＄94-00-21-03-1-0

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[charaSet A 8001001 1 Mash]
[charaSet B 98003000 1 "Dr. Roman"]
[charaSet C 98002000 1 Fou]
[charaSet D 6023000 1 "Ryougi Shiki"]
[charaSet E 5014001 1 Mephisto]

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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 1]
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＠Ryougi Shiki
♪♪♪♪♪
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 12]
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＠Mash
Shiki seems to be in a good mood, Senpai...
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＠Mash
Humming all the while, with her hands in her pockets, skipping down the hallway...
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？1：You're not feeling well, Mash?

[charaFace A 3]
＠Mash
N-No. I've fought against numerous walking corpses till now, but not like this... I mean...
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＠Mash
It's the first time I fought against someone who looked like he was alive until yesterday...
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[charaFace A 12]

？2：She looks so happy...

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[charaTalk B]
[communicationCharaLoop 98003003 1 5 0 0]

＠Dr. Roman
I can even tell that from across a monitor. She looks reluctant but she's actually the type who enjoys a good fight, isn't she?
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[communicationCharaClear]
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 12]
[charaFadein A 0.1 1]

？！

＠Mash
However, we can't stay uninformed like this forever.
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＠Mash
To us, it's a strange world, but to Shiki...it's a familiar scene. In that case...
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[charaFace A 7]
＠Mash
...Excuse me, Shiki!
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 0]
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[charaFace A 7]
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Hm? What? If you need the restroom, you'll have to go outside or go inside a room.
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＠Mash
No, that's not it...[sr]This is an apartment, right?
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＠Mash
This place feels cold regardless of the temperature outside. Police officers and residents still walk around despite being dead.
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＠Mash
It's obviously unconventional in modern Japan. In that case, this place must be a magecraft workshop built in secrecy, right?
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[charaFace D 5]
＠Ryougi Shiki
If it were, it wouldn't be quite so bad... Unfortunately, this apartment was built in public with no secrets.
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[charaFace D 0]
＠Ryougi Shiki
A permit was submitted to the local office, and a normal construction company worked on it.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
It even asked regular folks to move in. However, now it's becoming a place no one wants to go near.
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[charaTalk B]
[communicationCharaLoop 98003003 1 5 0 5]
＠Dr. Roman
...It's a barrier created using man's natural instinct to avoid taboos...without a single trace of Magecraft.
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＠Dr. Roman
It's common sense for mages after the 20th century to conceal their workshops in order to avoid detection from the public.
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＠Dr. Roman
However, we can't detect any traces of magical energy from this place.
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＠Dr. Roman
If it's a magecraft workshop, then whoever created it must be really cautious and patient.
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＠Dr. Roman
That mage built a building this size to perform a ritual, yet didn't rely on Magecraft.
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＠Dr. Roman
They simply built this place from the ground up, brick by brick, all by themselves. Kind of like building a tower.
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＠Dr. Roman
Which reminds me of buddhist folklore that talks about children stacking rocks in hell, with all effort and no gain.
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＠Dr. Roman
Just simply continuing a mundane task without complaint, and without companionship.
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[communicationCharaClear]
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 5]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
...The Children's Limbo, huh?[sr]Indeed, it fits him.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
But you're wrong, it's not a nice place like that. This is simply a building that collects death.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Death by natural causes, illness, accidents, and violence. An exhibit hall decorated with various methods of death.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Those zombies wandering the hallways, they're, you know... The previous residents of this building.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
They're designed to live one day, and die the next. Even though they already died many years ago.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
...I know this might sound obvious, but humans are born with a certain fate.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
No matter how much you fight back, your eventual end[line 2]the cause of your death[line2]will never change.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Those destined to die in an accident, whether they've achieved happily ever after,
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＠Ryougi Shiki
or an abrupt demise, their lives will end in a form of “accidental death.”
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＠Ryougi Shiki
...There used to be a guy who was trying to prove that, and the residents of this apartment were merely “samples” for his theory.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
When night falls, they die. When morning comes, they are reborn. No matter what happens, they always die the same way.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
It's a loop, no, a retry. Since before you guys came here, people have been coming back to life and dying, endlessly.
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？1：...
？2：...How can I say it? It's...

