()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_TheCircularRuins</BGM><BIN>534</BIN><SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1><Night><SE1>AMB_Garden_Loop</SE1><黑屏2>:...The two Dolls wade through the fog and find themselves beneath an oppressive night sky. +A few dim street lights just about manage to light up the path beneath their feet. +Erma and Reinette continue down this barely visible path in the darkness.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:Why has it gone dark all of a sudden? I thought it's always daytime in the Summer Garden.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:Why that sudden question?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:It just feels like things in this space don't follow any particular logic.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)||:...It's only like that because you're the admin of the Summer Garden. +You never organize or clear your cache! You don't put any thought into controlling the climate or level of illumination in here!
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(24)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:So I'm the problem. Well, that explains it.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(24)||:...
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Don't be mad. I'll give you a present. +Look—lighting controls of the Summer Garden. Now you can switch on the lights any time you want!
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)||:Why don't you just switch on daytime mode yourself?
Erma(19)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I forgot how to do that.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
()||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_Camera_Focus</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><CGDelay>0.3</CGDelay><关闭蒙版>:Reinette turns up the lights in menacing silence.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Who do you think the King is?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)||:No clue. There weren't such things in the Summer Garden when I left.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Do you think they're also a hoax created by Mirabelle? You know, for revenge?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:...I don't think so. She is certainly the vengeful type, but she's also a stickler for the rules.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Then could this King be Mother's legacy? +You did say he didn't exist when Mother was still alive.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:I don't know. We'll find out when we see him.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Right...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1>:The two Dolls continue on their way in silence. Reinette can tell something is weighing on Erma's mind even without seeing her face.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you have questions, just spit them out. +You've already asked enough stupid questions to fill three volumes of "I Wonder Why" books anyway.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:... +Who put us into this mess? +We could've lived on happily ever after in the Summer Garden...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:Everything happened all of a sudden. When I left the Summer Garden, the Doctor was still doing his research. +But when I returned, everything was gone, except for Natalie.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Natalie...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:She's the one who had always taken care of us, and the one whom the Doctor trusted the most. +When I retired from Military service, she was the first to contact me. +It was always her who suggested that I send for you to claim the Doctor's inheritance together.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)||:She must've been desperate. The Doctor's death and your disappearance must've made her extremely fearful.
Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...It was Paradeus.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Yeah.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:They wanted something, but Mother wouldn't give it to them.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(15)||:The Doctor wasn't really the type to turn people down.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:That's true, he even joined the Sisterhood.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(13)||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:...What I mean is, the Doctor was a rather self-absorbed man who was generally unconcerned about anything unless it's something he cared about. +Though from what we've just found out, he didn't seem particularly concerned about being forced to share something that he did care about.
Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:It's quite paradoxical.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1>:That's why I'm finding the whole thing so odd.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Do you really think he can be resurrected?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:...I don't know.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(20)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...You've been working so hard for something you don't actually understand? You're not very smart either.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:You think I'm not gonna beat you up just because we're in the Summer Garden?
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Right.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:According to the intel I received... someone has been successfully resurrected. +And your Commander met this person.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Huh? How did they feel about coming back to life?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;Erma(17)||:...Save your stupid questions for your Commander, okay?
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Okay...
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1>:If Mother could also be resurrected, what would you say to him?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I'd ask him to make me Unit 0.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Do you really hate me so much?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<黑点1>:Humph. +Just stop saying such stupid things... Why is this path getting darker and darker? I've already turned the lights up to maximum brightness.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><Night>:Reinette peers bemusedly at the street lights, which are flickering feebly in the stifling darkness.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:...Do you hear that?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Hear what?
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:The trickling of spring water.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AMB_Fountain_Loop</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:At the end of the dimly lit path, the silhouette of a gushing fountain spring slowly emerges.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Did we take a wrong turn? This is a dead end.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I don't think we did...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Let's double back. Maybe we missed a fork because it's so dark.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_splash_water</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=3%%delay=0.1%%range=2</controll_shake>:Reinette turns and retraces her steps, but a splash comes suddenly from behind—
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:... +Erma?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The splash is followed by silence.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Reinette looks back at the fountain, which is still gushing tirelessly, but Erma is nowhere to be found.
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:<size=50>Erma!</size>
()<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#66CDAA>I'm here.</color>
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:<color=#66CDAA>Where have you gone?</color>
()<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:<color=#66CDAA>Down here. I went into the fountain. The path leads down here.</color>
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:<color=#66CDAA>I see.</color>
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,-160</Position><Scale>1.3</Scale>||<SE1>AVG_Punch_Hit</SE1><震屏3>:<color=#66CDAA><size=50>Next time, don't you dare pull another vanishing act on me!</size></color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:Reinette curses under her breath and also jumps into the fountain.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_ImFutue_Main</BGM><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:
()||<黑点1><SE1>AVG_fall_into_water</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.4%%scale=2.4%%duration=0%%</bg_move>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>569</BIN><Night><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.36%%scale=2.4%%duration=3%%</bg_move>:
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.1</CGDelay><黑点2><BIN>9</BIN><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.5%%scale=1.2%%duration=0%%</bg_move>:As Erma says, the fountain is a gateway leading into another world...
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<common_effect>%%code=CJ_WC_piaofu%%</common_effect><黑屏2><Night><BIN>688</BIN><CGDelay>0.3</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:At the end of the secret passage is another garden. +A garden immersed in darkness and stillness, like a sunken ship slumbering on the seabed.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What is this place?
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I don't know either.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Whoosh... +A small flame appears, illuminating a girl's face in the dark.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:As Your Majesty can see, they have arrived.
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:I've always known you'd come one day.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:How could you be so sure?
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:Life begins and ends in the spring. That is our fate. +Erma, I have been waiting for you for a long time.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:Who are you?
