3 3 301 DialogEnable Their deafening rotor blades spinning, several transport crafts land on the field before you. A troop of Constructs in black walk out, armed with unrecognizable weapons, and flank Cerberus in a pincer movement.
4 4 301 Alarmed, both No. 21 and Noctis tense up. Vera, however, does not appear startled at all, looking at the leading Kurono Construct with disdain.
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6 6 301 1 Kurono Construct Your operation has been terminated. Put down your weapons and follow our orders. We'll take over here. 1
7 7 301 His voice is cold, his command leaving no room for bargain.
8 8 301 Vera holds back the irritated Noctis, and she looks at the Construct arrogantly, her head raised high.
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10 10 301 1 Vera Watch your tone. We aren't your guard dogs. 1
11 11 301 The Construct does not acknowledge her. He continues, his tone indifferent.
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13 13 301 1 Kurono Construct The details of this operation are treated as highly classified henceforth. Leaking any information will be treated as... 1
14 14 202 1 1
15 15 301 Impatient with their typical Kurono talk, Vera narrows her eyes and stares at the Constructs behind him. She is about to say something—
16 16 301 But—
17 17 301 Her expression changes for a second, and the vicious mockery she has prepared turns into a disdainful sneer.
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19 19 301 1 Vera Alright. We understand. 1
20 20 202 1 1
21 21 301 It is not like her to follow orders. Noticing that, No. 21 does not question any further. Noctis, grumpy as he is, also detects it and remains silent. For once, the three are in sync in the face of the unknown.
22 22 301 Constructs in black and more black-clad agents depart the landing transport crafts, setting up quarantine zones, disinfection chambers, laboratories, and temporary accommodations.
23 23 301 They announce the end of your mission. "Finding Luna" seems to have disappeared into thin air from the mission logs, and the men in black are now surrounding the area, trying to track down Vonnegut.
24 24 301 Cerberus, in turn, is surrounded by the Kurono agents, being questioned on the information of the new enemy.
25 25 301 No. 21 takes a look back at the estate.
26 26 301 What happened there...
27 27 301 AniZhuanchangBegin It will pass. But it will not be forgotten.
29 29 301 AniZhuanchangEnd As Vera conducts her mission report, No. 21 finds a window to walk off by herself, standing near a tree.
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31 31 301 1 No. 21 ...Are you leaving? 1
32 32 302 You mean disconnecting? 33
33 33 301 No. 21 Yes. 1
34 34 302 DialogDisable They're still checking the data. 35
35 35 302 But it won't be long. 36
36 36 301 DialogEnable No. 21 Okay. 1
37 37 301 Not far from her, more figures in black walk out of the transport crafts, removing the remote connection nodes. Vera and Noctis are standing by the side, talking to a human in uniform.
38 38 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Further away, the estate Luna used to live in is no longer shrouded in mystery. Under the gentle glow of the moon, it looks serene.
64 64 301 AniZhuanchangEnd 1 No. 21 That feeling... was strange. I don't understand. 1
65 65 301 No. 21 But when you were in my head back then... I felt something similar for the first time. 1
66 66 302 The urge to protect? 67
67 67 301 No. 21 Was that urge someone else's, or was it mine? I can't figure it out. 1
68 68 302 Who did you want to protect? 69
69 69 204 1
70 70 301 No. 21 ...Capt. 1
71 71 301 No. 21 And Noctis. He can't die. 1
72 72 302 Then those feelings belonged to you. 73
73 73 301 No. 21 But I've never felt anything. 1
74 74 301 No. 21 I only pretended. I never felt. My frame is made broken. 1
75 75 302 DialogDisable It has nothing to do with your frame. 76
76 76 302 Feelings come from the human part of you. 77
77 77 301 DialogEnable No. 21 ...The human part of me? 1
78 78 302 DialogDisable As humans... 79
79 79 302 You, Lucia, and Luna... you are all the same. 80
80 80 301 DialogEnable No. 21 What happened to them in the end? 1
81 81 301 No. 21 asks this question once more.
82 82 302 They... 83
83 83 301 They survived that ordeal. The worse had yet to come back then, and they had survived whatever came next. Despite being separated by fate, they have both survived until now. But is this the answer No. 21 is looking for?
84 84 302 They've both found where they belong. 85
85 85 301 No. 21 Where they belong... 1
86 86 202 1 1
87 87 301 AniZhuanchangBegin No. 21 closes her eyes. In her M.I.N.D., she imagines the two girls returning to their house, living a simple, happy life, unravaged by the Punishing Virus.
90 90 301 AniZhuanchangEnd There will be a fireplace with a small fire. There is a rocking horse, flowers, and dolls the girls love.
91 91 301 AniZhuanchangBegin There will be a cat purring on the rug. A music box will be playing wonderful music as the birds outside chirp, announcing the arrival of spring.
93 93 301 AniZhuanchangEnd In her imagination, No. 21 can see the morning sun entering the room gently, and the girls wake, stretch, and walk up to the mirror.
94 94 301 Then she sees herself in the mirror. She is wearing a white, soft pajama, her hair tied in a pink bow. In her arms is a Co-Bot-looking stuffed toy, furry and round.
95 95 301 She looks like a stranger, incapable of defending herself. But in her imagination, No. 21 knows that there will be no danger.
96 96 301 She smiles. She wants to be like the other girls. She wants to smile like daisies, innocent and harmless.
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98 98 301 1 No. 21 ... 1
99 99 301 Okay, maybe not every girl has to smile like daisies.
152 155 301 DialogEnable You are removed from the connection. Taking off the device on your head, you realize your hair is soaked in sweat.
153 156 301 You look up and find yourself alone in the small room. A few figures stand in the shadow on the other side of the glass window like little demons guarding the gate of hell, trying to feast on those passing by.
155 158 301 You stand up, the chain on your ankles clanking.
156 159 301 Kurono Constructs ...
157 160 301 Noticing your motion, the armed Constructs on the other side all raise their firearms at you in unison, almost shaking the ground.
158 161 302 (Raise your hands to indicate you are harmless) 162 (Shrug) 162
159 162 301 Kurono Constructs ...
160 163 302 Just needed to stretch. 164 Alright. Suit yourselves. 164
161 164 301 You stand tall, and vertigo hits you hard. You often feel this way after long flights or remote connections—your back, the freshly healed ribs, your temples... every part of your body is in pain.
162 165 301 You gently stretch your limbs and take the opportunity to look around the room again.
163 166 301 It looks the same as it was before the connection.
164 167 301 Kurono Construct ...That's enough. Sit down.
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166 169 301 A Construct walks up and points his gun at you, his grunting voice coming out of a speaker in the corner of the room. His footsteps are so heavy from all the gear he is wearing that the ground shakes again.
167 170 302 ...Whatever you say, boss. 171 As long as you like it. 171
168 171 301 You sit back down and rest your head on your hands. You want to ask about Kurono's plan for you after this, but it is evidently futile, considering the faceless, armed figures standing before you.
169 172 301 In this brief moment of respite, the gears in your brain start turning.
170 173 301 Kurono's mission has clearly not been locating Luna. They picked this town, and your reactions were part of their plan.
171 174 301 Remembering Luna's memories...
172 175 302 (Because I entered her M.I.N.D.) 176 (Because of the memory replays.) 177
173 176 178 301 Kurono has been suspecting it. They are trying to gather evidence.
174 177 301 Kurono seems to know everything about you.
175 178 301 If they compare the visual data during a connection, Kurono can easily deduce that you might have been "stained" by Luna's memories somehow.
176 179 301 Not that you can control those memory replays anyway...
178 181 183 301 No... Even if you have indeed imported her memories, it is still impossible to extract a Construct's memory from a human brain.
179 182 301 They are ambitious, that is for sure.
180 183 301 You still have so many questions regarding this operation. The Ascendant that has been guiding Roland... was it an accident that she ran into Cerberus? Vera knows more than she has been letting on.
181 184 301 Did Luna really go there after that battle? Then who was fighting her? Ever since you entered the town, those hallucinations became clearer and clearer. What is the connection between them?
182 185 301 Countless questions occupy your mind. At the very least, the most important one is answered.
183 186 301 Tiredness overcomes you.
184 187 301 Lucia... Liv, Lee...
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186 189 301 You place your hands back on the table. There is a slight ping, and you think you can feel the wind—which is impossible in a sealed room.
187 190 301 AniZhuanchangBegin That illusory breeze is gone soon enough. It passes through the heavy bulletproof glass and the seven-centimeter-thick metal walls, and it heads outside.
189 192 301 AniZhuanchangEnd It passed the withered tree and the lifeless houses over the nameless graves full of white crosses. An insignificant white daisy on the edge of the grave sways, hoping the wind will carry it away, but the wind cannot.
190 193 301 AniZhuanchangBegin The wind turns and heads up. The town grows smaller and smaller in its vision; the past is but a speck of dust in the tides of time. It is but a small inscription in the labyrinth.
