The Shadow Border drove off into the sunset...and they all lived happily ever after.
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＠Sitonai
...It would sure be nice if that's how it went,[sr]wouldn't it? [bgm BGM_EVENT_81 0.1]Nothing is ever so easy, though.
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＠Gerda
Um, excuse me. You're not from this village, are you?
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＠Gerda
I guess...it's nice to meet you?
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＠Sitonai
Oh yes, likewise.[sr]That's right; I came from outside the big gate.
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＠Sitonai
But don't worry.[sr]There's no way the giants are getting in here.
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＠Gerda
Oh yes. I know that!
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＠Gerda
You wouldn't happen to be friends with Lady Mash,[sr][&Mr.:Ms.] [%1], Mr. Napoleon, and that beautiful envoy, would you?
[k]
＠Gerda
If you are, that makes you my friend, too!
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＠Sitonai
Is that how that works?[sr]Then yes, I guess that does make us friends.
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[charaFace A 4]
＠Sitonai
It's nice of you to say that. But, you should step back a bit, before you get hurt.
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＠Gerda
Huh?
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＠Sitonai
In fact, you should go back inside.[sr]And tell the others to do the same.
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＠Gerda
O-okay...
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＠Sitonai
Go on, hurry.
[k]
＠Gerda
A-all right. But what about you?
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＠Sitonai
I'll be fine. Now go! Quickly!
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[charaFace B 1]
＠Gerda
Okay!
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＠Sitonai
...Phew. There we go.
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＠Sitonai
Now then...time for a little magecraft camouflage.
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＠Sitonai
A great Tree of Emptiness, stretching towards space...[bgm BGM_EVENT_79 0.1]
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＠Sitonai
So, it altered its existence again.[sr]Hmm, or maybe it's more like it was replanted?
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＠Sitonai
I guess Surtr didn't swallow the entire tree. Looks like he left most of its roots in the ground. And then, since the trunk wasn't completely cut down either...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...Correct.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
That Tree of Emptiness must have connected to its roots via a spatial distortion within Surtr's body.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
How bizarre.[sr]Even I would struggle to accomplish such a thing.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
Yet for this massive tree,[sr]it is but one more means to ensure its survival.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I wonder, just where do these[sr]Trees of Emptiness come from...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Have you not thought the same,[sr]Chaldeans of Proper Human History?
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＠Mash
...We have.
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＠Mash
There's still so much we don't know about them.
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＠Mash
But I guess that's true for you too, Scáthach-Skadi.
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[charaFace D 4]
＠Mash
You grew it despite not even knowing what it really was...all so you could cover a world without humanity.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
What of it?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I will do whatever I must to protect my world.[sr]That should be abundantly clear by now.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
The same is true of you as well,[sr]Chaldeans of Proper Human History. Myself...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...I have always taken responsibility for[sr]deciding who to love, and who to kill.[bgm BGM_EVENT_70 0.1]
[k]
？1：Whoa, she looks different now...
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＠Mash
!
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You may put your eyes back in their sockets. This is merely the bridal gown I never had a chance to wear.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
Now, it is the only thing I have[sr]that comes close to battle dress.
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？2：It's a Spirit Origin Ascension!
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＠Mash
N-no, it's not that...
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＠Mash
She isn't a Servant, so her body isn't[sr]made out of ether. That means...
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？！
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＠Holmes
It's an Ascension of her very existence. So even the Heroic Spirit enhancement method Chaldea's summoning system employs is another tool she can wield freely.
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＠Holmes
They certainly do not exaggerate when[sr]they say gods are to be feared.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hehe. Feared, you say?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Now that you have defeated the Fiery King of Giants,[sr]I must see you as the true monsters, Chaldeans.
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＠Da Vinci
Really? It looked to me like we had to scrounge together every last bit of help we could find, and even then only just barely eked out a victory...
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＠Da Vinci
...but I guess that's not how[sr]you saw it, Scáthach-Skadi.
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＠Mash
Da Vinci is right! We could never have[sr]hoped to defeat Surtr all on our[line 2]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Exactly.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
That is exactly what is so frightening. You walked a razor's edge to accomplish the impossible, without even making an ally of the Counter Force.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
Then again, perhaps that is due to[sr]your forming so many bonds here...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...despite opportunities to do so in[sr]my land being so thin on the ground.
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＠Holmes
...[sr]...
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＠Holmes
...Your Majesty.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Silence. Do not weaken my resolve. Whenever you speak, you evoke images of Proper Human History's myths.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
But there are no such myths here.[sr]I have no such storied past.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
This is the only world where my Scandinavia exists.[sr]I am sure you cannot think of it as home.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
If you were to take up residence here...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...then I could continue to love you as your god,[sr]your queen, and your mother...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...But that can never be.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You will no doubt continue your journey.[sr]You always have, and you always will.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You will destroy the Lostbelts in[sr]order to restore your own world.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
So, say no more.[sr]It would make no difference.
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＠Holmes
At least allow me one last word, Your Majesty.
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＠Holmes
Everything you say is correct. You are walking the path you must follow, just as we are.
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＠Holmes
I only wish it didn't have to come to this.[sr]That we might have walked together, rather than separately.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Indeed. But that can never be.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Ortlinde.
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＠Ortlinde
You called, my Goddess and Protector?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
What will you do?[sr]You are free to choose whichever side you prefer.
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＠Ortlinde
I will follow my mind wherever it takes me.
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＠Ortlinde
Just as Brynhild, Thrúd, Hildr...
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＠Ortlinde
...and now, you, have said to.
[k]
＠Ortlinde
You are Scáthach-Skadi, the one who inherited this land from my father. I will fight by your side of my own free will.
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＠Ortlinde
...What is your command?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Prepare for battle.[bgm BGM_EVENT_24 0.1][sr]We will protect this tree with our lives.
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＠Ortlinde
Understood.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Do you hear that, Chaldea? Can you hear the cries of those birds flapping their wings overhead?
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
Should you defeat me and cut down the tree...I shall tell you what they truly are.
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＠Goredolf
...N-nn. I don't suppose there's[sr]any way we can avoid this battle?
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＠Da Vinci
Nope. Not a chance. And this won't be the last time this sort of thing happens.
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＠Da Vinci
It's just like she said. We have to take[sr]responsibility for what we're doing.
How many humans live in your Proper Human History?[sr]Several million? Tens of millions? Hundreds...?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Then again, I suppose if one includes the lives of flora and fauna, they would be innumerable.
[k]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
I see. So that is the responsibility you shoulder as you seek to end my Lostbelt. Hmm.
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＠Mash
...?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...Very well.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Then for the love I bear for my ten thousand subjects...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...I will take those millions...billions...[sr]That unfathomably vast number of lives...with my own hands!
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I will NOT let this miracle wither away!
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＠Holmes
Miracle... I see.[sr]So that's how you think of this land.
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＠Holmes
For you, this Lostbelt, and the approximately three thousand years it has known peace, is truly a miracle, isn't it, Your Majesty?
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＠Holmes
Then you know.[sr]You've known all along.
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＠Holmes
You are fully aware that this Lostbelt's[sr]existence is both abnormal and unnatural.
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＠Holmes
What's more, you knew so well before the Crypter came along and informed you of Proper Human History.
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＠Mash
You knew...?[sr]Even before you knew about Proper Human History!?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hehe. ...It seems I cannot put[sr]anything past you, wise sage.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Perhaps those piercing eyes of yours in fact surpass Odin's? Mystic Eyes, perchance? ...No, that is not it. They merely reflect your wisdom born of human history's cumulative accomplishments.
[k]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Yes, you are right.[sr]I knew everything.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...It was supposed to be pruned away.[bgm BGM_EVENT_75 0.1]
