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＄94-05-34-19-1-0
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[charaSet A 1098158200 1 Sion]
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[charaSet B 1098158210 1 "Sion Arm Raised"]
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[charaSet C 1098124500 1 "Da Vinci"]
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[charaSet D 5002001 1 Gilles]
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[charaSet E 25003002 1 "Heroine XX"]
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＠Da Vinci
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Hmm. Okay, let me make sure I've got this straight.[sr]The key features that define these Outer Gods are:
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＠Da Vinci
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One: they're huge, gross, and powerful.
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＠Da Vinci
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Two: our usual physics and magecraft rules don't apply, which also makes it hard to communicate.
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＠Da Vinci
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Three: they claim ownership rights to Earth, and inventor's rights to its life-forms.
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＠Da Vinci
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Four: if they were actually in charge of Earth, they'd turn it into something weird and grotesque.
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Five: most of them have been imprisoned.
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＠Da Vinci
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Six: while they generally act independently, some of them are allies, and some are enemies.
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＠Da Vinci
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And seven: Regardless of what they look like, they're not immortal metaphysical or conceptual beings. They're still flesh and blood creatures with life spans just as finite as ours.
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＠Da Vinci
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That...about sum it up?
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＠Gilles
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More or less. I am a bit concerned that we may be in danger of underestimating the threat they pose, but we can put that aside for the moment.
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＠Da Vinci
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Now I get it. This theory is basically the antithesis of the last two thousand years of philosophical optimism.
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＠Da Vinci
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The author may as well be saying, “We're not pure beings, man. God isn't real. The only reason we're here is 'cause some gross, disgusting monsters made us.”
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＠Da Vinci
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When you put it that way, it explains a lot about the Foreigner incidents that have cropped up so far.
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You think? Personally, I am inclined to write the whole idea off as fairy-tale nonsense.
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＠Da Vinci
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Hey, don't be too quick to dismiss fairy tales, Sion. We've already proven we can hypothesize about something like Void Space, after all.
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＠Da Vinci
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Think of it this way. If the world of intellect we know is the inner side, and everything else is the outer side...
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...then it's only logical that from our point of view, everything from ethics to world outlooks would be turned on their heads in that outer side.
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＠Da Vinci
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And that definitely lines up with the ideas of a certain early twentieth-century novelist.
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＠A：Sion
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I still do not know.[sr]The whole thing sounds ludicrous to me.
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＠Da Vinci
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You think? Anyway, let's move on.
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＠Da Vinci
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If we're dealing with Outer Gods here, the main points we need to worry about are five, six, and seven, right?
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＠Da Vinci
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Since they can't make many direct moves, their options for intervening here are pretty limited.
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＠Da Vinci
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We might be able to leverage their oppositions to one another as a means to drive them away.
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＠Da Vinci
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And in the worst case, it's possible to use physical, magecraft, and other worldly means to destroy them.
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＠Gilles
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Fantastic! I have never seen anyone else grasp these ideas so quickly! You truly are a peerless genius!
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＠Da Vinci
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Hehe, you know it![sr]All right, so what's this opposition about, anyway?
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＠Gilles
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Ah, yes. While some believe each of the Outer Gods belong to one of four factions, much like the four elementals of earth, water, fire, and wind...
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＠Gilles
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...personally, I think that idea is preposterous, and has no basis in fact.
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＠Gilles
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However, it IS clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are some divinities who are innately opposed to one another simply by virtue of their conflicting natures.
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＠A：Sion
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So some gods are in opposition to one another, huh... I do not know about that, but I do know that Hokusai and Abby do not seem in any way adversarial.
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＠Gilles
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Very true. In fact, they seem to be very good friends. Indeed, seeing them always brings a smile to my face.
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＠Da Vinci
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I'm not gonna make a big thing of it now, but hearing that from you, it sounds more than a little ominous.
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＠Gilles
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Hohoho. At any rate, there's no telling what the future may bring.
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＠Gilles
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The way things are going now, it's only a matter of time until we encounter a Foreigner with clear hostile intent.
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＠A：Sion
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So there is nothing we can do about that?[sr]Well that is not encouraging.
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＠Gilles
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I am certain there is a divinity out there who considers Lady Hokusai their enemy, and the same also holds true for Lady Abigail!
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＠Gilles
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If both Foreigners were to, as they say, get into a tussle with their enemies, the chaos unleashed would be akin to hell on earth!
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＠Gilles
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And as heartwarming as that prospect may be, as the caretakers of this fine facility, I am sure that is a headache you would much prefer to avoid.
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＠Gilles
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However, it bears mentioning that if such a brawl did take place, it may actually lead to greater stability than we enjoy right now.
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＠Da Vinci
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Is that your way of saying if we had one of these oppositional deities around, they would be a deterrent that keeps their enemy in check and stops the various Foreigners from going off the deep end?
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＠Gilles
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In essence, yes. As they say, fire is best fought with fire, and poison with poison. Indeed, even incurable poisons can be contained with another poison of equal potency.
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＠Gilles
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While I can see the sense in considering all Foreigners too dangerous to remain, I, for one, am firmly in favor of keeping them around.
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＠Gilles
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In fact, I would argue they are the very lamplights keeping the encroaching darkness at bay, thereby preventing a far more disastrous fire from ever occurring! That they are an unparalleled good omen here to fend off a threat to humanity from nothing less than another space-time continuum!
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＠Da Vinci
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Hmmm. I think it's way too dangerous to go that far, but I do agree we shouldn't be too quick to get rid of them.
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＠Da Vinci
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After all, if knowledge is power, then the unknown is even more power.
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＠A：Sion
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I agree with that, too. However, Marshal Gilles, there is still one thing I would like to ask you.
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＠Gilles
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By all means, Mademoiselle Sokaris.
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＠B：Sion
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What do you think Foreigners actually ARE?
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＠B：Sion
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Earlier, you described them as a kind of vaccine inoculating us against greater threats, but that is solely our way of looking at it, right?
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＠Gilles
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Ah yes, you have touched upon quite the key conundrum.
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＠Gilles
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What, we are all compelled to wonder, are they? Shrine maidens of evil gods? Vessels? Avatars? Replicas?
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＠Gilles
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I do have an opinion on the matter,[sr]if you care to hear it.
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＠B：Sion
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Of course.
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＠Gilles
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I believe they are genuine heroes.
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＠B：Sion
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Oh?
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＠Gilles
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While one could certainly view them as an abnormal class that was created solely as a means of invading our world...
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＠Gilles
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...the fact that these beings from the outer universe can only reach out to this world via the Throne of Heroes speaks volumes.
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＠Gilles
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The fact is, if these beings wish to come to our world, their only option is to don a Heroic Spirit[line 2]in other words, a human shadow that has left an indelible mark upon history.
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＠Gilles
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And what is that but an incredibly, incredibly binding restriction? It goes to show that even in the face of these Outer Gods, our world remains impenetrable and indomitable.
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＠Gilles
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So why should we be particularly afraid of their otherworldly madness? We know that humans are more than capable of going mad, killing, and destroying even without such influences.
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＠Gilles
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In fact, I will go so far as to say this: madness creates Anti-Heroes, which go on to create legends of terror.
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＠Gilles
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And the Throne of Heroes welcomes all of it.[sr]I trust you see my point?
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＠Gilles
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The Foreigner girls are still in the midst of creating their legends, and they are doing so in exactly the same way as all the other Heroic Spirits did during their lifetimes.
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＠Gilles
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That is why I have no fear of Foreigners. Indeed, I welcome any and all new arrivals from their class.
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＠Da Vinci
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...Well that turned out to be a more interesting discussion than I was expecting. Don't you think, Sion?
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＠A：Sion
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I suppose so. Personally, I am still digesting the idea that new Anti-Heroes are being created even as we speak.
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[se ad36]
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＠Heroine XX
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Yaaah! (Splash)
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＠Da Vinci
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Oh, hey there, Ms. XX.[sr]Have you been swimming this whole time?
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＠Heroine XX
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I have! Since we've been seeing things like multiheaded and flying sharks lately, I thought I'd get in some practice battles to prepare for the upcoming season!
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＠Heroine XX
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Oh, crap, I didn't realize I'd been out this late! I'm off to nab whatever's left over from dinner! XX, out for takeouuut!!!
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＠B：Sion
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...While we are on the subject,[sr]where does she fit into all of this?
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＠Gilles
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Ha...ha...ha... (playing dumb).
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＠Gilles
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Getting back on track, by hook or by crook if necessary, I will say I feel a bit uneasy about one thing.
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[bgm BGM_EVENT_79 0.1]
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[charaTalk C]
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[charaFace C 25]
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[charaFadein C 0.1 1]
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＠Da Vinci
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Oh? And what's that?
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[k]
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||
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[charaFadeout C 0.1]
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[wt 0.1]
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||
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[charaTalk D]
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[charaFace D 0]
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[charaFadein D 0.1 1]
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＠Gilles
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||
Remember how I said that conflict between adversarial Foreigners should effectively allow them to cancel each other's power out?
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||
[k]
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||
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||
[charaFace D 4]
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＠Gilles
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||
Well, if a Foreigner capable of mediating such a conflict were to show up...that would be another matter entirely.
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||
[k]
|
||
|
||
[messageOff]
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||
[fadeout black 2.0]
|
||
[bgmStop BGM_EVENT_79 2.0]
|
||
[wait fade]
|
||
[wt 0.5]
|
||
[soundStopAll]
|
||
[end]
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