The fire that shone in her eyes[sr]drove her to fly even faster.
[k]
＠Tam Lin Mélusine
My name is...Mélusine...[sr]Tam Lin Mélusine!
[k]
＠Tam Lin Mélusine
Now fly! Even if you are just an animated corpse, you still must fly!
[k]
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[lr]She tore through the air, soaring over the destruction below and flying straight for her enemy.
[k]
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And so, the crumbling dragon, one of the beings who found salvation in this Britain, let out her final roar.
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＠Aurora
...Ah...[sr]...That sound...
[k]
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[lr]A vaguely irritating sound jolted her to her senses.
[k]
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Several hours after the Tam Lin ran her through, she slowly opened her eyes, still sprawled on her back.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...It's so quiet. The riots must have died down.
[k]
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＠Aurora
Hehe, of course they have. They were at it for so long, they must have finally exhausted themselves.
[k]
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＠Aurora
You see? I told you all we had to do was wait. Someone always takes care of my problems if I'm patient enough.
[k]
＠Aurora
It's always been that way for me. Why should this be any different?
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[lr]She coughed a few times, her throat oddly parched.
[k]
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Then she smiled a gentle smile and began an elegant speech, just as she had many times before.
[k]
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But there was no one to hear it. Everyone in her city was dead.
[k]
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All she received in response was visions of her past.
[k]
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＠Insect on the Desk
You know what your one and only love is? Shining brighter than anyone else.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You would never think to improve yourself. The very notion of growth and effort is alien to you.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
And why shouldn't they be? You've been perfect from the moment you came into existence.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You don't have to work, like the Earth clan. You don't have to suffer injury, like the Fang clan.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You don't have to study, like the Wing clan.[sr]You don't have to serve, like the Mirror clan.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
No, the Wind clan's value lies solely in it existing in the first place.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
And you, Aurora, are the very avatar of that value.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You don't love anyone, but you also don't want anyone. All you need is ornaments to further adorn yourself.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
What a wonderful way to live. I think it's fabulous. In fact, I really love it.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
But...you're diminished whenever someone grows more popular than you.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Of course, you would never get your hands dirty. You have all the people who adore you for that.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Just like you did at Londinium, and with Ainsel.
[k]
＠Aurora
Huh? Whatever are you talking about, Oberon?[sr]They both deserved what happened to them.
[k]
＠Aurora
I was sad when I learned they were dead, but I suppose they must have done something to earn someone's ire.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Ah, I see. How wonderful.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
I must have just imagined that you sent them to the western human ranch, knowing Gawain had a visit planned just when they'd arrive...
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
I must have dreamed that you assigned one of your most capable fae horses to monitor them and report to you.
[k]
＠Aurora
Huh? True, I did know Gawain would[sr]be going there that day...
[k]
＠Aurora
But was it wrong to have her meet the Child of Prophecy?
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Not at all. You helped me move up my plans and cleared away a few actors in a stroke.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Anyway, I'd better get going.[sr]Have fun scheming with Spriggan.
[k]
＠Aurora
Aww, leaving so soon? Well that's a shame.
[k]
＠Aurora
I thought you were going to tell me more fun stories today.
[k]
＠Insect On The Desk
You don't need me for that. You're already aware of almost everything that happens in Britain, right?
[k]
＠Insect On The Desk
Really, nobody can compare to the Wind clan when it comes to espionage. Your wind tidings can manipulate information so easily it's genuinely terrifying.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Oh, but I will say this.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Would you mind leaving Altria and [%1] alone?
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
I'm going to need both of them in order to defeat Morgan.
[k]
＠Aurora
Oh, my. You're never so serious. It's almost enough to make me jealous of them.
[k]
＠Aurora
Oberon? You told me your only goal was to remove Morgan from the throne, but...can I really trust you?
[k]
＠Aurora
You're not just some nasty vermin that snuck into my Britain, are you?
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Of course not. Everything I do is for Britain's future.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
That's why I've been telling you all this; I truly believe you're the one best suited to rule it.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
That said, you probably shouldn't trust me too much, no. Everything I say is a lie, after all.
[k]
＠Aurora
Huh? What do you mean by that?
[k]
＠Aurora
If everything you say is a lie, that would mean you're also lying when you say not to trust you.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
That's just the kind of Heroic Spirit I am.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
I'm not hiding the truth, or spreading falsehoods.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
It's just that everything Oberon the Faerie King says becomes something that was never worth believing.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
It doesn't matter if I speak the truth or not.[sr]Once I say it, it becomes a lie.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You and I are opposites in that regard, Aurora. Everything you say becomes true.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
No matter what dark feelings you harbor, or how falsely you present yourself...
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
...the moment you say something, everyone[line 2]faeries, humans, even you yourself[line 2]takes it as the gospel truth.
[k]
＠Aurora
Teehee. You're so silly, Oberon.[sr]I never know what it is you're talking about.
[k]
＠Aurora
Are you...calling me a liar?[sr]As in, it takes a liar to know a liar?
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
Not at all. You're not even aware you're lying, right?
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
You're both an aggressor and an innocent bystander. That's how you've survived this long.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
The very idea that you're Britain's most beautiful faerie is ridiculous.
[k]
＠Insect on the Desk
No, what you are...is Britain's most innocent usurper.
[k]
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＠Aurora
Ahh, he really was adorable. I should have caught and killed him when I had the chance.
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[lr]To be the most beautiful faerie in Britain.[sr]To be the faerie who shone brightest of all.
[k]
＠
That was her only purpose. She spent every minute of her three thousand years being exactly that.
[k]
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For her, lying and scheming weren't crimes.[sr]They were just the cost of being her.
[k]
＠
She had no concept of evil, or of good.[sr]She only ever thought of ways to keep shining.
[k]
＠
That said...
[k]
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＠Aurora
...There was one time...
[k]
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[lr]Just one time she did something that wasn't solely for her own benefit.
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＠
It was in the Lake District during Era of the High Queen 1600, when she went to inspect the Mirror clan's town along with her ladies-in-waiting.
[k]
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There, she found a strange creature in a dark bog.
[k]
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It was a writhing mass of flesh[line 2]a thing even fouler than its putrid surroundings.
[k]
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＠Aurora
Oh my...
[k]
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[lr]It was all a calculated act.[sr]A way for her to show off to her servants.
[k]
＠
Just imagine it: Britain's most beautiful faerie helping Britain's most grotesque creature.
[k]
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A ploy to spread the word about what a wonderful, selfless faerie she must be to do such a thing.
[k]
＠Aurora
My name is Aurora. What's yours?
[k]
＠Dragon Corpse
...[sr]...
[k]
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[lr]What she hadn't expected was for the mass of flesh she cradled in her arms to begin weeping like a person.
[k]
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She had never before seen tears so sad, so utterly genuine.
[k]
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Never before had she been so moved by her own actions, rather than the envy she so enjoyed them creating.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...Honestly, I never wanted to touch that thing.
[k]
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[lr]“I want to be like you.” That was what the mass of flesh said before transforming into a beautiful faerie.
[k]
＠
Though Aurora's youth was eternal,[sr]she still suffered from decline.
[k]
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Her wings had continued to lose their luster ever since the Era of the High Queen began, and her natural shine would grow dim without a steady supply of new and unusual delights.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...(Sigh) And yet, that girl...
[k]
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[lr]She was stronger than anything. More beautiful than anyone. She never declined, even in the smallest way.
[k]
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She didn't need to be innocent so she would never realize what a monster she was.
[k]
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＠Aurora
You see? There she is right now.
[k]
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[lr]A dragon faerie soaring nobly through the sky.[sr]How irritating. How contemptible. How revolting.
[k]
＠
Aurora was stuck on the ground covered in dirt and grime, while the dragon faerie shone more beautifully than anyone.
[k]
＠Aurora
...Foolish girl. If you...kill me...
[k]
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＠
[lr]The dragon faerie would return to being no more than a mass of flesh.
[k]
＠
Aurora would never come to love the dragon. She was so certain she would never return its affection.
[k]
＠
She wanted nothing more than for the dragon to suffer, continually despondent at never hearing that simple statement of genuine affection she so craved.
[k]
＠
It was that longing, that despair,[sr]that made the dragon the faerie she was.
[k]
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That's why it benefited the dragon to continue protecting Aurora, the source of her suffering.
[k]
＠
But it hadn't been her own benefit that the dragon killed Aurora. It had been for Aurora's.
[k]
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＠Aurora
Yes, that's right. I'm not afraid to die.
[k]
＠Aurora
What I fear is losing my radiance...having my colors fade and no longer being special.
[k]
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＠Aurora
That's why...
[k]
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[lr]Even though the dragon knew that doing so would turn her back into the hideous mass of flesh she used to be, she still chose to kill her...
[k]
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Aurora, the miracle that saved her, and the one she loved more than anything else in the world.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...What an utterly loathsome creature.[sr]Fine. I'm glad to finally be free of it.
[k]
＠Aurora
You see, Oberon? Idiocy like that is the stuff of true innocence.
[k]
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[lr]She had only cradled that mass of flesh to show off what a good person she was. It reflected her inner ugliness as clearly as a lake.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...Go away. Go away.
[k]
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[lr]But the creature born from that hideous mass was truly beautiful.
[k]
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Aurora realized she had done something good for the first time in her life, and smiled.
[k]
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＠Aurora
...Higher. Higher.
[k]
＠Aurora
...As high as you...possibly can...
[k]
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[lr]And so, gazing upwards with childlike innocence as the dragon corpse scattered like dust in the wind...
[k]
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...Aurora faded away, and her radiance finally faded.
[k]
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？1：There! There's the exit!
？！
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＠Goredolf
Y-yes, I see it too![bgm BGM_EVENT_63 0.1][sr]But why in the world did Albion do that!?
[k]
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＠Nemo
We can worry about that later![sr]Da Vinci! What's our distance to the target!?
[k]
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＠[51ffff]Da Vinci[-]
[51ffff]We're eight hundred kilometers away from the rift![-][sr][51ffff]It's farther than it looks, but we can totally make[-][sr][51ffff]it! Captain![-]
[k]
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＠Nemo
Everyone, hold on to whatever you can! Meunière! Maximum power! Forget all the safeties and just get us out of here!
[k]
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＠Meunière
Aye, aye, Captain! Full speed ahead!
[k]
＠Meunière
I'll punch it all the way to the sun if I have to!
[k]
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[lr]Oberon was falling.
[k]
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He kept falling down the bottomless void,[sr]along an endless shaft.
[k]
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He had no strength left to fly. No, actually...
[k]
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＠Oberon Vortigern
The wings on my back are just for show.[sr]I could never fly, stupid.
[k]
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[lr]He smiled a hateful smile. He was truly enjoying himself.
[k]
＠
He may have been defeated, but he'd still accomplished his goal.
[k]
＠
His only regret was that he hadn't been able to take Chaldea down with him.
[k]
＠Oberon Vortigern
Go on, get out of here! It'll be a relief not to have to see your damn faces anymore!
[k]
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＠
[lr]Further. Further.
[k]
＠
The foreign mage, the other Child of Prophecy...the companions he had spent his long journey with flew further into the distant sky.
[k]
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＠
Then, after Oberon the Liar had hatefully seen them off...
[k]
＠Oberon Vortigern
Oh well, who cares? What matters is that I killed Britain, just like I wanted.
[k]
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＠Oberon Vortigern
...Although...
[k]
＠Oberon Vortigern
I'm sorry, Titania. My fictional queen, who loved me in all my twisted ways.
[k]
＠Oberon Vortigern
I'm sorry I couldn't get rid of those Proper Human History bastards for you.
[k]
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[lr]Titania. One who was created for a single purpose, then discarded the moment it had been served.
[k]
＠
The sacrificial love of his life who could only exist within a story.
[k]
＠
...Maybe he'd already met someone similar to her.
[k]
＠
But even if he had, Oberon the Liar would never be able to believe it.
[k]
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＠Oberon Vortigern
You know, it's weird. Even though I got the ever-living shit kicked out of me...
[k]
＠Oberon Vortigern
I still feel strangely at peace.
[k]
＠
[lr]The hole in the abyss disappeared as he continued his endless fall.
[k]
＠
There...
[k]
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＠Oberon Vortigern
Hmph. So that's Proper Human History's sky, huh.
[k]
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＠Oberon Vortigern
Dammit. It's so beautiful it makes me sick.
[k]
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＠
[lr]The infinite hollow sealed itself as the Abyssal Worm fell on, a destination forever beyond his reach.
