4 4 301 DialogEnable 1 After saving the data collected, Haicma's mission is over for now.
5 5 301 Arriving where they planned, Haicma calculates the time it will take for Spooner to get there—she has accidentally come into contact with a small amount of Red Tide. Luckily, there is no noticeable sign of infection yet.
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7 7 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Haicma closes her eyes.
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10 10 304 AniZhuanchangEnd SYSTEM MAINTENANCE IN PROGRESS ffffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory538.png 1
17 17 301 DialogEnable It has been a while since Haicma joined the Church of Machina. As an organized, militarized group of machines, each church member performs their role adequately and diligently.
18 18 301 However, Haicma slowly realizes that... information is not entirely transparent between church members. More precisely, "Mother" is the only one who knows what the Church of Machina is doing and where it is heading.
19 19 301 Similar to "Gear", the Church of Machina's army, Haicma is just another cog of this machine.
20 20 301 Many things have changed during her role as a cog: "Chariot" fell, the Punishing Virus evolved, and the Church suffered greatly. Simply recording and analyzing the data has taken most of Haicma's processing power.
21 21 301 —It must have been a long time since she last observed nature this seriously.
22 22 301 The sights before her now are so different from the scenery in her memory data.
23 23 301 ...What would Nanami paint if she saw this?
24 24 301 This question pops up in Haicma's programming out of nowhere.
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26 26 304 REROUTING COMPUTING POWER ffffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory538.png 1
43 43 301 DialogEnable 1 Haicma opens her eyes and notices a mist brewing upon the Red Tide beneath her, within which a small figure appears.
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46 46 301 1 Haicma ...Nanami? 2
47 47 301 "Nanami"? Nanami's here... Haicma, Nanami's painted a lot of pictures! Come here and I'll show them to you...! 1
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49 49 301 Haicma Why... is Nanami inside the Red Tide? 2
50 50 301 Her program logic suggests that this is impossible. Haicma last confirmed Nanami's location 118 hours, 86 minutes, and 32 seconds ago. Nanami does not have any reason or enough time to arrive here.
51 51 301 Not to mention that the Nanami before her is still equipped with her original frame.
52 52 301 Nanami chuckles, playing in the Red Tide as if playing in a swimming pool. Haicma remembers Nanami doing the same when her frame was submerged in maintenance fluid for inspection.
53 53 301 Who is that? Can she be Nanami? What... should Haicma do?
54 54 301 "Nanami"? Do you want to know what I've seen, Haicma? 1
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56 56 301 Haicma You remember me? 2
57 57 301 "Nanami"? Of course I do! Haicma is Nanami's first friend, and Nanami is Haicma's first. 1
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59 59 301 "Nanami"? Nanami has seen so many interesting things in her journey. I want to tell you all about it, Haicma— 1
60 60 301 The girl reaches out toward Haicma as if asking for a hug.
61 61 301 "Nanami"? Come on, Haicma, my dearest friend! Jump down... Let Nanami tell you everything you want to know... 1
86 86 301 1 Spooner What the hell were you doing? 1
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88 88 301 Haicma I... 2
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90 90 301 Haicma realizes that she is a step from entering the Red Tide, her arms extended. The scarlet waves slap against the earth by her feet before dispersing like blood as if feeling disgruntled.
91 91 301 And there is nothing above the Red Tide. Everything Haicma saw appeared to be an error on her visual module.
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93 93 301 Haicma There may be a bug in my programs. I require immediate inspection. 2
94 94 301 Haicma retracts her hands.
95 95 301 Spooner That's wild. Does this Red Tide have some strange power that even you were distracted during a mission? 1
96 96 301 Haicma ...Perhaps you're right. 2
97 97 301 Spooner ...What happened? 1
98 98 301 Haicma looks down at her hands that almost touched the Red Tide.
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100 100 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Haicma I just realized something suddenly... 2
104 104 301 DialogEnable Despite having performed her duty as an observer perfectly, something has gone wrong with Haicma.
105 105 301 She can no longer observe, record, and analyze as she did to calculate Nanami's behaviors and motivations.
106 106 301 Haicma knows where Nanami is and what she is doing, but the reasons Nanami does them are incomprehensible.
107 107 301 If the sky is no longer blue and the flowers no longer bloom... if the land is overwhelmed with the scent of death and blood... would the girl still be happy? Would she be sad or maybe angry?
108 108 301 Has something gone wrong with Haicma's programs?
109 109 301 Or are her programs insufficient to support her duty?
110 110 301 Haicma wants—
111 111 301 For the first time in her life since she was activated, Haicma wants to do something—
112 112 301 She wants to know why she feels she is "off course."
113 113 301 She wants to know where this strange sensation comes from.
114 114 301 She wants to know what went wrong.
115 115 301 Discovering, investigating, analyzing, and solving problems—
116 116 301 That is how Haicma keeps her programs running.
117 117 301 Is this the effect of the Red Tide?
118 118 301 AniZhuanchangBegin For the first time, Haicma cannot decipher where the problem comes from.
