()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>318</BIN><BGM>10381</BGM><黑屏2>:On an autobahn in Berlin.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A seven-seater Porsche SUV is cruising steadily at 120 kilometers per hour. The German oak trees bathing in the sun on both sides of the road flash by rapidly. +The idyllic view is ruined by the incongruent music playing in the car. +It's the kind of music a DJ would play at a nightclub that charges 20 euros per hour.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...Play something else. +How am I supposed to sleep with this blaring on the stereo?
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:I put this on precisely to keep myself awake.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Beep, beep...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The communicator chirps.
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>||<BGM>BGM_Sneak</BGM>:<color=#00CCFF>Morridow escaped.</color>
AK12(2)<Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:From the plane?
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>Yep...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>She jumped right off from a height of about 400 feet. The Stasi has been searching the river channels in the area—nothing.</color>
AK12(2)<Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:What did K say?
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(21)||:<color=#00CCFF>..."This is a matter that concerns only the German government."</color>
AK12(2)<Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...That's it?
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>Yeah.</color>
AK12(2)<Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Try to make your way to Berlin. 94 will send you the coordinates.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>I'm driving at the moment.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>By the way, 16 has something to tell you.</color>
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>I just received a message in my intranet.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>The message completely bypassed my firewalls. I only noticed it when it came through.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I've tried, but I couldn't trace it.</color>
RPK16(0)<通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:What does it say?
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>The subject is a Bible verse number.</color>
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>"John 8:12".</color>
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:"I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." +John, Chapter 8, Verse 12.
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...How pretentious.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>And revolting. It's probably a stupid question, but does this remind you of anyone in particular?</color>
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Do I look like I know someone so obnoxious?
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>The message itself reads...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>"Dear Ms. Anna Viktorovna Tsoi,</color> +<color=#00CCFF>"I hope you will forgive me for meddling, but I deeply regret what happened in Bremen and the bad decisions the Stasi have made due to internal strife.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>"There are things I wish to discuss with you concerning Paradeus. Please meet me after lunch."</color> +<color=#00CCFF>...Then there's an address. It looks like a bar in the Old Town.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>A bar called "Athena's Owl".</color>
RPK16(0)<通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Do you know the three types of people that I hate the most?
RPK16(5)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>People like AK-12 and people like me?</color>
RPK16(5)<通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:People with no conviction, pretentious pricks...
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>And what's the last type?</color>
RPK16(0)<通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:William.
AK12(4)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)||:<color=#00CCFF>Will you go to the meeting?</color>
AK12(4)<Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>;NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:No. +I would've been interested if things were different.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:But now? He's too late, and I don't have time for this. +Just ignore him. Let's meet at the mansion.
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Aren't you being a bit too impatient?</color>
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Don't bother. Once Ange has made up her mind, even I can't hold her back.</color>
AK12(4)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Just do as she says.</color>
RPK16(0)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...Of course.</color>
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Ange hangs up and peers at AK-15 and AN-94 in the back through the rearview mirror.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Send them the coordinates.
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:Done.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Horn_Car</SE1>:Beep, beeeeeeep... +A car honks at them from behind. +Ange can't help but frown.
NPC-Ange(22)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:What's his problem?
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Oh, we've passed the speed-restricted stretch.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Hm?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Q turns the steering wheel and changes to the rightmost lane on the motorway.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Generally speaking, the advisory speed limit here is 130 km/h, but there are stretches where the limit doesn't apply.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_engine_speedup</SE1>:Vroooom... The car behind them roars past them on the left. +It disappears from view in the blink of an eye.
NPC-Ange(22)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...Why should we let them pass?
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Hey, we're in a disguised civilian vehicle.
NPC-Ange(22)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Stop the car. Let me give you a proper demonstration of how to operate in disguise.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_brake</SE1>:With a furrowed brow, Q pulls up on a shoulder. She gets out of the car and moves over to the passenger's seat.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:For the record, this is my boss' car.
NPC-Ange(22)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Anything else I need to know? Let's get it all out of the way.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:I had a very big breakfast. I don't want to... throw up in the car. Hurk—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_engine_speedup</SE1>:Before she can finish, the black Porsche roars into life and speeds down the Autobahn at a speed of nearly 200 km/h.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1><BGM>GF_21winter_avg_mahaline</BGM>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Terrorist_Attack</SE1><BIN>183</BIN><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1><common_effect>%%code=AVG_ink2%%</common_effect><BIN>9</BIN>:Hell does not exist. +The dead return to dust, and their souls dissolve into nothingness. +Life is so fragile - all it takes is a bullet, a fire, or a stroke of bad luck for it to be snuffed out.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:... +...You don't scare me anymore.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Walking among memories that have risen from her subconscious, Angelia finds herself standing right in the middle of the disaster. +A girl is huddled behind the bomb container, trembling as she prays. She is utterly helpless in the face of what had happened. +Ange stares at the girl while enduring the deafening noise around her.
NPC-Ange(22)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Hey. +Get up. +...I'm telling you to get up.
NPC-Ange(36)<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amidst the chaos, the girl looks up and meets Ange's gaze. +Her eyes are swimming with tears. The darkness in those eyes forms a whirlpool... +Pulling Ange's consciousness into the bottomless abyss.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:...
()||<黑屏1>:
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||<睁眼><BIN>276</BIN><BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange sits up woozily in bed and rubs her temple to clear her head.
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:At this point, she doesn't even bother to ask what AK-12 is doing in her room. She's gotten used to it.
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Pour me some tea.
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:...Are you alright?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Only then does Ange notice the grim look on AK-12's face.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:What do you mean?
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:You were moaning and talking in your sleep. +You seemed to be having a nightmare. To be honest, it was really unlike you. +It grossed me out a bit.
NPC-Ange(20)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(2)<Position>0,50</Position>||:...Oh, yeah. +I dreamed that I went back to Statesec. Zelinsky threw me a welcoming banquet. +All the dishes were duck.
NPC-Ange(20);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:You hate duck?
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:I'd rather eat dirt.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange places a hand on the back of her neck as she softly cranes it this way and that, making it click.
()||<SE1>AVG_va_addingredient</SE1>:AK-12 knows better than to ask any more questions. She simply gets up and makes a cup of very strong tea, which she leaves on the bedside table.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:The Griffin Commander has reached Berlin. +They left you a message two hours ago.
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:... +The Earl sent the Commander.
NPC-Ange(21);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:That much is obvious. +Since you wouldn't work with him, he has to send someone who would.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:Do you think the Earl can be trusted?
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:Hard to say. +I mean, he IS the one who pulls the strings behind Griffin. Whoever doesn't trust their boss will have to jump ship.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:I've never liked him. +We have nothing in common.
AK12(4)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:And you have a lot in common with Agent Q?
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange snorts disdainfully.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:I believe about half of what she says.
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:Will you meet with the Commander?
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:No. It would make their job much more difficult if they get caught between me and the Earl.
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:So you're just going to leave them on "read"?
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:... +Send them the information you've learned from fighting Morridow, and tell them that while I appreciate their offer to help, I must go about this on my own.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Also tell them... don't trust anyone. +Especially the Earl.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:... +Understood.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:Where's Q?
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:She's been contacting the Stasi in Berlin. +Oh, by the way, we also heard from K—he has apparently arranged for an Agent "U" to take care of your needs in Berlin.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:So they got a new guy to watch me?
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:I haven't responded to his message. +But I suppose it's only a matter of time for the Stasi to track us down... If Q and U end up locking horns, whose side should we take?
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>;AK12(0)<Position>0,50</Position>||:We just have to stay ahead and let them duke it out. Whoever comes out on top will catch up with us.
NPC-Ange(19);AK12(4)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:How very like you.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:My objective is to investigate William. +Nothing else matters to me.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_Door_Open</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Ange grabs her coat and throws it over her shoulders, then she opens the bedroom door.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>356</BIN><BGM>BGM_Sneak</BGM>:Around ten Stasi agents are standing in the safe house. A myriad of cartridges, first-aid kits, and... several crates of weaponry are piled on the floor. +There are also two very eye-catching grenade launchers.
NPC-Ange(20)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...Good stuff.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Morning. Take whatever you like.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Q is in the middle of a conversation with someone on her earpiece. She gestures to Ange with her eyes.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Best prepare two more support teams.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:I know it's plenty, but you can never be too careful. +Also, when will the Dolls get here? Our bodies of flesh are very fragile. +I'm not trying to be coy, I'm just saying—your human subordinates are much more precious compared to those inhuman creatures.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:That'll do. That's all for now.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Q ends the call and watches as Ange picks out an M4A1 carbine and lingers in front of an M203 grenade launcher.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:...That's for backup. I recommend leaving that with me.
NPC-maya(2);NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Tsk. +Are you planning to demolish the old house?
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>;NPC-Ange(19)||:Since we'll be meeting a creature that fell 400 feet from the sky and came away unscathed, I believe we should show her some basic courtesy.
NPC-maya(2);NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...I've never seen such an ostentatious secret agent.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>;NPC-Ange(19)||:Like I said, this is considered basic.
NPC-maya(2);NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:When will you move?
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>;NPC-Ange(19)||:An hour from now.
NPC-maya(2);NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...You mean I only have an hour to search the mansion?
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>;NPC-Ange(19)||:You can think of it that way. +But the timing isn't up to me.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Rather, "Big Fish" will get here in less than an hour.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Who is Big Fish?
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Someone in Paradeus.
NPC-Ange(20)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Then as the "fish bait", I'd better set off.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Ange puts down the carbine. The DEFY Dolls follow after her without having to be told.
NPC-maya(0)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker>||:Aren't you gonna take some weapons?
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:We are the best weapons she can ask for.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>239</BIN>:Neu-Tempelhof, Berlin. +William's former residence.
AK12(2)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||<BGM>10220</BGM>:The weeds on the lawn really remind me of Vietnam.
AN94(5)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:You've been to Vietnam?
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:It's a metaphor.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Gate_Close</SE1>:Ange pushes open the slightly rusted metal gates and frowns as she spots the broken chains lying on the ground.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:...Someone got here before us. +Look at this cut. Freshly made.
RPK16(3)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker>||:Doesn't this seem strange to you, Ange? +I really think we should proceed with caution. At least let me and 94 scout ahead first.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Turning a deaf ear to RPK-16's advice, Ange steps into this unfamiliar courtyard.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:We're here already...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange looks up and studies the mansion. +This building has obviously been uninhabited since a long time ago. +The group walk through the front yard - it must have been many years since a gardener last tended to it. +Other than a few buzzing bees, there's no sign of any other living creatures.
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:...It's so quiet.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:No heat sources detected inside the building.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...This eerie silence haunts Ange. +Her gut feeling tells her that she's in the right place. +She will definitely find what she's after here.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:RPK, guard the door with 94.
RPK16(4)<Speaker>RPK-16</Speaker>||:...Okay.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:With a somewhat meaningful nod, RPK-16 turns around and starts pulling out her equipment.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><黑屏2><SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1><BIN>240</BIN>:Thunk!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AK-15 gives a powerful shove, and the doors of the mansion swing open. +The double doors shudder and creak, shaking loose a thick layer of dust. They are so out of use that the hinges look as if they might fall right off the wall. +Ange holsters her pistol and slowly enters. +In the gloomy foyer, there is no sound other than the trio's echoing footsteps.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...12?
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:She's on.
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:Patch her through.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Click. +Channel established.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>When it comes to fishing, the most important thing to have is patience.</color>
NPC-Ange(19)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:I hope your fish is worth it.
NPC-maya(2)<Speaker>Agent Q</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Of course.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Don't worry, I have my eyes on you.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Click. +Transmission terminated.
AK12(0)<Speaker>AK-12</Speaker><Position>0,50</Position>||:Well? Ange?
NPC-Ange(21)<Speaker>Ange</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange says nothing. Instead, she turns back toward the doors that AK-15 has just pushed open. +The others are puzzled at first, but then AK-12 and AK-15 react in the same way.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:A large number of heat sources approaching. +...It's Paradeus.
()||<黑屏1>: