3 3 301 DialogEnable When the sprouts begin to cover the wilderness as spring arrives, Bella finally finds the news she has been searching for before they are about to reach City 074.
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6 6 301 1 Conservation Area Staff 1 I've seen that person before. 2
7 7 301 Bella Really?! 1
8 8 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 It must be four years ago. It was raining, and she was holding an injured child, trying to convince the staff in the conservation area to take her kid. It's hard to forget something like that. 2
9 9 301 Bella A child...? 1
10 10 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 Yeah, a three-year-old boy she said she saved on her way. Unfortunately, the kid had a fever and passed away that night. 2
11 11 301 Bella Do you know what her name is and where she is now? 1
12 12 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 Her name... I can try the old records. I seem to recall her putting her name down as the kid's sole guardian. 2
13 13 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 Ah, here we go. Elena Bella. It was the September four years ago. She was a member of Bumblebee. 2
14 14 301 Bella Elena Bella? That name... It has to be her. 1
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17 17 301 1 Shrek A Bumblebee from four years ago... Where's she now? 1
18 18 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 Who knows? Bumblebees are rare nowadays. The effect of that incident is quite long-lasting, isn't it? 2
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21 21 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 1 It's fine, to be honest. There are still a lot of folks on the train, and Jamilah made sure to give everyone rations ever since she took over. People are still pretty hungry, but no one's dead. 2
22 22 301 A Cargo Crew member sitting on the side suddenly interrupts them.
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25 25 301 1 Conservation Area Staff 2 How many died back then? 1
26 26 301 Cargo Crew Member 1 Thousands, maybe? Tens of thousands, according to some. No one gives the same answer since most who witnessed the incident didn't live to tell the tale. 2
27 27 301 Cargo Crew Member 1 It wasn't easy to rebuild the Cargo Crew. Boss loves to say we should focus on the future. 2
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30 30 301 1 Shrek Boss...? 1
31 31 301 Shrek ...Who's in charge of the Cargo Crew now? 1
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34 34 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 1 Niino. 2
35 35 301 Shrek ...Niino? He's still alive? But— 1
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38 38 301 1 Bella —Wasn't Ashlar hunting down the core members of the Cargo Crew after the incident? How did Niino get to be in charge? 1
39 39 301 Bella asks what Noan cannot ask.
40 40 301 Cargo Crew Member 1 Because Jamilah is calling the shot now, and Niino didn't really have anything to do with the mole. He was protecting the people in the back carriages at the end, so Ashlar hasn't managed to get anything on him. 2
41 41 301 Bella Jamilah is calling the shot now? What happened? 1
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44 44 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 2 Sigh. Babylonia's bases on the surface slowly became reluctant to work with Ashlar since the incident, and many aristocrats who were supporting him started to distance themselves over the last few years. 1
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47 47 301 1 Shrek Why? 2
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50 50 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 3 Rumor is that he has sent assassins to remove the aristocrats that refused to follow his orders, and he even blamed their deaths on the Cargo Crew. 2
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53 53 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 1 For real? I heard the Cargo Crew was responsible. 1
54 54 301 Cargo Crew Member 3 Sigh. Either way, his barbaric deeds were gradually exposed, and anyone with half a brain knew to stay away from him. The only ones still under his control are the ones he has leverage on. 2
55 55 301 Cargo Crew Member 3 The bastard doesn't care who he hurts anymore. He went after the Maintenance Crew not too long ago! The ******* Maintenance Crew! Only a girl named Sophia survived and became a Construct. 2
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58 58 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 2 That bastard is going to get thrown off a speeding Asslam one day. 1
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61 61 301 1 Shrek ... 2
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64 64 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 1 ...Anyway. Things are better than they were. 1
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67 67 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 4 Perhaps if the old Cargo Crew waited, they could live to see Ashlar's downfall, and no one needed to die. 2
68 68 301 Cargo Crew Member 4 It wasn't worth getting so many killed. 2
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71 71 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain Are you done with your bull****? Do you think Ashlar could've fallen this far without their sacrifices? 1
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74 74 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 4 What are you talking about? Didn't they fail?
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77 77 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain Sure, but does that make what they did meaningless? 1
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80 80 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 4 What could be the point of their failures?
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83 83 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain Ashlar had the people and the guns back then. He even had those orb-shaped military mechanoids that could defeat a Construct! Who would dare to challenge him? 1
84 84 301 Cargo Crew Captain If it weren't for the Cargo Crew and Bumblebee dismantling Ashlar's shining armor with their lives, he wouldn't have fallen as far as he has now. 1
85 85 301 Cargo Crew Captain Would you have done anything if someone had a gun to your head, even if you knew they were some villainous bastard? 1
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88 88 301 1 Shrek ... 1
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91 91 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain I never wanted to discuss this sort of thing with you guys, but you were seriously pissing me off. Where do you think your freedom comes from if not on top of their dead bodies? 1
92 92 301 Cargo Crew Captain I was just a kid from the lower level when everything went down back then. I didn't join the Cargo Crew or the fight, but I did see the corpses and blood that paved the carriages. 1
93 93 301 Cargo Crew Captain I still dream about that day, even now! There's no forgetting it! 1
94 94 301 Cargo Crew Captain You lot loves to complain about Ashlar and his antiroyalists nowadays, but guess what? They were so much worse back then! Their guards would murder people in broad daylight! 1
95 95 301 Cargo Crew Captain Do you know why Babylonia refused to work with Ashlar? Do you know how his dirty deeds got exposed? 1
96 96 301 Cargo Crew Captain It was the evidence a core member presented that tore down his empire bit by bit! That terminal might have been broken back then, delaying the trial for a few years... 1
97 97 301 Cargo Crew Captain But the bill comes due. It didn't get better over time naturally—people had to pave that road with their corpses! 1
98 98 301 Cargo Crew Captain You should have called them ******* heroes! Not wondering if their sacrifices were worth it! 1
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101 101 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 4 ... 1
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104 104 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain How many of the old Cargo Crew remain? Those people are either dead, hiding from Ashlar, or blamed for crimes they didn't commit! 1
105 105 301 Cargo Crew Captain And do you think surviving that ordeal is any better? 1
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108 108 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 2 Sigh. I remember seeing Captain Niino the last time I looked for him. He was sitting in the dark behind his desk with a half-knitted sweater in his hands—god knows what he was thinking.
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111 111 301 1 Shrek ... 1
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114 114 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain As long as Ashlar remains on the train and the Punishing Virus threatens our home, the duty that the old Cargo Crew and Bumblebee pass to us is not complete. 1
115 115 301 Cargo Crew Captain We're a long way away from victory! No sacrifices are in vain! 1
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118 118 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 4 I'm sorry, Capt. I wasn't thinking.
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121 121 301 1 Conservation Area Staff 1 Alright, did you get it out of your system? These kids have no idea about what happened in the past. It's good enough that they're listening to you. 2
122 122 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 By the way, I heard that Ashlar was recruiting people with his Blessing Boxes again a few days ago. He was searching for something called Ascendants? Something about being immune? 2
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125 125 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain How do you know about that? 1
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128 128 301 1 Conservation Area Staff 1 You guys were talking pretty loudly. 2
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131 131 301 1 Shrek Ascendants? 1
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134 134 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 1 Ashlar has been preaching about them. We have no idea where he learned it from. 2
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137 137 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 3 Hmph, he wouldn't shut up about the Ascendants when the Heterozygote fell on the train couple of days ago. Who knows what his agenda is? 2
138 138 301 Shrek Heterozygote? 1
139 139 301 Cargo Crew Member 3 Yeah, it was a giant monster that fell from the sky. Super dangerous. 2
140 140 301 Shrek What happened to it? 1
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143 143 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain It was destroyed. Babylonia sent some folks down to smash it. 1
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146 146 301 1 Cargo Crew Member 2 Ashlar certainly made a clown of himself that day. 1
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149 149 301 1 Conservation Area Staff 1 How so? 2
150 150 301 Cargo Crew Member 2 He was scheming, hoping to make a fuss about the Heterozygote and the rumored Ascendants. 1
151 151 301 Cargo Crew Member 2 Then Sophia, the Construct little girl, stepped up and said she'd make a world that wouldn't need the train or Babylonia anymore, even when she had no idea how to do it yet. 1
152 152 301 Conservation Area Staff 1 What happened next? 2
153 153 301 Cargo Crew Member 2 People were genuinely moved by her words! Anything she said made more sense than Ashlar's crap! 1
154 154 301 Hearing that, all the staff from the conservation area laugh.
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157 157 301 1 Cargo Crew Captain Stop speaking of things you don't know. Who can say how much those people have planned ahead of time? 2
158 158 301 Cargo Crew Member 2 Ha! I was just enjoying the fact that Ashlar finally fell flat on his face. 1
180 180 301 DialogEnable 1 After acquiring the precise details, the two of them make their way to City 074 overnight, arriving before the train reaches the station in the city.
181 181 301 Bella I can't believe she's on the train, but then... that makes sense, doesn't it? 1
182 182 301 Bella Where else would someone without a home go? Not to mention that she had to hide from that old bastard Bethe. Asslam would be her only choice. 1
183 183 301 Bella holds the creased portrait in her hand, staring at the empty station in silence.
184 184 301 Bella You and Rachel asked me to join the Cargo Crew back then. Would I have found her sooner if I agreed? 1
185 185 301 Shrek There's no way to go back in time, so stop wasting time regretting. Let's figure out how to find her as quickly as we can when we board the train later. 2
186 186 301 Bella Tch. 1
187 187 301 Anxiously, Bella clenches her fists. They stand there silently, waiting until the signal for the train's approach starts blinking.
188 188 301 Shrek I hope you find what you're looking for. 2
189 189 301 Bella Do you want me to ask around for you? 1
190 190 301 Shrek The train isn't going to stay for long, so prioritize your search first. Unless you're planning to leave with it. 2
191 191 301 Noan waves and starts heading out.
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195 195 301 Bella Where are you going? 1
196 196 301 Shrek I'm taking a walk. If you come back, we'll meet at Base South-3 in City 074.
201 201 301 DialogEnable 1 Leaving the station, Noan hurriedly traverses the ruined landscape, entering the forest coated in mist and the morning light.
202 202 301 He can feel a hint of warmth in the wind. Noan looks up to find his surrounding brimming with greenery.
203 203 301 He has returned to City 074, seven years after Field disappeared.
204 204 301 Noan was looking for Field before the Cargo Crew's rebellion started, but his missions kept getting in the way. Even when he had the chance to come to City 074, he could not find anything.
205 205 301 Noan is more or less aware of a certain possibility, having read Rachel's terminal during his time in the cell. Still, he follows the route Rachel marked and retreads the Cargo Crew's trail from several years ago.
240 240 301 Rachel Do you want to go on such a futile hunt while ignoring the root of the problem? 2
241 241 301 Rachel If he's alive, he'll have a life of his own by now, and he won't need your sympathy. If he's dead, what's the point of finding him? 2
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244 244 301 1 Noan I just want to know his whereabouts. 1
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247 247 301 1 Rachel Now's not the time! 1
248 248 301 Rachel What are you going to do when you find him? Apologize to him and then sneak back? 1
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251 251 301 1 Noan ... 1
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254 254 301 1 Cargo Captain Shauna Noan. 2
255 255 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Stop arguing with Rachel. Come with me. 2
270 270 301 1 Cargo Captain Shauna You don't have to forgive them if you don't want to. 2
271 271 301 Noan Sorry? 1
272 272 301 Cargo Captain Shauna People are complicated. You can't expect everyone to be equally virtuous, can you? 2
273 273 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Disagreement between us is nothing new. We all have a line we don't cross, and we've all done things that cross others'. 2
274 274 301 Cargo Captain Shauna But I want you to understand that most people on the lower level stick together for one goal. 2
275 275 301 Cargo Captain Shauna If you give up on that goal and other people because you can't forgive them, you'll just become that lonesome, orphaned child once more... 2
276 276 301 Cargo Captain Shauna What's the difference between that and abandoning what Field left you? 2
277 277 301 Noan ... 1
278 278 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Do you remember Hill? 2
279 279 301 Noan nodded.
280 280 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Did she hate you just because she didn't help you when you got in the fight? 2
281 281 301 Noan shook his head.
282 282 301 Cargo Captain Shauna We're just people. We're all flawed in our own ways. Growing up means you have to learn to accept that people aren't perfect. 2
283 283 301 Noan Unity in diversity... is that so? 1
284 284 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Smart kid. 2
285 285 301 Noan Captain Shauna. 1
286 286 301 Noan Do you trust Captain Rachel? 1
287 287 301 Cargo Captain Shauna ... 2
288 288 301 Cargo Captain Shauna You little punk. Giving me a taste of my own medicine? 2
289 289 301 Noan I've... heard some stories. I don't know if they're true or not. 1
290 290 301 Cargo Captain Shauna I trust that part of her that can be trusted. Do you understand what I mean? 2
291 291 301 Noan To trust... Captain Rachel's... dedication to her dream? The dream we all share? 1
292 292 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Attaboy. Her dedication to overthrowing the upper level is genuine. I can count on that, despite her imperfections. 2
311 311 301 1 Cargo Captain Niino However you put it, isn't the expiration date of this regret of yours a bit too far away? 1
312 312 301 Cargo Captain Niino Don't you want to move on sooner? 1
313 313 301 Rachel Not the worst thing to have something to remember. Sometimes you need people or things you care about to anchor you, or you'll break. 2
314 314 301 Cargo Captain Niino Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience. 1
315 315 301 Rachel Ha. What do you expect? 2
316 316 301 Cargo Captain Niino For real? 1
317 317 301 Cargo Captain Niino I won't understand why you'd want your past to haunt you. Isn't it easier to let it go? 1
318 318 301 Rachel How can you determine the road ahead without the experience of your past? 2
319 319 301 Cargo Captain Niino Just keep the experience, then. 1
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322 322 301 1 Cargo Captain Shauna Stop talking nonsense. How do you get experience without experiencing things? How much can you learn by listening to people's stories without getting your hands dirty? Even a vaccine requires a needle through your skin! 2
323 323 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Look at how history repeats itself. 2
324 324 301 Cargo Captain Shauna Once the painful memories left the people's lives, they'd make the same mistake again. 2
377 377 301 1 Noan is not surprised to find shattered bones underneath the surface. Death is not a rare sight on this ravaged land.
378 378 301 The dead are buried in the soil, turning into nutrients for the vegetation. The vegetation, in turn, feeds the birds, the beasts, or maybe the starving passerby.
379 379 301 Noan Summer... 1
380 380 301 Noan calls helplessly, searching between the withered trees and the crumbled rocks.
385 385 301 RImgBg1Shake Wandering Corrupted rushed toward the end of the convoy, knocking over one of the trucks.
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388 388 301 1 Bancroft We have to stop! Protect the attacked truck! 1
389 389 301 Rachel We can't! There are too many Corrupted. We have to get out first! 2
390 390 301 Bancroft I can't lose more cargo! 1
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393 393 301 Bancroft hit the brake, stopping the truck on the damp earth before leading his team of Cargo Crew toward the enemies destroying their cargo in a hurry.
427 427 301 Day and night slowly align across time.
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430 430 301 1 03:16 AM When Field woke up in the abandoned orchard, all he could find were darkness and roaming Corrupted.
431 431 301 03:16 AM He wanted to cry for help, but his echo was all he could hear. He wanted to run, but he found his body slowly failing.
432 432 301 03:16 AM When he failed to feel the temperature of his blood with his hands, Field lay next to a small sapling, smiling gently at the cloud-covered sky.
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434 434 301 Field Goodbye, Noan... 1
435 435 301 After that brief farewell, time forever stopped for him.
436 436 301 03:16 PM Noan follows the old tracks and goes over a small hill, finding a desecrated orchard before him.
437 437 301 03:16 PM Most trees here have wilted, while the rest have been chopped down.
438 438 301 03:16 PM Only one tree remains on the border, its snowy flowers blossoming.
439 439 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Noan takes off his goggles as one of the flowers floats toward him in the air.
447 448 301 DialogEnable Seven years is enough for a person to be completely gone.
448 449 301 Only a few pieces of fabric linger on its branches, rattling in the wind inside the quiet orchard. The patterns on them look similar to Field's scarf.
449 450 301 Noan ...
450 451 301 How he wishes that the scarf was the only thing left behind in this place and Field was still laughing somewhere else.
451 452 301 But this is the end of his dream. He can no longer fool himself.
452 453 301 Noan ...Pear blossoms...
453 454 301 The dead has rotted and is reborn into a new life. Regretful it may be, life eventually finds a way back to the world.
454 455 301 Noan Is this tree alive... because of you?
455 456 301 Noan Asslam has been freed from its oppressors...
456 457 301 Noan Will that make you smile?
457 458 301 He asks the silent earth. The earth does not answer.
458 459 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Noan Have I... found you?
460 461 301 DialogEnable A light breeze blows past the waving branches, sending a few petals into Noan's palm.
461 462 301 Noan knows it is just his wishful thinking, but he still carefully holds the petals in his palm, accepting the pear blossoms as an answer.
462 463 301 Noan It's been too long... Summer.
463 464 301 Noan I finally... have the courage to face the truth. I'm finally brave enough to say goodbye.
464 465 301 The corners of his mouth have not been raised for a very long time. Staring at the white petals in his palm, Noan forces himself to smile.
465 466 301 Noan Thank you... Thank you...
466 467 301 He keeps repeating it as if trying to atone for the sorrow he feels.
467 468 301 He would still be a lonely child by Rachel's side if it were not for Field.
468 469 301 Unaccepted by the people around him, he would still be haunted by a pain he did not understand when his mother died and angry at the world for its indifference.
469 470 301 Field caused many gentle changes in Noan. Those changes eventually separated them forever.
470 471 301 Now that they are reunited, Field's body has already been taken by the earth and is reborn into a new life.
471 472 301 His soul, meanwhile, continues to live in the memories of his old friend.
472 473 301 Noan The memories and the firefly you left me guide me to this day... showing me the path in the dark...
473 474 301 Noan I finally understand that death doesn't take away the meaning of what once was.
474 475 301 Noan You are just transformed, living on in another way. You are the light that casts away the darkness, the fire that melts the snow, the train that moves forward... and the reason I still live.
475 476 301 Noan Thank you... Summer...
476 477 301 He thanks the earth and the pear blossoms once again.