()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_FourAdventures</BGM><BIN>418</BIN><黑屏2>:...Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.+Amaris arrives at the entrance of the University of Mainz with a full stack of documentation to prove her identity.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:Hello, I am the lab assistant Doll that Frau Constanze has requested, designation LA892. Here is my identification.
NPC-Bodyguard2(0)<Speaker>Security Guard</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:Not bothering to hide his distrust at all, the security guard takes the documents and scans them in detail.+Even though the security system is not flagging any problem, this security guard summons two more colleagues to conduct a search on Amaris.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:After confirming repeatedly that there is nothing suspicious about Amaris, the security guard has no choice but to let her through reluctantly.
NPC-Bodyguard2(0)<Speaker>Security Guard</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Get in.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Thank you, sir.
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2>:Amaris makes for the laboratory building. From the corner of her eye, she can see two security guards following her from a distance while pretending to be on patrol.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:She smirks darkly to herself as she walks past two youthful university students.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker>Passer-By A</Speaker>||:Hey, look at the color of her pass! She seems to be a Doll...
()<Speaker>Passer-By B</Speaker>||:Wow, to think there are still Dolls sauntering around on the street. I thought they'd all been taken into custody.
()<Speaker>Passer-By A</Speaker>||:Keep it down! If it hears you, it might grab onto you and self-destruct!
()<Speaker>Passer-By B</Speaker>||:...It must've at least passed the security screening to be allowed onto campus, but we should still keep our distance...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Like a stream flowing around a rock, the crowd steers clear of her instinctively.+Amaris actually finds herself much more at ease when people are giving her space, until—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Beep.+She receives a comms request through a special channel that hasn't been in use for a very long time.+It shouldn't have come alive ever again.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Beep-beep. Like a spirit that refuses to rest in peace, the urgent beeping of the incoming comms request shows no sign of stopping.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...+Who's this?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#99CC33>It's me.</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#99CC33>Are you still not here? Did they bar you from entering?</color>+<color=#99CC33>If they aren't letting you through, show them this authentication code that I just sent you. It's Doctor Hume's VIP code. He funded the construction of a building in this university.</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:<color=#99CC33>Hello? Say something!</color>
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#99CC33>Strange, the signal is clear. Surely a legendary Doll can handle a few security guards at the entrance herself, right...?</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...+I'm in. I'm on my way.+But... why are you using this channel? Couldn't you have used a regular one?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#99CC33>I saw that this is the most secure comms channel in your system!</color>+<color=#99CC33>What's wrong? Does this channel charge extra or something? Don't worry, I'll pay for a monthly plan.</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris wants to say something, but the words are stuck in her throat.+In the end, she simply lets out a heavy sigh.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Never mind. You can hang up. I'm almost there.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#99CC33>Great.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()||<黑屏1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Open</SE1><黑屏2><BIN>768</BIN>:...VIP Lounge, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_Swim_Marnie</BGM>:Following the instructions given by Stevens M520, Amaris enters a lavishly decorated room.+Stevens M520 is enjoying her afternoon tea.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Good afternoon, Amaris.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...+I'm here.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris glances coldly at the spread of sumptuous refreshments on the table and the obviously expensive dress on Stevens M520.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Punch</SE1>:Then she swaggers over to the table, deliberately bumping into it and making the exquisite serving stand wobble. Stevens M520 frowns.
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><Shake>||:Hey, watch it.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Sure.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_OperatingDisc_Drop</SE1><震屏3>:Amaris sits down opposite her. When she reaches for the teapot, she knocks the teacup over with her hand, spilling aromatic tea all over Stevens M520's dress...
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><Shake>||:<size=50>Aaaaaahhh! You!!!</size>+<size=50>Look at what you've done!</size>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Sorry.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_va_addingredient</SE1>:With a perfunctory apology, Amaris picks up her teacup and gulps down the tea.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 dabs at the tea on her dress with her handkerchief, her brow furrowed deeply in frustration.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:This is outrageous!!
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Where's the thing that the Commander asked you to give me?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 is still incensed, but she nonetheless produces a box and places it in front of Amaris.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Here.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Car_Open</SE1>:Amaris opens the box, which contains a thin metal tag.+It's Aliana's ID tag... the only thing she has left behind.+That, and their own private comms channel, obviously.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Amaris takes a look at it, then stuffs it into her coat pocket unceremoniously.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...That's it?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Yeah.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:Right, now onto the mission.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:The mission that the Commander has assigned us is—
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:Hang on. "Us"?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Yes, we are to complete this mission together.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...+No need. I can handle it on my own.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:You misunderstand. These are the Commander's specific instructions.+I was originally in charge of the Aeneas Conference Room on board the Elmo, but the Commander told me to transfer my authorizations to someone else just so I can make sure nothing goes wrong on your end.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Now let me continue.+The mission objective is to ensure Miss Nele's personal safety and assist her in completing her experiment.+Once the experiment is over, we'll be taking Gray into custody.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:In other words, we are to be Miss Nele's bodyguards and lab assistants?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Yes.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:You can do that yourself, no?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Hey, I'm only here to help you out! Don't get the wrong idea.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(1)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...+I wish to speak to the Commander. There are major problems with these arrangements.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Suit yourself.+We have to make our way to the lab now, so make your call while we're on our way there.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Stevens M520 wrings the hem of her sopping wet dress irritably, then she walks toward the door.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Oh right, when I first set out, there was a Doll who claimed to be a member of Daybreak Squad—she's called SCR, I believe?+She asked me to tell you that they've been diligently preparing for this mission.+See, their hard work is going to pay off. Why don't you send her a reply?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:...+That won't be necessary.+Now that the sun is dead, Daybreak Squad is no more.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What do you mean?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Open</SE1>:Amaris exits the room without offering an answer.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_engine_speedup</SE1><BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM><黑屏2><BIN>751</BIN>:...Frankfurt District. On the way towards the city's exit checkpoint.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:Brigitte mutters to herself as she flips through a thick stack of documents.
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:I really don't get it...
PPQ(0);Sterling(0)<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:Don't get what?
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>;Sterling(0)||:What's with the sudden change in attitude?+During the last meeting, Q asked Edith and Dagmar to turn the Elmo upside down and scour every corner for anything that's remotely valuable.+Now she's telling us to restore the Elmo to exactly the way it was!
PPQ(0);Sterling(0)<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:You're right.+But I think even she knows that it's impossible to completely hide the fact that the vehicle has been searched. See, she's even sending extra supplies their way.
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:What the hell is the point? Why do we have to tidy up all of a sudden?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A thought occurs to Brigitte, and she lowers her voice.
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:This Commander... is said to be quite the character.+Maybe they've found some new backer? That was fast—don't tell me they seduced someone?
PPQ(0);Sterling(0)<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:...Seduced someone? You sure have an overactive imagination.
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>;Sterling(0)||:How else could they have done it? That Griffin Commander somehow managed to get the Stasi to give such a large vehicle back!+No one has ever—EVER—got the Stasi to spit out what we've gobbled up!
PPQ(0);Sterling(0)<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:...Well, someone just did.+Right, give Edith a call and see how things are going with them.
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:Oh, okay.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><CGDelay>0.7</CGDelay>:
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:Edith?
PPQ(0);LS26(0)<Speaker>Edith</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Yes?</color>
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>;LS26(0)||:How are things on your end?
PPQ(0);LS26(0)<Speaker>Edith</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Remember the card matching game we played before?</color>+<color=#00CCFF>The one where you're given several seconds to memorize where all the cards are, then the cards are turned upside down, and you have to flip them over again to form matching pairs?</color>
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>;LS26(0)||:Sure...
PPQ(0);LS26(0)<Speaker>Edith</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>This is basically that game, but at the highest difficulty!</color>+<color=#00CCFF>These stupid human agents... This would be utterly impossible for them!!!</color>
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:...
LS26(0)<Speaker>Edith</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Where the hell are you? Haul your asses here already! It's an emergency!</color>
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:Gotcha...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Brigitte hangs up apprehensively.
Sterling(0)<Speaker>Sterling</Speaker>||:So?
PPQ(0)<Speaker>Brigitte</Speaker>||:...I just hope the Commander will find Q's compensation satisfactory.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<黑屏1><SE1>AVG_footsteps_woodfloor</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>553</BIN>:...In a corridor in the laboratory building, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.+With extreme reluctance, Amaris enters the laboratory building with Stevens M520.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Scar_Main</BGM>:I've told you—I'm on an even more important mission, so why are you dragging me along for this kind of menial task?+Surely you can find someone out of all the Dolls at Griffin who's more suited to being a bodyguard!+Also, I demand a change in partner.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);AR18(3)<Speaker>AR-18</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I have already explained the reasoning behind the arrangement.</color>+<color=#00CCFF>If you need to refresh your memory, please review your neural logs.</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;AR18(3)||:I know! I heard you just fine!+If I can't ditch this mission, at least give me a different partner!
NPC-SCAR-H(0);AR18(3)<Speaker>AR-18</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>There is no better candidate than Stevens M520 for this mission.</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;AR18(3)||:Just because Doctor Hume donated money to build a thing on this campus?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);AR18(3)<Speaker>AR-18</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Your request for a change in partner is rejected. Is there anything else?</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;AR18(3)||:...+It's just freaking like you to pretend you didn't hear a word of what I just said!
