()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN><BGM>GF_21winter_battle_1</BGM><回忆><SE1>AVG_2022Saros_Gunfight</SE1><narrator>:2051. Operation Couatl, in the Dead Sea.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>547</BIN>:They are in a tunnel.+Many rounds of shellfire have been exchanged and the air is filled with smoke.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARH2</SE1><震屏3><SE1>AVG_Bullet_Drop</SE1>:Amaris takes aim and pulls the trigger—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_XXS_kick</SE1>:And the enemy soldier collapses as the shot rings out.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARH3</SE1>:Point A12 is clear.
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Copy.</color>
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Aliana, we can't move further forward!
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Hey, are you listening to me?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Bullet_Hit_Wall</SE1><震屏3>:Bang—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:A bullet flies overhead and Amaris drops into a roll. The bullet bounces off a nearby wall.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=3%%delay=0.1%%range=5</controll_shake><SE1>AVG_Gatling_gun</SE1>:It is soon followed by more firepower that punches a line of bullet holes into the masonry.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Helicopter</SE1>:Whup, whup, whup—She can hear the beating of chopper blades outside the building.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:Amaris repositions and checks the number of enemies through a crack in the wall.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:1, 2, 3, 4, 5... +We're facing at least 6 elite squads here!
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Hang in there.</color>
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:What bullshit is that?+SATNAV's down, we're dangerously low on ammo, there's no support, and we don't have eyes or ears. How are we supposed to fight them?
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Our only choice is to break through their fields of fire before they can meet up and seize Capita!</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Inside her hiding place, Amaris' face fills with despair.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:It's no good. We can't break through with only this much firepower!
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...You must not give up!</color>
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Bloody hell!+If satellite comms weren't cut off, the Commander would have agreed to retreat too!
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>If only I were 7% faster and 1.5% more accurate...</color>
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:You could double them and it still wouldn't be enough!
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Eula, grab that madwoman!+Eula—Eula?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:There is no answer from the communicator.
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Eula? Are you there?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Eula's name goes gray in the Daybreak System.+Amaris watches as it changes to "Deleted".
()<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:<size=50>Aliana, what the hell are you doing!?</size>+Wasn't Eula with you just now?
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARL1</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>We need to break through and complete the mission.</color>+<color=#00CCFF>Daybreak leads the way, never taking a step back—</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2022Saros_SCARL3</SE1>:Aliana raises her gun and rushes forward like lightning—
NPC-SCAR-L(1)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Amaris, cover me!</color>+<color=#00CCFF>Amaris?</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Explosion</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=3%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:The shells rip through the air, trailing a hurricane in their wake—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tinnitus_0</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Whum—Time stretches out and all sound dissolves into echoes of white noise.
()||<白屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>183</BIN><白屏2><关闭蒙版>:Aliana remembers that at that moment, the sky appeared blood red.+White light bloomed in the air!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>357</BIN>:Berlin, in the Ops Room of the temporary base.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:...+And you managed to approach that room without any support?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:Yes. I managed to enter that room in the end.+And then the operation failed.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The room is silent.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:...Aliana.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Aliana turns to the Commander and studies the mixed expression on their face.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:Thank you for choosing to be honest with me, Aliana.+The news you brought is very important to myself and Griffin.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:Because of "Capita"?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Although I'm not sure who "Capita" is or what he's done... +We DO know about that structure in the "Dead Sea" that floats in mid-air.+Its name now is "Avernus".
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:Then there's a very high chance "Capita" is still alive...
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||:I think Moscow sent you over because they knew that.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_21summer_avg_Reunion</BGM>:I see... So the mission wasn't complete after all.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Aliana closes her eyes, her face an unreadable mix of emotions.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:The Commander walks over and places a hand on Aliana's shoulder, a solemn look on their face.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:The people to whom you swore your loyalty no longer exist, so you don't need to feel bound by the past.+However it may have come to be, I'm glad that your path brought you to Griffin.+But we also need to realize that the world has remained stagnant for the past 13 years and the dawn has not yet come.+Aliana, our mission is not yet complete and your light has never faded.+Here and now, are you willing to fight alongside us for the sake of a new world?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Aliana clenches her fist and holds it to her chest. Her expression is one of utmost gravity.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:For all my life.+For Griffin, and... for Daybreak.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:The Commander pats Aliana on the shoulder and nods.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:However, I have a small request.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||:What is it?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:I believe Miss Persica has already told you about my condition.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||:About your base layer mission?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:Yes... The "dog tags" I mentioned before. +The last order they gave me was—to purge traitors.
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Who is it?
NPC-SCAR-L(0)<Speaker>Aliana</Speaker>||:I saw her, but it's a private matter of mine.+Therefore, I request permission to handle this matter on my own.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The Commander falls silent briefly.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:I will respect your decision.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>548</BIN><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><睁眼>:...Samo opens her eyes again, and takes in the familiar ceiling and room once again.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Cheryl is crouched beside the bed, gently wiping the stains off her.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Are you awake?+Does it hurt anywhere else?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...This must be a dream.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:Samo closes her eyes.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:...You're plugged in, so don't pretend to be asleep.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>548</BIN><睁眼>:Samo opens her eyes. It's still the same familiar ceiling and room.+She looks with doubt at Cheryl's kind and gentle face.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...+What happened when I wasn't around?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Cheryl places two identical shell casings in front of Samo.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:What is this supposed to mean?
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...Do you not remember at all?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:I remember I told you to throw them away?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Cheryl's face falls and her tone becomes much more depressed.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:To think you wouldn't remember a single thing about something that meant so much to me.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Cheryl covers her eyes with her hands.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:Big Sis... +I... I can't see...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1><SE1>Heartbeat</SE1>:The muffled sound of children crying and wailing to return to their parents' embrace suddenly fills Samo's neural cloud.+Cold, unfeeling soldiers move among them, scattering the still-weeping children. None of them pay attention to one particular child—+The one who is helplessly feeling around in a corner, her face full of tears.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BGM>BGM_Scar_Shenzhizi</BGM><回忆><BIN>469</BIN>:...Time: ■■■. Location:■■■. Operation codename:■■■. +■■ stands in a classroom, or rather, a building that had once been a classroom.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:A child with an indistinct face is clinging tightly to her hand. The child seems to be looking at her.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:Big Sis, don't leave me...
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:I won't. +It'll be a while until we get to leave, so tell me, what's your name?
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:My name is Cheryl...
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:Hm, that's a nice name. I'll remember it.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:Big Sis, why won't you tell me your name?
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:Because Big Sis can't let anyone know her name.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:Why is that?
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:Hm... It's complicated adult stuff. It would be hard to explain.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:Okay... But then, how will I find you after I can see again?
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:Let me think...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Zipper</SE1>:■■ feels around her pockets and effects. Grenades, flashbangs, daggers... None of them seem like appropriate gifts for a kid.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:In the end, she picks up a shell casing from the ground that she just used.
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:This is for you.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:What is this... It's cold, and it seems like it's made of metal...
()<Speaker>■■</Speaker>||:This is what I use most.
()<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker>||:Okay! I'll take good care of it!
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>548</BIN><关闭蒙版>:...
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Why are you spacing out? Do you really not remember?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:My neural cloud's in a bit of a mess...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(1)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:I'll test you, then!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(1)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Okay...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(1)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:What was the weather like on the day you met me?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(1)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Uh... sunny, I guess?
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Correct! You DO remember! +Then, what was the color of the clothes I was wearing?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Erm... they were dark-colored?
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Yes, that's right, I was wearing a pink dress!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:Wait, isn't that really far off...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Then where did you meet me?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:...In a classroom, I guess.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Cheryl grabs Samo's hands in delight.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Big Sis, you remembered after all!+14 years ago, on December 1st, it was a cold day and it was snowing lightly.+I was having class in Berlin Metropolitan School when a whole bunch of bad guys suddenly rushed in. I fainted, and I couldn't see anything when I woke up...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:You saved me.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:...
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Big Sis...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Cheryl lightly scoops up Samo's hand and squeezes it in her own. Her index finger is pointing forward, like she's making a finger gun.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Do you still remember? That day, when I was crying and crying, you held my hand like this and showed me how to shoot in order to distract me...+The feeling of the trigger and your hand on mine has remained on my fingers all this time.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:Did "I" teach you how to shoot...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Samo extracts her hand and opens it in front of her eyes.
NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:I don't know what happened to you over these years...+But when I saw you like this, I was so sad...
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Still, being able to meet you again is just too much of a lucky coincidence!+No, no, there are no coincidences in this world. Fate must have decreed this!
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>;NPC-Cheryl(0)<Position>0,-100</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Actually, there's one thing I haven't told you.
NPC-SCAR-H(1);NPC-Cheryl(0)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:Hm?
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_Swim_Marnie</BGM>:...The Doll you ordered is still in the store.+I snuck into its box while they were packing it up.
NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position><Shake>0.1</Shake>||:<size=50>...I knew it! You...</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Cheryl takes a deep breath.+Then, she forces herself to smile, but it looks so ugly that she would have been better off crying instead.
NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...It's okay, Big Sis.+I'll just think of it as a storage fee I paid for you.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:Back then, I was thinking that considering how readily you paid up, you must have been a really rich rube.
NPC-Cheryl(2)<Speaker>Cheryl</Speaker><Position>0,-100</Position>||:...I need some time to think.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Cheryl takes the rag and the bucket of water that's dirty from the cleaning and leaves the room.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Samo's vision returns to the familiar ceiling.
NPC-SCAR-H(1)<Speaker>Samo</Speaker>||:A girl who couldn't see... I wonder whose memory it was.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Samo slowly closes her eyes.
()||<黑点1>: