()||9<黑屏1>0,10黑屏1>BGM_Empty:
()||<黑屏2>356GF_21summer_intro_DemonVariation:[Berlin, in a Soviet Army safehouse.]
()||AVG_tele_connect:[Click…]+[The transmission goes through.]
NPC-Havel(0)哈维尔<通讯框>||:I hope you have good news.
M16A1BOSS(4)M16A1;NPC-Havel(0)||:Then you’re going to be disappointed. We lost her in the end.+She’s a harder target to follow than any of the others we’ve tracked in the past.
M16A1BOSS(4);NPC-Havel(0)哈维尔||:Hm… I’ve received your report. +Is this the area where you lost her?
M16A1BOSS(2)M16A1;NPC-Havel(0)||:Yes.
M16A1BOSS(2);NPC-Havel(0)哈维尔||:I’ll be waiting for you to follow up on it, then.
M16A1BOSS(5)M16A1;NPC-Havel(0)||:Heh.+There’s a region called the “Dead Sea” nearby.+During WW3, it was used as a waste dump, and now it’s a land of death where not even birds can fly across.
M16A1BOSS(5);NPC-Havel(1)哈维尔||:A Black Zone?
M16A1BOSS(4)M16A1;NPC-Havel(1)||:Without a doubt.+Not even Dolls or machines can stay there for long, to say nothing of humans.
M16A1BOSS(4);NPC-Havel(1)哈维尔||: ...... +Well, that matches.
M16A1BOSS(2)M16A1;NPC-Havel(1)||:Hm?
M16A1BOSS(2);NPC-Havel(1)哈维尔||:The latest round of internal purges gave us a name – “Avernus”. +Don’t you think it fits? The gate to hell is a very appropriate name for that “Dead Sea”.
M16A1BOSS(4)M16A1;NPC-Havel(1)||:…I see.+The fact that she went missing there is very interesting indeed.
NPC-Havel(0)哈维尔||:I’ll be waiting for good news from you.
()||9AVG_tele_disconnect:Click.+The transmission ends.
()||BGM_Empty:……
()||<黑屏1>:
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||ClothingUp<黑屏2>:
()||GF_22W_BGM_3:[Ange frowns. For someone who likes to bite her nails, being bound hand and foot is very inconvenient.]
()||AVG_21Winter_Open_Light:Emptiness.
()||AVG_21Winter_Open_Light:Emptiness.
()||AVG_21Winter_Open_Light:Emptiness.
()||:[The day-bright lights begin turning off in the distance, one after the other.]+[It’s as though some unnameable entity is approaching her, and the sound of the lights turning off in sequence within the expansive room pounds on her heart like a drum.]
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:…What a pointless sense of ceremony.
()||:[...However, Angelia is not affected by it other than at the very beginning.]+[To be precise, it wouldn’t have meant anything even if she had.]
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:(Inhales)
()||:[The sound around her vanishes as well.]
()||AVG_21Winter_Open_Light510<白屏2>:[Emptiness.]+[A strong light shines on Angelia’s body, showing up as a light pink even through her closed eyelids.]+[She senses an unfamiliar presence not far from her, but she is completely immobile. No part of her is free to move other than her mouth.]
NPC-William(0)???0,-50||BGM_Empty:……
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:Who's that?
()||:[Ange ventures a question, but gets no response. That only serves to confirm Ange’s guess.]+[However… While she expected them to meet, she didn’t think that he would actually show up like this in front of her.]
NPC-William(0)???0,-50||:Greetings, Angelia.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||GF_22W_BGM_1:I am the man you are looking for. You may call me “William”.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:……
()||:[...This is a teenager’s voice, unique to adolescents in the midst of puberty.]+[Ange can’t help but frown.]+[He isn’t even trying to process his voice. Does it mean he’s being overconfident… Or that he’s absolutely certain she won’t be leaving this place?]+[Or perhaps…]+[No, what is truly out of place is the fact that he’s too young, to the point where he might even be considered immature.]
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:William isn’t your real name.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Does it matter?+It is simply a form of address, a codename. You may call me anything you wish. I don’t mind.+After all, that isn’t the important point… What IS important is the reason why I invited you here, Angelia.+I simply wish to speak with you.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:…Is this what you mean by “simply speaking”?
()||ClothingUp:[Ange struggles, but her body can’t offer a bit of resistance.]
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Yes. This is a necessary measure to ensure that we can speak on even terms.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:Oh yes, like this is fucking even… Are you THAT afraid I’ll crush your skull to bits?
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:That is where you are wrong, Angelia… I’m doing this not to protect myself, but to protect you.+Everyone here knows you want to kill me.+But I want to ask you something – what is your motive for doing so? Are you trying to avenge someone close to you? Or is it for the sake of your petty justice?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:Do you think I’m after you just to take personal revenge?+Do you even know how many people you’ve killed? If you call that petty, then nothing in this world is grave.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Yes yes, warrior of justice.+But have you considered that I am simply a dealer of arms?+Even if I didn’t make these weapons, those people would have killed each other anyway – Even if it was with sticks and stones.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:You’re making yourself out to be innocent here.+But the fact is that so long as you’re alive, the world will only end up in a worse state.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:The fact of the matter is, even if you succeed and William dies and Paradeus is disbanded… What will it change?+Am I really the mastermind who made the world such a miserable place?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:Did you go out of the way to invite me here just so I could listen to your excuses? Kind of crass, don’t you think?
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Very good… The fact that you’re responding to me in this way means that we can officially begin a conversation.+Because that means you have nothing to refute me with.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:……
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:The truth is, you know very well, don’t you, Angelia?+You know that I am not what is wrong with the world.+Rather… It is the power structure of this world, the people who control the direction in which it proceeds.+THEY are the source of all this misery.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:……
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:You know who, don’t you?+There are too many examples for me to name.+These people, these politicians, they hold the world in their grasp, and yet all they do is protect their own interests. +And yet you, with your noble ambitions, have your mind filled with nothing but a scientist like myself while thinking nothing of them.+Do you really call that “justice”?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:You’re in bed with those politicians, so where’s your indignation at having to take the fall for them?
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:That is where we differ, Angelia.+The truth is, we started out from the same place, but you use guns, while I use research.+Both of us have killed many people throughout the course of our careers… And yes, I admit, that is not right. +But that wrongness is the proof that this world needs to change.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:I am a creator. I am creating a power that can change the status quo.+It is of an entirely different level from killing a few unimportant lackeys with guns. +Only with that power will we have the foundation to do what is right.+And when that time comes, Angelia, think about it.+Who deserves to wield that power?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:Not you, that’s for sure.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:But who else could create such a power other than me?+…I could give rise to such a power, and then let someone who ought to possess it wield it.+What do you think, Ange? +Do you want such power?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:……
()||:[This is not an invitation. It is a screening, used to see who is greedy enough to make the cut.]
NPC-AngeDamage(0)安洁莉娅||:... +Hah, is it absolute power?
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Yes, absolute power…
()||<黑屏1>:
()||9<黑屏2>BGM_Empty:... + ......
()||<白屏1>:
()||<白屏2>GF_22W_SFX_chant460%%code=CJ_WC_piaofu%%:[Avernus.]
()||:[The ritual officially begins when the first ray of sunlight streams into Avernus.]
Nyto(2)黑涅托0,50||:Two suns, shining on two paths.
NytoWhite(1)White Nyto0,50;Nyto(2)0,50||:The path of the mundane world, and the path of the loving Father.
NytoWhite(1)黑/White Nyto0,50<同时点亮>;Nyto(2)0,50||:As the Sanctuary has become a den of fiends, so have the heavenly scales become an altar steeped in blood and evil.+The goddess of vengeance cuts her chest open with her sword, striking her heart before screaming shrilly.
NPC-Nemhran(3)||:……
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:I have journeyed half the course of our lifetimes.+I was guided from Heaven to Hell.+I had not yet died when you were born.+All the pain you felt was already erased from my memories. +We will be together, neither in Heaven nor in Hell, neither cursed or saved. I have not died, and I have not lived either.
()||:……
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:……
Nyto(1)黑涅托||:Big Sister Nemhran, Father is looking for you.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:I see.+Olga–
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||ClothingUp:When I return, hand this document to me.
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||:Yes.
()||:……
()||<黑屏1>:
()||<关闭蒙版>9<黑屏2>:……
()||<黑屏1>:
()||BGM_EmptyAVG_door_elecport<黑点2>447:[There is a quiet ding, and Nemhran slowly exits the elevator.]
()||AVG_Walk:[She lowers her head and walks straight up to the room in front of her, a deferential look on her face. Then, as she opens the door, she speaks in a light and cheerful tone.]
()||<黑点1>:
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||AVG_20Winter_Door_Open<黑点2>507GF_EV9_Intermission:…Congratulations, Father.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||Stop_AVG_loop:Everything has gone as you have planned.+Now the whole world will hear your voice.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:……
()||:[After a long silence, the man in the shadows gives his reply.]
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:So those old fools have finally discovered it?
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:Yes. They can no longer overlook your might now.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:They live like hyenas, yet claim to be above others.+They devote their intellects to claiming pointless authority. Meanwhile, they pay no attention at all to the future of the world.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:You deserve to wield such authority.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:No, Nemhran, I only need power.+When confronted with strength and authority, they will ultimately bend the knee to strength.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:When one holds power that eclipses that of everyone else in the world, everyone will hang onto every word you say.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:Your might is now the key to influencing the world.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:Where there is power, there will be people struggling for it, trying to seize it, and trying to balance it out.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:Then in the brave new world that is to come, your will shall decide whether there is destruction or rebirth.
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:…Haha, I would like to see the look on their faces.
NPC-Nemhran(3)Nemhran0,100||:……
()||:[Nemhran closes her eyes.]+[Her report is now over, but she cannot leave yet.]
()||ClothingUp:[She trembles slightly, then slowly looks up before taking off her mask.]
NPC-William(0)?威廉0,-50||:…Come here.
()||<黑屏1>:
()||<黑屏2>9BGM_Empty:[It’s as though a switch has been flipped. Even that voice in the shadows seems so much gentler now.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()Nemhran||GF_22W_SFX_chant<黑屏2>488:…You’re about to win.
()?威廉||:Of course I will… Mother.
()||<黑屏1>:
()?威廉||<黑屏2>489:Only I can save you.+You… And Sister.
()Nemhran||:Yes… That is what Lucy thinks too.+[TL Note: Alright, so Nemhran/Mommy refers to Lunixya/Lunasia/露妮西亚 as Lucy/露西. Enjoy the loretism. B R A V O Yuzhong.]
()||:[Her eyes are filled with love.]+[A holographic image stands in the corner of her vision.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()露妮西亚||490<黑屏2>:……
()?威廉||:Just give me a while longer… Dear Sister.+Soon… I will make those madmen pay.
()Nemhran||:……
()||:[Nemhran quietly watches the bizarre scene before here.]+[This is her most special duty, even her purpose.]
()||3:... + ......
()||<黑屏1>:
()||BGM_EmptyAVG_door_elecport<黑屏2>447:……
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||GF_21summer_avg_Demon:…Big Sister Nemhran.
()||AVG_Walk:[The doors to the elevator open and Nemhran leisurely strolls out.]
()||Stop_AVG_loop:[Upon hearing Olga call out to her, she turns her head mechanically and locks onto her with a keen gaze.]
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:What is your name?
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50;NPC-Nemhran(0)0,100||:Hm?
NytoWhite(0)0,50;NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:I said, what is your name?
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||:You personally named me… Olga.
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:Olga......
()||:[Nemhran nods thoughtfully.]
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:Did I order you to stand by here?
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||:Yes.
()||:[Nemhran nods, and then walks up to her.]
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:Then you should have something for me.
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||:……Yes, I do.
()||ClothingUp:[Though she is a little confused by the strange way Nemhran is acting, Olga still respectfully offers her the document in her hands.]
()||AVG_20Winter_Book:[Nemhran accepts the document without saying a word and silently pages through it.]
()||:[Syncing data…]
()||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:[Synchronization in progress…]+[Synchronization complete…]
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:Hm....
()||:[A moment later, Nemhran nods and closes the document in her hands.]
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,50||:Big Sister Nemhran…
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||ClothingUp:... Olga.
NytoWhite(0)Olga0,500.1||AVG_Bullet_Hit_Body:Ah…?!
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:Thank you for your service.
()||:[Olga’s eyes go wide, and Nemhran’s aloof face is the last thing she sees.]
()||AVG_XXS_kick%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=5:[Thud.]+[Her corpse crumples heavily to the ground. She still did not realize what she did wrong until the end.]+[...But that is only to be expected, because she did nothing wrong.]
NPC-Nemhran(0)Nemhran0,100||:…Time to work.
()||AVG_File_Put:[She casually dumps the destroyed document on Olga’s corpse. Then, Nemhran looks up and heads straight out of the exit.]
()||:[The dazed look vanishes from her face.]+[Her memories have returned, until she met with Father.]+[Just like how it has happened countless times before.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()||9<黑屏2><关闭蒙版>BGM_Empty:Loading ...
()||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:[■Decompressing File■ NUSSR/DDR…]
()||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:[■Loading File■ AS…]
()||<黑屏1>:
()||229<黑屏2>GF_22W_BGM_1:[Inside the temporary Paradeus base.]
()||AVG_21Winter_FT_Heel:[A tall Nyto walks up to the Doll. Upon seeing that she seems to be asleep, she begins to speak.]
NPC-MrsGray(0)Grey||Stop_AVG_loop:Hello, Pandora.
RPK16(3)RPK16||:……
()||:[The moment Lady Grey speaks to her, RPK-16 opens her eyes.]
RPK16(4)RPK16||:Hello, Lady Grey.+This is unusual. I didn’t think you’d remember me.
NPC-MrsGray(0)Grey;RPK16(4)||:I have no time to waste on chit-chat.
NPC-MrsGray(0);RPK16(4)RPK16||:I can imagine why.+Now then, is there a new task for me?
NPC-MrsGray(4)Grey;RPK16(4)||:Rejoice. We are going to fulfill our end of the bargain.
RPK16(5)RPK16||:Oh?
()||:[RPK’s eyes narrow, and she smiles.]
NPC-MrsGray(0)Grey||:We intend to abandon Berlin for the time being.+Now, somebody will arrange for you to proceed to our base.
NPC-MrsGray(0);RPK16(2)RPK16||:Your base ...
NPC-MrsGray(4)Grey;RPK16(2)||:Yes, our true base.+From now on, you are officially one of us, Pandora.+Rejoice.
RPK16(6)RPK16||:Of course. I’ve been waiting far too long for this day.
()||:With a flutter of her eyelashes, RPK-16 swiftly rises to her feet.
()||<黑点1>: