$94-06-49-11-3-0 [soundStopAll] [enableFullScreen] [charaSet A 98001000 1 Mash_Uniform] [charaSet B 4043001 1 "Taigong Wang"] [charaSet C 98002000 1 Fou] [charaSet D 1098124510 1 "Da Vinci"] [charaSet E 1098123200 1 Goredolf] [charaSet F 4044001 1 Nikitich] [charaSet G 1098123000 1 Meunière] [charaSet H 1046001 1 Ibuki-Douji] [charaSet T 1098120900 1 Static] [charaPut T 2000,2000] [charaEffect T bit_talk_10_LowLevel] [scene 142000] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_77 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang Man, that sure was embarrassing, huh!? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 0] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] [se adm21] [charaMoveReturn C 0,15 0.4] @Fou Fou, fooou! [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang After all my big talk about how I would handle her myself, my Anti-Beast Noble Phantasm did nothing. [k] [se ad7] [seVolume ad7 0 0.6] [charaMove B 0,-6 0.2] @Taigong Wang I[messageShake 0.05 5 5 0.3]'m sorry! [k] ?1:It's okay, Taigong Wang. Chin up. @Taigong Wang ...I'm so sorry. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 12] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] @[51ffff]Da Vinci[-] [51ffff]Now, now. I won't say I know how you must feel,[-][sr][51ffff]but you don't need to take sole responsibility.[-] [k] [charaFace D 7] @[51ffff]Da Vinci[-] [51ffff]Besides, the only reason we're still here and able to[-][sr][51ffff]talk about this at all is your earth evasion spell.[-] [k] [charaFace D 0] ?2:Cheer up. We never would've made it out of there alive if it wasn't for you! [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 7] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Mash Master is right. [k] @Mash None of us would be here right now if it wasn't for your earth evasion spell. [k] [charaFace A 13] @Mash So please don't be so hard on yourself, Taigong Wang. We're all grateful for your help. [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ?! @[51ffff]Da Vinci[-] [51ffff]Besides, I was really hoping to avoid any further[-][sr][51ffff]fighting back there, anyway. You did great, Taigong[-][sr][51ffff]Wang.[-] [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1200,1200] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 10] [charaFadein E 0.1 1] @Goredolf Indeed. It was a bad matchup, that's all. And who can blame you, since it's Koyanskaya we're dealing with here? [k] @Goredolf You're the reason we didn't suffer any casualties, or any damage to the Shadow Border...not to mention that we survived to have this conversation in the first place. [k] [charaFace E 11] @Goredolf So do cheer up, my good man. As far as I'm concerned, you're every bit the Taoist I thought you were. [k] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 0] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] @Fou Fou fou. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk F] [charaFace F 0] [charaFadein F 0.1 1] @Nikitich Well that's good news for you, huh, Taigong Wang? [k] [charaFace F 14] @Nikitich They definitely wouldn't have let you get away with a failure that colossal in Kiev, that's for sure! Ahahaha! [k] @Nikitich If you were a Bogatyr, you'd be dead from sheer mortification in the Sun Prince's court! [k] [charaFace F 9] @Nikitich Good thing you're not, huh!? [k] [charaFadeout F 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang ...A-ahaha. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk G] [charaFace G 3] [charaFadein G 0.1 1] @Meunière Ouch... [k] [charaFadeout G 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk H] [charaFace H 0] [charaFadein H 0.1 1] @Ibuki-Douji Are you throwing a pity party for yourself, Taigong Wang? Is that it? [k] [charaFadeout H 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang ...[sr]... [k] [charaFace B 5] @Taigong Wang ...Ahem. [k] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_77 2.0] @Taigong Wang I know my credibility is in the gutter, but there's no sense in dwelling on my many mistakes at this point. [k] @Taigong Wang What's more, it's thanks to my grievous errors in judgment that I can now say something with new clarity. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 23] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] @[51ffff]Da Vinci[-] [51ffff]What's that?[-] [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1200,1200] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 5] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang It's about her. Koyanskaya. [k] [messageOff] [charaFace B 4] [wt 1.0] [charaFace B 5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_70 0.1] @Taigong Wang Fair-faced Golden Fox. The millennium fox spirit known as Daji who brought disaster and calamity to China three thousand years ago... [k] @Taigong Wang ...ushering in the end of the Shang dynasty as a Beast, an Evil of Humanity. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 10] [charaFadein E 0.1 1] @Goredolf Some also say she's one of the major figures behind Tamamo-no-Mae, one of the three great monsters of Japan. [k] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 12] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] @Mash R-right. Although Tamamo-no-Mae continues to deny that... [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 12] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] @[51ffff]Da Vinci[-] [51ffff]Eh, why don't we just leave Tamamo-no-Mae out of this,[-][sr][51ffff]huh? Things are complicated enough already![-] [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaPut T 2000,2000] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 1] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang Thank you. [k] [charaFace B 5] @Taigong Wang Up to this point, my hypothesis was that the being you call Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya... [k] @Taigong Wang ...was actually Daji, now transformed into a Heroic Spirit after her death. [k] @Taigong Wang That is the assumption under which I materialized and prepared my special Anti-Beast Noble Phantasm. [k] [charaFace B 4] @Taigong Wang However... [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk F] [charaFace F 1] [charaFadein F 0.1 1] @Nikitich Your second Noble Phantasm had some effect on her, but your first didn't work at all! [k] [charaFadeout F 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 5] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang The first was supposed to hit her on the inside, and the second was supposed to hit her on the outside. [k] @Taigong Wang But, the second was the only one that worked. And at less than ten percent of the effect I originally envisioned, to boot. [k] ?1:So, the Noble Phantasms you created with Daji's shadow in mind... ?! [messageOff] [wt 0.2] ?1:...had no effect whatsoever on her inside... ?2:...only had limited effect on her outside... ?! [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 6] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] [wt 0.7] [charaFace A 7] @Mash Then, that must mean[line 2] [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 5] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] @Taigong Wang Indeed. [k] @Taigong Wang My second Noble Phantasm had some effect on Koyanskaya thanks to her resemblance to Daji, but since the resemblance was only surface-level, my first had no effect at all. [k] @Taigong Wang That, in turn, can only mean... [k] [messageOff] [charaMoveReturn B 0,-5 0.7] [wt 1.2] @Taigong Wang ...the Beast we face is not, in fact, Daji's shadow. [k] @Taigong Wang Although Koyanskaya does look a lot like her, they actually have no connection whatsoever. [k] @Taigong Wang They are completely separate beings. [k] [messageOff] [wt 1.0] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_70 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]