＄02-00-02-16-3-0
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[charaSet A 98113900 1 Fergus]
[charaSet B 1026001 1 d'Eon]
[charaSet C 99502600 1 Mash]
[charaSet D 5030001 1 Scheherazade]
[charaSet E 98111500 1 "Da Vinci"]
[charaSet F 4004001 1 Astolfo]
[charaSet G 98115300 1 Holmes]
[charaSet H 98115600 1 "Demon God Phenex"]

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＠Fergus
Ghh... It looks like this is it. But...if I just disappeared now, I truly would be pathetic.
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＠Fergus
Hup![sr]Hn[se ad180][charaMove A 0,-20 2.0]ghhh...!
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＠d'Eon
Fergus, your wound is too deep![sr]Stay down!
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＠Fergus
No...it's okay. Young and weak as I am, I knew there was no way to escape grievous injury while trying to battle a Demon God Pillar.
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＠Fergus
But this time, my experience won out. Thanks to the training I've undergone in Agartha, I WAS able to escape with my life, though only barely.
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＠Fergus
That said, I don't have much time.[sr]So before I go...I'd like to talk to Scheherazade.
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＠Mash
B-but, your Spirit Origin is just barely holding together. And besides, nothing you do about her will help to stop Laputa!
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？1：I think he's got something in mind.
？2：I'll admit I'm worried, but...go for it!
？！

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＠Scheherazade
The young, wounded warrior. The powerless, hapless, half-baked child, who never truly had a role to play in this story.
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＠Scheherazade
You can't stop this. You simply cannot.
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＠Scheherazade
Even if you sully your innocent hands by ending my life now...
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＠Scheherazade
Laputa will not be erased!
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＠Fergus
You're wrong, Scheherazade.[sr]What I'm going to erase...is your fear of death.
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＠Scheherazade
...?
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＠Fergus
You ARE a strong woman. You may have had the Demon God Pillar's help, but you still planned, constructed, and created this story.
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＠Fergus
More than that, you never gave us the slightest hint that it was you, even though we were right by your side. You are nothing if not resilient.
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＠Fergus
And not just you.[sr]Every woman we met here in Agartha was strong.
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＠Fergus
Dahut. Wu Zetian. Penthesilea. The pirates of Ys, the subjects of the Nightless City, the Amazons of[sr]El Dorado...
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＠Fergus
They were all strong, in their own ways. Thanks to that,[sr]I see now just how narrow-minded I used to be.
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＠Fergus
How foolish it was to think that women were nothing but chaste, dainty creatures that were only fit for sewing. That they could never be valiant opponents against whom to draw my sword.
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＠Scheherazade
...What is your point?
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＠Scheherazade
Are you saying that, now that you know how strong women are, you're ready to kill one yourself?
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＠Scheherazade
I told you. Even if you kill me[line 2]
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＠Fergus
No, it's not that. My point is that I believe I eventually realized that when I was alive as well.
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＠Fergus
That version of me met, saw, spoke to, and did battle with strong women. I can even remember some names, though only faintly.
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＠Fergus
Medb of Connacht. Scáthach, the queen of the Land of Shadows. Aífe, ferocious as a wild dog.
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＠Fergus
Deirdre, who fiercely fought her awful fate.[sr]Ness, who offered up her body so her child could be king.
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＠Fergus
No doubt I met these women after I was fully-formed.
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＠Fergus
But even before I met them, there must have been other, similarly strong women as well.
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＠Fergus
That's what caused me to realize how men and women ought to be.
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＠Scheherazade
I...don't understand what you're talking about.[sr]There's no point in bringing up your past.
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＠Fergus
Yes, there is.
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＠Fergus
If I'm going to stop you, I need to tell you about myself. About how greedy I was.
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＠Astolfo
Greedy...? Really? You've been all stoic and earnest, and a real nut for training all this time!
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＠Fergus
I mean that I was greedy for a king.
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＠Fergus
I wanted it all, so I had no choice but to train.[sr]It was a sign of my desire, and my anxiety.
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＠Fergus
It's the same with my greed.
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＠Fergus
Mash, do you remember what you told me before?
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＠Fergus
You said that no matter what else may happen, as long as you remain yourself...you'll become who you're meant to be.
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＠Mash
I did? I... Yes. Maybe I did.
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＠Fergus
That's exactly what I'm talking about. In the same way that I came to realize how strong women are...
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＠Fergus
...the time I spent here in Agartha merely let me experience things I would eventually learn anyway.
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＠Fergus
Some women loved to plunder, some were bound by social norms, and some simply obeyed their leader.
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＠Fergus
What's more, every one of them lived happily in their own way. They all had strong points and shortcomings.
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＠Fergus
I'm a simple man at heart, so I wanted to resolve that complexity. I wanted to know if it was possible to lead a nation in a way that everyone could accept.
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＠Fergus
As I said before, I'm greedy.[sr]I couldn't stand the idea of everyone not being happy.
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＠Fergus
So as I learned more about Agartha, I kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking...
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＠Fergus
And in the end, I realized something I should have known all along.
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？1：What's that?
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＠Fergus
Haha. The truth is...hahahahaha!
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＠Fergus
[f large]I'm not cut out to be a king!
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＠Scheherazade
Huh...?[sr][messageShake 0.01 5 5 0.3]After all that buildup...THAT is all you wanted to say!?
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＠Fergus
Of course not.[sr]There's more to it than that.
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＠Fergus
To make a long story short, I realized this morning that I don't measure up.
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＠Fergus
To put it bluntly, I just don't have what it takes to be a king.
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＠Fergus
You all saw that much sooner than I did, but I finally see it for myself now. Thank you all for being kind enough not to say anything.
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？1：Uh, sure... No problem...
？2：(Do your best to stay quiet with a straight face.)

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＠Fergus
I never did become a king.[sr]Or rather, I didn't stay one for very long.
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＠Da Vinci
True. According to legend, you agreed to step down from the throne for a year and pass it on to your lover's child from a previous marriage.
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＠Da Vinci
But after the year had passed, your subjects still wanted your lover's child to continue ruling.
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＠Da Vinci
So you gracefully stepped aside and became a mere warrior...or so the legend goes.
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＠Fergus
Haha. Gracefully, huh... That's a nice way to put it, but I doubt I had any other choice. By that time, I'm sure I had already realized what I know now.
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＠Fergus
That I didn't have what it takes to be a king. That I was so greedy, it would be wrong of me to pursue that greed from the throne...
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＠Fergus
...and that fulfilling it as an ordinary man was the right thing to do.
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＠Fergus
In other words, I learned that I was only really suited for cherishing the things I love.
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＠Astolfo
And what're those?
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＠Fergus
Fighting and women, of course.
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＠Mash
(Senpai, Senpai. He's starting to sound more like the usual Fergus!)
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？1：(I know, Mash. But let's not bring that up now.)

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＠Fergus
Incidentally, Da Vinci had it backwards.
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＠Fergus
I gave Conchobar the throne so that I could take Ness as my lover.
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＠Fergus
Essentially, I sold my crown all because I wanted a woman's body. Pretty despicable of me, isn't[line 2]
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＠Scheherazade
Once again...where are you going with this!?[sr]I've never heard such an incoherent story in my life!
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＠Fergus
Really? I was hoping you would give me some leeway on that, since I'm a warrior rather than a storyteller... But, all right. I'll get to the point.
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＠Fergus
Basically, I learned about the strength that women possess.
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＠Fergus
I learned that they are our equals, and in many ways rivals, and are worth devoting my life to pursuing.
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＠Fergus
...What about you, Scheherazade?
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＠Scheherazade
...What do you mean?
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＠Fergus
Let me ask you about Agartha. You created it so that women would be the dominant gender.
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＠Fergus
Why?
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＠Scheherazade
I already told you.[sr]I used Columbus's desire as the base for[line 2]
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＠Fergus
Are you sure about that?
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＠Fergus
Columbus's desire was to get rich by selling slaves. There was no reason those slaves had to be women.
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＠Fergus
As far as he was concerned, the fact that Agartha was full of women was simply icing on the cake.
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＠Fergus
He would have been perfectly happy, and acted the same even if it had been dominated by men.
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＠Fergus
If you had made this world in line with his desire, it could have just as easily been a world ruled by oppressive kings rather than queens.
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＠Fergus
But instead, you went out of your way to make it ruled by women. Why?
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＠Scheherazade
I... I'm not...
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＠Fergus
I see. So you did it unconsciously, without understanding why. My guess is...
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＠Fergus
You did that because you inherently fear men.[sr]You see them as being inextricably linked with death.
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＠Scheherazade
...?
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＠Fergus
That's why you wanted to keep them under control, and had them treated as livestock rather than people.
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＠Fergus
...Based on what you told us before, it was clearly that king who instilled this fear in you.
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＠Fergus
He was truly a terrible person, making you endure such torment for a thousand nights. He was not fit to be a king, just as I, though for different reasons.
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＠Scheherazade
Be that as it may... What does it matter?
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＠Fergus
That's why I have to tell you that you're wrong!
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＠Fergus
Now that I've realized the connection between me, the Fergus mac Róich who wanted to be a good king...
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＠Fergus
...and the Fergus mac Róich who knows how men and women ought to be...
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＠Fergus
I have to make sure you understand the truth I've grasped.
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＠Scheherazade
...
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＠Mash
... (Gulp)
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？1：...(A Celtic truth...?)
？2：...(Please, let it be something reasonable!)
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＠Fergus
[f large]You need men AND women!
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＠Fergus
[f large]To make children!
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＠Astolfo
Bwa?
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＠d'Eon
...
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＠Da Vinci
... (Whistle)
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＠Mash
...
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＠Holmes
A very sound conclusion.[sr]What a profoundly mundane truism.
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＠Scheherazade
Wh-what are you talking about?[sr]That's just common sense...
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＠Fergus
Yes, it is.[sr]And yet, you don't seem to grasp it.
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＠Fergus
Yes, men can, and do, bring about death.[sr]But it's ridiculous to think of them in only that way.
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＠Fergus
There is a much more important role that men and women both share.
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＠Fergus
It's something you should be thinking about long before you think about dying or being killed!
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＠Scheherazade
No, I don't get it... I don't understand.
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＠Scheherazade
To begin with, how I think about death, or men, is none of your business.
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＠Scheherazade
And even if you do erase my fear of death, there is still nothing you can do to stop Laputa!
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＠Fergus
That's[line 2]
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＠G：???
Indeed. Laputa will not stop. It will only continue on its path towards the destruction of fantasy.
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＠Mash
...?
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