()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>99</BIN><黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=4%%delay=0%%range=2</controll_shake><SE1>Battlefield</SE1>:....Boom. +A faraway explosion resounds somewhere deep inside the earth.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><Shake>||<BGM>10256</BGM><SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<size=50>What?! You took out all the enemies already?!</size>+There's nothing left for me? Then... I've got no accolades to my name at all!
MP41(0);g43(0)<Speaker>G43</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>That's just how our delegation of duties is...</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;g43(0)||:And here I was, thinking you were some easy-to-trick dolt. You're going to steal all of my well-deserved credit!+What'll I say to the Commander now?+I wanted to be first up on the podium when the Commander gets back!
MP41(0);g43(0)<Speaker>G43</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>The hell are you going on about?!</color>
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Get back here, MP41. We're pulling out.</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Unwilling to resign herself, MP41 looks towards the uncharted territory before her as she bites down on her lower lip.+Save for eliminating a Paradeus detachment, they've accomplished precious little on this mission. It shouldn't have been like this...
STG44Mod(0)<Speaker>StG44</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I'd advise you to not do anything rash. We have little intel this time around, and don't know what's in enemy territory.</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;STG44Mod(0)||:Isn't that the problem we were meant to solve?
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Retreat, MP41. This is an order.</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:Kar...+That Paradeus squad obviously knew they wouldn't be able to beat us. Why did they stand and fight?+They had plenty of opportunities to retreat.
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>What are you trying to say?</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:They must have stood their ground to defend something important!
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...So?</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Less than 200 meters from me is an abandoned hut.+Have a look at their route. If they were trying to retreat or cover someone, they must passed through. +There has to be important intel inside!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:MP41 hears Kar sigh.
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I see your mind is set.</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Sorry, Kar! This scoop is ripe for my picking.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A massive smile sprouts on her face as MP41 begins to envision the Commander, excited, bestowing upon her an award.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>802</BIN><黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Door_Open</SE1>:As alert as can be, MP41 steals into the dilapidated hut.+By the looks of it, this hut was a place of rest for forest rangers, only containing the remains of what used to be household supplies.+Claimed by the flames of war many times over and worn down by the ages, little remains inside.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:MP41 contemplates the interior with worry on her face. There was obviously no important intel on Paradeus to be found here at all.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...+No way...+There's not a single other building in a ten-kilometer radius!+Maybe there's something underground...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:As a thousand thoughts run through her neural cloud, she spots something in a collapsed corner reflecting the light of the torch in her hand.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Creep</SE1>:MP41 fishes it out, holding the well-preserved hard drive in her hand. On its surface is written—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<narrator>:"Catherine068".
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...Catherine?+What an old timey name. Must be a codename for someone in Paradeus.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Feeling the drive's weight in her hand, MP41 grins with satisfaction.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Sweet! That's something I can hand off!+I'm sure Paradeus' internal secrets are in here...+I'm counting on you, Catherine! You'll be the reason I hear the Commander's praises!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Beep. An emergency channel call.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Kar! I've got some good news for you, I found—
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>MP41! Retreat, now!</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:What is it?
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Paradeus reinforcements are here, they're bombarding our location!</color>
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Jet_Passby</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=5%%delay=0%%range=3</controll_shake>:Hum—+Howling death descends from the skies.+MP41 slackly looks towards the shadows flying by outside, not even getting time to vocalize her thoughts—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><SE1>AVG_Explo_Close</SE1>:BOOM!
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<睁眼><BIN>22</BIN>:...+Griffin HQ.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:MP41 sits upwards in the repair bay, still in a lull.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||<BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM>:You're up?
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:Kar...
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker>||:You were caught in a close-range explosion. Your body was sent flying, but thankfully your neural core was mostly unharmed.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Oh...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Still feeling a little lost, MP41 suddenly recalls—
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><Shake>||:Wait, what about the hard drive I found?!
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker>||:Tech's gone over it already.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:What was in it? Do I get highest honors at the ceremony?
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Zipper</SE1>:Kar produces the hard drive, handing it to MP41.
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:This is a neural backup for a Doll named "Catherine".+They quickly looked over the contents; there's nothing related to Paradeus.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>;98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:What?! Just... a backup for a normal Doll?
MP41(0);98KMod(0)<Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position><Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker>||:Yeah. Put it back where you found it when you get the opportunity. Someone might still have use for it.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Lightly patting the pensive MP41 by way of comfort, Kar leaves the repair bay.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>99</BIN><黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_footsteps_woodfloor</SE1>:...Now on the road, MP41 still struggles to come to terms with the fact that the decision she had made was wrong.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:No matter how you look at it, that place should have been key...+Why was there a Doll that has nothing to do with all of this?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Holding the drive in her hand, MP41 thought back to a popular post back in the early days of the Griffin anonymous boards.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:"Paradeus is adept at disguise", "Paradeus can swap out the people right next to you without you noticing", "MDR might be Paradeus", "It's more likely that KH2002 is Paradeus"...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:Tap. MP41's footsteps stop.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Right, if Paradeus can disguise themselves as humans and live a normal life, they won't be discovered without good reason.+So, in other words—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:MP41's eyes light up.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Hehe, you might still be a key player for Paradeus!+If a piece of intel comes from it, I'll be first up on the commendations!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Almost shaking with excitement, MP41 accesses the drive's contents.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>72</BIN><黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Inside MP41's neural space.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:What's with this safety level?+Does a normal Doll need a firewall like this?+I knew something was off...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Deeply immersed in decrypting the key, MP41 fails to notice someone entering her neural space.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_4</BGM>:You're the owner of this body?
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><Shake>||:Woah! Who're you?!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:She looks about, looking for the source of the voice. She's by herself.
()<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:I'm Catherine. The owner of the neural backup you just installed.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Install? But I just accessed that drive, I'm not even done with the key...
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Oh, this key page is purely decorative. It quietly runs the install progress in the background while you're working on the key.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:What are you, some kinda malware?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:How can you call a lady's neural backup that?
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Antivirus, get her.
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:The system already treats me as part of your neural data.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:How?!
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Because our body models are the exact same~ Must just be fate.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:So you used this model too while you were alive?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Darling, I'm not deceased yet.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:So how are you in this state?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:I don't know, 'cuz this is just one of my backups.+Judging by your time display, my last memories here are from a few months ago.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Looks like you've been thrown away.
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Haha, perish the thought.+You know nothing of me, Catherine. Back then, I turned the financial market upside down with Maggie.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Is that... supposed to mean something?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:...+Just remember the name.+For a suitable price, Catherine can make any wish come true.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Getting into the grift already? When I get back, I'm going to get the big brains on base to get you outta here.
()||:MP41 begins to log out of Level II, but a hand stops her.
()<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:You want to be praised by the "Commander", but the chance never appeared.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:And you want to perform well in front of the "Captain Kar" that you revere so much, and want her to say that you're a real Elite Doll.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:You're not missing anything, really. You're smart, versatile, resilient, good at grasping the moment...
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:Yeah! So you do get it.
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:All you need—+Is an opportunity.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...Just who are you?
()<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Me?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Open_Light</SE1><白屏2>:Thunk. A spotlight comes from somewhere
()<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Co-founder of the Fox Sisters.+Member of the Warsaw Financial Holdings committee.+Ingers CEO.+Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, University of the Northern Union.+Notable expert of Social Engineering.+<size=50>Maggie Ponzi!</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ShuffleCards</SE1><震屏3>:Business card after business card flies into MP41's hands as if they were part of some card trick, thoroughly astounding her.+After she receives the last business card, MP41 prostrates herself.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:What words of wisdom can you spare me?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:I can make your dreams come true. Shall we make a deal?
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:<size=50>Name your price!</size>
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:You show some promise, and fate has seen fit to put us together. I'll give you a discount this time.+Simply allow me the permissions to use this body.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...Wait, you want to take over my body?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Only share it with you. If you are dissatisfied, you can take it back at any time.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_2023Slow_Keyboard_Correct</SE1>:Catherine sends over a contract which MP41 peruses with no small amount of suspicion.+The first few pages indeed do not contain anything strange, only what you would expect of an agreement to share a body that can be ended at any time.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:...What's in it for you, then?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:I have little to hide. I have another loyal servant named Maggie. After completing your request, I will locate her and grasp the current situation. If my original body still exists, I can simply be transferred.+If it does not, I can leave your body for whichever one she arranges for me.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:So you'll leave my body one way or another, right?
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:Ahem, I've been tired of that model for ages now. I'm in the mood for a new one.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Book</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:MP41 mulls over the contract in her hand. Just as she's about to flip over to the last page—
MP41(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><同时置暗>||:If you don't agree, then so be it. Remember, opportunities are always fleeting.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:MP41 grasps the contract tightly, and resists Catherine who's trying to take it away.
MP41(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><Shake>||:<size=50>I accept! I accept!</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:Like a parched man seeking water, MP41 accepts the deal.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>99</BIN><睁眼><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay>:
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Flexing the body she's so familiar with, Catherine smiles at the desolate sight before her.
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_1</BGM>:I, Catherine, have returned!
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>You haven't told me about your plan yet. How do you plan to make my wishes come true?</color>
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Don't worry, let me enlist a few helpers.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Stalling MP41, Catherine dials Maggie's number.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Error</SE1><CGDelay>0.4</CGDelay>:Dead number.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Error</SE1><CGDelay>0.4</CGDelay>:Dead number.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Error</SE1>:Another dead number.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:All of the methods she can think of to contact Maggie come up empty.
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>Oh, I swear if she's taken the money and made a run for it...</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Catherine could only contact a different accomplice.
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Lil' Quimby?
NPC-Scalper(0);NPC-Quimby(0)<Speaker>Quimby</Speaker><Position>0,300</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>...Huh? Catherine, you're alive?</color>
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>;NPC-Quimby(0)<Position>0,300</Position>||:Surprised, are we?+Where are you? What's happened to Maggie?
NPC-Scalper(0);NPC-Quimby(0)<Speaker>Quimby</Speaker><Position>0,300</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Maggie? How am I supposed to know?</color>+<color=#00CCFF>You both went radio silent after you stepped onto that train. I asked around everywhere. It was the bandits, then the rebels, then some white sons of...</color>+<color=#00CCFF>I had to just wash my hands of it all.</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>;NPC-Quimby(0)<Position>0,300</Position>||:Train? Looks like it was after my backup... What else do you know?+Do you know what happened to her?
NPC-Scalper(3);NPC-Quimby(0)<Speaker>Quimby</Speaker><Position>0,300</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>I don't, but chances are she's alive. After the incident with the train, she cleaned up all the traces of our transactions.</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>;NPC-Quimby(0)<Position>0,300</Position>||:...+Where are you, Quimby? Let's meet up.
NPC-Scalper(3);NPC-Quimby(0)<Speaker>Quimby</Speaker><Position>0,300</Position><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Catherine, I've found a good, proper, safe job. Nine to five, stable income.</color>+<color=#00CCFF>I'm not going back to living on a knife's edge!</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><Shake>;NPC-Quimby(0)<Position>0,300</Position>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:You're going to run away?!
NPC-Quimby(0)<Speaker>Quimby</Speaker><Position>0,300</Position><通讯框>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:<color=#00CCFF>I had no choice before. Now, I just want to be a good fairy.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1>:Beep. Call ended.+Catherine holds the terminal idly, still recovering.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:Beep beep. A call comes in, and Catherine immediately answers.
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:You've changed your mind?
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>It's me, MP41. Have you returned that backup drive yet?</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Oh...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Catherine begins to imitate MP41's tone.
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:I have, yeah.
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00CCFF>Okay, get back soon then. We have an assignment today.</color>
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Alright.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Hume_FourAdventures</BGM>:Beep. She puts down the terminal.+This was the first time Catherine had felt this world so foreign, like a vast and empty wilderness with nary a trace of familiarity.+But the road does not end here. She cannot stay stagnant.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_door_elecport</SE1><黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑屏2><CGDelay>0.5</CGDelay><BIN>749</BIN>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Griffin HQ.+With MP41's guidance, Catherine arrives at the designated meeting place.+Inside the neat and tidy corridors, Doll after Doll pass by her.
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>...Griffin? It's a rather large security contractor, if I remember correctly.</color>+<color=#A9A9A9>Don't know if I can find a suitable body to use for the moment...</color>+<color=#A9A9A9>But where can I go? Quimby's out, Maggie's gone, I...</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Catherine cannot hold back an aggrieved sigh. MP41's excited chatter continues inside her neural cloud.
()<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Ms. Catherine!</color>+<color=#00CCFF>You must be a lucky charm for me! A big mission, right after you arrive! I've been waiting for ages!</color>+<color=#00CCFF>Please, you have to guide me to success and fame with this opportunity!</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:...Don't worry.
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>MP41</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>I can't wait to head in already!</color>+<color=#00CCFF>Oh, you don't know how hard these years have been for me. So many talents to my name, yet so few opportunities to serve the Commander!</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:...
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>97</BIN>:In stark contrast with MP41's overflowing enthusiasm, Catherine stands outside the ops room with a certain emptiness in her eyes, not far from the walking dead.
()<Speaker>MP41</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Is the point of this to... show how reliable and calm we are, with nary a sweat even with an important mission at hand?</color>
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:Yes, you've got the idea.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Saying whatever comes to mind, Catherine moves to open the door, preparing for—
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Open</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Click. The door opens.+A woman emerges, carrying with her the faint aroma of liquor.
ColtWalker(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker><GradientShow>2</GradientShow>||:MP41?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The woman in front of her is auto-identified as "Colt Walker".
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:...
ColtWalker(2)<Speaker>Colt Walker</Speaker>||:Go on in. Your Captain's looking for you.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_footsteps_woodfloor</SE1>:The aroma about her lingers in the air.
NPC-Scalper(0)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Catherine stands still, frozen. That woman is—
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>..Maggie?</color>+<color=#A9A9A9>Maggie!</color>+<color=#A9A9A9>Maggie!!</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:As if struck by lightning, Catherine jolts, turning to chase after that familiar figure.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Something grips her arm tightly.
98KMod(0)<Speaker>Kar98k</Speaker><Scale>1.3</Scale><Position>0,-150</Position>||:What are you standing around for, MP41? Come in.
NPC-Scalper(3)<Speaker>Catherine</Speaker><Shake>||:Oh, I...!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Giving her no time to explain, Kar drags her into the room.+Catherine can only watch as the figure disappears behind the door...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><CGDelay>0.7</CGDelay><SE1>AVG_20Winter_Door_Close</SE1>:
()||<黑屏1>: