All right...why don't we head for[sr]the Seventh Singularity now...
[k]
＠Mash
...[sr](...I wonder if...)
[k]
＠Mash
(...Scheherazade is trying to understand our journey so that she can better make up for what she did...)
[k]
＠Mash
(But...that's...)
[k]
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＠Dr. Roman
Well... Really, life has neither meaning,[sr]nor merit, right up to the end.
[k]
[charaFace B 6]
＠Mash
The end?
[k]
[charaFace A 0]
＠Dr. Roman
Yeah. If you're asking about the meaning of it all,[sr]well, there isn't any.
[k]
＠Dr. Roman
Nothing has meaning on its own.[sr]Meaning is something that gets determined later.
[k]
＠Dr. Roman
Humans are born, grow up,[sr]and die all without meaning.
[k]
＠Dr. Roman
It's only when a life's over that[sr]you finally see what it meant.
[k]
＠Dr. Roman
That's what life is, Mash.
[k]
＠Dr. Roman
We don't live in order to create meaning.[sr]We live so meaning can be found from our life.
[k]
[charaFace B 13]
＠Mash
...Yes. That's how I'd like to live my life, too.
[k]
＠Mash
Thank you, Dr. Roman.[sr]I'm grateful for all the kindness you've shown me.
[k]
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＠Dr. Roman
...
[k]
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＠Mash
Um, Scheherazade?
[k]
＠Mash
...I might be entirely off base here,[sr]but...may I say something?
[k]
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＠Mash
I know you might not think you're[sr]cut out to be a Heroic Spirit...
[k]
＠Mash
...but I think you are.
[k]
＠Mash
There's much more to you than[sr]just your wish to not die.
[k]
＠Mash
You're a master storyteller, probably the most famous and skilled in all the world. You stopped a deranged king using nothing but words.
[k]
[charaFace B 4]
＠Mash
I just...wanted to make sure you knew that...
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
...
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
Thank you, Mash. I appreciate that.
[k]
[charaFace C 6]
＠Scheherazade
...But that's exactly why...I need to take responsibility for what I said...
[k]
？1：...?
？！
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＠Scheherazade
...No, never mind. Now...please tell me the tale of the Seventh Singularity, the last Singularity you repaired in order to save humanity.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
2655 B.C. The Age of Gods was waning, and the ancient land of Uruk was overrun by Demonic Beasts...
[k]
[charaFace C 3]
＠Scheherazade
I see. So the very first person you met here[sr]was actually a god, strange as that may sound.
[k]
＠Scheherazade
Such a surprise could only come in a time of transition, like that between the Age of Gods and the Age of Man. None could say what else might happen in a time like that...
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
The next person you met was Enkidu,[sr]the famed weapon created by the gods.
[k]
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＠Mash
Although, I suppose technically that[sr]person wasn't actually Enkidu...
[k]
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＠Mash
Anyway, that was when we learned about the Three Goddess Alliance that threatened the people of Uruk.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
So together, you headed for the capital city of Uruk,[sr]where you met many other famous people...
[k]
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？1：Don't forget the mysterious jungle cat.
？！
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＠Scheherazade
Your enemy was a massive horde of Demonic Beasts, led by the one calling herself the head of the Three Goddess Alliance...
[k]
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＠Mash
We could never have stopped her invasion without Ushiwakamaru and Leonidas's sacrifices.
[k]
＠Mash
She really did seem like the[sr]queen of Demonic Beasts...
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
But then, before the enemy attempted another invasion, you were able to convince the other goddesses to join your side.
[k]
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？1：That was when King Gilgamesh went and died...
？！
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＠Scheherazade
I see. Death from overwork...[sr]What a dreadful thought.
[k]
＠Scheherazade
Anyone can die if they work too much,[sr]no matter how great a hero they may be.
[k]
＠Scheherazade
King Gilgamesh is proof enough of this.[sr]I must keep that in mind...
[k]
＠Scheherazade
In particular, I will have to mention this the next time the queen with furry ears tries to convince me to help with one of her start-up ideas...
[k]
＠Scheherazade
So far, she's proposed recording audiobooks, serial podcasts, bedtime story CDs, wake-up story CDs, storytelling livestreams... I don't know what they all are, but death from overwork seems likely...
[k]
？1：I DO know what they are, and you should definitely say no.
？2：I'm a big fan, so I can't wait to see what you do next.
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＠Mash
Stop that, Master!
[k]
＠Mash
Saying that sort of thing will just[sr]make it harder for her to refuse!
[k]
？！
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＠Scheherazade
A-at any rate... The next part of your journey brought you to the underworld in an effort to return King Gilgamesh to life.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
There, you were able to recruit Ereshkigal, one of the three members of the alliance, and made your way back to the surface... An incredible achievement.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
From there, you went to [scene 32400][charaFadeout D 0.1][charaSet D 98106900 1 ???][charaDepth D 5][charaFace D 2][charaScale D 1.01][charaFadein D 0.1 1][charaFadeout H 0.4]confront[sr]Gorgon once and for all...
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＠Scheherazade
...and you were successful...
[k]
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＠Mash
...Sadly, your victory was a Pyrrhic one,[sr]as it only unleashed the true threat.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
Tiamat's black mud[line 2]the floodwaters of destruction that turn any who touch it into monsters[line 2]started to invade the land of Uruk.
[k]
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＠Scheherazade
To make matters worse, Tiamat herself[sr]appeared...and began heading toward Uruk...
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＠Mash
To be honest...I don't remember much from then on. That was when our battle with Beast II, one of the Beasts of Disaster, began in earnest.
[k]
＠Mash
Everyone fought as hard as they[sr]could to put an end to her.
[k]
＠Mash
King Gilgamesh, the goddesses, the people of Uruk,[sr]Chaldea's staff, Dr. Roman, Da Vinci...
[k]
[charaFace B 4]
＠Mash
We even had help from people[sr]we never would have expected.
