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＠Resistance Man A
Aaahhh! W-we're flying...[sr]We're actually flying!
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＠Resistance Man B
H-how is this happening!?
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＠d'Eon
I had forgotten they were still here.[sr]This is bad! They're starting to panic!
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＠Astolfo
Umm... Hey![sr]I've got a job for you guys!
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＠Resistance Men
...Huh?
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＠Astolfo
Real simple: get outta here! Find as many of the men imprisoned here as you can, and round 'em all up.
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＠Astolfo
Once you've done that, I want you to meet us back by the boats we used to get here.
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＠Astolfo
Oh, and don't worry 'bout the Amazons! They should be busy zoning out like zombies. You could even steal their horses if you wanted!
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＠Astolfo
Now go on, hurry it up!
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＠Resistance Men
O-okay... We're on it!
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＠d'Eon
...Well done. That was an excellent idea, giving them a job so they wouldn't have time to panic.
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＠Astolfo
Heh heh! People are always telling me I'm the sort who comes through when things get REAL bad!
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＠Astolfo
Besides, we were gonna have to do something about the men still imprisoned here at some point anyway.
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＠Astolfo
All the more so now that we literally have liftoff.
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＠d'Eon
Indeed. Not to mention that this area is likely to become even more dangerous. It would certainly be best not to have ordinary humans close at hand.
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＠d'Eon
Now then...
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＠Holmes
Now that our spectators have left for the time being,[sr]Ms. Scheherazade, allow me to ask you a question.
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＠Holmes
Where exactly do you intend to have this place plummet?
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＠Scheherazade
Nowhere in particular.[sr]Any heavily populated city will do.
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＠Mash
Oh no...it's starting to shift horizontally, too!
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＠Mash
It's definitely setting a course for somewhere!
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＠Da Vinci
Then we need to act, and quickly.
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＠Da Vinci
At least right now, we're still above the relatively uninhabited Nepalese mountains...but there's still got to be at least some people seeing this.
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＠Da Vinci
These last few minutes alone are going to be a nightmare for the Mage's Association of this time period to clean up.
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＠Da Vinci
And if that weren't enough, you're also going to drop this huge landmass on a heavily populated city?
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＠Da Vinci
This is a disaster.[sr]It would be a catastrophe like we've never seen before.
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？1：Hundreds... Thousands of people would die!
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＠Da Vinci
I'm afraid it could be orders of magnitude greater than that. To make matters worse, the damage won't be limited to the physical realm.
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＠Da Vinci
We're still experiencing the aftereffects of the Goetia mess, so the world hasn't completely stabilized yet.
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＠Da Vinci
There's no telling what sort of chaos this could unleash!
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＠Scheherazade
That is exactly the point. There is a reason why I'm going to have a fictional city destroy a real one.
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＠Scheherazade
By doing so...I will destroy the concept of mystical secrets.
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＠d'Eon
Wha...!?
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＠Scheherazade
Once Laputa plummets onto a real city...
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＠Scheherazade
...people everywhere will be forced to accept that a place of fiction is as real as the place it destroyed, and the people it killed.
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＠Scheherazade
Once that happens, it will change the world.
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＠Scheherazade
Everyone will know that mystical beings exist, and in consequence, everyone will attempt to learn their secrets for themselves.
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＠Scheherazade
Eventually, the mystical may become an ordinary part of everyone's lives.
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＠Mash
Wait! If that actually happened, then...!
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＠Scheherazade
Indeed... Once Mystics become available to all, they will cease to be Mystics in the first place!
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＠Scheherazade
That is the future I wish to bring about.
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＠Scheherazade
A world where Mystics lose all substance and power, so the Servant Summoning System becomes obsolete.
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＠Astolfo
Huh!?
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＠Scheherazade
Otherwise...I'll have to die again and again.[sr]I'll have to constantly live in fear of death.
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＠Scheherazade
I'll never be able to escape the insidiousness of knowing my death is assured whenever I am summoned.
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＠Fergus
...You would go so far, just to avoid death?
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＠Scheherazade
Can't you understand how I feel?
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＠Fergus
No, I can't. Your fear of death is far out of proportion for any living creature.
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＠Fergus
If it isn't death you fear, but the idea of yourself dying...then something has gone wrong in your life.
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＠Fergus
...Let me share now what I held back that night: our perspectives on death couldn't be more different.
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＠Fergus
I am a warrior. From the day I was born, I have been taught that to die is an honor.
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＠Fergus
The only aspect of death we fear is that we might die having violated our pride or geis, not death itself.
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＠Fergus
Death is inevitable for all living things.[sr]The path you take to death IS your life.
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＠Fergus
You should be fighting what led you to fear death to such a degree, not death itself.
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＠Scheherazade
...You surprise me, young Fergus.[sr]You are far more composed than warriors twice your age.
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＠Scheherazade
Your grown-up self must be a wise and kind warrior indeed.
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＠d'Eon
Uh...
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＠Astolfo
Uh...
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？1：Uh...

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＠Mash
I'm right there with all of you, but now is not the time!
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＠Scheherazade
But...I am not that strong.[sr]I never was. For I am not a warrior.
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＠Scheherazade
I simply cannot help but wish to not die.[sr]That is all I think about. All I CAN think about.
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＠Scheherazade
I don't want to be strangled.[sr]I don't want to be cut. I don't want to be flogged.
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＠Scheherazade
I don't want to be burned. I don't want to be stabbed.[sr]I don't want to be starved. I don't want to be shot.
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＠Scheherazade
I don't want to be eaten. I don't want to be crushed.[sr]I don't want to be poisoned.
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＠Scheherazade
There are so many ways to die.
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＠Scheherazade
I don't want to die. I don't want to die, no matter what... That's all I've ever wanted!
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＠Scheherazade
...For me, stories were my lifeline.
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＠Scheherazade
A thin, flimsy lifeline, comprised solely of words I strung together reticently, uncertainly...
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？1：Hang on. In the One Thousand and One Nights...
？2：I thought your motive was much braver than that.
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＠Mash
That's right, Master. I know the story of the One Thousand and One Nights...the Arabian Nights as well.
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＠Mash
In it, there was a king who was taking virgins as wives and killing them the next morning.
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＠Mash
And you volunteered to go and stop him because it was the right thing to do. Didn't you?
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＠Scheherazade
...At first, yes.
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＠Scheherazade
But...do you know what it's like to spend night after night with a deranged king who no longer trusts women?
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＠Scheherazade
The fear that comes with never knowing if the next day will be your last?
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＠Scheherazade
He couldn't be reasoned with or bargained with.[sr]He would simply kill women for no reason at all.
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＠Scheherazade
I could have been killed merely because the wind blew. Or because it rained.
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＠Scheherazade
Anything could have set him off.
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＠Scheherazade
And of course...it was always possible that he would grow tired of my stories, and decide to kill me rather than wait to find out what happens next.
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＠Scheherazade
It was as though I lived with a poisonous insect who could kill me with but a single sting.
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＠Scheherazade
That is why, after some time, all I had left was the desire to not die.
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＠Scheherazade
That was all I had.[sr]I devoted my entire being towards fulfilling it.
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＠Scheherazade
Words. Expressions. Presence. Gaze. Servitude. Demeanor. Opinions. Changes. Worldview. Stories. Pleasure. Temperature. Uselessness. Usefulness. Submissiveness. Stimulation.
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＠Scheherazade
I gave up everything I had, all so I wouldn't have to die.
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＠Scheherazade
And at long last...after one thousand interminable nights, the king finally came to his senses...!
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＠Scheherazade
After all that, when I had lived my one and only life...[sr]I was forced to become a Heroic Spirit!
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＠Scheherazade
After I had been shaped and formed solely by my desire not to die, I went and became a being that is doomed to be repeatedly summoned and always disappear!
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＠Fergus
...Kings are both great in stature, and foolish in mind. Agartha itself has proven as much.
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＠Fergus
A single person attempting to lead a nation will inevitably end in discord.
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＠Fergus
Regardless of whether that discord leads to failure among its people, or failure in the nation itself...
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＠Fergus
I know now that the responsibility for either outcome falls on the king. From the outside, that king will appear foolish, or even tyrannical.
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＠Fergus
No matter how skilled a warrior they are, kings who cannot accept that foolishness will not stay king.
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＠Fergus
...My future self knows that well.
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＠Fergus
Nothing I can say to you could make up for the suffering you endured, spending a thousand nights with such a foolish king.
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＠Fergus
But I can say this:
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＠Fergus
I won't let you destroy the world simply because you don't want to die.
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＠Fergus
We Celtic warriors see the world as a battlefield of honor, and your story contains no hint of honor.
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＠Astolfo
Yeah! Y'know, I don't really get what's goin' on right now...
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＠Astolfo
But I do know I definitely don't want the Servant system going away.
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＠Astolfo
That would mean I'd never get to visit any new places, or meet anyone new...
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＠Astolfo
...or get to send anyone off with a word of encouragement ever again, right? [charaFace D 4]That'd be awful!
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＠Astolfo
I don't want to forget those tears.
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＠d'Eon
I am a Knight of the White Lily, sworn to protect France. Indirect though it may be, I am proud that I can continue to fulfill my duty even in death.
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＠d'Eon
If you wish to remove the means of fulfilling my duty, that makes you an enemy of France, and me.
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？1：Above all...I can't let you cause a catastrophe!
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＠Mash
Well said, Master! If a landmass this size struck the earth, the damage would truly be cataclysmic.
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＠Mash
We absolutely have to prevent that, no matter what.
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＠Mash
...Fearing death, clinging to life, attempting to destroy everything... That much may be the same as the Demon God King's plan.
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＠Mash
But she has nothing beyond that. She has no intention of remaking the planet, nor of starting over...
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＠Mash
All she's doing is trying to destroy the world out of petty personal desire.
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＠Mash
Again, she has nothing beyond that.
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＠Mash
I don't know how much influence the Demon God Pillar has had on her... But this whole idea is twisted.
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＠Mash
She's trying to commit suicide by destroying the world, all so that she'll never have to die again.
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＠Scheherazade
Don't misunderstand me. I would just as soon leave the world out of this if I could.
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＠Scheherazade
That one who summoned me told me that there was one Heroic Spirit who voluntarily disappeared from the Throne of his own accord.
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＠Scheherazade
How I envy him. Things would have been so much easier if only I could do that too...
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？1：...
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＠Mash
...
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＠Da Vinci
(Sigh) ... (You've got it completely backwards. You have no idea what a great and tragic feat it was for him to disappear from the Throne like that.)
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＠Da Vinci
(Whether it's potential they failed to live up to, or tasks they failed to complete, every great person has unfinished business of one kind or another.)
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＠Da Vinci
(Only those who have succeeded at leaving nothing at all behind can fully disappear from this universe.)
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＠Da Vinci
(His soul will never transmigrate. No one will ever tell his stories again. He'll never be needed by anyone for anything. He had no choice but to disappear into the void, and you ENVY him that.)
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＠Mash
You don't need to say anything, Master.[sr]I feel the same way.
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＠Mash
She has no idea the fury she's just incited in all of us.
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＠Mash
...Come on.[sr]Let's show her just how wrongheaded her envy is.
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？1：Okay, Scheherazade. This is REALLY going to hurt.
？2：If he were still here, he'd have a lot to say.

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＠Scheherazade
All I want...is to not die. Nothing more.
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＠Scheherazade
So why...why are you trying to subject me to that again? How could you be so cruel?
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＠Scheherazade
Very well then. I suppose I have to fight, if I don't want to die...
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＠Scheherazade
I doubt you'll let me go no matter how beautiful a dogeza I present.
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＠Scheherazade
...I have nothing against you, [%1].[sr]If anything, I envy you too.
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＠Scheherazade
Out of everyone here, you are the only one...
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＠Scheherazade
...who will never have to die again once you are dead!
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