end of the war. |
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Don Quixote |
Haven't I already told you? Or does your fleeting human life require a simpler explanation? |
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Don Quixote |
I would prefer not to dirty my clothes in a pit fight. I refuse to bring myself down to that level. |
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White Moon Bari |
… Is that so. |
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White Moon Bari |
I… am here to do one of two things. One, convince you. Or two, should my first option prove unfeasible, slay you. |
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White Moon Bari |
Because you are more dangerous than both of them when you're sitting here and doing nothing. |
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White Moon Bari |
So, duel me. |
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White Moon Bari |
You won't get a chance like this again. |
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White Moon Bari |
Because I know exactly what you seek. |
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Don Quixote |
Aha… |
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Don Quixote |
Not even I am privy to that knowledge… |
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Don Quixote |
… yet a human, who knows me not, who has only met me for the first time today, claims to know that? |
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White Moon Bari |
I know you Bloodfiends. |
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White Moon Bari |
Those blessed with longer lives than humans, yet cursed to live in greater miseries for every second of that longer life. |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
I just changed the carpets of this hall. I do not wish to dirty it with lowly human blood. |
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Don Quixote |
Leave, and my Children outside this mansion will deal with you. |
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White Moon Bari |
Should you employ your Children to kill me… |
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White Moon Bari |
You will never learn the source of your suffering. You will remain unchanging, stagnant, steeped in your misery… |
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White Moon Bari |
… until one day, the memory of this moment returns to you as regret. |
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Sancho |
… Father. |
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Sancho |
If you would allow me, I will quietly take care of this interloper. |
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White Moon Bari |
Grab your weapon. |
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White Moon Bari |
Answer my duel… |
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White Moon Bari |
… and I promise you upon my honor as a Fixer, that I will grant you what you truly seek. |
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White Moon Bari |
I can… give you… |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
No human, let alone a Bloodfiend, has ever matched me evenly in strength. |
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White Moon Bari |
Then I suppose I shall have the honor of being the first human to do so. |
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Don Quixote |
… How intriguing. |
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Sancho |
……. |
| [Sounds of clashing weapons. The screen flashes at interval.] | ||
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
… Why not take a brief respite? |
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Sancho |
It has been three days. |
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Don Quixote |
… Three days? |
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Sancho |
Yes, there's been three sunrises and sunsets. I'm quite certain that makes it three days. |
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Don Quixote |
But we are yet to decide a victor. |
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White Moon Bari |
… Too bad. |
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White Moon Bari |
At times like these, we must each take enough rest to recover… |
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White Moon Bari |
… and duel again at a later date. I will return. |
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Don Quixote |
You would stop the battle before it ends, allow your enemy to rest… and even promise to reconvene at a later date? |
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Don Quixote |
Who decided that these odd rules would become laws? |
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White Moon Bari |
Fixers. |
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White Moon Bari |
It's a law of the Fixers. |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
Will you truly let her leave, just like that? A human who so insolently warned you, of all Bloodfiends, that she would return? |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
It is their 'law' she says. |
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Don Quixote |
Here she is again, Sancho. Go tell her that your Father is indisposed today and has no time to spare for a duel. |
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Sancho |
Go tell her yourself. |
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Sancho |
I am growing tired of this. |
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Don Quixote |
What joy does that woman get out of this altercation? She could have at least had the courtesy to arrive at our gates with hands full of refreshments… |
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Sancho |
How should I know? |
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Sancho |
What I am certain of, is that this intruder will never leave us alone until we open our gates. |
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Don Quixote |
By the… why did I ever agree to something so vexatious? |
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Sancho |
It is about time we put an end to this, Father. |
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Sancho |
I find no joy in telling you this, but… |
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Sancho |
… It does not befit your reputation to be locked in a duel with a mere human for so long. |
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Sancho |
The other Children are… saying things. |
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Don Quixote |
… You will understand the pain of dealing with Children when you make Kindreds of your own. |
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Sancho |
How many times have I told you? I refuse to do such a thing. |
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Don Quixote |
How harsh you are. |
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Don Quixote |
Worry not. I intend to put an end to this today. I have been planning to do so for a while. |
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Sancho |
Are you certain that you do not require my assistance? |
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Sancho |
I should be enough to tip the scales in your favor. |
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Don Quixote |
It is all right. |
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Don Quixote |
This is a duel, is it not? A duel must be fair and just. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
Is that not what she said last time, verbatim? |
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Sancho |
Something about the… laws of Fixers. |
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Sancho |
… So, what exactly are Fixers? |
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Don Quixote |
… I do not know. |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
It is time. |
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White Moon Bari |
Phew~ That was close. I thought we'd finally have a victor in this duel. |
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Don Quixote |
… I would like to ask you something. |
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White Moon Bari |
Yeah? |
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Don Quixote |
What, pray… is a Fixer? |
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Don Quixote |
What is this 'Fixer', that has made you so pertinacious and… stubborn? |
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Don Quixote |
You have mentioned their laws on our first bout as well… Is the honor of Fixers so significant that you would wager your life on it? |
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White Moon Bari |
… I can tell you if you want. |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
You're looking forward to her arrival now, aren't you? You are waiting for her. |
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Don Quixote |
The fault lies with the human. How dare she cut off her story short right at the climax? |
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Don Quixote |
Ah, she's here. She's here! Let her in, will you? |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
So what happened to that fool whose rope snapped at that exact moment? |
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Don Quixote |
No, I must know what happened to the siblings first. |
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White Moon Bari |
The fool who hung onto a rotten strand of rope fell to the earth, and the siblings lived happily ever after. |
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Don Quixote |
What an exciting tale that was. My hands had grown so sodden from the sheer suspense. |
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Don Quixote |
… Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
When did you sidle up so close to our conversation? |
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Don Quixote |
Bari, do you recall the place you told me of upon our last meeting? |
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Don Quixote |
This 'amusement park'. |
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White Moon Bari |
Mhm. |
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Don Quixote |
Will you speak to me of it again? |
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Sancho |
Haah… Father, this is the seventh time— |
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Don Quixote |
Yet no books on heroic tales ever mention such a thing as an 'amusement park'. |
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Don Quixote |
Well, then? Tell me, describe the sight. |
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White Moon Bari |
Children enter there, holding tightly onto their parents' hands. |
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Don Quixote |
What of their expressions? |
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White Moon Bari |
Practically radiant with the happiest, brightest smiles in the world. |
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White Moon Bari |
All wear pretty headbands or elaborate masks. |
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White Moon Bari |
And they play such catchy, exciting music all year-round. |
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White Moon Bari |
People dance to the music, too. |
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White Moon Bari |
Its guests are free to do whatever they want. |
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White Moon Bari |
Enter a game of marksmanship at the shooting range. Explore a spooky haunted mansion. |
| [A little while later…] | ||
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Sancho |
I… I can't say I get the point of all this. |
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Don Quixote |
What of this… 'ride'? |
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White Moon Bari |
This is called a carousel. The visitors each ride upon a steed that goes in circles. |
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Sancho |
They ride on horses only to go in circles? How utterly devoid of meaning. |
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White Moon Bari |
And this here is called an 'observation wheel'. Humans use it to view the sights from a higher elevation. |
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Don Quixote |
Not only did they craft a giant, its size thousandfold of humans, but also dare to enter its body? What a splendid method by which one may overcome their fears. |
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Sancho |
You are seriously misunderstanding what this is. |
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Don Quixote |
… I have conceived an idea most ingenious. |
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Sancho |
… And this is where you stop listening to him. |
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White Moon Bari |
So she says. Should I? |
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Don Quixote |
The pair of you are becoming alike in the worst possible ways. |
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Don Quixote |
… I wish to build one myself. |
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Don Quixote |
An 'amusement park', where humans and Bloodfiends can happily coexist. |
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Don Quixote |
I shall call it… |
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Don Quixote |
La Manchaland. |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
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Sancho |
But it wasn't long… |
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Sancho |
… before it was broken and cast aside. |
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Sancho |
Like my Father. |
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YI SANG |
Yet, there exists an understanding beyond sight. |
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YI SANG |
Why, why does La Manchaland not exist in perpetuity, but seek to vanish only within hours of its manifestation? |
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YI SANG |
It can only be your Father's final, lingering conveyance of his will. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
Father gave me Rocinante so that I may embark on an adventure of my own. |
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Sancho |
But none of my tales were real. They were all… fake. |
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Sancho |
Once I drank from the River of Oblivion… once I imprisoned myself in a cell of my own making… I spent day after day immersed in these books of 'Fixers'. |
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Sancho |
And that has tainted my story with vacuous lies and hyperbole. |
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Sancho |
What was it that you have always said to me? |
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Sancho |
That it was about time I woke up from my delusions. |
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Sancho |
Yes. I suppose now is the time I came to my senses. |
Mid-battle 3
Played when Sancho reaches 40% HP.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
|---|---|---|
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Sancho |
Why do you persist? |
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Sancho |
You have all told me time and again to come to my senses, have you not? |
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Sancho |
Then why this hypocrisy? Why continue this hopeless, senseless fight? |
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Sancho |
Wake… up… I'm… not the person you once knew. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
You were always a right troublemaker, lass… but I always liked your idea of justice, honor… and loyalty. Besides… you'd grown on me… |
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HEATHCLIFF |
… And now, after all that grandstandin', you're just gonna up and leave us while givin' us that glum, sour-faced look? Think we'll just quietly sit on our arses and accept that? |
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Sancho |
What nonsense are you— |
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YI SANG |
No more. I do not wish to leave behind any dearest fellow of mine again. |
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RODION |
Y'know how depressing the bus'll be without you, chiquita? C'mon. |
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SINCLAIR |
Don't you have so many more tales of adventures to share with us? |
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SINCLAIR |
Come on, tell us more. So many of them got cut short during the bus ride, remember? |
| Aboard Mephistopheles's Deck, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
Khaaaa! Quite the thrill this is!!! Now this! Is true adventure!!! |
| Gregor's Fathoms, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
There is no cause for hesitation! A true hero succumbs to no hardships! |
| K Corp. Laboratory, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
Stop them this instant…! It appalls me greatly to think that one must suffer everlasting sights of despair in captivity for the many… |
| Pawnshop, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
The forces of evil must be uprooted with haste in order to raise the banner of justice high! |
| Lobotomy Corp. Drilling Ship Entrance, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
Negotiate with a villain such as he…? How… |
| Backstreets of District 10, Past | ||
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DON QUIXOTE |
Hence, onward we travail! |
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HONG LU |
Listening to your powerful cries, Don Quixote… they really made me feel like we had the wind at our backs. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Well, it usually took the wind right outta me, but… oi, I enjoyed a good few of 'em. |
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ISHMAEL |
You messed up plenty of situations by charging on without looking both ways, but… |
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ISHMAEL |
… at least it's better than being wishy-washy about it and constantly flip-flopping your stances. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
I liked your A.C.T.S.[4] |
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SINCLAIR |
Yeah. You were always the first one to take Actions, Cutting Through the Shit… You'd never let ambiguities stop you. |
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SINCLAIR |
So this time, shouldn't we… |
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SINCLAIR |
… be the ones to take the initiative, to ensure that Don Quixote's adventures don't come to an end… |
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SINCLAIR |
… that her tale continues? |
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MEURSAULT |
The question seems to be 'how'. |
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RODION |
What, are ya gonna beat the sense back into her like back when? |
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SINCLAIR |
No. |
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SINCLAIR |
I don't… want Don Quixote to 'come to her senses'. |
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DANTE |
<…… > |
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OUTIS |
Executive Manager. We… have no way of knowing how many people she has killed in the past merely by existing. |
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OUTIS |
Will you… embrace her still? |
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DANTE |
<I will.> |
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DANTE |
<I'll determine the time to bring her back to her senses.> |
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OUTIS |
No matter what lurks in the pasts of us Sinners…? |
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OUTIS |
Even… if they have killed hundreds, thousands—no, tens of thousands of innocent people? Will you still… embrace them? |
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DANTE |
<I will.> |
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DANTE |
<As long as they have the will to change, to move forward, I will be there for them.> |
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OUTIS |
……. |
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OUTIS |
I will remember what you have said here today. |
Post-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Sancho |
The adventure… has ended. |
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Sancho |
And thus, so did my dream. |
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SINCLAIR |
It's not over yet. |
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SINCLAIR |
We're pretty major characters in your adventures too, you know? |
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SINCLAIR |
You can't just… end this story without even asking its cast. |
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Sancho |
So stupid… |
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DANTE |
<However…> |
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DANTE |
<Don Quixote, who despaired that this moment was to be the end of her tale…> |
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DANTE |
<Still refused to give up.> |
| [Stage props assemble.] | ||
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FAUST |
……. |
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Sancho |
Stop it. |
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Sancho |
I've come back to my senses, woke up from my delusions. |
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Sancho |
You may have once called me Don Quixote… but I am Sancho, now. |
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SINCLAIR |
… Don Quixote has never been on an adventure all on her lonesome, however. How could she give up, when she knew they were all counting on her? |
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RODION |
Yeah! … Who woulda thunk, that she'd forget something so important—that she had a whopping twelve companions in her story! |
| [Flash of white. Sounds of chips falling out of a slot machine.] | ||
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GREGOR |
Well, not every fight ended with a triumphant victory. |
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ISHMAEL |
But every time they were teetering on the brink of defeat, she'd always shout… 'We shan't ever give up…!'… or something like that, right? |
| [Flash of white. Bongy noises.] | ||
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| [Stage moves left, to the Shepherds' Ranch.] | ||
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YI SANG |
With every despair, with every moment of dejection from her fellows… |
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YI SANG |
… the void of despondency was made whole by Don Quixote's tales of wonder, so that their sights were not to be led astray from their dreamward journeys. |
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YI SANG |
The tales were so extraordinarily ingenious, and so brilliant that… it gave many the very resolve needed to rise to their feet at their darkest hours. |
| [Flash of white. Seagull calls.] | ||
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HEATHCLIFF |
……. |
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HEATHCLIFF |
Well… uh… right. And we beat the shite out of countless insane bastards… or 'villains'. |
|
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HEATHCLIFF |
Fought some poor blokes who were turnin' into bugs… braved all kinds of monsters, too… |
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ISHMAEL |
Got swallowed by a giant Whale, too. |
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RYŌSHŪ |
A.R.T.[5] |
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OUTIS |
Yes. |
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OUTIS |
The adventures aboard that train would also make for quite the tale. |
| [Stage moves left, to the opening of the cave.] | ||
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HONG LU |
Oh, and there were bad, no-good people who were trying to take our treasures away from us, too. |
|
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HONG LU |
We sure had a lot of close calls. |
| [Flash of white.] | ||
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MEURSAULT |
No destination was free of such risks. |
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RODION |
But hey, in the end, they got their names positively plastered all over the newspaper. Got their names out there like superstars. |
| [Flash of white. Lightning strikes.] | ||
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| [Stage moves left, into the cave of Mambrino's Helm.] | ||
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FAUST |
And perhaps… she had more than the twelve companions… |
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FAUST |
… who cheered her on. |
| [Flash of white. Sound of shattering glass, Don Quixote's righteous speech at the K Corp. Checkpoint.] | ||
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Sancho |
To… the most magnificent Fixer… of the Cinq… |
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Sancho |
Thine account was a tale… most moving, a tale that could move mountains… |
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Sancho |
I shall… remember thy tale between every breath… of mine existence… |
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Sancho |
And I… aspire to be… a righteous Fixer of justice… just as thyself. |
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Sancho |
Yes… |
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Sancho |
… Somehow, I always received replies to my letters… When I didn't even write a proper address on them. |
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Sancho |
Ooooh! Thus cometh a reply! |
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Sancho |
Hm hm, let's see… |
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Sancho |
Dear Don Quixote, who dreameth of becoming a great Fixer. |
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Sancho |
Persevere and enlighten thyself until thou understandest the virtues. Then thou shalt become a Fixer most brave, most magnificent! |
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Sancho |
Thus, thou shalt never give up. |
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Sancho |
For thy dream… |
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Sancho |
… shall one day be realized, even in the waking world… |
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DON QUIXOTE |
Manager Esquire! |
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DON QUIXOTE |
Dost thou carry a dream, Manager Esquire? Verily… I do!!!!! |
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Sancho |
It was you, Bari. All those Fixers who wrote me all those replies… it was you. |
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Sancho |
It was you who delivered all those books to my room. |
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White Moon Bari |
Remember? We promised to meet again once each of our adventures are complete… |
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Sancho |
… and tell one another all about our adventures. |
| [Static.] | ||
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White Moon Bari |
Answer my duel… |
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White Moon Bari |
… and I promise you upon my honor as a Fixer. That I will grant you what you truly seek. |
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White Moon Bari |
I can… give you a 'tomorrow'. |
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Don Quixote |
You speak in riddles, human. |
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White Moon Bari |
Should I consider that a 'yes'? |
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Don Quixote |
Of course not. |
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| [The two duels. Don Quixote wields an elaborate helical lance, while Bari uses both her swords and her bow - blue starlike particles emerge from her Clashes, then dissipate.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
Tomorrow is a promise that does not hinge on your blessing. |
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White Moon Bari |
No, no. That's not the tomorrow I'm talking about. I'm talking about the 'tomorrow' you seek. |
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White Moon Bari |
You've been living out your days mired in meaninglessness, quietly wasting away inside. |
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White Moon Bari |
Drinking human blood, compelled not by your own will but by your sickness. In your countless years of existence… |
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White Moon Bari |
… you've never had any reason to exist, have you? |
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White Moon Bari |
But your illness… and this applies to all of your kind… is loneliness. |
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White Moon Bari |
It's the kind of suffering you can't weather through by huddling together with your Family in the dark. |
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White Moon Bari |
So I offer you this. |
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White Moon Bari |
Anticipation for what tomorrow holds. |
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White Moon Bari |
In other words… a dream. |
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White Moon Bari |
I can make you dream. |
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Don Quixote |
……. |
| [Both pauses.] | ||
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White Moon Bari |
Shout your name out loud if… if you would accept my proposition. Let us give it our all, and may the best warrior claim victory in this singular bout. |
| [Don Quixote readies his lance,] | ||
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Don Quixote |
My name… is Don Quixote. |
| [and Bari her bow,] | ||
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White Moon Bari |
My name is Bari! |
| [charging at each other yet again…] [A final Clash. Fade to white.] | ||
| [Static.] | ||
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Vergilius |
You must come with me, for this journey demands your company. In return… |
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Vergilius |
… when the time is right, the promised timepiece you once heard shall come to be by your side. |
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Vergilius |
Even when you feel like giving up on yourself. |
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Vergilius |
So I promise you this. |
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Vergilius |
That one day, you will return to the beginning of all things… |
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Vergilius |
… and tell them all about the adventures you've had. |
| [Static.] | ||
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Don Quixote? |
… Ah. |
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Don Quixote? |
You are… |
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DANTE |
<Don Quixote…> |
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DANTE |
<You call me a 'promised timepiece', then.> |
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Don Quixote? |
Indeed… you must be the promised timepiece… |
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DANTE |
<And I'm here to make good on that promise.> |
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DANTE |
<Don Quixote…> |
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DANTE |
<That promise to continue your adventure.> |
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Don Quixote? |
Has the adventure… ended…? |
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DANTE |
<No…> |
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DANTE |
<I don't think… I don't think it's ended…> |
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Sancho |
Is that… true? |
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Sancho |
And the adventure goes on…? |
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DANTE |
<It goes on.> |
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DANTE |
<Even now, at this very moment.> |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho… why do you return without slaying them…? |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
O Father. |
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Don Quixote |
You were always a rebellious Child… unlike my other Children… |
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Don Quixote |
Even before you became my Kindred, you… never once begged me for life. Even… as life began to fade from your eyes… |
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Don Quixote |
And even after I embraced you as my Child… you never once showed me that attachment to life. |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
Because… there was nothing to love in that life. |
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Don Quixote |
Then… love this place, won't you? |
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Don Quixote |
They have gone through hell and back, tried all manner of things to break this madman's delusions, to bring me home to where I belong… |
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Don Quixote |
Thus… to me, this woe I suffer is my love, the stakes that impale me are my succor, and the blood of humans they feed me is… my glory. |
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Sancho |
If you were mad, then that very same madness must have taken ahold of me. |
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Sancho |
Your ideas and beliefs, which were indistinguishable from utter insanity at first, slowly took root in the barren, cracked earth that was my heart and began to grow. |
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Sancho |
The times you've spent, the nonsense you've babbled at me as we adventured together only nurtured that hopeless garden. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet my dream… was an abject failure, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
You must have seen it yourself, on this journey of yours. |
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Don Quixote |
Was the world you experienced out there… truly righteous, as I had always said? As we had dreamed together? |
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Don Quixote |
Was it as Bari said…? Were Fixers honorable heroes, bastions of justice, willing to sacrifice their lives for the weak and the downtrodden? Was it true, that good eventually triumphs over evil? |
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Sancho |
… No. |
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Don Quixote |
That is why… all tales are but fabrications. |
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Don Quixote |
I fell off my steed, Sancho. And the shock roused me to the cold waking world… |
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Don Quixote |
And I am… too hurt… too broken… to dream again… |
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Don Quixote |
Thus… my dream… has met its end… |
La Manchaland, The Dreamer
Some Story Icons in the following transcript do not exist in the assets, and are displayed differently in the game. Specifically, Don Quixote's Withering & Glowing states, and Sancho without fur boa's Story Icons are unofficial.
Pre-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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| [The great Ferris wheel of La Manchaland. The lights on the "LA MANCHA LAND" sign blinks to life, as the wheel begins rotating with a groan.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
Does this wheel not remind you of the old war, Sancho? |
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Sancho |
… The Bloodfiends of the Family with many arms, like windmills? |
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Don Quixote |
Yes, indeed. I remember how hotly my heart beat as I stood against the giantfolk in the field of battle. |
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Sancho |
… I remember running after you after one of them flung your body far away as a result of you underestimating their might. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet you no longer run after me. Now you stand against me. |
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Sancho |
……. |
| [Don Quixote, his body one with the Ferris wheel, motions. A gondola detaches from the wheel…] | ||
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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DANTE |
<D-dodge! O-or raise your guards!> |
| […and falls upon the Sinners, who dodges just in time. It bursts open, releasing several Bloodbags. The battle commences with another motion from Don Quixote.] | ||
Mid-battle 1
Played when the enemy Don Quixote ends his Wheel Phase.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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| [The "LA MANCHA LAND" sign blinks off, as sparks fly upon it. After a moment, it falls to the floor. Don Quixote struggles for a moment, separating himself from the Ferris wheel - yet, a strand of hardblood still connects him to the attraction. His foot touches the ground, uncertain at first, but quickly gaining confidence. Camera pans up, revealing that he has removed the cursed Helm of Mambrino.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
Long have I not set foot upon the earth. |
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Sancho |
Even now, you remain ensnared to your responsibilities, unable to flee! |
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Sancho |
You, who was so free… |
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Don Quixote |
Where must I flee to, then? Enlighten me, Sancho. |
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Don Quixote |
I tipped the scales of that endless war, yet… there was no coexistence to be found at its end. |
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Don Quixote |
With blood, I have created this place, yet no family has found happiness within it. |
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Don Quixote |
I have dreamed, yet the dream only woke me to a heart impaled by stakes and this fetid stench of blood. Look at me, Sancho! |
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Don Quixote |
I am but Don Quixote… La Manchaland's Don Quixote. |
Mid-battle 2
Played when the enemy Don Quixote reaches 60% HP.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Sancho |
You've never run from things. You've only had momentary lapses. |
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Sancho |
You, whose very fate is cursed with this sickness… |
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Sancho |
… were capable of love. Even as your mind ailed from this suffocating, parching thirst… |
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Sancho |
That is why you saved my life from the periphery of death… tried to share your love… |
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Don Quixote |
Tell me. Why did you seek death? |
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Sancho |
Because I wanted to get away from the pain. |
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Don Quixote |
How odd. Don't most humans inflict suffering unto others to be freed from their own? |
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Sancho |
How could hurting others help… when my pain comes from this… endless cold? |
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Don Quixote |
Where's your family? Your siblings? |
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Sancho |
I never had anyone, not even on the day I was born. I've only known… the cold… the loneliness… |
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Sancho |
… So I want to burn myself to ashes like I was never here. |
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Don Quixote |
Then… |
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Don Quixote |
… allow me to grant you the will to live. |
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Don Quixote |
The family I shall grant you will forever be by your side. Come with me. |
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Don Quixote |
You may know my name as Quixote. |
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Don Quixote |
Or Don Quixote; 'Don' as the signifier of my nobility. |
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Sancho |
… and… |
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Sancho |
… made my heart beat once again… |
| [Static.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
Sancho. Thus commences our adventure. |
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Don Quixote |
We shall receive no assistance, Bloodfiend or not! This shall be us two against the world. |
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Sancho |
I know. |
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Don Quixote |
I suppose we will encounter many knights on our journey; many of whom shall challenge me to a duel. You will watch my back when the time comes, won't you? You must strike our foes with a heart that knows no fear. |
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Don Quixote |
Ah, and how could I forget? From this moment onward, we must abandon our identities as Bloodfiends as well. |
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Don Quixote |
In other words, we must appear and behave as humans do. |
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Sancho |
… I know that as well. That is why you have transformed your Rocinante into the shape of a horse, as awkward as it may appear. |
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Don Quixote |
It used to have such a beautiful, flowing mane of blood… |
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Rocinante |
[A horse, made entirely of hardblood.] Whinny… |
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Don Quixote |
Alas. Even Rocinante finds this appearance unpleasant. Sighing and exhaling, so unlike itself… |
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Sancho |
Do you even know where this elusive 'tavern' is supposed to be? |
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Don Quixote |
Is that not your responsibility to learn of? |
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Sancho |
I've been holed up in that castle for about as long as you have in any meaningful metric. How should I know? |
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Don Quixote |
You are truly impossible. I have not once seen nor heard of a Child who speaks in such an insolent manner to a higher Kindred. |
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Sancho |
I thought we were to appear and behave as humans do? This is supposed to be an adventure, after all. |
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Don Quixote |
Speaking of which, dear Sancho. I have overheard the travelers from earlier, and they say that there is a cave in which a fearsome man-eating bear has made it its home. |
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Sancho |
Really, a bear? |
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Sancho |
I can obliterate that poor animal in less than three— |
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Don Quixote |
Oh, please. Where is the fun in that? We shall battle this fell beast like the battles in which the Fixers from the books have struggled so valiantly! |
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Sancho |
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Don Quixote |
We shall feast on bear meat as well! |
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Don Quixote |
You have but to imagine the look of shock on Dulcinea's face as we regale her with this tale. |
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Sancho |
A look of disgust would be more accurate. |
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Sancho |
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Don Quixote |
The night approacheth with great haste; |
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Don Quixote |
Yet thou shalt hew open a path, cleaving the shadows in twain. |
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Don Quixote |
With the blessings and approval of our family of which there is no equal, |
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Don Quixote |
Challenge and vanquish all things perilous. |
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Don Quixote |
And at last—reach true happiness. |
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Don Quixote |
Thus how indubitable. |
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Don Quixote |
The magnificence with which mine ingenious adventures of to-day shall shine. |
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White Moon Bari |
Which is… our adventure, as well. |
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White Moon Bari |
You remember the words, right? A Fixer must maintain a head clear of corruption, speech free of deceit, and conduct guided by clemency. |
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White Moon Bari |
Show courage in adventure, and bear pain in suffering. |
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White Moon Bari |
And pray, forget not the mercy for the downtrodden… |
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White Moon Bari |
… and last but not least… |
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Don Quixote |
… Pursue your dream, even if it means wagering your life in the chase. |
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White Moon Bari |
And we'll return here and talk all about it, no matter how many moons it takes. |
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White Moon Bari |
About all the wonderful adventures we've undertaken. |
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Sancho |
Even if I were to lose my mind… |
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Sancho |
Even if all this is just a fake steed running in circles on a carousel… I don’t want to stop… |
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Don Quixote |
Even if it means that you must struggle against this incurable disease? Even if you must stand against your own blood, your Father? |
Mid-battle 3
Played when the enemy Don Quixote reaches ~17.5% HP.
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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You can stop galloping onward, now. | |
| [Don Quixote raises his hand, a massive sphere of blood gathering above him.] | ||
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What adventure could you possibly embark on, with such frail souls? | |
| [The sphere slowly descends upon the Sinners. When the view clears, only the corpses of everyone except our Don Quixote is visble.] | ||
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Sancho |
……. |
| [Don Quixote jumps into the air, one hand in his pocket. A crude lance of hardblood coalesces above his other, raised hand.] | ||
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Don Quixote |
What shame. |
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Don Quixote |
You used to make me lances that were much more graceful than this. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet… this holds more than enough power to destroy that feeble timepiece of yours. |
| [The lance launches. The screen turns red.] | ||
| [A flash.] | ||
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DANTE |
<…!> |
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Sancho |
Didst thou not say… |
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Sancho |
… that thou shalt decide the time for me to come to my senses? |
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DANTE |
<Don… Quixote.> |
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Don Quixote |
It is unfortunate that you now protect them with your back that once shielded me. |
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Don Quixote |
… But I am proud that you stopped my lance. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet… what will you do now, Sancho? |
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Don Quixote |
Your strength must be spent after such a mighty feat. |
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Sancho |
I intend to fight still. This is not the end. |
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Don Quixote |
… Even if it is not by my hand, even if it is not this day when your adventure ends… |
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Don Quixote |
… this sickness will inevitably drag you off that steed. |
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Sancho |
I know that. |
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Sancho |
Even still. |
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Sancho |
… though to some, I may only appear to be playing a character… |
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Sancho |
… though I may never truly reach my destination… |
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Sancho |
… should I persevere to walk the journey of my own choosing… |
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Sancho |
… and continue this tale… |
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Sancho |
Then that shall be my… your dream. |
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| [Golden Bough Resonance - Superbia. Face the Fear, Break the Cycle.] | ||
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DANTE |
<I will light your path.> |
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DANTE |
<So don't hesitate. Go—walk the journey of your own choosing.> |
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Sancho |
… I shan't be long. |
| [Sancho, her lance broken, faces off Don Quixote. All E.G.O Resources have been cleared from the deluge earlier.] | ||
| [Dante generates Sancho's E.G.O, La Sangre de Sancho, and points it at Don Quixote.] | ||
| [It is predicted that the Clash is Hopeless. Regardless, the battle commences…] | ||
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Don Quixote |
……. |
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Don Quixote |
Sancho… I have conceived… an idea most ingenious… |
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Sancho |
What… is it this time…? |
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Don Quixote |
Alas, it appears that we are not availed the benevolent, mediating force of Bari to quell our quarrels. Then I suppose we are at an impasse, want of a better mediation… |
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Don Quixote |
… than one wrought by force. |
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Don Quixote |
Let us test our mights in a duel; in a singular bout of our lances. |
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Don Quixote |
Come, now. Let us give it our all… |
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Sancho |
……. |
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Sancho |
… Is there no other way? |
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Don Quixote |
This momentum, this responsibility of mine to perpetuate the festival, to provide my Family with what they yearn for… it cannot be stopped. |
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Don Quixote |
This carousel by the name of La Manchaland… whirls too swiftly for me to dismount, even as it remains anchored in place. |
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Don Quixote |
Yet, if you could shatter the burden of my nature, my responsibilities… would that not prove your dream mightier than the weight of my duty? |
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Don Quixote |
Show me. Demonstrate before me the strength of thy dream, the grandeur of it. |
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Sancho |
Still… so… ridiculously juvenile… |
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Don Quixote |
How many times must I tell you that it is that very ridiculous juvenility that gives color to life? |
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Sancho |
……. |
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| [Don Quixote jumps into the air, a lance of hardblood coalescing.] | ||
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My name… is Quixote! I, Don Quixote, declare upon my honor: this lance shall end that hollow, juvenile dream! | |
| [Sancho does likewise, La Sangre de Sancho being enhanced with a second outer helix. The original core of the weapon giving off a bright red glow.] | ||
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My name is Sancho! And I, Sancho, declare upon my honor: this lance shall end that festering, slothful dream! | |
| [The two charge at each other, connecting before the White Moon as the fireworks of La Manchaland go off for one final time.] | ||
| [A QTE: GALLOP ON, TOGETHER with Sancho!] [Smashing the SPACE key, left mouse button, or screen, and passing it…] | ||
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No matter how impossible it may be… | |
| [Sancho redoubles her strength, as the core of her lance glows an even brighter red.] | ||
| [Another QTE: Continue to GALLOP ON, TOGETHER!] [Passing it…] | ||
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Until I reach that dream… [The core of the lance glows a golden hue.] I'll keep pushing to the——
| |
| [A last QTE - there is no more need for more strength to be exerted, as the momentum of the duel pushes the check to pass by itself.] | ||
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Nay… I shall gallop ever-onward, unbroken, unrelenting to the end!! | |
[Sancho's lance pierces Don Quixote, proving that her - their - dream is indeed the mightier.] | ||
Post-battle
| Speaker | Dialogue | |
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Sancho |
Ahh… |
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Sancho |
Don Quixote… |
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Don Quixote |
Quixote. |
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Sancho |
…! |
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Don Quixote |
O Don Quixote... |
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Don Quixote |
You spoke true. |
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Don Quixote |
Your adventures… continue still. |
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Don Quixote |
Why don't you take my shoes with you on your adventure… |
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Don Quixote |
And one day, tell me all about it… no matter how many moons it takes… |
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Don Quixote |
Tell me how beautiful, how incandescent it was… The light of your dream, shining from the City skies… |
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Sancho |
The Dream… is ours… |
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Sancho |
… Thou mayest know my name as Quixote! |
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Sancho |
The righteous Fixer of justice, Don Quixote! |
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Sancho |
[Weeping.] ………… |
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Sancho |
Don Quixote… |
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DANTE |
<La Manchaland… is falling apart…> |
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Sancho |
Allow me to regale thee… that, in this… adventure of mine… |
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Sancho |
Verily, I was blessed with a family of twelve. |
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Sancho |
Together, we have braved and vanquished innumerable foes, our wills entwined as one… |
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Sancho |
We were enactors of justice who have never forsaken hope, not even for a fleeting moment. |
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Sancho |
And at last, I have come to… |
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Sancho |
… I have come to understand what thou hast dreamed. |
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Sancho |
Thus… I now set off on another adventure to seize that dream that twinkles so far, far above us. |
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Sancho |
'Tis high time I introduced myself to thee once again. |
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Quixote |
Thou mayest know me… as Quixote. |
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Don Quixote |
Or Don Quixote; 'Don' as a signifier of my nobility. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
I am a Fixer who shall sprint for the dream side by side with thee. |
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Cesara |
Good work, everyone. You certainly did not disappoint. |
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Cesara |
Not only did you successfully destroy La Manchaland… |
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Cesara |
… you also brought us the carcass of its founder. |
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Vergilius |
……. |
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Vergilius |
You show no wrath. No relief. Or even a look of release. |
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Vergilius |
Do you feel nothing upon the demise of this man who caused the deaths of so many? |
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Cesara |
Hatred… resentment… those emotions will only grow moldy and stuffy. And they'll eventually stand between us and our goals. |
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Cesara |
If I were to make a comparison, I'd say… |
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Cesara |
… it's more like… |
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Cesara |
… I'm meeting the protagonist of a fairytale I once read as a child. |
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Vergilius |
… I'm sure the family of his victims would be very pleased to hear you say that. |
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Cesara |
Oh, didn't I tell you? |
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Cesara |
Two months ago, when La Manchaland suddenly manifested here… |
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Cesara |
I lost one of my closest relatives to the phenomenon. |
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Cesara |
Our family tried all kinds of methods to get them back, but… it was all pointless. |
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Cesara |
Until, one day, I saw a footage of La Manchaland starting to manifest. |
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Cesara |
There's a tale at P Corp. that everyone who's lived here knows. The old, old tale about the Singularity created by P Corp.'s Chief Executive Director. |
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Cesara |
When I watched that video, I suddenly understood that our Singularity is surprisingly similar to La Manchaland. |
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Cesara |
… I don't suppose any further explanation is necessary. |
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Cesara |
Well, here we are anyway, I suppose. |
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Vergilius |
… Huh. |
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Cesara |
Anyway… congratulations, mission accomplished. You have your Golden Bough. Let's all celebrate separately, in each of our offices. |
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FAUST |
Don Quixote may believe that they are merely collecting Don Quixote's remains, but… |
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DANTE |
<… P Corp. isn't going to just stop at collecting his body, are they?> |
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FAUST |
All further speculation is meaningless, Dante. |
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And perhaps, one day, should Don Quixote realize the truth behind the matter, whatever it may be… she may come to resent all those who were involved in the process. |
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DANTE |
<Do I… have to lie again?> |
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FAUST |
… No. I believe that is my weight to bear. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
……. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
Prithee, regard me not with such an expression. |
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DANTE |
<I… don't have a face, let alone an expression.> |
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DON QUIXOTE |
All of existence, from the swaying flowers in the meadows to the rolling pebbles in a stream… has expressions. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
I beseech thee, smile. |
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DON QUIXOTE |
For all of this is but a merry dream. |
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Sansón |
Thus ends the tale in which they laid claim to another Golden Bough. |
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Demian |
Mm, it was an interesting tale. |
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Demian |
So, did they manage to tame the bough? |
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Sansón |
They have indeed. I can't help but look forward to what kind of fruit this Golden Bough, steeped in so much struggle and bloodshed, will bear. And at what cost, too. |
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Sansón |
I intend to enjoy this play for a little longer. |
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Sansón |
For I must gaze into the far horizon… |
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Sansón |
… and shine a light for the blinded, that I may turn them away from the seas they mustn't seek… |
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Sansón |
I will spark the flame again and again should it go out. |
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Sansón |
So that the fallen nebulae's homeward journey to the star may not be veiled in shadows. |
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Sansón |
Once that is over and done with… |
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Sansón |
… I suppose I shall also become a sovereign of a star, guided to my promised, eternal respite. |
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Demian |
Mhm. When that time comes… we'll all be able to find joy just by looking up at the skies. |
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Demian |
I'll now wait for the sun to set into the gloaming before nightfall. |
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Demian |
Waiting for the sheep one who fell from the skies will draw me. |
Footnotes
- ↑ "Some peculiar restrictions."
