()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2><SE1>AVG_PPT_Switch</SE1>:[Aeneas meeting room saved progress–]+[Phase 1 progress… 100%.]+[Phase 2 progress… 50%.]+[Phase 3 progress… 0%.]+[Phase 4 progress… 100%.]+[Phase 5 progress… 0%.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[...]+[...]+[Phase 0 progress… 99%.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[Operation Aeneas – “Phase 0”.]+[Objective – Anna Viktorovna Tsoi.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>446</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>10247</BGM>:[Avernus, inside the east tower.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:[Taptaptap–]+[RO635’s lonely figure sticks close to the wall as she runs along the spiral staircase.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1><震屏3>:[She is moving very quickly. The moment she reaches a new level’s entrance, she quickly and efficiently kicks the door in and charges inside without bothering to check first.]+[Right now, she can’t afford to waste so much as a second.]
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:......!?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>？？？</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:——
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_XXS_kick</SE1>:[Bang!]+[Just as RO635 makes her swift entry, a black figure suddenly appears from around the corner and blocks her path.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Select</SE1>:[Without any hesitation. RO lifts her gun and prepares to pull the trigger, but her opponent – who is close at hand – grabs the barrel–]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Rifle</SE1><SE1>AVG_Bullte_Ricochet</SE1>:[The bullets that fire shatter the light fixtures on the ceiling.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Combat_Hits</SE1>:[Thump!]+[Whack!]+[With practiced skill, RO635 switches to melee combat techniques, using her weapon to beat down her opponent.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:[And then, much to her surprise, her opponent also uses familiar techniques to counterattack. After a swift exchange of blows, they both end up holding different ends of her submachinegun.]+[Just then, her opponent speaks up.]
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>？？？</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Are you looking for Angelia? RO635?
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:......!?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_22W_BGM_1</BGM>:[All this has taken place in the space of a few seconds. It is only now that RO finally takes in the other party’s facial features.]+[The person standing in her way is an unremarkable Nyto.]
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>？？？</Speaker>||:Go back from where you came, RO.+Ange will not go with you.
RO635Mod(0)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:……
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>？？？</Speaker><Shake>0.1</Shake>||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:......!?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[The moment the Nyto finishes, she suddenly feels a force flipping her onto the ground.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1><震屏3>:[Thump!]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Select</SE1>:[Clack!]+[RO635’s gun is pressed against her face. She blinks, and then raises her hands without saying a word.]
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:Who are you?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>克莱妲</Speaker>||:You can call me Koleda.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:Where is Ange?
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>克莱妲</Speaker>||:I told you, Ange will not go with you.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1><震屏3>:<size=50>I believe I FUCKING said, where is Ange?!</size>
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>克莱妲</Speaker>||:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[The Doll before her is radiating killing intent. Koleda knows that the only reason she has not yet pulled the trigger is because of what little rationality she still possesses.]
NPC-Koleda(0)<Speaker>克莱妲</Speaker>||:…Come with me.
RO635Mod(4)<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||:If you dare waste my time, I’ll make you regret your existence.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[Koleda can sense the anger surging in RO635 without having to turn behind.]+[However, if she does anything that seems even the least bit suspicious, she will suffer the cruellest retribution in the world.]+[Koleda has no choice but to keep her arms raised and walk toward Ange’s room.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Explode</SE1><黑点2><震屏3><BIN>456</BIN><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:boom!!
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_21summer_intro_DemonVariation</BGM>:Tsk……!
UMP9Mod(4)<Speaker>UMP9</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||:45!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_The_Division_Grenade</SE1>:[After tossing a grenade at the endless hordes of Paradeus troops, 45 fucks back behind cover and continues banging away at her handheld terminal.]
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Cover me just a bit longer, 9!+…I’ll see if I can reconnect them all.
UMP9Mod(2)<Speaker>UMP9</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||:45....
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE2>Gunfight</SE2>:[9 has been weakened after being hacked by Bramedb, and right now she is also covered in wounds after the intense running battle with the Paradeus forces.]+[Though she’s much better off than 45, who took the brunt of their firepower, standing before this pair of sisters right now are the black and white Nytos along with their forces.]+[The sole piece of good news is that they haven’t spotted any high-end Nyto units.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Team_Running</SE1>:[They had to abandon most of their equipment in the listening post after they fled it.]+[Now, the only way they can maintain comms is by relying on UMP45’s neural cloud processing… But there’s no way she can focus on providing computational power while being hunted down.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:[As she watches her bang on her terminal in frustration, UMP9 looks back at the forces bearing down on them.]
UMP9Mod(2)<Speaker>UMP9</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||<BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:I say, 45.+You should have a lot of neural cloud memory, right?
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||:…It’s adequate. +Why do you ask?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Beep.+She sends the data over.
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_21summer_avg_Demon</BGM>:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:After seeing what UMP9 sent her, UMP45’s eyes go wide.
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||:…Is this a neural cloud backup?+ <size=50>What the hell are you trying to do, 9?!</size>
UMP9Mod(3)<Speaker>UMP9</Speaker><Position>0,-50</Position>||:You need to live on, 45.
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:–9!! Come back!!!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_XXS_kick</SE1>:[45’s hand shoots out to grab 9’s arm, but she misses.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1>:[UMP9 nimbly rolls out from behind cover, as though her weakness was nothing more than an illusion. She runs straight into the nearby Paradeus forces.]
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||:<size=50> 9!!</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><SE1>Explode</SE1>:boom!!!!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1>:[After failing to grab 9, UMP45 stands up to go after her, but the moment she does, she is knocked back by the blast of the explosion.]
()<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tinnitus_0</SE1>:Cough ... cough ...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:[(Static)]+[The impact makes her computer emit ominous noises..]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_NightVision_Start</SE1>:[Roughly three seconds later, her neural cloud resumes functioning.]
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><BIN>456</BIN><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:-!!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:[The moment she regains consciousness, she immediately jumps back up from the ground.]+[Before her, she sees that the Nytos that were about to roll right over her are all gone. The only thing that’s left are a blast crater and some limbs that can still be identified.]+[She immediately recognizes the fragments of UMP9’s visor.]
UMP45Mod(0)<Speaker>UMP45</Speaker>||:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:kzzzzzzzzzzzt....
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:[Beepbeep…]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Transmission signal connecting...
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>RO635</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1><BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:<color=#00ccff>bzzzzzzz ... Um-... zzzzzzt ... Hailing U-... zzzzzzz ...-corn.</color> + <color=#00ccff> Mission ...kzzzzzz ... Com- ...bzzzzzzt ... </color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:... + ......
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Operation Aeneas, mission complete.+Progress - 99%.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:……
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>357</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>GF_EV9_Intermission</BGM>:[In the silent meeting room, the Commander meshes their fingers, frowning as they study the map before them.]+[It has been a full hour since contact was lost with Aeneas Team.]+[Although the Commander  has been trying over and over again to reconnect with the meeting room’s signal, there is no way to break through the interference of the jamming zone.]+[Right now, only Dandelion is still trying – and she has been trying all the way until now.]+[AR-15 stands by the Commander’s side. Though she’s trying to stay calm, the way she occasionally paces the room betrays  her true feelings.]
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:Commander……
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:<size=50>–Did you get through?!</size>
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:…Not yet.+I just wanted to ask if perhaps we should prepare for our next move?+Perhaps they’ve already…
AR15Mod(5)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1><震屏3>:<size=50>God fucking dammit do you even fucking understand what we’re going through here? I don’t expect you to be a saint but can you not spew that fucking shit?!</size>
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:While they’re not as antagonistic as AR-15 is, they can’t help but crumble a little after hearing what Dandelion said.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:Hang on…
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[And this is when Dandelion’s expression suddenly changes.]
AR15Mod(5)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:What are you doing? This isn’t the time for jokes!
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:I’m not joking… Commander.+I found the meeting room’s signal…
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:<size=50>–Put me through right now!!</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[Upon hearing that, the Commander springs straight up from where they were sitting.]
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:……Yes.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[Dandelion nods, but the Commander doesn’t miss the strange look in her eyes.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:[Beep…]+[Signal connecting…]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:[Connecting to Aeneas Meeting Room…]+[Account verified - Dandelion.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_The_Division_Baggage_bomb_Activation</SE1>:[Authentication successful.]
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
AR15Mod(8)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:……
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:I had nothing to do with this.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_22W_BGM_2</BGM>:The three of them look at the depiction of the meeting room on the display, and when they look at the login records, not even Dandelion can say anything, to say nothing of the Commander and AR-15.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<narrator>:[Umbrella - Offline]+[Iron Element - Offline]+[Unicorn - Offline]+[Nitrogen - Offline]+[Chess Queen - Offline]+[Wolfpack - Logged Out]+[Black Box - Logged Out]
AR15Mod(2)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:Did they all…
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:…They just lost signal. It doesn’t mean anything.+Dandelion, what is that?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:The Commander sees an extra document in the middle of the meeting room.
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||:The file name is "To Commander".
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:Now decrypting… It’s a video file. Now opening.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:[Analyzing format…]+[Now playing.]
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_PPT_Switch</SE1>:The image shimmers briefly, and then a familiar figure appears in front of the camera.+The Commander’s breath pauses for a moment.
()||<黑屏1>:
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||<BIN>357</BIN><黑屏2>:<color=#00ccff>…It’s been a while, Commander.</color>
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:[In the picture, Amelia looks bruised and battered, but the determined look in her eyes reflects her undefeated spirit.]+[Despite not having seen her in the flesh, seeing that face of her puts the Commander’s heart a little at ease.]
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>We don’t have much time, so I’ll get to the point.</color>+<color=#00ccff>I’m sorry, I can’t leave this place for the time being.</color>
AR15Mod(8)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:What–!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Faster than the Commander can react, AR-15’s eyes go wide – her nerves have been wound up tighter than they have ever been, considering she doesn’t know if RO635 are alive or dead.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Meanwhile, the Commander watches quietly, waiting for the rest of her statement.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>…Perhaps you cannot accept this outcome.</color>+<color=#00ccff>You went to so much effort to arrange for an elite team, you came so far, and in the end this is the answer you got. </color>+<color=#00ccff>However, there is a reason why I have to choose this.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>I will tell you this reason, because you deserve to know.</color>+<color=#00ccff>But before that – you need to answer a question of mine.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:A question?
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>Commander, what exactly do you think has to be done to save the world?</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>Go on, tell me.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>This question will prove… If you are truly a comrade of mine. </color>
AR15Mod(5)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:What the hell is this… Why did it stop?
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:…Dandelion?
NytoIsomer(3)<Speaker>丹德莱</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1>:The second part of the video’s been encrypted. +You will need a password to continue watching it… My guess is that it’s the “answer”.+If you don’t know the answer…perhaps I could try to crack it by brute force?
AR15Mod(5)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:This question makes no sense… Who knows what she wants to hear?
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:……
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:Ange… You must be talking about…<c> The past.<c>The present.<c>The future.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<分支>1</分支>:…To carry on the past, to divide up the world according to the old ways, just like how Sir, Oberstein and those bureaucrats did.+To divide it up with rules, with governments, with choices, with interests, to return the world to what they think it ought to be like.+Just like Sir said, rules made by the few will make the many choose “the right path”.+…+But are they correct?+If they ARE correct, then this world wouldn’t have become the way it is now.+The past has already been denied, and their intransigence will only make the world repeat its past tragedies.+No, this can’t be it.
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><分支>2</分支>:...The present.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><分支>3</分支>:……
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<分支>3</分支>:Blazing a trail for the future does sound very tempting.+The Commander speaks those words in their heart, imagining what could be, a vision of the future.+But… In order to reach a world like that, a great deal must be sacrificed, and who will bear the brunt of those sacrifices?+...+If people freely sacrifice what they had now in order to pin their hopes to the future, then when the future truly arrives, how much of what should be saved will be left?+If you lose the present, what future is there to talk about?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN>:...Protecting the present. Yes, just like what Ange, Mr. Kryuger, Machlian, and everyone around the Commander has done.+Regardless of how much suffering the tragedies of the past have wrought, regardless of how those people who spout their ideology cheat and lie… regardless of those sacrifices, or that beautiful future which cannot be seen or touched…+Them and us.+What we can protect, what we can maintain, what we can believe in, that we can touch.+That is “the present”.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<黑点2><BIN>357</BIN>:The present...
AR15Mod(5)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:Hm?
()<Speaker>Commander</Speaker>||:…it’s the present, Ange.+The thing we need to keep our eyes on has never changed.+Not what has already passed, or what we still can’t see.+It is the present that we can touch.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff> ...... </color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_PPT_Switch</SE1>:kzzzzz...
AR15Mod(8)<Speaker>AR15</Speaker>||:…!+It's moving!
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>…I knew it. </color>+<color=#00ccff>Till the end, we are true comrades, Commander.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange’s face relaxes on the screen to smile, and then she resumes her seriousness.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>The situation has changed, Commander.</color>+<color=#00ccff>“His” objective was never to pull up Paradeus by the roots.</color>+<color=#00ccff>“He” wants to bring William under “his” control.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:......!?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Although Ange didn’t name names, the Commander immediately understands who that “he” is.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>…I will not allow that to happen.</color>+<color=#00ccff>If “he” has pulled out of this operation, then I will continue the work of eliminating Paradeus.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:……
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>A demon is a demon not because of desire, but because it has a devil’s power.</color>+<color=#00ccff>We must not let “him” get his hands on this bloodstained might…</color>+<color=#00ccff>As for William, we ought to end things with him. </color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>Commander</Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:Are you going to use yourself as bait…
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>I’ve received the gift that you had RO bring along.</color>+<color=#00ccff>I still have helpers here, so there’s no need to worry about my safety.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>？？？</Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:<color=#00ffff>…it’s almost time, Ange.</color>
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker></Speaker><通讯框><同时置暗>||:Ange smiles at the camera, but her eyes are still determined.
NPC-AngeDamage(0)<Speaker>安洁莉娅</Speaker><通讯框>||:<color=#00ccff>Listen, Commander.</color>+<color=#00ccff>My plan is to–</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:... + ... + ......
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_disconnect</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:[Beep.]
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:The video ends.
()||<黑点1>: