()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<黑屏2><BIN>547</BIN><回忆><BGM>GF_21summer_battle_4</BGM><narrator>:2051. Operation Couatl, in the Dead Sea.
()||:This is her last gasp, the final flop of a fish on dry land, a dying bird's last squawk.
()<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||:Why... Aliana...+I, I don't understand... Don't... Don't do...
NPC-SCAR-L(3)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARL1</SE1>:Aliana raises her gun, a blank expression on her face.
()||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARL2</SE1>:Bang—
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...Farewell, Eula.+I'll send you on your way first.
()<Speaker>Eula</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||<黑屏2>:You're next, Olivia.
()<Speaker>Olivia</Speaker>||:If this is an order...
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:This is our destiny, our destiny as members of Daybreak Squad.
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Olivia</Speaker><同时置暗>||:...You'll regret this, Aliana...
()||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Ink_Drop_Single</SE1>:A teardrop blurs her vision.
()||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARL2</SE1><黑屏1>:Bang—
()||<黑屏2><关闭蒙版><BIN>9</BIN><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>548</BIN><Night>:Samo lies on the sofa, playing with the two shell casings in her hand.+Beside her, Cheryl is tidying up her house and looking for something usable in it.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Wake</BGM>:...+Cheryl, were you hit on the back of the head? Over here.
NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Hah?
()||:Cheryl turns back, somewhat angrily.
NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:You're being very rude, you know. I'm trying to help you think of a solution and here you are, insinuating something's wrong with my head!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...That's not what I meant.
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Then what did you mean?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:Answer me first.
()||:Cheryl touches the back of her head, and then she suddenly exclaims in realization.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Ah, I know! If I'm not wrong, I suddenly went blind after I hit the back of my head on something.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Hm... I remember you had blood on the back of your head and your neck when I saw you.
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:You, you remembered!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(3)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Well, some images came to mind...
NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...Anything else?
()||:A shell casing falls from Samo's hand to her tummy. The other casing from 13 years ago gleams dully in her palm.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:That was the first day I met you.+It was snowing lightly and the ground was slippery. Your school had set up lots of anti slip rugs in the corridors.
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:That's right! There were always kids slipping and falling back then...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Your pink dress was very close to the color of the rugs, and when I found you, you were face down on the edge of a rug...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Big Sis...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(3)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:You reached out and touched the gun in my hand and begged me to teach you...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Yeah! I begged for a long time before you let me touch it.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(3)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:...
NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...Big Sis, it really is you...
()||:Samo turns to the side and the casing on her tummy falls to the ground.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Thank you, Cheryl. I remember who I am now.
NPC-Cheryl(3)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:You're Big Sis Eula!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:No, I'm not Eula.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Scar_Shenzhizi</BGM>:...
()||<震屏>:Cheryl's gaze flickers and she backs up several steps in disbelief.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:...No, how could this be... What kind of joke is this...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:I...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><同时置暗>||:I think I need to cool down for a bit...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||<黑点1>:...
()||<黑点2>:A moment later, Cheryl comes out from her room.+She picks up the cartridge that fell to the ground.
NPC-Cheryl(4)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:But you had the same casing Big Sis Eula gave me...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(4)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:...We were all from the same squad, so we all used the same rounds.+I'm very sorry.
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(4)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:If... If you're not Big Sis Eula...+Then that means... That means...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(4)||:Eula is dead.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:I sorted through all the memory fragments which recorded her death and the memories belonging to "Eula" witnessed Aliana's last gunshot.
()||:The light in Cheryl's eyes wavers like a candle in the wind.
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...Are you telling me they're ALL in your neural cloud?+In... In that case, could you bring Big Sis Eula out to meet me?
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Back then, the first person I wanted to see after regaining my sight was her...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...I'm sorry.+The only part of them that remains in my heart are... their memories.+Can you understand it? It's not a possession like how humans might imagine it. It's more like... Their pasts are like a movie to me...+It's someone else's story, someone else's life...+Even if I could retrieve her memories, I... I wouldn't be her.+I can't continue their conversations, and I don't have the same thoughts as they do.+Do you understand now, Cheryl?
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:Eula isn't coming back. You should forget about her.
()||:Cheryl's trembling lips open and close, but she does not say anything.+Samo rises from the couch and checks her power levels.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:I should go.+Thank you for taking care of me all this while.
()||:Samo tucks away her power cables, puts her hat back on, and heads outside.+Cheryl watches her dumbly from where she's standing.
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Samo...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:I'm going now. Take care of yourself.
()||:Samo slowly closes the door—
()||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1>:Bam—Cheryl rushes out the door and into Samo's back.
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:No matter what your name is, it doesn't change the fact that you're the garbage Doll that I bought.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...
()||:Cheryl grabs onto Samo's clothing.
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:I still want to protect you, even if you're not Eula.+Big Sis Eula gave me courage, and I want to pay it forward to someone else who needs it.+Even if it's not Big Sis Eula herself.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...
()||:Samo can feel the back of her clothes growing moist from Cheryl's tears.
NPC-Cheryl(5)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Plus, I've already designated you as the heroine of this work of mine. How can the heroine lose so easily? I need to help you...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:You can't help me.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><黑屏1>:...No. This time, I've got a perfect plan.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>18</BIN><BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM><Night>:Even the busy Griffin base has its quiet moments.+Like now, for instance.+When the clock strikes 12, some of the Dolls who have finished their training return to the dorms.+Of course, other Dolls are preparing to head out at this moment.+Aliana is one of the latter group.+However, an uninvited guest blocks the doorway.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position><GradientShow>2</GradientShow>||:...Good morning, SCAR-L, or should I say, Sergeant Aliana.+Up so early for work? You really are a legendary Doll.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:Unfortunately, Dolls nowadays don't understand what legends are. Your teammates just went to complain to the Commander.+(Sigh) There was so much weeping and gnashing of teeth, it hurt my heart just to watch it.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:To think that on the first day of returning to modern society, a legendary Doll would end up as an officer with no men.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:If you're here to tell me about this, I already know.
()||:Aliana's face reveals no emotion. She nods and prepares to leave, but Dandelion looms in front of her again, like a clingy ex.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:I'm not the same as those Dolls who only have processing speeds of 128kb/s. I'm quite interested in you.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:Because we use different systems?
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:Yes, but that's not all.+I've been watching you ever since you heroically took down our Commander.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:And what is your conclusion from the day's observations?
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:I can't read you, Sergeant Aliana.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:Nor do I want to be read by you.
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:How cold. Why don't we make a deal?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:I'm a soldier, not a merchant.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:I've never treated my business partners poorly. You can ask 15 if you don't believe me.
()||:Aliana's face is as blank as before.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:I just want to look at your base layer code. If you could just grant me access...
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:Did the Commander send you to feel me out?
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:Would I need to ask you if I was here on the Commander's orders?+Also, don't you think doing bad things behind the Commander's back is pretty fun?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;NytoIsomer(3)<Position>0,-80</Position>||:...You are testing a Ranger's loyalty.
NPC-SCAR-L(0);NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:Aw, don't be such a stuck in the mud. I can trade you someone else's code in exchange. So, which person on the base do you want to look into?
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:15? Your teammates? Ever wanted to know how they're badmouthing you in secret?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...
()||:Aliana takes out her comms tablet and highlights the Commander's name. Her finger is poised on top of the send button.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:Do you want to invite them to see as well?
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>Dandelion</Speaker><Position>0,-80</Position>||:You're such an antique...
()||:Dandelion storms off. +Aliana breathes a sigh of relief and leaves after closing the dorm door behind her.
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:She hasn't even taken two steps before someone steps out from behind a corridor and blocks her path.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:The newcomer doesn't speak right away. Instead, they establish an encrypted comms channel.
AR15Mod(0)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Got time to talk?</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;AR15Mod(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>...What do you want?</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0);AR15Mod(0)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>I want to know more about the "Dead Sea".</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;AR15Mod(0)||:<color=#00CCFF>...Why couldn't you ask in front of the Commander?</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0);AR15Mod(4)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>The Commander's busy; you saw it too. Plus my teammates are still in there, so I need to know.</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>;AR15Mod(4)||:<color=#00CCFF>Don't test a Ranger's loyalty.</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0);AR15Mod(0)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>...</color>
AR15Mod(0)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>I was there that day. It's not a secret to me.</color>
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>But you have no right to know more than the Commander.</color>
()||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:The encrypted call ends.
AR15Mod(4)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||:...
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:May I go now?
AR15Mod(3)<Speaker>ST AR-15</Speaker>||<黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Please do.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>83</BIN><Night><BGM>BGM_NightOPS</BGM>:Aliana takes a deep breath and finally makes it to the base entrance.+Surprisingly enough, there are five people there waiting for her.+They are SCR, Contender, M26-MASS, M60 and FF M249SAW.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...Does everyone in the Griffin base like visiting others in the middle of the night to talk?
M26MASS(0)<Speaker>M26-MASS</Speaker><Position>-200,80</Position>||:Miss Dandelion said you were running away from home again and asked us to follow you, in case a certain WW3 vet didn't know about modern traffic rules.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:She said you don't acknowledge me as team leader any more.
M249SAW(0)<Speaker>M249SAW</Speaker>||:We did bring that up with Miss Helian, but the final decision lies with the Commander, who will decide tomorrow.
Contender(0)<Speaker>Contender</Speaker>||:When the Commander announces you're not our leader tomorrow, nobody will care about you.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:...This is a private matter.
NPC-SCR(0)<Speaker>SCR</Speaker>||:Not when you're going to settle it with a gun.
M60(0)<Speaker>M60</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||:So, are we going? Better hurry up if you are, otherwise other people are going to ask questions and that's going to take forever.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>418</BIN><Night>:Late at night, in a Berlin residential district.+An unmarked truck slowly comes to a halt.
Contender(0)<Speaker>Contender</Speaker>||:So, what's the plan?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:There's no plan. We just go right in.
NPC-SCR(5)<Speaker>SCR</Speaker>||:Hah? You were going to conduct a home invasion?+Just march right in, bold as brass?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:You were the ones who wanted to follow me.
M26MASS(0)<Speaker>M26-MASS</Speaker><Position>-200,80</Position>||:...At least tell us what you want to do.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:I want to have words with my long-lost sister.
M60(0)<Speaker>M60</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||<震屏>:Since when did you have a sister?+No, wait, why is your sister here?+Before that, why couldn't you just call her?
()||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:Aliana ignores them and hops off the truck, preparing to enter the apartment.
Contender(0)<Speaker>Contender</Speaker>||:...I TOLD you we shouldn't have come.+That woman!
M26MASS(0)<Speaker>M26-MASS</Speaker><Position>-200,80</Position>||:Shouldn't we do something like disarm security or cut the power first?+Just walking in the front door is a little... Wait a minute, where's Aliana?
M249SAW(0)<Speaker>M249SAW</Speaker>||:...She's climbing a pipe up the side of the building.
M26MASS(0)<Speaker>M26-MASS</Speaker><Position>-200,80</Position>||:That quickly!?
M249SAW(0)<Speaker>M249SAW</Speaker>||:Well, she's special forces. She doesn't take the stairs like we do.
NPC-SCR(2)<Speaker>SCR</Speaker>||<黑点1>:Come on, let's follow her.