...Yes, Master! I know exactly what to do with this!
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＠Mash
During Sion's lecture on life scales, she talked about a paradox effector that could let someone use a measurement as a weapon.
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＠Mash
Da Vinci took that concept and ran with it to make a new mechanism for the Ortinax.
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＠Mash
I actually had time to practice using it in the simulator while I was on standby at the Wandering Sea!
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？1：Whoa! The Ortinax doesn't look anything like a shield anymore!
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＠Goredolf
Ah... Whoooa! So that's how it all works![sr]It really is a gun barrel, isn't it?
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＠Goredolf
Anyway, get ready to have your[sr]socks knocked off, [%1]!
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＠Goredolf
You're looking at one of the Seven Taboos[line 2]one of the Atlas Institute's crowning achievements, renowned throughout the entire magecraft community!
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＠Goredolf
Or so I'm told!
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？1：Seven Taboos...?
？2：(That sounds vaguely familiar...)
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＠Holmes
Indeed. The Seven Taboos are something of a legend among the Mage's Association. They're said to be weapons of magecraft capable of destroying the very world itself.
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＠Holmes
And the Black Barrel Conceptual[sr]Weapon there is one of them.
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＠Holmes
Ms. Sion already possessed a replica of it. I believe[sr]she offered it to Chaldea as a souvenir of sorts.
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＠Holmes
I knew she was also working with Da Vinci on[sr]a new replacement part for the Ortinax...
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＠Holmes
...but I didn't know they had finished[sr]their work after we arrived here.
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＠Da Vinci
Good, no issues with the gun barrel transformation! Output and stability are all well above expected parameters!
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＠Da Vinci
Send out the Accomplishments Measure![sr]Begin the Black Barrel transformation when ready!
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＠Mash
Here goes! Initiating Accomplishments Measure![sr]Ascertaining Demeter's life scale!
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＠Mash
One thousand... Two thousand... Three thousand...[sr]There! It stopped at forty-five hundred!
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＠Mash
Beginning Black Barrel transformation![sr]Preparing to burn the Dead Counter into the gun barrel!
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？1：Uh... Huh!?
？2：I'm sorry, but can someone tell me what's going on here!?
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＠Holmes
I can hardly blame you for feeling lost. I doubt I could comprehend its workings either, even were I at my peak condition!
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＠Holmes
But while I may not know how it works, I do know[sr]what it does! That's Demeter's life span!
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＠Holmes
Then again, since she's a machine, perhaps its her warranty period? Or her estimated number of years in operation? Well, no matter!
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＠Holmes
The point is, as long as this universe has a finite[sr]life span, there is nothing in it that will last forever!
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＠Holmes
Everything that has a form must also inevitably have an end! A limit, if you like!
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＠Holmes
That gun barrel can measure that end and[sr]make it tangible! In other words[line 2]
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＠Caenis
So it's a weapon that copies its target's mass and throws it right back at them in the form of magical energy?
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＠Holmes
Precisely! I must say, Caenis, you're far more intelligent than your behavior would suggest!
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＠Da Vinci
Right. It's not the kind of weapon you[sr]could usually carry around like this.
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＠Da Vinci
But in this case, I was able to miniaturize and stabilize it by restricting the measurement function to machine gods only.
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＠Da Vinci
Sion gave me the blueprints for it some time ago.[sr]All I needed was a benchmark to use for its core.
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＠Da Vinci
The first benchmark was Poseidon's Divine Core.[sr]And the second...
...Hmph. So that idiot Artemis turned out[sr]to be good for something after all, huh.
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＠Da Vinci
But the Barrel still needs ultradense magical energy to do its job. And that means we're going to need you to use a Command Spell, [%1].
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＠Da Vinci
And not just any Command Spell, either.
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＠Da Vinci
No, this one's going to have to be a little different.
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＠Da Vinci
You'll need to use everything you've got[line 2]your magical energy, your stamina... Even your own fate.
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＠Da Vinci
Make no mistake: if you miss this shot,[sr]you won't get another.
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＠Da Vinci
And since Mash has her hands full working the Ortinax, you'll need to work together to time it just right. She'll do the aiming. You'll pull the trigger.
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？1：...Don't worry. I've got this!
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＠Da Vinci
Now that's what I like to hear.[sr]Okay, good luck saving Proper Human History!
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？1：Thanks, Da Vinci. Now go get some rest already.
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＠Da Vinci
Ha! I swear, nothing throws you off, does it?[sr]...Thanks, [%1]. I'm counting on you!
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？1：Let's do this, Mash!
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＠Mash
Right, Senpai!
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＠Goredolf
This may be only the first of Olympus's mechanical gods, but it's still a crucial moment!
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＠Musashi
!
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＠Musashi
Oh come on! After everything we did to get her[sr]to notice us, NOW she's paying atten[line 2]
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＠Caenis
Oh shit!
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＠Caenis
That's the sound Demeter makes when she's about to get serious! She's storing up a metric shit ton of magical energy in that giant ass of hers!
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＠Caenis
To put it in terms you punks'll understand...[sr]she's just about to unleash her True Name!
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＠
[lr]I'm sorry...
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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＠
I... I love you.
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I really do love you.
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Persephone.
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Ahh, how sad. How tragic...
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＠Adele
Demeter's magical energy is rising rapidly![sr]She's about to unleash a massive scream!
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＠Macarios
I don't know what you guys just got hold of, but you'd better hurry! At the rate she's charging up magical energy, I don't think she'll care if she ends up blowing herself up!
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＠Macarios
You guys need to get out of there now,[sr]before you're blasted into ether dust!
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＠Mash
...It's all right. We'll be fine.
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＠Mash
If my calculations are correct,[sr]we should be zero-point-five seconds faster.
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＠Mash
It might not be much, but it's enough for us to win!
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...Connection in place.
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＠Mash
I've measured Demeter's destiny. Now I'll use the Dead[sr]Counter to turn it from speculation into reality.
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＠Mash
Bunker bolt is at its limit![sr]Gun barrel is fully stabilized and synchronized!
