()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<黑屏2><BIN>97</BIN>:...Entrance Hall, Great Palace, the Summer Garden.
()||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:The tranquility of the space is disrupted by Reinette's hurried footsteps.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_LibraryAdventure</BGM>:<size=50>Mirabelle! Show yourself!</size>
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position><GradientShow>2</GradientShow>||:I'm here.
()||:Mirabelle saunters out from a corner obscured by shadow.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:We've found Archbishop Hume.
Erma(23)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>Huh? I had no idea...</color>
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Really? Then bring him here right away!
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(0)<Position>-200,0</Position>||:I will not hand over the Archbishop until I see Her Majesty in person.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:No. I must verify that you genuinely have the Archbishop. What if you are planning to deceive Her Majesty?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:As a knight, it is my duty to protect the King.
()||:A cold sneer appears on Reinette's face.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Oh really? Stevens M620, or should I call you 27-П-55? +How long do you intend to keep up this lousy charade?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Please cease your nonsensical rambling.
()||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Reinette closes in on Mirabelle.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:You think I'm an idiot like Erma? +Human memories can't be preserved in anchor points in the Summer Garden. The messages are one thing... +But do tell me how come we were able to observe the Doctor and Maggie's conversations? +There were no other Dolls around when they were talking. Were they video recordings? Or someone else's memories?
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Shake>||:...Hey, who are you calling an idiot?!
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Shut it!
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Mirabelle seems unperturbed. Reinette draws even closer.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:From the POV of the anchor points, other than Erma and me, there were no other Dolls present. +Besides, these anchor points were only added after we entered the Great Palace—I've never seen them before. +Did you inject them when Erma wasn't paying attention? That was real smooth! +Well? Busted, huh? Haha, you're the only other Doll with a neural cloud we've seen around here.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...You're right. When I was at the Griffin base, I remember having no more than ten anchor points, and the memory data I had access to were very limited. +So how come I've got a bunch of keys here, and even a whole list...
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Mirabelle pushes Reinette away.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...Don't make it sound as if I were responsible for all of this! +09-П-39, your hands aren't so clean either! +It was you who tricked her into coming here! You knew she isn't our 00-Э-00.
Erma(23)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Wait, I'm getting confused.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:You admit it then, Stevens M620? +The anchor points we've accessed here were memories recorded from your perspective. +As both Louis Hume and Arthur Hume, the Doctor had us by his side... and you.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...So you're the housekeeper that Doctor Hume retained? +Were those all memories that he wanted his heirs to watch?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What exactly are you up to?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...I could ask you the same, Reinette. What do you wish to achieve here?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Stop calling me by that stupid name!
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:Stupid? You used to love that name.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:... +For as far back as I can remember, you've been driving me crazy!
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...How far back CAN you remember?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:You don't have any memories beyond your service in the military, do you?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...That's not true. I still remember Doctor Hume... and our days at the Summer Garden in Moscow...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:But you were already not the original you by then. +What is your reason for coming here?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...The Doctor died.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:My employer told me that the Doctor once survived exposure to Collapse radiation. His constitution was unlike that of an ordinary human.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:The Doctor's research can resurrect the dead. +Which is why I must find it. I need to bring it back to the military so that they can resurrect Doctor Hume.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...
Erma(23)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Resurrect Mother?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:That's right. Only when the Doctor is resurrected... will you and our other sisters be truly free... +And reclaim all of our memories... from the moment of our creation. +We will finally stop being pawns... that have our memories manipulated at the whims of others.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...
()||:Mirabelle's impassive face betrays strong emotions for the first time—pain, frustration, anger...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:All these years and you still haven't changed that disgusting habit of yours! +The only thing more stupid than your name is the circuitry in your brain!
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:What about you, Erma? Why have you come here?
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:My Commander has gone missing. Stevens M520 told me I'd be able to rescue the Commander if I helped her find what she wants...
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Hang on, you weren't lying to me, were you?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...I wasn't! I have information from the military about the abduction of your Commander... +The woman who took your Commander is connected to the Doctor's research. +If we can get our hands on the materials the Doctor left behind, we'll be able to resurrect him. Then he'll sort everything out, and you'll get your Commander back, no?
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...Now I see what you're here for. +You came for the "Spring".
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...That's the Doctor's research, right?
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Yes, but I am not the custodian of the "Spring". +If you wish to learn about it, you must seek an audience with Her Majesty.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Isn't that a character you just made up to trick us?
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:No. +That prank from before was just a little act of revenge.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<震屏>:...Hey, you're just as bad as she is!!!
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:I just wanted a little revenge on a promise breaker.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:A promise breaker?
()||<黑屏2><回忆><BIN>6</BIN><common_effect>%%code=CJ_snow%%</common_effect><BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_2</BGM>:...At this point in time, the Summer Garden seems to be in the grip of a frigid winter. White snow has buried the path and wrapped everything in its tight embrace. +A gentle song drifts out from the little hut deep in the garden...
()||<narrator>:Frosty, the snowman... a button nose and eyes made out of coal... There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found... He began to dance around. +...Ah Frosty, the snowman knew the sun was hot that day, so he said, "Let's run and we'll have some fun now, before I melt away." +...Down to the village with a broomstick in his hand, runnin' here and there, all around the square, sayin', "Catch me if you can!" +...Frosty, the snowman, he had to hurry on his way, but he waved goodbye sayin', "Don't you cry, I'll be back again some day."
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Let's go build a snowman.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Sure.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
()||:Erma does not answer. She just keeps staring thoughtfully in the direction that the song is coming from.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Is something wrong?
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:You two go on ahead. I have something else to do.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:We can go with you.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Yeah.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:... +Just wait here. I should be back by the time you finish building the snowman.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Alright, we'll build a beautiful snowman. +Just like in the song, with a button nose, eyes made out of coal, and an old silk hat.
Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Okay, I look forward to seeing him.
()||<黑屏1>:Erma walks off toward the fountain, and her petite figure soon disappears in the sea of white. +Stevens M520 and Stevens M620 soon finish building the snowman. +As they have promised, the snowman has a button nose, eyes made out of coal, and an old silk hat. +Sadly, by the time the snowman melts away, Erma still hasn't returned.
()||<关闭蒙版>:
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>97</BIN>:What is this? Our memory?
()||:Erma looks down at the anchor point in her hand. It is titled "Frosty the Snowman".
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:... +You didn't come back. +Never did.
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I remember this... +I waited by the fountain for a long time. +Until Doctor Hume reactivated you and brought you back, but this brand new version of you had no memory of the past.
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I'm sorry... +I don't remember at all.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...I know. +I've always known. +It's enough that I remember this memory. +The little girl that used to be my friend died long ago.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:You are just Erma, Lady 0, nothing more.
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Mirabelle...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:You are even more laughable.
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:She has forgotten everything. +But you're not much better than her.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:To me, you are both like that snowman. +The sun rises and sets; the snowman melts away and is rebuilt again. +The snowman is still standing there, but it's not the same snowman anymore.
Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Mirabelle, I am not a snowman. I will not melt away again.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position><GradientHide>2</GradientHide>||:Go see Her Majesty. +I will be waiting for you two by his side.
()||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:With a swish of her cape, Mirabelle vanishes from the hall.
Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Mirabelle...
Erma(23)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Hey! At least give us some directions?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...I suppose this was her punishment. +She... must have been guarding this place on her own for a very, very long time.
Erma(23)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:What do you mean?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If we are the snowman, then she is the sun that has witnessed it all.
()||<黑屏1>:Reinette lets out a sigh and shares a memory with Erma.
()||<黑屏2><回忆><BIN>534</BIN><BGM>BGM_Hume_FourAdventures</BGM>:... +About 50 meters away from the entrance of the Summer Garden. +Stevens M620 suddenly comes to a halt.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:You don't have to escort me all the way. Just go back.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:The transport hasn't landed yet. Let me stay with you for a bit longer.
()||<SE1>AVG_Helicopter_BG</SE1>:The roar of propellers gradually approaches the trio. Stevens M620 can clearly see the emblem of the double-headed eagle on the cabin door.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Oh please, I'm just going to my post, not getting scrapped at a recycling plant.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:Who knows what you'll look like when you finally come back.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...I'll try my best to come back soon. +The Doctor is in your hands while I'm away.
Erma(18)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Okay, I'll take good care of him!
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Stop fretting. +Just worry about yourself!
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Stevens M620</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...
()||<黑屏1>:With one last wordless nod, Stevens M620 walks past the outer fence of the garden and disappears from view.
()||<黑屏2><BIN>18</BIN><回忆>:News about Stevens M620 comes one night several months later. +Erma is uncharacteristically reticent. She simply watches Stevens M520 pack in silence.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...From now on, it'll just be you and the Doctor at the Summer Garden. +If anything happens, don't slow him down.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Right.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Have you memorized the locations of all the secret passages?
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Yes.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Just in case, I've asked Natalie to backup all of your anchor points.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Right.
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 slings her bag over her shoulder.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I'm going.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(19)||:The Doctor said 620 is never coming back, but he's saved her data in the Summer Garden. +If you ever run into any trouble, you can go and ask her for help. You can also pay her a visit just to ruffle her feathers whenever you're bored.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Okay.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)||:I've already said my goodbyes to her, and she's briefed me on the job I'm taking over.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Will you be coming back?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(19)||:Of course, I'm not a promise breaker. +Unlike a certain jerk, I keep my word.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I'll be waiting for you.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)||:Good. +You'd better still remember me the next time I'm home.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Though it doesn't matter even if you don't. I'll just chew you out until you remember. +Don't worry, we'll be reunited here in the end, one way or another.
Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:Okay... Make sure you don't forget.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<黑屏2><BIN>97</BIN><关闭蒙版>:Well, you know the rest of the story.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I kept my word and came back, only to find Doctor Hume dead and you an amnesiac—again.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I'm sorry, I didn't want any of this to happen.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(21)||:But 620, trapped in the Summer Garden all this time, could only watch everything unfold helplessly.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(21)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(21)||:Just like the sun.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Other than watching the snowman get rebuilt, then melt away, there's nothing she could do.
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:If Mother is resurrected, will 620 be free?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(19)||:The Doctor must have a way.
Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:We'll find her.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Alright.
()||:Erma takes Reinette's hand the way she used to in the Summer Garden.
Erma(18)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Let's go meet this King.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<黑屏1>:Okay.