- ↑ This passage references the "The Butterfly Dream" passage from Zhuangzi. This particular passage argues that the distinction between the waking world and dreams is a false dichotomy.
- ↑ "Die, Revive, Die, Revive."
- ↑ "Actions, Cutting Through the Shit."
- ↑ "Adventures Rightly Told."
Story Dungeon Events
All of the following Dungeon Event names are unofficial.
La Manchaland Entrance
La Manchaland Entrance
We approached the faded signpost in this twisted space.
Welcome to La Manchaland.
Two types of tickets and their prices are written underneath that logo.
Looks like we'll have to purchase a ticket here to enter...
Which one should we purchase?
Purchase the All-day Pass All allies lose HP. Gain an E.G.O Gift. Each Sinner paid for their own All-day Pass with their blood. Some of them were none to happy about this decision, but they all agreed to go with All-day Passes. We should be able to experience every attraction here as long as we have this ticket. All Allies take 20% HP Damage! E.G.O Gift La Manchaland All-day Pass obtained! |
Purchase the Standard Pass All allies gain E.G.O Gifts that gain Bleed It might be unwise to lose so much blood here at the entrance. After a discussion with the Sinners, we decided to go with the Standard Pass, which does not require a payment of blood. There's a disclaimer on the ticket: 'visitors must pay a certain amount of blood before participating in an attraction'. We might be able to get more of our blood's worth, as long as we carefully choose which attraction we want to go for. E.G.O Gift La Manchaland Standard Pass obtained! We walked past the entrance and into La Manchaland. Which Area should we visit first in order to escape this maze-like amusement park? |
Participate in a game of Fantasy Blood-shooting. Begin a combat encounter. Win to gain an E.G.O Gift Maybe the way out will open if we defeat as many Bloodfiends as we can. Some Sinners suggested that we attempt the Fantasy Blood-shooting again. To Adventurers who make it to the end of the attraction, we grant you a Token of Victory! Through the pre-recorded voiceline, a Bloodfiend cheers us on. We've already done this once; I'm sure we can do it again. Combat Encounter! Backups: Win the battle to gain E.G.O Gift Token of Victory! |
Head to the Confessional. Run a Pride check. Pass to gain an E.G.O Gift.  Maybe we can visit the Confessional again; we didn't do much there earlier. We decided to head to the Confessional, as advised by some of the Sinners. Please come here, should you wish to confess your sins and partake in a consultation. A voice echoes from inside the confessional. Maybe, if we were to confess our sins, the path will open before us. Which Sinner can bare their honest heart?
 Check PassedThe entity past the divider of the Confessional expresses sorrow at [Sinner]'s confession. E.G.O Gift Self-flagellation Whip obtained!  Check Failed[Sinner] stepped up to confess, but their expression becomes increasingly uncomfortable. The selected Identity loses 15 SP E.G.O Gift Self-flagellation Whip obtained! |
Watch the Parade E.G.O Gift GET  We made it to the Parade Area without wasting any more time. After a while of walking along the Parade to the front, a Bloodfiend suddenly came up to us. "Why not take a commemorative pic with the Parade as the background?" "A little bit of blood, and you can remember this moment for-ever-and-ever!" What should we do? |
Pay with blood and get a commemorative picture taken. Some Sinners lose HP. Gain an E.G.O Gift Some Sinners agreed to pay with blood for some pictures. I can't help but feel the pain of Don Quixote's absence now that we're standing all together for a group photo. When we received the photograph, which appeared after the flash, the Parade marched far, far away from us as the warped space returned to normal. The photograph in my hands was gone, replaced with a Bloodfiend's mask. Identities without Lust Sin Affinity Attack Skill lose 25 HP E.G.O Gift Mask of the Parade obtained! |
Get out of here. There's no time to waste on pictures. We decided to continue walking past the Parade. Nothing happened. |
Pride Advantage: Gifts
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La Manchaland All-day Pass  Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage., 'Unique Bleed', and  Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage.): gain 1  Poise PoiseBoost critical hit chance by X*5% for the next Y hit(s). Potency and Count (3 times per Skill)
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La Manchaland Standard Pass Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Potency and Count.
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Token of Victory After Attack: if an enemy with 10+ (sum of Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage., 'Unique Bleed', and Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage.) is defeated, the unit who killed that enemy gains 2  Offense Level Up Offense Level UpOffense Level +X for this turn. next turn. (3 times per turn)
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Self-flagellation Whip Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage., 3 Offense Level Up Offense Level UpOffense Level +X for this turn., and 3  Defense Level Up Defense Level UpDefense Level +X for this turn.. (once per turn)
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Mask of the Parade Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. and +3 Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Count against that enemy at Combat Start.
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Blood Raffle Machine
Blood Raffle Machine
We see a door to a giant containment chamber.
We're going to have to get through that to escape this maze.
There's an unfamiliar machine on the road to the chamber.
It must be a raffle machine La Manchaland used during event periods.
A little bit of blood for something very useful!
There's an advertisement written in elaborate typography.
Maybe we'll be able to find 'something very useful' in there?
Pay with Blood to enter the raffle. A random Sinner loses HP. Random chance to gain an E.G.O Gift
Success Chance: (10 x # of Fails)% Check Passed
Random Friendly Units took 20 HP damage! E.G.O Gift Devouring Cube obtained! Check FailedWhen the Sinner pays with their blood, the raffle machine begins to whir loudly. Random Friendly Units took 20 HP damage! (Return to previous Choice.) |
Destroy the raffle machine. … It wasn't like there was anyone around to stop us. Why pay with Sinners' blood to activate this raffle machine? Can't we just crack the thing open and take the prize in there? I order the Sinners to break the machine, and some Sinners were all too happy to oblige. The machine begins to warp into a bizarre shape—then a massive peccatulum appears before us. |
Leave. I doubt there's anything that's useful for us in there. We decided to ignore the raffle machine and keep moving forward. Nothing happened. |
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Devouring Cube After Attack: if the enemy is killed, gain 1 random E.G.O resource (once per Skill) |
Endless Hunger
Endless Hunger
"While the noble Knight and his Squire was on their most wonderful adventure…"
"The rest of their Family waited, chewing slowly on what subsistence they were availed."
"Though it is unclear whether all that waiting was worth it."
A sarcastic, disembodied narration echoes from somewhere.
Before the Sinners, the 'subsistence' that the Family was eating appeared.
Eat the hemobar. (It is flavorless.) "They gobble down on that dry, flavorless 'food'." "But their hunger is not the kind to be sated by such supplements." "Unable to bear that hollow feeling, they tried to eat more of that food." "As though they were trying to convince themselves that gorging on that thing would free them from this starvation." Eat the hemobar. "Once again, they gobbled up the food." "They ate, and ate, and ate until they could no longer stuff any more of it into their mouths." "But oh, how unfortunate… They were still hungry." "The Family once again witlessly begins to set their table with that flavorless food." Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside  "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Stop eating. We waited for a while, refusing to eat that thing. The space around us warped and twisted, before opening a path ahead. There's no time to rest. Let's keep moving. Nothing happened. Eat the hemobar. "Once again, they gobbled up the food." "They ate, and ate, and ate until they could no longer stuff any more of it into their mouths." "But oh, how unfortunate… They were still hungry." "The Family once again witlessly begins to set their table with that flavorless food." Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Eat ten hemobars. WARNING) Continuing to eat will result in gaining an E.G.O Gift with a downside "It seems that they, in their endless naïveté, still believe that they simply haven't eaten enough food." "Let's see how long this… meaningless banquet lasts." Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Keep eating the hemobars. Gain an E.G.O Gift with downsides "The family ate, and ate, and ate in that desperate wish." "That this painful hunger might go away." "What came next was an anticipation, of sorts." "That maybe, just maybe, this hunger might go away once the Knight and his Squire returns from their adventure." "But it won't go away." "It never will." We begin to feel a sudden, bottomless hunger once the narration ends. Every Sinner lurches over from hunger so intense that it became pain. But the path opens, without any time for us to fill our stomachs. No choice but to keep moving, I suppose. E.G.O Gift Endless Hunger obtained! Stop eating. We waited for a while, refusing to eat that thing. The space around us warped and twisted, before opening a path ahead. There's no time to rest. Let's keep moving. Nothing happened. Stop eating. We waited for a while, refusing to eat that thing. The space around us warped and twisted, before opening a path ahead. There's no time to rest. Let's keep moving. Nothing happened. |
Leave it. We waited for a while, refusing to eat that thing. The space around us warped and twisted, before opening a path ahead. There's no time to rest. Let's keep moving. Nothing happened. |
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Endless Hunger  Attack Power Up Attack Power UpAttack Skill Final Power +X for this turn. for 3 turns.If the said Identity is a Bloodfiend, lose 10 SP, gain 2 Attack Power Up Attack Power UpAttack Skill Final Power +X for this turn. for 3 turns, and inflict +1 more Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Potency and Count with its Skill & Coin effects
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The Adventure
The Adventure
A mass of brambles, its thorns sharp, stands in our way.
"The Knight and the Squire adventured together for a long, long time."
"They enjoyed so many adventures together."
"Which one of them was the most interesting?"
The narration, again.
What should we say?
Forsooth, 'twas the battle against the mountainous giants Gain Wrath and Pride E.G.O resources "A long, long time ago, the Knight and the Squire warred against the giants." "But it wasn't very exciting, as it always ended with the Knight's victory." "What other adventure awaits, one must wonder." Gain 2 Wrath E.G.O Resources Gain 2 Pride E.G.O Resources |
'Twas the deliverance of a troubled village from evil, verily Gain Lust and Gluttony E.G.O resources "The Knight and the Squire rescued the troubled village." "It was so, so easy for them, as they were two mighty beings hiding their true strengths." "What other adventure awaits, one must wonder." Gain 2 Lust E.G.O Resources Gain 2 Gluttony E.G.O Resources |
Indeed, 'twas the adventure for the helm of Mambrino Gain Gloom and Envy E.G.O resources "After a long, trying journey, the Knight and the Squire claimed the great helm of Mambrino as their own." "Clueless about the helm's true powers." "What other adventure awaits, one must wonder." Gain 2 Gloom E.G.O Resources Gain 2 Envy E.G.O Resources "How unfortunate; there were no more adventures waiting for them." "It was time for the Knight and the Squire to return home." "To home, where their Family has been enduring and waiting for their return." "If you would like to know what came to pass thereafter, please make your way through the brambles."
Who will make a path through the brambles?
Check Passed[Sinner] walked into the brambles, cutting open a path for us to cross. The selected Identity loses 25 HP The selected Identity heals 10 SP All sinners gain +4 Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Count at the next Combat Start E.G.O Gift A Little Dream obtained! Check Failed[Sinner] walked into the brambles, trying to cut open a path for the rest of us. The selected Identity loses 25 HP The selected Identity loses 15 SP All sinners gain +4 Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Potency and Count at the next Combat Start E.G.O Gift A Little Dream obtained! |
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A Little Dream On Hit after Clash Win with the said Skill: inflict +1 Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Count and +1 Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Count (4 times per Skill)
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Bosses
Hurting Teddy Bear
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Obtained after defeating Hurting Teddy Bear.
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Grimy Iron Stake Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Potency. Inflict 2  Defense Level Down Defense Level DownDefense Level -X for this turn. until the end of the next turn.If the target already has Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. or 'Unique Bleed', inflict 3 Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. Potency instead.
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Rose Hunter
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Barbed Lasso Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Potency on all enemies equal to their current Speed values.When activating Lust Absolute Resonance, apply 3 Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Potency and +3 Rupture RuptureThe next Y time(s) the unit is hit, take X fixed damage. Count to a random enemy at Combat Start.
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Four-hundred Roses - Corroded Fixers
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La Manchaland Overseers
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A Hollow Dream Bleed BleedThe next Y time(s) this unit tosses an attack skill Coin, take X fixed damage. or 'Unique Bleed': heal 2~5 HP.Skills that consume  Bloodfeast Bloodfeast- Max Value: 999- Stores all Bleed damage dealt in this zone - Resets when moving to a different zone - This value is shared by all characters - Among allies, if there is a higher Kindred who also consumes Bloodfeast in the same turn, this unit cannot consume Bloodfeast until that ally consumes it first.: Coin Power +1 |
Sancho
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Obtained after defeating Sancho.
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A Broken Dream • Don Quixote's level rises to 50 • Don Quixote's Uptie and Threadspin Tiers rise to Tier 4 (If the Level, Uptie Tier, or Threadspin Tier are higher than the above values, then maintain those values.) |
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The Dream Begins Anew When an ally dies, the remaining allies heal 15 SP, and at Turn End, gain 1 Attack Power Up Attack Power UpAttack Skill Final Power +X for this turn. next turn (max Attack Power Up Attack Power UpAttack Skill Final Power +X for this turn.: 3)
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