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:I am your past.
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:...Huh?
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:Don't you hate the feeling of not remembering anything? +Come to me, and I can release you from your suffering.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Hold on, what's all this about?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:...This is Erma's mission in life—to become the true mistress of the Summer Garden. +Because she is Doctor Hume's only daughter.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Only daughter? What does that make us then?
NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:We are knights, princesses, maidservants, and soldiers. +We are all Dolls that the Doctor created from commissioned blueprints. +Only Erma was given the Doctor's highest authorizations. +In his own words, only Erma is a work of art, while the rest of us are just ordinary merchandise. 
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:...Highest authorizations... of what?
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Come. Become one with me and you will find out.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Erma hesitates uneasily.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:<size=25>Mirabelle, what is the meaning of this?</size> +<size=25>The three of us have been through so much together...</size>
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(1)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:There's no point in having secret conversations in Her Majesty's presence. +Reinette, what I've shown you is only a very small part of it. +Consider our serial numbers and it should be obvious how many others like us have lived in the Summer Garden. +But there has only ever been one King, and there has only ever been one Erma.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(1)<Position>-200,0</Position>||:...I don't understand. +So we're all just part of some... grand design?! +So you and I were both tasked with bringing Erma here in the event of the Doctor's death?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:Yes. So long as we are still connected by our special comms channel... So long as this verdant path still exists... So long as the spring water keeps flowing... +We will certainly be reunited here and deliver Erma to Her Majesty.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:This feels off... +Erma, don't get any closer.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:Right.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:<color=#A9A9A9>...I need to see what exactly this King is.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Camera_Focus</SE1>:Utilizing the lighting control authorization that Erma has granted her earlier, Reinette turns up the light around the King. +But nothing happens. +The candlelight flickering in the soft breeze is still too dim to illuminate the figure. 
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:<color=#A9A9A9>Why is this not working?</color>
NPC_ErmaAngel(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:Oh, you must have all forgotten my face. +In that case, let me show you again.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:The King raises a hand, holding a lantern that has suddenly materialized. Light spills across her face.
()||<白屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<白屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC_ErmaAngel(0)<Speaker>Her Majesty the King (?)</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position><GradientShow>2</GradientShow>||:...
Erma(17)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:... +You are Erma.
NPC_ErmaAngel(0)<Speaker>Her Majesty the King (?)</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_2</BGM>:Yes, I am Erma of the past and future.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you're both the past and future, why do you have to merge with her?
NPC_ErmaAngel(0)<Speaker>Her Majesty the King (?)</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:Because she is the present. +She carries the only blessing that Archbishop Hume had given her—the ability to forget. +As soon as I break the spell, she will join with me, and we will become the true mistress of the Summer Garden. +I am the true form of your base layer.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Doctor Hume planned all this...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Erma rummages through the pockets of her coat and produces an object, which she shows the others— +It is a paper note.
Erma(13)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:This was Mother's coat. I've been keeping it on me since he died.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<narrator>:When people are parted, they tend to recall only the happy memories and gradually forget the moments of pain and sorrow. +This is a kind of defense mechanism for humans, and also a reflection of what they yearn for— +Love and happiness. Things that are hard to come by. +We desperately cling to them because we need them to sustain our lives.
Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||<CGDelay>0.2</CGDelay>:I never understood why Mother kept making me forget, but I've always believed that he did this for my benefit.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:...All this time, I've been living in fear and terror. +My unreliable memory is almost sinful. +I feel like I've wronged everyone. +I don't remember the life we shared together, nor do I remember that 620 has been waiting for me in the Summer Garden this whole time.
NPC_Stevens620(0)<Speaker>Mirabelle</Speaker><Position>-200,0</Position>||:It's not your fault.
Erma(15)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:In my memory, Mother always shot me before my memory was reset.
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:Did I do something wrong? +Why did he do that to me?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:The coat slides out of Erma's arms and falls to the floor in a crumpled heap, like a deflated balloon.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:I want a family. I want sisters. I want Mother. I want to have company. +Because... I'm scared of being alone.
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:Now I have Mother and sisters. +Yet you all tell me you hate me and you don't need me like this. +The one you love and want isn't me, who is an utterly useless amnesiac... +Rather, the "Erma" who possesses all her memories and the ability to change everything. +The perfect "work of art".
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...What are you talking about? We never said any of that.
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:I tried to pretend it didn't bother me. I tried so hard to retrieve my memories of the past.
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,0</Position>||:But I'm sorry... +I just find those memories exasperating... and sickening. +I even deluded myself into thinking they were the last gift that Arthur Hume had left me...
Erma(16)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>70,-140</Position><Scale>1.08</Scale><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.5%%scale=1.6%%duration=0%%</bg_move>||:This coat... I don't want it anymore.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Erma's tears stream down her face and land on the coat lying on the ground.
()||<黑点1>:
Erma(28)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position><Scale>1.55</Scale>||<黑点2><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.5%%scale=1.6%%duration=0%%</bg_move>:...What I've been searching for this whole time turned out to be a shadow of the past. +A past that doesn't belong to me; a future that doesn't belong to me. +I don't know what's the point anymore.
()||<黑点1>:
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><黑点2><bg_move>%%pivot_x=0.5%%pivot_y=0.5%%scale=1.2%%duration=0%%</bg_move>:Erma, calm down!
Erma(25)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker><Position>0,155</Position>||:I will not calm down. I will not obey. I am rebelling. +Hate me all you want, because I hate you too.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:Erma storms out of the garden.
NPC_ErmaAngel(0)<Speaker>Her Majesty the King (?)</Speaker><Position>-230,150</Position>||:She'll come back.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Reinette</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:... +Erma!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:Reinette gives chase immediately.
()||<黑点1>: