$94-06-49-13-1-0 [enableFullScreen] [soundStopAll] [charaSet A 1098126500 1 Yaga] [charaSet B 1098158510 1 Giant_NoSticker] [charaSet C 1098215000 1 "Tiger Tank"] [charaSet D 1098167600 1 Kali] [charaSet E 1098228200 1 Cerberus] [charaSet F 1098210410 1 Mors] [charaSet T 98115000 1 Effect] [sceneSet U 126400 1] [scene 10000] [cameraMove 0.1 30,-10 1.2] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 0.1] @ At first... [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 0.1] [wait fade] [scene 128300] [wt 0.5] [se ad782] [cueSe NoblePhantasm_404200 NP_404200_9] [se ad242] [seVolume ad242 0 0.1] [seVolume ad242 0.5 1.0] [wt 0.5] [se ad828] [seVolume ad828 0 0.1] [seVolume ad828 1.0 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [cameraHome 3.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [seStop ad242 2.5] [seStop ad828 2.5] [wt 1.5] @ At first, there was light. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Then, heat. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Then, the impact. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ And finally, sound. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ The prayers of all the animals that lived in the Tunguska woods, and the enormous roar of the sudden death that had been engraved upon their souls... [k] @ ...all mixed with the great airburst of the meteor that had fallen from space. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Diffusion and condensation. Implosion. Traces of impurity that bent and distorted the fabric of space-time. [k] @ That was how this Beast came into being. [k] @ Its origins had no connection to either legend or history. [k] @ It was the product of disaster, nature, and prayers agonizingly screamed into the void. [k] @ A nature spirit who had nothing to do with humanity despite possessing a natural Spirit Origin. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 126900] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.5] @ The disaster that befell this land also gave rise to a new life. [k] @ Amid the flames, the newborn creature smiled wickedly in its hideous body. Its Spirit Origin, formed from screams and suffering, felt...comfortable. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 126700] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.5] @ They're the same. Annihilation by natural disaster, and annihilation by pillaging, they're both the same. [k] @ ...The beast was born smiling in delight. It couldn't help just how much it enjoyed itself. [k] @ The cries of the animals as they were slaughtered by human hands were like rain washing dirt off its body. [k] @ Humans didn't keep their promises. Ever. [k] @ Animals always understood, even from birth, that they had to kill to survive, and use whatever they killed to improve their lives. [k] @ It was all in service of improving on what came before. [k] @ Such was the order of the natural world. The species that lasted the longest made use of the most lives. [k] @ But humans forgot that promise. They forgot their responsibilities. [k] @ They lived alongside animals, but not for the prosperity of their species. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 126800] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.5] @??? Then why? [k] @ [lr]Why was the ground drenched in blood? Why had so many species gone extinct? [k] @ There was no answer. Of course there wasn't. Humans never had a purpose for doing what they did. [k] @ The Beast felt no anger. No grief. Its very Spirit Origin was born from a natural disaster. [k] @ It would side with neither humans nor animals. [k] @ But it was troubled by the unpleasant sense that something did not add up. [k] @ Coexisting for happiness, not to flourish. [k] @ Raising animals to share in their joy, rather than to protect them. [k] @ Affection and taming. As animals, that love was inherently contradictory. [k] @ In the natural world, love is what those who raise children feel. [k] @ But the idea of raising something solely for the joy of it was alien to the Beast...to me. [k] @ And yet. [k] [messageOff] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_75 2.0] [fadeout black 1.0] [wait fade] [scene 10000] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_MAP_10 0.1] @ “You who wounded the earth. The only being to be born from the ashes of all those deaths.” [k] @ “Cursed Beast.” [k] @ “I doubt many will celebrate your birth.” [k] @ “Still...” [k] @ “You should at least have a name.” [k] @ “Yaskaya.” [k] [messageOff] [wt 1.4] @ It felt like someone had given me a name...or maybe I'd simply named myself. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Yas...kaya... [k] @ Yans...kaya? [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Koyanskaya. Koyanskaya. [k] @ Koyanskaya... [k] @ That was when I understood. These feelings I had were evil. [k] @ They went against natural law. No living thing should have these feelings. [k] @ Not even the beings they call gods could control feelings like these. [k] @ These feelings must warp every living thing born on this planet. [k] @ Like a human who's killed by the animals they love. [k] @ Like a god who's rejected by the humans they love. [k] @??? ...I see. Then I'll take that form. [k] [messageOff] [wt 1.2] @ [lr]When the fourth position opened up in 2019, I was incarnated as their replacement. [k] @ If affection[line 2]taming[line 2]was evil, then I would follow those laws to the letter, evil creature that I am. [k] @ I would take over for the god who was once denied that same love. [k] @ I was born without a father...without a mother. [k] @ Lacking a father to inherit anything from, and a mother to be born from, I came into existence as a singular being. [k] @ Why? [k] @ ...Why else? To learn about a mother's love[line 2]true love. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ And yet, I had no mate. I was the only one of my kind on this entire planet. [k] @ So... [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ ...I decided to take in children. [k] @ I visited several Lostbelts[line 2]hypothetical worlds[line 2]and I collected monstrous children...children that would suit a monster like myself. [k] @ The children I took in were incorporated into my tails, where they gave up their souls and their DNA. [k] @ Of course, they didn't do this by choice. They simply mimicked the story of this Spirit Origin. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_MAP_10 1.5] [wait fade] [effect bit_sepia01_depth_fs] [scene 101900] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 0.1] @ “The nine-tailed fox birthed countless creatures from its tails. That is how the monsters of Japan were born.” [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ It was the legend of another Beast, just like me. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 126100] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] @ The Fair-faced Golden Fox. The nine-tailed Beast. [k] @ I decided to follow its example. I would obtain nine tails, and through them, nine children. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 126500] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] @ But I didn't want just any creatures for my children. I would never accept animals from a world humans control. [k] @ As a being who refused anything to do with humanity[line 2]who refused to accept humanity at all... [k] @ ...I knew that my children would have to be creatures that didn't exist in human history. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ Hence, the Lostbelts. [k] @ Worlds far removed from humanity...dead even as they lived. [k] @ Such monsters as could only survive in worlds like that would be my perfect children. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 54100] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [charaShake A 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.2] [charaDepth T 9] [charaDepth A 1] [charaEffect T bit_talk_35] [se ad161] [charaShake A 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.6] [charaMove A 0,-60 0.4] [charaFadeout A 0.4] [wt 0.2] [se ad144] [wt 0.6] @ ...My first. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 61400] [cameraMove 0.1 0,0 1.01] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 0] [charaFadein B 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [charaShake B 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.2] [charaDepth T 9] [charaDepth B 1] [charaEffect T bit_talk_35] [se ad161] [charaShake B 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.6] [charaMove B 0,-60 0.4] [charaFadeout B 0.4] [wt 0.2] [shake 0.05 3 3 1.0] [se ade311] [wt 1.4] @ ...My second. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 65500] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 0] [charaFadein C 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [seVolume ad1051 0 0.6] [cueSe Servants_102800 bac658] [seVolume bac658 0 0.9] [charaShake C 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.2] [charaEffect C bit_talk_explosion] [se ad609] [wt 0.5] [charaFadeout C 0.4] [wt 2.0] @ ...My third. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 74901] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadein D 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [charaShake D 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.2] [charaDepth T 9] [charaDepth D 1] [charaEffect T bit_talk_35] [se ad161] [charaShake D 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.6] [charaMove D 0,-60 0.4] [charaFadeout D 0.4] [wt 0.2] [se ad144] [wt 0.6] @ ...My fourth. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 84800] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 0] [charaFadein E 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [charaShake E 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.2] [charaDepth T 9] [charaDepth E 1] [charaEffect T bit_talk_35] [se ad161] [charaShake E 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.6] [charaMove E 0,-60 0.4] [charaFadeout E 0.4] [wt 0.2] [shake 0.05 3 3 1.0] [se ade311] [wt 1.4] @ ...My fifth. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [scene 117400] [cameraMove 0.1 0,0 1.0] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [charaTalk F] [charaFace F 0] [charaFadein F 0.4 0,-50] [wt 1.0] [effect bit_talk_claw_red02] [se ad1051] [charaShake F 0.05 3 3 0.7] [wt 1.4] [se ad42] [effect bit_talk_atomization] [charaSpecialEffect F erasure 1 1.2] [wt 3.2] @ ...My sixth. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [charaScale U 1.5] [charaFadein U 0.1 100,-400] [effectStop bit_sepia01_depth_fs] [scene 126400] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [charaMove U -100,-200 40.0] [bgm BGM_MAP_36 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] @ I used the information I absorbed from them as a base to make all sorts of new lives. [k] @ Before I knew it, I'd made a forest and rivers. [k] @ I'd created a place where humans could never harm its inhabitants, a world where humans would never be born. [k] @ No creatures would need self-awareness. No will of their own. [k] @ In a dog-eat-dog world, amid an endlessly repeating cycle of life... [k] @ ...these animals would live, and die, and live, and die, with nothing to get in their way. [k] [messageOff] [wt 1.4] @ And then, one day... [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] @ I would[line 2] [k] [messageOff] [wt 1.0] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_MAP_36 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]