？！

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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace D 5]
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[charaFace A 4]
[charaFadein A 0.1 2]
＠Mash
...I know how you feel.[sr]That system is... How should I put it?
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[charaFace D 0]
＠Ryougi Shiki
Inhumane, is that what you want to say?
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Hmm. You're all mages yourselves, and yet... That kind of thing still troubles you?
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[charaTalk B]
[communicationCharaLoop 98003003 1 5 0 1]
＠Dr. Roman
[%1] is not a mage, so [&he:she] tends to think differently than those elites at the Mage's Association.
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[communicationCharaFace 5]
＠Dr. Roman
But... I don't understand this building at all. What can they achieve with this kind of experiment?
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＠Dr. Roman
There are no results. There is no gain.[sr]Even if they're creating a model case, there's no goal...
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[communicationCharaClear]
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 0]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
You'll have to ask the creator himself.[sr]Although he's no longer in this world.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Anyway, this is now a haunted apartment with zombies walking around.
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[charaFace D 5]
＠Ryougi Shiki
On top of that, ghosts and Servants are starting to show up. The effects are showing up in the outside world.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
...Seriously. It's creepy, but this one-life-one-death world wasn't supposed to cause trouble for anybody.
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＠Ryougi Shiki
I mean, what the hell are those Servants?![sr]All of them are in some weird get-ups...
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[charaTalk D]
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[charaFace A 0]
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＠Ryougi Shiki
Mash, you were lucky that this was a haunted apartment. You would've been reported if we were in front of the station.
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[charaFace A 6]
＠Mash
Reported? Is that because I am not from around here?
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[charaFace D 8]
＠Ryougi Shiki
...Say, do you know why I only carry a knife around with me?
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[charaTalk B]
[communicationCharaLoop 98003003 1 5 0 1]
＠Dr. Roman
Ah, so that's what you mean... You're right!
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＠Dr. Roman
[%1], we're lucky that this Singularity isn't a perfect recreation of the downtown area.
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＠Dr. Roman
If we were in front of a station, just Mash changing into her Servant form would get us in trouble with the police.
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＠Dr. Roman
I didn't talk about this a lot, but Chaldea is what you would call “a secret organization.”
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＠Dr. Roman
You can't recklessly summon your Servants nor arm Mash in front of people.
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＠Dr. Roman
It depends on the city, but Mash's Servant form could be considered indecent in some places.
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[communicationCharaClear]
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 3]
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？1：NO WAY!
？2：You just realized?

？！

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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 4]
[charaFadein D 0.1 0]
[charaFace A 3]
[charaFadein A 0.1 2]
＠Ryougi Shiki
...I wasn't talking about her appearance, but her weapon... Anyway...
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 6]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
We're here. There's no nameplate either, right? I'm sure a Servant is living in this room.
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 7]
[charaFadein A 0.1 1]
＠Mash
...Yes.[sr]I can detect a Servant's Spirit Origin in there.
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＠Mash
What will we do, Master?
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？1：Let's ring the doorbell.
？2：Let's go inside.

？！

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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 6]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
Right, that's the spirit.[sr]Here is the key. I will give it to you.
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 7]
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＠Mash
...(Gulp)[sr]Master, I'll open the door.
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＠Mash
...Who on earth is inside this room?
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[charaTalk E]
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＠Mephisto
Yes, yes, certainly!
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＠Mephisto
Welcome, unknown Master![sr]You too, Miss Demi-Servant!
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＠Mephisto
The one who moved into this grudge-soaked apartment, of course it is I, Demon Mephistopheles!
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 8]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
...What's the deal with his scissors?[sr]Oh, he knows Mash?
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 4]
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[charaFace A 4]
[charaFadein A 0.1 2]
＠Ryougi Shiki
This funny guy here is Mash's big brother or what?
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[charaFace A 14]
＠Mash
I couldn't take having a brother like Mephisto! The breakfast table would be a catastrophe!
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[charaTalk E]
[charaFace E 3]
[charaFadein E 0.1 1]
＠Mephisto
The breakfast table? That's all you're worried about? Yes, you're right, breakfast should be enjoyed quietly.
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＠Mephisto
I may look like this, but I've cared for stubborn and stinky old guys, too.
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＠Mephisto
I'm able to make good and tasty breakfasts, unfortunately, I'm incapable of closing this mouth!
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[charaFace E 1]
＠Mephisto
Even if you sew it, or zip it, it's useless! Even without a mouth, I can give you bad news using ventriloquism
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＠Mephisto
For example, my neighbor in Room 3. Watanabe, was it? Tormented by his lover, whom he strangled.
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＠Mephisto
He's like a skull, a nervous wreck, malnourished! At[sr]2 o'clock, the time of his crime, the madness begins!
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＠Mephisto
Drugs, hanging, wrist-slashing, gas poisoning.[sr]Every night he has to escape from his nightmare.
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＠Mephisto
His excuses for his own actions are quite unsightly, and yet pleasurable.
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＠Mephisto
There is no better spice to make a meal delicious than other people's misfortune!
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 15]
[charaFadein A 0.1 1]
＠Mash
This manner of speaking...this is the real Mephisto! But why are you here?!
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[charaTalk E]
[charaFace E 0]
[charaFadein E 0.1 1]
＠Mephisto
Oh? Oh, oh, oh![sr]Hmm? Hum, hum, hum...
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＠Mephisto
This is the first time I'm meeting you, but how many times have you met me?
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＠Mephisto
I knew it![sr]I've already caused trouble for you!
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＠Mephisto
This is destiny! Conviction, betrayal and satisfaction! Now I understand why I was summoned to Chaldea!
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[charaFace E 2]
＠Mephisto
Unfortunately, I am different from that thing,[sr]the “I” that was summoned in early stages!
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＠Mephisto
Hahaha! Hehehehe! And![sr]I am the criminal behind this case!
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＠Mephisto
I am the one who invited those ghosts into this apartment!
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＠Mephisto
It was also I who infiltrated Chaldea, and lured promising-looking Servants one by one!
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＠Mephisto
That was all my handiwork![sr]Yahoo! It worked perfectly!
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[charaFace E 4]
＠Mephisto
Hmm, but now I have to break the bad news to you. Yes, Mephy is sad!
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＠Mephisto
I've finally met a good Master like you, and now I have to cut you into pieces.
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＠Mephisto
You see, the previous tenant of this room had a bizarre hobby... He would sever the limbs of his loved one every night.
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＠Mephisto
He did it to hide the dead body? But get this! He tripped and accidentally killed himself while cutting up the body in the bathroom!
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＠Mephisto
It was so hilarious so I took over his job for him.
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＠Mephisto
Where is this tenant now you ask?
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＠Mephisto
Well, you see, now he's just in the way, right? I mean, he must be bored to death now that he can't accidentally kill himself anymore?
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＠Mephisto
That's why I intervened to make it funny. By now, he must have escaped the system, and joined his ghost buddies outside!
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[charaFace E 1]
＠Mephisto
Now, let's start! Let's just start! It's annoying to explain so let's just start!
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＠Mephisto
I am the demon, the bomber, Mephisto Pheles! The demon who blows up boring daydreams!
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＠Mephisto
Wow, I repeated the word demon so many times! But it doesn't matter!
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＠Mephisto
Master and Lady, please be sure to remember this, now!
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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 2]
[charaFadein A 0.1 1]
＠Mash
Mephisto Pheles is in combat mode![sr]Master, what should we do?!
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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 0]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
＠Ryougi Shiki
What should we do? There's only one thing to do! Our opponent is ready!
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[charaFace D 6]
＠Ryougi Shiki
Don't worry, I'm used to handling bombers. I'll wipe that smirk off his face before the bomb blows up!
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