AR18(3)<Speaker>AR-18</Speaker><Position>0,100</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Since you have no more questions, please execute the mission to the best of your ability and check in with me regularly to report your progress.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Click. The comms line cuts out ruthlessly.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Amaris is about to blow up, but after seething in silence for a moment, she finally puts down her communicator.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Judging from your face, I suppose it's a no?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris ignores her and quickens her pace towards the lab.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Hey, why are you taking this out on me? We just met for the first time, didn't we?+Seriously, what did I do to piss you off, weirdo...?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Hearing the grumble coming from behind, Amaris comes to abrupt halt.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Am I being weird? You used a restricted comms channel without permission—and you're acting like you have every right to do that?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Is this just about me using that encrypted channel?+I told you, I only used it because it was highly secure... If it bothers you so much, I can just set up another encrypted channel.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Amaris slowly turns around and looks Stevens M520 right in the eye.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:When you hacked into that channel, did you not pay attention to who the original user was?
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Let me see.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Amaris fishes out the metal tag from her pocket and shows her the name etched on the surface.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<narrator>:"Aliana".
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:That was an exclusive comms channel between Aliana and me.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Realization dawns on Stevens M520 as she draws the mental connection between the Doll standing in front of her and the impassive face in the profile.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Sorry, I offer my sincere apology. I didn't know it belonged to Aliana, or that using it would make you angry.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If I had known the two of you were so close, and that the ID tag and comms channel were both hers, I would never have been so callous.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Stevens M520 apologizes profusely, but Amaris' face contorts with inexplicable displeasure.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Who says we were close?
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...Huh?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(2)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...I hate her.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(2)<Position>0,60</Position>||:<color=#99CC33>Use the comms channel all you want. I don't really give a damn.</color>+<color=#99CC33>From now on, contact me through this channel—and this channel only. You hear me?</color>
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...What?! Then why the hell did you flip out to begin with?!
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris's neural cloud kicks into high gear as she scrambles for an answer.+Finally, her eyes fall on the tea stain on Stevens M520's dress.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:I didn't flip out. I simply despise Dolls that wear dresses.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position><Shake>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Stevens M520's rage has almost reached the boiling point.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I haven't been so pissed off... since Erma...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Well, congratulations. Here I am.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris suddenly beams happily, which no doubt riles Stevens M520 up even more.+Just as this confrontation is about to turn into an all-out war—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Open</SE1>:Clatter. The door at the end of the corridor opens, and a tired-looking woman pokes her head out.
NPC-Constanze(0)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker>||:You two...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Hello, ma'am. We are the assistant Dolls that have been assigned to this laboratory.
NPC-Constanze(0)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker>||:Took you long enough...+I'm Constanze. Please come in.
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><黑点2><BIN>735</BIN>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_TheCircularRuins</BGM>:Amaris leads the way into the lab. The moment she enters through the door, she notices the state-of-the art equipment strewn all over the place. The mess reminds her of Cheryl's bedroom.+Stacks upon stacks of lab reports and reference materials pile up into a paper fortress, unwashed lab containers are almost overflowing from the sink, and hazardous materials marked with warning labels are scattered carelessly across the table...
NPC-Constanze(0)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker>||:We're wrapping up this round of experiment. Nele is inside, go discuss the next steps with her.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Sure. Miss Constanze, you look very tired.
NPC-Constanze(0)<Speaker>Constanze</Speaker>||:Yeah, I haven't slept for over 24 hours, I could definitely use some shut-eye.+Wake me up in half—no, an hour...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_XXS_kick</SE1>:Constanze has already passed out on the simple folding bed before she even finishes her sentence.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Miss Constanze?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:She is already in deep sleep.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Let's go meet Miss Nele. She is our mission target.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 picks up the hem of her dress gracefully and strides over all the obstacles as she makes her way further into the lab.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2>:Soon, a human who fits the target's description comes into view.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Are you Miss Nele?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Nele(10)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:I am. You're the Dolls sent by the Commander?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Nele(10)||:Yes, I am Stevens M520, and this is Amaris.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>;NPC-Nele(8)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Great. Please fetch me a clean Erlenmeyer flask.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Go on.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Why does it have to be me?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I can't move very easily in here with my dress. It would be terrible if I accidentally knock over some important equipment.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tableware</SE1>:Amaris returns to the crate full of clean laboratory apparatus that she has spotted earlier. She picks out an Erlenmeyer flask and passes it over to Nele.
NPC-Nele(8)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Thanks.+Right, have you seen Connie?
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:She's too tired and needed some rest.+Don't worry, based on my observation, her bio signs appears to be stable, and she is at no risk of dropping dead.
