9 9 301 AniZhuanchangEnd The champion has slain the dragon.
10 10 301 That dragon destroyed our past but brought glory to our future.
11 11 301 People celebrate as they hug and shed tears. The tale of that champion echoes across every corner of this continent. People are all singing the same ballad.
12 12 301 AniZhuanchangBegin The ballad tells a kind of cursed flowers that will never blossom, yet they sway in the wind everywhere in the valley. The breeze has forever ceased to caress the girl's dead body. The warm raindrops keep falling, but they no longer form a storm.
16 16 301 AniZhuanchangEnd The sun rises and lights up everything the girl sees. The lake is shimmering and the mountains in the sunlight create a magnificent view.
17 17 301 The piper travels across mountains and rivers.
18 18 301 The girl walks on the land.
19 19 301 She visits places with her feet and witnesses things with her eyes.
20 20 301 She sees farmlands overgrown with grains and grassy hillsides where sheep roam.
21 21 301 She sees plains covered in green grass and river banks where cowslips and pampas grass grew.
22 22 301 She sees waves washing against the seashore and rainbows after a storm.
23 23 301 AniZhuanchangBegin She sees all the magnificent and romantic views this world has to offer.
27 27 301 AniZhuanchangEnd 1 The sound of the pipe is mesmerizing. The evil dragon roars and bellows. The champion calls to someone...
28 28 301 Passionate sounds explode in her world. A beam of light tears across the boundless darkness. Everything is finally shifting.
29 29 301 Is she awake or dreaming? Is the voice calling to her?
30 30 301 Scattered memories slowly come together. In the desolate M.I.N.D., numerous voices gather and coalesce into a thin line, fragile and about to break.
39 39 301 She visits places with her feet and witnesses things with her eyes.
40 40 301 As the last ray of sunlight dims, the first star begins to shine. The universe spins, shedding beautiful light on this castle in the sky.
41 41 301 The delightful footsteps choose to stay. The flock of birds arrives and hovers in the sky. And the girl is bathed in a sea of purple flowers. Everything is like a dream.
42 42 301 The sky is so far away, yet the nightfall is gentle and soft. It seems so within reach.
43 43 301 Along the journey, everything you see is a marvelous miracle.
44 44 301 The pounding heart in the chest is filled with a little bit of sorrow but mostly satisfaction. It is a magical feeling long-forgotten.
45 45 301 This magical feeling clings onto her, encouraging her to express her thoughts, tell her stories, and share her feelings.
46 46 301 She looks around her, but there is not a single soul in sight but the distant horizon.
47 47 301 Is she expecting to see someone here?
48 48 301 Does she want somebody to talk to? Does she want to tell her story in detail? Has she done that in another way before?
49 49 301 No one answers.
50 50 301 The memories in her mind are blurred as if they are hidden behind the fog, connected by only a thin, long thread. The moment that thread is disturbed, the girl looks up as if she senses something.
51 51 301 A shooting star with tail tears across the sky.
52 52 301 That is so beautiful.
53 53 301 Looking at the night sky, she can't help but laments and sings a song.
54 54 301 Is there something beyond the distant sky?
55 55 301 Are there people living between the stars?
56 56 301 AniZhuanchangBegin The girl can't help but wonder.
60 60 301 AniZhuanchangEnd 1 As the artificial nightfall of Eden descends, the bedroom lighting is automatically switched to night mode that fills the chamber with warm colors.
61 61 301 The story has come to an end. It should stop there, but for some reason, the heart is restless and emotional, unable to stop pounding and racing.
62 62 301 The girl hesitates for a long time.
63 63 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Before ink starts spilling out from the tip of the pen and after the story has drawn to a close, she writes down the poetry that comes to mind.
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65 65 304 AniZhuanchangEnd I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow— 0000ffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory00.png 1
66 66 304 The central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams... 0000ffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory00.png 1
67 67 304 AniZhuanchangBegin And is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities. 0000ffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory00.png 1 1
68 68 304 AniZhuanchangEnd I offer you explanations of yourself, ffffffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory0.png 1
69 69 304 Theories about yourself, ffffffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory0.png 1
70 70 304 AniZhuanchangBegin Authentic and surprising news of yourself. ffffffff Assets/Product/Texture/Image/BgStory/BgStory0.png 1 1
77 77 301 AniZhuanchangEnd The world built based on the theater play is slowly falling apart as the images gradually fade away from view. The physical senses of the real world are coming back.
78 78 301 A hand is waving in front of you.
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80 80 301 1 Ayla ...What are you thinking about? 1
81 81 302 It's nothing. 82 I recalled some poetry. 83 I was lost in thought for a while. 90
82 82 96 301 Ayla decides to accept your answer as she focuses all her attention on the theater play by Selena.
83 83 301 Ayla What poetry? 1
84 84 302 What Can I Hold You With? 85 It's poetry by Borges. 87
85 85 301 Ayla ...I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow. 1
86 86 302 That's the one. 87 Where did you read this? 87
87 87 301 Ayla I read it when I was reading the work of some famous poets, writers, and translators from the Golden Age. It was a pile of brittle papers lost in history and known by only a few of the new generation in Babylonia. 1
88 88 301 Ayla And I heard this from Selena as well. 1
89 89 96 301 Ayla She mentioned it in a mail. It was her favorite poetry. And she used that quote at the end of one of her stories. 1
90 90 301 Ayla looks at you. It seems she wants to say something, but eventually decides not to.
91 91 301 Ayla ...You and Selena are similar in that aspect. 1
92 92 301 Ayla The two of you will space out and mumble a verse or a song. And there will be a strange smile on your face... 1
93 93 301 You do not feel criticized or mocked by Ayla's monotonous tone. Instead, you think she understands and misses it.
94 94 301 Ayla Creators have another world of their own besides reality. 1
95 95 301 They treat every world, be it realistic or fanciful, with their most genuine, undisguised feelings.
101 101 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Ayla She may be a starry-eyed idealist, but she's also the most pragmatic person I have ever met. When she acts mature, she's decisive to an extreme. When she acts naive, she's romantic to a fault. 1
109 109 301 1 Ayla What did you see in the theater play this time? 1
110 110 301 Ayla interrupts your reminiscence.
111 111 302 Tell her the summary of that story 124 Tell her the ending is different 124 Hamlet is in the story. 112
112 112 301 Ayla I think you most likely triggered what we call the fourth wall. 1
113 113 302 The fourth wall? 114 The fact I saw Hamlet shows the fourth wall was broken. 115 I don't understand. 117
114 114 122 301 The fourth wall is a theatrical term. Simply put, it's the invisible wall that separates the actors from the audience in a play. "Breaking that fourth wall" means you remove the veil between reality and the play, and it has became a new genre of theatre since realism became a thing.
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116 116 121 301 Ayla I guess you are the Chief for a reason. 1
117 117 301 Ayla The way Hamlet works is basically treating tragedies as the "best solutions." That is exactly why even though Selena wrote more than just one ending, the script will always draw to a tragic ending. 1
118 118 302 Is this one of the reasons why that machine is called Hamlet? 119 Is it possible for it to alter the data of theater play? 120
119 119 122 301 Ayla I think that is possible. After all, Hamlet was considered one of the Four Tragedies by Shakespeare back in the Golden Age. 1
120 120 122 301 Ayla Hamlet doesn't have the ability to do that. It operates based on the processing of source data added by real humans and doesn't deviate from that because it is encoded like DNAs. 1
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122 122 301 Ayla So, as a performer in the play, you helped the non-tragic ending make more sense using the characters' reasonable actions and broke the fourth wall in the process. That was why Hamlet showed up during the play. 1
123 123 301 Ayla This doesn't come as a surprise considering that method is already encoded... 1
124 124 301 Ayla Anyway... the evil dragon has been defeated. And both the champion and the piper survived, right? 1
125 125 301 Ayla And the piper embarked on her journey in the end, right? 1
126 126 204 1
127 127 301 Ayla I prefer this ending to the previous ones. 1
128 128 302 Me too. 129 I would say embarking on a journey alone is too lonely. 131
129 129 204 1 19
130 130 133 301 Ayla Don't you think the piper is too lonely if she has to go on that journey alone? 1
131 131 204 1 19
132 132 301 Ayla ...I think so too. 1
133 133 301 Ayla ...But at least she survived. Well, everyone survived. 1
134 134 302 Yeah. 135 There is always hope so long as we live. 135
135 135 301 Ayla lets out a sigh. She keeps her emotional feelings under control and changes to another subject.
136 136 204 1 4
137 137 301 Ayla We have triggered three endings so far... but I don't think this will be the last one. 1
138 138 302 I think it is the last one. 139 I agree with you. 141
139 139 301 Ayla Do you think these are all the messages Selena left behind...? Are we not... missing anything else? 1
140 140 302 The sailor in the story mentioned a traveler. 143
141 141 301 Ayla Why? 1
142 142 302 I think the story is missing something. 143 Tell her about the details that trouble you. 143
143 143 301 Ayla Do you mean the traveler with purple eyes? 1
144 144 302 I think she is the same person as the piper. 145
145 145 301 Ayla ...Perhaps all these characters are trying to tell us Selena decided to become the piper because of the journey. 1
146 146 302 What about the siren's call that sailor mentioned? 147
155 155 301 Wanshi You think it sounds like a whale song, but the refugees call it the "siren's call." 1
156 156 302 "Siren's call"? 157
157 157 301 Wanshi Documents leftover from the Golden Age say that sirens were monsters that lived in the ocean who lured sailors with songs. 1
158 158 301 Wanshi Sailors would become entranced by their songs and crash their ships into the reefs. 1
159 159 301 Wanshi It's not difficult to understand why it's garnered such a negative reputation. After all, the sound and Red Tide coincide with death. 1
160 160 302 But... 161
161 161 301 Wanshi ...It is. It's bound to the Red Tide, so we can always rely on the sound to predict the rise and fall of the Red Tide. 1
162 162 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Wanshi Ironically, it isn't so much an alluring sound that puts people in a trance, but rather... It seems to be a reminder of the approaching Red Tide. 1
169 169 301 DialogEnable The question seems to rouse the monster in the middle of the Red Tide. It struggles to raise its head and unleashes a dense but serene "song."
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171 171 301 ??? ——▆▂——▄▆█——
172 172 301 This was the "siren's call" that you had been hearing.
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174 174 301 AniZhuanchangBegin 1 Then, it suddenly turns its head and looks this way. The tranquil Red Tide seems to suddenly take on life as it gradually inundates the surrounding land. 1
196 196 301 You hear someone singing an adagio aria.
197 197 301 This is the most beautiful sound you have ever heard.
198 198 301 The tone ebbs and flows as it rises higher. Suddenly, a vast ocean seems to appear before your very eyes.
199 199 301 The female singer is not fully imitating the sound of a real whale, but she conveys the same expression in the melody.
200 200 301 —A lonely blue whale is swinging its tail fin and cruising in the sea. Again and again it sings, its song echoing throughout the ocean depths, but there is no response.
201 201 301 The singing stopped, but the song had no ending, because the lonely whale never found its herd.
202 202 302 Sounds like the song isn't finished. 203
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204 204 301 1 Ayla You're right. 1
205 205 301 Ayla She said that she hadn't thought of an ending yet because she hasn't seen the ocean with her own eyes. 1
206 206 301 Ayla She'll write the second half of the song when she sees the real ocean. 1
207 207 301 AniZhuanchangBegin Ayla That's what she said at least. 1
211 211 301 AniZhuanchangEnd As the tune comes to an end, things become clearer.
212 212 301 It is the second half of the soothing aria. It is the joy of a lonely whale drowning in the depth of the ocean that finally finds where it belongs. And it is the most glorious ode one sings for the vast sea when they first see it.
213 213 301 It is a nearly perfect ending.
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215 215 301 1 Ayla ...What's going on? 1
216 216 302 It's the second half of that melody. 217
217 217 301 Ayla ...She said that only when she had seen the real ocean would she finish the second half of the song. 1
218 218 202 1 1
219 219 301 But if that was the case, how could this complete melody exist in her previous work?
220 220 301 And the melodies of the two memories are harmonic too.
221 221 301 You start to get these thoughts that are wild, preposterous, and complacent.
222 222 301 Feeling nervous, excited, scared, and many other things at the same time, Ayla trembles slightly.
223 223 302 I will experience the play once again. 224
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225 225 301 Ayla looks at you. Her eyes express complicated feelings, even with ecstasy she tries to keep under control and a sign of pleading she doesn't dare to show. It is almost as if she is going to burst out laughing or crying the very next second. No one can tell.
226 226 302 Don't worry. 227
227 227 301 As if trying to push against the raging feelings inside her, she straightens her back a little bit.
228 228 302 I will make sure to remember that melody. 229
