This was supposed to be the greatest day in Britain's history... Everything was supposed to change for the better!
[k]
＠Aesc
But they...they killed Uther! They slaughtered my entire Round Table...like they...like they were just trash!
[k]
＠Aesc
They asked the world of us![sr]They thought the world of Uther!
[k]
＠Aesc
But now, they've poisoned him... They were too afraid to even face him! Cowards!!!
[k]
＠Aesc
Uther... Talk to me... Uther, Uther! Say something! Please, say anything! Just open your eyes!!!
[k]
＠Aesc
I never let failure stop me! I've kept trying all these thousands of years!
[k]
＠Aesc
Am I doomed to fail here, too!? Is it still not enough? Am I not enough!?
[k]
＠Aesc
Is it not... Can I not save Britain!? Is there no Britain that can be mine!?
[k]
＠Aesc
Gnn... Nghh... Gaaaaaaaaah!
[k]
＠Aesc
Peace... Equality... I never... I never should have tried for EITHER!
[k]
＠Aesc
How dare they... How dare they!? I will never forgive them! Ever!!!
[k]
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＠Aesc
(Huff... Huff... Huff...)
[k]
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[lr]I was born in this Britain over three thousand years ago. I've defeated every calamity I've faced until today.
[k]
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But I was always hated afterward. Never praised. Never loved.
[k]
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Then, one day after I awoke from the latest of so many hibernations I'd been forced to undergo to hide from the faeries...
[k]
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...I finally understood. My enemy wasn't just the calamities. It was the faeries of Britain as well.
[k]
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They were pure and innocent in the truest sense. They enjoyed both good and evil things alike without losing either that purity or innocence.
[k]
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They are, at their core, no different than those loathsome humans who drove me from Britain.
[k]
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So I crushed every possible source of malice. Vested interests. Discrimination. Oppression. Envy. Mockery. All of it.
[k]
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I tore up every weed to prevent malice from taking root, and all with their knowledge and consent.
[k]
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Maybe not every faerie agreed, but by and large, they understood what I did would create a better future, and supported it.
[k]
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But just enough malice remained. A few faeries took one look at the foundation of peace so many had worked so hard to build...
[k]
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...and tore it apart, because they didn't like it...because they could.
[k]
＠Aesc
Ha... Haha. Ahaha. Hahaha.[sr]Ahahahahahahaha!!!
[k]
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[lr]I give up. If even all this has failed, if it's all come to nothing, then I can never believe in people's so-called goodness, nor ever understand it.
[k]
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Even if I did, what would be the point? Everything I did, everything I worked for...was just a waste of time.
[k]
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After all the times they betrayed me, I should have known better. But I still clung foolishly to a sliver of hope.
[k]
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And now, because I wasted my time caring about something so utterly absurd, I've failed yet again.
[k]
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If my intent is to keep Britain alive... If that's what I want, then I was a fool to think being its savior was the way to accomplish it.
[k]
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No more. I will find another way. A better way.
[k]
＠Aesc
...That's it.
[k]
＠Aesc
I won't deliver the faeries absolution; I won't deliver salvation.
[k]
＠Aesc
Enough of this faerie of paradise, of being Avalon le Fae. I should have ruled this land from the start.
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＠Clan Soldiers
There she is! It's Aesc the Agitator! Capture her alive! The clan heads have ordered that she be made to stand trial!
[k]
＠Aesc
Wait! Stop![sr]I'm not Aesc! I'm not!
[k]
＠Aesc
But, wait... Who am I? Who am I!?
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[lr]...I heard a faerie screaming in the distance. She wasn't me.
[k]
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She was the one who sold us out to the clan heads. I used my magecraft to erase her memories and make her look like me.
[k]
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Once again, everyone will believe Aesc the Savior is dead. This time, she won't come back.
[k]
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Why concern myself with the calamities? I can't be bothered to stop every little act of destruction.
[k]
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I have a more important task to focus on, in four hundred years, before the next great calamity arrives.
[k]
＠Aesc
...The Tree of Emptiness. A needle made on a foreign planet to close the seam in the universe.
[k]
＠Aesc
I already know how it works. It's beautifully designed, but that is of no consequence to me.
[k]
＠Aesc
Take the rest of the universe for all I care, celestial sphere, but Britain is mine.
[k]
＠Aesc
I'm going to end this cosmic fantasy, and make my own dream come true.
[k]
＠Aesc
No more of this Lostbelt “what if” absurdity. I will make my Britain real, even if I must stitch it to the fabric of this planet myself.
[k]
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＠Aesc
Londinium is destroyed. The “savior” has no doubt been executed in Salisbury by now.
[k]
＠Aesc
Ector has already gone his own way. It is only us heading to Orkney.
[k]
＠Aesc
You were right all along, Mash. Our whole pilgrimage was for nothing.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
What? No, that's... That's not[line 2]
[k]
[charaFace B 7]
＠Aesc
Please don't look so sad. I've grown used to this.
[k]
＠Aesc
Besides, everything...all of this, even the conversation we're having now, is merely a hypothetical the Tree of Emptiness is creating.
[k]
＠Aesc
It doesn't matter what we do. The Fae Era is going to end, and the Era of the High Queen will begin.
[k]
＠Aesc
Aesc's failure was probably inevitable.
[k]
＠Aesc
I just...couldn't handle the way things ended.[sr]That's all.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
Aesc...
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
Londinium is destroyed, Aesc is executed, and the first Tam Lin goes to Orkney along with her coffin.
[k]
＠Aesc
That's how the savior's tale ended in the Era of the High Queen you came from.
[k]
＠Aesc
So we need to make sure that's exactly how things turn out, or there'll be paradoxes when you wake up.
[k]
＠Aesc
The Fae Era will last for four hundred more years. Then, in its twelve thousandth year...
[k]
＠Aesc
...the next great calamity will destroy everything, and the Era of the High Queen will begin without the Tree of Emptiness.
[k]
＠Aesc
Once the Era of the High Queen begins...
[k]
＠Aesc
...you will be unable to act as Mash until after the calamity of Norwich in 2019.
[k]
＠Aesc
If you do anything at all as Mash, the world will see you as a paradox from the Fae Era and erase you.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
...I see. So the moment I was sent into the Fae Era with the water mirror, I was bound to live out the rest of my life in it.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
And to get back to the time I came from... I need to be inside a quantum coffin.
[k]
[charaFace B 30]
＠Aesc
That's right. Even though we know how Rayshifting works, we can't travel through space-time without a Coffin.
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
That is probably exactly why Morgan only sends calamities BACK in time to the Fae Era.
[k]
＠Aesc
The Fae Era can tolerate a few inconsistencies. As long as the Era of the High Queen remains intact, nothing else matters to her.
[k]
＠Aesc
I doubt she cares at all about the suffering the calamities she sends back to the Fae Era will cause.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
...
[k]
[charaFace B 7]
＠Aesc
Besides...to be perfectly honest, I knew how this was going to turn out.
[k]
＠Aesc
Even if you had never come from the future to make it clear, I've always known the savior will fail.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
Huh? So...you already knew that the Fae Era would end and the Era of the High Queen would follow it?
[k]
[charaFace B 1]
＠Aesc
No, that part, I did not know. But by the year you came from, A.D. 2019[line 2]or 14,019 in Fae Era terms...
[k]
＠Aesc
...Britain would already be destroyed.
[k]
＠Aesc
That's what happened in the first[sr]Lostbelt Britain[line 2]the real one.
[k]
＠Aesc
But I didn't like that, so I came to the Fae Era from the future, like you.
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
From my perspective, this has always been the second version of this world.
[k]
＠Aesc
Though now that you're here,[sr]I suppose you could call it the third.
[k]
＠Aesc
Or maybe it's just a slightly different take on the second, since we kept the basic chain of events the same.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
...Um, can I ask you something?[sr]Does that mean your real name is[line 2]
[k]
[charaFace B 1]
＠Aesc
Oh good, it looks like Totorot found us a small boat.[sr]Come on, let's go, Mash.
[k]
＠Aesc
That is, Galahad, first of the Tam Lin. That is your name, now that you are going into the coffin.
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＠Aesc
Have you said your goodbyes to Totorot?[wt 1.0][charaFace B 4][sr]...I see. So she made a promise to you.
[k]
[charaFace B 24]
＠Aesc
I think I'd better explain something to you, Galahad.
[k]
＠Aesc
When the Fae Era transitions into the Era of the High Queen, all the information that was added in this new second version of the world will be erased.
[k]
＠Aesc
The Era of the High Queen will be a continuation of the events from the original second version. The first and new second versions will never have existed.
[k]
＠Aesc
The only thing that will carry over is you, sleeping in this coffin.
More precisely, I will become the second version of myself once again.
[k]
＠Aesc
So if a faerie were to try and bring memories from this new second version into the Era of the High Queen...
[k]
＠Aesc
Then the world would perceive that faerie as a foreign element[line 2]a being who was never part of the second version's Fae Era.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
You mean...it'll be as though she never[sr]existed in this history...?
[k]
[charaFace B 25]
＠Aesc
I'll do my best to prevent that from happening.
[k]
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＠Aesc
As long as no one perceives the contradiction in history,[sr]she should still be able to exist.
[k]
＠Aesc
It's no trouble. I already intended to have you forget everything I'm about to tell you for as long as you remain in Britain, anyway.
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＠Aesc
...Listen to me closely, Galahad. What I'm about to tell you now is for after you wake up from your slumber.
[k]
＠Aesc
If you and Chaldea should succeed at excising[sr]Morgan's Faerie Britain...
[k]
＠Aesc
...then the battle that awaits you in the next Lostbelt will be the same as the one I face...
[k]
＠Aesc
It will be a battle to make peace with your own heart...a battle to understand life itself.
[k]
＠Aesc
As good as your reasons to fight have been, you've lacked the will to do so.
[k]
＠Aesc
You may not have been aware of it, but you've been thinking of the power to hurt others[line 2]to hurt the world[line 2]as something bad. Consequently, you've been running from it.
[k]
＠Aesc
But everyone has the ability to cause harm, and the responsibility that comes with it.
[k]
＠Aesc
It isn't that humans want to do good. They just keep choosing things that they think will give them the best possible future.
[k]
[charaFace B 4]
＠Aesc
...And there's no right answer in those choices,[sr]no matter how many people they may end up saving.
[k]
[charaFace B 24]
＠Aesc
Since there are no right answers, you must decide for yourself what to protect, and what you will fight against, Galahad.
[k]
＠Aesc
You will come to know many hearts and minds, and all will be different.
[k]
＠Aesc
Some will try to understand. Some will refuse to give up.
[k]
＠Aesc
Some will be accepting. Some will refuse to succumb to hate.
[k]
＠Aesc
Some will try to shake hurt off. Some will refuse to be corrupted or influenced.
[k]
＠Aesc
...But no matter how wonderful a person may be, they will never have a heart free of conflict.
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
Every heart has its battles to fight. Please, try to stop running from that.
[k]
＠Aesc
Because when the hole in your heart is filled with a reason to fight that's all your own...
[k]
＠Aesc
...then Galahad will once again entrust you with all of his power.
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
...No heart is free of conflict... ...No matter what sort of person you are...
[k]
＠Aesc
That's right. You'll probably have forgotten this by the time you wake, but when the time comes, I will make sure you remember.
[k]
＠Aesc
Though even I can't say whether you'll become someone different, like I did...
[k]
＠Aesc
...or if you'll remain yourself as you continue to grow.
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＠Aesc
This is goodbye.[wt 1.0][charaFace B 11][sr]Oh, one final thing.
[k]
＠Aesc
You should know that even if you should meet me after you wake up, I won't know you.
[k]
＠Aesc
I may think of the coffin I left here after you are caught up in the water mirror in Norwich...
[k]
＠Aesc
I may even realize what it all means...
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
...but I'm quite sure that the me you meet then will no longer be Aesc.
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＠The First Tam Lin
...
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
Thank you so much for everything, Aesc! Even if you knew how things were going to turn out...
[k]
＠The First Tam Lin
I still think your journey did the name “savior” justice!
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＠Aesc
Well sure! We gave it all we had, didn't we?
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Aesc
Farewell, brave knight of the future. In light of your achievements, I'll let you in on a secret.
[k]
＠Aesc
Aesc the Savior isn't my real name. My adoptive mother gave it to me after Orkney was destroyed.
[k]
＠Aesc
My True Name is Morgan.
[k]
＠Aesc
I'm Avalon le Fae, the faerie of paradise who washed up here from the planet's inner sea to save Britain.
[k]
＠Aesc
I'm also King Arthur's archenemy, the witch who destroyed all of Britain in Proper Human History.
[k]
＠Aesc
That is the name of the Lostbelt's king who awaits you in the distant future, the one Chaldea must defeat.
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？1：...The ice...
？！
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？1：It's breaking...
？！
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？1：Whoa! I've got you, Mash!
？！
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＠Mash
Is this...Orkney...?
[k]
＠Mash
...Ahh... I think...[sr]I was just told something very important...
[k]
？1：Are you awake now?
？！
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＠Mash
Sen...pai?
[k]
？1：...Yeah. It's me. Welcome back, Mash. For good this time.
？！
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＠Mash
Right... I'm back, Senpai.
[k]
＠Mash
I've been on a very, very long journey...[sr]There are so many things I want to tell you.
[k]
＠Mash
There's Sheffield... The Fae Era...[sr]And...
[k]
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＠Mash
Aesc the Savior...the one who sent me back here...
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[lr]And so, at long last, she and[sr][%1] were reunited.
[k]
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Finally freed from the coffin, [&he:she] took her[sr]in [&his:her] arms and held her tight.
[k]
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They embraced warmly, but quietly...each treasuring the other's presence.
[k]
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Upon seeing this heartwarming and eye-searing sight, I found myself letting out a sigh of relief and disappointment.
[k]
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The mage from the world of humans.
[k]
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A young [&man:woman] upon whom others placed a crushing[sr]burden, regardless of how [&he:she] felt about it.
[k]
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Sure, [&he:she] isn't perfect. [&He:She] lied, obfuscated,[sr]and made plenty of mistakes.
[k]
＠
But it was also abundantly clear that [&he:she] was doing[sr][&his:her] best to hide [&his:her] dissatisfaction, no matter[sr]how much [&he:she] tried to cover it up. That's why I[sr]couldn't help but come with [&him:her] all this way.
[k]
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But now, I can see [&he:she] has a true friend[line 2]one[sr][&he:she] really cares about. That's great.
[k]
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It makes sense, really. [&He:She] would never have made it[sr]this far if [&he:she] hadn't put [&his:her] trust in others.
[k]
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...Of course I should have known that [&he:she] and I[sr]were nothing alike.