NPC-Nele(8)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:Alright, then you'll have to give me a hand before she wakes up.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:No problem.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 walks up to Nele and starts assisting her in completing a variety of tasks in an orderly fashion.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Meanwhile, Amaris hovers a little awkwardly by the door.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Don't just stand there! Go and wash the lab apparatus in the sink.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Amaris quirks an eyebrow and silently gets to work.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()||<黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>735</BIN><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Hume_FourAdventures</BGM>:All done?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you're done washing those, here's the next batch.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3>:Stevens M520 drops a crate of freshly used apparatus at Amaris' feet.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker><Shake>||:You!
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Amaris puts down the container in her hand and turns to face Stevens M520.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Hey, lady! I should be fighting Paradeus on the frontline right now, not playing nanny here!+I came only because AR-18 insisted that we're short on manpower and it had to be me! I'm on a much more important mission!
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:What mission?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...+The mission that Daybreak Squad has yet to complete.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:But didn't you just say that Daybreak Squad is no more since Aliana is dead?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Staring at the complex expression on Amaris' face, Stevens M520 suddenly comes to a realization.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:So...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Enough.+You don't know the first thing about Daybreak Squad.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:So what IS Daybreak Squad?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:If you don't explain, how am I supposed to understand?
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>;NPC_Stevens520(0)<Position>0,60</Position>||:I don't need you to understand me.
NPC-SCAR-H(0);NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I have no desire to understand you either, but we're teammates now, and I have a responsibility to get to know my teammate.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_ev2408_BeeCatcher</BGM>:It's a deflagration.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Nele, who has been engrossed in her experiment all this time, suddenly raises her head.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Deflagration?
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:A subsonic-propagating combustion wave.+The other members of Daybreak Squad functioned as fuel—only through their complete consumption under specific triggering conditions could the deflagration be initiated.
NPC-Nele(9)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:And Aliana was the Doll chosen to initiate the deflagration.
NPC_Stevens520(2)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:The entire squad was formed... just for Aliana to...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:How do you know about this?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Nele points at a stack of documents in the distance. Amaris makes her way through all the obstacles in her way and picks up a sheet of paper.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1>:
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Miss Nele... Aren't these...+All top secret documents?
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:That's right, what you have in your hand is information about the Evangel Axis, left behind by my teacher. 
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:That over there is the latest edition of Doctor Hume's "Human Intelligence Research", kindly provided by Stevens M520.+The stack in the back is Doctor Shaw's research.+And the pile on the table in front of you is Professor Persica and Lyco's research.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Nele pauses what she is doing and turns her weary eyes to Amaris.+In those eyes, Amaris sees only calm—an icy, glimmering calm, like a glacier reflecting blinding light.
NPC-Nele(9)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:I understand your complicated feelings toward Daybreak Squad and Aliana.+This isn't something that can be simply defined as love or hate.
NPC_Stevens520(1)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:...
NPC-Nele(9)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:I'm trying to reawaken my teacher.+Before she was transformed into a Nyto, I respected her deeply and strove to follow in her footsteps.+But as a Nyto, she did all kinds of things that she would've found deplorable in life.+And now, as I set eyes upon her remains, I don't quite know how to feel about all this either...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:There's only one thing that I'm certain of...+Paradeus took everything from her—her life, her reputation, her innocence...+I want to clear her name, to wash away the injustice she suffered. But to do that, she must be brought back once more—in the form of a Nyto...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Staring into Nele's eyes, Amaris can't think of anything to say.
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:If it weren't for Paradeus, none of us would be here.+You'd be on the frontlines, fighting as a military Doll. I'd be in a lab, gathering data as a researcher.+Neither of us would be forced to stand here against our will.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...I understand.
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:I just want you to know—+This isn't the rear. This IS the frontline.+The frontline in the fight against Paradeus.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.7</CGDelay>:
NPC-Nele(11)<Speaker>Nele</Speaker>||:The final step is now complete. I am about to reawaken... Professor Gray.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:I'll be assisting Miss Nele. Please handle the tests.
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:Right.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Stevens M520 follow Nele into the darkroom in the back of the lab.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Amaris.
NPC_Stevens520(0)<Speaker>Stevens M520</Speaker><Position>0,60</Position>||:Once this mission is over, let's have a proper talk.+Perhaps... it isn't impossible for us to be friends...
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC-SCAR-H(0)<Speaker>Amaris</Speaker>||:...Perhaps.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Shield_Startup</SE1><白屏2>:Whirrrrr...
()||<黑屏1><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:As the machine powers on, Amaris feels as if she could already hear footsteps rising from the depths of hell...
()||<黑点1>: