＄03-00-10-05-3-0 [enableFullScreen] [soundStopAll] [charaSet C 1098209400 1 "Village Faerie"] [charaSet D 1098209300 1 "Village Faerie 2"] [charaSet E 1098209400 1 "Village Faerie 3"] [charaFilter C silhouette 00000080] [charaFilter D silhouette 00000080] [charaFilter E silhouette 00000080] [scene 123100] [effect bit_talk_light_loop] [wt 0.5] [effectStop bit_talk_light_loop] [se ad556] [seVolume ad556 0 0] [seVolume ad556 3.0 0.8] [fadein black 3.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [scene 123102 1.0] [seVolume ad556 3.0 0.4] ＠ Whenever I close my eyes, this is where I'd be. [k] ＠ It didn't matter if I was awake or asleep. I'd still be shivering from the frigid wind. [k] ＠ Howling. Howling.[sr]Wind strong enough to shatter your ears. [k] ＠ With nothing to protect me, my body feels cold as ice. [k] ＠ Surrounded by pitch darkness with nothing for warmth, and no hope of escape. That's how I grew up. [k] ＠ For me, Britain was pure hell. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 2.0] [seStop ad556 2.0] [wait fade] [effectDestroy bit_talk_light_loop] [scene 10000] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.5] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 0.1] ＠Mother The prophecy was true. [k] ＠Mother She will be our salvation.[sr]She will be our absolution. [k] ＠Mother She is the savior who washed up on our shore, along with the name “Altria.” [k] ＠Mother May you grow, healthy and strong, to the age of sixteen. May the queen's soldiers never find you. [k] ＠Mother Now, go on. Hurry.[sr]Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. [k] ＠Mother Hurry and greet your sixteenth birthday. [k] ＠Mother We have complete faith in you. Which is why you must give everything you have for us. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 0.1] [wait fade] [scene 119900] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.5] [wait fade] ＠ [lr]A small newborn faerie washed ashore in a boat loaded with all kinds of treasure. [k] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 0] [charaFadeinFSL C 0.2 -256,0] ＠C：Village Faerie What an incredible stroke of luck.[sr]This girl must be the Child of Prophecy! [k] [charaFadeout C 0.2] [wt 0.1] [clear] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadeinFSR D 0.2 256,0] ＠D：Village Faerie What a horrible omen. If the high queen finds out about her, we'll all be done for! [k] [charaFadeout D 0.2] [wt 0.1] ＠ [lr]The village faeries' opinions were split right down the middle, but they all agreed on what should be done. [k] ＠Village Faeries “At least the Child of Prophecy should be useful.”[sr]“We'll raise her ourselves until she turns sixteen.” [k] ＠Village Faeries “But she's the faerie of paradise, right?”[sr]“I don't like her. I'm sure she's going to mock us!” [k] ＠Village Faeries “She doesn't deserve a proper house.”[sr]“What do humans do with creatures like that again?” [k] ＠Village Faeries “I know! They raise them as livestock![sr]We can make her a lovely little stable!” [k] ＠Village Faeries “The other villages will never find out about her if we say we're raising a horse! We can keep the Child of Prophecy all for ourselves!” [k] [messageOff] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 1.5 0.5] [fadeout black 1.5] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] ＠ [lr]The faeries of Tintagel treated[sr]me as a precious resource. [k] ＠ I had almost no magical energy, which made them all worry about me. [k] [messageOff] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 2.5 1.0] [fadein black 2.5] [wait fade] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 0] [charaFadein E 0.2 1] ＠Village Faerie It's been four years since she got here, and she still has barely any magical energy. Poor thing... She may as well be a human. [k] ＠Village Faerie I can't believe she still can't do anything impressive. I'm worried. Will she be able to survive like this? [k] ＠Village Faerie ...I know. We need to train her. [k] ＠Village Faerie We need to be harder on her. Methodical with her.[sr]We can't even give her time to sleep. [k] ＠Village Faerie Forgive us, Caster. This is all for your own good. [k] ＠Village Faerie The way you are now, you can't even dream of being the Child of Prophecy. And we don't have any time for dreams. [k] [messageOff] [wipeout openEye 0.5 0.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 0.5 0.5] [wait wipe] [scene 119902] [charaPutFSR E 256,0] [wt 0.5] [wipein openEye 0.5 0.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 0.5 1.0] [wait wipe] [wt 0.3] ＠Village Faerie We really need to have her grow at least a little. [k] ＠Village Faerie You can barely tell her apart from a human! No one will believe she's the Child of Prophecy like this, not even when she turns sixteen! [k] ＠Village Faerie Who cares if she can defeat the queen or not?[sr]All that matters is that she's valuable. [k] ＠Village Faerie It doesn't matter whether she's the real Child of Prophecy or not. She just has to look the part so we can get rich. [k] ＠Village Faerie Why else would we bother taking in the faerie of paradise? [k] ＠Village Faerie We just have to make sure she doesn't die. We don't have to worry about her running away. She's much too weak to do that. [k] [messageOff] [wipeout openEye 0.5 0.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 0.5 0.5] [wait wipe] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [scene 119900] [wt 0.5] [wipein openEye 0.5 0.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_69 0.5 1.0] [wait wipe] [wt 0.3] ＠ [lr]But the village faeries didn't know that my Fae Eyes still worked. [k] ＠ However much I wished I couldn't, I always saw the true feelings they kept to themselves. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_69 2.0] [wait fade] [scene 123102] [wt 1.0] [se ad556] [seVolume ad556 0 0] [seVolume ad556 2.0 0.4] [fadein black 2.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_142 0.1] ＠ Deep down, they all feared and loathed me. [k] ＠ The faeries that feared me believed in the Child of Prophecy with all their hearts, and worked me like a slave. [k] ＠ The faeries that loathed me hated the faerie of paradise, and abused me without a second thought. [k] ＠ Aside from that, all anyone felt for me was indifference. [k] ＠ I was considered a precious resource,[sr]but treated like I wasn't even there. [k] ＠ ...But I couldn't blame them for that. I more or less knew what my duty was. [k] ＠ I was to bring salvation to the faeries of Britain, to free them from their suffering, and to save them in the true sense of the word. [k] ＠ ...Even as a child, I understood that fulfilling my duty would mean the end of Britain as it existed now. [k] ＠ I could deal with the slave-driving, the abuse, and the disinterest, because I knew the reasons behind them. But this sound was too much to bear. [k] ＠ Asleep or awake, there was never a time I didn't hear it. [k] ＠ Howls of deceit. Howls of self-interest. Howls of selfishness. Howls of envy. The sounds I could never shut out[line 2]the sounds of the faeries' true feelings. [k] ＠ It was enough to make me lose track of where I was, and where I was meant to go. [k] [messageOff] [bgm BGM_EVENT_142 1.0 0.3] [seStop ad556 4.0] [cueSe SE_21 21_ad1109] [wt 2.5] [cueSeStop 21_ad1109 3.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_142 1.0 1.0] ＠ I hear bells ringing. They tell me to go on a pilgrimage to save the faeries. [k] ＠ ...(Sigh) Honestly, this sound depresses me, too. [k] ＠ I know it's supposed to be an honorable mission, but how in the world am I supposed to save faeries like that? [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_142 1.0] [wait fade] [scene 119900] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 2.0] [wait fade] ＠Altria Haaah![se adm14][sr]Yaaah![wt 0.5][se adm15] Diiie! [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_92 0.1] ＠ [lr]So that's why I'm out in this nearby field again, hard at work on my training. [k] ＠ Today's another day of close-quarters combat practice with the Staff of Selection, which arrived with me on my boat, as a weapon. [k] ＠ I can't use anything like fae domains, so the only thing I can do with a staff is bop people! [k] ＠Altria Hiyaaah![se adm15] Hraaah! [k] ＠Altria R[se adm15]aaaaaah!!![sr]...Haaah. [k] ＠Altria ...Haha. Ahaha. Hahaha, ha... [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.2] [cueSe SE_21 21_ad1074] [seVolume 21_ad1074 0 0.6] [wt 1.0] ＠ [lr]It was an early afternoon in my sixth year.[sr]I had just collapsed from exhaustion. [k] ＠ My melee combat training was the only time I had to myself once the villager keeping an eye on me left, figuring I was so weak I wouldn't be able to escape, anyway. [k] ＠Altria ...Aha. Hahaha... Haa... Huh? [k] ＠ [lr]Then, just as my voice was trailing off... [k] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_92 1.0] ＠??? Ngh... Gaaah, that was nasty! The faeries at your place are pretty horrible, you know that!? [k] ＠Altria H[messageShake 0.05 2 2 0.3]uh!? D-did you just talk, staff!? [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_20 0.1] ＠??? No, I'm not the Staff of Selection.[sr]I'm just a nosy old busybody. [k] ＠??? And I just couldn't take how awful Tintagel is anymore, or how sickening it is to see you doing everything they tell you... [k] ＠??? I just had to say something. [k] ＠??? Ugh, I swear. I wasn't planning on getting involved, but now I just don't think I have a choice. [k] ＠??? Listen up. I'm Merlin. Merlin, the Mage of Flowers. [k] ＠Merlin I'm going to be your teacher from now on.[sr]Don't forget it. [k] ＠ [lr]That was how I met Merlin[line 2]or at least,[sr]his voice coming from the Staff of Selection. [k] ＠ That was how I began studying to be a mage. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_20 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [bgm BGM_EVENT_25 0.1] ＠Altria Magecraft!? I know about that! Queen Morgan uses that! [k] ＠Altria ...But, what exactly is it?[sr]What exactly are you going to teach me? [k] ＠Merlin What do you mean? Magecraft, of course. Merlin magecraft. Trust me, it's really something. [k] ＠Altria Ooh, will it let me fly like a bird!? Like zoom, whoosh, pchoo!? [k] ＠Merlin ...Flying. You'd like to fly, huh...[sr]That's a pretty tall order for your first spell. [k] ＠Altria You don't know how to fly?[sr]What are you, some kind of quack? [k] ＠Merlin Oh no, I can fly easily.[sr]I'm the Amazing Merlin! [k] ＠Merlin But let's hold off on that one for now. Not even the Wind clan can fly, after all. [k] ＠Merlin The sky is the dragons' domain. Only precious few upper-class faeries can go there. [k] ＠Merlin So for your first spell, let's start with something closer to home. Something that'll make your life easier. [k] ＠Merlin Tell me, is there anything you could use right now that would make you happy? [k] ＠Altria Well... I guess I'd like it if nighttime was warmer. [k] ＠Altria My house gets really, really cold. It even freezes over in the winter. [k] ＠Altria I actually lost two toes last year 'cause of that... [k] ＠Altria Ehehe... I haven't told anyone else, though.[sr]It's too embarrassing! [k] ＠Merlin ...[wt 1.0]Got it. I'll start study[line 2]Ahem, I mean, start getting a lesson ready for you right away. [k] ＠Merlin Just give me three[line 2]no, two days to find some teaching materials. [k] ＠Altria ??? [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_25 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_25 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] ＠ [lr]Merlin taught me all sorts of spells. [k] ＠ Heating. Detection. Healing. Linguistics. Camouflage. Lockpicking. Stealth attacks. Explosives. Obstacles. [k] ＠ Every time I expressed interest in learning a new spell, he'd say: [k] ＠ “Sorry, I can't today.[sr]You'll just have to wait until the next lesson.” [k] ＠ And then we'd make magecraft items together. Those lessons formed the foundation of my Merlin magecraft. [k] ＠ Looking back on it, he must have had to change the spells a lot just so I could use them with my tiny pool of magical energy. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_25 1.0 0.5] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [fadein black 1.0] [bgm BGM_EVENT_25 1.0 1.0] [wait fade] ＠Altria Say, why are you teaching me all this when every British faerie hates me? [k] ＠Merlin Because I'm not a British faerie.[sr]Sorry, just kidding. [k] ＠Merlin The fact is, you ARE the faerie of paradise, no matter what the faeries of your village think. Eventually, most faeries will come to follow you. [k] ＠Merlin When they do, you'll need to be the ideal[line 2]No... [k] ＠Merlin The kind of savior that everyone dreams of.[sr]A fantastical savior. [k] ＠Altria Fantastical? [k] ＠Merlin That's right. You'll need to be a character straight out of a children's story. [k] ＠Merlin Everyone has different fantasies. Some want a strong king, some a kind king, some a scary king, and so on. [k] ＠Merlin Your job is to be able to be all of those things. [k] ＠Merlin You need to inspire hopes and dreams[line 2]or rather, bring them all together. [k] ＠Merlin Everything wants something different, so a single name would only get in the way. [k] ＠Merlin That's why you need to be a nameless king. Someone who stands at the edge of the world rather than its center... [k] ＠Merlin ...and serves as a beacon of hope for others just by virtue of existing[line 2]glowing starlight shining with possibilities. [k] ＠Merlin That's the kind of king I'd like you to become. [k] ＠Merlin The kind that can inspire people from atop castle walls, no matter the time or place. [k] ＠Altria ...Can I really be all that? [k] ＠Merlin Sure you can. It might be impossible in reality, but anything's possible in fantasy. [k] ＠Merlin And people have always had a way of making fantasy become reality. That's why futures we thought we could only dream of eventually stop being dreams☆ [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_25 2.0] [wait fade] [scene 123102] [effect bit_talk_light_loop] [wt 0.5] [se ad556] [seVolume ad556 0 0] [seVolume ad556 3.0 0.8] [fadein black 3.0] [wait fade] [wt 1.0] [seVolume ad556 3.0 0.4] ＠ [lr]Merlin was very talkative, and a lot of fun to be around. [k] ＠ But that only lasted for a year. [k] ＠ A faerie girl saw me laughing in the field and reported me to the village elder... [k] ＠ ...who responded by taking away the Staff of Selection until I turned sixteen and set out on my journey. [k] ＠ From then on, every day was more painful than the last. [k] [messageOff] [effectStop bit_talk_light_loop] [effect bit_talk_strongwind01_bk] [seVolume ad556 1.5 0.8] [wt 3.5] ＠ That's the end of my winter memories. [k] [messageOff] [fadeout black 2.0] [seStop ad556 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]