()||9<黑屏1>0,10黑屏1>BGM_Empty:
()||<黑屏2>80GF_Cafe:Griffin base, at the cafeteria.
()||:With coffee in hand, 100 Shiki waits nervously. +T-Dolls who participated in the rescue operation sit in a circle, chatting about their experiences.
MP5(0)Gr MP5||:...What an annoying cyber trap, it was like a layered labyrinth! +Every time as soon as we find a trace of 100 Shiki, it gets scattered by a rogue flow of digital current!
FP6(0)FP-6||:...Wait a minute! That means we all appeared as some sort of dark-skinned monster within the trap, chasing after 100 Shiki?
MP5(0)Gr MP5||:100 Shiki said it looked more like warped black cats! +Besides, does it really matter? Becoming a giant monster is so cool!
FP6(0)FP-6||:You only say that because you get to grow a few inches.
MP5(0)Gr MP50.3||:I'll break your kneecaps.
()||:100 Shiki unsuccessfully covers her mouth, and her laughter still spills out.
M1903Cafe(0)Springfield||AVG_va_addingredient:Anyway, it's great news that Miss 100 Shiki got out safe and sound!
NPC-Kalin(0)Kalina||:Sorry to interrupt you girls.
NPC-Kalin(2)Kalina0.1||:Miss 100 Shiki—Eh? Watch out!
()||:Kalina walks in, with a tablet in hand. 100 Shiki promptly stands up, almost knocking over her coffee cup in the process.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:Miss Kalina! Have you found out about Afra's identity? Why would she try to harm me? And will she cause any trouble for Griffin—
NPC-Kalin(3)Kalina||:It's alright. Calm down. FP-6 already cleared the case.
NPC-Kalin(0)Kalina||:This Miss Afra... Her owner is a local scoundrel. They planned to go on one last scam before leaving for somewhere else, and they just happened to run into juicy prey—
NPC-Kalin(1)Kalina||:Ahem, by that I mean Miss 100 Shiki that looks "highly valuable and easy to deceive".
NPC-Kalin(0)Kalina||:So, Afra's owner set up a well-concealed trap by the campsite. The moment you got there, it overloaded your neural cloud, which means...
()||:100 Shiki looks down.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:Which means Miss Afra was under someone's order to lure me into a trap? And that there were no cherry blossoms to begin with...
NPC-Kalin(3)Kalina||:You guessed the latter half wrong. There was indeed a cherry blossom at your destination.
Type100(0)100 Shiki0.1||:...!!!
FP6(0)FP-6||:According to Afra's confessions, she saw a living cherry blossom 5 years ago at your destination. +During the rescue, I looked it up, and it is true. +Unfortunately, due to the deteriorating environment, only a withered trunk is left by now.
()||:100 Shiki bites on her lips, her eyes glued to the ground.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:...I'm sorry. I bothered everyone again with my little scuffles.
NPC-Kalin(0)Kalina||:Ewww. Don't be so corny, Shiki-chan! +Oh, by the way, the Commander wants to see you. Go meet them.
()||<黑点1>BGM_Empty:
()||<黑点2>8GF_Memorial:At the Commander's office.
()||AVG_doorknock_wood:100 Shiki knocks on the door.
()Commander||:Come in.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||AVG_20Winter_Door_Open:Commander...
()Commander||:100 Shiki, your neural upgrade... might need to be put on hold for the moment.
Type100(0)100 Shiki0.1||:Why—
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:I'm sorry. It's all my fault, I'm willing to take all—
NPC-Persica(3)Persica<通讯框>||:Hey, stop saying this kind of serious stuff with a straight face.
NPC-Persica(2)Persica<通讯框>||:Miss 100 Shiki, do you remember that little "tweak" you asked me to perform when you first arrived at Griffin?
NPC-Persica(2)<通讯框>;Type100(0)100 Shiki||:Ah, so that's what the green question mark in my report was...
NPC-Persica(2)Persica<通讯框>;Type100(0)||:That's right, you modified and encrypted a section of your memory, then quarantined the data from everything else, which is why it's in an abnormal state right now. +Now we must consider that a neural upgrade is an overhaul of every aspect of you, including your memory module.
NPC-Persica(2)Persica<通讯框>||:According to my evaluation, the anomaly needs to be corrected before you can proceed with the upgrade.+Naturally, you can also choose to delete it completely.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:So that's how it is...
NPC-Persica(2)Persica<通讯框>||:So... Correction or deletion?
()||:100 Shiki caresses her cherry blossom headdress, vibrant as a green gemstone.
()Commander||:100 Shiki, make your choice as your heart sees fit.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:Commander, Miss Persica, I choose to...
()||<黑点1>BGM_Empty:
()||<黑点2>573BGM_Wake:
()||:The hanging cherry blossom is still lush. +But the world is now drowned in complete silence. +100 Shiki touches the withered trunk where the Maiden last danced. She then walks past the field, the abandoned building, the campsite. before finally arriving at a lake beyond the camp. +Sky-bound cherry blossoms fill her vision, casting shadows on the water down below. +100 Shiki reaches out to touch her reflection in the lake.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:I should've realized...+Some mistakes... some illusions, it's time to set them right...
()||<黑屏1>AVG_fall_into_water:100 Shiki dives into the deep water.
()||9%%code=AVG_qipao%%:Sinking... +Indefinitely deep... +Suddenly, the world vacates, and it's then reversed—
()||<白屏1>BGM_Empty<关闭蒙版>:
()||<白屏2>2692022_white_valentine_BGM1:
()||AVG_AMB_Street:In the corner of a busy amusement park. +By the entrance, a poster reads, "Ancient culture's Harvest Festival, shrine maiden warding off evil, immersive interactive experience."+The set mimics that of a campsite, the actors weave across the amphitheater with smiles on their faces.
()Fat Uncle||:Welcome to Camp Gaia! Please enjoy the joyous Harvest Festival!
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:Today, the great maiden will personally lead a prayer ceremony under the cherry blossom to spread the radiance of the Deity!
()||AVG_AMB_Street:Visitors roam around the campsite delighted. +The Doll actors enthusiastically deliver their scripted lines.
()||<黑点1>Stop_AVG_loop:The crowd bows as the shrine maiden takes stage...
()||<黑点2>:The group sings, and the shrine maiden dances... +A black cat leaps onto the treetop, meowing at the shrine maiden. +A scripted voiceover rings through out the camp.
()Powerful Monster's Voice||:Mwahaha. You mortals! Hurry up and offer me ten of your most beautiful women!
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:Don't you dare hurt my people!
()||AVG_flag:The shrine maiden swings her sleeve, the hidden fish jerky that's suppose to fly towards the far side of the campsite somehow lands in her own hand. +The black cat leaps down at lightning speed, pouncing on its treat with precision! +The voiceover is still playing...
()Powerful Monster's Voice||:You actually know how to use the power of the Deity! Hmph, I will spare you for now!
()||:Running parallel with the voiceover, is the shrine maiden's shriek and the black cat's yowl.
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden0.1||:Ahhhh—
()Black Cat||:Meow—!
()||:The shrine maiden can only feel her head sinking. She flails around, trying to drive the dark-skinned monster away. +The black cat tries to slip away with the fish jerky in its jaw, but its claws snag on the shrine maiden's hair, and the maiden grabs its fur in return, making it scream in pain.
()||AVG_lifttable%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delType100Mod(3)=0.1%%range=8:The shrine maiden stumbles and falls, hitting the long table, which in turn knocks over the pile of wine barrels...
()||:... +After a series of loud thuds, all sorts of props are rolling around. +An apple even rolled to the outside of the campsite. +...
()Tourist||:Hahaha. Look at that shrine maiden! She's so goofy!
()Fellow Tourist||:What even is this show... It's a waste of time. Let's get out of here.
()||:The dazzled black cat stands back up and meows in discontent. It then precisely snatches away the fish jerky that landed on top of a pumpkin.
()||%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=8AVG_21Winter_Phone_Crash:The pumpkin wobbles before falling off, precisely smashing into the dumbstruck face of the shrine maiden.
()||:And so, the shrine Maiden buried in the pile of props is now completely wasted. +Other Doll actors can't help but facepalm...
()||:100 Shiki stands in the corner, watching her past self from afar, smiling and murmurs with a soft voice.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:At the moment, a black cat was the scariest monster in the world to me... +So, in the modified memory, the shrine maiden was also fighting against the so-called "dark-skinned monsters."
()||<黑点1>BGM_Empty:
()||<黑点2>262m_avg_casual:The show is suspended. +Dolls gather around to criticize the shrine maiden's poor performance.
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:Hey! Can you really handle this? I really don't know why owner chose you to be the shrine maiden!
()Fat Uncle||:Today's show bombed, and the owner won't make a profit. He still needs to pay a large sum for renting the venue. +Shrine maiden, do you want to be scrapped and sold to the recycling plant?
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I threw the jerky wrong, I'm really sorry...
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:How did you get out of the factory if you're so dumb? +Gosh, this is so annoying, the set is all messed up. When owner comes back, we'll get scolded again!
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll clean it up. Everyone please take a rest in the backstage first.
()||:Anya pulls out a green cherry blossom headdress and flings it at the shrine maiden in dismay.
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:Why is my character trying to become the second shrine maiden? Not just that, I have play your attendant? +What a stupid script!
()||<黑点1>BGM_Empty:
()||9BGM_Wake:As the memories accelerate, everything plays out at breakneck speed. +The Dolls performed day after day, repeating the same lines that have been uttered a thousand times before. +The Yellow Zone gradually expanded, and one day, the amusement park ran out of visitors... +On one morning, the owner of the play was sunk into deep water by a casino's black-suited goons, never to surface again. The dolls fled in terror...
()||<黑屏1>:...
()||<黑屏2>88:100 Shiki walks past the abandoned building.
()Thug in Black||RunStep:What a bastard. His debt to the boss is so deep that even selling all these Dolls won't be enough to pay for it!
()Thug in Black||AVG_21Winter_Error%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delType100Mod(3)=0.1%%range=8:Got a signal. In that building over there—
()||<黑点1>:...
()||<黑点2>88:...
Type100Mod(3)Anya||Select:Hey, stop praying like a dummy. Take this!
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:This is... a submachine gun?
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:I stole it from the owner's safe— he's dead anyway.
Type100Mod(3)Anya||Select:We are the only ones left with bodies in decent condition, so stop dawdling. Pick the gun up and fire at those suited bastards!
()||AVG_2022Saros_SCARL2:The shrine maiden clutches her gun in Anya's image, shivering as she pulls the trigger...
()||<黑点1>:...
()||<黑点2>318:100 Shiki walks past the field.
()||AVG_2022Saros_SCARL3:The Maiden raises her submachine gun and shoots the ambushing black-suited goons dead, but Anya's core was already shattered.
Type100Mod(3)Anya0.1||:(Coughs) Finally, I don't need to play "Maiden's attendant" anymore... We've done it so many times...
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:Miss Anya, you'll be fine! +We're almost out of here. Please hold on—
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:You silly...+Can't believe you're still wearing it...
()||:Anya tries to reach out to touch the green cherry blossom on the shrine maiden's head, only to realize her limbs have long become unresponsive.
Type100Mod(3)Anya||:I don't want to be an attendant or a shrine maiden... +I want... I want to see a real cherry blossom.
Type100Mod(3)Anya2||:To see... if they're more beautiful... than this green one of mine...
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:Anya— Anya— +Oh Deity, save us— Please save us—
()||:The shrine maiden helplessly looks around, hoping that a Deity can perform a miracle and save her last companion. +But... Nothing happened. +Anya lies in her arms, and the light in her eyes is forever extinguished...
()||<黑点1>:...
()||<黑点2>563:100 Shiki walks over to the withered tree trunk.
()||:The shrine maiden, bruised and broken, whimpers against the trunk. +Over the passing years, grief, self-loathing, and guilt inside the encrypted and quarantined memory data form the invisible shackle that chains her in place.
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:I'm sorry, I can't face you all...
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:I'm sorry, for not being able to face myself. +Instead, I fabricated the memory, and encrypted it to imprison you.
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:I'm sorry, for not being the powerful and elegant Maiden in the show, but a weak and useless performance Doll... +I'm not supposed to be the one who survived...
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:That trap was powerful enough to destroy the neural cloud of any Doll. +But you are here. Like the shrine maiden blessed by the Deity in the play, you have protected my neural cloud with all your might.
Type100Mod(2)Shrine Maiden||:I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Waaah— I can't save anyone....
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:You saved me, Miss Maiden. +You aren't the past I tried to seal away, or the graceful shrine maiden of my fantasy. +You are the weak, powerless me, but also the me who craves strength and wants to protect her fellow companions.
()||:The Maiden is still crying.
()||Rope:100 Shiki crouches down and gently embraces her bruised and battered self.
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:You know, Miss Maiden, here, you will await the end. +Then, you will see the sun at the end of despair, The Commander will come for you, treading in light. +Griffin will take you in, and there, you will meet many new companions. You will become a powerful Tactical Doll... +You will give yourself a new name, 100 Shiki, and live on eagerly like cherry blossoms...
()||<黑屏1>:The Maiden's and 100 Shiki's silhouettes gradually merge—
()||<黑屏2>573<白屏1>:The wind surges, and the green cherry blossom rustles. Endless leaves and petals fly towards them.
()||<白屏2>572%%code=AVG_yinghua%%:The cherry blossoms fall like rain.
()||:Tenderness, sorrow, and warmth... All sorts of sensations chime in as 100 Shiki grasps her chest. +The invisible gash in her neural cloud seems to have been tightly sealed...
Type100(0)100 Shiki||:What a... beautiful miracle...
()||<黑点1><关闭蒙版>BGM_Empty:...
()||<黑点2>22GF_Memorial:Griffin base. +In the repair bay, 100 Shiki sits up.
NPC-Kalin(1)Kalina||:Congratulations, the upgrade is complete!
Type100Mod(0)100 Shiki||:Thank you, Miss Kalina.
NPC-Kalin(0)Kalina||:By the way, someone sent you a mail. Guess who?
()||:100 Shiki's eyes widens. Everyone at the base would've messaged her directly. If it's from outside the base... Does she really have this kind of friend?
NPC-Kalin(8)Kalina||:Yep, it's from Afra! Hmph, she told me to tell you that in a few days, a bunch of plant seeds will be sold at a proper auction, and among them, cherry blossom seeds. +She also said something along the lines of "she's deeply sorry and will make up for her previous mistake." +Who needs her fake apology? How dare she bully Griffin's T-Dolls!
()||:100 Shiki freezes, then smiles.
NPC-Kalin(2)Kalina||:Yikes, you're not really going, are you?
Type100Mod(0)100 Shiki||:No, Miss Kalina. I've already found...
()||<黑屏1>:
()100 Shiki||<黑屏2>572%%code=AVG_yinghua%%3:...that cherry blossom.
()||<黑点1>BGM_Empty: