TALES OF HEARTS SCRIPT TRANSLATION—by Jasmine B. Please note that I had a time limit to translate the entire thing. That time limit was three weeks. While I did have time to go back and edit it, the script is still probably littered with mistakes. As you play/read, if you notice mistakes or have suggestions for better alternatives, please let me know! Due to the time constraint, only the main plot dialogue was translated. What was left out was: the skits, sidequests, optional dialogue, battle voices, and a few information texts (I'm sure you can figure out how to use the Sorcerer's Ring after the first time you use it :|). If I go through a second playthrough--which I probably am, since I'm working towards enough grade to have 2x exp--I'll probably go back and include some of these. A lot of the translations for names are personal preference. Some examples of these are: Lithia, Kohaku, Chalcedony, Velleia. Lithia's last name, Spodune, is based off the mineral spodumene which is closely related to the rock kunzite and hints at the presence of lithium... or something like that. So it makes sense to me to call her Lithia. 'Kohak' to me sounds like 'cough hack'. Chalcedony is a real mineral, and can be both pronounced as I spell it, 'calsedoughneee', or as the Japanese spell it (chalcedny), 'calsedneeee.' Both pronunciations are correct, but not the spellings. Velleia, the name of the Church, is also the name of a <a href=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Velleia_paradoxa.jpg>p lant</a>, and since it worships Cendrillion/Lithia, it makes sense that it would follow the plant theme. All names I couldn't come up with a translation for, I referenced <a href=http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/file/950188/55254>GreenFire1's walkthrough on GameFAQs</a>. Well, it is personal preference so if you want to call Lithia "Muffin pants," go right ahead. No one's stopping you. xD I had trouble hearing what Shing says in the last animated cutscene. I got "違 違 、。 違違違違違違 一(違?)違違[WHAT]違違違 、、、 " I can't hear it ;_; So if you know what he says there, do you mind helping me out? The video is <a href=http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5733248>this one</a>, and starts at 9:47. Temporarily in the script I made something up, but it's going to bother me into eternity...
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TALES OF HEARTS SCRIPT TRANSLATION—by Jasmine B.
Please note that I had a time limit to translate the entire thing. That time limit was three weeks. While I did have time to go back and edit it, the script is still probably littered with mistakes.
As you play/read, if you notice mistakes or have suggestions for better alternatives, please let me know!
Due to the time constraint, only the main plot dialogue was translated. What was left out was: the skits, sidequests, optional dialogue, battle voices, and a few information texts (I'm sure you can figure out how to use the Sorcerer's Ring after the first time you use it :|). If I go through a second playthrough--which I probably am, since I'm working towards enough grade to have 2x exp--I'll probably go back and include some of these.
A lot of the translations for names are personal preference. Some examples of these are: Lithia, Kohaku, Chalcedony, Velleia. Lithia's last name, Spodune, is based off the mineral spodumene which is closely related to the rock kunzite and hints at the presence of lithium... or something like that. So it makes sense to me to call her Lithia. 'Kohak' to me sounds like 'cough hack'. Chalcedony is a real mineral, and can be both pronounced as I spell it, 'calsedoughneee', or as the Japanese spell it (chalcedny), 'calsedneeee.' Both pronunciations are correct, but not the spellings. Velleia, the name of the Church, is also the name of a <a href=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Velleia_paradoxa.jpg>plant</a>, and since it worships Cendrillion/Lithia, it makes sense that it would follow the plant theme.
All names I couldn't come up with a translation for, I referenced <a href=http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/file/950188/55254>GreenFire1's walkthrough on GameFAQs</a>.
Well, it is personal preference so if you want to call Lithia "Muffin pants," go right ahead. No one's stopping you. xD
I had trouble hearing what Shing says in the last animated cutscene. I got "違うよ、ガルデニア。一人ぼっちのスピリアに開いた無限に(の?)闇を[WHAT]ものは、、、" I can't hear it ;_; So if you know what he says there, do you mind helping me out? The video is <a href=http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5733248>this one</a>, and starts at 9:47. Temporarily in the script I made something up, but it's going to bother me into eternity...
I ran around with Hisui as my on-screen character, so in scenes that change depending on the onscreen character, Hisui will be saying it. However, they're little things like "I got the gummy liquor, yay!" so it should basically be the same thing for every character. I'll probably go back and fix this on a second playthrough.
I can think of three scenes at the top of my head that will change depending on the player: The mandatory arena fights in Yuraio, the first battle with
Chalcedony, and the first battle with Incarose. In the arena fight, you get to choose between Beryl and Innes. I chose Innes, so of course if you end up choosing Beryl, your dialogue will be different. Same with the battles; they're the kind that even if you lose, the story will continue. I lost the Chalcedony fight and won the Incarose one. So obviously, if you win the Chalcedony fight and lose the Incarose one, your dialogue will be different. This will probably be fixed on a second playthrough.
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The Princess who sleeps in the Forest of ThornsThe Princess who has dreamt for a thousand years
Her flowing hair is emeraldHer blushing cheeks are rose-colored crystalsThe Princess who sleeps in the Forest of Thorns
The pitiful imprisoned Princess who does not awakenAnd is cursed by the malicious feelings
Spun by the devil of scarlet hairDeep, deep within the Forest of Thorns
Always, forever dreamingDreaming a dream in which the world disappears
???I’ve found you.
HISUIKohaku! This is one of those dangerous guys, right?!
KOHAKUYeah! The magician Incarose, at least that’s what she’s telling me!
INCAROSEI’ve found you, I’ve finally found you.
HISUIDammit, magician or not, I’ll get rid of you!
KOHAKUHisui.
HISUIHuh? …Kohaku, you know I can’t swim, right?
KOHAKUIt’s okay. I’m afraid of heights.
BOTHAhhh!!
INCAROSEIt’s no use running. I’ve completely seen your mind. It’s been 2000 years since then… This time, I will complete my mission…!
The black moon will one day fallThe white moon will one day crumble
Her prayers are devoured by the monstersWho inhabit dreams and wither awayEven her pearl tears are crushed
The Princess who sleeps in the Forest of ThornsThe Princess who is wrapped in thorns
Until the day her nightmares become realityUntil a hero stops her nightmares
???Find it…!Obtain it…!For the sake of…!
???…Find…Ob,tain……For the sake of…
ZEXWake up Shing!
SHINGAhh! It’s… gramps?
ZEXWhat are you saying? Are you going senile before me?
SHINGOwww… Oh, that’s right. I was doing intense sword training with gramps and he beat me again. Ack… But, that was a weird dream. Someone was yelling, “Find it”…
ZEX! …
SHINGWell, right now Soma is more important. You gave in and now you’re gonna teach me all about it!
ZEXHmph, I can’t believe I’ve lost to this child who thinks Soma is a normal weapon! Well, you are talented. If you work hard, in ten years you might just be able to beat me!
SHINGTen years!? But by then you’ll be a feeble old man! Even if I win against you then…
ZEXDon’t be stupid! I’m going to live longer than anyone else! So after 10 years, or 20… Until you’re on your own, you will continue to work. Alright, Shing? What you should truly be training is this.
SHING…My heart?
ZEXNo. It’s the origin of life that rules over a person’s mind and spirit, Spiria. Spiria is the thing that is strongest, yet most fragile in the entire world. It can break with strong emotions such as anger, hatred, and fear, and can be distorted with love and dreams. Soma can cure that. That is why more than anyone else, people who use Soma must train their Spiria. Shing, I’m
raising you so your emotions won’t spill out all at once, and to see that you truly have a strong Spiria.
SHING…Hey gramps, let’s eat! A strong Spiria’s got nothing over an empty stomach!
ZEXI swear, you are… All right, how about some food. …Last one in the house has to clean up after!
SHINGWha, what?! That’s not fair!
SHINGAhh, that was really good! The Rappig Stew you make is the best.
ZEXRight? The secret is to boil it with gummy liquor!
MAN FROM NEIGHBORHOODZex… Apparently my niece in the next town over hasn’t said anything or left her room for a few days now. My brother is worried it might be the Despir Disease… Would you please take a look at her?
SHINGDespir Disease! That’s been spreading lately. That’s the thing where your Spiria goes out of control for no reason, right?
MAN FROM NEIGHBORHOODYes, and what’s more, normal doctors and medicine can’t do anything about it.
SHINGHmm, it’s a bit complicated, but Spiria is the “Origin of Life” that makes the mind and soul. The only thing that can fix it is the secret weapon that can make Links inside people’s Spiria—Soma!
ZEXYou be quiet! …I’m sorry, but I cannot use my Soma lightly.
SHINGWhy not? You always say, “If a person is in trouble, save them. If a beautiful woman is in trouble, you must save them.”
MAN FROM NEIGHBORHOODWell, my niece is quite beautiful…
ZEXOho!? …Ah, no, that’s not the problem.
SHINGBut before, when that man was acting strange in the town plaza, you made a link and he listened to you. I heard that my mother used Soma, but I didn’t know you could use it too up until then, Gramps.
ZEX
There was no need to tell you, but that man was possessed by Zerom… Could that have been related to her? With the Soma Link, it felt as though his power was weakening quite a bit…
MAN FROM NEIGHBORHOOD…I don’t mean to be a nuisance, but there’s no one in this area I can ask for help besides you, Zex.
SHINGGramps, isn’t it the duty of Soma users to save people’s Spiria?
ZEX…You won’t let it go. Fine, for now I’ll take a look at her and decide if it needs Soma or not.
MAN FROM NEIGHBORHOODOh, thank you so much!
SHINGYeah, let’s go!
ZEX…Shing. I can’t take you with me. It’s the next town over.
SHINGWhat, again? Why don’t you ever let me leave the village?! I’m not a kid anymore. Stop telling me things that don’t make sense!
ZEXWell, the reason is… Shing, I’ve told you before. Anger and hatred… You can’t become engulfed in such strong feelings.
SHINGUh…
ZEXBecause I know with a weak Spiria like that, if you meet the beautiful ladies in the village you’ll become smitten at once.
SHINGHey, isn’t that supposed to be you?!
ZEXHahaha, you’re still young! I’ll get you gummy jam cake as a souvenir, so just wait here.
SHINGMan, if all I ever do is house-sit, my Spiria’ll never get stronger!
[The Quiet Fishing Village – Seable]
SHINGDammit, why am I not allowed to leave the village? I’m sixteen and the only one who doesn’t know anything about the outside world is me. …But if I break that rule, gramps’ll laugh at me and say, “Your Spiria’s weak”… I guess I’ll
go to the beach… “The only thing that can stimulate my Spiria in this tiny village is the grand view of the sea.” By Shing.
SHINGOh no, did they drown?! Hey, are you okay?! …They’re still alive! But what should I do? I know! CPR! … This girl, she’s really pretty…
KOHAKU!! Aaaaahhh! What are you doing?!
SHINGAhh! I-It’s a misunderstanding! I wasn’t doi- aack!
KOHAKUOhh, this sucks. Being attacked by magicians and creeps right after one another!
HISUI*cough* And I think a little sister pushing her older brother who can’t swim into the sea is the worst.
KOHAKUI-I’m sorry, but if I didn’t do it we definitely would have been caught. Next time we won’t be able to run. We have to hurry and find Zex! She says that he’s just up ahead.
SHINGZex? You guys came looking for him too?
KOHAKUYou know him? The Soma user, Zex?
SHINGY-Yeah. He’s my grandpa. The house is… right over there.
KOHAKUReally?! That house, right? Thank you! But you really, honestly didn’t do anything, right?
SHINGNo! I didn’t do anything!
HISUII’ll say this now. If you touch my sister… I’ll kill you.
SHINGI told you, I’m innocent!!
KOHAKUZex? Zex! Um, where is your grandfather?
SHINGHe’s out right now, but he should be back by evening.
HISUI…Damn you, you didn’t lie to get Kohaku inside your house, did you?!
SHINGI’m not lying! Okay, I’ll show you the Soma as proof. Here… this is the book that gramps wrote on how to use Soma. Dammit, of course it’s locked. But I know where the key is hidden!
HISUIIf you’re mocking my sister, I’ll seriously kill you.
SHINGThe key’s behind the gummy liquor barrel… And then inside the pickled rice! See? Alright, it opened!
(Obtained Asteria x 1Sword Soma with a built-in shield that means “Radiance of Stars” in an ancient language.)
KOHAKUThis is Soma…
SHINGYup! The secret weapon that can control mind artes and can make Links with people’s Spiria!
KOHAKUThere should be another one around here…
SHINGYeah. There’s a shrine on the coast that holds another one, but…
HISUIThat’s it! Take us there now!!
KOHAKUYou’re being rude, Hisui! …Um…
SHING…I’m Shing Meteoryte.
KOHAKUShing, I’m Kohaku Hearts. …And this is my older brother, Hisui Hearts. I’m sorry for doubting you, but we really need Soma. Could you please take us to the shrine?
SHINGOkay, but only if you believe that I wasn’t trying anything weird…
KOHAKUAlright, I believe you. There’s no reason for creeps to be able to use Soma, right?
SHING…Well, actually, this is my first time using it…
KOHAKU
Huh?!
SHINGN-Nothing! Recently, there’ve been more monsters in this area so it’s dangerous! …And the first thing I have to do is release the Soma. Okay, with this, I can fight monsters. Let’s go! The shrine is on the coast.
SHINGHere come monsters… Leave this to me, you guys stand back!
SHING*pant pant*
KOHAKUSo that was Soma’s power…
SHINGHehe, what’d you think? Wasn’t that cool?!
HISUINo! All you did was attack like a normal sword! Shouldn’t there be something more powerful a Soma can do? Why don’t you actually read that instruction manual?
SHINGO-Okay…
(Obtained Soma Book – Mind x 1A book on how to use Soma. Soma Build is now possible.Soma Build: You are now able to use Soma Build. With raw materials, you can learn artes, improve parameters, and learn various other Soma Skills to make your characters stronger. Try learning Shing’s “Chisaishou”.)
SHINGT-That’s right! Soma Build is the basics of the basics. The fact that you can always check is important… yeah!
HISUI…Kohaku. You think we can rely on this amateur?
KOHAKUWe-We’ll be fine! …I think.
SHINGThis is the shrine that holds the Soma, but the door’s sealed with an arte.
KOHAKUShe says… It’s okay.
(Obtained Elrond x 1Leg ring Soma in the shape of a baton that means “Rondo of Hope.”)
HISUI
An anklet… Is this a Soma for women?
SHINGYeah, just one memento of my mom’s…
KOHAKUOh, so your mother used Soma too… She’s already gone, isn’t she? Our mother is the same, but we don’t know where her Soma memento is anymore…
SHINGOh, I see… But I’m not lonely! I’ve got that annoying old man with me! I’m sure you too, right?
KOHAKUAhahaha, yeah! I’m not lonely at all. I’ve got this seriously weird brother, after all! You’re a good person, Shing. Really… I’m sorry for doubting you.
SHINGUh… um, it’s okay! I don’t really mind.
HISUIThis isn’t the time to play around! Let’s hurry up and take this thing…
KOHAKUHisui, what do you mean “thing”?! He’s helping us!
SHINGHey, why do you guys need Soma so badly?
KOHAKUThat’s…
INCAROSEI’ve found you… This time, I won’t let you run.
KOHAKUAaaahhhh!
HISUIKohaku!!
INCAROSEDon’t worry, I didn’t kill her. Just until it awakens from its sleep, however.
SHINGWhat the hell did you do to her?!
INCAROSEOh… Soma. I remember that form. Are you related to Zex?
SHINGAnd what if I am?
INCAROSEIt’s nothing. I’ll just kill you, and Zex if he’s still alive. That’s all.
SHING
Ack…!
ZEXGhuaa…! Shing… get out of here!!!
INCAROSEZex? My, you’ve aged. But be happy. From now on… you won’t age anymore.
SHINGStop… it… You… What the hell did you do to my grandpa?!!
INCAROSETh-This power…?!
ZEXShing… no! *cough, hack*
SHINGGramps, get a hold of yourself, gramps!!
HISUIYou should be the one getting a grip! Let’s get out of here!!
SHINGO-Okay!
INCAROSE…I’ve… found it! He’s inside of that boy!
SHINGGramps! Gramps!!
HISUIGet out of the way!
SHINGYou… can use healing artes?
HISUIYeah. But this wound is so bad that…
SHINGThis is my fault… If gramps had been using Soma and not me, this never would have happened!
KOHAKU*sounds of pain*
SHINGAh… use healing artes on Kohaku, too!
HISUINo, she doesn’t have any injuries. That bastard put some spell on her Spiria! If Spiria gets hurt then healing artes can’t do anything.
KOHAKU*sounds of pain*
SHING…I’ll do it. I’ll make a Link with her Spiria with my Soma and release the spell!
HISUIWait wait wait! Shouldn’t someone who knows what they’re doing take care of it?!
SHINGI’ll do it even if I can’t, in gramps’ place!
KOHAKU*even more sounds of pain*
HISUIShit, this is too much!
SHINGHere I go!
NOTICEAbout SpirlinkA person’s Spiria is called “Spirmaze” and takes the shape of a dungeon. Soma comes equipped with a power to allow one into another one’s Spirmaze called Spirlink. When a person who can use Spirlink fulfills the requirements, a special mark will be displayed… You can make a Spirlink by talking to those who have the mark.
SHINGSo this is the mind maze, Spirmaze… Calm down, self. Spirmaze is a part of Spiria… A world where the rules are different from reality. Wha, what’s this monster?! Could it… be eating Kohaku’s Spiria?! Cut it out!!That thing was just like the monsters that devour dreams in the Sleeping Princess picture book… Zerom?! The fact that these actually exist… What on earth is going on in Kohaku?
NOTICEAbout SpirmazeSpirmaze is a strange dungeons that differs from reality and changes each time you enter. In many Spirmazes, some sort of secret is hidden in the deepest part. You can reach this upon finding the goal marked on the Navi Map (Linker Point). At the Linker Point, you have the option of moving to the next floor or Linking Out. The Link Counter will grow with battle victories, obtaining items, and moving to the next floor. Be careful—when the Link Counter reaches 0, it will be game over.
SHINGA… girl? Is this some sort of spell? Dammit, now an invisible wall? But I have to do this in Gramps’ place… I’ll save this girl!!
Ohh, it’s so pretty. Oh right, this is Kohaku’s…
???Yes, Spirune. The center of Spiria that gives birth to all feeling. Could you have possibly broken through my barrier with one hit? Just as expected from Zex’s grandchild.
SHINGWh-Who’s there?! Show yourself! Are you a monster, too?
LITHIAI am Lithia, a friend of your grandfather’s.
SHINGE-Emerald colored hair…?! This is a joke, right? The Sleeping Princess herself shows up…
LITHIAThere is no reason to be surprised. But since Incarose has found us, there is not much time to explain.
SHINGIncarose…? That sorceress just now?
LITHIAYes. The terrible magician planning on reviving the monsters who devour dreams—Zerom. I want you to lend me your power so I may run from her.
SHINGRun? Are you stupid?! I’m going to avenge Gramps! I’ll fight her and kill her!
LITHIANo! Even Zex was not able to win!
SHINGIf he had his Soma he could’ve! She harassed my unarmed grampa! …That wound… What if gramps is already… already…! Next time I see her I’ll do the same to her!! But, what are you? Are you doing anything to hurt this girl?
LITHIAN-No… Kohaku and I are… …This power? You’re…!! I’m sorry, Kohaku!
SHINGAhhh!!
ZEXNo, Shing!
SHING…Gramps? Ahh, what is this power….! Aaaaahhh!!
HISUIWhat? What the hell happened?
HISUIHey, you bastard! What did you do?! Is Kohaku okay?
KOHAKUI’m… okay…
HISUIKohaku! Good… I was worried.
KOHAKU…Good… worried…
HISUI…Cut it out. I’ll get mad if you’re playing around.
KOHAKUMad…… What is that?
HISUIHey… I’m going to ask you again. What did you do to her?
SHINGI’m sorry, I… accidentally… broke her Spirune.
HISUI…Spirune?
SHINGThe core of Spiria… where people’s emotions are born.
HISUI…And you broke it? So you’re saying Kohaku will never laugh, get angry, or feel sad ever again?!
KOHAKUHisu…i… Stop.
SHINGShe still has Spirune left?
HISUI…Kohaku hates fights and when the weak are bullied. Whenever I fought she would always get mad at me. Even if she forgets her anger… she still has her kindness.
(Obtained Kindness Spirune x 1)
ZEXUggh… Yes. She has not lost all her Spirune yet… If you collect all the scattered pieces… you should be able to return her Spiria to… the way it was.
HISUIR-Really?!
ZEXYes, I’m sure your Soma will show the way… *cough*
SHING…Ahhh! Hisui, please! Your healing artes…
ZEXNo, this boy… did all he could. I told him it’s… no use.
SHINGNo… you can’t, gramps! I’ll do whatever you say so… so… Don’t die!!
ZEXHey… Shing. You’re letting these emotions… get the better of you. Don’t let your emotions spill… and raise a strong Spiria… Those aren’t orders… it’s a promise with this old man…
SHINGO-Okay! I promise!
ZEXGood. I believe… in you… You must make your Spiria… honest…
SHINGGramps… Gramps!!
SHINGHisui… Thanks for helping make Gramps’ grave.
HISUI…It’s thanks for the Soma Kohaku borrowed. And now I’ve gotta save Kohaku from this.
KOHAKU…Soma.
SHINGIs she… pointing to a Spirune fragment? Let’s go!
HISUIHey, don’t get carried away. You still think you got any reason to stick around us?
KOHAKUThink?
SHINGNo, but take me with you! It’s… my duty. I’ll do anything, so… please…
HISUI…Anyway, you need your Soma, huh… We’ll be waiting by the village gate. Get ready and come there.
SHINGY-Yes! Thank you!! Gramps, please lend your power to this Soma… Not for my sake, but for Kohaku’s. …I’m okay. I promised to have a strong Spiria, right?
INCAROSE
…It seems as though the one that should be killed is the grandchild…
HISUIYou’re late. Done preparing?
SHINGYeah. Let’s go.
HISUIKohaku’s light was pointing south. Let’s go to Cunos.
SHINGGramps, Mom… I’m going out into the world for the first time to help save this girl… I’m off!
(Shing received the title Apprentice Soma User.)
SHINGThat’s a strong current… If we fall, we won’t be able to make it.
HISUIJust in case, we can link ourselves with rope and cross one at a time.
SHINGH-Hey… Kohaku!
KOHAKU…What?
SHINGKohaku!!!
HISUIThat was dangerous…
SHINGWhat were you thinking? You could have—
KOHAKU…I know. Died…
HISUI…Oh yeah, now you’re not afraid of stuff like that.
SHINGAh, I’m so—
HISUIDon’t apologize. It’s not like I was going to forgive you from the start, anyway.
[The Town on the River – Cunos]
SHING
Wow… So this is the next town! Cool, a two story building! Woah, what’s that thing sticking out?
HISUI…It’s just a telescope. Don’t get so excited over this country town. It’s embarrassing.
SHINGThis is… Is there a Spirune in this area?
KOHAKU…I don’t know.
HISUIWe got no choice. Nothing’s probably changed much here recently so let’s ask around.
BAD ATTITUDED MANHey hey, don’t screw with me! There’s no way anyone could pay for that!
???Yes, but this is the market price… And you say you need it to cure a precious woman… You’re a man with small peanuts.
BAD ATTITUDED MANShut up! I just want to help a woman’s mood, but I’m not gonna waste my life savings!
???Aaah! Please stop! My precious Soma~!
HISUIHey, she just said Soma, right?
SHINGStop, mister.
BAD ATTITUDED MANHuh? Who the hell are you? Don’t interrupt me, you brat, or I’ll kill you!
SHINGTownspeople are so loud… Even little pigs in Seable don’t yell at girls with such loud voices.
BAD ATTITUDED MANA-A pig? I’ll murder you, brat-!! Ack!
SHINGTownspeople punch slow, too. Gramps could’ve punched me ten times in that one second!
ONLOOKERSWooooow!
TALKATIVE WOMAN
Hahaha, what a relief! That hooligan has been following Uran around. He raged how he could cure that girl stuck in her room from Despir Disease, but he was all talk! She’s usually with that astronomer Eucles… Oh, no, I’ve said too much~
HISUIA girl with Despir… That probably has something to do with Kohaku’s Spirune.
???Thank you for saving me.
SHINGAhaha, it’s nothing. Gramps always said, “If a person is in trouble, do whatever you can to save them. If a beautiful woman with a big chest is in trouble, save them even if it means your life.”
???Well… I’m often told I’m a beautiful woman with a big chest. ♪
HISUIWait! You said Soma before, right? Do you sell it?
???Yes! This is the safe and reliable transport shop, “Every Day is a Peaceful Day,” where you can get any sort of product! Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. I’m the representative, Innes Lorenz. …But don’t you think Soma isn’t for you? I mean, the price is a bit…
HISUI…The same as one’s life savings?
INNESWell, it’s not something that’s been on the public market since the church’s Soma Hunters. But if you’ve got some resolve like, “An older brother who needs it for his younger sister,” then maybe… I’ll give you one?
HISUI…Hey, what?!
INNESHehehe… I’ll still be around town, so if you’ve made up your resolve, come see me. ♪
SHINGWow, this town is so cool! I’ve never seen such a strong lady before! What are you doing, Hisui? Let’s hurry and find this Uran person.
HISUIShut up! You’re the one getting sidetracked!
???I-I’m sorry!
SHINGAhh… I’m okay! Anyway, do you know a person named Uran?
URANYes, that’s me.
HISUIWhat? Aren’t you supposed to be locked in your room with Despir?
URANAh, well… That’s a mistake… I apologize, but I’m in a hurry! He… Eucles has gone missing!
KOHAKUHe… Eucles… missing…
SHING…Something’s funny.
HISUIEucles is the astronomer, right? Let’s go to that telescope house!
SHINGWoah, it’s so messy in here… Oh hey, I remember this… It’s the Sleeping Princess picture book.
(Obtained Sleeping Princess picture book x 1)
URANOh, thank goodness! You’re back, Eucles.
SHINGUmmm… C-Calm down. We want to ask you something.
URANYou’re the people from before… Oh, Eucles… is he really gone?
HISUIYou’re faking sick, aren’t you?
URAN…Yes. All he ever dreamed about was stars, but I wanted him to worry about me so I lied. But he… didn’t even send me a get-well card. He finally came to see me the next morning when that light exploded with the shooting stars, but… of course he said, “Let’s get out of here! The moon is going to crumble!” I got angry and shooed him off… But then I learned he went missing…
KOHAKUThe black moon… will fall… The white moon… will crumble…
SHINGIsn’t that the Sleeping Princess fairy tale? There can’t be people who actually believe that, right?
HISUI
Yeah, when we were little Kohaku got scared of the moon falling after she read that book, too. And the exploding light and shooting stars could mean that the Spirune fell in this town, right?
SHINGYeah! Gramps said that a strong Spirune can influence other people’s Spirune. Eucles was probably affected by Kohaku’s Spirune!
HISUISo they’re connected… Uran, would you happen to know where he might’ve run off to?
URAN…The Lagos Cavern, to the west of here. He said that we’d be safe there if the moon fell. Please, find him!! He was really scared, but I didn’t listen to what he had to say.
KOHAKU…It’s okay.
SHINGYeah, leave it to us! With this Soma we’ll definitely bring Eucles back!
HISUISoma…
HISUIInnes… I don’t have any money, but please! Give me Soma!
INNESI said “resolve” didn’t I? So, what have you decided on?
HISUI…I’ll pay with my life! Even if I work all my life, even if you sell me somewhere, I won’t care! I need Soma to return my sister’s Spiria back to normal!
INNESHmmm… I don’t really hate that kind of passion, but paying after…
SHINGMe too…! I’ll sell my life too! And if it’s not enough, I’ll give you my house in Seable too! And even though it’s a memento of my grandfather… when we fix Kohaku, I’ll give you this Soma. So… please!!
KOHAKUEveryone… for my sake…
INNESAlright, that’s good enough. But you’ll have to sign the contract right away.
KOHAKUHisui, Soma…
INNES
This Soma for your forearms becomes a double bow-gun when released. It kind of suits you.
HISUII like this… I did a lot of bow hunting back home, right Kohaku?
INNESSo, hurry up and fix your sister’s Spiria, then come pay with your body~
HISUI…I’m not thanking you.
SHINGI know. Okay, let’s hurry to Lagos Cavern!
(Hisui joined the party.
Obtained Gale Arc x 1Forearm Soma which transforms into a bow with the name “Hurricane Bow” in an ancient language.
Shing received the title Body for Sale.Hisui received the title Body for Sale.Hisui received the title Double Shooter.)
???While I’m like this, will Uran be crushed by the moon?! But if I talk about it again she’ll hate me… Aww, no! That’s scary! Her life, her feelings! I don’t want to lose either of them!
SHINGAre you the astronomer, Eucles? Uran asked us to…
HISUIHey you! You know something about a Spirune fragment?!
EUCLESAck, who are you? Wh-Why do you know?? D-Don’t come any closer!
SHINGAww, you just had to yell…
HISUIHey, shut up! But you have to say the way he freaked out was a little weird.
KOHAKUI feel… it…
HISUIHe’s got something to do with Kohaku’s Spirune, no mistake. Let’s follow him!
[Lagos Cavern]
HISUI
You’re making yourself obvious, bastard! Hurry up and give back Kohaku’s Spirune!
EUCLESDon’t come close! If the moon falls, the world will end! So why should that matter to me?! Go away!!
SHINGUran asked us to take you home.
EUCLESUran…? She said that she hated that I’ve been acting weird, right?
SHINGNo, she was really worried. Since you suddenly started talking about the moon…
EUCLESI don’t know! That night… I saw that explosion of light, and then something like a shooting star fell inside me… And from then on I’ve been so incredibly scared of the moon falling, just like in the fairy tale!
HISUIIt looks like the Spirune is somehow inside his Spiria.
SHINGCalm down, Eucles. Please let us look at your Spiria.
EUCLES…On one condition: Bring Uran here! Since this is deep underground, we’ll be able to survive the fall of the moon! I also brought food and water. If she escapes here I can save her! I don’t care how much power it takes!
HISUINo way! If you wanna keep her safe then go get her yourself!
EUCLESI can’t… I can’t do that! I’m afraid of the moon falling. I can’t leave from here! Uran’s life is in danger but I’m so cramped with fear that I can’t move! Augh, move, legs! Dammit, even loving her this much!! Uugh… I want this ugly Spiria to disappear, it’s so unfair…
HISUIHis Spiria’s going crazy… So this is Despir.
SHINGHisui… Can you do Spirlink?
HISUIOf course! Wh-What do we do? Break his Spiria like you did Kohaku’s?
SHING…Eucles is in pain. I want to help him. Please, lend me your power.
SHING…I wonder if the monsters that devour dreams, Zerom, are here too?
HISUIIdiot, you’re too old to believe fairy tales. There’s no reason for animals to be in Spiria!
SHING…No, this isn’t Zerom. These are shadows that take the shape of people’s fears. But since we’re making Spirlink right now, they look like normal monsters to us. Be careful!
HISUIHeh, you sound like a beginner who just read out of the manual. I’ve got my Soma so shadows or real monsters or whatever should be an easy win!
SHINGThis is it… The monsters that devour dreams, Zerom!
HISUIHeh… if it eats fear then it should just lead the way!
SHINGZerom doesn’t differentiate between fear and other Spiria!
HISUI…Fairy tale monsters are real… Am I dreaming?
SHINGHisui, that!
HISUIThat light… There’s no mistake about it! It’s Kohaku’s Spirune!
SHINGWatch out, Hisui!
HISUI*pant pant*Why is Eucles’ Spiria suddenly a breeding ground for monsters?
SHINGI don’t know… But it looks like they’re drawn towards Kohaku’s Spirune…
HISUIBastard, you saying this is Kohaku’s fault?!
SHINGNo!! But can’t you feel that Kohaku’s Spirune has a special power?
HISUITch… We have to give her Spirune back first.
HISUI
Kohaku, sorry for leaving you in this gloomy place.
KOHAKUI’m fine…
SHINGEucles, how do you feel? You’re not scared anymore, right?
EUCLESUugh… No, I’m so incredibly… frightened.
HISUIDammit, did we fail?!
EUCLESWhat I’m afraid of now is my lack of courage and confidence… I abandoned Uran.
SHINGTh-That was all the Despir Disease’s fault!
EUCLESBut I wasn’t able to overcome my fear for her sake. What a weak Spiria this is…
HISUIThis is more important right now. We have to give Kohaku’s Spirune back.
SHINGYeah… Sorry to keep you waiting, Kohaku.
KOHAKU…No… No, it’s dark!!
SHINGKohaku…?
KOHAKUNoo! I’m scared, I’m scared!! It’s dark, it’s narrow… Get me out of here!
HISUIScared? What happened all of a sudden? Wasn’t she fine just a minute ago?
EUCLESShe’s probably feeling the same emotion I was… infinitely unyielding fear.
(Obtained Fear Spirune x 1)
SHINGOnly that emotion came back to a pretty much empty Spiria? You’re kidding, Kohaku…
KOHAKUNo, no, no! I’m scared! Don’t come, this person’s scary…!
SHINGNo… way…
HISUIDammit, let’s just go back to the town for now.
URANEucles!
EUCLESNo, Uran! I’m an embarrassment that put his own safety before yours… I’m not worthy of you!
SHINGThat’s not true! Eucles wanted to save you so bad that he couldn’t walk anymore!
URANEucles, you idiot! You can put your life before me! You can like stars more than me! …I’m just a weakling, but I love you, Eucles! I am just glad you’re safe… Welcome home.
EUCLES…I’m back. I’ll prove to you I can be the man to live up to your feelings.
SHINGThat’s right. If your Spiria’s weak, then raise it to be strong. Gramps…
KOHAKU*sob*
HISUIThey seem to be settled, but we’ve got to calm her down somehow…
EUCLESI’m sorry, Kohaku… I gave you that fear, and all.
SHINGIt’s okay, Kohaku. Eucles is a kind person.
KOHAKUNo…!!
SHINGI didn’t do anything!
KOHAKUNo! I’m scared, I’m scared! No… Don’t come here!
HISUIGet back! Can’t you tell she can’t hold back her fear? The scariest thing to her is the one that broke her Spiria!
SHINGAck… It’s reacting to the next Spirune!
HISUIIt’s south. Uran, what’s to the south of this town?
URANUmm… Henzella’s south of here. It’s a large, flourishing trade town.
KOHAKUWhat’s… this light?! N-No, make it stop…
HISUILet’s go… If we don’t, Kohaku’ll stay like this forever.
URANYes, I hope you can return her Spiria back to normal. You should pray to the stars, too.
EUCLESYes, of course. …Oh? Isn’t the black moon different from before?
URANIt’s okay, Eucles… No matter which moon falls, there’s no need to be afraid—we’re together.
EUCLESThank you, Uran, but I’m fine. Whatever happens to the moons, it’s probably just my imagination…
INNESI’m sorry, I forgot to give you all this Memory Stone.
SHINGMemory Stone?
(Obtained Memory Stone x 1Just one kind of Mind Stone that still has many mysteries left over. When a Soma User owns it…)
INNESIt’s a Mind Stone that automatically records all the people you make Spirlink with. When you have this, for example… When you made a Spirlink with that astronomer, it can record his Spirmaze. If you’re able to solve the problems for the people you’ve recorded, then from anywhere you can create a link with them again.
SHINGWhy do you know about Eucles?!
HISUI…We don’t have the time to be concerned with other people’s Spiria.
INNESJust try it. The best practice for a Soma user is to be able to touch many Spiria. Hehehe, I’m happy that my future employees are able to use it ♪
KOHAKUNo… I’m… scared…
HISUIAre you… seriously afraid of this bridge?
SHINGLook, Kohaku! It’s a pretty stream! There’s a lot of fish, too.
KOHAKUNo, no…
SHINGIt’s okay since it’s a little stream! You’ve crossed a one-stick bridge before, right?
KOHAKUNo… No!! I’m scared, it’s scary!!
HISUIDidn’t I say the one freaking her out was you?! You should just shut up and use your Soma.
SHINGDon’t… be afraid.
HISUIEh?
SHINGI swear! I swear I will never hurt Kohaku again! So… don’t be afraid… even if just a little… I want you to believe me.
KOHAKUBelieve…?
HISUIShut up! Who do you think gave me no reason to believe you?! You bastard, you still don’t understand what you did to her!
KOHAKUHisui… you’re scary… Don’t yell…
HISUITch, I’ll stop. …Sorry for yelling. Here, hold my hand and we’ll cross together.
SHINGGramps… Do I want Kohaku to believe me because my Spiria’s weak?
KOHAKUAhhh… no…
SHINGHisui… She’s doing it again…
HISUI
We crossed the bridge but I guess there’s still trouble… Let’s rest a little here.
KOHAKUNo! Not here… This place… scares me!
SHINGKohaku?
???If you don’t want to die, then don’t move!!
SHINGWh-What?!
???Didn’t I say not to move? …I couldn’t defeat them all with one hit…
SHINGWait a second! Who are…??
???There’s no need to thank me, boy. It is the duty of a knight to help powerless citizens.
SHINGB-Boy?! Powerless?? That’s some attitude for a kid my age!
???Hmph… You carelessly decide to rest here without realizing this is monster hunting grounds, and you want me to treat you like adults? …It seems as though that girl was the only one who realized.
SHINGThis forest is a monster hunting ground?! Kohaku just randomly got scared, though.
KOHAKUAhh… A stranger…?
???…I see, does she have Despir Disease as well? If it’s all right, I will heal her with my Soma. I am of the Church of Velleia Crystal Knights, Chalcedony Arkham.
SHINGChurch of Velleia…? Crystal… Knights??
HISUIHeh… We’ve got Soma covered! The church sympathized with us!
CHALCEDONYOh, you are Soma Users, too? It seems that there are still Soma remaining in the public in this area. However, the thing that won’t save her is your inexperience; I pity her.
HISUI
You tryin’ to pick a fight?!
CHALCEDONYThe inhabitants of this area have voices that are much too loud. How many monsters do you plan on calling?
HISUIUgh…
CHALCEDONYMiss, I apologize for frightening you, but we will certainly find out the source of your sickness. May there be much light and many bonds within your Spiria.
KOHAKUIn my Spiria… light and… bonds?
CHALCEDONYHowever, since that strange explosion the night before, the aggressiveness of monsters and cases of Despir have increased. This must have something to do with that. I must see the true nature of the explosion.
SHINGWoah… That was frustrating, but he could use Soma so much better than us!
HISUIShut up! I’ll show him, I’ll be able to use Soma like that real soon! …There’s no time to rest, let’s go!!
[Town of Commerce – Henzella]
SHINGWoah… Where are we? These buildings are huge! There are way too many people and shops!
HISUIShut up, you hick! This is… Yeah, probably a festival.
SHINGOh I see, a festival…
???…Yeah, there’s a festival in town today too, for attacking innocent lambs for the starving wolves…
KOHAKUSo many people…
HISUIGuess we can’t help her getting scared. Let’s get to an inn to calm her down.
SHINGUm, can we have a room for three? We’d like to stay here!
INNKEEPER
Hmph… Are you really customers? For first timers, we ask for a special payment in trust. Those who aren’t born to merchant families might not pay the bill, you know.
HISUIYou’re taking advantage of us! …But, whatever.
INNKEEPERWith trust and room fare, the total becomes 300 Gald. …We ask you pay beforehand.
SHINGCity inns are expensive…
HISUIHold on a second! If we pay beforehand there’s no point in the trust fund!
INNKEEPER…Tch, if you have complaints, then you don’t have to stay here.
LANDLADYDear, what are you telling these customers?! And yet you’re a professional?
INNKEEPER…Hmph, because I’m a professional I’m questioning them.
LANDLADYI’m so sorry. My husband has become incredibly skeptical as of late. Even though before he was so kind to the point where I’d get angry…
SHINGA man who suddenly changed… Kohaku, do you feel anything from that person?
KOHAKU…Ah, what?!
LANDLADYAhaha! There’s proof that girl is alive and well. As an apology for earlier, I’ll go ahead and fix you dinner. Eat to your heart’s content!
MERCHANTHey, young man with the nice shield! Where are you from?
SHINGOh, me? I’m from Seable.
ARMOR MERCHANTSeable Village! What a coincidence, I was born there too!
SHINGReally?! That is a coincidence!
ARMOR MERCHANT
Really, really!! Ahh, how nostalgic. Here, this isn’t for just anyone. Just for you I’ll put everything at half-price. Why don’t you buy some armor? You can definitely get nicer equips!
SHINGThis is great, Hisui!! Armor’s half off!
HISUIIdiot! Don’t let him trick you that easily!
WEAPON MERCHANTYes, don’t let him cheat you. The goods here are cheap and worthless, even at half price.
ARMOR MERCHANTWhat the hell, you bastard! That’s a lie!
WEAPON MERCHANTThen shall we test it? You wear the armor, then I’ll hit you with swords from my shop…
ARMOR MERCHANTTh-That’s… Dammit, I’ll remember this!
WEAPON MERCHANTSince the number of monsters has increased, so have the number of ill-intentioned merchants… As a merchant myself, I apologize.
SHINGPeople from Seable are tricking people…
HISUIHey, you really didn’t think too much beyond the fact he was from Seable too, right?
WEAPON MERCHANTHahaa, that man is young, but he knows well.
HISUIHeh, I’m not like him and I’m on my own journey. You seem like someone I can trust in this city. Can I ask you something?
WEAPON MERCHANTOh…? Then, please, come to my shop.
???Hehehe… How many wolves? They’re hunters that flock. Those stupid sheep just dive right towards the sound of the Agito…
WEAPON MERCHANTAh yes, that girl over there has perfect light-weight armor for her. Please take a look.
HISUIAh! That’s so expensive!
WEAPON MERCHANT
When choosing weaponry to entrust your life to, you must look at the quality, not the price, correct?
HISUIY-Yeah, definitely different from that last merchant… yeah.
SHINGWe don’t need armor. We wanted to ask if there have been cases of Despir Disease in this town lately.
WEAPON MERCHANTHmm… There are probably some who know, but knowledge is a merchant’s greatest product…
HISUI…Fine. We’ll buy one thing for Kohaku. But in exchange, we ask for some information.
WEAPON MERCHANTOh, thank you! Just as one who is used to the world, you are very good at negotiations.
???…Okay then, I’ll give you one piece of advice for free, too. Like that merchant from before, this one’s a cheater as well.
WEAPON MERCHANTY-You’re… Ecaille from the Chen Trading Company…
ECAILLEThe first one tries to cheat you, then the second tries to get you to believe them, but they’re selling the same overpriced cheap goods… The oldest trick in the book. However, you were too flashy. There have been complaints all up until the town guild. This is from Chen Daren: Remember your job.
WEAPON MERCHANTAck, y-yes… You cannot oppose in Chen Daren in the world of merchants…
SHING…He said this armor is cheap, too.
HISUIBe quiet! You were one cheated the most!
ECAILLEThose men also worked honestly once… But lately the merchants in town have begun to act rowdy. It’s very troublesome.
SHINGMiss, do you know a lot about this town?
ECAILLEThe one who knows most is my boss, Chen. The Daren knows everything about this town. For example… Now, there are young Soma users out there looking for
something… Even things like that. Please, come visit the Chen Trading company. Since you use Soma, then I’m sure you’ll be able to make great business.
SHING…Is she the third person in the trick to try to get us to believe her?
HISUIAugh, I swear, this city! You can’t believe anyone!!
SHINGBut we don’t have any other clues about the Spirune… Let’s just go visit this Chen person for now.
???Stupid Chen, are you trying to hire those Soma users, too?
SHINGTh-This is a store?! It looks more like a castle!
HISUID-Don’t be so surprised! But he’s the owner of this huge shop, so she probably wasn’t kidding when she said he knew everything about the town.
ECAILLEWe’ve been waiting. Chen Daren is in his office. Please go on ahead.
SHINGThat’s all we gotta do!
HISUIYeah, I’ll keep my eye out and make sure we’re not being tricked!!
???My mistake! Just hold on ten more seconds. All right! I finished, Ecaille!
ECAILLEGood work, Chen Daren. You’re right on schedule.
CHENOf course! I’ll keep my promises to deadlines and women. Okay, you young Soma users! Let’s begin the negotiations. You’re looking for info on Despir, right?
SHINGNegotiations? But we just want to ask a question…
CHENI only do stuff for free when I’m working with beautiful ladies. I’ll only do give and take when I’m working with guys.
HISUIUh, we don’t have money?
CHEN
Gahahaha!! Idiot! I’ve got no interest in kids’ wallets. I’m gonna ask you to be my bodyguards. Actually, there’s this one Soma user after people’s lives… If you do something about that one, I’ll give you information about anything in the entire world, not just this town.
SHINGThere’s a Soma user taking people’s lives?!
ECAILLEI-It’s you…! Please run, Daren!
CHENOhh? Beryl, damn you, personally coming to raid my house!
BERYLYou villain! Hiring Soma users as bodyguards! Before you do anything I’ll fight you!
SHINGStop! You, you use Soma!!
BERYLHmph! Of course you don’t know anything! Chen was just about to take your Soma from you!! I got a job from him too, transporting his goods everywhere. But I was attacked by a thief and everything was stolen… Then he said that in the contract it says “In the case of a loss, Soma will be used as compensation!!” His intention was to take my Soma from the very beginning, and gave me a really hard job!
CHENDifficult? Isn’t that what an idiot who sleeps on the job says? You broke the contract and ran off with your Soma!
BERYLAughh… Right! No thanks to that I’m a pitiful theif… And my dreams of becoming an imperial artist are all a wreck! I’ll never forgive you!! I’m sure those bandits were working for you, too! You trapped me in your own production!!
CHENEh? You think I’m planning something like that?
BERYLYou’re lying! Liar, liaaaaar!!
KOHAKUAaahhhh… Noooooo!!
HISUIHey, she’s got Spirune! Get her!!
SHINGO-Okay!
BERYLUughh, you’re one of Chen’s accomplices too, aren’t you?! I’ll remember this!!
ECAILLE
I apologize, Daren! Are you hurt?
CHENI’ll say this again. I want you to do something about that idiot Beryl. Do you take the job?
SHING…Just tell me one thing. Were you really after her Soma from the very beginning?
CHEN…No way. I just don’t believe in other people. Even if I fail, I plan it out so there are no losses.
SHINGKohaku, Hisui… I’m sorry. But I don’t…
HISUIWe have our first impressions. …We’ll follow after her if we feel like.
SHING…Okay!
HISUIThe people in this town are really doubtful… Could this be because of Kohaku’s Spirune, too?
SHINGYou mean, the doubt Spirune? But how strong does it have to be to affect an entire town?! And… this means that Kohaku has such an emotion…
SHINGWe found you! Uhh… Benny!
BERYLBeryl! I’m Beryl Benito!
SHINGOh, sorry. I’m Shing Meteoryte.
HISUIThis idiot and I, we’re not with Chen. We just want you to let us search your Spiria a little bit.
BERYLYou’re lying, you’re lying! You came to take my Soma, didn’t you?!
KOHAKUAhh…!
BERYLGo away, you evil henchmen! If you don’t…
HISUIWhat are you gonna do with that brush?
BERYLUhh, I, uhh… I’ll draw all over this girl’s face! The ink won’t come off for an entire week!
HISUI…She doesn’t seem like a bad person, but if she uses mind artes, it’ll be trouble. I’ll distract her, and then…
SHINGIf I said we were going back, will you believe us?
BERYLWh-Why should I?! You plan on pretending to go then attack me, right?!
SHINGThen what should we do? What can we do to make you believe us?? Please, tell me! Your doubt should be the same as Kohaku’s, and because you have the Spirune!
BERYLD-Don’t come close! I-I don’t know anything about that! I want you to tell me! All I feel is this black feeling and it won’t stop! I can’t believe anyone! I can’t believe anything! I can’t believe myself! I hate this… Someone… Save me…
SHING…All right. I’ll save you.
HISUIHah, she didn’t even make any sense but you acted nice.
SHINGThis… If I compared this girl’s pain and Kohaku’s, there’s nothing.
KOHAKUSpiria… hurts?
HISUI…Tch, we’ve got no choice. Let’s do this.
HISUIWho are these guys? Not Zerom?
DARK BERYLYou Chen henchmen, get out of my Spiria!
SHINGWe’re not working for Chen! We came to save Beryl!
DARK BERYLLiar! If you want me to believe you, then go kill him!
SHINGWhy do you hate him that much?!
DARK BERYL…He ruined my dream of becoming an imperial painter!
LIGHT BERYLAt first I asked Chen to be the model for the picture I was going to use to enter in the imperial art academy’s contest as my gateway to the imperial artists.
DARK BERYLThe theme of the picture was “heroism”… Since he is the legendary man who has the world’s seas at his command, who rose from penniless to king of the sea…
LIGHT BERYLHe willingly agreed to become my model. He even praised my work… He told me he’ll put my work in a museum when I become famous, and that I should do my best… It was the first time anyone noticed my paintings and I was so happy. But still…
LIGHT AND DARK BERYLIt was all a lie to trap me and to take my Soma! He’s evil, evil! I can never forgive him! I’ll never believe him again!!
HISUIThat was… Beryl, right? She believed in Chen…
SHING…I thought doubt was a bad feeling but, no… She wants to believe but she can’t… And she’s afraid of being betrayed… It’s a really sad feeling.
SHINGBeryl, please believe us! Tell us if you have the Spirune!
LIGHT AND DARK BERYLHmph, you ask us to believe you and you’re stepping all over a girl’s Spiria… You’re ricidulous!
SHING…Wait, isn’t it ‘ridiculous’?
LIGHT AND DARK BERYLShut up, shut up!! I don’t believe anybody! It’s better to not believe anyone than almost get betrayed!
SHINGLook out!!
HISUIHere it is! You put up that stubborn attitude and this thing’ll eat your Spiria too!
SHINGWhat you really need to get rid of from your Spiria is this thing!
LIGHT AND DARK BERYL
You… really saved me…
SHINGYup, just like I promised.
LIGHT AND DARK BERYL…Hmph. Honest idiots like you’ll just be used and made a fool of!
SHINGHahaha, that’s probably true… But if I can save your Spiria, then that’s fine…
LIGHT AND DARK BERYLHumph!! You show off, you idiot… You’re ridiculous!
SHINGA black… Spirune?!
HISUILooks kinda dangerous, but we don’t have a choice but to take it back!
(Obtained Doubt Spirune x 1)
BERYLUhh, uughh…
SHINGBeryl, how do you feel?
BERYL…Fine. Nothing’s wrong.
CHENOh, looks like you took care of her somehow.
BERYLChen!
CHENOho, well and this trouble with you is finally coming to an end.
BERYL…What does that mean?
INNESHello~♪
CHENMiss Innes here got rid of the thieves’ organization and returned all the stolen goods. So, I’ll get rid of that failure off of your record.
BERYLWhat?! Is that… okay?
CHENOh? You actually believe me this time! What on earth happened?
SHINGWe took a doubt Spirune from inside her Spiria.
CHENEh? I don’t really get it but that means you finally weakened that strong Spiria of hers, right?
SHING…Your Spiria’s weak if you don’t doubt?
CHENOh yes. I was able to get this far because I had the strength to not be afraid to doubt and be doubted.
SHINGDoubt into strength…
ECAILLEWell, this is the “Soma will be used as compensation” part of your contract.
BERYL…Huh???
INNESHehehe, I’ve received your Soma from Chen Daren as a labor fee for exterminating the thieves. If you don’t want to part with your Soma, then you can pay with your body♪ …Well, I’ll explain in detail later.
CHENGahaha! If anyone’s gonna take my life, this time I’ve got someone who took out an entire band of thieves on my side! See, nothing’s satisfactory even if you believe in people!
BERYLWha… What on earth was that?! Ohhh… I guess after all my dreams of becoming an imperial artist end here! I can’t believe anyone at all!
SHINGCheer up, Beryl. Miss Innes isn’t a bad person. …I think.
BERYL…Hey, what’s your name again?
SHINGIt’s Shing. Shing Meteoryte.
BERYLShing! I won’t forget you entered my Spiria with shoes on!
HISUIThat kid! So even without the Spirune she’s all weird in the head!
KOHAKUYou have… something written… on your face… “T H A N K S”
SHING
Ahaha! I guess Beryl’s a good person, after all.
HISUIReally? Didn’t she say that the ink’s not gonna come off for a week?
SHINGAck… I have to go back to the inn and wash my face…
???Hey, what do you mean, payment in trust?! Are you making fun of me?
INNKEEPERYes, these are the inn rules that… I made up??
???What? I don’t understand this town! Even in the plaza, there are idiots trying to sell me trash… I’ll crush this entire village!
LANDLADYPlease stop it with the payment in trust, already. Real merchants believe their customers!
INNKEEPER…Yeah. You’re right. I don’t know what I was doing…
LANDLADYOh you…
INNKEEPEROh, that’s right! If I just give this young lady a room at half price, will it become bad news?
LANDLADYWh-What?
???What’s with the sudden change? Ew! But… Are you serious about half price?
SHINGMiss Landlady, it seems as if your husband is back to normal.
LANDLADYAhh… Well, that’s both good and bad… Ahaha, now that’s a healthy stomach! I’ll go fix some food right away.
SHINGHisui, let’s go ahead and give Kohaku her Spirune back. You saw how Beryl and the innkeeper were acting!
HISUIYeah, that was really weird. …And it was able to affect everyone in town, too. You really think it’d be okay to give this thing back to her?
SHING
But wasn’t this hers in the first place?
HISUIYou really sure? If we give this back you don’t know how much she’s gonna start doubting you.
KOHAKUThat’s… scary…
HISUILet’s finish this conversation in the room. And… get rid of those letters on your face! Miss landlady, please keep an eye on my sister.
LANDLADYAll right. You two also don’t forget to eat.
???…A Spirune that affected the Spiria of people in an entire village… Isn’t that what’s been causing Despir? Hehe, this is perfect chance for an accomplishment~
INNKEEPERMiss, could you please sign here in the guest book?
???Mister, please give this memo to the boys that were with her.
INNKEEPERUmm, Miss Peridot Hamilton… Ah… Th-This is?! Miss, please run!!
PERIDOTI’d use my power on two country bumpkin Soma users, but guys are seriously a pain to deal with. I’m just gonna make this a little unfair.♥
KOHAKUAh…
INNKEEPERPlease, stop!
HISUI“To whom it may concern: I am borrowing the girl who looks like a doll. If you would like her back, please bring the Spirune. Please come to the nearby Mount Grim. Do take the caution to not oppose me. It is easy to break a doll. Thank you.” What… the hell is this?!
SHINGKohaku… was taken…
LANDLADYI’m so sorry, in that moment I was unable to do anything…
HISUICalm down! Where is Mount Grim?!
BERYL *Mount Grim is a rocky mountain to the northwest of this town. Why? It kinda looks like you’re in trouble.That girl… was kidnapped? Do you know who the culprit was?!
LANDLADYAccording to the guest book, “Peridot Hamilton, Church of Velleia… Crystal Knights”??
SHINGWhat does the Church want from Kohaku? But if she’s a part of the Knights, then…
HISUIYeah… Her Soma’s probably just as strong and that Chalcedony guy.
BERYLOkay. I’ll go too!
SHINGBut we’ll probably have to fight her!
HISUIOf course! You think we’ll hand over the Spirune?!
BERYLListen to meeee! I said I’m gonna fight too!! I-If I have to save you guys, it’d be pretty ridiculous!
SHINGWhat are you saying? You’ll take us to Mount Grim, right?
HISUIEven if I say no! It’d be ridiculous if you acted like you had nothing to do with us.
BERYLH-Hmph! If you try to use me, you’re ridiculous too!
(Beryl joined the party.
Obtained Thier x 1Soma in the shape of a hat crowned with the meaning “Color of the Earth.” A brush is coming out of the core.)
[The Trembling Mountain – Grim]
SHINGThere they are!
BERYLWhy isn’t she running?
HISUIShe can’t. Kohaku’s got a fear of heights, and it doesn’t help that she can feel fear.
KOHAKUUugh… I hate heights… Hisui… Save me…
PERIDOTAugh, boohoo. Shut up! I hate that!
SHINGWhat is she doing?!
HISUIHey, stop!
KOHAKU*sob*… Ow…
PERIDOTSeriously… And I say I was kidnapped… Crying won’t change anything. Since you’re a woman, get over your tears and live strongly! So wipe your tears and hold your head up high!
SHINGKohaku, hurry up and get out of here!!
KOHAKUAh… ah…
HISUII told you she can’t run, asshole!
PERIDOTHey… Don’t you realize you’re threatening me? There are even more people in on your surprise attack!
SHINGAugh!!
PERIDOTAll right, that’s enough! Just hand over the Spirune and I won’t hurt this little doll.
SHINGUrgh…
PERIDOTOh yes, I love obedient boys ♥ Hey, weird hat girl! Bring that over here.
BERYLHey, this Spirune is that girl’s, right? …Then we have no choice but to use that power here. Aaah! Oh no! I fell!
KOHAKUAh…!
PERIDOTHey! What did you just do?!
BERYLKohaku, don’t worry! She’s not going to do anything bad.
KOHAKU……No.
BERYLIt’s true! If you just listen to what she says, you’ll be okay!
KOHAKUNo, you’re lying… You’re lying! You’re lying!! Liaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!!
PERIDOTWha…!! She can use Soma too?!
HISUIAnd the tides turn. If you run, we won’t follow you.
PERIDOTAww, oh well. This is sooo much work… I’ll defeat you and take you along with that girl back to the Church.
PERIDOTC-Crap… if Captain finds out that I lost to these guys, then I’ll seriously be demoted… Okay! Let’s pretend this fight never happened, so thank me! Bye!!
HISUIWhat the hell was up with her?
BERYLJeez, I’ve never seen anyone with such a bad attitude before!
HISUI……Oh really?
SHINGKohaku, it’s okay now!
KOHAKUAaaaah!!
HISUIShit! The fight affected the ground!
BERYLWait! Shing’s not in any better position!!
KOHAKUAaaah…! You’re lying, it’s not okay…
SHINGKohaku! Jump over here, I’ll catch you!
KOHAKULiar! That’ll fall apart too… You should… run, too!
HISUIDammit, giving her back the Spirune backfired on us!
BERYLI-It’s not my fault!!
KOHAKUNoooooooo!! I’m scared, I’m scared!!
HISUIKohaku! Kohaku!!
BERYLShing! You get back!!
SHINGNo!! If we quit here… Kohaku will never believe me again!!
HISUII-Idiot! What the hell are you doing?!
BERYLJust… leave it to Shing.
SHINGKohaku, here, take my hand. Okay? …I’m not going anywhere.
KOHAKUWhy are… you doing this?
SHINGWhen I linked with Beryl, I understood that the feeling to want to believe is the other side of doubt. But I’m an idiot, and the only way I think you’ll believe me is if I risk my life.
KOHAKUI… don’t know! I’m scared… I’m scared…
SHING…I’m sorry, I’m the one who made you like this. That’s why I’m not running. I’ll risk my life to save you. …Let’s jump!
KOHAKU…Shing… Aaaah!! No, I can’t… I’m scared! You and me, we’re both… going to die!!
SHINGWe’re not going to die. I know. Kohaku, you’re a strong, kind girl who believes in m… us!
KOHAKUBelieve in everyone… me? Shing, you’ll… believe… in me?
SHINGI believe you. I’ll put my life and Spiria on it.
KOHAKUAhh… I too… Shing… Shing, I… believe in you.
SHINGAhaha… That was dangerous… Kohaku, you’re not hurt, right?
(Obtained Trust Spirune x 1)
SHINGA white and black Spirune… That’s right, doubt and trust are opposites—two sides to the same feeling.
HISUIYou bastard, Shing! Everything you did was stupid!!
SHINGOh, Hisui! That was the first time you’ve said my name!
HISUIThat’s got nothing to do with anything! …But, you did save Kohaku, and I’ll say this for now. …Th-Thanks……
KOHAKUA stomach growling… Proof you’re alive.
SHINGYup… You and me, we’re both alive and well! All right, let’s go back to the inn and eat the landlady’s food!
BERYLHeeey, what are you doing?! Let’s hurry up and go!
SHINGIt’s okay. I’ll cross with you.
KOHAKUDon’t… let go of my hand, okay?
SHINGI definitely won’t let go. …See? We crossed it.
KOHAKUIt was scary… but we did it. You were with me, and we crossed it.
BERYLJeeeez, you’re spoiling her too much, Shing. Wha…?! Hey, why are you crying, Shing?!
HISUI…Tch, let’s just go.
KOHAKUShing… Are you… Okay?
SHING
Yeah, because you’re okay too. Ready? Let’s go, Kohaku!
CHENOhh, I heard you ran into a little trouble. You make it okay?
HISUIYou’ve got sharp ears, old man. Sorry, but we’re fine.
CHENGahaha! That’s too bad! It felt like someone was trying to get rich quick. Like you guys and that Crystal Knight started fighting, and then only the Soma became mine… or something!
SHINGYou were the one that said, “The strength of Spiria is to not be afraid of doubt,” right?
CHENYeah, that’s what I believe.
SHINGI was afraid of doubt and being doubted. I was worried that was because my Spiria’s weak… But I learned that a Spiria can become strong by believing in someone, and by being believed in. I’ll raise my Spiria by believing!
CHENI see… But that’s a lot more work that doubt.
SHINGYeah. …But Kohaku and I, we swore on it.
CHENGahahaha! So you’re the kind of man to keep his promises with women!
BERYLWhaaat! Even though you broke your promise with me!
CHENNo, when you become an imperial artist, I’ll actually put your work in a museum, so work hard!
BERYLOoohh~ don’t trick me, this time!
CHENWhat’s that…?
HISUIShe senses the next Spirune! That’s pointing to…
CHENThe central continent, Auldomaine. That’s where the Capital Estrega of the Max Empire that controls the entire world is located. Lately, Despir has been so bad that all the cities in the area surrounding the capital are hidden. Boats that head to Auldomaine leave from the port south of this town.
BERYLWhat are you trying to do? You just gave us information for free.
CHENGahaha, if I’m mean to a future imperial painter and her friends, I won’t be able to get any of the paintings, will I?
HISUIEven though we got the Spirune back, that old man’s not gonna change, is he.
BERYLHmph! Even without Despir, I doubted him from the very beginning! I’m not gonna sell any of my paintings to him!
SHINGBut since you came with us, we were able to get some information. Thank you! Oh hey, what’s wrong? Your face is all red!!
BERYLSh-Shut up! I didn’t come because I wanted to, you know!!
KOHAKUShing, your face… is red too.
HISUI…Yeah, there’s something wrong with that child.
SHINGThank you for taking care of us, miss landlady!
KOHAKUMiss landlady… Thank you… for the food.
LANDLADYOh? Kohaku, you seem a bit brighter than before!
SHINGYeah! And from now on, she’ll get better and better.
INNKEEPERWhen you’re back in town, please come stay at our inn. Young girls are discounted.
LANDLADYOh, you!
(Beryl left the party)
[Southern Pendeloke Harbor]
SHINGWoaaaah! This is my first time riding on such a big boat!!
???All right, our god of the sea the Great Winged Whale is in great condition today! Are all preparations to set sail finished?
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEEAlmost finished, Captain Sango!
SANGOHurry up! If you dilly dally, I’ll lose my temper faster than the sea!!
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEESYes, Ma’am!
BERYLYou kids shouldn’t take your time either! ♪
SHINGBeryl!
KOHAKUBeryl…
SHINGWhat are you doing here?! Aren’t you supposed to be working for Miss Innes?
BERYLHow should I know about that? I was chosen for the Imperial Art Academy competition and I’m gonna become an imperial artist. Ahem… I even thought about putting you guys in my entry motif.
SHINGWhat?? You’re gonna put us in your hero portrait?!
BERYLNo, no. I changed the theme from “hero” to “adventure.” You’re not really the hero type, but you’re an idiot and seem like the kind to get people wrapped up in some sort of adventure. Hehehe, with all the dramatic development and problems you seem to attract, I’m waiting for you to get me motivated!
HISUI…Hey, Shing. Knock her out.
KOHAKUYou’re… not allowed. Beryl’s… our friend.
BERYL…Well, I guess I can’t help you guys look for Spirune next, right?
SHINGAhaha, okay! Let’s go together! Glad to have you with us, Beryl!
(Beryl joined the partyBeryl obtained the title Contract Cheater.)
SHING
Beryl, what are you doing?
BERYLJust checking up on Recovery Stones and the World Map. If you compare the central continent and the Pendeloke continent, the central continent is so big they don’t compare! We need to prepare really well for our journey!
SHINGRecovery Stones…? The World Map……??
BERYL…Oh my god! You’re traveling without knowing anything about Recovery Stones and the World Map?!
SHINGTh-They’re that important?! Hisui, do you know about this?
HISUI…O-Of course! Why shouldn’t I?! Th-They’re really convenient! They’re too convenient so that people who are experienced travelers like me would rather not use them…
SHINGO-Oh, I see… But should people like me who are traveling for the first time use them?
HISUIY-Yeah! I’m not gonna stop you from using it, since you’re a newbie…
BERYL…I’m already regretting joining this party… Kohaku’s probably the only one I can rely on. Okay, Kohaku? These Recovery Stones that you can heal with all your saved thoughts and the World Map in which you can see where you are and all the towns are all credentials for your journey!
KOHAKU…Okay. Recovery Stones and the World Map are essentials for our journey…
BERYLR-Right! They’re essential.
(Obtained Recovery Stone x 1)(Obtained World Map x 1)
[Western Auldomaine Port]
PERIDOTReporting~ I’ve looked all over for the Captain but I haven’t been able to find him anywhere.
???I found him in a northern town and brought him back here. Now, he’s returned to the village and is resting.
PERIDOTUgh, all he ever does is work by himself! Doesn’t he understand what teamwork’s supposed to mean?
???…Look who’s talking.
SANGOAll right! We didn’t lose any passengers this time! Good work, you scoundrels!
HISUIUgh… This isn’t funny… That ride wasn’t fun…
SHINGCaptain, where is the capital Estrega from here?
SANGOOh, the capital is southeast from here. There’ve been bad cases of Despir Disease running around on land. You must be careful!
SHINGOkay, let’s get off the boat, Kohaku. Hey, what was that, Beryl? That was dangerous!
BERYLEaguh… Hmph! If you fall in the water, all that blood in your head will cool down, too!
SHING…Why’s there so much smoke? This is bad, it’s a fire!!
[Hometown to Healing - Guse]
SHINGIt’s not… a fire… What is this? I guess the water is really hot.
GUSE MAYORHahaa, this is a surprise! You don’t know about the hot springs? Where did you country folk come from?
HISUI AND BERYLNo no, it was just him.
SHINGWhat?! But there’s nothing like this back in Seable! Did you know about this, Kohaku?
KOHAKU…Hot springs. Hot water that gushes out from underground. It is effective on the sick and injured.
SHINGAaaaagh! I’m the only one who doesn’t know…
KOHAKU
…A water lily. A plant that… grows in hot water. Its egg is half-done and… very nutritious.
GUSE MAYOROhh, she knows her stuff! You are the first visitors to this village in a while. I’m glad. Please take your time and enjoy yourself.
BERYLOooh, water lily. It looks tasty!
PEEPING BOYAaaaaaack! Run!!
???Oh, you boys, looking into the baths again!! I apologize. These children were so happy to be able to play outside again and then…
ROMANTIC BOYHeh, it’s not fun to look in on Sasha, she’s too flat!
SASHAWhat did you say?!
BERYLWahhh…Awwww… This is definitely gross…
GUSE MAYORI apologize. You girls are welcome to clean yourselves off in the hot springs. Hey, Sasha, come apologize!
KOHAKUHot springs are… baths…
BERYLKohaku, stoooooooooooooop!! You get undressed over there!!
KOHAKU………Why?
BERYLBecaaaause!!
SHING…Kohaku knows a lot, she just doesn’t have the feelings yet.
HISUIIf you’ve got time to think, get moving! We’re the first guests here in a while, and the kids haven’t played outside in forever… There’s something up with this village.
(Beryl left the party.)
GUSE MAYOR
In this village, nothing strange ever happens… Please give us your consideration. In a village which survives on tourism, bad rumors are very troublesome.
SHINGMan… It looks like something with Despir happened but no one’s telling us anything.
SASHA…Um, I’m sorry. This is my fault. Please don’t think ill of the villagers…
SHINGSasha, please tell us! Did anything happen in the village?
SASHA…I’m sorry. Bad rumors are troublesome.
SHINGWe just need some clues to help save a girl. We won’t say anything, so please tell us!
HISUI…Guess we have no choice. Let’s look somewhere else.
SASHA…One night, I was in the bath and suddenly a light like a shooting star entered me. Ever since then, it embarrassed me to look at people straight in the eye, and I could never meet anyone. This “shyness sickness” was contagious to the other villagers, and everyone else wasn’t able to go outside… There were some who had it so bad that they were cooped up in their beds at home and were starving to death.
SHINGSasha… Thanks for telling us.
SASHANo problem. I think just being concerned about the village’s condition and hiding from that terrible Despir Disease is really embarrassing.
HISUISo, how did you fix the Despir?
SASHAA traveling Velleia Knight removed a strange shining stone from inside my Spiria. And then at the same time, all the villagers were cured as well.
SHINGA Velleia Crystal Knight got the Spirune?! Where did he go?
SASHAWe let the Knight use the springs as thanks.
HISUIIn the… hot springs?
SHINGKohaku’s in trouble!
BERYLAhhh… Isn’t this nice, Kohaku?
KOHAKUJust… perfect.
PERIDOTHey! You’re not supposed to wear your towel into the bath!
BERYLOh, I’m sor…
PERIDOTAaaaaah! It’s you two!!
BERYLAck!! It’s you!!
SHINGKohaku, Beryl!! There’s a huge problem!
HISUIH-Hey!
BERYLAaaaaaaaaagh!! There’s no problem, you pervert…!!
PERIDOTOh my god, I cannot believe this guy!!!
(Shing received the title Problematic Brute.)
SHINGC-Crystal Knight, return the Spirune!
PERIDOTHuh?! You’ve got a lot of nerve for a peeping tom to be the one that’s pissed off!
SHINGI-I… I apologize.
HISUIYou’re the one with the nerve. You’re not gonna take Kohaku as prisoner, are you?
PERIDOTH-Hey, don’t yell! My Captain’ll here you!!
CHALCEDONY
I see… So not only were you taking prisoners, you lost to these backwater Soma users. Peridot. The disgrace of the Crystal Knights. When we return to the capital, prepare yourself for a proper punishment.
PERIDOTUgh… Understood, Captain…
SHINGCaptain? So the knight that saved the village was you, Chalcedony?
CHALCEDONYHmph… You’re the boy from before. I’m sorry, but I cannot return the Spirune to you. The connection of this Spirune and Despir… and the mysterious explosion of light the night before… I must find out their relationship.
SHINGBut that’s Kohaku’s! …Gah!
CHALCEDONYYou must realize it as well. This Spirune is agitating those monsters… Zerom! Or, are you saying that even if you restore this girl to normal, you will not care if Despir continues to spread throughout the world?
SHINGTh-That’s…
PERIDOTCaptain, Captain, shouldn’t we just take them along with the girl back with us to the capital?
CHALCEDONY…No. This Spirune is enough. As an apology of the mean treatment by my subordinates, we’ll let her go.
PERIDOTWhaaat…
HISUI“Let her go”?? What the hell is your problem?! Aagh!
KOHAKUHisui…!!
CHALCEDONYOh dear… You’ve taken quite the long bath, even though the Pastor has called an emergency meeting, Byrocks.
BYROCKSI apologize, Captain. However, I am not interested in the military’s battle tactics for demonstration purposes.
CHALCEDONYFool, it’s the duty of a Knight to follow orders given to them. So we must hurry quickly back to Estrega!
BYROCKSYes sir!
PERIDOTUnderstood. Man… I really wanted to just relax in the springs for two, three more days…
SHINGW-Wait…
CHALCEDONYIf you are dissatisfied, you may come and murder me any time, boy. However… know that with that unsettled Spiria and that Soma you wield, your power is nothing more than that of a fallen branch.
SHINGUgh…
GUSE MAYOR…Hmm, don’t worry. He should wake up in just a little bit.
SHINGThank you, mayor.
GUSE MAYOR…You were quite disruptive in trying to start a fight with our Knight customers. When this boy recovers, please leave the village. Also, it seems as though Sasha has said some things she should not have. Please refrain from spreading bad word about this village in other places.
BERYLWhat was that, his attitude suddenly changed! Ew!
SASHA…I’m sorry. The Mayor is just trying to keep this poor town afloat with the hot springs. He has done his best. He only says those things since he loves the village more than anyone…
SHINGI didn’t think that collecting the Spirune would cause anyone trouble…
KOHAKU…Does this village… have… cold water?
SASHAYes, at the back of the village, there is a spring that pushes up cold water. It’s one of this town’s specialties that rivals even the hot springs.
KOHAKUI think… cold water… is better for his head…
BERYLYup. Let’s go get that spring water so we can cool off Hisui’s hot head!
SHING…O-Okay.
(Beryl joined the party.Hisui left the party.)
BERYLWow, it really is cool spring! It looks like it belongs in a picture. I wonder if fairies will pop out, too…
SHINGThis is…
BERYLFruelle Spirits… They’re spirits that respond to people’s Spiria and are almost extinct! The thing that’s famous in this village is Fruelle!
SHINGSpirits that respond to people’s Spiria…
BERYLWow… They’re so pretty, right Kohaku?!
KOHAKU…What is?
BERYLO-Oh, sorry. You don’t really understand, it can’t be helped…
SHING…That’s not true. No matter what it takes to save the world from Despir… if Kohaku can’t appreciate things like this, then there’s no reason to leave her like this!!
HISUIIsn’t that normal?
SHINGHisui! Are you okay?
HISUILike you, I’m ready to get her back to normal. Is that okay?
SHING…Yes. I’m going to follow Chalcedony!
HISUIIt’d be bad if we got other Crystal Knights caught up in this at the capital. We have to get him before he arrives.
BERYLB-But they said they were hurrying to get back. Can we really catch up to them?
INNESOh, is everyone going to Estrega? So, then will you deliver this letter to the handyman, Garnet, for me?
BERYLOh, it’s you, you corrupt merchant!
INNESOh, no… If I was corrupt, wouldn’t I have already killed the girl who ignored my contract?
BERYLOooohhh…
HISUISorry Innes, but we’ve really got no time to be delivering letters.
INNESI see… It is an urgent letter, so I was thinking you’d be using a shortcut, so…
SHINGA shortcut?!
INNESYes. It’s a route that’s quite faster than the normal road through the mountains. It’s just ahead.
SHINGOkay, Miss Innes. We’ll deliver your letter, but tell us where the shortcut is.
(Obtained Innes’ Letter x 1)
INNESThe Andale Tunnel from the Stone Age ruins to the west of this village. If you pass through there, you’ll come out on the other side of the mountain. That is… if you can get through safely.
BERYLAaack! So it’s a risky route!
INNESOf course. You know the price for your Soma…♪
SHINGBut if we want to catch up with Chalcedony, then we’ve got no choice but to use that route… Let’s go!
(Hisui joined the party.)
???Curry will be our culture. Mabo will also become our culture. And if I put curry and mabo together, it’ll be mabo curry… Soooo delicious! This is the evolution of culture! Ohohoho… With the rhyme of “Culture” and “Evolution,” my plan of my intelligence becoming known is Su-per Per-fect!
SHINGWh-what is this thing?! That monster’s talking!
???How rude! I am not a monster!
KOHAKUA talking… raccoon…
???I am not a raccoon! I am Windam! Jeez, there is nothing more difficult than trying to converse with humans who are not culturally educated! …Anyway, I was looking for a Soma user with strong mind artes.
SHINGAhh, what’s this ring?! I-I can’t take it off…!
WINDAMThat’s the Sorcerer’s Ring. It’s a strange item that emits power with a Soma user’s mind artes and can change into different shapes. Hehehe… use it in the most cultural and intelligent way possible.
BERYLThat stupid raccoon! Telling an artist like me that I’m not culturally educated!
HISUIA raccoon eating mabo curry and talking… Was I dreaming?
SHING…That wasn’t a dream. Look, I still have the ring. Sorcerer’s Ring… what is this thing?
HISUIUhh… you’re not being cursed, are you?
(Obtained Sorcerer’s Ring x 1)
BERYLHmmm… we must remove ourselves from cursed individuals.Hot hot hot hot hot! Hey!!! Are you trying to fry me?!
SHINGI-I’m sorry! I really didn’t think flames would come out…
HISUIHahahahahaha! This is useful! Looks like it’s gonna have a lot of uses ♪
SHINGSo this is the entrance to the ruins that go through the mountain… I wonder how old this thing is?
BERYLMiss Innes said it was from the Stone Age, right? You know it? In our history, the records of anything over two thousand years old are almost nothing, so we call it the Stone Age.
HISUIOur problem right now isn’t the Stone Age, but the Stone Door. So stop talking and let’s open this thing.
[Andale Tunnel]
HISUIIt’s really dark… Hey, light this place up with that cursed ring of yours.
SHINGUh, okay.The door opened without me touching it!
HISUIDid the energy the ring released move the lever?
SHING…Cool! So the Sorcerer’s Ring isn’t a cursed ring.
BERYLThis is… quite a nice painting.
SHINGOh hey, that’s a whale! I saw a real one by my village once.
BERYLNo, not that one, that’s the Winged Whale! That’s the deity of the Velleia Church.
SHINGIdiots, fish whales don’t have wings! They have beards, though.
BERYLUhhh… You think whales are fishes and you’re calling them idiots…
KOHAKUAaahhh… no… no…!
SHINGThis is… Zerom?!
BERYLWhat?! You mean… there were Zerom in the Stone Age, too…?
HISUIThere they are! So, what should we…
SHINGThere’s only one way… Fight with everything we’ve got!!
BERYLJeeez! At least think of a decent tactic!
HISUI
This is pretty decent. While Shing’s got them down, we take the Spirune!
BERYLYou guys suck at teamwork!
SHINGGive the Spirune back, Chalcedony!!
CHALCEDONYAghh, how did you get here before us?! …I see. It looks like your Spiria’s been decided, boy!
SHINGRight! I’m going to get all of Kohaku’s Spirune back! And I’ll show you, I’ll save all the people suffering from the Spirune and Zerom!
CHALCEDONYFool… Those are the words of a child who doesn’t know anything!
SHINGThat may be true, but… If an adult is sacrificing someone’s Spiria to save the world, then I’m fine with being a child! If a man can’t give a smile back to the girl in front of him, then there’s no way he should be able to save the world!!
CHALCEDONYThe smile of the girl in front of me…? …Peridot, Byrocks, don’t get in the way.
PERIDOTAww, he hit his pissed switch.
CHALCEDONY…Boy, let me ask you your name.
SHINGShing Meteoryte!
CHALCEDONYI see… I’ll make sure to put it on your grave, along with “The fool who could not save anything!!”
CHALCEDONYWhat happened? You cannot defeat me, yet you plan on saving everyone?
SHINGDam…mit…
CHALCEDONYYou should die alone believing in the dream you’ll never accomplish.
KOHAKUHe’s not… alone. …I belive… too. I believe in Shing… too.
BYROCKS
Captain, if we don’t hurry, we won’t make the meeting time.
CHALCEDONY…Hmph, sleeping suits these children who only dream.
HISUIGod damnit… we weren’t sleeping! Next time, you two have to knock them down!
BERYLWhat?! You have to think more clearly about your strategy or else you’ll lose all of your lives!
SHINGSpirune?!
(Obtained Scarlet Pendant x 1)
SHINGOh, no… it’s just a necklace. Kohaku, I’m sorry… I’m weak.
KOHAKU…You’re weak, but… you… don’t run.
HISUIShing, what are you doing? Are you actually sleeping?
SHING…Of course not! Let’s chase after Chalcedony!
[The Imperial Capital – Estrega]
HISUI…It’s huge!
SHINGWait, the capital… is a wall?
BERYLHuh? These are the city walls. Estrega’s a fortress city surrounded by walls and its natural strategic position.
HISUIHaha… Don’t get scared, Shing!
SHINGI wasn’t scared! …Just a little.
BERYLI cannot rely on you men… Let’s go, Kohaku.
BERYLThe Crystal Knights should be in the church, but how are we supposed to get close to them?
HISUI
…Uh, I don’t think we really need to get close.
CHALCEDONYI am in a hurry. Please clear the streets.
IMPERIAL SOLDIEROho, it’s just like a Crystal Knight to behave like that right up until the main street of the capital!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERWhy don’t you just use that precious Soma of yours and demolish little soldiers like us?
SHINGWhy are the Crystal Knights and the soldiers fighting? Aren’t they a part of the same army?
BERYLYou really don’t know anything! The Crystal Knights are a private organization within the Church of Velleia—it’s different from the regular army. The Church and the Military used to work together throughout the entire empire, but now their relations are seriously bad.
CHALCEDONYI have no time to be playing with you. I am… looking for something very important.
SHING…Something important?
IMPERIAL SOLDIERIs what you’re looking for a present to capture Her Majesty Paraiba’s heart?
IMPERIAL SOLDIERNo no, he’s here to learn about us failures so he can improve his rank in the army!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERYeah, but I can’t believe Lady Paraiba’s got interest in pretty boys like this Captain here… he can’t look like us strong guys!
CHALCEDONYPeasants… I will not allow you to insult Lady Paraiba!
SHINGStop! If you swing that Soma with a disrupted Spiria like that, you’ll kill them!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERH-He was going to use his Soma on us! We must report to headquarters!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERH-Hmph! The peasants insulting Her Majesty the most are people like you plotting the political marriage!
CHALCEDONYMove, Meteoryte! This is not the place for weak boys like you to interfere!
SHINGThat’s right, I may be weak… But I’ve got people who believe in me. So I have no reason to run from you!
CHALCEDONYThis power… agh!
KOHAKUShing…!
HISUIWait, Kohaku!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTLord Chalcedony! What happened…? This is your doing!
SHINGAck… does everyone use Soma?! Augh…
HISUIThat idiot… Running off on his own every time!
BERYLI bet he’s being tortured in the church filled with Knights! What should we do??
KOHAKUShing…
HISUIHey… Wait, Kohaku!
(Shing left the party.)
KOHAKUShing… Where… did you go?
HISUIThere she is! Catch her! She’s my sister.
???Woah there, little lady. Your big brother’s worried about you.
HISUIThanks for helping.
GARNETWell, I am the handyman, Garnet! If you ask, I’ll do anything.
BERYLThe handyman, Garnet… Oh! You’re the one we’re supposed to give Innes’ letter to!
(Handed over Innes’ Letter.)
GARNETHmm… this is a problem. Miss Innes is asking me to get two of the Soma being used for rituals in the church. Even I can’t do that this quickly.
KOHAKUHisui… Where’s Shing?
HISUI…Garnet. We can get two Soma for you. As an exchange, would you take us inside the church?
GARNETLooks like you’ve got a reason… All right, I’ll go with you to the church.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTLord Chalcedony, please go rest and leave this to us.
CHALCEDONYThis is… nothing.
???How noisy… Who is it?
CHALCEDONYYes! We’ve discovered a suspicious Soma user within the city walls. We have captured him.
???Oho, this time it’s a stray Soma user in the capital that’s not one of our Knights… …Hmm, that Soma?! Are you related to Zex Meteoryte?
SHINGYes, sir… You know gramps?
CRYSTAL KNIGHTYou! How dare you be impolite to Pastor Labrado Arkham, the highest position holder in the Velleia Church!
ARKHAMIt’s all right. …I would like to speak with him. Please bring him straight to my office.
CHALCEDONYBut Father, he’s…
ARKHAMChalcedony, don’t say the same thing twice.
CHALCEDDONY…O-Okay.
ARKHAM
Chalcedony, please give us some privacy.
CHALCEDONY…Understood.
ARKHAMDon’t be so nervous. Your grandfather and I are old friends. Are he and your mother in good health?
SHING…Mom died of sickness. And gramps… was killed by a sorceress.
ARKHAMHmm, a sorceress…? …Incarose. So that woman is still alive. So… what are you doing now?
SHINGI’m traveling so that I can restore the Spiria of a girl I met in the village.
ARKHAMHahaha… Healing a village girl’s Spiria? And that is a commendable feat. More importantly, why don’t you join the Crystal Knights? Right now we would like even just one more Soma user.
SHINGBut wait… Isn’t it the job of a Soma user to heal people’s Spiria?
ARKHAMThat is just one part of a Soma’s power. Armed Soma users are much more powerful than any normal soldier. If you use that power well, you can create a greater peace for the world. The truth is, thanks to the power of our Crystal Knights, we were able to make world peace a reality for the first time.
???What are you saying?! Are you trying to dirty the glory the military earned through blood and sweat?!
CHALCEDONYMajor Grossular! General Cornelvin! Please show some respect!
GROSSULARYou’re the rude one! I heard your Knights were using Soma on my soldiers!
ARKHAMThe one who knows the limits of the soldiers who are not even armed with mind stones best should be you, Major. This unified world under the empire is the achievement of this Soma Knighthood created by our church.
GROSSULARHah! The one achievement you can write down is this unification, but the Church should just go back to praying like they always did!
ARKHAMIf that’s the case, then perfect timing. I have information that tells me there is a large outbreak of Despir in the City on the Lake, Shalrowe. So why don’t we stand back, and let the military do something about it? If a military
without Soma can do such a thing, then I will gladly go ahead and propose to Lady Paraiba to reduce the workings of the church.
GROSSULARDespir?! That’s the Church’s job! The soldiers are the ones that should be boasting their fighting ability! You’re using your son to get control of Her Majesty. Don’t get carried away, Labrado!
ARKHAMThose are not calm words. I’m sure the ones who became guardians at the time of her coronation were you and I. For Lady Paraiba who has grown wonderfully, aren’t those words extremely insulting?
GROSSULARAnd you’re saying this, even though you’re the one who’s using her like a puppet the most?! You rat!
ARKHAMAnd I can say the same for you, bearded bear.
SHINGChalcedony, these shameful people are supposed to be the distinguished men of this country?
GROSSULARWhat did you just say, you brat!
SHINGI’ve made up my mind… I can’t leave the job to people who call Despir Disease “that thing.” I’ll fix it all, Kohaku and Despir!
CHALCEDONYMeteoryte…
GROSSULARUrghh… Saying things you don’t understand! All this church has are monkeys without proper upbringing! I know it! What this country needs is discipline!
CORNELVIN…Don’t think that Soma is the only thing that can use Spiria’s power…
ARKHAMOh dear, what happened with those savages? As my subordinate, please help me rid of that trash. If you do, I’ll forget about those rude remarks from earlier.
SHINGHeheh… I refuse. I’m under contract with Miss Innes. And also, Gramps… said that I shouldn’t get close to people who badmouth others and praise themselves.
ARKHAM…That kind of ability, hmm. After all, you are Zex’s grandchild.
SHINGGahh…
CHALCEDONYPunishment for speaking ill of my father and the Major… I dare say, probably won’t stop at torture. You really are a child.
SHINGOww… Okay then, so you think that they’re adults?
CHALCEDONY…They don’t matter. I’ll show you, I’m going to stop Despir.
SHINGWhat, that’s exactly what I said!
CHALCEDONYN-No it’s not! Our place and resolve are totally different!
SHINGWait a second. What you were looking for before… was it this pendant?
CHALCEDONY…You bastard, why do you have that?!
SHINGI thought so. I found it in the forest after we fought.
(Handed over Scarlet Pendant)
CHALCEDONY…Why are you giving me back this pendant even though you’re trying to take the Spirune away from me?
SHINGThe sadness of losing something precious is the same in everyone. You piss me off, but I’m not so childish where I’ll use that as revenge against you.
CHALCEDONY…Hmph, even kids say good things sometimes. But… thanks.
SHING…I wonder what Kohaku and them are doing now?
GARNETExcuse us, fine Knights. I am a handyman here bringing a donation from a very wealthy man.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTA donation of Soma? He has a good heart, however for now, we will have to check the contents. Ohh, there are two… Even a hat and forearm guards. That’s new. All right, go on in.
CRYSTAL KNIGHT…Sir, don’t you have a little too many escorts?
GARNETThese are my nieces and nephew from the country who have come to see the capital. I want them to have seen the capital at least once in their lifetime.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTHmm, that is also very admirable. Please pray.
GARNETI would also like to receive proof of the reception.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTAh, yes. Please come in. With the one we’ve collected from the kid, the Crystal Knights have received three Soma today. This is a wonderful day. The Soma will be looked at by the Pastor. Please deliver them into the leftmost room; that is the Pastor’s office.
BERYLAhhh, that was so nerve-wracking!
HISUIYou’re too loud! Did you hear what they just said? First, we have to get that idiot’s Soma back. It’s probably in the pastor guy’s office.
HISUI [*changes depending on on-screen character]Hey, here’s Shing’s Soma and Kohaku’s Spirune! Next is that idiot. I wonder where they took him?
KOHAKU…Shing.
SHINGEveryone! You came to save me! Thanks.
HISUIYou’re the one that ran off! Apologize first!
SHINGAhh… Sorry.
HISUIGood! Let’s get out of here.
SHINGWait, we have to get Kohaku’s Spirune back…
BERYLOhoho… That’s what this thief Beryl already got a long time ago!
SHINGAwesome! …But, don’t praise your own thieving skill.
BERYL
Grr, what’s with that warning?! Wasn’t this Kohaku’s anyway? Let’s just hurry up and give it back!
SHINGHuh? Uh, Kohaku?
KOHAKU……Something’s weird. My face and chest… feel warm… like when I was in the hot springs.
(Obtained Shyness Spirune x 1)
HISUIWahaha! I hate clingy guys. Remember that, Shing.
BERYLHehehe, looks like Kohaku’s not gonna be the prey to any perverts anymore!
SHINGWait…………… What??
(Shing joined the party)
KOHAKUUm, ah…
HISUIHer Spirune light… in a place like this?!
CHALCEDONYThat light… Meteoryte! Are you planning to run?!
SHINGAgh, he found me!
ARKHAMThat girl, she looks like Iola… C-Could it be?!
INNESOh, everyone~! What are you doing up there?
SHINGMiss Innes! Good timing! Catch us!!
INNESAwww, my goods… Just because I’m older doesn’t mean I can hold onto everything, you know!
SHINGI-I’m sorry! We’ll repair it later!
ARKHAMChalcedony, just who is the girl who gave off that light?
CHALCEDONY
She is the one who has the mysterious Spirune that is causing widespread Despir.
ARKHAMWhat!! That power… she must be Iola’s daughter! Why was I not told this before? Don’t let them run! I will definitely capture that girl!
CHALCEDONYY-Yes! Understood!!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTThe box left inside the chapel has exploded! Presently everything is ablaze!
CHALCEDONYGuh… Is this the work of Meteoryte and friends?! I can’t believe this!!
INNES…I should believe this, right?
SHINGMiss Innes too…?!
CHALCEDONYSo she used… Soma…
INNESShing, after this, please compensate for my items and tell me what’s going on, okay? ♪
CORNELVINThat light… The pastor’s agitation… There is something about that girl.
GROSSULARHmm… Cornelvin, wait at the front of the church and capture that girl!
CORNELVINEhehehe… Leave it to me…
INNESOh, I see… So he just used my request to surround the church with enemies. …If I stick you all back in the church, will you be able to get him back?
KOHAKUEveryone… For my sake… I’m sorry.
INNES…I know. But, since you are lending yourselves to me, there is no reason to leave this as is… All right, from now on you’ll all work alongside me personally. With this, you can pay yourselves back and you can rebuild your trust with me. Two birds with one stone.
SHINGWa-Wait a second, Miss Innes!
INNES
Just call me Innes. We’re employer and employee. I’m not a stranger anymore.
SHING…Okay, Innes. I heard that right now there’s an outbreak of Despir on the City on the Lake. We have to go there.
BERYLCity on the Lake… That’s Shalrowe. It’s the summer resort northeast to the capital.
HISUINorth… That’s the same direction Kohaku’s light was pointing in.
INNESOh, what a coincidence! I was just asked to take something to Shalrowe. Just one person’s favor.
BERYLSe-Seriously?! This is abuse!!
INNESI’m sorry~, but you don’t have the privilege to say “No.” Every complaint you make will come right back to you, so go ahead and say them ♥
(Innes joined the party.
Obtained Forseus x 1Its given name means “Diligent Power.” A Soma for the leg that takes the shape of a giant knife.)
[City on the Lake – Shalrowe]
BERYLAhhh, it’s no use… I can’t move anymore…
INNESAll right, good work~ ♪ …But it’s like this even at the entrance…
MAN*sob*… *sniff*… I… I…
WOMANAhh… Why do I only think of the one I broke up with?
ELDERLY MANOhhh! I want to see my mother again! Motheeeer!!
SHINGD-Despir’s spreading throughout the entire city! Kohaku, is your Spirune power getting stronger?
KOHAKUEveryone’s crying… Are they scared? Are they hurt?
INNES
Okay, let’s leave the baggage here. Before we deliver it… let’s make sure Marin is okay. She’s in the resort area.
???…Um, I’ll leave the money here.
RECOVERY STONE STORE OWNERUuuugh… Whatever… No matter how much money I save it’s useless…
SHINGAh! Miss, you haven’t caught Despir Disease yet, have you?
???Yes, I was just outside the resort for a little while and was surprised when I saw the town in this state.
INNESSince you’re from the resort, would you happen to be familiar with where a Miss Marin’s house may be?
MARINOh? …I’m Marin.
INNESOh, what a coincidence! I’ve brought you something from the capital.
MARINThings from the capital… Is it just a package of clothing and jewelry with no card attached?
INNESYes, that’s exactly it…
WANDERING SALESMANWaaaah! No matter how many years pass I can never make my own store! I have no talent for business!
FRUIT STAND OWNEREvery day, it’s the same thing! This meaningless life is too sad! Someone just kill me now!!!
BOYAhh, kitty… why did you have to die…? If I died too, I wonder if I’ll see kitty again…
SHINGTh-This is… really, really bad! We have to hurry up and find the person who has the Spirune!!
BERYLAnd how? Everyone in this town is a suspect!
HISUIWe’ve gotta find the saddest person in town!
MARINAre you… Soma users? What are you searching for?Oh I see, that’s what happened. All for this girl… Hmm, I think the most tragic person in this town has to be the artist, Mister Smithona.
BERYL*gasp* That’s right! Mister Smithona’s studio is in this town!! Whaaaaaaat? You guys don’t know who Smithona is?! He’s the genius deviant of the imperial artists, always defying new presentations—The artist of tomorrow!! …But a few years ago he fell sick and retired, and now he’s a tragic artist…
SHINGUhhh, I don’t really get it, but if there’s a possibility, then we should go to his studio! Marin, thank you for helping us!
MARINI’m glad to have helped you. Oh, Innes. I’ll take care of the luggage, so you can just leave it.
BERYLAhhhh! This is so cool! This is “Dreams of a Full Moon!!” And this one is “Sisters of the Crystal Palace!”
HISUIThey kind of look like doodles. Do you get it, Kohaku?
KOHAKU…There are… lots of colors.
BERYLAwww, if you don’t understand this beauty then you’ve lost ninety percent of your life~ ♥
SHINGBeryl, you really look up to this artist, don’t you? If we get the Spirune back, you think he’ll paint portraits of us?
BERYLWhat do you guys think an imperial artist is? And Mister Smithona is…
SMITHONA*sniff*… I can’t draw or look at paintings anymore, it’s useless…
BERYLM-Mister Smithona! Right… since he got sick he’s gone blind…
SMITHONAI still have a mountain of pictures I would love to paint, but they continue to disappear in my head… Ahh! I cannot paint anymore in this world, this existence is meaningless! Oh, help me! Help me! Help meeee!!
BERYLMister Smithona, I’m Beryl Benito. I’m an aspiring artist who really looks up to you. Please let us help you fix your Spiria.
SHINGLet me help too, Beryl! This is the real work of a Soma user.
SMITHONA*sob*… You are Soma users? No! Using Soma to look inside a painter’s Spiria is blasphemous to art!
HISUIWhat the hell do you know about blasphemy?! My little sister’s Spiria’s at stake here. Just let us link with you.
BERYLThis thing is ridiculous for trying to eat an artists’ Spiria!
BERYLTake that, Zerom! You’re having way too much fun in Mister Smithona’s Spiria!
HISUIDammit, we screwed up! There’s no Spirune in here.
BERYLBut we chased out the Zerom, so his Spiria should calm down some.
SMITHONAIf you want to calm me down, then get out of here! The things I hate most are young doodlers! Do you understand that since you looked at my work like it was something now, I was in serious pain?! That’s the limit! I couldn’t paint new pictures anymore!! I turned my back on my talent, and every day was afraid of losing my position and honor… Kids like you don’t understand! But I had an idea! If I went blind, then my name would be kept as legend!
BERYLNo way… You can still see?!
SMITHONAAhahaha, this is the best! All I did was pretend to be blind and I’ve been dubbed the Tragic Genius! There’s no need to wallow in pain or be afraid of young people’s talent anymore! And no soul knows I’ve kept my talent for this long!! Ahah, ahahahahahahahahaha…
SMITHONA…Beryl, was it? You didn’t announce my fake sickness, did you? Of course, I won’t call this free. I know, I’ll recommend you to the imperial artists.
BERYL…Good bye, mister. Today I managed to understand a lot of your paintings.
SMITHONAWait, let me say one last thing! If I do that, it’ll be easy to do since I will sketch you! Hey, are you listening?!
BERYL
Ahhh, I can’t take old people! I guess real art comes from younger people like me, after all! Oh, if I threaten him I wonder if I can get some sort of payment like Soma from Innes? But, I’ll feel bad if I bully him. And I… really liked his paintings… I really, really… liked them…
SHINGBeryl…
INNES…It can’t be helped. Even Soma can’t manipulate a person’s Spiria.
MARINDid you find what you were looking for?
SHINGNo… Mister Smithona didn’t have it.
MARINI see… Then the maid Cassidy in the northern resort might have it. A year ago, she closed off her Spiria from sadness due to losing her fiancée.
SHINGMaid in the northern resort, Cassidy… Okay, we’ll go look for her.
KOHAKU…Marin… Thank you.
MARINI’m glad to be of help.
BERYLI get a bad feeling when she starts smiling like that…
SMITHONA*sob*… I’ve got it! I’ll run… from the world! From talent! From effort! Because… I ran away from what I loved most… Painting…
MARINEven so, your works collected by people will still remain. I’m sort of jealous…
CRYSTAL KNIGHT GUARDOoohhhh, I want to see my wife and daughter! Because I was demoted to this measly guard job…
FEMALE CRYSTAL KNIGHT*sob*… Pretending to guard and giving information about that to the church… What a dirty job…
SHINGIt looks really bad over here, too… Why are there Crystal Knights?
CASSIDY
Let me go, Alec! I can’t put up with a world without my boyfriend anymore! Please let me be with him!
ALECAhh, please help me! Cassidy wants to die!
SHINGKeep her there! We’ll do something with Spirlink!
SHINGHere it is! Is this the Zerom that has the Spirune?!
HISUILooks like there’s no Spirune here, either.
INNESCassidy… Please don’t think about dying.
CASSIDYNo… From the time I lost my fiancée, that’s all I’ve been thinking about. But Alec has scolded me to his best ability since. Even though I promised to embrace my fiancee’s kindness and live strongly… Ohh, why did I come to this?!
SHINGIt’s not your fault, Cassidy. This Despir Disease is also at play. Do you remember the time when you felt a disaster in your Spiria?
CASSIDYThat’s… when I told my promise with Alec to my master… Marin. All of a sudden I felt the sadness of my late fiancée all over again…
SHINGWhat?! When you say Marin, you mean that Marin?
ALECAhh, Cassidy, please. Don’t go anywhere… Stay with me…
CASSIDYI’m sorry, Alec…
HISUISo wait, your master is Marin, right?
BERYLSee see see see see! I knew that lady was suspicious!
SHINGBut how can Marin…? But wasn’t she always smiling?
CASSIDYMarin, smiling? I’ve been working for her for many years now, but I’ve never seen her smile. I can’t give you the details, but Marin is the loneliest person in the world…
MARINThat’s right… Only did you, since you lost your fiancée understand how I felt… But congratulations. You’re not alone anymore. And yet, I am still all alone… That’s fine. Everyone can become happy on their own time. I’m so, incredibly sad… So sad that I’ve become too used to it, to the point where I will not cry anymore.
HISUI…Guh, the Spirune is inside this person!
MARINHahaha… I’ve remembered something good. A sluice I secretly closed… If I just open it, I’m sure I will feel refreshed just as if I had cried very hard. No one will understand how many tears I’ve shed in this Spiria.
SHINGA sluice? What was she talking about?
BERYLI don’t know, but I have a bad feeling about this…
INNESUpstream from Marlow Lake which this city floats on is the Odette Sluice, which controls the water flow. If she opens Odette Sluice, then this city… will sink to the bottom of the lake.
BERYLAhhh, I knew this was bad!!
CASSIDYNo, no! There’s no reason for her to be doing this! When I lost my fiancée, she, more than anyone, worried for me! She’s so kind! Marin, Marin…
SHINGDon’t worry. We’ll bring Marin back. And we’ll make sure no one cries ever again!
CASSIDYOdette Sluice is upstream from the river on the western bank of Marlow Lake. Please take care of Marin…
[Odette Sluice]
BERYLAhhh! That water’s strong!
SHINGStop this, Marin! Are you planning to get Cassidy and the others wrapped up in this?
MARINThat is perfectly fine. There is no one here to scold me. And there’s no one… who minds. And, I hate people who forget their precious ones just after one year… just like Cassidy.
INNESIs it a crime to look for a new way of life?!
MARINI’m jealous. I have no freedom to choose how I can live. What I can choose, though… is things like this.
SHINGMarin!!
BERYLY-You idiot!! What are you thinking, Shing?!
KOHAKUHigh place… Lots of water… Is Shing going to… die?!
BERYLW-We have to close the gate!
HISUIDammit… this is heavy!
INNESMove, you two!
HISUIDamn…
INNESDon’t just stand there. Let’s follow them!!
HISUI AND BERYLO-Okay!
(Innes received the title Superwoman.
Shing left the party.)
SHING*cough hack*…! Hahah, that current was way stronger than the tides in Seable.
HISUIAn empty head floats well… Why don’t you think a little and get moving?!
KOHAKUShing… I was really… really…
INNESWell done, Shing. Though it was a little overdone.
SHINGWe still have stuff to do. We’ve got to save Marin’s Spiria! It’s got to be a mistake that a pretty person like this has so many sad feelings in her Spiria.
HISUI
You cheater!
BERYLAre you saying I’m not pretty?!
SHINGOww! What’s with you guys?!
INNESNo reason. Let’s do this Spirlink.
(Shing joined the party.)
SHINGMarin, please give back the Spirune!
MARINNo! This gave me the power to show my sadness! To me, who was a doll trapped in an isolated jail, who could do nothing but breathe! To me, who even though she felt nothing, sadness, could do nothing but hold it in!!
SHINGHere comes the Zerom! Marin, hurry and give that to me!
MARINNo, no, noooo!
SHINGMarin!!
INNESIt’s all right, there’s no damage to the Spiria itself.
SHINGI’m sorry Marin, but this is Kohaku’s.
SHING…Kohaku, this probably isn’t going to be a good feeling. But this is an important part of you so… here you go. Are you shaking, Kohaku…?
KOHAKU…Shing, you idiot! When you jumped into the river… I thought… you died. I was scared… and sad… so sad… I, I… …Please, Shing… Don’t do things like that… again…
(Obtained Sadness Spirune x 1)
HISUIShe was in such a mess that she almost jumped into the sea, too… Apologize.
SHINGUhh, I’m sorry for worrying you. And… Thanks for worrying.
BERYLWait wait wait wait! What are you doing?!
MARINI’m sorry! I’m sorry! What are you…? Please let me go! People with ugly Spiria like mine should just die!
KOHAKUThere’s no one… like that. If you died… I’d be sad… everyone would be sad.
MARINBut, but I’ve done terrible things to everyone in the city… to Cassidy…
KOHAKU…This is all… my fault. I’m sorry, Marin… I’m sorry…
SHINGWell, I guess in the end, both Marin and Kohaku ended up crying…
INNESWell, they have people here to take care of them, so they should cry as they wish.
SHINGYeah. Gramps said that too. “A true man can take a woman’s tears.”
INNESHmm, there aren’t very many of those men around… Oh? You look happy, Shing.
SHINGYeah, I’m happy. Kohaku cried to me saying that she’d be sad if I died. …I’ll definitely become a strong man who can take those tears!
INNESOhoho, and at that time, can I come crying to you, too? Well, Cassidy is probably worrying. Let’s take Marin back to the resort.
INNESWell, I’m going to go get my next job from the guild in this town.
CASSIDYLady Marin, are you all right?!
MARINCassidy, Alec… I was jealous of you, and did something terrible…
CASSIDYIt’s okay, it’s okay! And to be jealous… You have a knight who is the most wonderful person in the world!
MARIN…Before, I used to think it would be okay to have even him by my side. But now, I don’t know how he feels…
SHING
You have someone you love, Marin? Then if you just smile, it should be okay! Gramps told me that. “A beautiful woman’s smile is the strongest weapon on the planet.” You’re the most beautiful person I’ve met so far on my journey! I’m sure you can take on any guy.
MARINW-Why, a beautiful… But… Thank you, Shing.
KOHAKUMost beautiful person…
INNESThis is bad. There’s a rumor that I tricked the church in the capital. I was somehow able to get my items for delivery in the Amusement City Yuraio, but at this rate it’d be dangerous to continue my business!
HISUI…So if you just go bankrupt, we can go look for Spirune however we want.
INNESDid you say something?
HISUIUghhaaaa! Nohingg!
INNESI’m thinking about this. There’s also been a disaster in Yuraio. It seems that lately, whenever travelers and traveling merchants with goods enter the city, none of them return.
BERYLCould that be Despir?! Kohaku, do you feel something?
SHINGAll right, let’s go to Yuraio! If we don’t do anything, nothing will get done.
HISUI…Someone’s a little enthusiastic.
SHINGYeah, strong guys don’t mope around forever! Okay, we’re gonna go now. Marin, Cassidy, Alec, take care!
CHALCEDONYAre you well, Lady Paraiba?! I was anxious since you are staying here in Shalrowe, with the outbreak of Despir Disease.
MARINI am all right. There were some traveling Soma users who saved us.
CHALCEDONYTraveling Soma users?! Were they a party with a girl who had lost her Spirune?
MARINYes. Do you know them?
CHALCEDONY…What happened to your cheek?
MARINThis… is from when they were reprimanding me for my behavior.
CHALCEDONYAre you saying… he raised his hand to you? …I will not forgive you, Meteoryte!
MARINIt’s not that! I was at fault. Chalcedony… Cal, wouldn’t you also slap me if I were to go wrong?
CHALCEDONY…Lady Paraiba Marin de Rey, you are the top of the World Max Empire which controls all the land, the Second Great Empress—I will not forgive anyone who questions your judgment.
MARINBut you know that is only ceremonial… Before, you would never say such things…
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba, do you know of which way they went?
PARAIBA……I do not.
BYROCKSLord Chalcedony… If we aimlessly search, then there is a high possibility it would be a waste of time. They should be heading to places with Despir… For the time being, let’s return to the capital and gather information.
CHALCEDONYWe will escort you. Lady Paraiba, please return with us to the capital.
[The Amusement City – Yuraio]
MACHO MERCHANTOh! You there, are you interested in participating in the Raio Grand Prix? I came to this town on business at first, but I gave up on my work for this big event! Are you a hero? If I see you at the event, let’s fight with our hero-like power!
MACHO RICH MANHahah, what are you talking about! I knew there was an event while I was on my honeymoon, so I separated with my wife to join! This decisiveness is the proof of a hero!
MACHO LADYHmph, you’re little men! The only thing a true hero needs is power!! Hehehe… Ever since I beat up my ex, I’ve been dying to show my true power and that time has come!
SHINGWow, this sure is a lively town!
HISUIAhh… I’m sure that’s not it! Look closely, they’re badly affected by Despir! This is why merchants and travelers haven’t left the town.
KOHAKUAgain… my Spirune’s fault…
BERYLBut wait, what’s a Raio Grand Prix?
INNES“Gather heroes—change your unyielding Spiria of steel into a sword. Now compete for the highest courage.” The battle to decide the world’s greatest hero, sponsored by the Amusement City Yuraio, Raio Grand Prix. The winning prize is… one hundred million Gald!!
BERYLA-A hundred million Gald?!
INNESOh, it seems they’re just about to start the first round in the arena. Why don’t we take a look?
KOHAKU…Shing, it’s too dangerous… no.
SHINGFight with a sword of Spiria in a competition for the highest courage… Okay, let’s go there! Since there are a lot of people, we can probably get some information!
HISUIHey, wait… Man, what’s up with him? Always running off when he feels like it…
BERYLOne… one… one… one hundred million gald~
ANNOUNCERIt’s been quite a few years since the world was united—the flames of war have died out, and we are living in a time of peace… however!! We know! People must continue to foster their power! Wisdom! Spiria! Heroes, without losing yourselves in peace and apathy, who have the power and courage to seize the future! Welcome to the Raio Grand Prix!
CROWDYeaaaaaaah!
HISUIKohaku’s getting scared. Let’s get out of here.
ANNOUNCERRejoice, challengers! The stars are blessing the courage you will show us. Look!!
SHINGWait, that’s…!
ANNOUNCERThis is the hundred year history of the Raio Grand Prix—the winner’s trophy stained with heroes’ sweat, blood, and Spiria. The traditional trophy to which the brave pray for success, and to which the heroes’ tower is dedicated! And a shining stone has descended from the heavens! This is no doubt that the heavens have given us as proof of heroism!
CROWDYeaaaaaah! Proof of! Herosim!
ANNOUNCERGet ready! This trophy and one hundred million gald will show the biggest, the best, the strongest hero!! And who will receive the title of the World’s Number One Hero?!
CROWDMeeeee!!!
KOHAKUAh, ahhh…
SHINGKohaku’s Spirune… is in this event’s winner’s trophy?!
SHINGDid everyone see that? In order to get the Spirune back, we’ve got no choice but to enter in the tournament!
HISUIWait, since the Spirune is showing on the trophy, if we steal it really fast without anyone seeing…
SHINGThat’s too cheap, I don’t like it!
HISUIAh? I didn’t ask what you what your interests are.
KOHAKUThose people were… scary and dangerous, Shing… Don’t do it.
SHINGI won’t lose to people like that, so you don’t need to worry. I’ll just go and beat them, then get the Spirune back.
HISUIHey, don’t go deciding shit by yourself!
SHINGHisui, could you be afraid? If it’s for Kohaku, I’m not afraid of anything.
HISUIWhat?! Look who’s talking, you broke her Spirune!!
SHING…Kohaku said that if I wasn’t here she’d be sad! I want to live up to those feelings! I’ll enter in this competition and it’ll be proof of my courage and strength!
BERYLShing… hit Hisui?!
INNESWhat’s wrong, Shing?
SHINGNothing. Isn’t it normal to hit cowards and shut them up?
HISUI…Bastard!!
KOHAKU…Stop… stop…
BERYLThat’s right, no fighting!!
INNESHonestly, we do need to get back the Spirune, but the prize money is incredibly tempting… Since in addition to not having been paid for the Soma yet, there’s all this rioting with the church, I’ve lost my faith…
HISUIOh I see, Innes… you were planning on getting to this tournament from the beginning. But if we pay you back, we’ll really be able to search for Spirune freely… …Okay, I’m gonna enter in this tournament too! But I’m definitely not entering with this punk.
ANNOUNCERRegistration for the preliminary rounds of the Raio Grand Prix will be closing shortly. Those who wish to enter, please register as a group of two.
SHINGGroups of two are perfect. Hisui and I… will enter with different teams.(Choice of Beryl, Innes. I chose Innes.)Innes, be my partner.
INNESOh, it sounds like you’re proposing to me.
SHINGB-But I’m not!
HISUIOh, whatever. Get over here, Beryl!
BERYLHey, what do you mean by “Oh?” And what’s with “Whatever??”
HISUIShing… I’ll make you remember your place!
SHINGMake sure you don’t forget what you said, Hisui!
KOHAKUHisui… Shing…
SHINGWe have to hurry and register, too!
(Hisui left the party.Beryl left the party.)
SHINGKohaku, we’ll be right back.
KOHAKUShing…
INNESThe fact that monsters of this level appear in a civilian competition… If we do badly, it won’t be just wounds that’ll hurt us.
SHINGThis isn’t something we should worry about! Let’s do the second round, Innes!!
ANNOUNCERShing Meteoryte’s party, Hisui Hearts’ party! You will be moving on to the final round! Then, those are the ones qualified for the final round. The Raio Grand Prix finals will, from now on… be held at Yuraio’s prized amusement tower: King Cross.
SHING…I’ll apologize now, since I’m gonna crush you in the finals.
HISUIWhy are you apologizing? Since the crying shit you’ll do when I beat you annoys me?
SHING…So if I beat you while you look down on me like that, you’ll have no choice but to recognize my power.
HISUI……Oh really?! Want me to recognize that here?!
KOHAKUHisui… Shing… don’t… fight…
BERYL
Jeeez! Why don’t you guys just calm…
???How beautiful… Just like the Sleeping Princess who sheds pearl tears. But don’t cry anymore, mademoiselle. I’ll be the hero who will stop your nightmares.
SHINGWho the hell are you?!
???Hmph… I have no need to give my name to bad boys who make lovely ladies like this cry. I’ll say this now: On behalf of this madame, I’ll show you the meaning of defeat as punishment in the finals.
ANNOUNCEROooooh?! This man is… the previous champion of the Raio Grand Prix, Ahmeth!
PARTICIPANTSOhhhh, Ahmeth! He’s the legendary world hero who was incomparable in the last competition…
AHMETHHmph… Welcome, my beloved rivals! Congratulations on passing the preliminaries! Especially those beautiful and pretty ladies over there! …I welcome you ♥
INNESOhh, beautiful?!
BERYLPretty lady?!
AHMETHLadies! This year you once again hit my hot Spiria and splendidly play the symphony of my soul! However, the one who will take the crown will be, of course, me. And the victory this time is… …Mademoiselle, your name, please?
KOHAKU…Kohaku.
AHMETHKohaku… I devote myself to you. That shining jewel on that trophy suits you quite splendidly.
ANNOUNCEROh!! Seducing a woman in such a public presence! That is our strongest hero, Ahmeth!!
HISUIB-Bastard!!
SHINGD-Damn you!!
AHMETH
Ladies and gentlemen! I will see you all at the finals at King Cross! Good luck!!
PARTICIPANTSOoooh!!! Ahmeth!! Ahmeth!!
AHMETHHmph… I take my leave. Be good boys.
HISUITch… let’s go, Beryl! What do these guys think a little sister is?!
BERYLEhehe, pretty lady… He seems like a pretty good guy ♥
INNESYou think it’s okay if we don’t stop them?
SHINGThat’s fine! We have to hurry and get to King Cross! I’ll definitely win, and show everyone my courage and resolve!
[Tower of Heroes – King Cross]
HISUISo you showed up. Blockhead.
SHINGHuh! You’re still here even though I gave you a head start?
INNESGo ahead and get pumped up, but one of you absolutely has to win. I am betting everything I own on the victory of either one of you.
BERYLInnes… That can’t be what you’re gambling with the Campbell Guild? Isn’t that illegal…?!
INNESBut if I’m right, then my life will make a huge change with the prize money and the dividends. …But, in the worst case I lose…
ANNOUNCERLook! This is the decisive battlefield of the Raio Grand Prix! The Tower of Heroes, King Cross! Knowledge! Power! Timing! And, knowledge of what even the best hero does not have—the impossible maze! Those who defeat all other challengers and reach the top will become the World’s Number one hero! Now we begin the finals! Go forth, heroes!
PARTICIPANTSYeaaaaaaah!!!
SHINGYou’re in the way, Hisui!
HISUIWell duh! That’s the point!
INNESOh, those children. They weren’t even listening to what I was saying. You have a fear of heights, don’t you Kohaku? So, just wait here.
BERYLOh boy, I wonder what kind of disaster is waiting for young people who get riled up… It’s a lot of work, but why don’t we just go and make sure?
ANNOUNCER…And yet, even with the worst wounds and death, the committee carries all the responsibility. Please understand.
KOHAKUWounds… death…? Shing… Hisui…
MACHO RICH MANAaaaaagh, I won’t run! I won’t run! I won’t run!!
MACHO LADYI won’t give up either! I’ll be the one to obtain that trophy!
MACHO OLD MANUugh, I won’t… run…
SHINGWhy are there such strong monsters?!
BERYLEven these guys are all riled up by Kohaku’s Spirune!
HISUIA Spirune out in the open? Isn’t that a bit out there?
INNESI think it may be because that Spirune is resting in the trophy that has the feelings of warriors over a hundred years old?
KOHAKUShing… Hisui…
HISUIKohaku! You can’t come with us! Wait outside. …Oh well. Since we have to protect her, we’ll stick together until the top. But…
SHINGYeah. We’ll settle this at the end, right?
(Hisui joined the party.Beryl joined the party.)
KOHAKU
Ah… Ahhh…
BERYLAaaack, we-we’re so high up! It’s not just you, Kohaku, this is way too scary…
SHINGThis is nothing to me!
HISUIDammit, you think you’re gonna get ahead?!
BERYLOh well~ Here, I’ll hold your hand.
INNESOhoho, so if you say that, then aren’t you the one who’s afraid, Beryl? We’re almost to the top. Hang in there.
SHINGThere it is! The winner’s trophy!
AHMETHOh, you guys are late. I waited so long I’ve grown bored.
HISUIWh-What the hell is that?!
AHMETHHmph… Well, why don’t we start our magnificent decisive battle?
SHINGAhmeth! Isn’t using an airship illegal?!
AHMETHHmph… There’s nothing in the competition rulebook that says no airships allowed. This is the knowledge to see the loopholes in the rules! Plus… the strength forged with time and money to surpass limits! And then… the timing to arrive by airship when my rivals have become tired… I am certainly the KING OF HEROES, prepared for everything.
HISUIHero?! You’re just a cowardly oddball!!
AHMETHHah… you don’t understand. Even though grand, unfair tactics may happen, but it depends on how much courage you have!!
SHINGI don’t need to know that! Anyway…
HISUIGet away from Kohaku!
SHINGAugh!!
HISUIHe’s…?!
AHMETHOh, by the way, I’ve registered Kohaku as my partner. So in order for us to share the victory… we will graciously annihilate you.
INNESDon’t let your guard down! He’s not just any nutcase.
AHMETHUnbelievable… I can’t believe… I lost… This is not as expected!!
SHINGUrgh… What is this smell?! W-Wait, Ahmeth!!
HISUIYou’re a cheating hero up until the very end, huh?
AMETHI was unfair because I was most courageous… Sorry, Kohaku… And I bid you an eternal adieu.
SHINGDammit, he got away! But now we’ve got our Spirune back…
HISUINot so fast… We’ll decide who can get the Spirune back, you or me…
SHINGYeah, you and me… Who’s gonna become Kohaku’s real hero…
SHING AND HISUILet me make this clear! Guaaaaaaaah!!
BERYLH-Hey wait a second!!
INNESYou’re overdoing it!!
SHINGAck!!
HISUIGuha!!
KOHAKUShing…! Hisui…!!
INNESKohaku, behind you! W-Why are the monsters acting like this? …Could the smell of that stink bomb have attracted them here?!
BERYLT-This is bad! At this rate, Shing and Hisui are gonna become food!
HISUIDammit… Why here?!
SHINGAre we… gonna die?!
KOHAKUAhh, Shing and Hisui will… die… …That can’t… happen! Absolutely not!!! Guwaaaaaaah!
SHINGKohaku…
HISUICrazy…
BERYLThat was so cool, Kohaku! With that Spirune you weren’t afraid of high places anymore!
KOHAKUNo… I’m still really scared… But I needed… to save Shing and Hisui.
INNESThe power to overcome your fears… That’s true courage.
(Obtained Courage Spirune x 1)
SHINGCourage is overcoming your fears…
INNESThat’s right. Just running head on without knowing fear is just recklessness.
SHINGHisui, I’m sorry… I wanted to show off to Kohaku, and got carried away. Even though she’s much more courageous than I am…
HISUII-I always knew that Kohaku had courage. More than me. I was just… stubborn.
BERYLHaha, definitely this time around, Kohaku is the number one hero.
INNESHeheh, no objections.
ANNOUNCEROoooh, it seems as though both teams have been shown defeat! This means… The winner of the Raio Grand Prix, the number one hero is Miss Kohaku Heats!
KOHAKUI’m a… winner?
INNESH-Hold on a second! This is a totally different topic…
BERYLHahaha… You made that deal yourself so it’s your own fault, right Innes?
INNESWhat? So all of my savings are gone?! Kohaku’s Soma and I don’t matter though… I-I’m broke…
(Kohaku joined the party.
Kohaku received the title Brave Heart.Innes received the title Broke.)
ANNOUNCERAll right, everyone! Here is the return of the heroes who conquered the top!
SHINGSince you won, go on ahead, Kohaku.
ANNOUNCERGive a big round of applause for our hero, Kohaku Hearts!
PARTICIPANTSYaaaaay!
ANNOUNCEROh?! Please wait! Kohaku is registered with Ahmeth’s group… It seems as though Ahmeth’s registration revision was made after the deadline cutoff! Therefore, the winner is void! I’m sorry to say, but as a result there is no champion for this year’s competition!!!
PARTICIPANTSAwwwww!
BERYLI-I was right! Actually, I betted that there’d be no winner in the Campbell Guild!
HISUI…Why did you bet something like that even though we entered?
BERYLTh-That’s because… It’s natural for an artist to look for dramatic endings!
SHINGEven if they revoke the winner status, I won’t forget Kohaku’s courage. W-What’s wrong, Kohaku?! Ahh, you have a fever!
KOHAKUI’m… okay…
INNES
She’s tired, she did use her Soma with an incomplete Spirune, after all. For now, let’s go back to town and rest at the hotel.
WINDAMOmnomn… Today it’s not tofu, but mabo eggplant curry. Depending on the different kinds of ingredients there are infinite possibilities… That is certainly intellectual and cultural!
SHINGT-This is the talking raccoon that gave us the Sorcerer’s Ring!
WINDAMI am not a raccooooon! I belong to the Eroy Order, Eroy Family, Eroy Genus, and the Eroy Species—the Eroy Windam! I am a mysterious animal that loves culture and intelligence.
BERYLI-It’s a raccoon who talks nonsense!
WINDOMOoooohhhh… it’s these fools who are the base for comedy come again… I get very uncomfortable when you call me a raccoon! But… Hmm hmm, it seems you are properly using the sorcerer’s Ring. I think I should open the next level for you… Hehehe… The Sorcerer’s Ring has a new power now. Have the need to explore and use it well!
SHINGHey, wait a second…!
BERYLJust what is that thing??
SHINGHe said he’s the Eroy Windam from the Eroy Order, Eroy Family, Eroy Genus, and Eroy Species.
BERYL…What’s an “Eroy”?
SHING…I dunno.…I wonder? It feels like the Sorcer’s Ring has more power now…
TRAVELING MERCHANTAaaaaah!! What did you do to my goods?! You bastards!!!!
SHINGI-I’m sorry!!
TRAVELING MERCHANT…I swear! If you want to break stuff that bad then go play the breaking boxes game at the amusement park!
BERYL
Agh… I’ve been yelled at like this ever since I drew on my professor’s face while he was sleeping…
SHINGSorry ‘bout that, Beryl.
BERYL…I’m tired too. Let’s hurry up and rest at the hotel…
SHINGPlease give us a room we can rest in as soon as possible!
HOTEL MANI apologize, but presently all the general rooms are booked… However, the suite on the highest floor is open, but the price…
INNESI can’t even pay for a normal hotel…
HISUI…Oh right, don’t you have that money from the bet, Beryl? We’ll borrow that to pay for the suite.
BERYLB-But… I was going to buy a new brush and supplies with it…
SHINGPlease, for Kohaku! Can’t you get art supplies any time?
HISUIYeah. Poor Kohaku…
BERYLJeeez, it’s always Kohaku Kohaku! Fine, I get it! There you go! For your precious Kohaku to rest in her suite, hmph!!
KOHAKUBeryl… thank you.
SHINGWhere are you going, Beryl?
BERYLGoing sketching! Since you got me all wrapped up in your nonsense I haven’t been able to draw for my competition at all!
SHING…I’ll go with you.
BERYL…And what are you planning to do with just the two of us?
SHINGI’m gonna see if I can find some good food for Kohaku.
BERYLStupid Shing! Don’t come with me!!
INCAROSEI’ve found you.
(Kohaku left the party.Hisui left the party.Innes left the party.)
BERYLOoooh, just as I thought. The atmosphere is really nice. ♪
SHINGAn arena with no one in it? I don’t get art…
BERYLOhoho, feeling the Spiria of warriors past in this quiet is art.
SHINGStrong Spiria… I promised Gramps but I still don’t have it.
BERYL…What did you promise your grampa?
SHINGMmm… I vowed that I won’t let all my emotions spill out at once and raise a strong Spiria. But if I compare my strength to Kohaku’s, my Spiria’s still weak… She’s really amazing. She doesn’t have all of her Spirune, yet that strong Spiria…
BERYLJeez! That’s so annoying! Are you satisfied with how many times you say Kohaku?!
SHINGW-Why are you angry, Beryl??
INCAROSEBreaking ties with your friend… Meteoryte?
BERYLAhhh! W-Who is this person…?
SHING…Inca…rose… I’ll… avenge my grandfather!!
INCAROSEI cannot kill you.
SHINGGhuaa!
INCAROSE
But raising your power this much so far… It should be all right to just break one of your arms…
BERYLWhat did you do to Shing, you bastard!!
SHINGIdiot, run… Beryl…!
INCAROSEYou, you did not separate…? Then, cooperate with me.
BERYLCo…operate?
INCAROSEI just want to check something. You don’t have to do anything. Just let me give you a brutal death… in front of Meteoryte.
BERYLAghu…!
SHINGStop… Stop…… Stop!!!! Incarose!!
INCAROSEI thought so… so that’s what it is. I understand…!
INNESJust what I’d think of a suite. What a nice view… only not! Was that an explosion at the arena?!
HISUII hope they’re not involved… Kohaku, sleep! Innes and I’ll be right back.
KOHAKUI’ll go… too.
GARNETIt seems as though General Cornelvin of the imperial army is moving to confirm her presence. Be careful…
INNESThe army is on the move… Is this a pinch? Could this be my chance, I wonder?
SHINGWhere are you?! Come out, Incarose!!
BERYLUugh… Shing…
SHINGAhh… W-What did I…? Beryl, hang out!
BERYLHmph… see? My Spiria’s strong… too.
SHINGYeah, I’m sorry… I’m sorry. I even ruined your painting.
BERYLAww, just think up a crazy theme to take place of my masterpiece… okay? …And this is suddenly too crazy…
CORNELVINTch, Soma users… Did you cause the explosion just now? You’re acting like just passerbyers. …Hm?! Your cute girl friend isn’t with you!
SHINGYou’re the army guys…! What do you want with Kohaku?!
BERYLDon’t continue the conversation with “cute girl friend!”
HISUIAgghhh! This is way worse than I thought!
KOHAKUUm, ahhh…
SHINGThis guy has a Spirune?!
HISUI…And the situation just got worse.
CORNELVINHoho, what is this? It seems as though that girl’s Spirune has a special power! Looks like it will have many uses for experimentation. Maybe I’ll give it back? If you tell me this girl’s secret, that is. We are gathering information on the monsters called Zerom that inhabit Spiria.
SHINGInformation on… Zerom?
CORNELVINCertainly you’ve realized. Despir Disease is the contamination of Spiria by Zerom. The real monsters that devour dreams… We are curious as to where they come from… don’t you want to know?
(Choice of reject or accept. I chose reject.)
(Beryl received the title of Canvas Attacker.)
SHINGIt’s a lot of trouble, but I refuse. We can find out for ourselves.
CORNELVIN…My my, negotiations with unintelligent brats are meaningless after all. I was supposed to do this from the beginning.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERUugh… ughh…… Aaaaaaaaa!!
HISUIWhat’s up with this guy?!
SHINGHe’s strong! I can’t… push back with my Soma!!
(Kohaku joined the party.Hisui joined the party.)
CORNELVINTch… of course, a group of four Soma users is trouble.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERGeneral, there is a group of Crystal Knights who know of the explosion moving toward the arena.
CORNELVINTch… We can’t go head-to-head with the church here. Let us withdraw for now.
SHINGAh! Wait, Cornelvin!
SHINGAh, Innes! We ran into trouble with the Imperial Army!!
INNESYou guys… you’re so rebellious that you’re not only picking fights with the church, but the army too?
BERYLOhh, I guess here ends my road to becoming an imperial artist…
SHINGBut that Cornelvin guy has the Spirune! We have to follow him!!
INNESGeneral Cornelvin?! He’s the commanding officer of the largest military base on the central continent south west of this town… Rignatol Garrison. It’s not somewhere that anyone can just go to.
AHMETHHmph… I seem to be in the middle of all the trouble.
HISUIWhat the hell did you do? No thanks to you we almost died.
AHMETHI’m very sorry… I lost myself in honor and greed and acted shamefully as a person. I want to make up for what I did. I’ll fly you to the Rignatol
Garrison in my airship. Kohaku, I’ll be waiting at the landing port. I want to ask you to believe me but I think it’s no use…
SHINGHe’s… suddenly acting nice.
BERYLWhat are you saying?! There’s a mountain of stuff we can’t trust that guy with!!
INNESWe can get close to the garrison by traveling the land route southwest, but entering is a whole other deal. It should be very easy to get close with the air ship, but I don’t know if we can trust Ahmeth… Whichever way, entering a military base itself is a reckless bet. Land or air, which do you choose?
SHINGSouthwestern road by land… Air route by Ahmeth’s air ship…
(Innes joined the party.)
INNESWe should be entering Rignatol’s patrol area soon… Wait here; I’ll go see what’s up.
BERYLAhhh, I’m tired…
HISUIAgh, Imperial Soldiers?! Beryl! What are you doing?! You can handle this by yourself!
BERYLUghhh… Seriously, this guy… his power isn’t normal!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHeheh… Here they are… invaders! If you move.. I-I-I’ll kill you!!
SHINGAre these… the same guys that were in the arena?!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERIf you resist, you really will die. We can’t let them.
KOHAKUNo! We won’t resist… so let… Beryl go!
SHING…Okay. We surrender.
IMPERIAL SOLDIEROoooohhh… you moved! …We’ll kill you! Guaaaaaoh!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERThey’re not dead but we’ll carry them to Rignatol. So much work…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERBattle strength is wonderful, but think about how hard it is to get rid of it. What are the heads thinking?
INNESThat soldier… Is he already using it in actual combat?
[Rignatol Garrison]
BERYLYay… finally I’m an imperial artist… but I absolutely won’t sell any pictures to Chen…
KOHAKUMy head… hurts…
HISUI…Wh-where are we?
???Oh, you’re finally awake. This is just one room of the military garrison Rignatol. I am surveillance officer Sergeant Morga. I apologize, but we’ve taken your Soma.
SHINGSo this is Rignatol garrison…
BERYLOhhh… that’s right. We were attacked by soldiers and carried off here.
KOHAKUWe lost Innes…
HISUIWe don’t need to worry about her. Our problem is us.
SHINGWe have to take the Spirune back then escape from headquarters…
CORNELVINDiscussing your escape? That is truly a meaningless, futile, useless act. I am General Cornelvin of the Imperial Military. Welcome to our Ringatol! I welcome you, ladies and gentlemen. This is sudden, but you have two options. The first is to talk to me honestly about the Spirune… and the second is to suffer torture and talk about the Spirune. Please choose which one you prefer.
HISUI…Shut up! Who do you think you think is talking?
KOHAKUHisui…!
CORNELVINI’ll add a third option for dreck who do not understand manners. I’ll leave a scar that will never disappear on your sister’s face as you tell me about the
Spirune. Heheheh, since there is no influence on the Spirune if I hurt the skin, you know.
SHINGStop! We’ll… talk about the Spirune.
CORNELVINTch, what a boring choice. …However, for certain there were conditions to exchange data on Zerom, correct? I do think that you brats will not be able to understand, but I’ll keep the promise. …Come!
CORNELVINA few years ago, this was found in an area riddled with battle markings. Do you know what this is?
SHING…Isn’t it just a doll?
CORNELVINAhaha! Just as I thought, a stupid answer. Do you know of the Stone Age?
BERYLThe time over two thousand years ago with no records?
CORNELVINCorrect! Strange machines and mind stones that even we cannot understand were excavated from ruins of that time period. Inside of this thing are operations and mechanisms of the same kind that were excavated. And this is where I was inspired! A thing that moves with mind stones of mechanical flesh, mechanical bone, and mechanical organs! Basically, this is…
KOHAKUA mechanical human built in ancient times—
CORNELVINEeeuugh! Don’t say my conclusion before me!!
MORGAUf, please calm down, General.
HISUIIdiot. There’s no way a human can be made out of machine parts, especially back then.
CORNELVINYour stupidity is impossible! Isn’t the ultimate proof that there was civilization in ancient times yourselves?! And Soma! Mind stones! Mind artes!! Don’t you ever wonder who created it all?! And… Zerom?
SHING…Are you saying the ancient people created Zerom too?
CORNELVIN
Indeed! I am already gathering that proof. The civilization that created mechanical humans, controlled mind monsters… Furuelle! Hehehe, it’s the obligation of geniuses like me to inherit their great legacy!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERGeneral Cornelvin, urgent orders from auxiliary troop colonel Silver. Please return to the control room!
CORNELVINTch, that young nuisance… Always interrupting me at the best times!
MORGAI wonder if everything will be okay. The General is currently competing for a promotion with Colonel Silver. He’s quite impatient.
SHINGOwww… Thanks. You’re a good person, sergeant.
MORGA…A good person doesn’t kill hundreds of others in battles for unification. And since I am not a good person, I do not stop at anything to maintain peace. It’s required, so I will relentlessly torture you, even though you are the same age as my son who died in battle.
KOHAKUSergeant… The Despir that’s spreading and breaking the peace now is all my fault… I’m sorry.
SHINGNo! The one who broke Kohaku’s Spirune was me, so it’s my fault…
MORGA…If you know the secret as to why Despir is spreading, then tell the General this. …Please.
INNESPhew… Security really is tight. I can’t do this alone from here…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHere is the Soma of those locked up kids. Take them to the lab.
MORGAOh dear, this is quite work for an elderly man with backpain.
INNESSo they’re over there…
MORGADo you need me, young lady?
INNESOh, none, but why “young lady”?
MORGA
What, to me you still look like a young girl. Although… I won’t let my guard down.
INNESThere are some people like this even in a corrupt military, it’s kind of scary~
BERYLOooh… He seems quite artistic. I kind of like him.
KOHAKU“A doll… created of black steel. A transient… bronze soul. The blood vessels through your screws flow mercury. The oath to the crystal moon… is a steel covenant. You are my shield… my sword. Engrave the name of a platinum heart—Quartz.”
BERYLWow, that was kind of nice! Were you a poet?!
KOHAKUNo… I just… know—remembered… a poem I heard… before.
BERYLHey, did that… just move?
KOHAKUSargeant…!
INNESIt’s okay, he just fainted. …Even though I meant to kill him.
HISUIInnes?! What have you been doing?
INNESI should be asking you guys that! Since you had your precious Soma taken away~ Since I got them back for you, get read quickly.
HISUI[muffled speech]
INNESIs this a Quartzite relic? How did they obtain this? Well, more like recovered I guess…
SHINGOkay, let’s go! We’ve gotta get that Spirune back from Cornelvin.
INNESHold on a second, do you understand what’s going on? These are military headquarters. Suspicious things are hidden all over the place.
SHING
Yeah, like dangerous soldiers who have Soma’s power… Frankly, it’s scary… but! What’s scarier is throwing away our responsibility and running away from it.
KOHAKUI also… won’t run. I’ll return… the peace my Spirune broke!
INNESOkay then. Rignatol is an underground stronghold built along a valley… Cornelvin should be in the deepest part inside the valley.
(Innes joined the party.)
BERYLAaagh! Why are Zerom here in real life?
HISUIThese are… machines to capture Zerom?
INNES…It’s the other way around. These might be machines to posses humans with them.
CORNELVINJust what I’ve expected from you, Miss Lorenz, that’s the right answer! This is my wonderful prize that I have revived from ancient times!
SHINGInnes, do you know this guy?
INNESI knew him from work, a little.
CORNELVINAs a memory of this reunion, I’ll explain these ancient artes. Zerom attaches itself as a parasite to Spiria and randomly puts one’s body and mind out of control. That is Despir Disease. However, with this machine letting Zerom possess any arbitrary emotion, we can suppress the rampage! For example, letting the Zerom control the feeling of anger, you can see normal physical power increase tenfold, and the strongest soldier who does not feel fear or sadness is born!
SHINGAre you making people catch Despir on purpose and making them fight? What the hell is it for?!
CORNELVINI’ve decided! I’m going to kill everyone in the church and all those Crystal knights for getting carried away!! Oh, and perhaps these Zerom-possessed soldiers will also inflict a rampage on this girl’s Spirune… Hehehe, I’ll destroy not just the church, but that saucy Silver and even the Major, and I’ll be the one to unite the world ♪
KOHAKUSoldiers who don’t feel fear or sadness… That’s…
CORNELVINThis, of course! This genius Cornelvin has finally understood the true use of Zerom!
INNESGenius?! Understood?! You’re a liar. Who on earth taught you all of this, I wonder? A molecule-sized avacado green pepper like you has no way to figure that stuff out by himself ♪
CORNELVINMolecule-sized… Avocado… green pepper?! …I’m sorry, but you know too many secrets. You are considered acquaintances and I won’t kill you but… I’ll cut of your limbs, lock you in your cell, and we can take our time talking about Spirune. Lorenz! I’ll decorate my office with you! Cry and be happy!
BERYLAhhhh, is he really saying that?!
ZEROM-POSSESSED SOLDIERSGuuhaaaaaaaa!!
SHINGYou bastard, get back here!
CORNELVINHehehehehe!! I’ve completed possessing all the base’s soldiers with Zerom! Move, my Zerom Soldiers! Try and see how many parts you can rip these five Soma users into!
SHINGArgh… no! The door won’t open!
KOHAKUHe’s… going up.
INNESLet’s move up the opposite side of the base and head for the roof!
ZEROM-POSSESSED SOLDIERAaaaargh!
INNESDon’t get in the way!
CORNELVINThis can’t be, this can’t be! Even Zerom Soldiers… my power… my dreams… The trump card to crush the church and Silver and show them my genius!
SHINGA genius doesn’t manipulate people’s Spiria and make them fight! That’s… a molecule-sized avocado green pepper bastard!!!
CORNELVIN
Everybody… Everybody… Everybody!!! You’re all making fun of me, a genius! I’ll shred you all to pieces!!!
SHINGHe absorbed the Spirune… and turned into a Zerom Soldier?!
HISUI…Which means that’s Kohaku’s anger Spirune!!
CORNELVINGuuehaaaaaaa!!!
CORNELVINLorenz… brats… Silver… sorceress… everyone’s… making fun of me…
INNESI see, sorceress… huh.
BERYLPhew… We’re finally able to get back the Spirune.
SHING…This is Kohaku’s feeling of anger…
HISUIWhat’s wrong? Hurry up and give that back to her.
SHINGY-Yeah…
ZEROM SOLDIERGhaaaaaa!!!
BERYLThis is bad, this is bad! This is way too bad!
INNESAgh… This number and our position… what do we do?!
MORGAGhhrrrrr! For the sake of… peace, I will… kill you all!
KOHAKUNo… Sergeant?!
HISUIDammit, the Spirune! What did you do?!
KOHAKUHisui, no!
MORGAGhuraaaaa!!
KOHAKU
*screams*
SHINGKohaku!!!!
???Confirming enemy strength. Beginning elimination procedures. Seizing priority attack target. Deleting existence.
MORGAArghhh… For the sake of peace… I’ll kill…
KOHAKUSergeant!
???Priority attack target deletion complete. Next, moving to clean up surrounding forces.
BERYLW-W-What was that??
SHINGThat was… the mechanical doll that was in the underground room?
INNESThe revival of a Quartzite relic…? Kohaku, come here!! Shing! I got the Spirune back! Here we’ll split up and meet up where the letter was delivered!!
SHINGWhere the letter was delivered… Okay, see you there!
???Please wait!
HISUIOkay, while he’s getting rid of those Zerom soldiers, we run!
???Please wait! Halt!
(Kohaku left the party.Innes left the party.)
???They’re stopping everyone and inspecting everything. We can’t get to Estrega by the promised day.
???Awww, no…
???There is a way to pass the inspection but it’s very dangerous. Let’s give up.
???
No, no, no! Waaaaah…
BERYLThere’s a way to get to the capital without passing through inspection?
???If you go through Dosmore Forest. But you can lose your direction very easily in that forest since the magnetic field is all distorted. I heard about this from the Caravan Guild.
???Recently, incredibly fierce monsters have grown in numbers and we can’t get through at all.
OVEI’m sorry, but may I ask who you are? I am Ove, a caravan merchant. This is my wife Cindy and my daughter Anne.
SHINGI’m Shing. Just now we escaped from the Imperial Military stronghold…
HISUIDon’t just start talking about dangerous stuff! We’re also in a hurry to the capital. If you tell us the way we’ll escort you. We’re more trustworthy than the knights of the church.
OVEReally? Certainly, please! If you need anything please tell us.
ANNEYaaay! Thank you, misters!
???Failure in capture of the activation lyricist vessel. Searching for mind response… Function malfunction. It seems as though my mind detection function was completely broken in the last battle. So I cannot specify Mistress’… and his location. Changing tracking target to the assumed party of the vessel.
[Dosmore Byway]
SHINGWait, what just happened?
OVEIt looks like we’re coming up to the area where the magnetic field influences. Please hold on a second.
CINDYWith this the magnetic field doesn’t influence the body. But we can’t use a compass… If we exit west through the forest, the capital should be right there. Let’s hurry while there’s still daylight.
ANNELet’s go, hurry! We have to get there by that day!
HISUIThat’s dangerous, get back here!
OVEAre you all right, Anne?!
ANNEYeah… this person saved me.
BERYLAgh! This is the monster from the garrison!!
???I am not a monster. I am identification code IS206 model 11 type jack all-purpose mechanical being. Original identification code issued by my master is …Kunzite.
HISUIWhy you saying things that don’t make sense? What do you want from us?!
KUNZITEWarning: Initiation of magnetic field protection. Direction recognition system in disorder. …I also would like to head to Estrega. Asking for approval to move together.
SHINGOkay, let’s go together! I’m Shing Meteoryte! Nice to meet you.
HISUISeriously, you’re planning on traveling with a monster we don’t know anything about?!
SHINGBut he saved Anne, so he has to be a pretty good guy! And, are those hands Soma? If he can use Soma then he’s like us and has Spiria. He’s not a monster. Mr. Ove! We’ve decided to take him with us!
KUNZITEI expect the correct directions related to the route.
HISUI…Jeez, he doesn’t even know what’s going on…
(Kunzite joined the party.
Obtained Vex x 1A multi-purpose use Soma with freely flexible arms. Means “Ancient Warrior” in an ancient language.)
HISUIPhew, let’s take a little rest here. I bet you’re tired too, Anne.
ANNEI’m not tired at all! If we don’t hurry we won’t get to the capital in time!
KUNZITEI am in agreement with Anne. We should hurry to Estrega.
BERYLAwww, I’m tired… And just what is the promised day?
OVEActually, it’s the anniversary of my wife and I’s first meeting in Estrega ten years ago. We did not give a formal wedding…
CINDYAnd when Anne found out, she said she wanted to see our wedding… My husband also said that on our anniversary we should give one in Estrega. …Oh, and because of this reason we’ve involved everyone. I’m sorry.
SHINGNo, it’s okay, that’s a good reason! Aww yeah… a wedding…
HISUIHey, were you having wild ideas about my sister as your bride?! I’m not gonna let you!!
KUNZITEKohaku, the girl that was with you. Is she Lady Lithia’s present vessel?
HISUILithia…?! Hey, why do you know that name?!
KUNZITEThose are confidential matters and I refuse to answer. Please specify if you have information or not.
BERYLWho’s Lithia??
HISUISome stupid legend from my hometown. She’s some spirit or whatever that lives on in people’s Spiria or whatever. Kohaku was influenced and said like “she” is inside her.
BERYLWhaat? If someone else is staying in people’s Spiria then doesn’t that mean using Soma is no use?
SHINGNo, Lithia does exist. I… met her inside of Kohaku’s Spirmaze.
HISUIHuh? Why didn’t you say anything until now?
SHINGSorry… I don’t really remember that time well… But there definitely was a girl with emerald-colored hair.
BERYLEmerald-colored hair?! That’s just like the Sleeping Princess fairy tale!
ANNEJeez guys, don’t talk about picture books and let’s hurry!
HISUIDammit, I don’t need to be worrying about Kohaku right now! Where we delivered the letter, our meeting place—let’s hurry to where the handyman Garnet is!
KUNZITERecording. Meeting point with the vessel is with the capital’s handyman Garnet. My Lady… I am coming to your side.
OVEThe capital is just ahead from here. Thanks to you all, we’ll be able to make it there on time.
ANNEHehehe, I get to see daddy and mommy’s wedding soon! I’m so happy! You should come to the wedding too, Kunzite.
KUNZITEWedding… An unnecessary formality to evoke sentimental feelings and to face present dangers, et cetera.
ANNE…Unnecessary?
KUNZITEAffirmative. Your parents are fools with no precise judgment.
ANNEDaddy and mommy are not stupid! They listened to what I asked!! Ahhhh?!
SHINGGuh… We’re surrounded! Kunzite, take care of Anne!! Hey… Kunzite?
KUNZITEYou can deal with this level of monster. You have already passed through a forest with a troublesome magnetic field, and I have mostly obtained information I was looking for. I do not need you anymore. From here I will move to Estrega independently.
ANNEAhhh! Help me!!
SHINGH-He was for serious… I can’t believe this!!!
ANNEWaaaaah! Daddy! Mommy!!
CINDYAnne, I’m so glad you’re safe!!
HISUI
That mechanical bastard has the same Spiria as us? …You’ve got to be kidding! So saving Anne in the beginning was just making up to us!
SHINGHe deserted this little girl… I won’t forgive him!!
(Kunzite received the title Cold Hearted Machine.
Kunzite left the party.)
OVEAhh, thanks to you all, we’ve arrived safely at the capital. I can keep my promise to my wife and daughter. Really, thank you very much!
CINDYI cannot express my thanks, but at least have this mind stone. If you have this, you can cross through Dosmore at any time.
(Obtained Magnetic Barrier Removal Mind stone x 1)
ANNEI wish you guys could come to daddy and mommy’s wedding too…
SHINGI’m sorry. Bless your dad and mom for us, okay?
HISUIKohaku’s group and that mechanical bastard should have already arrived. Let’s hurry up and find that handyman Garnet.
CHALCEDONY…That’s all, but that’s about the gist of the Despir cases in Shalrowe and Yuraio. The girl who was ordered to be captured has… been missing since Yuraio.
ARKHAMHah… Quite the child’s mission. I already have additional information of what happened in that city. Cornelvin’s force made contact with Meteoryte’s party, and the possibility that the girl fell into military hands is high.
CHALCEDONYAgh… But father! Just what kind of power is that girl supposed to have? If it’s Despir, then our church can suppress that easily with our power!
ARKHAMIt’s not as simple as that! If she is taken by her, then we must prepare for even just one fight with the military. I will move to the Holy City Pransule.
BYROCKSTo the northern Holy City Pransule?
ARKHAMIf we assumed war with the opposing military, then that city is our Velleia Church base. Peridot, please escort me.
PERIDOTWhaaat? Ah, Understood!
ARKHAMHer Majesty the Empress! What could you possibly need here?
PARAIBAUm… I heard yelling from all the way outside… Please don’t scold Chalcedony. The reason he failed is because I refrained to inform him of Shing and friends’ destination.
CHALCEDONYYou know where they were going?! Why didn’t you tell me??
ARKHAMWell, well. Chalcedony is serving wonderfully as a Crystal Knight.
PARAIBA…So, Pastor Arkham… What is the plan for resistance of Despir?
ARKHAM…Despir? Ah, the sickness like a cold that’s spreading little by little?
PARAIBANo, this is a terrible disease! Please, quickly see the extent of the damage done throughout the country, and deal with it not with just the knights, but with the cooperation of the military—
ARKHAMThat is trouble. We must give a strict punishment to those who are letting Her Majesty hear such rumors… First, shall we investigate the circumstances of your maid in Shalrowe?
PARAIBA…I-I see… I believe the Church can undertake this matter completely…
ARKHAMI’ll be glad if you can do the same. Your servant will be dropped in her position at work but please, take your time. Ohh, how about you and Chalcedony go on your first long walk in a while? Chalcedony, I’ll give you your duty. Please take Her Majesty to Pransule in a few days. I don’t care how you do it. If Her Majesty is in your hands, in the worst case it is of course the duty of the church to take care of her.
PARAIBAI’m sorry, Chalcedony. I…
CHALCEDONYGuh… An Empress should not apologize exclusively to just one of her servants! That timid attitude will become an improper rumor!!
PARAIBAI apolo…gize.
BYROCKS…Lord Cal.
CHALCEDONY…Please come back. I’ll take you to the castle.
INNESAs planned, we’ve gotten here first.
KOHAKUInnes… Why aren’t you giving me my new Spirune back?
INNESKohaku… I want you to do me a favor with this Spirune. But will you hear me out, I wonder?
KOHAKUA… favor?
CHALCEDONYThe Spirune girl and the traveling merchant… Showing your face again in the capital again is what the Crystal Knights have been expecting, too.
INNESCrystal Knight?!
BYROCKSIf you move just a finger… I’ll shoot you.
INNES…I messed up. You were able to read all my movements.
CHALCEDONYTraveling merchant, shall I take that Spirune you have in your hands from you?
BYROCKS…I’ll warn you, it’s no use if you try anything else as you give that up.
CHALCEDONYHmph, so it’s like this if Meteoryte isn’t here. Where did he go? He ran when he understood the difficulty of the situation, didn’t he?
KOHAKUShing is…
SHINGNot gonna run!
BYROCKSAghh!
CHALCEDONYI’m so glad to see you, Meteoryte. And now, I’ll take whatever you’ve gathered back!
SHING
Chalcedony, this isn’t a situation where we should be arguing! The military is really preparing for war against the church. If this keeps up war really will happen!!
CHALCEDONYHmph, whatever brought that on to a boy who put one girl’s Spiria before the world? If that were really to happen, then these Crystal Knights… no, my Soma will crush whatever the military throws at us.
KOHAKUThey’re not normal soldiers! They’ve been possessed by Zerom… It’s an army that can’t feel fear or sadness…!!
CHALCEDONYHahaha! And you still want to know the secrets of your Spirune.
PARAIBAPlease stop, Chalcedony! These people are my patrons!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba! I thought I told you not to go outside!
SHINGMarin?! …I see, so you’re Marin’s knight. Do you know? Marin said she doesn’t know how you feel, and was crying the entire time! You’re just an idiot who can’t even save the world, or a girl’s Spiria!
CHALCEDONYYou’re… talking about the world… about Lady Paraiba!
PARAIBAStop it, Cal! Try not to think about distinguished deeds and just listen to what Shing has to say! That’s what you would have done before, but now you just jump to violence…
CHALCEDONY…Thinking only about deeds? …Jumping to violence?
PARAIBAWhy…? Why are you becoming just like any other adult? I really… don’t understand you anymore!!
CHALCEDONYBut I… had to become a strong… adult for you… but… but… Lady Paraiba… if you think of me that way… Why!!!
PARAIBAAhh, Cal… No, no! Please, listen to us!!
CHALCEDONYI… worked so hard… for you… but why… Why won’t you understand these feelings?!
PARAIBA*screams*
BYROCKSAghhh, please calm down, Lord Chalcedony!
CHALCEDONYWhy! Why won’t you understand?! I… I…!!
BYROCKSLord Chalcedony. I know this path you’ve walked on!! For Lady Paraiba’s sake… as well as your own! You cannot lose control over your Spiria on something like this!!
CHALCEDONY…Uuugh, By…rocks. The Spirune made… my anger… go out of control… Aghhhh!
BYROCKSLord Cal, your pain is my pain… I’ll risk my life to save you. Ever since I was young, that has been my purpose in my work!
HISUITch… Those damn Crystal Knights! Taking back the Spirune we went all the trouble through to get.
SHING…And we’ll take it back as many times as we need to! We’ll do a Spirlink too!!
(Kohaku joined the party.Innes joined the party.)
KUNZITEThe invocation of mind artes resembling Lady Lithia confirmed. Assuming origin is of the Celirade, executing Spirlink.
INNESThat Byrocks man is a worthy user. Don’t let your guard down.
BERYLAhhh! Why are you?!
SHINGKunzite?! You can do Spirlink even though you’re a machine?
KUNZITE…You. So the one who invocated the mind artes just now was that vessel girl? I do not comprehend. What is this phenomena?
HISUIIt’s those Knights from the church. They broke up Kohaku’s Spirune and ran off with them. That light’s telling us where the fragments are.
KUNZITEThe vessel’s Spirune was broken by Soma Knights?! What has happened to Lady Lithia?
HISUI…Who knows. But we can find out if we join forces, like what happened to the Spirune they carried off… and stuff.
SHINGHisui, why did you just lie…?!
HISUIWe can use his battle forces. If we can defeat Byrocks together, it’d be a big help, right?
SHINGBut, tricking him…
KUNZITE…Understood. From here on I will move with you.
HISUIOk. This time, don’t run from us in the middle of something.
(Kunzite joined the party.)
BYROCKSAll right, all that’s left is to retrieve the Spirune. …This is?
SHINGThere it is, the Spirune!
BYROCKSYou’ve followed me here?!
KUNZITEConfirmation of Spirune fragment. …Detected mind light pattern particular to that of Lady Lithia! My Lady, I will save you!!
BYROCKSUrgh! Who are you?! …No matter who you are, I will not give the Spirune to you!
BYROCKSAgh… This isn’t over! I must not allow you to take… No, I will not allow you to hurt Lord Cal!
KUNZITETarget, continuing hostile actions… Beginning total removal. Compensate for inflicting harm upon my mistress by suspending biological activity.
CHALCEDONYStop! Don’t hurt Byrocks!!
SHINGThere’s… another Spirune?!
CHALCEDONYDon’t hurt him… I hate bullying! …Father also hurt Lady Paraiba for his own sake. My beloved Lady Paraiba always seems so sad but I can never do anything…
BYROCKSY-You’re…
CHALCEDONYThen, only Byrocks would be my friend. He encouraged me to be a strong adult… and create a country where Lady Paraiba would always be smiling. …That became my goal. Byrocks raised me, and I swore on that dream for Lady Paraiba… My dream!!
SHINGThese are… Chalcedony’s true feelings… and the dream Spirune?!
KUNZITEThe type of Spirune does not matter. I must only retrieve them.
CHALCEDONYThose who dirty this dream… Lady Paraiba’s world… the military, father, and Meteoryte—whoever it is, I will not forgive them!!
INNESHe just forced a Link Out on all of us… What is this power…?
KUNZITEVessel. My mistress is sleeping within your Spirune… Return this carefully.
SHINGWait! Returning that anger Spirune…
(Obtained Anger Spirune x 1)
SHINGKohaku…
CHALCEDONY…You bastards, how dare you look into my Spiria!
SHING…Just stop. Aren’t our feelings the same?
CHALCEDONYN-No! Don’t compare Lady Paraiba to a mere girl!! Lady Paraiba is… Lady Paraiba! What did… I do?
PARAIBAAhh… No… Cal… Listen to…
BERYL…This really has been bothering me for a little, but if Marin is Lady Paraiba, then…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERDon’t move, Crystal Knight Chalcedony!! We have information that you have moved violently against Her Majesty Paraiba Marin de Rey! As a suspect of a first-degree crime against the Empire, the military itself is arresting you!!
BERYLAaaaahh! She really is the empress!
CHALCEDONYI committed… a first-degree crime against the Empire…? Understood. It is true that I hurt Lady Paraiba… I surrender.
BYROCKSNo, Lord Chalcedony! If you are arrested in this situation then you will only be used as a tool for political strife! Let’s pull back for now, and wait for a chance to explain!
CHALCEDONYLet me go… I’ll take the responsibility for… hurting Lady Paraiba.
BYROCKSHe has lost consciousness. That’s not unreasonable. He did force a Link Out on six Soma users.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERCrystal Knight, remove his Soma and hand him over to us.
BYROCKSI refuse. The one to carry Lord Cal to bed after he has fallen asleep has always been my duty.
SHINGWait, give back just that one Spirune!
BYROCKSThis is different from what Lord Cal has said… I will most definitely bring about your end! Remember this, Meteoryte!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERUgh… I won’t let you run, Crystal Knight!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHm? Aren’t these the Soma users in the wanted poster who attacked Rignatol Garrison?!
HISUIOh no… we’re wanted?! We gotta get out of here!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERWait, you bastards! This is an urgent message! Two important criminal groups are escaping the metropolitan area. Hurry, close the city gates!!
IMPERIAL ARMY MESSENGERListen all! An urgent message from the military!!! Regarding the criminal groups, from now on all gates to the city are to remain closed. No one is allowed to enter or leave!! The wanted ones are two groups, eight people! One is suspected for violent acts against Her Majesty, as well as acts against the Empire, Crystal Knight Chalcedony Arkham, as well as Byrocks Barrows! One other group as attackers on Rignatol Garrison, Shing Meteoryte and five other
Soma users!! In addition, relating to Crystal Knight Chalcedony’s conducts, the Empire has decided to halt all activities within the Church of Velleia!
IMPERIAL SOLDIER…Reporting! The two Crystal Knights forced through the city gates… and headed to the north. It’s likely that they’re headed to the northern Holy City Pransule.
IMPERIAL ARMY MESSENGERHm, we were too late! Understood. Let the main army deal with that. However, those Soma users should still be hidden within the city. Strengthen security and absolutely do not let them escape outside!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERSUnderstood!!
BERYLAwww~ I’m on the wanted list too… This is no good, an imperial artist shouldn’t have a bounty on her head…
INNESYou heard that Chalcedony should be headed to the northern Holy City Pransule, right?
KOHAKUA war between the church and the military… is going to start.
SHINGDammit, what should we do? We should be chasing Chalcedony, but we can’t leave the capital…
KUNZITEI suggest breaking through the city gate. With our present battle strength, we may be able to escape if a few die in action.
SHINGIf a few die in action…? Why can you think up something so cold like that?!
KUNZITEIt is for my mistress. If I am not able to collect all the Spirune, I cannot revive my mistress. Are not the circumstances the same as for you?
INNES…The handyman Garnet. He can probably… tell us a way out of the city.
HISUIYeah, looks like that shady old man should be able to. All right, let’s find Garnet!
GARNETSo here’s the wanted group. Long time no see. You’re pretty brave to be attacking the military’s garrison.
BERYLThat’s not true, Garnet! Well, maybe it is, but that Cornelvin guy…
INNESThere’s no time to be talking about irrelevant things. We want to leave the city. Tell us a way to escape.
GARNET…Of course I know. I am the handyman Garnet, after all. I’m a man who’ll do anything if you ask. So, first let’s go to the capital military headquarters first.
HISUIWhat?! We told you we’re being chased by the military!
GARNETHehehe, nothing ventured, nothing gained… Before you ask me anything, I want you to believe me.
GARNETHeheh, thank you for your trouble. Here I have the wanted Soma user group.
MILITARY SOLDIERHmmm… Everyone is according to the posters. Just what I expect from you, Garnet, catching them in a short amount of time. Alright, go on ahead and restrain them inside, and make sure to stay out of public eye.
GARNETHeheh… All right, thank you.
SHINGWhat does this mean…?
GARNETWhat, when the military can’t find the offenders to a crime, I have an actor disguised as a fake criminal and announce it. Honor is more important than public order, after all. The duty of this handyman is to prepare those fake criminals… you know.
SHINGThat’s…
GARNETYes, I’m rotten. Not just the military, but the church, the empire… the entire world. Well, now let’s head to the underground cell.
GARNETThe drainage within the jail… You can enter the sewer from there. They say the sewers travel all throughout underneath the capital, and one part goes outside.
BERYLThey say…? You’re not gonna lead us out?
GARNETHehehe, all you asked me to do was tell you a way out… Whether or not you can actually get out is up to all of you.
KUNZITERetrieving the Spirune is urgent business. I will go.
KOHAKUWe have to go… a war is going to start!
INNESI guess we have no choice… if we take our time, we’ll really be trapped in this jail.
GARNETMiss Innes, take care.
INNESI lost a lot in that bet. If I lose these kids’ Soma, I’ll really be broke.
SHINGIf we all go, we’ll somehow manage! Garnet, thanks for leading us up to here.
INCAROSE…Is it okay to let them run…?
GARNETI dismissed the chance. If we let her be caught in military headquarters, we lose everything.
GROSSULARHey, why are you in such an irritating place?! What is the meaning of letting all those who were with you, Labrado, the Soma users, all of them escape?!
GARNETCalm down. I know where they are going. I also have discovered the Soma users’ and Crystal Knight Chalcedony’s point of contact. If I let them swim, then they should be meeting up at the Holy City Pransule… If you attack there, you can prepare for you conspiracy against the one who attacked Her Majesty, the ones who attacked the garrison, and the entirety of the church.
GROSSULARPlotting is bad reputation. Not taking control of Her Majesty, but the military’s plotting against the church is already the truth. But, just what I expected… unlike Cornelvin.
GARNETThank you for your generous words.
[Capital city sewers]
KOHAKUAhh…!
SHING
Be careful!
BERYLHey, ever since we got that Spirune back, Shing and Kohaku haven’t been talking at all.
HISUIThat’s fine. Kohaku and Shing never have to speak again and I will be totally cool.
INNESThe floor is slippery too. Let’s be careful and find the exit.
BERYLAhhh, we finally made it out! Ohh, the sun… how I’ve missed you so~
SHING…Kohaku. Kohaku! I’ve… been afraid of returning your anger emotion to you! I was so afraid of how much you’d hate me since I broke your Spirune. …Getting mad… resenting me… I know it’s all normal. But, I…
KUNZITE…I demand an explanation. The one who destroyed the Spirune in which Lady Lithia is sleeping was not the Soma-user Knights of the church?
KOHAKU…No!!
SHINGYeah. The one who broke apart Kohaku’s Spirune was… me. Aghh!!
HISUIHey, what are you doing?!
KUNZITEAs a protection mechanism, executing removal of Shing Meteoryte, the one who hurt my mistress.
SHING…I know what I did was wrong. But that’s why I have to do this!
KOHAKUStop, Kunzite! My Spirune was…
KUNZITEStand back, vessel. I will destroy all who stand in my way!
HISUIThe one who got removed was you, you mechanical bastard!
KOHAKUStop, Hisui!! Kunzite is… a precious person to Lithia!
HISUI
Get out of the way, Kohaku! If I don’t break this guy, Shing’ll get killed.
KUNZITEC-Continuing… battle. …I do not… approve of… those who hurt… my mistress.
KOHAKUNo, it’s not Shing!! The one who broke my Spirune was… me and Lithia!!!
HISUITalking about Lithia again… That’s just some wild delusion between you and that mechanical bastard!
KOHAKUNo, Lithia is really real!! She has been inside only my Spiria for the longest time!
BERYLBut isn’t something else existing inside a Spiria kind of impossible?!
KOHAKULithia has a special power that’s separate from mine. She was the one who asked me to stop Despir Disease—the Zerom contamination, so I went on a journey. But she had a terrible enemy, the sorceress Incarose… If it looked like I was going to be caught by her… I promised that I’d hide my Spirune inside her and scatter the pieces so she could escape.
KUNZITEIncarose?! I should have been waiting to fight her, but I see she’s revived.
INNESYou really are meant to protect her, but is there really a need to protect Lithia to that extent?
KOHAKUThere is! Lithia is… the one who is going to seal away the Zerom. If we have her power, then we can control the Zerom at will…
INNESThat power… Lithia is the Spiria of the ancient being who invented Zerom, right?
BERYLB-B-But if that’s true, then you’re terrible for keeping all this important information to yourself, Kohaku!
KOHAKUI’m sorry… At first, I couldn’t really put my feelings together and wasn’t able to talk well. But, since my Spirune have sort of come back I became scared about keeping it to myself, and couldn’t talk about it. And now that you know the truth… I wonder how much Shing’s gotten angry at me, despised me, and hated me… I thought about that, and I got so scared I couldn’t say anything… I’m sorry… I’m so sorry!!
SHING…Don’t cry, Kohaku. I’m not angry. I thought that huge explosion was really my fault… and, at first I felt it was my responsibility, but now’s different… I want to save you with my own will.
KOHAKUShing…
HISUIThat’s enough, Kohaku. I’ll make sure he knows he’s done bad!
BERYLOh boo, let’s trade places, Kohaku~
INNESEhehe, if you trade then I wonder if you’ll be fine with becoming another one of my unpaid employees. ♪
KOHAKU…Everyone…
KUNZITEUnderstood. Storing the vessel’s… no, Kohaku’s words with my classified information. Consequently, these words are fact… Confirming the scattering of the Spirune and the recovery is my mistress, Lithia’s will. In order to revive Lady Lithia, reconfiguring my priority targets to those who work in opposition of Kohaku.
HISUIAhhh?! Like hell I wanna be saved by dangerous bastards like you!
SHINGAll right, Kohaku. Let’s go get back the Spirune… To the Holy City Pransule!!
KOHAKU…Okay!
(Kunzite joined the party.Kohaku joined the party.
Kunzite received the title Unwanted Escort.)
YOUNG MERCHANTExcuse me! You can’t get passed here. The military is blocking the coastal route.
SHINGInnes, is there a way to get to the Holy City without using the route?
INNESHmmm, other than the coastal route… Is that the route through the Shahera Desert that they say takes a thousand nights to get through, I wonder?
BERYLCrossing the one thousand night Shahera Desert?! Ahhh, that’s the same as impossible!
KUNZITEI suggest breaking through the main blockade.
HISUIIdiot! We’re all wanted, remember?!
KOHAKU…Does it really take a thousand nights to get through the desert?
INNESProbably not. It’s likely to be much, much faster than the coastal route that goes around the continent. …But I wonder if the chances of us getting out safely are a thousand to one?
BERYLOh no, no~! That’s definitely impossible! Let’s just draw back here!!
SHING…We can do it. Let’s get through this Shahera Desert!
INNESThat’s our decision. All right, let’s get ourselves together so that even if we die, we have no regrets… and let’s go ♪
BERYLI’m done… 99% of me has already died…
KUNZITEThose calculations are wrong. If the chances of survival are a thousand to one, then the likelihood of death is 99.9%.
(noticeAuldomaine road is now available as field.)
[Desert of a Thousand Nights Shahera]
INNESWell, I think we’ll be coming up on the Wasteland of Death, soon. If you lose focus you can be destroyed in an instant.
[Wasteland of Death]
SHING…Wasteland of Death?
INNESThe roughest spot of the Shahera Desert where they say that even when you sweat, you lose one of your lives. There’s also a rumor that a giant sandworm swallowed an entire caravan of a hundred people.
BERYLN-No way?! Monsters like that don’t exist! If it does then I want to try sketching it!
KUNZITEWarning! Detected movement!
BERYL
Ahhhhh!! It does exist!
SHINGKohaku, over here!
HISUIShing! Take Kohaku and run!!
INNESUgh… This is bad! For now, let’s split up and meet at the oasis up north!!
KOHAKUAhhh… everyone!!
SHINGNo, Kohaku! Let’s just do as they say and run!!
(Hisui left the party.Beryl left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
SHINGDammit, what is this storm…?! For a second I lost my place. It’s okay. Right now let’s head north and meet up with everyone else. Let’s hurry. If we’re late, we don’t know what Hisui and Innes are gonna say to us.
KOHAKU…Okay!
SHINGAhh!! Hold my hand!
KOHAKU*screams*
SHINGKohaku… Kohaku!!!
SHINGOhh… Where are you, Kohaku… Kohaku!!! Dammit… I can’t cross this desert by myself…
KOHAKUShing… Where…
SHINGThis isn’t the time to mope! Everyone’s… Kohaku’s waiting for me!!
(Kohaku left the party.)
SHING
Augh… I don’t know which way north is anymore… Huh…? I can’t move… Dammit… Move, body… I have to… return Kohaku back to… normal… I guess… my power… really is… I’m sorry……Kohaku……… Hahah… I’m so weird… I’m… dying… and all I’m thinking about is Kohaku… Yeah… like this I… don’t… want to die… I want to see you… one more time…
KOHAKU…Shing… Where are you…?
SHINGThis feeling… *gasp*?!
KOHAKU…I’m here…
SHINGKohaku! I hear her voice!! I’m here! I’m right here!!! This is… the Spirune light? …No, it’s not! My Soma’s tied with the Spiria! Kohaku’s at the end of this light!!
SHINGHang on, Kohaku!!
KOHAKU…Sh…Shing?
SHINGYeah, it’s me! I’m so glad you’re safe… My Soma was glowing, and let me hear your voice.
KOHAKUI heard it too… You called me… you sounded like you were going to cry…
SHINGI wasn’t crying! Weren’t you crying too?
KOHAKU…No. I knew that Shing, and maybe the others would come to save me.
SHINGY-Yeah! I will definitely save you. …Well, let’s head to the north oasis while the sandstorm is dying down. I’m sure everyone’s waiting!
(Kohaku joined the party.)
HISUII can’t believe this! I’m stuck in this place all by myself!
KUNZITEYou are not alone. I am also with you.
HISUIHeh, I’m the only human here! You’re just one thing, mechanical bastard.
KUNZITEIf those words are meant to harm me, then you are mistaken. I have the pride that I am a mechanoid loyally serving my mistress.
HISUIMistress… That Lady Lithia? Yeah, not gonna forgive her either. She tricked my sister. If she’s revived, I’m gonna break her!!
KUNZITEWarning. If those words are to reflect an actual intention, then I will remove you.
HISUIAhh?! You wanna fight?
KUNZITEWeather conditions worsening. The protection of my mistress and the ves… Kohaku is my utmost priority. Let’s hurry to the meeting point.
HISUIW-Wait, bastard! Jeez, Shing and this guy… Kohaku’s not attracting any good guys!
HISUI*pant pant*
KUNZITEIs your energy down?
HISUIShut up! You should be the one with sand all over and broken! Wasn’t that just… the sound of that fucking huge sandworm?
KUNZITEComparing data. Confirmed: Sound of sandworm when preying.
HISUIAgh, Kohaku and the others’re in trouble! Let’s hurry, mechanical bastard!!
KUNZITERoger!
BERYLAwwww~ It’s no use, Innes~ Let’s just go home…
INNES…We can’t really do that, either. We’ve already lost the road home, you know.
BERYLWhaaaaat!! Are you serious?!
INNESI’m sure if we head north we’ll be okay. Believe in the instinct of a traveling saleswoman ♥
BERYLWhat do you mean, I’m sure? What instinct?! We’re in this scary desert that no one can get out of!! Ohhh, if I die, then I’m haunting you forever!
INNESBeryl… Let me just say one thing.
BERYLW-What?
INNESIf you die, just know that the only thing I’ll be taking will be your Soma ♪
BERYLNo way! I’m not gonna die now that you say that!
INNESOh, I failed. I guess I shouldn’t say things that aren’t needed.
BERYLAhh… Oh, I can’t go on… Innes, this is my last wish. At least sell my Soma to an artist…
INNESGet a hold of yourself! Who was the one that said they weren’t going to die?
BERYLOh, who cares… my vows and dreams always somehow fail, anyway…
INNESThe giant sandworm’s cry?! Did he find his food?
BERYLFood, you mean… Shing and the others?!
INNESWho knows? It shouldn’t matter since you’re going to die here. Oh, you’re not dead yet?
BERYL…I’m not gonna die! I’ll live… and save them!!
INNESHeheheh, I failed again. I really shouldn’t say things I don’t need to.
SHINGI lost… the way. Hahah… we really can get out of here but I guess it will take a thousand nights. Uwagh?!
KOHAKUShing…! Don’t give up… My friend protected the world from Zerom for two thousand years… all by herself… This is nothing like that pain.
SHINGYour friend… is that Lithia? Is she really the Spiria of the ancient people?
KOHAKUHisui doesn’t believe me, but she’s my precious friend that’s been with me ever since I was born.
SHING…I believe you. But why is she inside your Spiria?
KOHAKUI inherited her from my mother’s Spiria… She stays inside the body and became an existence only inside Spiria so that she’d be able to run from those who want her power. She said she’s been hiding in people’s Spirmazes for two thousand years…
SHINGThose who want her power… the sorceress Incarose?!
KOHAKUYes. Ever since I found her, Lithia went into pieces and Zerom have infected the world…
SHINGBut if we collect all the Spirune we’ll revive her, right?! And we can also seal off the Zerom too!
KOHAKUNo… As she’s hiding, the power to seal off Zerom is… already at its limit. When we wake up Lithia’s real body which is sleeping somewhere, then for the first time, Zerom would be completely sealed away… For that, we started our journey… It was my promise to her to take her “there”.
SHINGI see… You’re strong to have a promise like that with her.
KOHAKUNo. It’s… because I’m not alone. I can do my best… since everyone’s helping me.
SHINGKohaku, I’ll make another promise. With our power together, let’s revive you and Lithia! And seal away the Zerom!
KOHAKU…Yeah. Together… with you.
SHINGAh, I saw the white moon just now! If the moon is there in this season… then north is that way!!
(Shing received the title Soma Linker.Kohaku received the title Soma Linker.)
SHING
Alright! Looks like we got out of the sandstorm, so the exit must be close too!
KOHAKUWait, Shing! This is the nest of that giant sandworm… N-No way?! My Spirune is…
SHINGInside that sandworm! Augh!
KOHAKUShing!!
SHING AND KOHAKU*scream*
SHINGThat thing is here too… And he’s eaten the Spirune… Kohaku! Where are you?! Answer me!!
KUNZITEConfirming survival of Kohaku Hearts.
HISUI*cough hack*! Shing! Get out of the way!
INNESOh oh~ Everyone’s safe. Humans don’t just unexpectedly die, after all ♪
BERYLBe careful, guys! If we die, Innes is going to take all our Soma!
KOHAKUHisui… Beryl… Innes… Kunzite… Everyone’s… alive.
HISUIHeh, looks like Shing’s the only one who bit the dust, huh?
INNESThat cry and the sand storm… That monstrous worm is up ahead, isn’t it?
KOHAKUYeah. And he has my Spirune…
HISUIGood. No thanks to him I was stuck with this mechanical bastard. I’ll make sure to take back what he took!
KUNZITEConcurred. Since he is a giant, we can achieve an evenly-matched fight if we attack him suddenly.
SHINGHehe, even though we were all supposed to die… it’s weird… I suddenly have so much power!!
(Hisui joined the party.Beryl joined the party.Innes joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.)
HISUIThere you are, damned earthworm! Don’t think you can use that same pattern over and over again!
SHINGLet’s go! Our third sandworm!! {三度目のサンドワーム目!! Japanese pun}
INNESHehe, if you can make jokes then we can do this!
HISUIHe really swallowed the Spirune, huh?
SHING…I don’t know what kind of emotion this’ll bring back…
KOHAKU……*sob*
BERYLAhh, was that sadness? …But we already got back that one, didn’t we??
KOHAKUNo… I… I really that that everyone would die… That I would die. But the fact that everyone’s safe… and that I can see everyone again…… I’m so glad. *sob*
BERYLY-You don’t have to cry that much… Even I was really worried about you and everyone else… *sob* I’m so glad everyone’s alive!!
INNESOh, tears of happiness? …I guess that means that was the happiness Spirune, then.
(Obtained Happiness Spirune x 1)
SHINGI see… Kohaku can finally feel happiness again.
HISUIIdiot! You’re not supposed to cry, too.
SHINGYou’ve got watery eyes too, Hisui!
KUNZITECrying because of happiness… I do not comprehend. We still have not left the desert. We must be hurrying to the north.
INNESIt’s all right… Now we can reflect on this moment later. Having friends that you can rejoice upon seeing again… That’s a really, really happy thing.
(soma link upEveryone’s Soma Link became stronger.)
[Oasis]
BERYLOoooh, the oasis! I’ve been wanting to see you!!Hehehe, she got tired from crying and fell asleep. Just like a kid.
HISUIDidn’t you cry just as much as her?
BERYLAn artist is very sensitive! …But that story Shing told us really stimulated me. The Sleeping Princes that rests in the body and has lived on in Spiria for two thousand years… It’s a good theme for a book.
HisuiKeh, it’s still some monster clinging to Spiria. Gross.
KUNZITERecognizing insulting words to my mistress. I demand you take that back.
HISUIHah?! And I demand your mistress pay for her room charges for staying in my sister’s Spiria!
INNESAll right, that’s enough. You’ll wake Kohaku up.
SHING…Kohaku called Lithia a precious friend.
KUNZITEPrecious… friend…
SHINGThat’s why, even though I don’t know what kind of person she is, I want to save her… And if she knows about the ancient Zerom and Soma culture… and everything that the world’s been keeping secret I want to meet her and ask her the truth.
BERYLAhh! What’s that light?
SHINGI don’t know, but Kohaku’s thoughts went straight through my Soma.
KUNZITEA Soma Link… the original function of Soma that is to connect two people’s Spiria. But this power should still be incomplete…
HISUID-Damn you! Don’t just go linking with my sister!!
SHINGYeah but the Soma just linked by itself…
HISUIArgh! Lithia, Zerom, whatever!! I’m going to Pransule! I’ll get her Spirune back there and take her away from you!
KOHAKU…Ha?
[Northern continent Marquis]
INNESIt’s the north bridgetop Holy City of Pransule after this cave.
SHINGWe ran into trouble in the desert… I wonder what Chalcedony and the military are up to now?
INNESIt’s really time-sensitive now. We might be thrown right into the middle of the church and the military’s war if we do something wrong.
KOHAKUThe war won’t stop if I tell them about Lithia and the Zerom’s relationship… right?
KUNZITEWait. We cannot let the Celirade—the people of this world know about Lady Lithia. If we do so, another fight concerning her will just break out.
KOHAKU…But!
INNESWe need to hurry to Pransule first. We need to know what’s happening right now.
[Lazine Cave]
SHINGWhat’s this sticky thing?
INNESDon’t touch it! It’s the man-eating slime Eihav. If you carelessly touch it, it’ll catch you and eat you.
SHINGDoes this thing… eat bats too?
KUNZITE
Negative. This slime mold has a symbiotic relationship with the bats—also known as Count Bat. The fangs from the bats can secrete an enzyme that breaks apart the slime, so it cannot be hunted. Conversely, this web is used as protection for their nest.
SHINGOh I get it, so the bat fangs give off… some stuff that can dissolve the web, right?
INNESAn enzyme. But just one bat won’t do for this size.
ANNEAhhh! Daddy! Mommy!
HISUI [*Changes depending on on-screen character]That cry… I’ve heard it before!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERIt looks like you are just a caravan but you’ve seen more. We have no choice… dispose of them.
ZEROM SOLDIERGhhhhhrrr… Dispose… Obliterate… Kill… Kill!!
ANNEAhhh, stop! Don’t bully my daddy and mommy!
ZEROM SOLDIERGaaaaah!!!
CINDYStop! Just spare my daughter!
SHINGThis isn’t funny, imperial military… It’s the army’s job to protect civilians!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERImpossible! Defeating the Zerom soldiers… Is this the power of Soma… the Cyrstal Knights? The data you presented us wasn’t fake?!
VELLEIA BELIEVERN-No! These are the riotous civilian Soma users from the church inside the capital.
INNESOh? Why is someone from the church with the military, I wonder?
IMPERIAL SOLDIERAgh… let’s get out of here!
KUNZITE
Are you all right? Notify me if you have been damaged. …It seems you have no hindrances in normal movement.
OVEThank you very much, everyone. I wonder if it would be all right to thank you… We were just trying to go to Pransule but soldiers suddenly attacked us…
CINDYAhh, the military attacking civilians… it feels like a war…
BERYLPransule is in a bad situation right now. It’d be best if you turned back. …I wanna turn back too.
OVE…We can’t do that. We’ve taken a request to deliver a special medicine to the clinic in the holy city. For the sake of those patients waiting for this medicine, we must go to Pransule as soon as possible.
SHINGOkay, Ove. We’ll escort you, so let’s go to Pransule together!
(noticeThe Shahera Desert and part of the Marquis road are now available as fields.)
[The Bridgetop Holy City Pransule]
CRYSTAL KNIGHT…All right, pass.
INNESStrict inspection… It looks like not just the military, but the church is preparing for war, too.
BERYLThey’re not gonna let us enter, we started that fight in the church! Let’s just give up and go home!!
KUNZITEI have no qualms with pushing through.
OVEIt’s all right, I’ll secure your identities as my employees.
KOHAKUBut if you do that, you’ll end up involved in all of this…
CINDYAt least let us repay you. But Kunzite stands out a bit…
SHINGCan we hide him in your box, Ove?
OVEThis box contains the special medicine frozen over by mind stones. He’ll get frostbite!
ANNEHumph! Cold Kunzite didn’t save me, so I’m sure he’ll be fine in the ice!
KUNZITEJust what Anne says. I support this strategy.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTHmm, Ove the caravan merchant. Don’t you have a bit many people?
OVEYes, thanks to you, business is going well and I even have more employees now.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTYou’re a merchant who’s been doing business with us for quite some time now. I believe you, pass.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTWait! Just in case, let me examine the goods.
OVETh-That’s… The contents are medicinal goods frozen by mind stones that I am to deliver to the clinic.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTWell, isn’t that good enough? There’s no way he could be hiding weapons and people, now is there?
INNESThis medicine will go bad if you open the box, so please follow the rules… Go ahead and inspect to your satisfaction. As a follower of Velleia, I too am preparing to accept the punishment from God for letting my daughter in the clinic suffer.
SHINGWha?! You have a kid…?
CRYSTAL KNIGHTYour daughter is in the clinic, miss?
INNESYes, she is bedridden with a terrible disease… I hope that with this medicine I will be able to return her smile to her. It’s unavoidable that I went through the trouble just to get here. Just, as a mother… I am only resenting God since I cannot do anything to get rid of my daughter’s pain… Please forgive me.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTMiss, that is normal for a parent to feel. I’m sure God will forgive you too. …Go. Hurry and deliver the medicine.
INNES…Thank you very much.
INNESHehehe, that was unexpectedly very easy to pass ♪
HISUIWomen are scary since they can lie so easily…
INNESOh? That wasn’t such a big lie ♪ …If you compare it to lies that trick yourself, that is…
ANNE…Are you frozen yet, Kunzite?
KUNZITEThere is no problem. Even if I sacrifice myself, I have a person I must save.
OVEWell, everyone, we’re going to deliver the medicine to the clinic. Thank you for taking care of us.
KOHAKUSame here. Thank you, Ove.
ANNEKunzite… You have to take care of your body too ok?
KUNZITE…You must take caution, too. It is too reckless to fight Zerom soldiers with your power level.
SHINGOkay, we’ve gotta find where Chalcedony is first.
CHALCEDONYThat Meteoryte… He came all the way to the holy city.
PERIDOTBut this is your chance. If you take them as your witnesses, then you can show that you hurt Her Majesty only because you went out of control with that Spirune!
BYROCKSLet’s report to the pastor and he can mobilize the Knights.
CHALCEDONYNo! My father is planning on crushing the military and taking over with that girl’s power.
PERIDOTAnd then Lady Paraiba’s situation will just grow worse… That’s not something your pride’s going to let go, is it? Oh well. We need something from them. Let’s do this!
BYROCKS…Understood. Only we will settle this, but we should only take the advantage.
CHALCEDONYOkay, we’ll ambush Meteoryte’s group there! Since all the Crystal Knights should be guarding the castle gates now, so nothing should get in our way.
[BERYLWow, what a great view! A great view~! Oooooh… When I see scenes like this I can’t help but want to draw. Oh, please! Just let me sketch this a little.This is great ♪ Pransule that boasts beauty is just up there with the Lakeside city Shalrowe. Did you know, Kohaku? It’s a city on a bridge that’s suspended on a strait, even though this Prince Strait is famous for its rapids, and they said it was no use. A few years ago the Max Empire pooled together all their energy, and build not just a bridge, but a town on the strait. And on top of that, the Emperor donated this city to the Velleia church as their holy city. So basically, this city is a symbol of the power of the empire and the influence of the church… …Huh? What’s wrong, Kohaku?!
KOHAKUI don’t like… high places…
BERYLOh right! You’ve got a fear of heights! I-I’m sorry. I got all excited about my picture… Let’s just go.]
SHING…Compared to how they’re on the lookout for a military attack, the inside of the city is pretty much empty.
INNESThey should be gathering their battle forces at the gate. This holy city is a city where defense is designed in consideration of the elite few. But even then the church doesn’t know about the Zerom soldiers so they’re not prepared enough.
BERYLNot prepared? But the power of the Zerom soldiers rivals that of the Crystal Knights. But their numbers are way more than the church… Ow!
???Hey, little girl! Gimme that ball!!
BERYLAren’t you supposed to say “I’m sorry miss, please throw me that ball”??
BOYHey, weird looking girl!
???Please throw me the… No, gimme!!
BERYLBunch of kids who don’t know their manners! I’ll show you how to use your mouth properly!!
???You think you can try it then go ahead!
HISUIWhat the hell is she doing… Let’s just leave her.
BERYLAhhhhh!
SHINGWhat’s wrong, Beryl?!
???Miss Peridot! We lured out the one that looked weakest just like you said!
PERIDOTAll right. Spin, Nell, good work!
BERYLAww… I’m sorry…
HISUIYou’re Peridot! You thinking about taking hostages again?!
PERIDOTNo! Even though you’re wanted, you’re wandering around like it’s no big deal! I only wanted to call you in here so you won’t catch too much attention.
SHINGWhere’s Chalcedony?
PERIDOTThey’re in a hurry… I, of the Crystal Knights Third Platoon, face the group of Shing Meteoryte… and challenge you to a fair decisive battle! If you win, then you get the Spirune fragment of Kohaku Hearts, and if I win then you must make public the secret of the Spirune! …Do you accept or deny this challenge?
KUNZITEDeny. I cannot make information about Lady Lithia public.
PERIDOTHey hey, you’ve got more crazy companions. Are you seriously going to say no?
SPINScaredy cats who can’t fight! I’ll take Peridot’s place!!
NELLMe too, me too!
SHINGWait! I’ll… accept the challenge.
PERIDOTGood. We’ll fight in the deepest area of the San Tecus Cathedral, so it’ll be convenient if you die—we can give you a funeral.
HISUIFor you… hah!
SPINHeh! Don’t regret you talked like that to the strongest warrior in the history of this orphanage, Peridot!
NELLPlease don’t… No, don’t regret it! *cough*
PERIDOTI’m sorry, Nell. You’re having a fit since again since I started all this commotion.
SPINWe’ll take care of Nell. You go on ahead and get rid of the enemies of the church!
SISTERWhat is all this noise? …Ah, Peridot’s come back again.
PERIDOTOh no… here comes the annoying one! Anyway, come to the cathedral, okay?!
[San Tecus Cathedral]
CHALCEDONYI’ve been waiting for you, Shing Meteoryte.
SHINGChalcedony… This time, I’ll get Kohaku’s Spirune back!
PERIDOTWhat’s wrong, you’re panting! Could you possibly be nervous about fighting us?
BERYLHmph! The ones who are scared are obvious!
CHALCEDONYWhat do you mean?
BYROCKSAt this time, it is pointless to talk. Let’s settle this with our Soma, like good Knights.
SHINGLike you know what a good knight means! I just want to return the world that Kohaku and I put into disorder back together!!
CHALCEDONYOh, so you’re that kind of man. However, I too have a feeling I won’t give up… a promise I vowed on my Spiria. And now we’ll turn each of our feelings into the blades of our Soma… and see who is stronger!
SHING
Hahah… You look happy, Chalcedony!
CHALCEDONYHmph, Meteoryte… As do you!!
SHINGChalcedony… This is my, no, our win!
CHALCEDONYAghh… Not yet! My feelings have not yet broken!!
KOHAKUStop… If you fight anymore, your body will…
CHALCEDONY“Our win”… huh. There’s another power resting with your feelings inside your Spiria. …It’s my loss. Like I promised, I’ll return the Spirune. Ghhh…!! …Go ahead, take it.
HISUIDammit, what are you doing?!
ARKHAMGood work, Byrocks!
CHALCEDONYFather… Why are you here?!
SHINGAhhhhh!...
KOHAKU*screams*
SHINGWe’re too high up!!
HISUIHey… Wait, what?
SHINGUghh… is everyone okay?
INNESYes, thanks to the explosion you used as a cushion… sort of.
HISUIIf we had just fallen we really would’ve been hurt…
BERYLEven with Shing’s arte I thought I was going to die!
SHINGBut still, Chalcedony acting like he was scared…
HISUIKeh! Those Crystal Knights are those kinda people, after all! Let’s crush ‘em one more time!
ARKHAMIf they fall from this height, those Soma users will not be unhurt. Chalcedony, go down and bring me the girl.
CHALCEDONY…Father, why did you set up this trap?! This fight was supposed to be a fair win-or-lose!
ARKHAMHmph, don’t think that it’s fair to not win against your opponents who are tired after fighting the guards!
CHALCEDONY…You deployed guards?! If you did that, then what do you want?!
SHING…I see. So the one who set the trap wasn’t Chalcedony, after all.
SHINGChalcedony! I heard what you said!!
CHALCEDONY…I’m so sorry. I really didn’t know. I arranged for the cathedral to be empty…
BYROCKSLord Cal… I alerted the Pastor and was intercepted by the Knights.
CHALCEDONYByrocks… You…?
PERIDOTWhaaat is that?! I didn’t hear about that!
BYROCKSThis is for your sake, Lord Cal! I must capture these people no matter what it takes… and face the Empress and prove your innocence!
ARKHAMHmph, that is too much of an excuse to attack our church. It is useless even if we do attack Grossular and the military. What’s more important is to secure that girl! I have been searching for the power of Lithia within Iola’s daughter for years now!
KOHAKUYou… know Mother and Lithia?!
INNESBut you don’t seem to know that the military is deploying Zerom-possessed troops with power that rivals Soma into battle, do you?
ARKHAMWhat do you mean…?
CRYSTAL KNIGHTSI’m sorry to interrupt! A military group thought to be the main forces of the imperial army is expanding at the southern gates of the city. Number of forces is roughly a hundred thousand!!
BERYLAh… The war really is going to start!!
ARKHAMAgh… If what you say is true, then I must obtain Lithia’s power even more… C-Chalcedony… What are you trying?
CHALCEDONYByrocks, give the Spirune back to Meteoryte.
BYROCKSBut Lord Cal!
CHALCEDONY…Please, return it to them. It’s what I think is right.
ARKHAMFool… That kind of determination is a joke for children who don’t understand reality!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTHas the military’s attack begun?! Pastor, you must immediately give the Knights instructions!
ARKHAMUrgh… You’ll take responsibility for this, Chalcedony!
CHALCEDONYFrom here on it’s a problem between the church and the military. You should escape from the city. I apologize for acting scared. I’ll be praying for that girl’s… for Kohaku’s revival.
KUNZITEI agree with his opinion. We should escape from this city as soon as possible.
SHING…Innes. What will happen when the church and military collide?
INNESThe military probably has a clear advantage of supplies. Now that they’re attacking, they should be thinking about arranging Zerom soldiers in numbers roughly the same or more to that of the Crystal Knights. But I’m sure even those soldiers can’t break through these city walls easily… I think that while under siege, the only option the church has is to look for a way for peace negotiations.
BERYL
…Wait a second. There definitely was a person from the church with the group of soldiers that attacked Ove, right? They ran, but isn’t he a traitor? What if he opened the gate…?
KOHAKU…Then the city will become a battleground… We can’t let that happen! I… want to stop this war!!
(Obtained Dream Spirune x 1)
SHINGWe were really involved only up until now, but I can’t leave things as they are! We’re going to the southern gate!
ARKHAMGrossular! What is the idea behind attacking the Church of Velleia’s holy city, a symbol of the empire and the church?!
GROSSULARLabrado, you’re the number one suspect of planning the assassination of Her Majesty and the attack on Rignatol Garrison! But I’m not going to act rough. Just surrender. I won’t let our relationship… go bad.
ARKHAMOur relationship?! Don’t pull my leg. Weren’t you the one who fabricated all of this?!
CHALCEDONYMajor, please take me to Her Majesty! I want to explain everything!!
ARKHAMIdiot! It’s already too late for explanations like those!
GROSSULARAha! So you’re Chalcedony Arkham, the one who tried to murder Her Majesty! The church really is hiding things! That ever so tolerant Lady Paraiba commanded for us to restrain total control until we’ve gotten evidence, but there’s no other way!! …Oh, my comrade, Labrado. I regret that our long friendship has to end this way.
ARKHAMUgh, you low-life! Use Her Majesty’s name properly!
GROSSULARHehehe… That’s something you’ve come to do terribly. End while reflecting upon what you’ve done! All Zerom Soldiers, move! In the name of Her Majesty the Empress, Paraiba Marin De Rey, I command you to take total control of the church and the holy city!!
ZEROM SOLDIERSAhhhhhhh!!!
ARKHAMWh-What is that…?
CHALCEDONYAre those… the Zerom possessed soldiers?
HISUI [*changes depending on on-screen character]Hey, you!
VELLEIA BELIEVERY-You’re the Soma users that beat the Zerom soldiers… oh no!
SHINGStop! If you open the gate, the city’ll become a battlefield!
VELLEIA BELIEVERThat’s the point! I’ll turn this city into a wasteland, just like the church did to my village! My hometown, a modest little village for Velleia followers, was named a heretic group by the present Pastor and was completely suppressed!
HISUISo you’re… a heretic of the church, huh…
VELLEIA BELIEVERThat’s right! My grudge for having my home, my family, my beliefs, all of it taken away from me… feel it!!
KOHAKUS-Stop!
SHINGThe Zerom soldiers… they’re coming!
ZEROM SOLDIERSGhyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
ARKHAMWhat?! Why? Why have the city gates opened?!
CHALCEDONYDammit, there was a betrayer!
CHALCEDONYThe power of the Zerom soldiers… being this strong…
SHINGI’m coming, Chalcedony!
CHALCEDONYYou’re still here? Hurry up and escape!
SHINGWe can’t run away in a situation like this!
BYROCKS
Lord Cal, all the Crystal Knights are gathered in the cathedral and the order is to form the lines!
PERIDOTCaptain! The lines are expanding to all parts of the city!! The town is becoming a battlefield! The kids at the orphanage will end up…
CHALCEDONYUrgh… Our third platoon will move on our own in the interest of the protection and evacuation of all civilians!!
PERIDOTCaptain!
BYROCKSBut, the orders to gather from the Pastor…
CHALCEDONYIt’s the role of the knights to protect people with no power!! …And this is my fault that this has happened. But our hands aren’t enough. Meteoryte, I understand this shame, but please. In order to protect the townspeople, lend us your power!!
SHING…Aren’t shame and bowing ones head different? At a time like this… you do this! Let’s combine our power and save this town’s people!!
CHALCEDONYA-A knight is supposed to vow on his sword. Don’t get too familiar with me.
SHINGMy gramps taught me that a man should vow on his fist.
KOHAKUI’m a girl, but I will too.
INNESAll right then, let’s go! Knights, men, women, let’s all fight for the sake of the city!
SISTERI cannot allow you to pass beyond here! Please step back!!
ZEROM SOLDIERGuhaehaewohagowh!
PERIDOTSister! Aughh!!
CHALCEDONYPeridot! Bastards, how dare you!!
PERIDOTOwww… Jeez, Sister, you’re elderly so don’t act so reckless.
SISTERAhh, Peridot… Don’t worry about me, look for the children! Spin and the other three haven’t returned!!
PERIDOTSpin and… oww!!
INNESYou shouldn’t move with that wound. We’ll go look for the children. We’ll use this orphanage as our refuge base! Byrocks, Peridot, guard the gate!! Chalcedony, find any civilians in this area and take them here.
CHALCEDONY…U-Understood.
PERIDOT…There’ve been a lot of things up until now, and I know that this isn’t my duty to ask you… But please protect Spin and the others! They’re cheeky, but they’re really bright, really alive little guys.
KOHAKU…Leave it to us.
BERYLOh well~, I guess I’ll do those cheeky brats a favor!
(soma link upEveryone’s Soma link became stronger.)
BOYY-You think we’re gonna run…? You’re not scary at all! Not at all!!!
ZEROM SOLDIERGrrraaaagh! Kill… kill… kill!!
HISUIYou don’t look too cool if you’re trying to fight kids, you bastard!
HISUIHey… You protected that kid without running away.
BOYI-It’s normal to protect kids weaker than you! That guy… wasn’t scary at all.
BERYLIs it just you two? You weren’t with Spin?
GIRLYeah, Spin and Nell ran off to play by themselves but Nell had a spasm again. Spin carried her all the way to the clinic.
INNESThe clinic is right next to the last battle line by the cathedral… I wonder if they’re all right.
HISUI [*changes depending on on-screen character]All the way to the clinic… They really don’t discriminate!
ANNEOh, Kunzite!
OVEAhh, everyone, thank you. But, a war really has started…
HISUIOve, there should have been a girl who had a spasm and a boy who carried her here. You know anything about that?
ANNEOh I know! Nell, right? I made friends with her. The medicine that daddy brought can stop her cough!
NELL*cough, cough*… You’re the church’s enemies! What’dya want?!
SHINGNell, this is different. Peridot asked us to come find you.
NELL…She did?
ANNENell, these are good people. But Kunzite is kind of scary.
KUNZITEWhere is the boy who should have been with you… Spin?
NELLI… can’t say.
KOHAKUNell, a war has started in this city and Spin is in danger… Please, tell us where he is.
NELLWar?? Spin’s… in danger? But I can’t say… Spin went to go pray for me at the New Moon Beach. …That’s our secret place…
KUNZITEUnderstood. New Moon Beach.
HISUIOkay. We won’t ask since it’s a secret. We’ll look for Spin, so don’t worry!
SPIN
Please fix Nell’s cough. Please fix Nell’s sickness… O Great Winged Whale that flies in the night sky—please deliver this wish to the goddess who sleeps in the forest of thorns.
SHINGThere he is!
HISUIDammit! Don’t wander around aimlessly while there’s a war going on! Go back to the orphanage!!
SPINL-Let me go! My thousand-day worship will go bad!
KOHAKUThousand-day worship?
SPINThat’s right! When you pray for the same thing for a thousand days at New Moon Beach… The Great Winged Whale, the servant of God will deliver your wish to the goddess in the forest of thorns.
KOHAKU…Forest of thorns… Goddess…
KUNZITEI warn you. That is a superstition with no scientific basis.
SPINI know that!! If I were a doctor, I’d study without sleeping! Or if I were a merchant I’d search the world for a cure! …But since I’m a kid I can’t help Nell at all… Right now all I can do is pray…
ZEROM SOLDIERSGrraaaghh!
BERYLAhhh, here they are! Let’s hurry and get out of here!!
SHINGSpin, keep on praying. We’ll hold these guys back!
SPIN…Thank you. Thanks to you, I finished my prayer. But, tomorrow…
INNESThe Great Winged Whale will still be flying in the sky. Wherever you pray, I’m sure he’ll be able to hear your wish. Well, Nell and Peridot are worried. Let’s return to the orphanage.
KUNZITE…I do not comprehend. In this present world, there is no goddess or god to hear prayers.
KOHAKU
…Is that really… true? If-----in the forest of thorns----- …This world will…
KUNZITEKohaku… Could you possibly…
CRYSTAL KNIGHTUghh… The Crystal Knights… shouldn’t be able to lose… against normal soldiers…
ZEROM SOLDIERSGrreaagghhh!!
ARKHAMImpossible… Impossible!! How can they be on par with my Crystal Knights? Are you using Iola’s… Lithia’s power, Grossular?!
ZEROM SOLDIERGrraagghhh!
ARKHAM…Urgh, fine. I surrender! Let’s negotiate peace!! Tell that to Grossular! K-Know your place! I actually said I surrender! Go report that to Major Grossular! Igh… O-Okay! The one who acted against Her Majesty, Chalcedony, is restrained in the church, and I’ll hand him over to the military! Th-That’s right. I’ll hand over mind artes to the military that only I know! How’s that?
ZEROM SOLDIERGraaaaah!!
ZEROM SOLDIERSAaghhghrhhr!!!
SHINGHe… surrendered the church?
BERYLAh, th-they’re headed to the clinic!
INNESOh no!
ZEROM SOLDIERGeraaaaaaaaaaaghhhh!!!
OVEStop, there are only sickly people here! …Agh!
KOHAKUOve… Anne… Nell… St-Stop…… Stop!!!
ZEROM SOLDIERUurrghh…?! Uh, uh… aaaargghh…
SHINGWh-What just happened?!
KUNZITE…He calcified.
SHINGOve, how is the clinic?!
OVEFine. No one else besides me was attacked. Just like this one, the soldiers inside also turned white.
BERYLEven though he was just all out of control, he’s all frozen like a stone statue. …What on earth is this?
INNES…I don’t know what this phenomena is, but what we do know is that the church was surrendered to the military. Before the military begins to occupy, we need to escape from here. We are wanted, you know.
SHINGBut before we do that we have to tell Chalcedony about the church. He’ll get arrested too!
SPINWe’re back, Peridot!
PERIDOTYou idiots! How much do you think the Sister and I worried?! They really would have hurt you this time…
SISTERAhh, if you can preach to people like that… then you’re going to live a long life, Peridot.
CHALCEDONYSo, what’s the status on the war?
SHINGThat’s…
CHALCEDONYThe church was… surrendered? And father, handing me to the military… …I understand. I’ll give myself to the military.
SHINGNo! The army’s not going to treat you fairly!!
CHALCEDONYI know that. I hurt the one I was supposed to protect, and started a war. I must make up for this sin. We are the exact opposites of each other, but you understand these feelings, don’t you? Byrocks, Peridot… your work is done. Escape safely from the city.
BYROCKS
I am with you wherever you go, Lord Cal. If you wish, we will fight off the military together.
PERIDOTJeez, are you stupid?! Sister, I’m heading out. If it’s just you two, then you really will fight the army. You guys can take care of yourselves!
CHALCEDONYHeh… Somehow my group is full of idiots who won’t lose to you, Meteoryte. This is farewell, Shing Meteoryte. We won’t see each other again…
SHINGWe’re bound together by fate, so we’ll be seeing each other again. I’m not gonna say good bye.
CHALCEDONYHmph, you’re still what I call a child. But… after our Crystal Knights have fallen, there is no one else able to stop Despir except you. Please, protect her… Lady Paraiba’s country and people from Zerom.
BERYLHey, if the Crystal Knights are no more and the Zerom start growing, then what’s gonna happen?
KUZNITESooner or later, all people will become like those soldiers. That was calcification… The last form of people who have had not just their Spirune, but their entire Spiria eaten away by Zerom.
HISUI…People who’ve lost their Spiria become statues like that?!
SHINGDammit! I’ve been trying so hard to collect the Spirune that I can’t do anything about Zerom, the military, or the war! Childish me wanted to save the world… I can’t do it!
KOHAKU…Yes you can. If we look for Lithia’s real body sleeping in the forest of Thorns… then we can stop Zerom and Despir.
HISUILike we can rely on that! Wasn’t it because Lithia’s power was weakening in the first place that the Zerom were revived?
KOHAKUWhat was weakening was Lithia’s Spiria, inside me. But if she returns to her own, actual body sleeping in the Forest of Thorns, then her real power will be resurrected, and she can completely seal away Zerom… at least that’s what she said.
BERYLForest of Thorns… Does that place from the fairytale actually exist?
KUNZITE
Kohaku, the Forest of Thorns is the top secret of the Quartz. I cannot allow you to make any more information known.
KOHAKUEven Lithia didn’t tell me where it is. But, if we recover her Spiria, then she can guide us there. I’ll take her to the Forest of Thorns… That was our promise!
INNESThis direction is… the southwest… sea?!
KOHAKUI feel it. This is the last Spirune fragment… If we get that back, then Lithia… will awaken.
KUNZITELady Lithia was decided to return to her real body in the knowledge of the danger of being captured by you… Being tracked down to that extent…
HISUIThat Lithia! Making Kohaku do things for her!!
KOHAKUThe one who brought back my feelings of making that promise with Lithia was Shing. So…
SHING…I’m sorry, Kohaku. If I have time to complain then we should go on forward, right?
BERYLThat’s right! If we don’t get out of here we’ll be caught by the imperial army!
SPINWait, guys, come here! The north gate and the south gate have already been blocked off by the army. But don’t worry. We’ll show you a way out. Will you believe us?
SHINGGo ahead, Spin.
SPINOkay. Follow me! I’m going up this tree. Can you climb trees?
BERYLUuugh… An artist climbing trees…
KUNZITEDo not waste time.
BERYLO-Oh, I see… so we end up here.
SPINHeheh, this is an escape that Peridot discovered. This is the first time we told anyone outside the kids in the orphanage.
SHINGBut what do we do about the guards?
SPINIt’s okay. Leave it to me.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERWhat are you guys doing?! There is martial law in effect! Go home!!
SISTERSir Soldier, in this war many people, military men, believers of the church, civilians… have been hurt. Please, somehow, at least let us sing a hymn in mourning for all the Spiria for the ones lost.
NELLDeep within the forest of thornsThe goddess dreamsOf white sorrow and black sinThe winged whale flying to the sea of starsHear our song in your place in the moonAnd deliver to the goddess’ dream
IMPERIAL SOLDIERW-What are you singing?! Church songs are forbidden! Be quiet, you!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERIt should be okay… Because those monstrous soldiers were sent out, there was so much damage to enemies and allies… At least just let them sing a song of prayer.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERIdiot, be careful what you say! …But after a war I guess repose is necessary… A song is fine. But, just a little!
NELLThank you, mister soldier.
KIDSAnd now we unify our SpiriaAnd build a world without warAnd now we unify our SpiriaAnd create a world filled with love
SPINGuys! Go now, hurry!!
KOHAKU…Thank you, Spin.
KIDSAnd now we unify our SpiriaAnd build a world without war
NELLAnd now we unify our Spiria… *cough cough*!!
SHINGNell’s having another spasm…!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERAre you… all right?
NELL*cough* …Y-Yes. But mister soldier, why are you crying?
IMPERIAL SOLDIER…I joined the army in order to create a peaceful world, just like that song. But even so, I helped make the city like this… I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…
SHING…It’s so frustrating not being able to do anything…
INNESShing… Right now we have to move forward. People do what they can in any given time.
GROSSULARIncarose! Incarose, where are you?! You… What on earth was that stone business?! I’m asking you!
INCAROSE…I’m sure those Zerom soldiers were incomplete. An accident within hypothetical range.
GROSSULARYou’re planning on ending the lives of over a thousand soldiers with just an accident…?
INCAROSELet me ask you something. You think you could have taken over the cathedral with just the power and sacrifice of your regular soldiers?
GROSSULARGuh, nnnnn…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERMajor Grossular, disarmament of all Crystal Knights complete! We have also captured Pastor Arkham within the cathedral, and have taken him!
ARKHAMInca… rose! That’s right, you… You’re the one that pulled all the strings!!
GROSSULARRestrain yourself, traitor! Who told you to open your mouth?!
ARKHAMGuh…! Grossular…
GROSSULARJust as I thought, we must discipline the people of the church. We’ll teach you the ways of the new empire… Okay, move all those of the church and the Crystal Knights to the capital! This is a total victory for our military! Victory!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERSOooooohhh!!! Max! Max!! Max!! Max! Max!! Max!!
INCAROSEThe vessel’s also prepared with food… It’s only a few days until the full moon…
HISUIIsn’t the direction different from when we were in the capital?
KOHAKUThat’s… No… It feels like I’m being suppressed by something, and I don’t really know where.
BERYLHey, Kohaku! There are people after us so don’t go shining in front of everyone!
HISUIAnd you don’t announce that there are people after us with your loud voice!
OLD MERCHANTOh, I’m not going to tell anyone. Nothing surprises me in this world anymore…
BERYLYou’re a merchant with no interest in the world?
OLD MERCHANTEven in this region, there are quite a few specialties. I can make a living by myself by just selling that. When I was young I too traveled the world, but I got involved in the unification war and my parents, my wife, my children all died. …Ever since then, for years I’ve been living as if I was dead.
KOHAKUA family of merchants… I wonder if Ove is okay?
KUNZITEOve is quite tactful. Anne may be a child but she is a brave girl. There is no need to worry.
KOHAKUKunzite… You’re… comforting me?
KUNZITENo. I am just expressing the objective truth.
SHINGSir, from here is what town?
OLD MERCHANTFrom here on, all there is the harbor and the northern sea…
BERYLN-No way… The last Spirune’s at the bottom of the sea?!
INNES…Let’s just go to the harbor for now.
[Western Marquis Harbor]
GARNETOh hello, all. Fancy meeting you here.
SHINGGarnet! What are you doing here?
GARNETBecause of the dispute between the military and the church, the trade route that passes through the holy city is blocked. I’m here to deliver the northern specialties by boat.
INNESAh, ah… What great timing. May we board your boat to the sea?
SHINGGarnet, we want to go to sea. Can you let us ride on your boat?
GARNETI am the handyman Garnet. I’ll undertake anything you ask me to do. But first I have to obtain the goods of my prior contact, and then we can depart.
HISUIWhat goods do you need?
GARNETThe special wine of this area called relaxed hermit. It’s quite the new product.
BERYLThat merchant before handled specialty products! Maybe he knows something?
GARNETIf you can provide me with relaxed hermit, then I’ll take you to your destination. …So, where are you headed?
KOHAKUThat’s… probably, whatever’s after this ocean…
GARNETHmm, that’s not the point. There’s a map of the sea in the cabin. Why don’t you point out where you wanna go?
INNESI too will go specify the Spirune’s location. You guys…
SHINGGo ahead, Innes. We’ll go see if we can get some relaxed hermit.
INNES…Shing! Ah… Uh, um… Take care…
BERYLOhoho, Shing~ You’re worrying her like a child!
SHING…But I’m happy. My mom who died was also a Soma user. If she was alive I’m sure she’d be something like Innes…
HISUIIdiot, don’t call her “mom” or she’ll hit you!
GARNET…All right, let’s go.
(Kohaku left the party.Innes left the party.)
SHINGMister, do you sell relaxed hermit? There’s a man who wants some in the harbor.
OLD MERCHANTHah? I can provide relaxed hermit if you give me some time… You plan on carrying it on a boat? It’s a delicate wine that’s not good with shaking. Everyone knows that it loses its taste on ship cargo and cannot be sold.
HISUIThat’s weird. Shouldn’t that guy know that…?
SHINGSoma link! From the harbor, Kohaku is… really scared!
SHINGYou’re… from the imperial army! Where did you put Kohaku and Innes?!
SHINGThey’re not possessed by Zerom but this power… These guys aren’t normal soldiers.
GARNETI expected you to defeat the imperial military’s most elite special duty corps.
KOHAKUAhh, Shing… Innes is… Innes is…
HISUIGarnet… You bastard, you were a pawn of the military!
GARNETWe don’t need extra damage, but I did ask you to get some relaxed hermit… I see you failed. It cannot be helped if it comes to this… …Imperial Army Special Corps Soma Platoon, remove the obstacle by force.
???Understood.
HISUIAghh!!
SHINGSoma users… of the military?!
KUNZITESo, if there is one more body of Soma users! What… is this?!
GARNETLet me introduce them. Imperial Army Special Corps Captain Geo Strigau. And…
BERYLY-You’re kidding…!
SHINGWait… You just hit… Kunzite?
GARNETLieutenant Innes Lorenz.
SHING…You know, right Innes?!
BERYLYou’re… a lieutenant in the military? You tricked us this entire time?!
INNES…That’s right. Confirm the power inside of Kohaku and revive her, and guide our troops so that they will dominate—that was my mission. Shing, it’s not that bad. Just properly surrender.
HISUIDammit, and when you get Kohaku’s… Lithia’s power, then what are you gonna do?!
GARNETPurge and rebirth! You also saw that unsightly squabble between the church and the military? That foolishness belongs to this world now. Those in power and commoners become peaceful, and those lazy and selfish who soak in individualism, and Spiria becomes obtund… Because of Zerom, we’ll destroy this rotten empire, and build a new world full of powerful Spiria! With the hands of this Imperial Army Special Corps Commander, Isaac Silver!!
KOHAKUSilver… this person…
SILVER
I’m thanking you, Shing. Thanks to the ruckus you caused, we were able to cross the military and the church’s powers off our list. And now, if we add Lithia’s power to that list, then our Corps can overthrow the empire in the blink of an eye!
KUNZITENo matter what time period, there are those who speak thoughtless words. Are you “them”? Aughh!!
INCAROSEKunzite… I thought you rusted away a long time ago, but I guess you’re still working.
KUNZITEIncarose… I understand now. Everything is your doing.
SHINGInca…rose… You were working with these guys too?! Ghuaaah!
KOHAKUStop! I’ll go with you, so… Please, don’t hurt anyone anymore!!
INCAROSEI see… If I take these children as prisoners, you’ll follow us… hm. However, obstacles should be removed… Strigau, kill everyone else.
STRIGAUUnderstood.
INCAROSELieutenant Lorenz, are you planning on betraying us…?
INNESYou’re doing things outside of Commander’s orders, too! Incarose!!
SILVERShing, I believe your powers are very valuable. How about it, why don’t you cooperate with us? Let’s promise that when Lithia’s true body awakens, we’ll release Kohaku.
SHINGI refuse! You think I’ll cooperate with people who are trying to use Zerom?! And… I’ll kill Incarose as revenge for my gramps!
SILVER…That’s too bad. Lieutenant Lorenz… completely remove this obstacle!
INNESWait, Commander!
SILVERInnes… Do I need to repeat myself?
INNESUnderstood. I will completely remove this hindrance.
SHING
You’re kidding, Innes?! I… won’t believe this!
HISUIIdiot! Open your eyes!!
KUNZITE…No matter who it is who tries to hurt Lady Lithia… I’ll defeat them.
BERYLStupid!! You should open your eyes too! Everyone’s falling apart! If we don’t run we’ll all be killed!!
INNESUgh… Good judgment, Beryl… I’m going to follow them!!
STRIGAUI’ll follow them too.
SILVERI don’t care. Leave it to her. Ever since military school… she has never betrayed my expectations. We’ll depart! Destination, Special Corps Base Nibelg!! …And then, to the Forest of Thorns, where the sleeping princess waits!
INCAROSEI must see that they are dealt with.
INNES…I’ll at least give you your last rites. Prepare your Soma!
HISUIGh… I guess we have no choice but to defeat you!
SHINGNo! Let’s all hold her down!
KUNZITEWarning. If we do not fight with all of our power, then there is no chance of stopping Innes.
BERYL…E-Even if we go all out, we can’t win against Innes now!!
INNESIt seems that someone Beryl’s the one who understands the situation the best… am I right?!
EVERYNOEAghh!
SHINGYou’re the same as Commander Silver?! Do you really want to do that purge and rebirth thing, and tricked us all?!
INNES
I don’t know about the world. …But I wish for that person’s rebirth! And for that, I need Kohaku’s power!!
SHINGThat person? Garnet… No, Commander Silver?!
INNESThat’s right! Like you want to help Kohaku, I want to save him too!! Everything was taken away from him by the empire, and his real objective is revenge!! For the sake of healing his Spiria, I’ll… bet on everything I own to make that wish come true!!
SHING…I see. We feel the same, Innes. And if that’s so… I can believe in you!
INNES…What are you planning?
SHINGI want to save Kohaku, too. But I wouldn’t sacrifice my friends for that. I know that if I do that, I’ll hurt Kohaku’s Spiria again… So since you feel the same way as me, you can’t kill me!
INNESYou really are a stupid child! I’ve been ordered to kill you by that same man!
SHINGAgh! See…? If you had really wanted to kill me, then I should have died. Nobody but you knows that it’s a mistake… You can’t kill me.
HISUIHere he goes again. Once he gets like this we can’t shut him up even if he dies.
BERYLYou know really well too, right Innes?
INNESI-I’m… for real!! Don’t make fun of me!!! You kid who thinks the straightforward way is right! You think you can live without sacrificing anything! Who do you think you are, preaching to me?!
SHINGAgh…… But… You always saved that stupid kid…
INNESThat was… all for the Commander’s sake, too! Everyone… for his sake… But… when you guys look at me with those straightforward eyes… I have no reason to kill you! I don’t know, I don’t know…!! What should I do… If I just… had the tables turned against me and died, I’d be at peace…
SHINGDon’t talk about dying… The Innes I know would scold me at a time like this.
INNESShing…
SHINGLet’s go deliver your real Spiria to Commander Silver. Since I’m a kid, I don’t understand adults’ situations… but I think we really should tell him how you feel.
INNES…Deliver… I wonder?
SHINGIt’s okay! It’s something the transport shop “Every day is a peaceful day” has to deliver!
INNESThis is… Shing’s feelings are coming to me?! Soma has this kind of power… …Shing! Get a hold of yourself!!
HISUI…Jeez, idiot’s too stubborn!
INCAROSESo you did betray us… A human girl’s Spiria is so weak…
SHINGWe’ll show you now if these feelings are weak or not… Go back and tell that to your Commander!
INCAROSESo those are the words of one half dead held in someone’s arms… Well… it’s convenient to have you traitors come this way. I’ll be waiting…
INNESShing… Everyone… I……
SHINGIt’s fine. My gramps always said “if a beautiful woman with a big chest is in trouble, save them even if it means your life.”
HISUIBut this is a big job! You’ve gotta take the price tag off my Soma, right?
BERYLAh, it can’t be just Hisui! I’ll help too, so give me back my Soma privileges, okay Innes?
KUNZITEEven if it’s against her will we must go. Innes’ power and tactics are essential to the rescue of Lady Lithia.
INNESOh no, with this I’m totally broke. But… thanks, everyone.
SHINGAgh… Ah… Innes… That… hurts…
HISUIH-Hey, Innes! Shing’s gonna die!!
(Innes joined the party
Soma link upInnes and everyone’s soma link became stronger.)
INNESYou know where Kohaku is, right?
SHINGThey’re heading south by sea… My Soma’s letting me feel what Kohaku’s feeling.
INNES…This power. By Shing’s Soma, I can feel Kohaku too. The determination of holding back fear—she’s strong… much more than I am. That’s right, the place Kohaku’s being taken to now is the Special Corps Base on an isolated island, Nibelg.
KUNZITEUnderstood. Show us the way, Innes.
INNESWe need a boat, first. A top class boat that can cut through the complicated ocean currents in that area. But there’s only one place to get off on Nibelg. Entering from the front is totally suicidal.
SHINGAh, there’s a boat!
KUNZITEIt may be suicidal, but I cannot let them obtain my mistress’ power. If you take this boat, I will go myself. Who are you?!
SANGOI should be asking you that! You’ve got some nerve to be touching my boat!
SHINGAh! It’s the captain that took us to the Aldomaine continent!
SANGOOh, it’s you Soma using kids! What are you doing in a far-out harbor like this?
INNESThis boat belongs to the Chen Trading Company, right? When do you return to Henzella?
SANGOOh, we’re just dropping some goods off here and we’re going back.
INNESWe can go by this boat to Henzella and look for Chen Daren.
BERYLUgeh, Chen?! Why are we going to go see him?!
INNESChen Daren is the one who supplies the Special Corps. Of course it’s our dark route… If we negotiate with him, we’ll probably be able to get to Nibelg some other way.
SHINGI got it. We’ll leave it to you.
HISUIUurgh… So we’re riding this boat for Kohaku again…
[Southern Pendeloke Harbor]
HISUI…Urgh…I’m not gonna ride that boat even if hell freezes over…
BERYLM-Me too…
ECAILLEWelcome back. You’ve arrived earlier than expected.
SANGOYo, Ecaille! We can thank the Great Winged Whale for the favorable winds. And by the way, we picked up some passengers along the way.
SHINGUm, Ecaille! We have something we want to ask Chen…
INNESI’ve brought some great business news for Chen Daren, is there any way for us to meet him?
ECAILLEUnderstood. Please come to the Daren’s office in the company headquarters.
HISUIYou’ll let us go through that easily even though we’ve got this crazy kid who tried to assassin him?
ECAILLEI’ve been ordered to let Lady Lorenz through unconditionally.
INNESHeheh, Chen Daren does love beautiful women, after all ♪
BERYL…And Innes is totally back to normal…
[Town of Commerce Henzella]
CHENOhh, what’s wrong, Innes? Could you be coming to ask me on a date?
BERYLOf course not! Delusional old man!!
CHENOh, our future imperial artist’s got a bad temper. Looks like you’re wanted by the military too, right?
BERYL…*gulp*?!
INNESSince you know, this’ll go fast. We came on business. We want you to let us go on one ship carrying goods to the Special Corps base Nibelg.
CHENHaa, goods to the special corps? What on earth are you up to… and if I play dumb we’ll just be wasting time. First tell me your requirements.
SHINGChen, we’re…
CHENKid, this is a business negotiation. Amateurs should be quiet.
INNESLooking back, I can tell you if there’s a million gald in the base’s hidden safe. It’s illegal money, so if everything goes into your pocket, no one will question it.
CHEN…Hmph, that’s out of the question. If I touch that money, the special corps will end me.
INNESYou don’t need to worry about that. …Since we’ll be destroying the corps.
CHENNo matter how I think, I believe you’re getting rid of those forces for a new world.
INNES…You know Commander Silver’s objective?
CHENI can predict things with what I deliver. I am a top-class merchant, after all.
SHINGIf what you said now was the thoughts of a merchant, I’ll say what a Soma user thinks. I’ll definitely stop the special corps… Commander Silver, who’s hurting Spiria!
CHENYou believe that? Kid, I thought I told you to doubt people.
SHING…So our determination and power is doubting what Commander Silver is up to!
BERYL
I-I’m gonna do it too! This is the climax of our adventure story, after all!!
ECAILLEChen Daren. A soldier from the special corps has come to see the situation.
CHEN…All right, let ‘em in.
HISUIChen, damn you…
CHENYou guys escape through here. If you see those guys it’ll be bad, right? And then… the boat and crew are preparing themselves in the harbor. Use it as you like.
SHINGChen… thank you!
CHENDon’t take me wrong. This is in exchange for a million gald. …But just promise me one thing. …If you end up getting caught, don’t say my name ♪
BERYLS-Stingy!
SHINGOkay, I promise!
CHENGahahaha! I believe you, kid. Nah, Shing, was it?
CHENOh, I’ve been waiting for you. It’s been a long time since I remember these fun negotiations from my younger years. Well, the next set of goods should be leaving the harbor shortly…
SHINGWoah, it comes out here?!
BERYLThe fact that he has this hidden route ready is proof he’s a cruel merchant!
INNESWell, it did save us ♪ Well, let’s go claim our ship.
[Southern Pendeloke Harbor]
ECAILLEWe’ve been waiting. This will be your ship.
SHINGWow! But, this ship is…
SANGOYo, at your service! My new owner ♥
HISUIN-No way, our captain is you?!
ECAILLEYour ride is top-class. Just as you asked for, however, is there something the matter?
SANGOEcaille, there’s just one thing that’s not right. We’re a “Real Top Class” boat!!
ECAILLEI apologize, miss.
BERYLM-Miss?!
ECAILLEYes, Miss Sango is Chen Daren’s only daughter. And this is the bill from Chen Daren.
(Obtained Boat Title Deed x 1)
BERYLW-What do you mean, bill?! We should have been an even split!
INNES…The fee for using that escape route. …Of course.
SANGOGahaha, as always, my dad is stingy. But don’t worry! I’m different from him… If I throw off two, three passengers, don’t mind it. I’ve got a Spiria as wide as the ocean!
BERYLAhhhh! I don’t want to have anything to do with this family!!
KUNZITEThere is no time to accept complaints. Let’s go.
SHINGYeah, let’s go! Kohaku’s waiting!!
(Marquis is now available as a field.)
HISUII-I’ve kind of gotten used to the swaying…
SANGOWe’ve gotten through the problematic currents. We’ll be arriving at Nibelg soon.
SHINGWe should hide in the boxes soon, too.
BERYLUuugh… You think they’ll find us in such a cliché way…?
SHINGIt’s fine. We snuck Kunzite into the holy city this way, too.
INNESThe special corps aren’t as soft as the church. They check all items with mind stones.
HISUIH-Hey… So even if we hide in the boxes…
INNESThey’ll find even mice in there. With this dormant life bottle, it’ll seem like we’re dead and just pause our Spiria…
BERYLApparent death? Pause our Spiria?? So basically a dormant life bottle is…
INNESYes, a poison. If you take in too much, you won’t be opening your eyes again. You probably won’t believe a traitor like me… But there’s no other way to get in. I’ll drink it first. And after that, I’ll leave the judgment up to you…
SHINGI already did that a long time ago.
HISUIJeez, in for a penny, in for a pound… more like poison.
KUNZITE…This is bad. Inconvenient for humans who use it then cannot control their functions. Stopping all functions in thirty seconds. In the case that you do not recover, I will move independently to save you all.
BERYLWhat’s with that look? I’ll drink it! I’ll drink it but I want to measure out the amount first… F-Fine! I’ll just drink it right now, hmph!!
SANGOSurprisingly, they believe you easily.
INNES…Yes, but I told them I would drink first… I want to repay them for that belief. I want to convey this straightforward Spiria to them. Heheh… You’ll probably laugh hearing an adult say something like this.
SANGO…Like I will. I’m different from my father, a sailor. Before you get on a boat, you’ve got to know not the wind, and not the waves, but the belief of the people on your boat.
INNES…Thanks. I leave the rest to you.
SANGOYeah, leave it to me. I’ll wrap you guys up nicely like a present to a weirdo.
[Special Corps Base Nibelg]
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERStand back. We don’t allow those from outside this island.
SANGOWhat are you talking about, I’m an employee of Chen Trading Company hired by you guys!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERI know. However, we’ll have to be the ones to inspect the luggage, so just leave it all to us. You go wait somewhere on your boat.
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEEYou, who do you think you are!
SANGO…Understood. Do as you wish.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERThere’s something inside! A mouse… Those Chen people don’t manage their goods too well… There’s no other Spiria responses. Okay, let’s take these inside the base.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERYou guys leave by the time you’re supposed to. If you’re late by just one minute, it’ll be seen as suspicious and we’ll have to take you hostage.
SANGO…They’re more cautious than I expected. I want to help them but like this I don’t think we can… Oh Great Winged Whale… Somehow, watch over them…
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERThey’ve activated it quite a lot.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERYeah. And then that’ll wake up completely, soon. When we do that we can overthrow the empire easily.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERAnd finally, we’ll arrive at that world full of strong Spiria that we pray for.
KOHAKUAhh…!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERSay it! Where is the last Spirune?
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERStubborn child…
SILVERLooks like you’re having trouble.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERYes! I apologize.
SILVERKohaku. Even if you continue to resist like that, no one is coming to save you. Shing and the others by now have all been killed by Innes.
KOHAKU…Shing isn’t dead. And Innes…
INCAROSECommander… Lorenz has turned into our enemy. She is presently headed to Nibelg with Meteoryte.
SILVER…Incarose. Get your warnings straight.
INCAROSEIt is correct… Lieutenant Innes Lorenz has betrayed us.
SILVERNo! There is no way that Innes would betray me!!
KOHAKUShe didn’t betray you… She’s coming here with her feelings for you… My Soma is telling me this…
SILVERWhat is your Soma doing? This thing is just a weapon.
KOHAKUYes, I should be able to understand Innes’ feelings with my Soma somehow… But you’ve closed off your Spiria, and you can’t accept that. That’s why I can’t tell if you have Spirune…
SILVERStrigau… Make her talk about the Spirune. I don’t care how you do it.
STRIGAUUnderstood.
INCAROSEDon’t kill her…
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERAccept it. If you let the captain make a Spirlink with you, you can’t hide anymore.
STRIGAUNo, in this situation I’m going to teach you the techniques of torture. First, in pain that a person’s body can predict they’re able to withstand quite a bit. However…
KOHAKUAhh!
STRIGAUIn unexpected pain, they’re beyond fragile. And, if you irregularly give them pain like this…
KOHAKU*screams* Agh…
STRIGAUAnd even more than the real pain, while predicting the next strike the Spiria will be ruined by the fear of the end.
KOHAKUWith this, I… Ahh!
STRIGAUWe don’t need conversation. All that’s needed is for you to understand that if you don’t tell me, this fear and pain is going to continue into eternity.
KOHAKUAgh… Ahhh!!
STRIGAUTorture is an operation to break not the body, but the Spiria.
KOHAKUAhh…! Everyone… Shing…
KUNZITEEveryone is moving again.
SHINGWhere are we…?
INNES…Nibelg upper warehouse. We’ve infiltrated.
BERYLUuugh, I feel gross… I don’t wanna be fake dead ever again~
HISUIDon’t worry. If you fail, we’ll only become real dead.
SHING…Innes! I can’t feel Kohaku anymore!
INNES
Calm down. They probably just took her Soma away. Prisoners should be confined in the basement. Let’s hurry and look for her!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERThe guards have been beaten by something!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERIntruders! Move the security level to A!
KUNZITEDetecting movement. A group of quite a few are quickly approaching us from both sides.
HISUIDammit! Let’s hide in this room til they pass!
INNESMove! Hurry in!
BERYLPhew, I’m so glad you had that key. Is this your room, Innes?
INNESNo. This is the Commander’s daughter… Lapis’ room.
BERYLThis is the Commander’s daughter? …So basically, Innes’ child?!
INNESN-No! The Commander and I don’t…
HISUIShh! You’ll wake her up! Even though she is sleeping like a rock…
INNES…No matter what you do she won’t wake up. Lapis has been sleeping for three years now.
KUNZITEDespir Disease…?
INNESNo. Three years ago, Lapis and Pearl, the Commander’s wife, were caught in the accidental fire of a gigantic psistone gun being developed for the military to oppose the church.
BERYLI remember that accident. That huge gun exploded in a public test firing and quite a few were killed and wounded, right?
INNESDespite the plans for the psistone gun, the Commander tried to stop the test fire of the incomplete product, but the military really felt the need to
antagonize the church so they forced the public firing. The developers’ families were forced to participate like prisoners…
HISUIThat’s terrible… So what happened to his wife?
INNES…She died. Pearl, the one that believed in the Commander more than anyone else, was watching the firing from the very first row. Lapis was saved miraculously, but in the shock she hasn’t woken up…
SHING…Can we do something with our Soma?
INNESI’ve tried Linking with her many times. But… …Please, will you Spirlink with her?
SHING…It’s a dead end?! What’s with the small Spirmaze?
INNESFor some reason, there’s no Spirune in Lapis’ Spirmaze, so the Spirmaze itself is getting smaller and smaller.
KUNZITEThis condition is similar to Kohaku’s situation. In the case that there is insufficient Spirune, the Spiria reduces itself little by little.
HISUIBut Kohaku had just one Spirune left over, but here there’s nothing.
KUNZITEThat cause is unknown. Normally, when Spirune is lost, so is the Spirmaze.
INNESI don’t understand the Quartz’ information…
BERYLAhhh! Someone came in the room!
SILVERLapis, I’m sorry I have not been able to see you lately…
SHINGThis voice… Commander Silver?!
SILVERThis is an apology present. It’s a Soma that can’t awaken you, but isn’t it pretty as decoration? Just wait. It’s soon… Soon daddy will be able to wake you up. Mommy’s no longer in this world, but in her place I’ll make you a real princess. Your dream… You drew so many pictures of this, a princess’ crown… If I give you this present you’ll wake up happily again, right? You’ll laugh in a
big voice for me again? …It’ll be soon, Lapis. Until then, at least dream sweet dreams. My sleeping princess…
SHINGThis is Kohaku’s Soma. Could he have…
INNESIt’s all right. Since the Commander wants to use Lithia’s power, Kohaku’s cooperation is crucial.
BERYLLots of little girls draw pictures of princesses, but if he’s trying to make that real it’s a little weird… Weird but… sad…
INNESIt was his only hope he could find in his time of despair. He’s an honestly clumsy person… The one who told him about Lithia’s existence and breathed into him illusions of revenge and revival… was Incarose. But I committed the same sin… I could stop the Commander’s hatred…
SHING…I kind of understand why you like him now. We still have time. For Lapis, we’ll stop him!
KUNZITEIncarose told him about Lady Lithia’s existence? But if Silver is him…
KOHAKUOw
STRIGAUPutting up until you lose your voice is quite a strong Spiria… That’s fine! More and more I want to hear the sound of your Spiria breaking!
SHINGHere you are, Kohaku!! Agh…
KOHAKUUuuugh… Shing… Every…one…
INNESStrigau… You!
STRIGAU…Lieutenant Lorenz. Betray however you like, but don’t interrupt me… I was just getting started!
HISUID-Damn you… I’m gonna kill you!!
SHING…How dare… you… Kohaku… I can’t forgive… you… I won’t forgive you… How dare you…! How dare you do that to Kohaku…!!
KUNZITE
I cannot allow this!!
STRIGAUAghhh…!
BERYLOhh, so Kunzite can get all angry, too.
KUNZITEThe death of Kohaku means the death of Lady Lithia. As a guardian mechanoid, it is natural for me to protect.
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERC-Captain Strigau was… with one hit?!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERUrgh… But we won’t step aside! For a world filled with strong Spiria!
POSSESSED SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERSGrrhwohoooo!! Grrrr… Like this girl, we’ll break your Spiria into pieces!!
SHINGWhat is this…
INNESBe careful! These soldiers are different from the other ones; they’re high level and kept their reasoning!!
SHING…Reasoning and level don’t matter… I’ll… crush them all!!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERGhaa…
SHINGThis isn’t over… Didn’t I say? I’m gonna crush you all.
KOHAKU…Shing… Stop… it… These people were… sacrificed for Zerom too…
SHINGKohaku! I’m sorry, we were late…
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERYou’re weak… Soma users. I’ve announced… S rank security. From here on out your opponents are the Special Corps influenced group. Know the power… of a strong Spiria…
BERYLAhh, what should we do?! Zerom soldiers are gonna come!
HISUIWe can’t take Kohaku along with us and fight as she is now. We should draw back…
KOHAKU…No! The last Spirune is inside Commander Silver… We have to get it back… And I don’t want there to be any more… people sacrificed to Zerom! Tell me, Innes… where is the Commander?
INNES…You really are strong. The Commander is probably in the lowest room of Nibelg. That’s where everything starts.
KOHAKU…Let’s go. To the lowest room of Nibelg.
(Kohaku joined the party.)
SHINGI-It’s huge… what is this?!
INNESThis is Mother Zerom that gives birth to Zerom… The origin of Despir Disease that Incarose revived…
BERYLTh-There’s something beyond the water, too!
INNESThat’s…? I don’t know what it is. It’s probably something that’s been excavated recently.
SILVERThat’s right… I’ve finally found it. The entrance to the Forest of Thorns where the body of Quartz Lithia sleeps!
KOHAKUThis is the entrance to the Forest of Thorns?
SILVERYes, the Quartz are people of another world with crystal bodies that ruled this world in the Stone Age. Zerom, Soma, and even that mechanical human are all mind arms created by them for war. And the one who can control all of that is the key in the Forest of Thorns, the Quartz Lithia! Isn’t that right, mechanoid?
KUNZITESo you too are a snob trying to use the Quartzite technology for your own purposes.
SILVERNot purposes, dreams! Strong power is needed in a world filled with strong Spiria. On the contrary, what’s not needed are traitors with weak Spiria. …First I must purge the betrayers.
INCAROSELeave it… to me. …C-Captain… what are you…?
SILVER
Didn’t I say? I’m going to purge the betrayers. You helped start programs for Zerom soldiers in the main army, that’s not what I ordered! If Innes hadn’t dealt with Cornelvin, then Zerom soldiers would have run rampant. Perhaps you were aiming at Lithia’s power, then kill me in my sleep, but this ends here.
INCAROSESilver… damn… you…
SHINGIncarose…
SILVERAnd with this that bad magician is no more. …Lieutenant Lorenz, why don’t you come to my sword?
INNESYes. You’re mistaken. …I’m going to stop you.
SILVERInnes… Do you remember the time we first met?
INNES…Of course. We were on the bank of the lake next to the military academy. You skipped class and were napping.
SILVERIt’s been almost ten years… That time, you parted with that terrible lunch for me.
INNESYou ate the entire thing! Thanks to that, a growing girl lost her lunch. My stomach was growling throughout the entire afternoon, and it was so embarrassing.
SILVERI was sitting up all night writing a report, so I was hungry. That’s right, that evening… Your face was as red as the sunset, and I gave you pasta enough for fifteen people.
INNESI don’t eat that much! …Twelve… people…
SILVERHahahah, oh, the good old days. The world was so simple back then.
INNESYes, really…
SILVER…And it’s simple once again. The ones who really did bind my Spiria were my daughter Lapis and my late wife, Pearl, after all. Lieutenant Innes Lorenz! I will kill you as a traitor! It’s fitting for our meeting place and parting place to both be by water.
KOHAKUWait, Silver! Listen to Innes’ feelings!! Innes is…
INNESIt’s all right, Kohaku… Pearl and Lapis aren’t here anymore, so it’s my job to stop him. But I can’t stop him by myself. …Please, everyone lend me your power to my Soma!
SHINGYeah, we’ll beat this guy and make him talk!
HISUILet’s get this going! We can stop him even if he goes crazy with Zerom.
KUNZITEI am always prepared.
BERYLI’m gonna do this too! …But it’s really scary…
(soma link upInnes and everyone’s Soma Link became stronger.)
SILVERHahaha, beat me if I’m possessed? Possessed soldiers have out of control Spiria, and their physical power is drawn over limit. I’m sure that I’m in a bit of problem if my opponents are six Soma users. But there’s one other user for Zerom. Let me show you. This is a soldier who has truly fused with a Zerom… A warrior with limitless power of Spiria and body!!
SHINGH-He’s…
SILVERDon’t worry. I’ll kill you with no pain at all.
SILVERAughh, I won’t… lose! Until this body is in pieces… I won’t give up! This can’t be…! Calcification should be the proof of failure to a weak Spiria… My Spiria that I’ve devoted to Lapis and Pearl has not yet broken!
KUNZITEZerom is a weapon that eats any and all Spiria. There is no meaning in strong or weak. You have probably been manipulated by Incarose’s falsities.
SILVERNo… So all of my subordinates have been calcified too? I made feed to Zerom out of their feelings?! If that’s true… then… all the more… I cannot lose!!
BERYLH-He can still fight? But we’re already pooped…
INNESCommander! Isaac! Please stop already!! *screams*
SILVERAgh… Pearl…! Lapis…!! Innes!!!
INNESCommander…
SILVERI wanted to protect Pearl and Lapis… like this… Even though I have no power to protect… I forced that fire of the psistone gun…
INNESThat’s… wasn’t it the other way around?! That was against your will…
SILVERNo! Secretly, I had belief in our new gun. In the end, while knowing it was dangerous I still lost to the lure of perfection… I… wanted the admiration of everyone… But this ugly, weak Spiria… this Spiria tore apart my wife’s body and my daughter’s Spiria. How should I make up for it? But no matter how many times I ask, Pearl and Lapis never answer… Just one word… a hateful or abusive word is fine!! Just tell me a way to make up for my sin… Please… Pearl… Lapis… …I see, so the last Spirune was inside me… Hahah… Isn’t this funny, Innes? No matter what, I’m a ridiculous man…
INNESIt’s a warm light… This same shine is something Pearl, Lapis… and I know. Isaac, leave half of your sins, atonement, and pain with me. I too want to feel the warmth of this shining Spiria.
SILVERInnes… But I’m…
INNESIt’s all right. I am a traveling merchant, after all, I’m good at carrying things.
SILVER…I’m sorry, Innes. What… just happened?!
BERYLThe calcification and fusion went away!
KUNZITEComparing to memory. No corresponding data. There is no precedent to recovering from calcification. …Can we say that the Soma Link’s power completed the Spiria?
SILVERShing… Give Kohaku her last Spirune back.
SHINGUmm, Silver… …Make Innes happy.
INNESW-Wh-What are you saying?! Don’t mock adults!
INCAROSESilver, this is in exchange from before.
SILVERAghh… Inca…rose…?
INNESAh…! Isaac!!
SILVERAuurghh… I-Innes… I leave Lapis… to you… And… I’m sorry for eating… all of your lunch…
INNESNo… No… Isaac… This… Noooooooooooo!!
INCAROSELieutenant Lorenz, it’s fitting for your meeting place and parting place to both be by water… right?
SHINGInca…rose… You!!!
EVERYONE*screams*
SHINGInca! How dare you kill Silver! Even though Innes had finally told him how she felt!
INCAROSEHmph… Is this all, Meteoryte? Anyone can scream. You want to return the Spirune, right? Don’t you want to finish your revenge? So show me your stronger power! More anger!
SHINGDammit… I’ll avenge my gramps! I’ll avenge Silver!!
INCAROSEYes, I killed them. I burned Zex’s flesh and I gouged out Silver’s heart. If you’re not going to forgive me for that, then what are you going to do?
SHING…I’ll kill… you…
INCAROSEI can’t hear you…! Your weak Spiria can’t save anything, can’t save anyone. All of your friends will die! Especially that girl Kohaku, I’ll break her Spiria into pieces again and kill her.
SHINGI’ll kill… you…!! Your Spiria, and your body, I’ll both… erase them from this world!!! Die.
INCAROSEAhhh… Aaaahhh!!!
BERYLThat was amazing, Shing! …But a little scary.
HISUIIsn’t she… gonna come back again?
KUNZITEThere is no need for worry. She is a mechanoid, like me. With Incarose’s specs, it is unlikely she will move again after that attack.
HISUIShe’s… a mechanoid?! Why didn’t you say anything?
KUNZITEData on Incarose and her master is top secret. I cannot allow for that to be public.
HISUISo secrets are more important than your friends! I can’t trust you crystal people.
SHINGMechanical dolls are not worth worrying about. Let’s hurry up and return the Spirune, and revive Lithia.
INNESYou did that for me. Thank you Shing.
KOHAKUInnes… are you okay?
INNESYes. Right now isn’t the time to be crying. What’s more, you’ve finally gotten all of your Spirune back. Congratulations, Kohaku.
SHINGKohaku, come here.
(Obtained Love Spirune x 1)
KOHAKU…Shing. What’s wrong, Lithia?! What are you saying? You’re lying… That’s…
BERYLWhat’s wrong, Kohaku? It looks like you saw a ghost.
HISUIThere’s another problem?
KUNZITEIs her Spiria incomplete?
SHING…Somehow, Lithia’s been revived safely…
KOHAKUWhy… are you… here… Creed Graphite?!
KUNZITECreed?!
INNES
I don’t feel… any enemies.
KOHAKUNo… no…!!
KUNZITECalm down. Do you know who Creed is?
SHINGYou’re forgetting your manners, mechanical thing!
KOHAKUYou’re not Shing… You’re… you’re… Creed… Graphite!
SHINGHeheheh… Ahahahahahahahaha!!
SHING (CREED)Oh, Inca. Did you finally wake up after feeling my power?
INCAROSEYes. I’ve seen all of Meteoryte’s skills… and exposed his weakness. I am happy for your revival. My Master, Lord Creed Graphite.
KOHAKUCreed Graphite… I’ve heard that name so many times from Lithia. The strongest mind artist of the Quartzite… Incarose’s master… Captured Lithia and tried to destroy the world with that power, the devil of scarlet hair… Why… Why are you inside of Shing?!
SHING (CREED)Thank you for the introduction, little girl. However… I’ve got no use for a Celirade vessel. Show me Lithia. I know she’s awake.
KOHAKUW-What about Shing…? What happened to him?!
SHING (CREED)Hmph… Seems that you vessel doesn’t understand words. Incarose, make her understand what’s going on.
INCAROSE…Understood.
KOHAKUWh-What are you…?
INNESAaaaaghh!!
KOHAKUNo! Innes!!
INCAROSE
First, one bone. Then…
BERYLAughhh!!
INCAROSEThis time was it three? Then…
KOHAKUStop, stop!! This is…
KUNZITEGuaaaaaah!!
INCAROSEI know… We mechanical people also don’t like having our insides messed with.
KOHAKUPlease, just stop! Why… can you do this?
SHING (CREED)If you want me to stop, didn’t I tell you to show Lithia? If you don’t do that, then I’m going to break your brother’s arm into a thousand pieces.
HISUIGaaaah!!
KOHAKUStop! Stop!! Please, stop!! Lithia! Come out, Lithia!! Save my brother!!
KOHAKU (LITHIA)Creed Graphite…
SHING (CREED)So you’re finally out, Lithia Spodune… I wasn’t able to catch you in that girl’s Spirmaze, but this time, I won’t let you run. As long as I understand the tricks to your mind artes, I’ll crush them all beforehand.
KOHAKU (LITHIA)…Even after two thousand years, your sinfulness has not changed.
SHING (CREED)Sinful…? What nerve! If that’s a sin, then you’re responsible too!! I’ll bury all of your sins with you! No buts; open the door to the Forest of Thorns!
KOHAKU (LITHIA)So you’re really not going to give up on its revitalization… How terrible… And what a pitiful person… Creed, I have no reason to let you into the Forest of Thorns! …No matter how many people you kill.
KOHAKUHuh…?! Lithia…? …Hey, Lithia! Answer me! Please, save everyone! Please, Lithia!!
SHING (CREED)Hmph, stubborn, as usual. Well then, I’ll test to see if that resolve is real or not. Incarose! First, tear that boy apart!!
INCAROSEYes.
HISUIAaaaaghhhh!!
KOHAKUNoooo!! Hisui, Hisui! Stop! Please, stop it!! If it’s something I can do, I’ll do anything!!!
SHING (CREED)Oooohhh… Finally, after two thousand years, the path to the Forest of Thorns is open… Heh… hahahahahah! But what a disappointment, Lithia! Your actions speak louder than your words!
KOHAKU (LITHIA)But… I… wasn’t the one who allowed it to be open!
SHING (CREED)…Oh I see, the Soma. Soma has the power that ties people’s Spiria together. Hahaha, wonderful! Lithia, your deep ties in your Spiria, this vessel can go beyond her Soma and use your power! Well, with this I don’t need you anymore. The vessel is much more cooperative than you are.
KOHAKU (LITHIA)Ahh…! Kohaku… You can’t… hand over the Forest of Thorns… to Creed…
SHING (CREED)You should just keep on sleeping inside of whatever Spiria you like. And now, to the Forest of Thorns. And now, I’ll release what has been sealed away for two thousand years!
KOHAKUAhh…
(Hisui left the party.Beryl left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
[Mobile Crystal Palace Cendrillion]
KOHAKUThis is… the Forest of Thorns?
SHING (CREED)Ahahah, you thought it was just like the name and overgrown with plants? The “Forest of Thorns” is the codename for this Crystal Palace “Cendrillion”. And you Celirade made a silly fairytale out of it. Okay, come here!
INCAROSELord Creed, the activation room is not…
SHING (CREED)I know! I’m going to wake up the mechanoids first.
INCAROSEI apologize. Please forgive me.
SHING (CREED)All right, first I’ll wake up Corundum. Battle type—The one that can operate at ace level… Tch, only Croaseraph. Bothersome one, but I’ve got no choice.
???Kyahahaha ♪
KOHAKUAhh! W-What is this?
???Kyahahahah ♪ She said “Ahh! W-What is this?” What a stupid way to be surprised! Celirade haven’t evolved at all~ ♪
SHING (CREED)Don’t play around, Corundum! You put together the operations while in suspension, did you?
CORUNDUMKyahahahah, Lord Creed ♪ It’s been 63361962740 seconds since I last saw you~ Of course! I’ve created splendid operations in correspondence with the last operations~
INCAROSECroaseraph… will take some time to revive.
SHING (CREED)Perfect timing. Until he wakes up, I’m going to settle this with Lithia.
KOHAKUAhhh… aaahhh…
INNESThanks, I can kind of move now.
HISUIIt’s for emergencies. …But still, what happened to Shing?
KUNZITENegative. That is not Shing. He is our worst enemy; he’s trying to capture Lady Lithia… The worst Quartzite planning the revival of that—Creed Graphite! Silver was probably guarding… No, he was hiding within Shing!
BERYLSo if that wasn’t Shing just now, then where did he go?!
KUNZITEUnknown. Either Creed took over his Spiria and destroyed it, or they are still existing together in the same body. However, more than that, no matter how much of Shing’s Spiria is remaining, we must destroy him.
HISUIYou telling us to kill Shing? Isn’t there another way?!
KUNZITEWe have handed over the key. If you do not want the world destroyed, then cooperate with me!
INNESThe world will… be destroyed?! What on earth… is inside the Forest of Thorns?
BERYLN-No way… They’re all Mother Zerom!
INNESThe Forest of Thorns having so much of this…
HISUIYou guys, this isn’t the time to get scared!
INNESYou’re not scared? I am… This is something humans can’t deal with!
HISUII’m scared too! But my sister’s in here somewhere! You think her brother’s gonna run?!
KUNZITEMother Zerom isn’t the only thing that belongs to the Forest of Thorns. If what Lady Lithia had sealed away is released, then the world will end. Let us hurry!
BERYLT-There’s something worse than this?! There’s no way…
???…There is. And that is something you all know very well.
INNESThis voice…?
???However, what the mechanical being says is not entirely true. What that will end is not the entire world… but only yours!!
INNESAagghhh!!
SHING (CREED)Yes, here it is! The horrid place where your Spiria once separated from your body! I dare to revive my lost plans, more than this place. All right, girl! Release Lithia’s power and revive all functions of the Forest of Thorns! Hurry up and do it. Every time you make me wait ten seconds, I’ll kill one Celirade.
CORUNDUMCounting down! ♪ Ten~ Nine~ Eight~ Seven~…
KOHAKU (LITHIA)Creed, I won’t allow you to do what you want!
SHING (CREED)No! There’s no way you can break out of my seal…
KOHAKU (LITHIA)This time I’m the one who borrowed the power of Kohaku’s Soma! I will defeat you with this power!!
SHING (CREED)Aggghh! Don’t screw with me, Lithia… The one who taught you mind artes… was me!!
KOHAKU (LITHIA)Aaaaaaah!!!
SHING (CREED)I’ll pretend you were joking!
LITHIAAhh…
SHING (CREED)Ahahah! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you like this, Lithia!
CORUNDUMHow dare you do that! But with this you can’t use Soma~! Serves you right!
SHING (CREED)Let me test your decision one more time. …But first, how about I cut up that now useless vessel in front of you?
LITHIAPlease wait! If you’re questioning my resolve, then why don’t you hurt me instead?!
INCAROSEYou shut up and watch.
KOHAKUAhhh… Save me, Shing!
SHING (CREED)Rugh… Damn you… You vessel… Don’t oppose me!
SHINGKohaku… Run…
KOHAKUShing?! You’re Shing!!
SHING
I’m sorry, Kohaku… We finally got all your Spirune back but I’m making you think only scary stuff… But… I’ll protect you!
SHING (CREED)“I’ll protect you”…? Hah, go on and play hero, but if you get in my way…
LITHIAStop, Creed!
SHING (CREED)I’ll do this!!
SHING……Agh!
KOHAKUNo… Nooooooooooooo!! Shing, Shing!! No! I don’t want this!!
LITHIAThis is cruel…
CREEDAhahahah, foolish vessel! That was total meaningless opposition, since my real body was sealed here!
SHING*cough, cough*! Uurghh… Who… the hell… are you?!
CREEDOh? You can still move even though I fatally wounded you?
CORUNDUMKyahahah! ♪ What wonderful vitality! Just as expected from a savage Celirade!
KOHAKUAhh! Don’t move, Shing! Your blood… your blood won’t stop!
STRIGAULord Creed Graphite… This is the first time we’ve met. I am Geo Strigau.
CREEDHmm. I’ve received info from Inca. You’re the man who worked to manipulate Silver, correct?
STRIGAUYour pleasure.
INNESUugh, Captain Strigau… Could you possibly…
KUNZITELady Lithia… Even Creed has been returned to his real body?!
HISUIEmerald hair… This is Lithia?!
LITHIA
What have you come here for? Hurry and run!
KOHAKUEveryone, help! Shing is… Shing is…!!
BERYLAhh, Shing! W-What’s going to happen to him?!
CREEDHmph. You Soma users are more stubborn than I thought… I guess I will just remove you completely.
HISUIYou crystal bastard! What the hell did you do to Shing?!
INCAROSELord Creed, I have a fate with these people. Let me… deal with them.
CREED…That’s fine. Let this be a lesson to this girl. Torment them for ten minutes then kill them.
INCAROSE…Understood.
(Hisui joined the party.Beryl joined the party.Innes joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.)
SHINGRevenge for my grandfather… I’ll… take it…
CREEDWhat’s that sorry state of losing against a dying Celirade?
INCAROSELord Creed… Please forgive…
CORUNDUMKyahaha ♪ Incarose is weak~
CREEDEnough, step back. You never know when to give up, either. But of course if you let me destroy your head, you’ll die. Look well, Lithia!
SHINGWhat… What on earth are you?!
KOHAKUStop! Stop! No!! Don’t kill Shing… Stop!!!
LITHIAThis power… Even though we’re separate, Kohaku is still using my power?!
INCAROSEAugh!
CORUNDUMWow, wow!! There’s never been a Soma link this high before!
CREEDI like this… So Soma has power to this extent!
LITHIANo! Stop, Kohaku!! The Forest of Thorns will completely revive with this!!
KOHAKUAhhhhhh!!!!
LITHIANo, she’s not listening! The only way to stop the activation… is by erasing… Kohaku’s Spiria. P-Please move, Kunzite!
KUNZITEPlease stop, Lady Lithia. I cannot allow you to hurt your Spiria anymore. You can believe in these Soma users. My Lady… Please somehow escape with them.
LITHIAKunzite, you…
CREEDSo they used an emergency escape arte. But… Heheheh… Ahahahaha! That girl has awakened the Forest of Thorns! And all my preparations are complete! And now after two thousand years, my dearest wish will be granted! Ahahhah…Hahahahaha!!! …And why are you still here? Could you possibly be planning to kill me in my sleep?
KUNZITEMy power is something you do not recognize. However… I will take you with me!
CORUNDUMLord Creed! Kunzite activated his self destruct function!
CROASERAPHIt’s been a while, Kunzite, my friend. I’ve been wanting to see you. The genuineness of concerning yourself for your master’s sake… You haven’t changed.
KUNZITEC-Croaseraph?! Aghhh!
CREEDSo you’re awake, Croaseraph.
CROASERAPHGood morning, Creed. I did not want Kunzite to break, that’s all; I wasn’t really protecting you.
INCAROSECroaseraph… It’s rude to oppose Lord Creed.
CORUNDUMThat’s right! It’s rude, rude!!
CREEDAhahha! I don’t care. I finally feel good after two thousand years. Yes… With this, glory and the radiance of Spiria will return to Quartia once again! Incarose! Croaseraph! Strigau! Corundum!
ALLYes…
CREEDLet’s go! The Forest of Thorns… Crystal Palace Cendrillion, rise!
INNESWe moved here in an instant? So this is an arte of the Quartz…
LITHIAAhh… The Forest of Thorns is in Creed’s hands… And… it will awaken. You should understand! Why did you let me run, Kunzite?!
HISUIIdiot, don’t let Kunzite’s feelings go to waste! And we’ve got a mountain of questions to ask you!!
LITHIAI will once again go to Creed’s side! Let me go! Let me go!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIERSWait! In the name of the Imperial Army Special Corps, we won’t let you run!
INNESIdiots, this place is going to be destroyed! Take the injured and the calcified and escape! Commander Silver… isn’t someone we meaninglessly sacrificed!
BERYLIf you have a strong Spiria then before you defeat us, go save your companions, idiot!
SPECIAL CORPS SOLDIER…Understood, lieutenant. We will gather all bodies, the injured, and escape from Nibelg!
INNESEveryone hurry to the port! I’m going to get Lapis.
LITHIAIt’s no use… There’s nowhere in the world… where you can hide from that.
KOHAKUAhhh, Shing won’t move! What should we do… What should we do?!
HISUI
Get up, both of you! If you sit here you’ll only die!
(Innes left the party.)
BERYLTh-there are no boats…
KOHAKUHisui… Shing’s heart… stopped.
HISUIWhat the hell is this?! What’s happening?!
LITHIAThe awakened Forest of Thorns… The Crystal Palace Cendrillion that Creed took… it’s starting.
LITHIAI won’t… let you die. I won’t let… anyone die anymore! …He’s still breathing. With my artes I can… Aghh…!!
SHING………………………………agh…
LITHIAI’m sorry… I don’t have the power to use artes anymore… but… I won’t let you die… either! Please, don’t die… somehow… live!
HISUI*cough hack* W-Where is this…? Nibelg was destroyed and we should have been thrown in the sea… Oh, the emerald hair girl?! Wh-What did you do? Hey, you alive, Shing?! That crazy wound is healed… Could this chick have saved me, who can’t swim, and heavy Shing?
SHINGAgh… I’m… alive?
HISUIYeah. Seems like somehow this chick… Lithia saved you.
SHINGEven though I was just going to die, why did she save me?
HISUI…Like hell I know. But, what happened to Kohaku and the others…?
SHINGKohaku is… safe, I think. I feel her Spiria faintly, far away…
SHINGInnes is… close. She’s northwest from here.
HISUI
Okay, so if Kohaku is safe then that stubborn Beryl and Kunzite should be alive, too. First let’s head northwest and meet up with Innes!
SHING…We’re bringing her?
HISUIWe can’t just leave her behind! And she has to tell us what just happened, too.
SHINGZ-Zerom? But this isn’t a Spirmaze! Agh! Hisui, it’s the real thing!
HISUIZerom’s here in reality? Dammit, this is a bad dream!
HISUIWhat kind of power… If we didn’t have Soma we wouldn’t be able to beat these guys. Plus they’re after Spiria and will no doubt attack humans… This is worse than Despir!
SHING…Is this also because we revived the Forest of Thorns and Lithia?
HISUII don’t know, but we somehow washed up on a beach nearby Henzella. If your Link is right then Innes is in Henzella. We’ll talk after we meet up with her.
LANDLADYAhh! This way, you guys! A Miss Innes asked me to come get you since she said you should be nearby.
HISUICome get us? Does she have wounds so bad she can’t move?
LANDLADY…Her body is fine, but there is terrible damage to her Spiria… But you managed to arrive safely in this town, right? Just now, there was this ferocious monster I’ve never seen before, and many merchants were injured.
SHINGFerocious monster… So I guess Zerom really are appearing everywhere.
LANDLADYAnyway, go see Miss Innes. She’s resting on the second floor of the inn.
INNES…Ah, Shing, Hisui, I’m glad you’re safe.
SHINGYou too… You saved Lapis.
INNESYes… We were caught in the collapse of the island and got thrown into the sea… but Captain Sango was on standby nearby and she helped save us and the injured special corps soldiers. But I couldn’t… even save Isaac’s corpse…
HISUIDammit, that monster that destroyed Nibelg, Incarose! And that red-headed creep Creed!! What the hell are they?!
LITHIACreed Graphite… What you all call the White Moon… are the remains of the world Quartia he destroyed two thousand years ago.
INNESAnd you as well. Lithia… right?
LITHIAYes. I’m the Quartz, Lithia Spodune. Although the control core of the Forest of Thorns—the mobile crystal palace Cendrillion flew off, it once destroyed Quartia… And again, the source of the path of destruction for this world—Celirand.
HISUIThe sleeping princess born on the white moon… right? Heh, kinda like a fairy tale… But after seeing your crazy powers, I guess I can’t not believe it.
SHINGThat power… That wasn’t something human, like us.
INNESYou guys, watch what you…
LITHIAI don’t mind. It’s the truth.
HISUIOkay then, why don’t you tell us the truth of what’s happening now?
LITHIAOnce a long time ago, the Quartz established a very advanced and rich mind artes culture. However… over abundant power conversely decayed the Spiria, and brought about the consequence of growing war between families. Mind wars that continued on forever… And the weapon that was brought about during that time was…
INNES…Zerom.
LITHIAZerom is a living weapon that feeds on Spiria, and evolves with that power. The Quartz wanted stronger Zerom… and began to use the primitive Spiria that flowed within Celirade.
HISUIUse Celirade…? So you’re saying they made food for Zerom out of the people in this world?!
LITHIAYes. The Quartz invaded Celirand, and controlled and ruled your ancestors as materials for evolution for Zerom.
HISUIHeh, taken by bloodthirsty crystal bastards and treated our Spiria like things, huh?
LITHIANo! Even in the Quartz, there were many kind people who wished for peace!! My older sister, Flora Spodune, hoped for peace between the Quartz and Celirade… and created Soma which bound together people’s Spiria, and the Forest of Thorns—Cendrillion. Then Creed created that, and wished for a world without war…
INNESThat…? Not the Forest of Thorns… Cendrillion that manipulates Zerom?
LITHIACendrillion does not manipulate Zerom; it seals them. What Cendrillion and my sister Flora combined their powers to seal was… the Queen Zerom that rules over all Zerom. The salvation system that absorb Spiria from a distance… That name is that of the black moon floating in the sky—Gardenia.
HISUI…You’re saying the black moon is a monster? You’re the sleeping princess don’t talk about stuff that’re like dreams.
LITHIAI wish it was a dream. However the proof that it is reality is once again in the sky…
INNESProof that there was something that absorbed Spiria in the sky? …It couldn’t be!
LITHIAYes, two thousand years ago, Creed and I activated Gardenia, and accidentally calcified the white moon. The once blue star—Quartia! It wasn’t supposed to happen like that… It was supposed to only absorb the Spiria of the warring Quartz… But the activated Gardenia mercilessly…
QUARTZ WOMAN*screams*!!
QUARTZ MAN*screams*!!!
QUARTZ CHILDMommy, mommy!!!
LITHIA…Absorbed the Spiria of six billion Quartz… and the entirety of Quartia.
CREEDUuurgh… What happened?! Gardenia… What happened to Flora? Answer me, Lithia!!
CORUNDUMG-Gardenia absorbed all the Spiria of Quartia… and calcified the entire planet. Presently, Gardenia is silent according to Lady Flora and Lady Lithia’s counter-seal. Going into idle mode.
INCAROSEI am guessing that Lady Flora was frozen in the center of Gradenia as a singular point in the seal. Cendrillion also had all of its functions locked besides the seal by Lithia, and is falling to the bottom of the ocean in Celirand.
CREEDI wasn’t asking you robots! Damn woman… You made Flora into a sacrifice to stop Gardenia?! Release the seal on Gardenia right now! Save Flora!!
LITHIA…I can’t do that!
CREEDIdiot! There’s a way to return the minds of the Quartz that Gardenia absorbed!! Start up Cendrillion again right now and make it go there!
LITHIAI can’t do that!! Gardenia doesn’t have the power to control people! And even if it could control people’s Spiria, we can’t let that thing manipulate them! …Creed, did you not hear my sister’s last words?
CREEDThose were not her last words! I will… I will definitely save Flora! If you get in my way, I’ll use my artes and make you obey!! What are you planning, robot?
INCAROSEThe lowest type of Jack-style protection robot… Stand down, insolent fellow!
KUNZITEWarm tears… I will protect Lady Lithia’s warmth!!!
CREEDHe… uses Soma?! There’s never been a mechanoid that’s used Soma with their pseudo-Spiria before…
LITHIAThank you, Kunzite… Hold Incarose down! I will seal Creed!!
CREEDAuughh, this arte… Are you planning on manipulating my Spiria?!
LITHIA…Along with you, I will freeze my own Spiria. While keeping the seal as a sin of destroying our home, at least we should pray for the peace of Celirand!
CREED
Like I know what’s going to happen to Celirand! If you compare that to Quartia… No, Flora’s life it’s the same as trash!!! Agggghhhh!!!
LITHIA*screams*
INCAROSEAhh, Lord Creed’s…
KUNZITELady Lithia’s Spiria is…!
LITHIAThis is… what happened two thousand years ago… Both our Spiria ejected from our body, and landed in one section of Celirade’s Spiria. While continuing to move from generation to generation, we’ve continued to fight over Gardenia’s seal.
INNES…The two moons being monsters that absorb Spiria and a destroyed world…
LITHIANot just absorption. Consummation. All that is left is a calcified world…
HISUIIf that Creed bastard revives that dangerous thing, what’s he gonna do?
LITHIACreed still believes that the Spiria of the Quartz is saved inside of Gardenia. Even that of my sister Flora who allowed us to escape and caught up with the out of control Gardenia… He’s trying to restart Gardenia for the sake of reviving my sister and Quartia.
HISUIYou’ve protected the seal for two thousand years as his enemy…
SHINGShut up! Why did you bring your war to our world?! Because of you, so many people were hurt…
LITHIA…I have nothing to say. However, Creed’s power much exceeds that of us. Kunzite isn’t here anymore, and I can only ask you Soma users… Please, please lend me your power to stop Creed.
SHINGJust tell me one thing. Why is he… Why was Creed inside of me?! Gramps didn’t say anything either!
LITHIA…Even I don’t know that… Before when I fought Creed he was living on inside another person’s Spiria…
INNESIs there a possibility that Shing’s Spiria will be manipulated by him again?
LITHIAThere’s no danger in that, since he, just like myself, has returned to his real body.
HISUISo you mean, Kohaku’s not gonna be controlled by you anymore, either?
LITHIAI have not controlled the body of the person I was staying in before like Creed has…
HISUIBut you broke the Spirune, didn’t you? That’s not all… You tried to kill her, too!
LITHIA…Yes. Had Kunzite not stopped me, I probably would have killed Kohaku to stop Creed’s ambitions.
SHING…The Quartz should finish what they started. And what’s more we have to go find Kohaku and the others…
HISUIYeah, it’s not our job to deal with the Quartz’ problems.
INNES…I’m going with Lithia. Creed and Strigau were using Isaac, and I cannot allow that. …And I have to protect the world for the day Lapis awakens.
LITHIAThank you, Innes…
INNESHeheh. It’s not for real, but since I’m a mother I’m strong. The problem is chasing the flying Cendrillion. I think the only way is by using the airship in Yuraio…
SHINGI’m sorry, Innes… Right now, I’m more worried about Kohaku than the world…
INNESIt’s all right… It’s normal not to take on this job lightly. You should go see Kohaku with all her Spirune back, soon.
HISUIShing, can you still feel Kohaku’s presence?
SHING…Yeah. I feel her Spiria way south of here.
HISUISouth, huh… oh well. Looks like our only way is to ask Captain Sango to take us on the boat.
LANDLADYThere’s talk of ferocious monsters outside the town. You’re still going to head out?
SHINGOf course! We’re gonna bring healthy Kohaku back so you can meet her.
SANGOOh, so you two are okay! Did you meet with Innes?
HISUIYeah… a lot happened.
SANGOYou’re not with her? She was pretending to be strong but she didn’t seem like it…
SHING…Innes will be okay… But we want to go look for Kohaku. Head this ship southward.
SANGO…I like how you talk to me looking me straight in the eye, but today you’re randomly looking away?
SHINGIt doesn’t matter to a ship’s captain…
SANGO…Hmph, okay. Hey rascals, it’s the owner’s orders! Get this ship moving south!
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEESAye, ma’am!
[Seminavitz Harbor]
SHINGUuugh… uuurrrgh…
HISUIHey… Really, I’ve had enough of this boat…
SANGOHuh! Made my Spiria all dizzy so I’m gonna get a drink.
SHINGUurgh… Thanks for hurrying, captain.
SANGOI don’t need thanks from people who don’t look me in the eye while they talk. Hurry and go!
HISUIShing, Kohaku’s on this island, right?
SHINGYeah… north of here.
HISUINorth… All right, let’s get a move on!!
[The Misty Village – Reiv]
HISUIIt’s really foggy… Feels like white darkness.
SHINGAhh! Are you… a villager?
HISUIGood timing. Have you seen a girl in white around here lately? Her hair color’s the same as mine. Hey… he shouldn’t ignore me, right?
SHINGAh, um… We’re looking for someone…
VILLAGER…Leave…
HISUIWhat is up with this village?! Is it contaminated by Despir?
SHINGZerom have even started appearing in real life… Despir is probably spreading even more.
HISUI…W-We got back all of Kohaku’s Spirune. We’ve got nothing to do with it and no responsibility… It’d be hard to look for her in this mist. Let’s rest at the inn a bit and think of a plan.
HISUI‘Scuse us. Huh, seems like the villager’s got mist in their Spiria, too.
SHINGHey, are they not answering us because Despir’s spreading?
BARTENDER…Despir? Who knows… The people of this village have been silent for a long time. If you don’t wanna talk, then you don’t have to… We don’t even ask about other people… Those’re the rules of this village where strangers gathered.
SHINGWhat an unwelcome village…
???Ahhhhh! Mice and cockroaches and centipedes and slugs attacked me at the same time!!! Jeeez, augh, this warehouse is way too dirty! I want a raise in my pay!!
SHINGBeryl!!
BERYLAhh, Shing! Hisui! Ahhhh! So much happened, there was so much trouble!~
SHINGI’m so glad you’re safe!
HISUIWell, it’s really hard to kill you off so I wasn’t worried.
BERYLWhat! I’m the one that carried Kohaku and swam after we got dumped in the sea. Thanks to that a fishing boat from this island picked us up.
SHINGIs Kohaku okay?
BERYLW-Well… She was taken by some bad guy.
???Ah, Miss Beryl, are you working hard?
BERYLThis is him! This is the guy that locked Kohaku away!!
HISUIWh-What?!
SHINGYou…!!
BARTENDERHey! That man is Doctor Tecta, he’s nursing that Kohaku girl!
SHINGHuh?Um… We’re sorry…
TECTAOww… Well, please calm down and at least drink the village’s pride, Reiv Tea.
SHINGKohaku’s being healed by this person? Why is she being held…
BERYLBecause! Kohaku can already move but they won’t release her. And… they said “we don’t need medical costs but pay for your food,” and they sold me to this bar.
HISUIAnd by sold, you mean your part-time job of cleaning the warehouse?
SHING
Is Kohaku’s condition… bad?
TECTANo, all of her bodily wounds have healed. But… …could you possibly be Shing?
SHING…Yeah. But why my name?
TECTAAs Kohaku was having nightmares she called your name many times. It feels quite like love ♥
BERYLKohaku’s in this person’s clinic. Let’s hurry and meet her.
SHING…Y-Yeah.
HISUIYou… Could you be nervous, even though you’re gonna see Kohaku? Hahaha! When you compare it to siblings’ bond, Soma Link’s no big deal!
BERYLHehehe~ ♪ This looks funny so let’s go hurry~
(Beryl joined the party.)
HISUIKohaku, are you okay?!
KOHAKUHisui…?
BERYLKohaku!! Shing came to see you!!
SHINGOwww…! You pushed too hard, Beryl!
KOHAKUShing! Shing…right?
SHINGYeah… uhm… It’s been a while, Kohaku.
KOHAKUShing, Shing! I’m glad… you’re alive…
HISUIThis is not funny!
BERYLIt’s not funny!
SHING
Y-You figured out I didn’t die with the Soma Link, right?
KOHAKUYeah. But… I was worried that you… wouldn’t be yourself again.
BERYLYeah, that Creed guy was inside Shing, right? What does that mean?!
SHINGI don’t know! Gramps never told me anything! She… Lithia said she didn’t know either.
KOHAKULithia… What happened to Lithia?
HISUI…She’s fine. She washed up on Henzella’s shore with us.
HISUI…And that’s the story she told us about what happened two thousand years ago.
BERYLAhahah… So you’re saying the black moon and the white moon were monsters created by people? I can’t believe a story like that…
KOHAKUIt’s true! Lithia isn’t someone to tell lies!!
HISUIDid you hear that story from her?
KOHAKUShe didn’t tell me all about Gardenia… She said it was something she’d settle herself…
HISUIThat’s right, this is their problem. So we shouldn’t be talking about what we can do! I’m sure Innes’ll do something with the empire and the military…
KOHAKUThe world may calcify, so how can you say that it’s not our problem? …I’m going to go save Lithia. You’re going to come too, right Shing?
SHINGI don’t want to deal with the Quartz… Because of them, everyone died. …Isn’t that… enough?
KOHAKU……Shing?
SHINGMore than that, I just wanted to see you with all your Spirune back! There were so many things I wanted to talk with you about…
KOHAKU
“More than that”…? Everyone may lose their Spiria in this world and all you can say is “more than that”?! You’re not the Shing I know! The Shing I know is a kind person who would cry, get angry together with anyone who was hurt!!
SHINGW-What’s with that, all of a sudden! Even you’re different from the Kohaku I knew before! Like the Kohaku now understands how I feel!
BERYLH-H-Hey you guys no fighting! This isn’t war!
TECTAYou guys, please free a bed! A villager was attacked by a monster!!
BADLY INJURED VILLAGERUuugh… Don’t worry about me, run…
SAD VILLAGERGuh… doctor, please let me look at him first. He protected me…
REIV MAYORIt seems it was a ferocious monster that no one has seen before that attacked these two.
SHINGThe real Zerom attacked these people…
TECTAPhew… There is no serious threat to his life. Everyone, please leave the clinic for now.
BARTENDERHey, are the guys who were attacked okay?!
SHINGHe was badly injured… But the doctor said he can save his life…
TECTAIt’s what they say. There are dangerous monsters increasing outside. Please do not let the villagers leave…
REIV MAYORDon’t let those two’s efforts go to waste. Call everyone and increase the village security.
HISUIHuh. I thought this wasn’t a nice village but it’s not.
BARTENDERThis is a village of strangers who all have hurt Spiria… It’s a rule not to interfere in other people’s lives.
REIV MAYORAnd even then… No, that’s why everyone knows each other as companions with the same sadness, loneliness, and pain.
TECTAPeople’s Spiria is incredibly complex. Words and Soma are not the only ways to heal it. Especially, with words is the way that most people’s Spiria end up getting hurt… right? Well, I’ve gotten busy, so why don’t I let you go, Kohaku? Your medical fees come to thirty thousand gald…
BERYLThat’s expensive! Didn’t you say you weren’t going to include a medical fee?
TECTAI am also a merchant, you know. …If you don’t have money, then you may pay with your body.
BERYLUuugh, my pay at the bar has to go up…
TECTANo, I want you to look at the closed Spiria of the patient with your Soma.
SHINGBut, Soma is…
TECTAAll I said was that there was not just one way; Soma is a healing tool that outstrips everything. Please. No matter what I try, he keeps saying the same words. The only word, “Creed Graphite”…
SHING…Creed?! Who is this person…?
TECTAAn older person living in the northern remote area of this village, Zirconia.
SHINGOkay. We should make a Spirlink with Zirconia, right?
(Kohaku joined the party.)
HISUI…This is Zirconia? He kinda looks like half a mummy.
TECTAYes… For seventeen years now, he’s been like this.
SHINGSeventeen years—from before I was born, huh…
BERYLZirconia… I feel like I’ve heard that name before.
ZIRCONIA…Creed… Graphite…
TECTA
Please. With your Spirlink find out what originally happened to his Spiria.
ZIRCONIACreed… Graphite…
KOHAKUZirconia… Why do you know that name?
ZIRCONIAUrghhh… Your Soma…?! That time… That time!!
SHINGAhhh, what is… this? Something’s flowing into his Spiria!
ZIRCONIACommander Grossular. What happened after the revolt on the Marquis continent?
GROSSULARI chased the Velleia followers who ignited the revolt to the Prince Strait. Suppressing them is just a matter of time.
ZIRCONIAVelleia… Church of Lithia, hm. Are you having problems with your Soma-using opponents?
GROSSULARYes… I’m having problems more or less with that group centered around a maiden, but now I am betting my life…
ZIRCONIAA maiden?! …All right, I’m heading out! To bring about a world with no war… I’ll gladly dirty my hands with the blood of rebels!
GROSSULAROhh, Emperor Zirconia! What a wonderful resolve!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERSOooohhhhh!!! Max! Max!! Max!! Max! Max!! Max!!
ZIRCONIAThere’s only one way for the Empire to chase Lithia… Since Inca and the other’s aren’t here it’ll take some time…
SHINGW-What was that just now…?
KOHAKUI think it was probably Zirconia’s memories, but the way he spoke was that of Creed…
BERYLAhhhh, that’s right! Zirconia de Rey… This guy is Lady Paraiba’s granduncle… the previous emperor!
HISUIThe last emperor?! Shut up! Why is this guy all mummy-like in a place like this?
KOHAKUHe knew about Lithia and Incarose too. Could he be…
SHINGZirconia was the one who had Creed before me? …We can probably figure out why Creed was inside me in this guy’s Spirmaze…
SHINGTell us about Creed.
ZIRCONIA…You pretentious Soma users. Planning to pretend you’re being cornered then lure me out, huh…
HISUIAgh, this again…?!
TECTANahaha! Prince Straight hit by a windstorm… My weather prediction was right on the spot.
ZEXJust as planned, once the imperial navy gets all confused, we attack Zirconia’s… Creed’s command ship. Iola, you’ve seen us off far enough. Wait for our return at the church.
IOLA…All right. Everyone, please be safe…
ARKHAMBut without Iola and Lithia, can we really win against Creed…?
DONNAYou afraid, Labrado?! These guys probably don’t think they’re gonna be attacked in the storm. No matter how many monster’s Creed’s got, we’ll make an opening and beat them senseless!
IOLADonna, why must you be so crude? Creed is within Zirconia, Tecta’s father. Think of his feelings, too!
TECTAIt’s all right, I’ve made up my mind. No matter what shape he’s in, I’ll get my father back from Creed.
DONNAThat’s right, at least I know this fighting spirit. This guy’s got peanuts now, too!
IOLAD-Donna! Watch your speech! Look at the expression on your father’s face!
ZEXI apologize for my face, Iola.
DONNA…Uugh.
TECTAWhat’s wrong, Donna?
DONNAAhaha… It’s nothing. I just had a little too much gummy liquor yesterday.
IOLAI swear, you of all people having a hangover on a day like this!
DONNANaw, you’re just being way too motherly.
IOLADonna… you… this shaking…
IOLA (LITHIA)I too will come! I cannot stay behind while everyone is risking their life!
ZEXNo. This is a fight to protect you. Waiting is probably unbearable but you’ll have wait it out. What, we’ll be back soon! I keep my promises with beautiful women with big chests like Iola!
TECTAEven if we’re apart, our Spiria are together.
DONNAYeah! If the power of our Spiria tied together by Soma is together, then there’s no way we’re gonna lose to Creed! You have to protect the future of this child where it’ll fight, laugh, love… just like us.
ZIRCONIAAhahahah, like it’s worth it to protect the future of inferior Celirade!
IOLAEmperor Zirconia… No, Creed Graphite!
ZIROCONIAPlanning to pretend you’re cornered then lure me to the front line, huh… Shallow wit, to be expected from Celirade. However, if you know where Lithia is then I want a direct confrontation!
ZEXI can’t let you… With the radiance of this Soma!
ZIRCONIAHmph, Soma. I’ll show you how much of only a toy those things are!
ARKHAMAhhh, what mind power…
DONNAIdiot! You’ll die if you act scared, Labrado!!
BERYLThose people had on Shing and Kohaku and Chalcedony’s Soma, right?
SHINGThe one who had my Soma was gramps… The one who had on Kohaku’s was that Donna person… I don’t remember the face but there’s no doubt about it. Donna Meteoryte—my mom!
HISUIThe one who had Chalcedony’s Soma was Iola, Kohaku and my mother… So our mother fought with Creed…
KOHAKUThat person was… mother…? I’ve… never met her before…
HISUIEven the Pastor Arkham of the Velleia Church was with them? Damn, what kind of situation was that?
BERYLAnd Tecta was there too. He’s pretending not to know anything but he was a Soma user.
SHINGIf we move forward we’ll know what happens next. Let’s go!
ZIRCONIAAhahah, the power of Soma, after all, goes this far!
ARKHAMI-I’m sorry… Because I flinched…
DONNAYou’ve got a wife waiting for you to come back, don’t you? I know that feeling…
ZIRCONIANow then, you’re the Velleia maiden in which Lithia is hiding, aren’t you?
IOLAAhhhh…!
DONNALet go of Iola and Lithia… you bastard!!
ZIRCONIA
Have you lost all your pride as a Quartz, Lithia, making manservants out of these indecent brutes?
IOLA…Please take that back, Creed! Donna may be indecent and tactless, though…
IOLA (LITHIA)She is my precious friend with a straightforward and strong Spiria!!
ZIRCONIAHmph, so there you are, Lithia. I want to kill you right now but I have to get you to start up Cendrillion… I’ll break your vessel’s Spirune into pieces and put you in a place where you can’t resist.
IOLADonna, Lithia… Please save this child…!
DONNACut it, Creed! If you touch Iola, kill me first!!
ZEXCreed, you bastard!!
DONNAHow dare you… Aaghhhh!!!
ZIRCONIA (CREED)Aghh?! Where did you get this power… But you think my Spiria’s going to break with this?!
ARKHAMUrgghh… Are we even?! No, we can keep him like this.
LITHIA…Don’t give up!
ZIRCONIA (CREED)Aauuughh… suddenly this power… Is this… Lithia’s arte?! No… your consciousness should have broken with your vessel’s Spirune… urg! Agghhh!!!
ZEXThis light, impossible… Lithia, are you here?
LITHIA…Yes… In the moment that Creed broke the Spirune, Iola… moved me to the child’s Spiria…
DONNAIola… You…
TECTAThe Spiria of all those here now are protected by Soma. Transferring minds is impossible. Give up, just let us seal you.
ZIRCONIA (CREED)…Idiot… You’re too late.
INCAROSEI apologize. I needed 4850016 seconds to recover from the battle with Kunzite.
LITHIA…Inca…rose!
ZIRCONIA (CREED)Ugh… This vessel has a limit too… It may be a temporary body but cornering me here…
INCAROSEMind artes detected. Lord Creed, in this area there is more Spiria than people visible.
ZIRCONIA (CREED)…I see, that’s what it is!
DONNAAhhhhh!!
TECTADonna!! Father!!
INCAROSEI won’t you let in Lord Creed’s way.
TECTAGet out of the way!!!
ZEXUrgh, Tecta and I will save Donna! Labrado, protect Lithia!!
DONNAWhat are you trying to do, Creed? Could you…?!
CREEDAhahahah, I am! I’m moving to that child in your womb unprotected by Soma!
DONNANo…! I won’t let you use my precious child freely…! Don’t mock the feelings of a mother!!
CREEDAghhh… You, so much power in this seal by yourself… But… at this level… Wh-What?! Again, my power… Aghhhhh!!
DONNAI see, you gave power to your mom… You’re like me, good child… But, I’m sorry… I really couldn’t seal him away completely… But, I believe you. Your Spiria definitely won’t give in to this guy… okay?
BERYLOh I see… So that’s how Creed got to be in Shing’s Spiria.
HISUI
Idiot, don’t just go believing the memories of this guy we don’t know!
SHINGNo… That’s what happened. I knew that was Gramps’ favorite saying, and Mom’s last words…
KOHAKUIf that’s true, then why didn’t Donna let Lithia knew that she sealed away Creed? If she know then Lithia and I…
SHINGYou wouldn’t have gotten close to me, and Cendrillion wouldn’t have been taken away by Creed… right.
KOHAKUNo, I…
SHINGBut I didn’t know he was in my Spiria!
ZIRCONIAAnd was used by him… He threw the world into disarray and hurt innocent people in order to catch Lithia…
SHINGDammit! Why didn’t mom or gramps tell me anything?! …No, why didn’t they kill me?! If they had killed me along with Creed then there would be no danger of the world calcifying!
HISUIShing, enemies!
KOHAKU…It’s no use, Shing’s not in a position to fight now!
HISUIGet a hold of yourself, Shing! Just a little more and you would’ve died.
SHINGI should have…
ZIRCONIAUugh, right… The weakness of being manipulated by Creed… A sin that cannot be undone…
BERYLAhh, that black thing is coming out again!
HISUIDammit, what the hell is this?! Let’s Link Out and ask Tecta.
HISUIDammit, you used Soma too. What were you trying to pull, making us Spirlink!
ZIRCONIAUuuuugh… Creed!!!
TECTAFather, I apologize for making you remember painful memories… This is the after effect of being inhabited by Creed. Feelings of regret and hate mix with the leftovers of Creed’s mind, and the Spiria closes…
KOHAKUAfter effects of being inhabited…
HISUIWhy don’t you look at him with your own Soma?!
TECTAMy Soma was destroyed seventeen years ago in my fight with Incarose… With Zex, we were somehow able to fight off Incarose and save Donna and my father… My father’s Spiria closed, and Donna lost all feeling from the exhaustion of the seal.
SHINGMom… lost her feelings?
TECTAFurthermore, Creed was sealed off in the grandchild. No words can describe Zex’s grief from that time…
SHINGGramps…
TECTAThat sealed Creed was sly, and fed off of your feeling of hatred so that he may come back when you feel incontrollable hate. That is an emotion you can lose yourself easily in. Zex was pained and saddened, and many times tried to bury you with Creed, but each time… Donna embraced you and protected you while murmuring “This child’s Spiria will absolutely not lose.”
BERYLDidn’t Donna lose her feelings?
TECTAThe love to her son… That was the only emotion she protected as her treasure. And Zex and Donna’s feelings… they believed in you. Shing.
SHINGTh-That’s… a betrayal to Iola and the others… no, to the people of the world! Gramps and mom were supposed to kill me!!
BERYLC-Calm down, Shing!
SHINGJust believing in me like that, I… I!
HISUIWhen that idiot leaves us I don’t know what he’s gonna do… Let’s follow him!
TECTAYou’re not going?
KOHAKURight now, no matter what I say I’ll hurt him…
ZIRCONIAUuugh… Creed Graphite… How dare you… How dare you…
KOHAKUUm, will Shing become like Zirconia…?
TECTAAt this rate if he becomes engulfed in feelings of regret and hatred. Before that happens, he should brush away his negative feelings, but those negative feelings are incredibly strong. …You know this well, don’t you? That’s why you must do this. Save him, somehow. Not with words… Your true feelings should become his power.
KOHAKUTrue… feelings…
TECTAPeople cannot do what their Spiria feels. Not to mention that properly expressing feelings between person to person is an incredibly difficult thing. I was not able to save my too isolated father… But I’m sure you can. The Shing that Zex and Donna believed in, and you that Iola and Lithia believed in… you can.
KOHAKU…I see. I’m going to try to tell these feelings to Shing!
(Shing left the party.Hisui left the party.Beryl left the party.)
KOHAKUShing… Please! Listen to me!!
SHINGListen to you… There’s nothing you can explain to me!
KOHAKUIt’s not just you! I really… no, more than that I have something I want to tell you first…
SHINGJust leave me alone! I’m just a vessel for Creed who used my weakness!!
KOHAKUShing! Don’t let those feelings get the better of you!! Hot…
SHINGDon’t come close… I don’t care what happens to me…
KOHAKUYou have no excuse!
SHINGThat’s fine! Mom’s last words… were the same as gramps’ last request. “I believe your Spiria won’t lose”… And even then I exploded with hate! I don’t match up to Creed… I was afraid of him and ran! Mom and gramps’ trust… The promise to raise a strong Spiria… I couldn’t keep either of them!!
KOHAKU…It wasn’t just you. I ran, too! Me, everyone… We all couldn’t bear the thought that you had probably died, and ran! And then Cendrillion and Creed were revived…
SHING…That was because I was weak and couldn’t protect you…
KOHAKUShing, you’ve always protected me. You fought so much, and got hurt… And you returned all my Spirune for me. Aghh…!
SHINGL-Let me go, Kohaku! You can’t stop this power by yourself!!
KOHAKU…But, I’m sorry. I still haven’t properly… thanked you… Thank you, Shing!!! Thank you for taking back all my Spirune!! Donna, Zex, thank you for not killing Shing… for believing in him! And so I was able to meet him, and be saved by him! Really… Truly, thank you!!
SHINGKohaku… I, I… Is it okay… that I’m alive?
KOHAKUI’m so thankful you’re alive. If you don’t, I couldn’t stand it, Shing…
SHINGThose are serious burns… That was way too reckless!
KOHAKUBut even you were reckless for me, all the time… I remember everything. So I can believe you. But sometimes I feel overwhelmed… Your Spiria will absolutely not give in… yeah?
SHINGKohaku…
BERYLAh, here’s Shing and Kohaku!
HISUIKohaku! Are you hurt?!
CORUNDUMKyahahaha! ♪ Lord Creed has finished developing the Cendrillion wide-range communication network!
CREEDListen quietly, Celirade! I am the Quartz of the white moon, Creed Graphite! I am here to announce from now on, the Spiria of the people of this world… the Celirade, will be absorbed! I’ll make sure that you vermin know exactly what’s going on in this world—Let me show you!
KOHAKUT-This is… I hear Creed’s voice and see his image inside my head…
TRAVELING GIRLAhhh, Dad! Brother!! Save me!!!
TRAVELING FATHERWhat is this monster?! Aghhh!
TRAVELING BROTHERT-They’re… Aghhh!!! P-Please save me… My mother is bedridden. If I die, then my mother…
INCAROSEThat’s fine. Fear has much mind energy. Be more afraid, more angry!
TRAVELING BROTHERHelp me… Please help me! Ahhhh!!!
CREEDAhahah, did you see that? I have the power to control the monsters that devour dreams, Zerom.
CRORUNDUMThere have already been 1520233 Zerom scattered all throughout Celirade! Resistance is futile~
CREEDHowever, if you just sit in despair, it’ll be boring. I’ll show you one path to salvation. I’ll save the one who brings me the head of the Quartz with emerald hair… Lithia Spodune.
CROASERAPHHold on, Creed. I’m the one to take Lithia’s life!
STRIGAUI am supposed to add her Spirune to my collection…
CORUNDUMBooo, I want revenge on her too!
CREEDHmph… You have time until Gardenia starts up. Until then you all should hunt for her. All right, Celirade! I’ll show you much struggle, fear, and confusion!!
BERYL
Ah, over a million Zerom?! The world really is going to end…
KOHAKUI won’t let it end. I’m going to stop them.
HISUIDon’t play around! I’m sure you want revenge for Mom but an avenger being killed is a joke.
KOHAKUIt’s not revenge. This is something I have to do, since I already ran away once.
HISUIIt’s not your fault! There’s a way to not be scared of those monsters.
KOHAKUBut Mom didn’t run. I want to be strong like them, too! My Spiria here, now, can feel that… The Spiria that everyone returned for me. I’m going to save Lithia!!
HISUIEven with all your strength, you’ll stop them… Like there’s a brother who’ll let his sister go to a place where she’ll definitely die!!
SHINGHisui… I’ll protect Kohaku.
HISUIThere’s no way good-for-nothing bastards like you can keep up with Creed!
SHINGEven if I can’t… I’ll fight. The Spiria that Mom believed in, Gramps raised… and that Kohaku embraced is in me. It’s small and weak, but as long as this Spiria with everyone’s feelings is here… I’ll stand up many times! Kohaku! I can go with you too, right?
KOHAKU…Yes, of course!
HISUIHuh, Soma Link… But how much power does that have?!
BERYLH-Hisui! You’re kidding?!
SHINGIt’s not Soma… Gramps told me, “The strongest power of humans is a determined Spiria.”
HISUI…Do whatever you want! But I’m not gonna forgive Lithia for using my mother and Kohaku’s Spiria!!
KOHAKUThat’s not true, Hisui… Lithia never used me or mom…
BERYL…Ahem…
SHINGYeah. I’ll try to believe in the Lithia that gramps, mom… and you believe in.
BERYL…Ahem, ahem!
SHINGI’m sure Hisui will understand.
BERYLHey! Listen to what I’m gonna do!!
SHINGThis is a dangerous journey… Are you coming too, Beryl?
BERYLO-Of course! This is something you can’t do just by yourselves! …Y’know what I mean.
KOHAKUThanks, Beryl.
BERYL…But I’m just going as an artist so don’t get your hopes up.
(soma link upShing and Kohaku’s soma link became stronger.
Shing and Beryl’s soma link became stronger.
Kohaku and Beryl’s soma link became stronger.)
SHINGInnes said she’s going to chase Cendrillion with the airship in Yuraio. Let’s follow Innes on Sango’s boat, too!
(Shing joined the party.Beryl joined the party.
Shing received the title Step out into the world!Kohaku received the title Held hands.)
[Seminavitz Harbor]
SANGOYo there, owners. Looks like the world’s in big trouble but where are you headed to next? But looks like your goggles friend already ran off with another ship.
SHINGI’m not gonna run anymore. We’re meeting up with Innes and we’re gonna stop Creed!
SANGOHeh, when you’re with her you’re surprisingly strong.
SHINGNo, I’m still weak. Everyone’s got to support me or else I won’t be able to take one step forward. …That’s why, lend us your power, Captain Sango! Innes is waiting!
SANGOHahah, when you ask me like that, I can’t turn you down… Aye, Sir Owner! I’ll deliver you to the ends of the planet special speed! Anchors up, rascals! Take course before the Soma points out!
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEEAye, ma’am! In perfect conditions the waves and the wind look stormy, captain!
BERYLS-Safety first… But it’s probably useless…
TECTAAhaha, seems like the mist was cleared quite a bit… …I believe you too. You support each other, and your Spiria can overcome any trial…
(Seminavitz is now available as field.)
HISUIUuugh… This is the last time I’m riding a boat…
MEDICINE LADYAhh, thank you, kid. Oh… Are you seasick? Then here, I have the right medicine for you. Take it as thanks.
HISUIDon’t treat me like a kid!
MEDICINE LADY…Sorry. My son who works in Henzella says the same thing a lot. He had a kid last month, you know. The child I used to sing lullabies to when he couldn’t sleep becoming a parent… Of course I’m happy, but I’m a little sad too… Oh, I’m sorry. I said too much.
HISUILullabies… I sang those to Kohaku a lot too… Nah… sorry for yelling. I’ll gladly take the medicine.
CREW MEMBERCaptain. Ahead there is an unnaturally stopped boat. It looks like it belongs to the Chen Trading Firm…
CREW MEMBERThis is bad! There seems to be a fight going on within the ship!!
MEDICINE LADY
Chen Trading Firm boat? …Ahh, is it the boat my son is working on?!
HISUIWhat… Captain, lend me a life boat! I’m going to get on that ship and make sure what’s going on!
CAPTAINWhat’s with you? Do you have something to do with that boat?
HISUIHeh, he’s influenced me. “Gotta save people who are in trouble. Save the lady who gave you medicine when she’s in trouble even if it means your life!”
AFRO PIRATEHeheheheh, that emerald hair girl is really here! If I deal with this chick, I can get close to that crazy powerful Creed.
LITHIAYou are mistaken! Creed has no intention of saving Celirade!
MOHAWK PIRATEHeheheh… Then why don’t I sell your body on the black market and make a pretty penny offa it?
INNESWhen the world is probably going to be destroyed… you’re saying things like that?!
HAT PIRATEWatch out! This woman doesn’t have ordinary arms.
AFRO PIRATEKeh, if you don’t stop resisting I’ll kill this young’n! Save him in front of the world!!
YOUNG CREW MEMBERAh! H-Help me… I just had a child last month!
LITHIAI-I… cannot die here.
AFRO PIRATEHahahaha, look at that! They’re all so cute! Whatever lies you tell the world, don’t try to look cool doing it!!
HISUI…Don’t say any more.
AFRO PIRATEAhhhh!
HISUII’m pissed, like when Kohaku gets picked on!
INNES
Nice entrance, Hisui ♪
YOUNG CREW MEMBERGuys, stop… Y-You have parents and children too, right?
AFRO PIRATESh-Shut up! I’ve never seen such class before!
HISUIWatch out!!
INNESHisui!!
YOUNG CREW MEMBERIt’s no use! The current in this area is too fast!!
INNESL-Lithia?!
HISUI*cough, hack*… Dammit, what are you planning?
LITHIAAhh…!
HISUIAnswer me, what are you planning?!
LITHIAIf you look at it this way… I’m good at swimming.
HISUIShut up! Why did you save me, who abandoned you, and him… who tried to kill you?!
LITHIA…I don’t want to let anyone die anymore.
HISUIHah, you totally destroyed the planets. Isn’t it the same as letting whoever die?
LITHIAIt’s not the same!!! No two humans are the same… An existence that no one can replace.
HISUIHeh, nice words.
LITHIAI know the taste of the people’s Spiria that Gardenia absorbed.
HISUI
S-So why then, did you get Kohaku involved? Why did you take my mother’s life?! Why did you sacrifice all the people of the two planets and only you’re living on carefree?!!
LITHIABecause if I die, then the seal on Gardenia will weaken and everyone else will die, too! …I know I have a sin that will not redeem itself even if I was killed millions of times. I should just let this man rip me to shreds, and I wonder how much at peace I’ll be then…
HISUIAm I asking you to thank him?! Basically you’re not going to open that seal!
LITHIANo. Gardenia has not totally awoken yet. Now, I’d be in time. Hisui, if you hate me, then take me to that black moon. There, I… will sacrifice my life and Spiria to destroy Gardenia!
HISUISacrifice yourself…?
LITHIAYes, for that arte it has taken two thousand years, and is built into my Spiria. This is the last chance. My sleeping body has remained young but my Spiria’s life span is dying out… Before Gardenia starts up… Before my life runs out… Somehow, take me there.
HISUIOkay. I’ll take you there; make sure you finish what you need to do.
LITHIAYes. Please, thank you.
HISUIYeah, so how should we meet up with Innes again…
LITHIAIs that Innes’ boat looking for us?
HISUI…Definitely looks like it. I’ll let them know we’re here.
LITHIAU-Um… Are you going to attack with your Soma? It’s dangerous!
HISUIDon’t worry! Just leave it to me!!
(Hisui received the title Make sure with my own eyes.)
[Eastern Auldomaine port]
SANGOHaha! Innes really is here! That Soma Link sure is useful.
SHING
Innes, Lithia, I’m sorry! We’re going too!!
INNESShing! Kohaku! Beryl! I’m glad you decided to tag along, too.
BERYLUs “too”?
HISUI…You’re late!
SHINGHisui!!
KOHAKUYou got here before us!
HISUIOww… yeah, I’m not gonna let you guys go. …You know what I mean.
BERYLHuh? Hisui, that swell on your face…
INNESThat’s punishment for shooting an arrow at my boat. ♪ It was almost a direct hit to my chest.
HISUIHeh, from here on out I’m gonna be into this! You guys make up your mind, too!
SHINGBut why are you here? You should have been heading to Yuraio…
INNESOn the way, we were attacked by pirates who saw Lithia in Henzella… They believed Creed’s message and wanted to use her.
SANGOThose rotten scoundrels! They disgust me!
KOHAKUI’m sorry… Lithia.
LITHIAKohaku… Even I, in the Forest of Thorns…
KOHAKUIt’s fine. I understand what you were trying to do… What you were feeling at that time…
LITHIAThank you, Kohaku… Shing, I heard from Hisui as to why Creed was inside of you…
SHINGHonestly, I still can’t believe you… But for the sake of precious people and overcoming my weakness, I’ll fight with you!
LITHIAThank you. Just lending me your power is enough.
BERYLI’m Beryl! Hey Lithia? If I’m lending you my power then will you be a model in my picture?
HISUIWe got no time! We’ve gotta pass through the Brehme Mountains and head to Yuraio.
INNESThe thing that can chase the flying Cendrillion is the airship in Yuraio.
BERYLWe’re going through Brehme Mountain? That place is just as easy to die in like the Shahera Desert!!
SHINGThe same as the Shahera Desert… Then we can get through it!
BERYLEehhh! How far are you planning on going?
(soma link upHisui and everyone’s Soma link became stronger.Innes and everyone’s Soma link became stronger.
Hisui joined the party.Innes joined the party.)
WINDAMMabo harusame curry… omnomnom… slurp… Hmm, it’s a new texture.
BERYLHere it is again! That glasses raccoon Windam!
WINDAMI am the Eroy Windam! …If you call me raccoon one more time I will take you to court!
KOHAKUWhat is Eroy?
WINDAM…Eroy is a mysterious animal being prosecuted by her beyond the door.
KOHAKUBeyond the door… Prosecuted by her?
WINDAMHm… Girl, you’ve fixed your Spiria? Hmm. Looks like the Sorcerer’s Ring can have level three open now. Hehehehe, and now all three functions of the Sorcerer’s Ring are open! And with this, my brothers are finally…
INNESOh, what a cute and fluffy raccoon ♥
KOHAKUHe is cute! He said that Eroy Windam is a type of raccoon.
WINDAMHawwwhhah… I am… not that lovely…!
BERYLHey! They’re calling you raccoon but your reaction’s totally different!
WINDAMI-It’s fine! They have knowledge and big Spiria!
LITHIAOh, this is my first time seeing a talking raccoon.
WINDAMY-You…! Why are you here?! …No. You look similar, but… you’re not. Wait… Could you be Lithia?!
LITHIAWhy do you know my name?
WINDAM…You will know the answer to that with the last function of the Sorcerer’s Ring…
HISUIHey, that raccoon is definitely plotting something.
SHING…He’s not bad. The Sorcerer’s Ring has helped us a lot…
[Mountain of Thunder Brehme]
SHING“This is the Mountain of Thunder, Brehme. The severe peaks and the abyssal valley to hell is the mountain range that is the sword of the world. The immeasurable amounts of rain melts the body, ruthless lightning burns the soul; a place of inhuman haunting. To be able to cross is one in a million. Traveler, spare your body. You can turn back now…”
KOHAKUSo basically, it’s telling us, “We can’t guarantee your survival so go home”…?
BERYLL-Look at this monument! It says that in one year 364 people died because of lightning strikes! Brehme’s the mountain where a lightning god needs at least one sacrifice a day~
SHING
Well, since it’s 364 people in one year, we’ll probably be safe today. Look, it’s good weather, too.
LITHIAThere is no time. While the weather is still nice like this we must get through here.
BERYLDon’t mock the mountain! Its weather changes faster than a girl’s heart… Ahhh, see, see?! Just like I said.
HISUISoma users aren’t afraid of thunder! Let’s go!
HISUIAghh, I hate this! So fucking annoying, stupid lightning! W-What was that?!
LITHIAThat’s… Kunzite?!
CROASERAPHNo, Lithia. Don’t just get close to my Kunzite.
SHINGHe’s one of the guys that was with Creed during that message.
LITHIACroaseraph… Why is my sister’s guardian…?
CROASERAPHGuardian…? I’ve already been freed from that slave position, since you started Gardenia and sealed her, you know. I’m thanking you. And if you listen to my wishes, then I’ll thank you even more. Please, Lithia. …Let me kill you. Ohh, that’s wonderful, taking my hits! …No, I was wrong. I forgot that I don’t like flying meat and was holding back my output.
INNESUgh… What is this power?!
BERYLOww… Innes, you were way outmatched…
KUNZITEHisui, I advise you… to take Lady Lithia away from here. Croaseraph is a mechanical being with the newest Ace-type battle function… Resistance is futile.
CROASERAPHAhh, you know that but you won’t stop resisting yourself… That’s wonderful, Kunzite. I want that genuineness only in our friendship. But I know. A guardian is a pitiful toy programmed with the thought of their master’s safety being a top priority… But I’ll relieve you of that position… I’ll rip Lithia’s heart out right before your eyes!
HISUI
…Hey, you’re good at swimming, right? I leave this to you, Lithia.
LITHIA…Yes, leave it to me.
KUNZITEHisui… Could you…?!
HISUIKunzite, sorry but do something yourself!
CROASERAPHOh my, looks like out of fear your aim has gone bad.
SHINGHisui… That was way too rash!!
KOHAKUHisui wouldn’t die at something like this! Let’s hurry downstream.
(Hisui left the party.)
SHINGAhhhh!Urgh, that was dangerous… I wonder where Hisui and the others washed up?
HISUIHehe… Looks like we somehow drove that green knife guy away. …Well, we’re kinda trapped ourselves.
KUNZITE…I do not understand! What do you intend to do by even getting Lithia caught in the flood?!
HISUII used her swimming ability. Sorry, but I’m not gonna protect her one-sidedly. She also fights for us, too. …Any complaints, Lithia?
LITHIANo. I was just about to ask.
HISUIThat robot thing just now said that you’re a toy, but you’re treating Lithia like a doll, too.
KUNZITEYou’re right… Without realizing my own true feelings I confused false ones with reasoning… I am a failure toy. …If possible, I want to throw away this fake Spiria and return to a complete being! As a normal machine I was not able to fear the difference in ability between and me Croaseraph and I can protect Lady Lithia…
LITHIAKunzite… Let’s go back beneath the tree. We can escape the rain a little bit.
KUNZITEI am a machine… I do not feel the wind, nor the rain, nothing.
LITHIA“Even if it is raining outside, I’ll be okayWithout crying, I close my eyesAnd the darkness is not scaryBecause this conveyed warmthShows the same dreamsIn connected Spiria”
HISUIThat song…
KUNZITEThat song is…
LITHIAYes, a long time ago, I taught that song to Iola and she sang it to you as a lullaby when you were a child. And even before that… Kunzite admired this song as the “song of warmth.” I was happy. My guardian had a kind Spiria that felt my song as warm.
KUNZITELady… Lithia…
LITHIALet’s go back, Kunzite. Even if the rain is not cold, your Spiria will freeze if you are alone.“Fly above the rain cloudsLet’s go to the blue moonThe wings of our feelings are oneEven if it is raining outside, I’ll be okaySince I’m not aloneI kiss you once, and now is good night”
KUNZITE…Lady Lithia… I am… I am very glad you are safe. I want to believe that… this feeling… was not created by anyone.
LITHIAI believe it… all two thousand years.
HISUIPf, even though they’ve got rock and machine bodies… It can’t really be that warm.
(soma link upHisui and Kunzite’s soma link became stronger.)
SHINGWhat…? I hear a song!
KOHAKU
This song…
LITHIA“Go through the forest at nightAnd let’s go see the ends of the earthTogether we light the crystal withinWe fight butWhen we awaken we reconcileYour cheeks become sunlight and now is good night.”
BERYLHey, there’s Hisui! They made us worry and now they’re singing some sort of carefree song.
HISUIH-Hey, shut up! Hurry up and save us from here!
INNESEven if we tried, this current…
HISUI…Kunzite, that!
KUNZITEHm, understood.
HISUIDon’t just stand there! Remember the forest where we first met Kunzite!
SHINGThe forest where we met Kunzite…? Oh that’s right, we crossed the river like this there too!
HISIUOkay! With this we can do something with that. I’ll leave this to you!
SHINGOkay, we’ll look for that!
SHINGHisui, you were too reckless! You made us worry a lot!!
HISUII don’t want to be told that by you… My bad.
KOHAKUThat song just now, that was the lullaby you sang to me a long time ago, right Hisui?
BERYLHehehe… Hisui sang that?
HISUI
I-Is that bad?! I just let Kohaku listen to the song that my mom told me about.
SHINGMe too… I feel like I’ve heard that song from somewhere…
INNESWell, maybe Lithia taught it to your mothers?
LITHIAMy sister Flora had me listen to this song. Donna remembered it even without her feelings… Her singing voice was gorgeous.
SHINGYeah. A pretty and kind voice… It’s really faint but I remember it… Lithia. Do you think that my mom and gramps, who never talked about Creed’s seal… are traitors?
LITHIA…Even now, those two are my precious friends. When I look at you, I understand what kind of feelings Donna and Zex trusted.
SHING…Thank you, Lithia. You’re mom and gramps’ real friend. I’ll vow again. I’ll believe in you like gramps did, and fight!
HISUIAll right! Let’s hurry up and get over this thunder mountain and get that air ship!
KUNZITEReal… friends…
(Hisui joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.)
BERYL…Were we really able to defeat that green robot?
HISUIHeh, he’s probably gone all the way to the ocean by now and become a home for fish.
KUNZITENegative. You cannot break Croaseraph with that extent. He will probably come for Lithia once again…
CROASERAPHExactly! I’m so glad you understood me, Kunzite. Look! It will be just like this being hit by lightning.
INNESYou monster…
CROASERAPH
Ahahahah! Wouldn’t that girl over there who tried to destroy the entire world be the monster? And like Kunzite has any worth working for that kind of sinner. I’ll punish you… A punishment of an extraordinarily cruel death where Kunzite’s final screams sound like his soul is being released!
KUNZITEHere I will stop him. You must escape.
HISUIIdiot! Why aren’t you telling us to fight with you?!
CROASERAPHAhahah, you’re quite assertive, but aren’t you shaking? No matter how many humans you gather wielding that useless emotion called fear, I can’t kill them.
HISUIYeah, I’m scared… But I’m not scared of you. I’m afraid of you hurting my sister and these guys! That’s why, this feeling…
SHINGYeah, change it into power! The power called courage, overcoming your fear!
KOHAKUIf you have no fear then you have no courage… We definitely won’t lose to you who doesn’t understand that!
INNESI too have a rule where if I borrow something I must return it.
BERYLI-I’m scared too but… Being alone is more scary!
LITHIAI believe in the courage of Kunzite, who protected me at any time!
KUNZITELady Lithia… I request of you… Negative, I ask you, everyone… for the sake of protecting Lady Lithia… Lend me your power!!
EVERYONEUnderstood!
(soma link upKunzite and everyone’s soma link became stronger.)
CROASERAPH…Hmph, this makes me mad… You piss me off!! Let’s go all out! Even if your dirty flesh flies everywhere, the rain will wash me off!!
(Kunzite received the title Hot-Blooded Guardian.)
BERYLW-We won…! That’s right, your fake Spiria can’t win against an artist like me!
CROASERAPHShut up, humans… Don’t include a creation’s Spiria and call me fake!!
BERYLAh, aaahhh?!
KOHAKUEeeeeeei!!
HISUIA-Are you okay, Kohaku?!
KOHAKUYeah, I’m fine… He cut me a little, though.
HISUIW-What?! If it left a wound, that’s bad. Let me see it.
KOHAKUOhh, stop treating me like a kid, Hisui!
KUNZITEHisui. Like a puppet treatment, child treatment is also bad.
SHINGDon’t look at wounds lightly. Let me see, Kohaku.
KOHAKUO-Okay…
KUNZITE…I do not understand. Why are responses to Hisui and Shing different?
INNESHmmm, I wonder if it’s the feelings of a maiden?
BERYLEveryone’s paying attention to Kohaku again!! I’m hurt too!
SHINGAll you did was fall back, Beryl.
HISUIYeah. You probably left quite a bruise on your butt.
BERYLWhat is it with you guys, it’s always Kohaku! My Spiria was hurt more than my body!! This rain is my tears!
KOHAKUI’m sorry for suddenly pushing you like that, Beryl…
BERYLHumph! Even if Kohaku hadn’t saved me I would’ve been able to beat this guy! Ahhh… He’s still…
CROASERAPH
Why, Kunzite… Why won’t you look at me… Why?!
KOHAKUAhh!
LITHIAKohaku!
KUNZITECroaseraph!!
SHINGKohaku, Kohaku! Hold on!!
HISUIH-Her cut’s deep… Whatever aid won’t do anything!
INNESCalm down! Let’s hurry on to Yuraio for her treatment!
BERYLAhhh… Because of me Kohaku… Kohaku was…
(Kohaku left the party.)
SHINGThe road to Yuraio is out…
HISUIWe came all this way and now we’re turning back?!
KOHAKUAhh, ahh…
LITHIAKohaku’s condition… Because of the wound, she has a high fever.
INNESI want to let her rest, but in a place like this…
BERYLThis way! There’s a village called Brange over here. It’s small but we can get medicine!
INNESWhy… do you know about that village?
KOHAKU*panting!*
SHINGIt’s fine, let’s just go! We have to save Kohaku!
[Village above the clouds – Brange]
HISUIWow, look at this mural… this is Shalrowe, right?
BERYLWhen you cut the rocks in this area, you can use it like a canvas, so it’s called “Canvas Stone”. The mountain nearby is ingredients for art supplies, and you can get good pigments, too.
SHINGWow, if you lived here you could paint as much as you want.
BERYL…But even if you draw in a place like this, it’s useless…
???…Beryl? Is that you?! Ahh, Beryl! You’re back!!
BERYLI-I can’t breathe, Grammy!
SHINGGrammy?
INNESIt means “Grandmother.” …Which means that this village is your hometown, right Beryl?
KOHAKU*friendly reminder that she’s dying!*
KUNZITEWarning, Kohaku’s condition is becoming worse!
HELIOAh, this is bad! You have a girl in bad health?! We have to help her immediately.
BERYLGrammy works at a hospital. Take Kohaku to my house on the eastern peak and she’ll look at her there!
BERULMokuuuu, mokuuu ♪
BERYLAhhh!
HISUIYou have a sheep in your house?
BERYLUhh, this is Berul, our pet black cloud sheep. You’re still alive?!
HELIO…What’s wrong?
LITHIAWe’re even going as far as causing trouble to her grandmother…
HELIOYou’re Beryl’s friend too, right? So, you’re probably worried. And that armored child can come right in, too.
KUNZITE…A-Armored child?!
HELIOAnd even so, Beryl brought three male friends back… So who is the candidate for my favorite granddaughter?
BERYLNo, no, nooooo! You’re wrong, Grammy!! Don’t just chat idly; hurry and help Kohaku!
SHINGYes, please! In which room is there a bed?
BERYLNot there!!! Th-That’s… our storage room. The bed’s on the second floor in my room.
HELIO…She’s all right now. We’ll just let her rest and her fever will go down.
SHINGSince you took us to this town, Beryl, you saved us.
BERYL…I didn’t want to come back since I vowed that I wouldn’t return until I became an imperial artist.
KOHAKUIt’s my fault, I’m sorry Beryl…
BERYL…Why is Kohaku such a good child?! That wound is my fault! And if you can still apologize… I’m too pitiful!!
KOHAKUBeryl…
HELIO…You protected her, didn’t you? Thank you. You all should rest, too. Nothing happens in this village, but I’ll make a big meal for all of you.
INNESLet’s take her word and rest today. So we can protect the world’s tomorrow…
SHING
Ahh, that was really good! I can’t eat anymore…
LITHIAVery. Especially the peach pie, it was wonderful; the peach’s simple sweetness and the custard’s density really stood out against one another.
INNESMiss Helio, if you opened a shop here, there is no doubt you will do very well!
HELIOThank you. …But will you two be okay, eating twenty pieces of pie?
HISUIBut where did Beryl run off to without eating any of the stuff that her grandma went through the trouble to make?
HELIOAhh… I feel that recently she’s been in the mountains.
KUNZITEYou feel her location… Soma Link?
HELIOAhaha, this is my only, cute grandchild! I don’t need Soma to know. Whenever she’s feeling down she always goes to the mountains to watch the clouds. Maybe I should go see her.
SHINGAre you okay?!
HELIOYes, I’m sorry. My eyes have been getting a little bad lately…
LITHIAPlease rest. I will clean up and take care of Kohaku.
KUNZITELady Lithia, washing the dishes by yourself…
LITHIAPlease let me do this. After two thousand years, I would like to do normal things normally.
SHINGThank you, Lithia. We’ll go look for Beryl.
(Beryl left the party.)
SHINGThe sea is painted all over this wall! It feels like we’re in the ocean.
HISUIBut why are there paintings of the sea and other towns in the middle of this mountain?
???Idiots! We draw because we’re in this mountain village!
INNESDid you paint this picture?
ARAGOIndeed! I am the master, Arago! In this village, not very many people go out to see the world. There are lots who die without ever seeing the ocean. This mural is a great work to show those people the extent and the beauty of the world! …Oh, but if this lady here were to be my model, that would definitely become my greatest work ever ♥
INNESWell, it is a privilege… What will you pay me for doing so?
HISUIHey… what’ll happen to the dreams of the people in this village?
INNESAnyway, you know Beryl, right? Have you not seen her?
ARAGOWhat?! That perverseness has come back? Hehehe, did she have some sort of setback on her stupid dream of becoming an imperial artist and went to go cry on the mountain top? I see, so she’s back~ ♪ All right, I’ll go tease her for the first time in a long while!
SHING…He kinda reminds me of my gramps.
BERULMokuuu… Mokuuuu…
BERYL…Are you worrying about me? Jeeez, don’t come close to me! You’re all staticy.
ARAGOHehehe, it’s been a while, Beryl! You’ve gotten… no bigger than before.
BERYLM-Master?! Hmph… that’s right. Nothing has changed about me at all.
ARAGOI thought you’d look like that beautiful lady you had with you but I’m disappointed.
BERYLYou met Innes? …She’s amazing. She’s strong and pretty, and won’t lose to herself. And Kohaku… She’s kind, courageous and cute… That kind of normal.
ARAGOH-Hey! You’re going to become an imperial artist, right? Being pretty doesn’t matter!
BERYL…I too, grew just a little. I know there’s a mountain of things that I want to paint in the world. And… I can’t draw beautiful pictures when I’ve got this Spiria that’s jealous of my friends who protected me…
ARAGOIdiot, believe in yourself! You are Master Arago’s best student!!
BERYLLike I can believe in myself! You’re a third rate artist who’s stayed in this mountain forever!
ARAGO…That’s true. But you’re the grandchild of a real first rate imperial artist, Sinhala Benito.
BERYLThe legendary imperial artist, Sinhala Benito… I’m sure his Spiria was the kind of ugly that let him abandon Grammy for the sake of his own work. But that’s why I have to draw pictures different from his!
ARAGOThat’s right. If you wanna draw, then draw. Your own pictures… right?
BERYL…I’m sorry, Master. I said too much.
ARAGOThat’s fine. I’m sure as a third rate artist, I wouldn’t know what to paint on the world’s most beautiful mountaintop. But one day I will definitely melt together with this scenery and paint you the greatest picture ever!
BERYLThe world’s best picture on the world’s most beautiful mountaintop… That’s your dream, isn’t it.
ARAGOWell, if we don’t hurry back soon Grandma Helio’s going to worry and come to get us. Her eyes have been getting worse lately. If she climbs up here, it’ll be dangerous!
BERYLWhat, Grammy’s eyes? I didn’t even notice…
ARAGOHahaha, maybe she’ll get better if she sees your cute face? …Oh, I too had a bit of a brain fart and forgot to tell you something important… Welcome home, Beryl.
BERYL…I’m home, Master.
KUNZITEWait, Shing. Are we not taking Beryl back with us?
SHINGYeah… But, I feel like we can’t interrupt them.
INNESHelio, and Arago… Beryl has such a warm hometown.
SHING…Is it really okay for her to get involved in our journey like this?
HISUIShe really doesn’t have a reason to fight…
INNESThat Creed is too much of an enemy if you fight without reason…
KUNZITEAgreed. If Beryl’s Spiria were to break in battle, it would be a direct connection to death for all of us.
BERYLThat’s true… Without a resolve, I’m just a good-for-nothing who gets in everyone’s way.
SHINGYou were listening, Beryl?
BERYL…You guys too.
INNESSo you’re the grandchild of Sinhala Benito.
HISUIIs he famous?
INNESHe was the best imperial artist who was favored the most by the previous emperor Zirconia. His masterpiece “The Jeweled Princess’ Portrait” is a national treasure which is said there is a Spiria dwelling within the girl inside the painting. But, I had heard that he was one without a single relative, so I didn’t realize that Beryl was related.
BERYLHe only has no relatives because he threw them away! Even when Mom and Dad died in an accident he didn’t come home… His paintings were fakes, and I want to show that I can become an even better artist than him!! I don’t wanna become a Soma user or a savior! I wanna be an imperial artist!!
SHING…That’s right. Sorry for making you follow us like it was normal until now. Let me ask you again. You decide… if you’ll come with us, or part here.
BERYL…If… if… If I was Kohaku, you’d say right out “Let’s go together”! Fine, I get it! We part here!!
HISUIHey, wait a second, Beryl! Is this really okay, Shing?!
SHINGShe decided so… it is.
HISUI…Is he for real?!
ARAGOThere was no helping it… Right after Beryl was born, her parents died in an accident. At that time, Sinhala was imprisoned by Emperor Zirconia and was forced to paint “The Jeweled Princess’ Portrait.” But it’s true that Beryl and Helio were made to think terrible thoughts… I can’t make an excuse. …But I was very wrong that she hadn’t grown. Beryl’s already grown up to be a woman…
SHINGKohaku, you’re okay now?!
HELIONo. She’s still not allowed to move…
KOHAKUNo… there’s no time to rest. …Isn’t that right, Lithia?
LITHIA…Right now, Cendrillion is using Zerom and collecting mind energy for transfer artes. If it flies to Gardenia with the transfer artes, then there won’t be a way to follow it anymore.
SHING…Let’s go.
KOHAKUI’m sorry, Beryl. We finally get to your hometown but we can’t relax… Huh…? Where’s Beryl? Didn’t you go see her??
INNESI think she’s separating from us here…
KOHAKUNo… You’re kidding?! …Is it… my fault? I made her mad…
KUNZITENegative. The one who enraged Beryl was Shing.
HELIOIs that child causing trouble for you all?
SHINGNo, it’s different. She’s going to stay behind to protect everyone. Tell Beryl that we’re going to protect the future in which she becomes an imperial artist.
HISUI
If that’s settled then we need to get to Yuraio! If we take our time… then our parting won’t get any easier.
KOHAKUBeryl…
(Kohaku joined the party.)
HELIOIf you go down north on this road you’ll get to Yuraio.
LITHIAI will never forget the taste of your peach pie.
HELIOWell, when you all are done with what you need to do, then please come eat it again.
KUNZITEI have recorded the recipe. Next time I will help prepare the food.
HELIOOh, please. These girls here do eat a lot.
SHINGT-this is…?!
HELIOAhhhh…!!!
LITHIAJust now, was that… the cry of Zerom?!
HISUIH-Hey, gramma!
KUNZITEAll the other people respond the same as Helio.
SHINGThis is… Despir!
HISUIDammit, Zerom again?! Who is he hiding in?!
INNESWe’ll work separately! Kunzite, patrol the outside of the village for actual Zerom! I’ll search the west side for the person who has the Zerom within them, and Hisui will take the east side. Kohaku and Lithia, stay here and take care of grandmother!
SHINGInnes, what about me?!
INNES…You bring Beryl. Her cooperation is necessary.
SHINGOkay!
(Kohaku left the party.Hisui left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
BERYL…Master… Berul… Answer me… Shing and the others aren’t here anymore… What can I do by myself?
SHINGI’m here.
BERYLN-No! I was just pretending to be lonely and I wasn’t really crying, okay?
SHINGThis isn’t the time to be stubborn! Despir’s spread in the village.
BERYLN-No… Grammy too…?!
SHINGRight now everyone’s trying to find the Zerom that started the outbreak. We need your help. Come with me!!
BERYLI have to protect the village and Grammy! Shing, help me out!!
SHINGOf course! First we have to look at your teacher and Berul’s Spirmaze…
BERYLI tried Spirlinking with them just now but there was no Zerom.
SHING…Don’t do that, Beryl. Okay, so let’s hurry and meet up with everyone!
(Beryl joined the party.)
INNESIt’s no use… I’ve looked at the Spiria of everyone on this side of town but I can’t find the Zerom.
(Innes joined the party.)
KUNZITE
Reporting. I have scanned the perimeter of the village but I was not able to find any real Zerom.
(Kunzite joined the party.)
HISUIDammit! I even looked in the sheep’s Spiria but those Zerom bastards are nowhere…
(Hisui joined the party.)
LITHIARight now Kohaku is Spirlinking with grandmother…
KOHAKUNothing… There’s no Zerom in grandmother, either.
BERYLGrammy, answer me…
SHINGBeryl, this may be hard, but right now try to think of a place where the Zerom might be hiding. You’re the only one we can rely on that knows the most about this village.
KUNZITEBut we should have already inspected the Spiria of all the people in the village. There are also no actualized Zerom outside the village.
KOHAKUDid we miss something?! Like the animal’s Spiria…
HISUII looked.
SHINGThen it has to be the Spiria of something else!
HISUIWhat do you mean, something else?! Outside of people and animals, there’s no Spiria that Zerom can stay in!
BERYL…Yes there is. In this village… outside of people and animals there’s something that has a really big Spiria!
LITHIAI’m sure there is Spiria within all things…
KUNZITEOnly evolved living organisms have the Spiria that form Spirmazes.
BERYL
Okay, then what are you, if you’re a robot that can use Soma? I know of something! Hurry to that room inside my house!
KOHAKU…Okay. I believe you.
SHINGThe room inside Beryl’s house. Let’s go see!
(Kohaku joined the party.)
KOHAKU…This is a really pretty picture.
SHINGThe scenery from beneath the mountain… Did Master Arago paint this too?
BERYLNo. This is his… Sinhala Benito’s work. That guy, who threw away his family, aimlessly came back when I was a baby. Without saying a word, he painted this and then died immediately afterwards…
INNESWho is the girl painted in this?
BERYLGrammy says that’s me when I’m grown up…
LITHIAHowever, even the Quartz aren’t able to draw paintings with Spiria.
BERYLI don’t want to recognize that his paintings have Spiria! That’s why I’ve never come into this studio. But… it’s frustrating, but I feel something’s in this picture!
HISUISeriously…?! You can’t Spirlink with pictures!
SHINGEven if you can’t, she proved it! Let’s go follow Beryl.
KUNZITESpirlink complete. A Spirmaze actually existing within a painting is…
BERYLDon’t let your guard down, there’s Zerom!
SHINGWe finally found them! The Zerom that started the Despir is definitely in here!!
INNES
I wonder what kind of feelings Professor Sinhala put into this painting?
KUNZITEI do not have a Spiria to feel that this picture is beautiful. However, I understand that the Spiria this picture has is strong.
BERYLHmph, a cold Spiria that doesn’t have any concern for family.
INNESThat’s not true… Professor Sinhala had been imprisoned by the previous emperor and couldn’t return.
BERYLW-What?! I don’t believe that! Huh… what…?!
SHINGWhat’s wrong, Beryl?
BERYLStep back! It says that the Zerom’s coming!! This is it! This is the Zerom that started Despir!!
KOHAKU*pant pant*… That was difficult… The Zerom… are getting stronger and stronger.
SHINGBut with this we’ve fixed the Despir in town.
BERYLHm? …What…? The Zerom… can still move? Look out, Kohaku!!
SHINGBeryl! Kohaku!!
KOHAKUThank you, Beryl.
HISUIThat was dangerous… Glad you noticed.
BERYLBut a voice told me… You didn’t hear it?!
KUNZITEI do not understand. I do not detect a voice outside of our own.
BERYL…No way… that voice… Is it you? Why… Why are you saying things like this now… Grampy!
SHINGBeryl!
KOHAKU
…What happened?
INNES…I don’t know. Maybe… Sinhala’s feelings that he put into this painting protected Beryl and us… I guess?
SHINGYeah, I think that’s right. Thanks… Beryl’s gramps.
(Beryl left the party.)
BERYL…Grampy…
LITHIAThe Spiria within the painting… Did your grandfather within the picture say “thank you?”
BERYLHow did… you know?
LITHIAWhen I look at this painting, I can tell. It’s full of his love for his family and hometown that supported his own dream.
BERULMokuuu~ mokukuuuuu~ ♪
BERYLGrammy, Berul! You’re back to normal!!
HELIOYes, everyone in the village is okay! Everyone, thank you for saving the village.
KUNZITEIt is all thanks to Beryl’s tact. Had she not been with us, we would not have been able to find the Zerom.
BERYLThat’s right, you don’t have to worry since I’m here! From now on I’m going to protect the village and Grammy!
SHINGYeah, if you have Beryl then you can relax, grandma.
KOHAKUThat’s right, Beryl’s strong! She saved me when I was kidnapped… And when we fell into the ocean she risked her life to carry me and swam. Even now she’s sticking up for me… Beryl is… Beryl is…
SHINGLet’s go guys. Beryl, grandma… See you.
HELIO
…You’re not going after them?
BERYLGrammy… I’m… you see…
HELIO…You said you’d become an imperial artist and went on your journey, and you sent me a letter almost every week. You always wrote such cheerful words, like “The world is waiting for my talent!” but… you started to feel crushed, and while reading them over and over again I wondered to myself, when will she be home?
BERYLYou noticed, Grammy…?
HELIOYour letters were always had words smudged with tears… But recently, those letters have suddenly stopped. That’s because you’ve found friends who support your dreams and feelings, right?
BERYLGrammy… I’m a coward, inferior, good-for-nothing with no power or talent. That’s why I don’t think I can protect the world… But… But, but, but! I want to see them! I want to be with them! I want to save them!!
HELIOThen you’re not lost! …Go with them.
BERYLBut leaving you here…
HELIOIt’s all right. A long time ago I said the same thing to Grampy, and I haven’t regretted it once! It’s my dream for you and Grampy’s dreams to come true.
BERYL…You’re strong, Grammy.
HELIOThat’s right! And you are this Grammy’s grandchild. …Do your best, Beryl.
BERYL…I’m going, Grammy.
LITHIAKohaku, Beryl has chosen by herself. It can’t be helped.
KOHAKUI know…
BERYLWait, wait, wait, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!!!
SHINGBeryl?!
BERYLI’m going with you guys after all!!!
HISUIHeh, so you got the nerve to come back?
BERYLHaaaah, I do! Hehehe… If I’m not here then Shing and Kohaku will get even closer~
HISUI…Glad you’re back, Beryl!
KOHAKUW-Wait! Even if Beryl wasn’t here, I wouldn’t really…
BERYLOkay then, is it… really okay for me to come back?
KOHAKUWe’ll always be together.
KUNZITEI have confirmed Beryl’s return.
LITHIAYou’ll fight with us.
BERYLBut my priority is to make you guys the theme of the picture I’ll submit to the contest!
SHINGYeah! That adventure theme fits this journey perfectly, and we probably won’t ever have this again.
BERYLOkay then, I dunno if I should have my theme as adventure, or heroes, or even useless opposition… That depends on Shing!
INNESEhehehe, nice going ♪
BERYLRight! The fast-talking future master… That’s me! Beryl Benito!!
SHINGHeh, just watch! We’ll let you paint the picture of the heroes that saved the world!!
BERYLAhhh! My Soma made a Link!
LITHIANot just the Zerom… The power of your Soma, and your feelings will become stronger.
(soma link upBeryl and everyone’s Soma Link became stronger.
Beryl joined the party.
Beryl received the title Future Master)
ARAGOSo Beryl left… Even though she’s a scardey-cat and a weakling, she’s very bad at giving up… Just like Sinhala.
HELIOShe is his grandchild.
ARAGOBut, no worry. She has the strength to face her weak Spiria.
HELIOShe’s my grandchild.
ARAGO…Don’t cry. There’s no support for a beautiful woman?
HELIOI can’t do that… Here, look at the picture this child drew…
ARAGO…Hahaa, is this Sinhala? Even Berul is there.
BERULMokuu~, mokukuuu~ ♪
ARAGOBeryl… You drew such a nice picture…
HELIOShe’s your student. Yes, everyone is here. Even though you’ve died, even though you’re apart, your memories are here…
[The Amusement City Yuraio]
SHINGHuh…? There’s not a lot of people…
KUNZITEYuraio is a sightseeing city. The numbers of Zerom have grown and it’s the truth that a peaceful journey is no longer possible and the city declines.
LITHIAAnd while this is happening people all over the world are being attacked by Zerom…
INNESAnyway right now our purpose is the airship! Let’s hurry to the hangar.
BERYLBut the owner of the airship is that Ahmeth, right? Will he let us borrow it?
HISUIHeh, if he tells us no, I’m taking it with all I got!
SHINGThe airship’s gone!
INNESYou’re a crew member of the ship, right? When will it be back?
AIRSHIP CREW MEMBERUhhh… *hic*… It’s not comin’ back here anymore… The owner Ahmeth sold it off. …And, he gladly fired me. Well, if the world really is going to be destroyed then, whatever…
LITHIADo you happen to know where he sold it to? That airship is very crucial to us.
AIRSHIP CREW MEMBERAhhh? You’re…? A-Ahmeth knows where the airship is. He should be losing himself in the casino in the hotel basement.
LITHIAThank you for your kindness. We’ll go see him.
SHINGPlaying around in the casino at a time like this… I wonder if it’s the shock from losing to us?
HISUIThat’s not gonna happen with that loverboy.
RICH LADYIt’s really… emerald hair…
RICH GENTLEMAN…Shh, don’t look.
SHINGThere he is! Huh, the guy from before…? Oh that’s right, he’s telling Ahmeth about the airship for us.
AIRSHIP EMPLOYEEW-Well…
SHINGYou probably heard, Ahmeth. We want you to tell us where you sold the airship.
LITHIAPlease. We must be able to fly with it.
AHMETH…Are you the rumored jeweled princess Lithia?
CASINO OWNERWelcome, welcome! Today is Service Day… So please drink as many cold drinks as you like. Please make use of this.
HISUIYeah, I’m thirsty.
AHMETHHmph… pay attention, you! Do you know if there is something in the drink?
CASINO OWNERAre you saying there is poison in it, sir Ahmeth? How rude! I will taste to test it.
AHMETHHah… If there is poison in the ice in the drink, then you can clear that test. The unfairness of wanting to capture that prize protected by the Soma users is sinking…
AIRSHIP CREW MEMBERWhy are you getting in my way?! I thought I asked you to help me catch the crystal girl!
HISUIYou… Planning on taking Lithia to Creed, huh?!
AIRSHIP CREW MEMBERI-Is that bad? That girl is the same species as that Creed monster!
CASINO OWNERBecause of you, travelers and merchants have not been coming! The shop I have put my life into to get this big this far is all ruined now…
RICH LADYThat’s right! My little brother too was attacked by Zerom and died!! Why don’t you take responsibility?!
RICH GENTLEMANYou’re getting us all involved in dangers we don’t understand!
LITHIAI’m sorry… I’m sorry… I…
KUNZITEStop, all of you!
AHMETHFrom now on, I shall be the one to blame the jeweled princess. I apologize, princess. If hurting someone is a sin, then everyone is a sinner. Here, there is no prince for you. Let us leave.
SHINGWait, Ahmeth!
LITHIAAhmeth, thank you for earlier.
AHMETHNo, even if I had not been cautious, that lady would have noticed it in the poison, correct?
INNES…What kind of turn of events is this, protecting us?
AHMETHJust a whim. Princess Lithia reminds me of a childhood friend.
SHINGAhmeth, I want you to tell us what happened to the airship.
AHMETHIt was confiscated by the military, with the unbelievable reason that they were going to follow that flying whale. …That’s right, it was leaked that you organized an attack on Rignatol Garrison, right?
INNESRignatol Garrison… I wonder if that story is true? You too, were probably just using those people earlier as decoys and you’re aiming for Lithia.
AHMETHHaha, I understand if you can’t believe me, but I have no reason to lie anymore.
SHINGReason to lie?
AHMETH…The one who invented the airship was my childhood friend. What sparked the invention was a fight we had when we were kids: can you fly in the sky? She insisted that it’ll never be able to fly, but while studying for a reason why it can’t fly… she was engrossed in a normal experiment and accidentally created the airship.
BERYLWeird friends really are weird…
AHMETH…But, she went out on a test run of the prototype airship and went missing. Society laughed at her as an eccentric’s suicidal act. I made the second airship in order to get her and her honor back. I lied, and deceived people and acted like I was full of it…
SHINGShe was precious to you, wasn’t she.
AHMETHI have a duty. I am the boy that insisted to her “People can fly in the sky!” …But for many years I’ve been trying to find her flight route and I haven’t
even found any clues. I think she really has gone to a place where even the airship can’t take her…
KOHAKUDon’t give up, Ahmeth! I’m sure she’s probably waiting somewhere for the world’s number one hero to come save her.
AHMETHBut… this fake hero, has no courage to face this helplessness…
SHINGYou’re not fake! You were a wonderful hero just now!!
KUNZITEI thank you for protecting Lady Lithia.
LITHIA…Ahmeth… Please, somehow, don’t give up hope. Hope gives birth to courage, and courage raises hope… That is what I believe.
AHMETH…I see, princess Lithia. Your eyes are filled with that strong will… Just like hers. …Thanks, you guys. I will believe in my hope and courage.
INNESAh, these soft-hearted people…
SHINGInnes… where are you going?
INNESRignatol, am I right? Let’s hurry. We have to get there before the airship takes off!!
[Rignatol Garrison]
SHINGThere’s the airship!
INNESYou all wait here. I’m going to check out the situation. If Cornelvin’s replacement understands what I have to say, then we can probably borrow the airship. I am Lientenant Innes Lorenz of the Imperial Military, Special Corps Division! I have come with orders for a state of emergency! Please open the gate!! …This is strange. I don’t feel anyone around here at all.
SHINGIs it because all the people who were Zerom soldiers calcified?
INNESWe have to go in. I don’t know but something’s happening.
HISUIAnd how are we gonna do that? If we wrap around to the top, that’ll take days. We don’t have that kind of time.
INNESWhen I think about the construction of the base… It’s a bit of an overbearing way but it seems we have no choice but that. Everyone, find me a vent!
BERYL…A vent? I kinda have a bad feeling about this…
LITHIAI found one! Is that not a vent?
INNES…Yes. Beryl decided, so Kohaku and Shing can go too. You three can sneak in through the vent and open the gate from the inside.
LITHIAInnes. I will go too.
KUNZITEThat is dangerous, Lady Lithia!
LITHIAI am very aware that it is dangerous.
HISUI…Okay, get going. But if you fail, I’m not getting your dead body.
INNESWhen you get inside, head to the power room inside the valley. From there you can control the main gate.
BERYLIt’s too high up! I can’t climb up there.
INNESYou don’t have to climb so line up. Kunzite!
KUNZITE…Understood. I recommend you clench your teeth so as you do not bite your tongue.
BERYLW-Wait…
INNESAll right, here we go!!!
BERYLAhhhhh! This bad feeling won’t go away!!!
KOHAKUPhew, that was scary.
SHINGInnes and Kunzite are so strong; they threw us up that high!
BERYLNot just brute strength but admire the idea of trying to throw a weak little girl!
SHINGComplain to Innes and Kunzite after we open the gate.
LITHIASo we must hurry to the power room!
(Hisui left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
YOUNG SOLDIERAhhhh! …M-Mommy!!
WOMAN SOLDIERDon’t use such a pitiful voice! You’re an imperial soldier!
SHINGLook out!!
SHINGAre you guys okay? What happened to Rignatol?
YOUNG SOLDIERSoma users?! Y-You saved us… We came on the airship to follow that flying whale but we were suddenly attacked by monsters…
WOMAN SOLDIERIdiot, don’t just go blabbering the military’s secret tactics!
KOHAKUNow’s not the time to be talking about the military or secrets! Do you understand?
WOMAN SOLDIERI-I don’t! The base we arrived in is a nest for monsters!! There are tons of white, dead bodies! The control stones and the elevators are all broken!! The companions we came with on the airship were all killed!! I too… thought I was going to die here… *sniff*… Papa… Mama…
SHINGWhite corpses… That’s right, the Zerom in the possessed soldiers came to life.
BERYLBut if the elevator’s broken then you can’t get to the airship?
YOUNG SOLDIERIf your psistones are safe then there was a way to get to the top… When we opened the big, medium, and small three-way gate… the top of the big gate will
take you to the top of Rignatol. So basically you can use the gates in place of the elevator.
BERYLBut the main power psistones are all in pieces…
LITHIA…I will try injecting my own power in replacement of them.
YOUNG SOLDIERWow! Having that kind of mind power all by herself… what are you? …But with this, only the small gate will open. It’s really heavy anyway…
LITHIA*pant*… I will try… one more time… We must get to the airship…!
FEMALE SOLDIER…In Rignatol’s basement, there’s a psistone mine and I’ve heard that there are some that can be gathered for the power room. If you can find some that are the same size of the ones that broken then you can open all the gates.
BERYLIs it all right for you to blabber the military’s secrets?
FEMALE SOLDIERB-Be quiet! Adapting to the situation at hand is the job of a real soldier.
SHINGGot it, we’ll go look for psistones. Before that, open the small gate for us. We have friends waiting outside. Let’s go! First we’ll meet up with Innes and the others then go look for the underground mine.
LITHIA*pant pant*…
HISUIWhat’s wrong, Lithia?! Did something happen inside?
SHINGThe inside is crawling with Zerom. The control stones were broken too so Lithia…
INNES…I see. So we didn’t save the Zerom-possessed soldiers…
KOHAKUAll the garrison’s functions are out but they said we can get new control stones from the underground mine and get to the top with those.
INNESWe’ll use the gates in replacement of the elevator. …Let’s try this! The entrance to the underground mine should be on the left wing.
(Hisui joined the party.Innes joined the party.
Kunzite joined the party.)
KUNZITEWarning, confirming the spouting of gas! It is an easily flammable gas.
SHINGIt’s huge! This should be able to open all the gates, right?
INNESYes. I’ve got nothing against this size.
BERYLHow are we going to excavate it? An artist’s weak hands are no good in hard labor…
KUNZITEWe have no time… Innes.
INNESAll right~ Everyone stand back.
BERYLN-No way…
KUNZITEExcavation complete.
BERYLThat was way too extreme, you two! What if I was buried alive?!
INNESI’d do what was proper, of course. …But that’s my intuition ♪
SHINGAhahah, the result is OK! Let’s take it to the power room.
(Obtained Giant Mind Stone x 1)
FEMALE SOLDIERWow, you actually got a psistone!
SHINGYou guys haven’t escaped yet?
FEMALE SOLDIEROf course! If we don’t see this through to the end, we won’t be able to report to headquarters.
HISUISorry guys, but we’re gonna borrow the airship. We’re gonna follow that flying whale.
YOUNG SOLDIER
…Understood. The pilot that flew us here also died, so it’s no use to us.
FEMALE SOLDIERBut be careful. The monster that attacked our companions should still be up where we landed the airship.
SHINGLeave it to us! We won’t lose to Zerom.
FEMALE SOLDIERNo… The one that killed us all was just one human that was crying out nonsense. He was an imperial soldier just like us, but with the power of a monster… His rank insignia read… sergeant.
KOHAKUNo way… could that be…
(Set giant psistone.)
INNESWe’re going to the top of the gate. When we arrive, we’ll give you the signal to open the gate. After that, you two must hurry out of here.
FEMALE SOLDIERWe have to look for survivors before we escape… There may still be some still alive…
INNESNo! These orders are from Special Corps Lieutenant Innes Lorenz. Escape at once, and tell the headquarters of Rignatol’s collapse. Face the harsh reality in a calm manner… To a soldier, that is the most important information.
FEMALE SOLDIERUnderstood, Lieutenant! You should be able to reach the top of the gate from the left wing of the base.
YOUNG SOLDIER…Good luck!
INNESSame to you. Do what you can do now with all your power.
KOHAKU…The sergeant on the roof that attacked the airship… Hey, could that possessed soldier be…
HISUIEven if that’s true, we…
SHINGWe have no choice but to go to stop Creed.
SHINGSo it was Sergeant Morga…
MORGAUrghghhhh… Kill… Kill… Aghhhhh…!! For… the sake of peace… I will… kill you!!
HISUI…It’s no use. He’s completely out of control.
KUNZITEComparing data. …You all stand back. I will remove him myself.
MORGAI’ll kill… for the sake of a world without war… My enemies! Their families! Their children!!! Aghghhhhh!!!
BERYLAhhh… He’s going to calcify!
LITHIAN-No… this is…
INNES…Zerom fusion!!
KOHAKUNo… no! Go back to normal, Sergeant!
MORGAAgghhhh… Protect… Peace…
BERYLS-Stop moving!
INNES…This is painful… I’ll deliver the finishing blow.
KOHAKUStop, Innes! All the Sergeant wants is to protect a peaceful world!
MORGAAghhhh…!!!
KOHAKUKunzite?!
MORGAAhh… urrg… All I wanted… was to create a world without war… A world… that doesn’t smell of blood… and where no one has to kill…
KOHAKUYes… You don’t have to fight anymore, Sergeant…
MORGA…I know… with my first loss… Together with my family… eating dinner… secretly give my son his allowance… and scolded by my wife… nothing… Those days were happy…
SHINGYeah… I will definitely bring back the world where everyone can live like that.
MORGA…Please… But I closed my Spiria… and it’s no use… lending me power… And happiness will fall… from hands dirtied in blood. Yes… just like… me…
KOHAKUSergeant…
SHING…I always thought that Linking was warm and fun, but…
BERYL…There’s also sad and painful Links like this.
LITHIASometimes people’s Spiria can be cruel and dreadful… It’s very sad… Yet people must live by connecting their Spiria. A world that rejects Spiria is… just like the nothing that Gardenia creates.
SHING…Yeah. It’s sad and lonely, but it’s not nothing… I don’t know how to say it, but something is still left here.
LITHIAKunzite… we made you do something painful.
KUNZITE…It is not a problem. If a mechanical being were to deliver the final blow, no one’s Spiria will be hurt.
HISUIHeh… If you’re really a coldhearted mechanical bastard, then you shouldn’t mind if someone’s Spiria gets hurt…
INNESOK, I think it can fly now. Everyone, gather!
INNESEveryone know what we’re doing?
SHINGYeah! We follow Cendrillion and stop the revival of Gardenia!
INNESHmmm, not what I had in mind…
BERYLThat’s right, isn’t someone going to pilot this thing?
HISUI
Isn’t that Innes?
LITHIAYou really can do everything, Innes.
INNESW-Well! I understood most of what was in the control manual in the pilot’s room.
BERYLUnderstood most… of the control manual? Bad preparation!
KUNZITEDo not worry. In reference to the materials, the chances of an accident in the airship is more unlikely than winning a bet.
BERYLI won a bet in the Raio Grand Prix!
KOHAKUI-I’m kind of scared… but I believe you, Innes!
INNESAll right! Leave your lives to me!!
BERYLAhhhh! I have a really bad feeling about this~!!
(Innes received the title Scary New Driver.)
HISUIWe’re rocking a lot… You’ve got some skill being able to paint at a time like this, Beryl.
BERYL…It’s not a painting, it’s my will.
KOHAKUHow’s Innes doing?
SHINGShe was all petrified like, “D-Don’t talk to me!” She said that once she gets the hang of it for us to tell her where Cendrillion is.
HISUILithia knows where it is, right?
KUNZITEThe Forest of Thorns Cendrillion is one kind of specially evolved Soma.
LITHIAI do have a Soma Link with its control core.
CREEDOn the contrary, we know where you are.
SHINGThis voice… Creed?!
CREEDAhahahah! Lithia, you who had the highest level of mind artes of the Quartz, not being able to fly riding in that air ship… is so not funny anymore, it’s actually sad.
CORUNDUMAhahah! ♪ Funny, funny! So pitiful I can laugh!~~
CREEDBut sucking up to Celirade and asking for their help… is just ugly. It suits you to be crawling around on that earth filled with atrocious Spiria!
SHINGShut up! Right now we’re going to knock over your truly ugly and atrocious Spiria!
CREEDAhahaha, is that my old vessel?! How funny, let me see your power.
HISUIHey… Is there something in the clouds?
LITHIANo! Cendrillion is just above us!!
EVERYONEAghhh!
HISUIThat bastard! He’s trying to crush the airship?!
INNESPiloting functions are out! Everyone, escape with all of your Soma defenses!! Then pray to God for safety!
KUNZITEThat is meaningless. That Velleia Goddess is being attacked by the Great Winged Whale.
BERYLAhhhhhh! I feel way too bad about this!!
SHINGEveryone’s okay…?!
BERYLWe’re… alive? Even in a crash that should have put the airship into pieces?!
KUNZITEThis light is Lady Lithia’s mind arte…?! Lady Lithia!
KOHAKULithia! Hang on, Lithia!!
HISUIUrgh… She saved us again…
INNESWe can’t give her care here. I saw the oasis to the south of here when we were falling. For now, let’s take refuge there.
LITHIAUuugh, I’m glad… Is everyone… all right?
KUNZITELady Lithia, such a powerful arte… That is too reckless for your condition now!
LITHIAYou all are the last hope… I can protect this hope with my power but I have nothing… that I hold dear.
KOHAKULithia, you look so painful…
LITHIAHehehe… I think I’m quite all right for having fallen from the sky…
BERYLBut the airship we went through so much trouble of getting broke… There’s no way to follow Creed anymore.
SHINGThat’s right, Chalcedony! His Soma can fly!! If we used that…
INNESThat Soma can definitely get close to Cendrillion, but only one can carry someone else.
HISUIIf just two people raided, it’d be easy to have the tides turned against us.
SHING (? First sentence may be Beryl idk)Uuuugh… O-Okay, then we get close and Spirlink! We persuade the Cendrillion’s Spiria and land on the ground!
HISUIHey, it looks like a whale but that’s the same as a Soma. You seriously think we can persuade that thing?!
KUNZITECendrillion is being protected by the strongest barrier. Spirlinking from the outside is not possible—
LITHIA
…We can probably do it. In Cendrillion, it’s a simple type, but it has a pseudo-Spiria that manipulates that giant body. If we use my Soma Link as a lead… you can do a distant Spirlink to the pseudo-Spiria and maybe be able to operate it.
KOHAKUUse your Soma Link as a lead…?
LITHIAFirst Spirlink with me, and then you’ll become double-linked with Cendrillion’s Spiria, also.
INNESIs that really possible?
KUNZITEIt is not! Well… theoretically it is, but with the powers that Lady Lithia has left, it can’t be done.
LITHIAI’m sure right now I don’t have enough power… This was first possible with the support of over twenty mind artists. But no matter what it takes, by myself…
SHINGHmmm, over twenty mind artists… Can Soma users take the place of that too?
LITHIA…Yes. If they are high-level Soma users, then that will be enough.
SHINGSo, we have seven people here! All we need to do is find 13 more!
BERYLOhhh, that’s totally useless! There’s no church and no military; where are we going to find any other Soma users?
KOHAKUBut the possibilities aren’t at zero… If we look, then there should be some Soma users left!
INNES…If the higher ranked Crystal Knights were to cooperate with us, maybe we can get something done. There’s a high chance that they’re being held in the military headquarters in the capital.
HISUIOkay, sitting around in this desert isn’t gonna get us anywhere! Let’s get to the capital.
BERYLEveryone’s infected by Shing’s optimism disease! I’m worried if we can get out of this desert…
SHINGIt’s all right, we’ll get out alive without dying!
BERYL
What’s with you?!
LITHIAKunzite… I’m not alone.
KUNZITEYes, Lady Lithia… This feeling welling in my chest, what should I call it?
LITHIAKunzite, the name of that feeling… is “hope.”
(soma link upEveryone’s Soma Link became stronger.
Kunzite received the title The One who Saw Hope.)
[The Imperial Capital Estrega]
KOHAKUThe gates to the city are closed!
INNESProbably due to the growing numbers of Zerom, they announced martial law. We took advantage of the confusion and thought that maybe we could enter but this is no use…
SHINGExcuse me! Please open the gate! We have something to do in the city!
HISUII-Idiot! We’re wanted…
PERIDOTWhat is a wanted criminal like you doing, idiot?!
SHINGPeridot!! See, Lithia! We found one more Soma user!
PERIDOTAs usually, the optimistic one… uuugh…
KOHAKUPeridot… You’re hurt?!
PERIDOTUgh… Those guys from the military, they beat us up since we surrendered…
INNESWhat happened to Chalcedony and Byrocks?
PERIDOTThose two… they let me run when those military guys got pissed at me and almost killed me. They should have been taken to the military headquarters in the capital but I can’t do anything by myself…
SHING
So Chalcedony’s in the capital, after all.
LITHIAWe need the power of Soma to save the world. Would you be willing to lend us a hand?
PERIDOTEmerald colored hair?! Are you… Li… Lady Lithia?…I see. When we’re all about to be destroyed, the church and the military get involved in a stupid fight…
INNESYes. At the least, don’t you think you should cooperate with us?
PERIDOTWell… Underlings like me don’t have any authority. We need to discuss this with my Captain directly.
HISUISo we have to save Chalcedony for that? You’re sneaky.
PERIDOTHehehe, I don’t want to ask you to do unnecessary things.
INNESThe problem is how we’re going to get inside the capital. There’s a lot of dangers, but if we use the sewers to infiltrate, it’s a rather good plan, right?
PERIDOTNo, entering by getting on one of the boats that go downstream to Shalrowe is faster.
INNESI-I’m sure that’s fast, but…
SHINGHmmm, wouldn’t it be easier and faster if we just put all or power together and bust open the gate?
KOHAKUJeez! If we did that then Zerom would get into the capital!
BERYLNo noo! It’s a problem if we started fights right in front of the city while they’re guarding it…
KUNZITEWe have two options. Come in from Shalrowe on the river, or enter through the underground sewer?
[Capital city sewers]
PERIDOTSo we’re going through the sewers after all… It’s not my style to get all wet though…
BERYLYou just joined us so no complaining.
PERIDOTS-Since when did I ever join you?!
INNESThis is the sewer, so let’s go all the way to the military headquarters where Chalcedony is probably being held. Do you remember the route we took before?
SHINGOf course! …Or not?
KUNZITEIt is not a problem. According to my memory, the military headquarters are north.
SHINGOh, I remembered! I was attacked by Kunzite here.
KUNZITEThat is… not in my memory.
KOHAKUI remember, too. Here was the first time that Kunzite called me ‘Kohaku.’
KUNZITE…That is… not in my memory.
PERIDOTHey, is he shy? I thought he was one of those dangerous robots but he’s unexpectedly nice.
LITHIAKunzite has been kind for as long as I can remember.
BERYLHehehe, now you wanna join us, don’t you?
PERIDOTHumph, if that weird doodling hat-girl wasn’t here then maybe I’d consider it!
BERYLAwwww… Her hair and personality are back…
HISUITch, it’s a dead end. …Should we look for another way around?
PERIDOTWe can’t do something leisurely like that!
SHINGDon’t get too reckless, Peridot. Your wounds haven’t healed yet.
PERIDOTHmph, you were doing unreasonable stuff for Kohaku, too! This is for the Captain, so these wounds are nothing!
SHING…I see. So you like Chalcedony.
BERYLOhohoh, or is in unexpectedly Byrocks?
PERIDOTI-Idiot, it’s not that! Byrocks and Captain are… like my brothers.
BERYLHuh, you’re from the orphanage in Pransule right?
PERIDOTIt’s not because I’ve been alone since I was born. I don’t remember my parents’ faces but a long time ago it was me, my older brother, and younger brother… Of course, my little brother was so much more honest and cuter than Captain, and my older brother was much manlier than Byrocks! But in reality… doing nothing but scolding useless me is… exactly the same.
KOHAKUYou had them…
SHINGI take that back about not being too reckless. We all got Kohaku back to normal, and they all saved me when I overdid it. That’s why I’m going to save you! So…
KOHAKUYeah! We’ll definitely save Chalcedony!
PERIDOTJ-Jeez, you’re all so nosy. Getting all attached like that is so gross.
BERYL…You say as it sounds like you’re going to cry.
PERIDOTT-That’s because my wounds hurt! Don’t take it the wrong way!!
PERIDOTCaptain! Are you alive?!
CHALCEDONYThat voice… Peridot? Idiot, what are you doing?!
SHINGDon’t talk like that! What do you think Peridot was feeling when she came here?
CHALCEDONY
…Even Meteoryte’s here. Then take him and leave. I have to make up for what I’ve done here.
HISUIWe can’t let you do that. We need your Soma.
LITHIAIn order to protect the world from Creed, your power is necessary.
CHALCEDONYSo you’re Li—Lady Lithia… right?…I see, in order to create a distant Spirlink with Cendrillioin you need my Soma’s power… I’m sorry, but I can’t cooperate with you… If I escape, the Cyrstal Knights being imprisoned in the church will be executed. And, I cannot hurt my fellow Knights…
SHINGOkay. Then, we’ll go free the other Crystal Knights.
BERYLY-You say that so easily, but how many thousands of soldiers do you think are in the capital now?
LITHIAHowever, the Crystal Knights are the ones who have the greatest number of Soma.
INNESEasy or hard, we have to do it. The sewers should still extend to the church. Let’s look for an entrance from underground.
PERIDOTCaptain… Byrocks isn’t with you?
CHALCEDONYWhen we arrived at the capital, we were separated. I think he’s probably being held in the church… If you find him, I want you to run together. Enough… about me.
HISUIPhew, we’re finally out. Running around underground makes me feel like a mouse.
IMPERIAL SOLDIER…So we’re going to throw away the confiscated Soma, after all?
IMPERIAL SOLDERHmm, what’s wasteful is what the Major himself is…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERY-You are… the wanted Soma users!
PERIDOTYou only knocked them out cold… You’re still soft.
SHINGSoma isn’t a weapon to hurt people…
PERIDOTThese guys were talking about throwing the Soma away.
INNESI have a bad feeling about this… Let’s hurry and find the Crystal Knights.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTStop already! Your shoulder is going to break!!
BYROCKSThat boy’s life is in danger! This shoulder does not matter to me…!!
PERIDOTSo you are alive, Byrocks!
BYROCKSPeridot and Meteoryte?! And… L-Lady Lithia?
HISUIHeh, we listened to Chalcedony’s selfishness and came to save you.
BYROCKS…Lord Cal’s?! So have you saved him, as well?
SHINGNo. He said he wouldn’t leave his companions behind.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTChalcedony did…? No way!
PERIDOTMy Captain’s like that. He really regretted that he was the one that started the war between the church and the military…
CRYSTAL KNIGHTThat’s not true! Today, they’re going to have him executed in the main street! That troublesome military is planning on putting all the blame on the church and Chalcedony!
PERIDOTWhat…?! Captain didn’t say a single word about that!
BYROCKS…This is Lord Cal. He probably did not feel the need to tell you.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTPeridot, you can still make it! Save Chalcedony.
PERIDOTEveryone, lend me your hands too!
CRYSTAL KNIGHT…I would love to, but our Soma was taken away by the military.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTIt’s regrettable, since we’re unarmed, we’ll probably just get in the way…
BYROCKSThis sound is the sound of my Soma firing! No, they couldn’t… I’ll be damned if they use that on Cal.
INNESShing! What do we do with the other Knights?
HISUIOur goal is the Soma. We don’t really have any use for unarmed Knights.
LITHIAHowever, these people may also be executed as well at this rate.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTLady Lithia, all the things we have done for our pride are all being forced onto Chalcedony… Don’t worry about us; please save Chalcedony somehow!!!
SHINGOf course! Chalcedony’s our friend! But we can’t just leave everyone behind. Innes, you use the sewer and take all the Crystal Knights and help them escape. Me, Kohaku, and Hisui will go after Peridot!
INNESWhen we let the Knights go, we’ll come back so don’t get too reckless. …But even if I say that…
SHINGYeah, it’s not gonna do anything!
(Beryl left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHey you, what are you doing over there?!
PERIDOTTch… we have no time to deal with you! Byrocks!!
BYROCKSAaaaaaaagh!!!
HISUIDon’t just go jumping off! Who are you, Shing?!
KOHAKUMore extreme than Shing…?!
BYROCKS
Hurry! The execution is going to take place on the main street!
PERIDOTOwww… We leave the small fries to you!
SHINGYeah, we’ll take care of them!
HISUIWe’ll do this! We’ll get last one of you!
GROSSULARListen, the people of the empire! According to the investigations of the military, we’ve confirmed the source of the flood of the monsters that devour dreams is those cursed weapons of the church, Soma, that invade people’s Spiria! Also, we have received evidence that the man called Creed who threatened the world is also related to the church! These things threaten our peace, and against the mean criminal act of trying to overturn the empire, this military hopes with great determination! As proof, we will begin the public execution of the one who attempted assassination on Her Majesty the Empress, Chalcedony Arkham, and the destruction of all Soma!
CHALCEDONYThat Soma is Byrock’s…?!
GROSSULARAhahaha, yes. That Crystal Knight begged for his life and handed over this Soma. It’s no use hoping for help.
CHALCEDONYHmph… what a bad lie. Perhaps, he lied that he would save me and handed it over to you. However, he is alive and that is fine…
GROSSULARUgh… You have no charm! But even if you look at this might, will you still remain calm? Hahaha, did you see! The Soma is all in pieces! Well then, Chalcedony Arkham. Do you have any last words?
CHALCEDONY…No. Just one… The pendant on my chest. This is something I received from Lady Paraiba as proof of a promise. I was not able to keep this promise, so it’s not okay for me to keep it with me… I want you to return it to her.
GROSSULARHmph, the pendant of a promise? How girly… But, it’s the affection of a warrior. I will definitely deliver this to Lady Paraiba. …Hanging on your neck.
CHALCEDONY…Farewell, Paraiba.
PERIDOTIt’s not farewell!!
CHALCEDONY
Peridot! Byrocks! I thought I told you not to bother with me!
PERIDOTHeh, I can’t hear orders from brats like you!
CHALCEDONYB-Brat?!
BYROCKSThat’s right! You think like a brat that can’t understand what you’re thinking to die with grace!
CHALCEDONYB-But my responsibility for breaking my promise with Lady Paraiba…
BYROCKSIf what you feel is real then your real responsibility is to live on and keep your promise with her!!
PERIDOTEven if you’ve got snot coming out your nose and you’re drinking mud, struggle until the very end! It doesn’t matter if your enemy is the empress or not!! You think a brat who doesn’t have the guts to show his shameful self to the public can make a woman happy?!
GROSSULARHey! The criminals threatening the empire’s peace is causing a worthless farce!
KOHAKU…Chalcedony and them are still talking! Don’t you have any manners, Major?!
CHALCEDONYMeteoryte, even you guys…
GROSSULARH-He stopped it…?!
SHINGCal! Are you planning on dying without returning Marin’s smile?!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba… I…
GROSSULARNo, that bombardment should have broken the Soma!!
CHALCEDONYMajor… I take back what I said before. Please tell this to Lady Paraiba. “Just as promised, I will protect you and your world. Please believe me, and wait for me.” !!
SHINGHaha, let me teach you! Soma that is full of people’s feelings… definitely will not break!!
BYROCKS
…Also, while being rude, your treatment of Soma is unacceptable.
GROSSULARUughhh… What are you doing?! You six Soma users who hold those things high! I have all the power of the soldiers, and I’ll defeat every last one of you!!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTThere’s not just six.
IMPERIAL SOLDIERT-The Crystal Knights?!
INNESThese people didn’t tell me they’d return no matter what…
CRYSTAL KNIGHTWe heard and understood everything from Lady Lithia. Now is our time to finish our mission!
GROSSULARWhat a laugh, do you think Crystal Knights without any Soma have a chance against my soldiers?
CRYSTAL KNIGHT…We won’t resist. But we also won’t let you get in the way of Chalcedony!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERDon’t say things you don’t understand!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTUgh! …Just understand, now isn’t the time for humans to be fighting…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERAgh… These guys…
GROSSULARDon’t flinch! I won’t forgive the scoundrels who cause havoc in the empire!!
IMPERIAL SOLDIER…Understood. We also don’t wish for useless bloodshed. If you release the Major we’ll draw back our soldiers for now.
CHALCEDONY…We also do not wish for fighting. Byrocks, give back the Major.
GROSSULARW-What are you planning?! Don’t ignore my orders!!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTIt’s too bad, but all the church’s Soma has been destroyed. We have no power… but we will stay within the capital, and do our best to keep you aware of the military’s situation.
INNES
That’s the main gate. The military closed it, but for care’s sake we used the sewer to escape…
CHALCEDONY…We’ll leave from the main gate. As we leave on a journey to save the world, there is no reason for us to be sneaky.
PERIDOTAhh, Captain’s trying to be cool again!
CHALCEDONYNo. These are manners to my companions that saved my life.
SHINGGot it, Cal! We’ll leave from the front gate with glory!!
CHALCEDONYC-Cal?! Don’t get too familiar!
SHINGThat’s fine. We’re friends!
CHALCEDONYH-Hmph… Well, as rivals, then there’s nothing I won’t recognize.
SHINGRivals, huh…? Yeah, that’s kind of cool! Let’s go, rival!!
CHALCEDONYIf you hold back I won’t recognize this, Shing! Let’s depart! Chalcedony Arkham and his group leave through the main gate of the capital!
(Shing received the title Rival.
(Beryl joined the party.Innes joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.)
BERYLWe’re finally all cheerful, but we only got three more Soma… That’s really depressing…
LITHIANo, it’s still too early to feel despair. If we use that…
KOHAKULithia, could you…
HISUI…You planning on using that psistone?
SHINGWhat? You and Kohaku know something?
LITHIA
Yes… We know of a psistone that can give us tremendous power.
HISUI…But it’s not a place we’d let you know of in our own discretion…
CHALCEDONYA special psistone… A mine?
KOHAKUHisui, I’ll say it.
HISUI…Wait, Kohaku! …Chalcedony, what’s the best way of getting to the northern continent Marquis from here?
CHALCEDONY…The northern continent Marquis? There should be regular service from the southern Auldomaine port southwest of here.
KOHAKUNorthern continent… Hisui, then!
HISUIWe’ll explain now. Everyone, head to the southern Auldomaine port!
[Southern Auldomaine Port]
KOHAKULook! Captain Sango’s boat is coming!
SANGOHahahah! Don’t underestimate Chen’s information network. Looks like something went on in the capital again, right?
INNESSango… You’ve done enough for us at the Military Special Corps headquarters.
HISUICaptain Sango!
SANGOOh? Our boat sick brother’s got a good face on. Did you decide on something?
HISUIYeah, I’ve decided to take these guys to Kohaku and my hometown. To the hidden village Norquin, town of the believers of the old Velleia church that church now suppressed.
CHALCEDONYHisui, you’re of the old Velleia church that we treated as heretics and oppressed?
HISUI…Yeah, your Warheit Soma is a memoir of our mother’s, taken a long time ago by the church. In our hidden village, there’s a powerful psistone creating a
barrier. If we use that, we might be able to do that distant Link with Cendrillion. …Right, Lithia?
BYROCKSIs it all right to lead people outside your village… even those from the church to there?
HISUIRight now’s not the time to be talking about my village’s rules! …Nah, it’s not time for me to regret this. You guys’ bonds have been looking after me, after all. You’re my friends I can believe in.
CHALCEDONYHisui Hearts, those words… Leave my Spiria out. (私のスピリアにしかと刻もう)
HISUIHeh, my head hurts, I’ve only made trouble friends.
KOHAKUHisui! Thank you for deciding…
LITHIAIf we use that psistone, maybe we can make a distant Link… no, we must try it!
SANGOI like this! So men have to have Spiria wider than the ocean, after all!
INNESAnd women have to have Spiria deeper than the sea ♪
SANGOThat’s right! All right, tell us our destination!!
HISUIOur destination is the northern continent…
SHINGThe northern continent Marquis!
KOHAKUTo my hometown!
HISUIHey, damnit I’m supposed to decide!
SANGOGahahaha, that’s fine! Keep your Spiria wide, boy!
(soma link upEverone’s soma link became stronger.)
[Northern Marquis Harbor]
SHINGWoah! The northern sea was all stormy!
HISUIUughhh… you’re too cheerful for stormy seas…
PERIDOTIt’s a miracle we got to the harbor… Uuugh, I want to sue this boat for attempted murder…
CHALCEDONYYou all are shameful! The knights who are to save the world shouldn’t complain about seasickness!
HISUIOh, I get it… You were flying so you’re fine?
CHALCEDONYHmph, I won’t ignore the dirtying of my Soma!
INNESAll right, let’s ignore that and hear how we can get to this hidden village ♪
HISUIUm, uhh… After getting through the snow fields east of here, our home Norquin is right there.
CHALCEDONYIs that it? The present church’s heretic hunters… no, there should be more of a secret to hide Lady Lithia from that mechanoid Incarose’s mind artes.
HISUI…Yeah. That secret is the special psistone giving off the barrier.
SHINGOkay, let’s go east! First let’s just go close to the village.
SHING…That’s weird. All of a sudden, I don’t see monsters or Zerom anymore.
KUNZITEWarning. Location system malfunction.
SHINGThis is… the same strange thingy that was in the Dosmore forest!
HISUIStrange electric field? It’s similar, but this is a barrier made by the psistone.
KUNZITEUnderstood. So this is the reason why Lady Lithia was able to escape Incarose’s mind detection.
CHALCEDONYAmazing… A village with a barrier that can even reflect Zerom. This kind of power can definitely take the place of ten Soma users.
KUNZITEHow should we go about passing through the barrier?
KOHAKUThere’s a spell for villagers for them to come and go. “Iola!” Okay, let’s go! We should be able to enter the village now.
[The hidden village Norquin]
SHINGWow, so this is Kohaku and Hisui’s hometown. Hello! My name is Shing Meteoryte!
BERYLI-I really feel like they’re not coming to sightsee us…
???Welcome back, Kohaku!!
PERIDOTAgh, who is this?!
KOHAKUKaia, I’m over here!
KAIA…I’m so glad! I thought you’d gotten fat, Kohaku!
PERIDOTWhat kind of thought process is that after hugging this attractive body?!
BERYLNo no no, that’s not what surprised me.
SHINGKohaku’s normal speech is like that…[Kohaku has a VERY heavy accent and is giving me a headache :<]
VILLAGEROhhh… Look at that… That girl…
VILLAGERThe same emerald hair as in the legend… It’s the real Lady Lithia!
???Be quiet!
HISUI…Aunt Sheila… we came back.
SHEILAYou leave the village without permission and bring back Crystal Knights… Kohaku, Hisui, I want you to explain exactly what you were thinking.
KAIAChief, Kohaku finally came back. Don’t get mad at her…
SHEILAYou be quiet!
SHINGWe’re not a part of the church. We came to this village to stop a guy named Creed—
SHEILAIt would be easy to destroy the village with this number of Cyrstal Knights… We are the ones that receive Lady Lithia’s true teachings. As long as you do not match us, then throw your life and prepare to fight.
PERIDOTYou old woman won’t listen to what we have to say! I said we’re not part of the church.
SHEILAYou finally enter as you please and you have weapons; there is no reason for me to believe you… Indeed, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the brazen faces of those from the Church—no, the outside.
CHALCEDONY…Understood. I want you to believe us. We will follow your orders.
SHEILACreed’s warning even reached this village. I am very happy for your safety. The symbol of the true church of Velleia and our village’s creator—Our goddess Lithia Spodune.
LITHIASheila… Please listen to what we have to say.
SHEILA…Lady Lithia, Kohaku, and Hisui, come to my house. The others will be held in the gathering place in the cave until Kohaku’s questioning is done.
SHINGExplanations and questioning is weird! Aren’t you their family, Sheila?
KOHAKUShing… We’ll persuade my aunt, so just wait at the gathering place.
SHINGOkay…
SHEILAArmored Crystal Knight… What is your name?
CHALCEDONYI am Captain of the Cr—No, now just a normal Soma user, Chalcedony Arkham.
SHEILAArkham… A relative of Labrado’s…
INNESIs it all right if we don’t give our Soma?
SHEILA…There is no need for that. If you want to run, please, go ahead.
PERIDOTIs she an idiot for letting us keep our Soma and then locking us up?
SHINGShe’s a bit strict, but I’m sure deep down she’s a good person.
BERYLI wanna think that… But I’ve got a bad feeling again…
SHEILAThat traitor’s relative is wearing my sister’s Soma Warheit… It’s fitting for that Soma to sleep in this village…
KOHAKUAuntie was really mad that we left the village by ourselves…
HISUIDamn, stubborn village, as usually. Let’s just ignore them and head to that barrier stone!
LITHIAIf we use the stone in a distant Link then the barrier will disappear. We can’t let the villagers be in danger without warning…
SHEILAYou understand that Norquin is a village that knows the outside world and chooses to be peaceful? …I see. So you are trying to use the barrier stone for another purpose… Of course the barrier can form again, you know.
LITHIA…After the distant Link, there won’t be that kind of power left. And that barrier was Iola’s…
HISUIAuntie! You heard Creed’s message, you know what’s going on! We have to stop them before the world calcifies!
SHEILAYou constantly made fun of the village folklore, and now you think you can change that?
HISUIMy bad for not believing. I apologize…
SHEILALady Lithia, have you said that the people from the outside are more important that those who obediently follow you here? And using the power of the church’s Crystal Knights…
KOHAKUWe’re not related to the Church! You can believe in Shing and Chalcedony.
SHEILAI will see if I can believe in them or not. That’s right… If they stay locked up for a few days then maybe I’ll listen to what they have to say. …And if they decide to move otherwise…
KOHAKUAuntie, we don’t have that kind of…!
SHEILAStep back. You and your brother left this village without warning and as punishment, you are not allowed to leave.
KOHAKU…We have no choice. We have to save Shing and them and head to the psistone!
LITHIABut Kohaku…
KOHAKUWhile we’re sitting here doing this, Cendrillion is flying to Gardenia. And how long do you think Shing will actually sit there?
HISUI…The time is dodgy. But we can probably get outside by the window.
LITHIAA long time ago, you jumped from this window and became seriously injured… Is it because of your fear of heights?
KOHAKUYes, it’s scary. …But not doing anything right now is scary!
HISUIH-Hey! Wait, Kohaku!
KOHAKUThe chimney to the meeting area… We can get in through here!
HISUIHey… wait a second, Kohaku!
BERYLAchoo! Oohhhh, I’m cold… Excuse me! Please light the fireplace or I’ll die of cold!! Huh? It’s not locked…
KOHAKU*cough*… Everyone, I came to save you…
SHING
Ah, what happened, Kohaku?
KOHAKUThis light… watch out!!
HISUIW-What the hell happened? Hey, is everyone alive?! All living people, answer me!
SHINGWe’re alive somehow… But what was that?
KOHAKU…It looks like there was an explosion stone on the door…
PERIDOTThey were planning on burying us alive if we tried to run?
CHALCEDONYIt’s still falling! Let’s escape through the chimney.
BERYLChimney… I can get through but rough guys and squishy people…
KUNZITENo problem. I am able to remove my joints freely.
BYROCKSI too wear clothes that make me look bigger.
PERIDOTI’m not squishy! The one who’s got extra jiggle is Innes!
INNESE-Excuse me?! I do not have extra jiggle!
CHALCEDONYIdiots, this is not the time to fight!
BERYLEugh! I’m covered in soot.
SHINGInnes and Peridot barely made it.
INNESI-It was only because my chest and butt were in the way, not because my stomach was!
PERIDOTWhat are you talking about?! I’m exactly the same way!
KUNZITEWe will leave this unproductive discussion as is… From now, what do we do?
KOHAKU…Aunt Sheila tried to kill everyone…
SHING…Let’s just go to the barrier stone.
HISUIOkay. The psistone is on the glacier beyond the northern gates of the village.
(Hisui joined the party.Kohaku joined the party.
Innes received the title Squishy Jiggle.)
BERYLThat’s a nice tree. …Is it a cherry?
HISUIYeah, the amber cherry that lets the village knows spring is coming. This village is closed in by snow and the barrier, so when this tree blooms every year, even this village can have its own flower watching festival.
KOHAKUAunt Sheila makes a ton of really good cherry mochi, too.
SHEILAYes… these strong branches that never lose to whatever snowfall is the courage to pass a lonely winter. And small white… However, it’s the treasure of this town that teaches us life in spring. Therefore, everyone gave you, the treasure that Iola left behind, the name of this tree. Kohaku… even so, are you going to betray the village?
HISUIThe one who put that explosion in the meeting room was you… wasn’t it?
SHEILA…As the chief who protects this village, it was something I had to do.
HISUIUgh, I take that apology back! This village’s laws really are shit!
KOHAKUWait, Hisui! I’m sure Auntie has Despir.
KUNZITENegative. Don’t forget, Kohaku. With the barrier, this village is protected against Zerom.
KOHAKUBut… but…
LITHIA…People’s Spiria can go out of control outside of Despir Disease.
SHEILA
Of course you understand! Yes, for example… your terrible actions that crushed the final wishes of the mother that risked her life to save you!
KOHAKUMother’s last wishes…?
SHEILAKohaku, Hisui… You too should feel it. What is inside the giant psistone giving off the barrier is Iola’s feelings! To protect you and everyone in the village from the dirty outside world… That is the wish left in the mindstone by my sister whose Spiria was broken by Creed!
LITHIAThat’s not true, Sheila! What Iola wanted to say was…
SHEILADon’t talk about my sister! She was used by you and died!! She was so diligent and annoying… But she was my sister, kinder than anyone… I will protect my sister’s feelings! I won’t let anyone else, even Lithia break it!
LITHIASheila…
SHING…Okay, good.
SHEILAW-What is good?! I tried to kill you all!
SHINGIt’s fine. None of us died. You put that explosion there because you wanted to protect your precious sister’s feelings, right? It’s the same as how we feel.
SHEILAYou… Kohaku, Hisui! No!! If you bring Lithia, you will die too!
SHING…They won’t die. I protect Kohaku and Hisui.
SHEILA…Y-You don’t have that kind of power!
SHINGIt’s fine! When I don’t have enough power, Kohaku and Hisui always help me out.
HISUIAuntie, there were tons of dirty guys in the outside world. But… these kinds of idiots were there too. I believe that Mom would approve of me going with him.
(soma link upShing, Kohaku, and Hisui’s soma link all became stronger.Shing and Hisui’s soma link became stronger.Kohaku and Hisui’s soma link became stronger.)
[Norquin Glacier]
BERYLLook, what a pretty glacier and lake! It looks like a painting I made myself.
KUNZITEWarning. The temperature of the water is roughly zero degrees. If a human falls, they will die within a few minutes.
BERYLAuuughhh… A picture of death…
KOHAKUThe green place on the glacier… The barrier stone should be there.
CHALCEDONYOkay, everyone, let’s get a move on! In the off chance that one should fall in the lake, save them within those few minutes and swim to shore.
HISUIHey, he can fly so he’s irresponsible!
KOHAKU…Mother…
INNESIt’s huge… This is the psistone giving off Norquin’s barrier…
KUNZITEIn accordance to the glacier, I wonder how many tens of thousands of years it took to excavate from the bottom of the earth and carried to here. A natural psistone this large rarely ever did exist in Quartia.
SHINGIt’s so warm and there are so many plants growing, even though this is on a glacier… so this is the power of a psistone, too?
LITHIASeventeen years ago after the battle with Creed, we were being chased by Incarose and the church. We ran to this snow mountain, and in a blizzard we found this place by chance and we were able to survive. And in this warmth, Kohaku was born… and Iola died…
KOHAKUThat’s right…
LITHIAAlong with Iola’s death, this stone produced a barrier… Just like what Sheila said, the village’s barrier is of Iola’s Spiria that was worried about you two. Kohaku… I know this is bad treatment. But…
SHINGLithia… Kohaku will be okay.
KOHAKU
Mother… I was always protected… by you, by Hisui, by Auntie, and by Lithia… But I knew the wide world for the first time and I’ve made a lot of memories. I’ve got someone I want to protect! I’m sure the same as you, a long time ago… Thank you for protecting me up until now… I’ll inherit your warm feelings! …Let’s go, everyone! To Cendrillion’s Spiria!!
SHINGYeah!
HISUIHeh, they’re growing without noticing it… It’s kinda sad, don’t you think?
LITHIAYes, just a little. Hisui… same to you.
BERYL…Anyway, even if the psistone counts as ten people, we only have just enough, but what are we gonna do?
CHALCEDONYLady Lithia and my group can activate the distant Link. We should be able to put out the power of two with just one person. …You get this?!
BYROCKSYes, no problem.
PERIDOTToo many problems! So much work… I’m suing you later!
KUNZITEI will also remain with Lithia.
LITHIAYou are the only one who has information on Cendrillion. Please show them the way.
KUNZITE…Understood.
LITHIAThis is the mind lock that I put together with the control core’s power. If you lock the fall orders with this, then Corundum from the pseudo control core shouldn’t be able to open it.
(Obtained Mind Lock x 1)
LITHIAAll right everyone… prepare to Spirlink!As the first step, I will inscribe the arte for the distant Link into the mind stone. Ugh, second step… I will attach my Soma link with Cendrillion to the stone! Shing… Link with me first. Then, on the mind stone’s power you will be thrown to Cendrillion. When you feel its Spiria, please double link.
BERYLT-Throw us up?! …Aw, right. I forgot my hot pouch in Norquin.
SHINGAll right, I’m going! I’ll fly with all I got!!
LITHIAFinal step… Letting the psistone’s power rampage. Please hold back the rampant power and strike it against me. With that power we force the Link Line open, and make it a road to Cendrillion!!
PERIDOTHey… Striking and forcing open is a little too much!
CHALCEDONYYour Spiria may collapse with such immense power!
LITHIAI pushed my friends into their place of death, so I cannot run from this amount of danger. And please don’t underestimate me. I may look like this but I am the strongest magician of Quartia.
CHALCEDONY…I will recognize this. Lithia Spodune… you are a true knight. Byrocks, Peridot, don’t let her beat you!
BYROCKSUnderstood!!
PERIDOTUugh, whatever happens, I’m not responsible!
[Artificial Mind Cendrillion]
HISUIW-We’re in water?!
BERYLNooo, we’re gonna drown!!
KUNZITENegative. This is the Spirmaze of Cendrillion. Do not worry about drowning.
SHINGHey, you’re right… I can breathe! This’ll be fun ♪
KOHAKUIt is a whale, I wonder if it’s dreaming about the sea?
INNESI wonder? When you compare it to humans’ Spirmazes, I get the impression that it’s artificial…
KUNZITEAffirmative. This is Cendrillion’s pseudo-Spiria added with the purpose of controlling the giant like a living creature. Within the deepest part of Cendrillion its will—the core exists. We will make contact with it then return
to the surface. However, the time that Lady Lithia can keep the distant Link road open is not long.
SHING…And if we can’t get back here?
KUNZITEWe will be forced a Link Out to some unknown point in the Link Line between Lady Lithia and Cendrillion.
BERYL…So basically we’re going to end up in midair?! We’re not gonna drown, we’re gonna fall to our deaths!
INNESOkay, okay, if you don’t want to die then let’s hurry forward!
SHINGWe went from the bottom of the ocean to above the clouds?!
KOHAKUIs this whale Cendrillion’s instinct?
KUNZITEAffirmative. It commands above ground descent in this core.
SHINGIt moves with strong feelings right? So then, Cendrillion, please take us to the ground.
HISUIIt’s doing what Creed’s telling it to do! Stupid whale.
BERYLHmm hmm… Mister whale~ How about taking a nap on the earth? It’s really relaxing…
KUNZITELanding point has been configured to nearby northern continent Norquin. Commencing Cendrillion landing. Fixing orders with the mind lock.
BERYLHehehe… This was unexpectedly easy ♪ T-There’s a person?! I’m sorry for calling this easy!
KUNZITEYou are… Lady Flora?!
HISUIFlora… You’re Lithia’s sister?! Aren’t you supposed to be inside Gardenia?
FLORANow who is the one inside Cendrillion; Creed? Lithia? …Or perhaps Celirade? I have no arte that can tell me, but I will leave this memory hear to warn the future of Gardenia’s threat.
KUNZITEThis is the memory image that Lady Flora left behind…
FLORAI am Flora Spodune. I am the Quartz that created the monster of nothingness called Gardenia, and the foolish woman who could not protect her family of two.
SHINGAghhh, I’m seeing… the image inside of my head!
QUARTZ PERSON*screams*
QUARTZ PERSON *yelling*
QUARTZ PERSONMommy, mommmy!!!
CORUNDUMLord Creed! Spiria response on Quartia is zero! All six billion Quartz have calcified!! Gardenia’s working percentage is over a hundred million percent and rising! It won’t stop!!
CREEDNo, it took in all the Spiria throughout the world?! That’s unbelievable! This is bad! Lithia, return all the inhaled Spiria back for now!!
LITHIA…Ahhh, what brutal power!! Gardenia is… devouring all of the Spiria it took in!!!
CREEDWhat are you doing, Lithia?! Get Gardenia under control!!
LITHIAI’m sorry! I’m sorry! Aaahhhhhh!!!
CONRUNDUMGardenia is heading towards Celirand and commencing control of itself! Lord Creed… What on earth is this thing?!
CREEDT-This shouldn’t… I should have set it to only absorb the warring Spiria!!
LITHIAHelp me, help me!! Somebody, help me!!!
FLORAGet a hold of yourselves, Lithia! Creed!!
LITHIAFlora…?!
FLORAGardenia’s actions are still continuing! At this rate, Celirand will calcify as well. I ordered the Seraph siblings to have Cendrillion on standby. You two move there. Seal this from the outside! I will hold back this monster from the inside!!
LITHIAA counter seal?! Even if you can seal Gardenia with that, you will…
CREEDT-That’s not true, Flora! Gardenia’s not a monster. It’s supposed to be the salvation system that will turn corrupted Quartia into an ideal world!!
FLORALook at reality! …As long as we have our lives, we must make up for this sin.
LITHIAMy sister with a sin… I will make up for this with my life!
FLORAI was not able to tell you the most important thing… that is my sin.
CREEDStop, stop, Flora!
LITHIANo, Flora! Floraaaaa!!
KUNZITE AND INCAROSEMy master, please run.
FLORACreed, Lithia… What was really needed to create an ideal world…
CREEDFlora! FLOOORAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
LITHIAFlora!!!
KOHAKUThat was… the start of Gardenia…
SHINGThe memories of the moment when Lithia’s sister sacrificed herself and stopped Gardenia…
INNESAnd immediately after, Lithia and Creed began fighting.
FLORAI used my life to seal Gardenia, but I don’t know how long it can last… If it were to start up again, there is no doubt in my mind that it will devour all
the Spiria of Celirand. Even I cannot take measures to completely destroy Gardenia. At least as atonement, I leave this.
(Obtained Data mindstone x 1)
KUNZITE…This is the secret data of the development of Gardenia and Soma!
FLORA…Please. Stop Gardenia, and save the world… the feelings of all the people. I pray that the ones to do this will be Creed, Lithia… You who cooperated with me…
KUNZITEPlease wait! What was the thing “truly necessary” you tried to say at the very end…?
CORUNDUMHahahaha, I found the Soma users!
BERYLThat voice… That curly haired little robot?!
CORUNDUMBooo! You’re little, too! Weird hat Soma person! I don’t know what you did but I’m not letting you run! Prepaaaaaare!!
INNESWe’ve done what we needed to do! Let’s escape to the Link Road! Is that fine, Kunzite?
KUNZITEY… Yes. Understood.
KOHAKUThe Link road is getting really small! They’re getting to their limit.
STRIGAUSo you opened a hole and entered through here… Quite like a mouse.
SHINGYou’re Creed’s Soma user henchman!
INNESCaptain Strigau… Why are you helping Creed?
STRIGAULieutenant Lorenz… There is something I want.
SHINGWhat can you get by sacrificing all the Spiria in the world?
STRIGAU
I want the feelings of all the world’s people! Lord Creed has approved of this!! He said I can take whatever Spirune for myself from the Spiria that Gardenia collected.
KOHAKUThese are… Spirune?
STIRGAUYes. Ever since I got a Soma, my prideful collection of the Spirune I’ve laboriously gathered!
SHINGGathered? You mean, you used your Soma… and pulled out the Spirune?!
STRIGAUOf course! I took this beautiful rose-colored Spirune from a bride the night before her wedding… Since I picked it just before that nursed love ripened, you can see this lovely radiance. And these two speckled lights were created when I tortured two twin sisters at the same time. I threatened them that I’d only save them if one of them begged for their life first. The conflict between fear and their lovely sisterly affection gives off this miraculous texture… Ahhh, it’s so beautiful!
BERYLWhy… Why does this guy talk about this stuff so happily?!
KUNZITE…I do not understand. Something within me rejects the way this man thinks.
HISUIRelax, it means you’re normal.
KOHAKUI won’t forgive you… for using Soma for such a thing as that!
STRIGAUOhh! The girl who withstood my torture! There is no doubt that your Spirune gives off a wonderful color… I’m sure it will have the same beauty as my pride, this gem… the Spirune of a girl who lost her mother with the mind gun that my father made.
INNESN-No, that’s… Strigau… Are you saying you took Lapis’ Spirune?!
STRIGAUI went through troubles… It began with the explosion in the gun’s test firing. Thanks to that, I was able to use Zerom and spread chaos and Zerom efficiently throughout the world. And above all, the feelings of sadness and fear of a girl who continued to cry that this Spirune conveyed… Ohhh, so wonderful! Every night I caress you and comfort you~ …ahahaha! I won’t stop at any hardship to get this feeling of completion!
INNESThe one who did not allow Lapis to awaken… The one who killed Pearl… And the one who cornered Isaac… Everything was your fault! Strigau!!!
STRIGAU
You realized this just now? Both Silver and you, this dullness… The Special Corps will be shocked to hear. …But that sincere Spirune hidden on the other side of your steel Spiria… I want to include it in my collection and love it! Lieutenant Lorenz!!
SHINGPeople like you who use Soma… I will definitely not recognize!!
INNESStrigau!!!
INNESStrigau… Return Lapis’ Spirune.
STRIGAUAhh… No!!
INNESCompensation for Isaac’s sadness… I’ll make up for it with your life!!
KOHAKUStop, Innes!
INNESMove, Kohaku!
KOHAKUNo, I won’t! You’re going to be Lapis’ mother, right? You can’t let the blood of guys like these dirty the hands you embrace her with!!
SHINGInnes, if you swing your Soma in hatred, then it’s the same as when I awoke Creed.
INNES…Okay. We have to have him tell us information on the other Spirune’s owners.
STRIGAUMother?! I won’t hand over my treasures to a mother… to mommy! Aghhhh!!?
KOHAKUAhh, the Spirune!!
CREEDThat was ugly, Strigau. You are a strange tool I can’t use, after all.
SHING…Creed!
BERYLShing, Hisui, the Link Road’s already at its limit!
CREED
…Oh, I see. You opened a Soma Link Line with artes and came on a distant Spirlink. Hahaha, what a bold idea!! And I will send you back the same way you came.
HISUIH-He’s using the same power we put all our effort into making all by himself…
CREEDIt’s the same as a mouse being ended in the mud, but you hurt my feelings just a little… I might end up killing you with too much power… Well, don’t worry about it.
INNESAgh, Lapis’ Spirune…
KUNZITEWait, Innes! Creed’s arte is going to start!!
INNESLet me go, Kunzite! If we get that Spirune back, Lapis will wake up!!
CREEDDammit! Stop, Creed!! Aaaaaaagh!!!
PERIDOTUugh, Byrocks… I’ll go out with you so can you take half of my job?
BYROCKS…I refuse. If we’re saved, then I choose Lithia.
PERIDOTAgh, Byrocks… Are you really loli?
LITHIAOh, I’m probably older… around two thousand years.
PERIDOTOh, that’s right! Lady Lithia, my captain likes older women so you should keep an eye out~
CHALCEDONYC-Concentrate, you idiots!
LITHIA…T-This is…?! Something is coming down on the Link Line! Ahhhh!…Ahh, the psistone!
INNESUugh, Lapis’ Spirune… I couldn’t get it back!
CHALCEDONYShing, tell me what happened!
SHING
…W-We gave the instructions for Cendrillion to land but it was stopped by Creed…
BYROCKS…But it seems as though there was a souvenir of Zerom attached too…
KUNZITEWarning! The Zerom are headed for Norquin.
HISUIDammit! At this rate the village… Lithia?!
CHALCEDONYI’m sorry… Right now, we don’t have enough power left to move…
LITHIADon’t mind me, go to the village… Please protect… Sheila and the others.
INNESBut if we leave you here without your mind power defenses, you may die.
HISUIIdiot… You want to sacrifice yourself like this?! …So!
LITHIAHisui, what I care about is the village…
HISUIShut up! You’re in exchange for a coat! Sacrifice yourself to warm my back!!
INNESWe’ll use Chalcedony and the others as coats too and sprint as fast as we can… We can do this!
CHALCEDONYUrgh… Being carried by you is an embarrassment into eternity.
SHINGHehehe, that’s right! That feeling of embarrassment will definitely go on into the future!
(Innes received the title Spirune Chaser.)
KOHAKUAhh, the village gates are broken!
SHEILAM-Monsters! I won’t let you touch one finger on the villagers!! Ahhh…!!
LITHIASheila!
SHEILAY-You… You will protect the village?
CHALCEDONYHmph… This Soma is calling… “Protect everyone!”
LITHIAI hear it too… Iola’s feelings are still within me!
INNESThe Zerom organization has arrived!
KOHAKUCome, Zerom… I’ll be your opponent in my mother’s place!
INNESUgh, there are too many of them… At this rate they’ll cut through.
KOHAKU*scream*
SHEILAKohaku!
KAIAAhhh, chief! Kohaku’s going to die!!
KOHAKU…I won’t die! Because, I…
SHING AND HISUIShe’s got us!
SHEILAAhhh, you all are like…
INNES…Oh no, the Zerom!
LITHIAUuugh, I won’t let you touch the villagers!
SHEILA…Boy with the sword Soma! Cut down the amber cherry tree and create a barrier!!
SHINGB-But that tree…
SHEILADo it! You think you can save the world with that kind of resolve?!
SHING…Okay! Ooooooh!!!
SHEILAKohaku, Fire!
HISUINow! Push them all back at once!!
VILLAGERAhh… the amber cherry…
KOHAKUI’m sorry, everyone… I burned down the village treasure…
INCAROSEWe’ve detached Cendrillion’s pseudo-Spiria, and connected it to the pseudo-Spiria control circuit of Corundum. We’ve canceled the landing orders given by the mind lock.
LITHIANo… They were able to stop Cendrillion’s descent?!
INCAROSEWarning. Awakening of Gardenia has broken eighty percent. Beginning restoration.
CREEDAhahah, look to the heavens, Celirade! This is the salvation system that will take your Spiria and rebirth Quartia, Gardenia!!
SHINGW-What… the clouds… The sky is splitting!
SHINGThe black moon turned into a monster… This is Gardenia?!
KUNZITEAffirmative. The Queen Zerom that Creed created that engulfs Spiria limitlessly.
KAIAOohhh… Everyone’s going to have their Spiria eaten by him, and die?
SHEILAThere is no way humans can oppose that monster… It’s the end of the world…
LITHIAI won’t let it end! In exchange for this life, I will defeat Gardenia!! I will not allow my family to be taken away by that thing again!!
SHINGCal, you can hold me and fly, right?
CHALCEDONYHmph, it’s in exchange from before. I’ll carry you to Gardenia.
SHEILAY-You plan on opposing that monster just by yourselves?!
CHALCEDONYI understand that it’s reckless. But if it’s the last arte that will save the world, then there’s no other choice. And…
SHINGIt’s not just us. Lithia’s… everyone’s Spiria is supporting us. …And the Spiria of everyone here, who sacrificed their precious tree and protected Iola’s feelings.
KUNZITEWait. There is another way. In Cendrillion I received secret data from Lady Flora. According to that, there is a special hidden function within Chalcedony’s flying Soma.
CHALCEDONY…Special hidden function?
KUNZITEIt can evolve into a large flying body just like Cendrillion.
BYROCKSLord Cal’s Soma can turn into something that can fly in the sky?
KUNZITEAffirmative. But there are two materials that are needed. One is the Flare Horn of the purgatory dragon Volgajoz that will become the shell… and another is the Zerom Stone that will become the catalyst. That is the psistone that Creed’s group presently has to possibly manipulate Zerom. Incarose also has it equipped.
PERIDOTYeah, but those guys are up in the sky!
KUNZITEListen. In the past, Creed created many Zerom Stones to manipulate Zerom within the Celirade’s bodies.
LITHIAThat’s right! Zirconia also owned a Zerom Stone he never let go as a jewel.
BYROCKSThat Zerom stone was the previous emperor’s jewel… The scarlet stone? Lord Cal! Lady Paraiba inherited that jewel…
CHALCEDONYYes, she made it into a pendant and sent it to me.
SHINGThe pendant I found in the forest! All right, we got another material!
CHALCEDONYT-That’s… I asked Major Grossular to return it to her so I handed it to him.
PERIDOTWhaaat? What were you thinking, captain?!
HISUI
You give up easily! Now this is a problem.
CHALCEDONYUrgh… You…
BYROCKSLord Cal, please think about this.
CHALCEDONYB-Byrocks… you too?!
KOHAKUAnyway, we’re working towards evolving Chalcedony’s Soma! First let’s go to the capital and get the Zerom Stone—the scarlet pendant! You got that? If you leave me behind, I’ll never let it go!!
CHALCEDONY…A-All right.
SHEILA…Why can these children smile at a time like this?
LITHIAIt’s strange… but they’re strong children, aren’t they? Just like…
SHEILAThe courage of not being afraid of being hurt and the kindness of sharing people’s pain are connected… Just like Iola and the others.
VILLAGERA feeling we confined villagers forgot…
VILLAGERAnd so much we forgot to say normal thanks. Chur… no, Kohaku and friends, thank you for protecting the village.
VILLAGERDon’t worry about the village! We’ll show you our willpower!
SHEILAThe village laws have become meaningless. …Everything is your fault. Afterwards, I will lecture you, so you must live and return!
KOHAKUThanks, Auntie! We’re going to do this!!
SHINGOkay, when we get back let’s get scolded together!!
HISUI…You’ll regret it. Auntie’s lectures are so long, you’ll die.
KAIAYeah, scarier than that black moon monster!
SHEILAHisui, Kaia!!
SHING…Soma Link! We Linked with people who don’t use Soma?!
LITHIAThis is… This is the ability of people’s Spiria that Flora included with Soma! …Ahh, the power that she left behind embraces me warmly…
HISUIIt’s not just your sister. This is the power you spent two thousand years raising.
LITHIAThank you, Hisui… Thank you, my family…
(Kohaku received the title Hearts Successor.)
HISUIThis is new. You’re by yourself.
SHINGYeah… You’ve got a lot of family, don’t you? I think about that and I get a little lonely, and kind of jealous…
HISUIIdiot, you’ve got a family, too.
SHINGWhat…?! That means me and Kohaku…
HISUIWrooooooong! You can’t even confess to her so don’t get weird ideas!
SHINGJeez, what’s with that! Just because you were told by Lithia…
HISUIH-Hey, you bastard! I’m kinda like that to her, y’know? …Damn, how should I give her something that’s got no shape…
SHINGPeople’s Spiria are really bothersome. Everyone’s got their own feelings… They don’t really understand each other… and in uneasiness… they hurt each other and cause hate.
HISUIYeah… And you can’t stop that feeling to want to understand… And because the world is full of this troublesome Spiria…
SHINGI want to protect it!
(soma link upShing and Hisui’s Soma Link became stronger.
Gelda snow field is now available as field.
Hisui received the title Hearts Successor.)
CORUNDUMLord… Creed… It… hurts… Save… Ahah…
INCAROSECorundum’s pseudo-Spiria cannot hold up to the Cendrillion’s control load for very long…
CREEDI don’t care. It can take us to Gardenia.
INCAROSEGardenia’s restoration form… confirmed. Cendrillion will continue to replenish the transfer arte. Lord Creed, there’s blood on your face…
CREEDThat last blow hit?! I see what you did there, vessel… Shing Meteoryte!!
[The imperial capital Estrega]
KOHAKU…You’re kidding… right? The gate is broken!
CHALCEDONYNo… This is the gate that withstood hundreds of thousands of military attacks! Even Soma cannot break this easily. If it’s broken like this…
INNESIt’s the work of actualized Zerom, no mistaking it. In a city where many people live, it will no doubt become their feeding grounds…
SHINGDammit, so those Zerom got in?!
CHALCEDONYUrgh… Lady Paraiba!!
SHINGAhh… Everyone’s calcified…
KOHAKUThis is terrible… Even children like her…
PERIDOTNo, has the capital already been destroyed…?
BYROCKSThis is not funny…! Do you know how many people live in this city?
KUNZITE
With the layout of the city, it is possible all has been annihilated. Zerom is that sort of weapon.
CHALCEDONYAnnihilated?! That’s impossible… Lady Paraiba!
BYROCKSPlease wait, Lord Cal!
INNESWait, Byrocks! Right know we have to understand the situation! You and Peridot, I want you two to investigate what’s happened to the church. Beryl, Kunzite and I will scout the military headquarters. Shing, Kohaku, and Hisui, go follow Chalcedony and see what’s happening with the castle.
SHINGGot it!
BYROCKS…What precise division. All right. Shing… I leave Lord Cal to you.
INNESOnce you confirm the situation, let’s meet at the park beside the main street. Going all out over and over again is not allowed. …If we fail, the world will probably end.
(Beryl left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
HISUIWhat are you doing, idiot! Calm down!!
CHALCEDONYLike I can! No matter how many times I call, there’s no response from inside… And if Zerom have already entered the inside Lady Paraiba…
SHINGI know that feeling but you and your Soma are the world’s last hope!
CHALCEDONY…I’m sorry, Shing… I can stop them by myself!
SHINGChalcedonidiot! What can you do by yourself?! Dammit, I’m gonna climb this wall too…
KOHAKUYou can’t! What can you do on your own, Shing? Right now let’s go back and talk with everyone.
SHINGUgh… Fine.
SHING…I’m sorry. I wasn’t able to stop Chalcedony…
PERIDOTWhat is that stupid captain doing?
INNESAnyway, the Max castle is closed, right?
BERYLIt’s the same as the military headquarters. I badmouthed them right in front of the gate but there was no response.
BYROCKSSame here. The church was closed shut and we couldn’t do anything about it.
INNESI’m uneasy since we don’t know the situation, but we have to do all we can to enter the castle…
KUNZITETwo movements detected! The response is Zerom and… confirmed. It is Anne. Ove and Cindy are not with you?
ANNE*sob* Kunzite… Daddy and Mommy are…
WOMANAhh, child! Didn’t I say you were not allowed outside?! I don’t know who you are but thank you for saving this girl.
ANNEHe’s not a stranger. This is my friend Kunzite.
SHINGAnne! And a townsperson! So the city hasn’t been completely annihilated!!
WOMANYes, monsters broke down the city gates and many people were killed… but there are still quite a few people held in buildings, safe. It’s dangerous out here. We’re taking refuge in the inn. You too, come quickly!
(Beryl joined the party.Innes joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.)
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERHey! Why did you just go outside?!
WOMANDon’t scold her. She was just looking for her separated papa and mama, right?
ANNE…Yeah. I’m not lonely… but if I’m not with them they’ll cry.
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERIf something happened to you, your parents would be crying their entire lives. Don’t just move on your own.
ANNE…Okay, I’m sorry.
PERIDOTNicely put. I wish a certain stupid captain could hear this.
SHINGMister… What happened to the capital?
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERAh, the military and the Crystal Knights were holding off the monsters, but the orders from above got all jumbled up. Without being able to cooperate, they each accommodated refugees in the military headquarters and the church.
YOUNG MANThey had that stupid fight for power and finally at a vital time it becomes like this! What on earth are those guys from the castle doing?
LITHIAAre you familiar with the castle’s situation?
CAPTIAL CITY INNKEEPERUuugh… Emerald hair… Are you Lithia?!
YOUNG MANHey, if we give that girl to that Creed guy we’ll be saved, right?
WOMANStop! If humans start fighting at a time when we should be fighting monsters, what are you going to do?!
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERB-But she’s not a normal human!
WOMANAre you causing discrimination in this attractive inn in the capital city?! Those who aren’t real people are the villains who present girls only to save themselves!
YOUNG MAN…What she said. I’m sorry.
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPER…I don’t know what’s going on with the castle, but there is a way to tell. You can get into the sewer from here. Go northwest and up the ladder, and you’ll come out in the underground warehouse of the castle. See, here’s the key for getting into the warehouse.
(Obtained the Key to Max Castle x 1)
INNESOh my… Why do you have a thing like this?
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERHehe, we get all sorts of customers in this inn. Oops, now, let’s put our formalities aside. It’s an apology for saying shameful things to Lithia.
INNESFormalities… I’d like to say a few things afterwards, too ♪
LITHIAThank you very much. Everyone, please be careful.
KUNZITEOve and Cindy are humans with much courage and tact. They are most likely safe. Please do not worry.
ANNEOkay. I don’t really understand what you’re saying but you’re cheering me up, right?
WOMANYou’re an indirect boy, aren’t you. Girls don’t really like that, you know!
SHINGAll right, let’s go! Let’s go through the kitchen basement and sneak… no, assault the castle!!
CAPITAL CITY INNKEEPERThe main street vendors are also staying in my inn. Make sure you prepare well and attack!
[Max Castle]
SHINGBe careful, there’s Zerom!
HISUISo they did get inside the castle.
BYROCKSLady Paraiba is most likely taking refuge in her room. Her private room is on the castle’s top floor.
KOHAKUOkay, the top floor. Chalcedony should be there too.
BYROCKSHere it is, after this is Lady Paraiba’s room!
PERIDOTCaptain!!!
SHINGIs this thing a Zerom too…? We’ll save him now!
CHALCEDONY
It’s no use… Attacks do nothing to this Zerom… If you get close it’ll absorb you, too…
INNESWhat should we do? This type of monster is usually weak to heat, but…
SHINGDammit, the Sorcerer’s Ring is too weak! We’ve gotta do something or else Cal’ll..
???Attack that bullet, quick!
PERIDOTHold on, Captain! If you die I’ll kill you!!
KOHAKUWhat power… Was that a bomb now?
???Tch… I wasn’t supposed to use it in a place like this.
INNES…Captain Prena. You’ve finally completed the flaming thunder explosive.
BERYLHuh? You know this person?
PRENA…Lieutenant Lorenz. The other day, I recovered Commander Silver’s corpse and confirmed his identity. Were you by his side when he died?
INNES……Yes.
PRENAWhat on earth were you doing?! It was your responsibility to protect him!
KOHAKUHow can you say that when you don’t know what happened at that time?!
INNESI have no excuses… If you feel satisfied with slapping me, then slap me as many times as you want. But let us borrow that explosive! If we don’t destroy this, then we won’t be able to save the world and Lapis!
PRENASave the world and Lapis? You say that, even though you couldn’t even protect Isaac.
???Meow…
SHINGInnes, who was that…?
INNESPrena is a military engineer who researched the mind gun with Commander Silver. She is a top-class scientist who inherited the research for the new type of gunpowder used for the gun called flaming thunder explosive and perfected it. And she was my roommate when we were in the military academy…
BERYLBut it kind of felt like there was a reason, right?
INNESJust a little. But that explosive is needed to defeat this Zerom. Let’s find her.
PRENAWait, Platta! Are you going to betray me too?!
PLATTAMeow…
INNESPrena… please give us the flaming thunder bomb.
PRENA…Too bad. That was the last one.
LITHIASince you are the one that developed it, would you not be able to make another one?
PRENAY-You’re… Lithia Spodune? …Hahah, as usual Innes is believed by everyone. Okay, if you get all the needed materials, I’ll make you the bomb. First you need a flame psistone and a thunder psistone.
SHINGOh, we have those!
PRENAThen the vital flaming thunder bomb’s mixing recipe… Just now Platta ran off with the note that I wrote down all the detailed compounding data on.
KOHAKUThat cat?!
PRENAHeheh… You can laugh. Even my pet cat of ten years has betrayed me, too.
INNESIf we get the recipe back from Platta, you’ll synthesize the bomb for us, correct?
PRENA…Who knows? I got no reason to make promises.
INNES…Okay. We’ll go gather the ingredients and the recipe.
SHINGThere’s Platta!
KOHAKUY-You’re too loud, Shing!
PLATTAMeooowww!!
KUNZITEFailure. What incredible power.
CHALCEDONYInexperienced… I could not even take out my sword.
INNESDon’t cut it! Platta is Prena’s precious family that she’s had ever since she was a student.
HISUIBut its movements… Catching it from the front’s gonna be hard.
KOHAKUOh, if we attract it with food we can capture it!
SHINGHmmm, isn’t that a little too easy…?
INNESIt might work! In the dorm parties, Platta would always lick at the alcohol. She would always get drunk and start dancing… like me.
KOHAKUO-Oh, I see…
HISUIIf we go to the kitchen, there should at least be a keg of alcohol. We got nothing to lose, so let’s try that tactic.
HISUI (*changes depending on on-screen character)Here’s the gummy liquor. Uuugh… I gotta be careful, or else I’ll get buzzed just from the smell…
(Obtained gummy liquor x 1)
SHINGAll right, we can catch her this time. Here, Platta. It’s your favorite alcohol.
PLATTA
Mew!!!
KOHAKUShe’s not interested at all?!
INNESThat’s not supposed to happen… She would used to even drink my share…
CHALCEDONYWhen it comes to this, we have no choice. Let’s all match our timing and get her at once!
PLATTAHisss!!
HISUIAgh… You’re too fast, stupid cat!
KOHAKUPlease, Platta! We want the memo for the recipe!
PLATTAMeeaooooowww!!
KOHAKUAhh, the Zerom’s entering Platta!!
CHACLEDONYThis is the only time I’ll thank Zerom. Let’s get the memo back and return to Prena.
PLATTAMew… Meowww…
HISUIShe’s still trying to run with the memo in her mouth.
KOHAKU…Wow… She’s rejecting the Zerom with such strong will.
SHINGLet’s do Spirlink. Let’s save Platta from the Zerom!
CHALCEDONYNo, there’s no time to be caring about a cat’s Spiria! Let’s take the memo and go.
SHING…It’s a cat but she’s fighting with all she’s got to protect her precious feelings!
KOHAKUIf we let her die then we’ll be treating our Spiria like things and become the same as Creed!
CHALCEDONYUrgh… fine! You won’t listen to what I say! Hurry up and Spirlink!!
INNESShing, Kohaku… and Chalcedony too… Thank you.
CHALCEDONYHmph, only because Prena is helping us. …And a cat has no sins.
PLATTAHissss!!
KOHAKUPlatta, we feel it too with our Spirlink… Your determination that risks your life…
SHINGThe Spirmaze is full of one feeling. I don’t know how to put it in words, but this is…
KUNZITEShe is very, very worried about her Master’s body. I understand only this feeling.
INNESPlatta was worried about Prena’s body and ran with the synthesis recipe? No way… Why did Prena have the bomb inside the castle in the first place? …Oh I see, Prena made the flaming thunder bomb and planned to carry out Isaac’s plans. Probably by suicide bombing…
PLATTAMew…
KOHAKUSo she tried to stop that. Her will was so strong that it even held off Zerom.
KUNZITEPrena is a good master to Platta.
INNES…Yes. Do you remember, Platta? We’ve both collapsed with high fever together before. At that time, Prena didn’t sleep for days caring for us. She is so much like a mother… Don’t worry, Platta. We definitely won’t let such a kind person die.
INNESPlatta…
(Obtained Synthesis Recipe x 1)
INNES…Thank you for believing us.
PLATTAMeow!
SHINGI’m worried about Prena. Let’s hurry back to where she is!
PRENA…Did you get the materials and the synthesis memo?
INNESYes. But before we hand it over, promise us: Don’t commit a suicide bombing.
PRENA…Why do you know about that?
PLATTAMew…
PRENAOh, so you looked at Platta’s Spiria with your Soma? Just like you did to me a long time ago.
INNES…I apologize for that. I was worried since you were all troubled.
PRENAWeren’t you surprised? My Spiria that you snuck into… was full of my feelings for Isaac and jealousy to you… …But the one thing I can’t forgive is because of my feelings, you didn’t tell Isaac how you felt! You should have been able to touch his Spiria… This disgrace is nothing!
INNES…No, the truth is worse. At that time, I found out about Isaac’s feelings for Pearl. I made you an excuse so I wouldn’t hurt myself. …I ran.
PRENAThen run forever! The world is going to end soon… But the one to break the empire isn’t the monsters. Me, the one who inherited Isaac’s legacy and will! Give me the materials and memo!
INNESI won’t run! If I told without closing my Spiria, that became the power to save him! I won’t give up on letting people know how I feel!! I don’t want you to die, Prena! You’re my precious friend, who grew to love the same person and dreamed the same dream… …And the world won’t end. I’ll kick out the Zerom and Gardenia and protect everyone! For the future where Lapis awakens and I can tell her how much her father loved her!
PLATTAMeowww~
PRENAJeez… If even your Spiria’s gotten that strong, there’s no way I can win against you anymore… It’s like getting seriously wounded by associating with a disagreeable person like you. The synthesis cost is expensive, you know. This bomb is a top military secret.
INNES
Got it. How about our prized gummy liquor we’ve been fermenting since school?
PRENA…Is that okay, Platta?
PLATTAMeow~ ♪
(Handed over gummy liquor.Handed over flame mindstone.Handed over thunder mindstone.Handed over synthesis recipe.)
PRENAIt’s done. With this amount of explosive, you should be able to burn through that gooey Zerom.
SHINGThank you, Prena!
PRENA…Are you going to believe me? I might have actually mixed so much where it might blow up the castle along with it?
SHINGMister Silver said that he wanted the power to protect… You inherited those feelings so there’s no reason for you to do that.
PRENA…Innes. Where did you get such a sincere child?
INNESHehehe, isn’t that all right? ♪ Why don’t you try gathering your courage and confessing, if you like.
KOHAKUT-that’s not allowed!!
PRENARaise those feelings in a straightforward manner… Don’t let yourself be rebellious, like me.
KOHAKU…Okay!
(Obtained flame thunder bomb x 1)
HISUI (*changes depending on on-screen character (can you tell I like Hisui?))Ugh, it escaped! This is a bad time to give up, you slimy bastard!!
GROSSULARUugh… What a disgrace. This glorious Max Empire castle is being dirtied by monsters!
ARKHAM…Calm down. That disgrace will disappear soon, too. It’ll be taken away by that awakened black moon, Gardenia.
GROSSULARLabrado! You knew things would turn out like this? Why have you not said anything until now?!
ARKHAMHahahah… The sleeping princess fairytale is real! The black moon is a monster! Had I talked about it, would you believe me? Of course not. There is no reason for you fools to understand, without knowing about the existence of the Quartz as you continue to fight over and over again. Which is why I cooperated with the world unification of the Max Empire. I organized the Crystal Knights to finally defeat Creed with the power of Soma. But Grossular, since you broke all of the Soma, everything… is going to end…
GROSSULARUrgh… You drowned in power, and now you’re condemning me with that hero face of yours!
ARKHAMWhat’s wrong with collecting power?! In order to stand up to that Creed, overwhelming power is crucial! …But Iola, Donna, Zex and Tecta… They all denied me and ran… Hahah… In the end, other people do not understand how I feel… Not even my friends, or my own son…
PARAIBAUm… What happened to Chalcedony?
GROSSULARThat boy ran in the middle of his execu--… No, his questioning. That’s right, he said something about breaking a promise with you, my Lady?
PARAIBANo… That’s a lie!
GROSSULARI-It’s not a lie! Proof of that is this pendant of the promise that he left behind and ran.
PARAIBAIt’s the real scarlet pendant… No… He promised to protect me…
GROSSULAROhh! Reinforcements from my military?!
PARAIBAI was abandoned even by Cal… No, I knew this from the beginning… No one looks at me as a person… No one loves me… Yes, ever since I was little I’ve given up…
ARKHAM…Your Majesty?
PARAIBAI’m not needed anymore! Not by anyone, not by anything!! Not even myself!!
GROSSULARY-You!! Do something about this monster… uurgh…
ARKHAMAhhh! D-Don’t come! Why has this… aghhh…!
CHALCEDONYFather… Major!!
PERIDOTAck! This is so bad I don’t even know what is bad!!
INNESThis is… a multiple-person Zerom fusion?! And the body is…
PARAIBANo one needs me!!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba!!
PARAIBARuuughhhhhhh!!!
HISUIIdiot! What do you do in an emergency like this when the big shots are all in the Zerom?!
BERYLI-It’s just a suggestion, but how about just leaving them here and let them calcify? …And I won’t forgive people who do that!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba! I will save you now!! Aghhhh!!
SHINGYou have to be careful! The wounds you got from that Zerom earlier haven’t healed!
CHALCEDONYShut up! No matter how cut up my body becomes, I will save Lady Paraiba!!
SHINGYeah. We’ll stop the Zerom’s movements. And then you’ll be the one to save her Spiria!
PARAIBANothing… needs me…!
SHINGDammit, it’s still moving?! But if we attack anymore, we’ll kill Marin…
PARAIBADon’t get close to me!!
KOHAKU*screams*
CHALCEDONYUrgh… Shing, Kohaku… leave this to me.
PERIDOTI’ll ask you to do the same! Right now is a place only where captain has to show his willpower.
SHING…Okay. Do it, Cal!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba… I just wanted to see you smile. But I did not know why you never smiled for me. That’s why I thought I should change this world paining you with my power…
PARAIBAUrrghghhhh!!!
CHALCEDONY…A little while ago, an idiot said this: “The guy who can’t even return the smile of the girl in front of him shouldn’t be able to save the world.”
PARAIBA…Argh!!!
CHALCEDONYIt’s regrettable, but what that idiot said was true. What I should have done before anything else was tell you these feelings I have in my heart!
PARAIBACal… run…! I will end up… killing you…!!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba Marin de Rey. Ever since I met you, I… I’ve loved you! And from now on… Even as I am almost killed by you here! Into eternity!!
PARAIBAAhhh… No… I don’t want… to kill you…! I… too… love you!!!
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba!!!Lady Paraiba, Lady Paraiba!!
PARAIBAI’m so glad… Chalcedony… You’re alive… right?
CHALCEDONYThose are my words! Are you all right?!
PARAIBAUurgh… I have no feeling in my legs…!
CHALCEDONY
Your legs…? That’s right, because you saved me…
PARAIBAIf I was able to save your life, then I won’t regret not being able to move again. And… …*sniff*
CHALCEDONYLady… Paraiba?
PARAIBA…I’m sorry. You probably don’t remember, but the time we first met was when you were a baby.
CHALCEDONYWhat?! Wasn’t it the time I came to the castle and you gave me the title of boy knight?
PARAIBANope. I’ve even changed your diapers. When I think that you began to like me at that time, it’s funny.
CHALCEDONYY-You changed my diapers?! N-No way…
SHING…She saw it.
PARAIBA…That baby has grown to be such a promising knight. Compared to that, I am such a shameful Empress…
INNESOnce you’ve realized your mistakes you should correct them. Right now the world needs Your Majesty’s power.
GROSSULARUghhh… What just happened…?
ARKHAMAghhh… It feels like my head is splitting…
PARAIBAIf I do not at least do what I can, then I have no reason to smile with you all. Major Grossular! Gather the assault team at once! Clean sweep all of the monsters within the castle! In the case the castle becomes a battleground, I do not mind if you don’t take into account property damage.
GROSSULARWhat…?!
PARAIBADid you not hear what I said? If you have poor hearing, then I will call someone to take your place.
GROSSULARN-No! Lady Paraiba, Her Majesty of the Max Empire! Your orders are understood!
PARAIBAPastor Arkham! Leave the Crystal Knights in charge of the relief and evacuation of the civilians! Once the military has finished removing the monsters, accommodate the sick, children, the elderly, and women within the castle.
ARKHAMB-But the Crystal Knights have no Soma… Gardenia has been revived and soon the world…
PARAIBAEven without Soma, they can still wrap the injured in bandages and give bread to the children. …Please take this seriously! You are a hero that fought with Creed, am I right?
ARKHAM…I’ve shown you an unsightly attitude, Your Majesty. I will carry out your orders carefully!
PARAIBAThe military and the church must cooperate to strengthen the defense of every city and village, and protect the people with all their power! Every minister will quickly gather information on the current damages of the world and arrange the relief supplies! Have reason and peace and cope with the confusion! Put my wishes at top priority, and all those who fight meaninglessly will be punished in my name!! …Even if it means the Major and the Pastor!
GROSSULAR AND ARKHAMYes, Your Majesty!!
CHALCEDONYThat was wonderful, Lady Paraiba.
PARAIBACal… From now on I will resort to uniting the populace and moving with composure. But… it takes all of my might to stand with these legs. Right now, I cannot show such a weak figure. Would it be all right if you supported me by my side, so I won’t collapse?
CHALCEDONYLady Paraiba, your hand. If you will carry the world, then I will support both the world and you.
PARAIBAThank you, Chalcedony Arkham. My Knight…
BYROCKSLord Cal…
BERYLAwww, I’m so glad…
PERIDOTYou can do it, captain!
SHING
All right! We’ll support Marin with you, too!
KOHAKUJeez, Shing, you’re such a kid!
SHINGHuh…? But shouldn’t everyone work together? …What??
PARAIBAI see, Lady Lithia… With Gardenia, there is danger that the world may calcify.
LITHIAYes. Please tell all the people the truth somehow, and convey to them unyielding determination.
PARAIBAThe real sleeping princess is a very strong person. I too will take some of that courage.
PARAIBAPeople of the world, I am Paraiba Marin De Rey. Right now, our world is in danger of being destroyed by the Monsters that Devour Dreams—Zerom, and the Black Moon—Gardenia. Those are monsters that will absorb people’s Spiria… The Sleeping Princess fairytale is fact! …However, do not abandon hope! The Empire is putting forth all its efforts to save the people!!
MANHeh, look what she’s saying, this Empress who couldn’t even stop the stupid wars between the military and the church. Don’t pull my leg! You weren’t doing anything; do you know how many useless sacrifices there’ve been?
TOWNSPERSONYeah! Just how much have you stayed hidden in your safe place?
IMPERIAL SOLDIERYou! Words against Her Majesty are extremely rude!!
PARAIBANo, what they say is true. I have run from my duties as Empress all this time. I drew into my shell, and at that point my Spiria was invaded by Zerom… I am a fool who not only tried to take my own life, but that of the people who tried to protect me. However! Since I am such a fool, I want to convey this to everyone!! Please do not close off your Spiria in despair, sadness, or anger! By itself, a person’s Spiria is incredibly weak… But if they meet and support each other, you can create a strong power that by no means will break!
MANSupporting Spiria…?! …Are you telling us to oppose those monsters with something that’s got no shape?
SHINGIt may not have shape, but can’t you feel it?! That warm feeling of wanting to save someone! That warm feeling of someone who’s supporting you!! Please, everyone! That’s why now, I want you to gather up your courage and tell your
precious people what you feel within your heart!! …That’s really hard, and even I haven’t been able to tell Kohaku yet but…
KOHAKUH-Hey, what are you saying, Shing?! Everyone’s listening!!
SHINGAhhh! I-I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to…
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHah… Hahaha! Hey hey, what are you saying at a time like this?
MANHey, kid, don’t be so ashamed! You’re a man, make your resolve!!
TOWNSPERSON“Man” stuff is getting old! Young lady, it’s getting to the point in time where it’s the women’s turn to take over!
PARAIBAYes, that power! The feelings to your precious people are a power that bears a smile even in despair. Every person in the world has this power, and if everyone ties this together… we can kick those monsters to far off places!
MANHaahaha, I like this! I’m sure my mother’s kick will do just fine! …I’m sorry, everyone. The monsters scared me and I took on bad behavior!
IMPERIAL SOLDIERThis military was also so hung up on small fame, and spread a lot of chaos and damage. …I apologize.
CRYSTAL KNIGHTThe church is at fault, too! It’s not a problem of us apologizing, but please let us make up for what we’ve done.
MANOh, you can’t help it if you apologize! Is there anything we can do?
IMPERIAL SOLDIERHm, we don’t have enough people to deliver the military reserve goods to all places. Lend us a hand!
YOUNG MAN…Damn, I’ll help too! I have to go save my hometown!!
CRYSTAL KNIGHTWe need assistance, too! We don’t have enough nurses.
GIRLI am studying medicine! I’m still an apprentice, but please let me help.
WOMANWe’ll prepare the emergency foods! We’ll also make Lady Paraiba’s portion, so good luck!!
BOY
Uh… I… I’ll look after my brother and sister and make sure they don’t cry!
PARAIBAThank you, everyone… Truly, thank you!!
SHINGLithia!
LITHIA…Ahh, I know the people’s Spiria are connecting…I understand that with this…The courage that surpasses fear and ill feeling…The kindness that protects and loves people…The brightness that does not give in to despair…And the warm feeling of love is spreading to all the people in the world…Ahh, it’s such… Such a warm power…
SHINGLithia… the hero that’s going to stop your nightmares isn’t us…
KOHAKUIt’s the warm feelings of all the people in the world!
SHING AND KOHAKUThank you, everyone!!!
LITHIAFlora, now it’s clear to me. What is really needed for an ideal world was… This connected Spiria which does not fear, and without giving up allows you to convey your feelings to anyone… It was so simple.
(soma link upEveryone’s Soma link became stronger.)
PARAIBAAre you all right, Lady Lithia?
LITHIAYes. Your message put power into even my own Spiria. And what’s more…
PARAIBACal told me. You need this pendant to stop Creed, correct?
(Obtained Scarlet Pendant x 1)
SHINGAll right, we got the pendant… the Zerom Stone. The only thing that’s left is…
KUNZITEThe Flare Horn of the purgatory dragon Volgajoz.
BERYLUuuugh… I’ve only just heard it but I’ve got a bad feeling it’s a really explosive material…
LITHIAThe Volgajoz is the same as the sandworm in that it is a giant monster native to Celirand. It’s a young dragon that even I, who’s lived for two thousand years, heard about its appearance many times in rumors…
PARAIBAHowever, you are in a hurry but recently, there’s been some eye-witness accounts of someone from Guse.
CHALCEDONYGuse… The town of hot springs. All right, let’s depart!
PERIDOTJeez, captain! You’re just going to make Lady Paraiba cry even more with those words!
PARAIBAI won’t cry. Right now is a time where I must show not tears, but the smile that does not lose.
KOHAKUYeah! The next time you cry should be tears of happiness when we stop them and come back.
PERIDOTAll right! Make sure you’ve made up your mind now, Captain ♥
CHALCEDONYPeridot, those are disrespectful words to Lady Paraiba… As punishment, when we return, you must clean the floors of the cathedral for three months!
PERIDOTNo waaaaaaaaaaay! I think that’ll make me cry more than Gardenia and Zerom…
[Hometown to Healing – Guse]
SHINGThat’s right, we fought Chalcedony for the first time in Guse.
CHALCEDONYFought? More like “beaten up by.”
SHINGHeh! I’m sure if we did it now, the result would be the other way around.
CHALCEDONYHmph, no matter how many wild ideas you have, they won’t reach my Spiria!
PERIDOTOhhh, I remember! You saw me when I was in the hot spring!
BERYLThat’s right! You saw me and Kohaku, too!
CHALCEDONYSo you’re that kind of man…
SHINGT-That’s a misunderstanding! I didn’t see anything!! …Only a little.
SASHAAhhhhh!!
SHINGA scream? It’s in the plaza!
SASHAY-You’re…
CHALCEDONYWhat happened? Were you attacked by Zerom?
ROMANTIC BOYNo. The magician in the purple robe threatened Sasha.
PEEPING BOYWe tried to protect her, but… she was strong…
SHINGA magician in a purple robe… Incarose!
SASHAShe said she’d kill these children if I didn’t tell her where the Fruelle were… I became frightened and told her about the spring. What should I do…? The mayor is at the springs.
SHINGWhy is Incarose looking for Fruelle…?
LITHIAPerhaps Creed is…
HISUIWhatever it is can’t be a good reason! Let’s hurry to the spring.
PERIDOTWait, Incarose is the sorceress that agitated the church and the military from behind, right? This is a good chance. We’ll make her give back what she borrowed.
BYROCKSLord Cal, here we must fight our best.
CHALCEDONYHmph… fine. Shing, you guys go on to the spring. We have something else we need to do.
INCAROSEThe Fruelle spirits that were destroyed on Quartia over two thousand years ago… I’ve got them.
GUSE MAYORS-Stop… Fruelle do not live long when separated from the spring they were born in…
INCAROSELet me go. The orders I received were to capture Fruelle… Whether they live or die is not my problem.
GUSE MAYORNo… As mayor, I won’t just stand by and watch as you kill things from my village!
INCAROSEI see… Then I’ll just cut off one of your arms…
SHINGGive back those Fruelle, Incarose!
INCAROSEThe useless vessel and friends… Soon Cendrillion’s transfer arte will begin… You all won’t be able to do anything… Just in case, I’m going to kill you.
PERIDOTOhhhh! We can do quite a lot, you know ♥
INCAROSEUrgh… an attack from above?
BYROCKSMovements just as expected. Taste that embarrassment for stepping right into our plan… and disappear!
INCAROSEAghhhh!!!
HISUIThat was crazy, Chalcedony… If we fought again, you’d probably win.
CHALCEDONYHmph… Being surprised at this amount of coordination means you’re still not up to par.
GUSE MAYORUuugh… *cough*!
KOHAKUMayor! We have to hurry and take him to a house!
SASHAI’m sorry, mayor… All because I told her about the spring…
GUSE MAYOR
Don’t worry about it… It’s the duty of a mayor to protect his village… I’m glad you’re safe, Sasha. And everyone… you saved me after I treated you so cooly…
SHINGDon’t worry about that! It’s the duty of a Soma user to protect kind people.
KOHAKUMayor. In this town, there should be a person who’s seen the purgatory dragon; do you know of them?
GUSE MAYOR…That’s me… A few months ago, by accident I saw an explosion in Bamel Volcano from the opposite shore. There it was in the middle of the flames… A bright red dragon that came out all cool from the middle of the lava, flowing from the mouth of the volcano!
INNESBamel Volcano… That’s the volcano southwest on the peninsula south of this village, right? It was thought to be a sleeping volcano, but a few months ago it suddenly erupted and destroyed the village at the bottom of it.
GUSE MAYORNo… The thing that destroyed the village wasn’t the eruption. I saw it… that purgatory dragon captured all the people of the village caught inside the lava… and was eating them!
CHALCEDONYQuite like a hunter. Maybe the eruption itself has something to do with Volgajoz…
KOHAKUA man-eating dragon that swims in the sea of lava and makes the volcano erupt…
INNESOhoho, Beryl. Don’t you think it’ll be a nice theme for a book?
BERYLNo! I never want to meet it, either!!
PERIDOTI really agree with you but to defeat Creed, we can’t say that stuff.
BYROCKSWe must get this Volgajoz’s flare horn somehow and evolve the flying Soma!
BERYLIncarose said that Cendrillion’s transfer arte is going to start soon.
CHALCEDONYThis is a race against time! We have to start heading to Bamel volcano now.
INCAROSESo the fifth body was defeated… Those little Soma users… And the evolution of a flying Soma… I cannot let them stand before Lord Creed!
[Bamel Volcano]
SHINGAhh, the lava’s like a river!
KUNZITESurveying consecutive volcanic earthquakes. Likelihood of another eruption increasing. Our chances of returning alive are…
BERYLUuugh, no… I don’t wanna hear it!
CHALCEDONYHmph, relax. Not only is my team’s teamwork 100%, but so is our success rate.
PERIDOTThat’s right, there’s a kiss from Lady Paraiba waiting back home so we have to be 1000% successful ♥
BYROCKSBut you have a punishment of cleaning the cathedral floors for half a year waiting for you.
PERIDOTHey… Why did the time get longer?!
HISUIYou should just be appointed to being in charge of floor scrubbing in the Crystal Knights.
CHALCEDONYHmm, it’s a good idea so her squishiness may finally disappear.
PERIDOTT-That’s sexual harassment! I’m going to sue all of you!
KUNZITEVolgajoz should be living deep within the volcano. For now I recommend the route of climbing to the summit, then descending through the mouth.
HISUI (*changes depending on on-screen character)The volcanic gas is just sitting there… But, we gotta keep going!
SHINGAre you okay, Cal?! Your face is all blue!
CHALCEDONY*cough, cough*…! I just breathed a little of that gas in…
SHINGAaaaah!!!
CHALCEDONY
Are you alive, Shing?! I’m coming to save you!
SHING*cough, cough*… Don’t! It’s full of gas here, too.
CHALCEDONYThen I have to do it now! I’ll go get everyone!
INNESNo, there’s no time! You go ahead and take the scheduled course. We’ll get back on our own. We’ll meet at the bottom of the mouth!
BYROCKS…Innes’ plan is the best. Let’s believe in them and move forward.
PERIDOTBut still, aren’t these guys so cute you could die like this?
BERYLWhat’s up with that?! I was maybe thinking about saving you when you cry but I guess not!
CHALCEDONY…Shing, do you want to compete to see which group can get to the purgatory dragon first?
SHINGYeah! And as punishment for the losing group…
BYROCKSThey have to scrub the floors of the cathedral for ten months with Peridot!
PERIDOTHey! Anyway, I’m the punishment decision?! And my time keeps growing!!
SHING…Don’t die, Cal.
CHALCEDONYHmph, there’s no way our fated destinies are going to sever like this!
SHINGSo this is the bottom of the volcano? …It looks like Chalcedony and them aren’t here yet.
BERYLVolgajoz isn’t here either. …Maybe he left? Oh well, too bad! Looks like we just have to go home…
LITHIA…It looks like he’s still home.
SHINGAnd I think he’s not too happy with us coming in without notice.
KOHAKUOr maybe he’s happy? “Finally, some dinner!”
BERYLI don’t like either of them!!
KUNZITEWarning, beware of the lava. If you fall, even the Soma’s defense power becomes meaningless.
HISUI…Good. Let’s burn this!
INNESEhehe, the heat of a Spiria won’t lose to lava, am I right? ♪
BERYLW-We did it! Victory for our burning Spiria!!
KOHAKU…Beryl! Your clothes really are burning!
BERYLAhhhhhh!!
(Obtained Purgatory Dragon Flare Horn x 1)
KUNZITESuccessfully obtained Volgajoz’ Flare Horn.
HISUIThis isn’t good… Whenever that eruption happens, this doesn’t feel right.
INNESBut we can’t leave without Chalcedony and them.
LITHIAEven if we do run, if we don’t have the evolved flying Soma, everything will end.
SHINGLet’s wait here, I believe in them. Like they did for us!
PERIDOTIt’s hot… It’s too hot… I can lose weight with this ♪
BYROCKSI wonder if girls who are a little chubby feel like mothers?
PERIDOT…I think you’re really trying to have a lovers’ spat with me, Byrocks. So… you have a thing for mothers??
CHALCEDONY
If you two miss the sense of the purgatory dragon, realize that!
BYROCKSLord Cal, behind you!
CHALCEDONY…Incarose? We should have defeated you in Guse!
INCAROSEAll you defeated was one of my bodies.
PERIDOTAgh, ahh…
BYROCKSAghh… you?!
INCAROSE…Taste it. Taste the humiliation of your own tactics being brought on you.
CHALCEDONYNo… There’s three Incaroses?
INCAROSEI am an experimental type guardian where my one Spiria inhabits seven bodies… I have lost only three operating bodies in long-lasting fights, but… it’s enough to deal with humans who only have a frail body.
CHALCEDONYYou… What did you do?! Aghhhhh!!
INCAROSEHe even defeated the fourth one…? Well done, Crystal Knight. However…
PERIDOTAghh…!
CHALCEDONY…Peridot!!
INCAROSEFoolish humans thrash about in your Spiria and easily lose composure like this…
CHALCEDONY…I am fine against you with my bare hands.
INCAROSE…Don’t make me laugh. I don’t think your special evolution will pull through, like you… but I’ll have to destroy that dangerous seed, the flying Soma.
CHALCEDONYDidn’t I tell you to move!!
PERIDOT…Captain! Use my Soma!!
INCAROSENo…?! Taking off the Soma in this high heat…?
BYROCKSIncarose! Don’t underestimate the power of humans!!
INCAROSEAgh… Ahhhhh!!
PERIDOTHeheh… serves you right!
CHALCEDONYYou idiots! What are you trying to pull?!
PERIDOTIt’s fine… She took my body completely… …Ahh, with this I wouldn’t need a diet…
BYROCKSI apologize, Lord Cal… We will rest here. You go on ahead… Don’t lose in your competition with Shing…
CHALCEDONYShut up, fools! I don’t care about the competition! …Don’t worry… That wound’ll heal fast! I’ll scrub the floors with you!! That’s why… Byrocks… Peridot… Don’t die! Dammit! What is with this lava?!
BYROCKS…Please understand what you have to do. If you don’t move forward… the world will be destroyed!
PERIDOTYeah… Your kiss with Lady Paraiba’s in danger, too… Hurry and… go…
CHALCEDONYShut up, shut up! I’m not listening to your opinions! Don’t worry… Even if this body burns in that lava, I will definitely save you!!
PERIDOT…Oh…Why don’t you listen to what your sister has to say…?
BYROCKSSomehow… it seems her consciousness is going with her blood.
CHALCEDONYPeridot… Are you remembering your dead little brother?
PERIDOT…I thought so, you’re resenting the older sister that couldn’t save you… right? I’m sorry… Even though you were in such pain… We had no money and I couldn’t call a doctor. I stole some money… But when I came back you were already cold… it’s normal… for you to hate me…
CHALCEDONYThat’s not true! Your little brother… I have no reason to hate you! I always knew that you looked over me…
PERIDOTReally…? Then, be a good boy… and listen to me… go… forward… You can do it… right? I’m so proud… of my little brother… You’re a… strong boy…
BYROCKSListen to your big brother… too. You’re not the kind of little brother to make your big sister cry, are you?
CHALCEDONYOkay… I’m going… to go. Brother… sister, I leave this to you. More than anyone… I believe in my brother.
BYROCKSYeah… we’ll take care of this.
PERIDOT…Ph! Ahahaha… Sister, Brother? My little brother’d call me “sis” while picking his nose, but I guess captain really is more refined.
BYROCKS…You persuaded him well. I thank you, Peridot.
PERIDOTHehehe… our captain’s more of a handful than Spin and Nell… I gotta… get my act together… I don’t… want to see… another brother die… again… So… this is… okay… right? …Big bro…
BYROCKS…Yeah, you’re a good sister. This big brother with a sister like you… is happy… too.
(*Here you talk to each party member individually. Talk in any order you prefer but I did right to left (save the best for last :D))
INNESPhew… Just sitting here waiting is getting tiresome…
BERYLI say it’s hot so it’s hot! From now on, whenever I say it’s hot you owe me ten gald!
KOHAKUWe don’t need to worry… Peridot, Byrocks, and of course Chalcedony are all strong!
KUNZITETemperature as well as bedrock pressure increasing. Inversely, the chances of reuniting with Chalcedony’s group is…
LITHIAPlease hurry, Chalcedony… At this rate, Cendrillion will end up flying to Gardenia!
HISUI
What the hell is that Chalcedonidiot doing? Hurry up and show your face, dammit!
HISUI…Guh! That shaking was huge!
SHINGHere’s Chalcedony! You’re late, you made us worry!!
CHALCEDONYDid you get the Flare Horn? Hurry up and start the evolution.
KOHAKUChalcedony… Where’s Peridot and Byrocks?
CHALCEDONY…They’re not coming. On the way they were attacked by Incarose, and can’t move anymore.
SHINGIncarose?! …You mean, you just left them there?
CHALCEDONYThere’s no time. Hurry and get out Lady Paraiba’s pendant.
SHINGAnswer me, Chalcedony!!
CHALCEDONY…That’s right. I left them and came here… Only for the sake of taking you all into the sky.
KUNZITEDetecting the oscillation waves of breaking bedrock! We will be caught within the explosion here within thirty seconds!!
INNES…Shing! You have to concentrate on the evolution now!
CHALCEDONYLet’s do this… Soma Evolve!!
BERYLWhat’s wrong, Chalcedony?! The explosion’s coming!!
CHALCEDONYDammit… Why won’t it evolve? I don’t care if it sucks out my Spiria! Evolve, Soma! Wha… What are you doing?
KOHAKUCalm down, Chalcedony. You’re not alone. Your Soma’s tying together everyone’s feelings. Even Byrocks and Peridot’s Spiria is here… With you. …See! Peridot’s all mad that you’re not noticing that!
HISUI
Hey, it’s true! She’s not saying good stuff, Captian.
INNESByrocks is a bit worried too… But he believes in you, and he’s watching over you quietly.
BERYLPeridot’s saying… To live on and scrub the floor of the cathedral in her place!
KUNZITETheir strong will to protect you is resonating with something within me.
SHINGLet’s fly, Chalcedony… With Peridot and Byrocks’ Spiria, too.
CHALCEDONYAh… I got it, you guys. I won’t let the Spiria here now disappear… Not by lava, Gardenia, or Creed! Let’s go, my Soma! Strongly… high… to the sky! Fly!!!
BERYLAhh… We’re alive…?
SHING…Look outside! We’re alive… and flying in the sky!!
KOHAKUThis is the evolved flying Soma! The wings of hope that Peridot and Byrocks helped create!! Ahhh… The Link’s disappearing! No! Don’t go away!!
BERYLChalcedony! Peridot and Byrocks are… …Ahhh, they’re losing consciousness! N-No, and Chalcedony even…
INNESIt’s all right, he’s still breathing… But who’s controlling the Soma?
HISUIOh dammit, it’s starting to fall! Can’t you do something, Kunzite?!
KUNZITEIn my possession of data, I do not have information on how to control it.
LITHIACalm down! As of now I will register as the control core, and secure operation authority. I will not let the wings of hope that Chalcedony and them helped to create fall!!
(soma link upEveryone’s soma link became stronger.)
SASHAAhhh, everyone! You’re all burned!
SHINGWe’re fine. But get some help for Chalcedony.
SASHAO-Okay! Hurry and come to the mayor’s house!!
LITHIAChalcedony… You strained yourself over your limit and backlashed against you.
KUNZITEYou have done the same, Lady Lithia! Using mind artes any further than this… That was… a sign of calcification just now!
HISUILithia… Your Spiria becoming like this…
LITHIAYou two… please don’t tell the others this.
KUNZITEBut!
LITHIA…It’s all right. I won’t die while Gardenia is unsealed.
HISUIWe got help as fast as we could but he’s all worn out… He can’t move at all.
CHALCEDONY…Shing… Everyone… are you all right?
SHING…Cal…
CHALCEDONYByrocks and Peridot… aren’t here.
SHING…………………………Yeah.
CHALCEDONYI see… But don’t worry. I’ll do their share… Aghhh! I-I can’t move my body… Dammit, I’m a useless Captain…
HISUI…We don’t need you anymore. Just go sleep.
KOHAKUHisui, don’t say that!
HISUIIf he overdoes it, he’ll die. These guys helped us even up ‘til now! It’s enough… And if he’s with us, he won’t even cry…
CHALCEDONYHisui… My Soma Warheit was your mother’s memoir, right?
HISUIThe Warheit is now a new Soma that you guy’s ties helped evolve.
CHALCEDONYNot just my group… The wings born from everyone’s ties.
INNESWarheit reborn from the power of bonds… Maybe, Leanheit?
BERYLLeanheit! Yeah, it’s a good, artistic name!
CHALCEDONYWings of bonds, Leanheit… Our feelings will fly with that name, too.
KOHAKUYup, no matter how far apart we are, your Spiria’s with us!
BERYLWhat, what what?!
KUNZITESound recognition. This is the sound of Cendrillion’s transfer arte beginning.
LITHIAThis is bad! We must go to Cendrillion now!
SHING…All right, we’re off.
CHALCEDONY………Shing! Just promise me one thing… You have to come back alive. …Crying once for the loss of a friend is more than enough.
SHING…Yeah, I promise!!
(All of Auldomaine road is available as field.)
(noticeAbout the controls of the flying Soma LeanheitLeanheit can move freely with the control pad. Press the Y Button to land and fly again. Please move to Cendrillion (goal icon) marked on the navi map.)
[Mobile Crystal Castle Cendrillion]
CREEDWhat was that?!
CORUNDUMA-An unknown flying object has… collided with us…
INCAROSEReporting… Lithia’s group has rushed into Cendrillion with a large-type flying Soma.
STRIGAUThe guys who broke my Spirune are here?!
CROASERAPHYeah, Kunzite’s with them. …This time, I’ll release his Spiria from Lithia’s spell!
CREED…Incarose… You got the Fruelle spirits, did you?
INCAROSEYes… They’re here…
CREEDOhhh… The spirits that Flora has always wanted to see… If I give these Fruelle to her, then her Spiria will probably heal some. …Good job, Inca.
INCAROSEYes… However, I let those mice get away. I tried to hinder the evolution but they broke numbers four, five, and seven…
CREEDI don’t care… The point is, you’re garbage, lower than mice. Do you understand, garbage?! I want to stop those Soma users directly, but right now I’m concentrating on transferring! Until we stop moving, do your best to stop them!!
INCAROSEYes… in exchange for this body.
CROASERAPHI’ll do it… but not for you, it’s so I can make Kunzite mine.
STRIGAUI’ll do this! I’ll gouge out their Spirune while they’re still alive and lick it in front of them!!
CREEDI’m going to the bridge. Each of you go to your respective stations! Corundum! Don’t neglect control of Cendrillion, either.
CORUNDUMLord… Creed… I’m at my limit… Help me… Ahahah…
BERYLOhhhh, I thought we were going to break up…
SHINGThat’s dumb. The Soma filled with Chalcedony and them’s feelings shouldn’t break!
BERYLEven if the Soma doesn’t break, I’m in danger because my body’s weak!
KOHAKULithia… your face is all white!
LITHIAYes, perhaps your fear of heights is affecting me?
KOHAKUAhhh, don’t say that! I’m trying really hard to forget that we’re in the sky!
INNESDon’t let your guard down! Creed may just be around the corner.
LITHIANo… He should be on the bridge, trying to perfect the transfer arte.
HISUIThe thing spreading in front of Cendrillion was the transfer arte? If that’s finished, then it’ll fly to Gardenia, right?
KUNZITEAffirmative. The current development percent is roughly 75%.
LITHIALet us hurry! The bridge is just beyond the migration port.
CORUNDUMYaha… hahah… It hurts… Lord Creed…
LITHIAThis is…!
KUNZITEAnalysis of the situation—by connecting Corundum’s pseudo-Spiria to Cendrillion, Creed is able to control it.
LITHIA…How cruel. Corundum’s pseudo-Spiria can’t keep this control load for very long. Please wait, Corundum. Now, I will take over the controls!
CORUNDUMAhah… ahaha! ♪ Just as… Lord Creed thought! Activating… mind trap!!
KUNZITEPlease do not do it, Lady Lithia!
LITHIAT-This is… He anticipated me trying to save Corundum…
KUNZITEAffirmative. This is the trap arte that Creed set. Lady Lithia, we have no choice but to leave Corundum like this. Let’s hurry to the bridge.
CORUNDUMI… failed! Creed will… get mad at me…
LITHIA…I know. I’m sorry, Corundum…
SHINGUuurh, there’s so many Mother Zerom! If these guys wake up…
KOHAKUThat’s right! We still have some flame thunder bombs left. Let’s use that to finish them off!
INNESNo matter how many bombs we use, it’s not enough power to burn all of these giant mothers.
LITHIAPlease wait. With the machine further down this path, you can control the environment of this room. Inside the room, if you create a high concentrated oxygen state so that the power of the explosion will grow and then start an explosion, you might be able to destroy all the mothers at once. …Kunzite!
KUNZITERoger. Calculating the oxygen concentration and explosion situation to show the biggest effects of the bomb.
BERYLEffect… oxygen concentration…? Uuugh, artists aren’t good at stuff like this…
KUNZITECalculations complete. Let me set the bomb in the specific area.
LITHIAI will change the environment settings to the data you calculated. Finished filling the room with a high concentration of oxygen! Shing, put fire to it!!
INNESOkay! Let’s get out of here, quick!
KUNZITEThat is the migration port. If you stand in the warp, you can be moved to a random point within the castle.
SHINGOkay, let’s get to the bridge!! Oww… it shocked me?!
INNESI don’t think it will easily let intruders wander around freely…
LITHIA
…That’s not true. Corundum cannot control Cendrillion completely. We do not have the authority to control the warp, however… I have an idea. Please go to the mechanoids’ room ahead.
HISUIGot it, mechanoids’ room. We’ll leave this stuff to you here.
LITHIAWe’ll awaken one mechanoid.
MECHANOIDCompleted movements. I am identification code IS337 model 11 jack-type all-purpose mechanical being. At your service.
BERYLAhhh! He’s just like Kunzite! …A sibling?
LITHIAThey are the same type, but this one does not come with a pseudo-Spiria. He’s in charge of the normal routines within Cendrillion. This one has the power to move freely within Cendrillion.
INNESOh I see, so this robot will open the port for us?
LITHIAYes. When I investigated, the mechanical beings’ control was not hindered. Please open the migration port to the bridge.
MECHANOIDUnderstood.
LITHIAAll right, please follow him.
KOHAKU…He’s like Kunzite but cold…
KUNZITEOne must quietly follow their master’s orders. That is the destiny of a mechanical being.
BERYLHmmm… So, you’re different, Kunzite. Sometimes you get all worked up.
KUNZITEThat is terrible… Because of this Spiria I cannot control, I may betray my mistress or you all one day…
KUNZITEWe should be able to get to the bridge with this migration point.
BERYLWe-We’re almost to the final battle…
KOHAKUYou don’t need to worry. I’m protecting you!
SHINGAnd I’m protecting Kohaku!
HISUII’m follow Lithia and Kohaku. You protect yourself.
INNESOh…? No one is protecting me?
BERYL…O-Okay! If you’re in danger, I’ll save you!!
INNESHmmm, if I end up in a pinch, I don’t think you would be safe…?
BERYLT-That’s true but it’s the thought that counts!
LITHIA…Well, let’s get going. Please activate the port.
MEHCANOIDYes. …However your destination will be hell!
KUNZITEThis voice… Croaseraph?!
KUNZITEThis is not the bridge! Confirm the presence of awakened Mother Zerom!!
LITHIAAhhh… He locked the transfer port?!
HISUIThere’s no other exits… Damn that knife bastard, he trapped us!
MECHANOIDExactly! I read your plan and gave this thing orders. A mechanical being without Spiria will follow any orders. For example, if I told him to throw himself into a group of Zerom… See, exactly… A miserable existence that can’t feel pain or loss.
KOHAKUThat’s terrible… You shouldn’t treat things without Spiria like that!
KUNZITECroaseraph… I do not recognize that you understand anguish and conflict!
MECHANOIDAhh, Kunzite… Of course I want to talk with you about anguish and conflict. And for that I decided to disassemble you. When we talk, your neck is enough!
LITHIAPlease just give me a little time. While you’re doing that, I’ll undo the lock on the port.
KUNZITEAgh… With that body… And now are you going to order me to let me help you?!
LITHIAI will not order you. Even if I don’t do that, you always save me.
KUNZITELady… Lithia… I…
HISUIGet a grip, Kunzite! You gonna let Lithia’s two thousand years worth of memories end here?
KUNZITE…Only that is a certain refusal!
(noticeIn order for Lithia to unlock the warp, it will take roughly two minutes of concentration. In this time period, protect her from the Zerom that the Mother Zerom create. You can stop the Zerom by direct battle, and also by the energy shot or energy blow.)
LITHIAWe can go to the bridge! Please get on the transfer port!
HISUIHey! You all right, Lithia?
LITHIA…Of course. You protected me.
INNESYou… did this, right Lithia?
LITHIAYes. I’ve increased the oxygen concentration. Do it, Kohaku!
KOHAKUThis is the last of our flare lightning bombs! Shing!!
SHINGYeah! Take that, Zerom!!
KUNZITEWe’ve reached our destination. This is Cendrillion’s Bridge.
STRIGAUJeez, you’re slow… I was so bored, I was about to stick holes all over this Spirune.
INNESI’ve been wanting to see you… Strigau!!
STRIGAUHm, good! I’m sure your Spirune is prettier than this one ♪ Hmph, what’s with you…? You in pain? My eyes cannot be fooled! That tattered Spirune isn’t worthy of my collection!
INNESI don’t want to be involved in your horrible hobby! Leave Lapis’ Spirune here and disappear!
STRIGAUHorrible… hobby? …Mama said that too… My mother said that same thing, after she threw all the stones I worked so hard to collect!
SHINGUgh… He’s… possessed by Zerom! His Soma… no!
STRIGAUEaghhhhhh!!!
LITHIAI can’t believe this… His out of control Spiria made his Soma stronger?!
STRIGAUAll right! Which one of your Spirunes is the prettiest?! I will gouge it out with your heart and compare them well!!
INNESThis time… give Lapis’ Spirune back!
STRIGAUI’m not scared… I know why… mama was mad! Mama’s Spirune… is an ugly rock! A pitch black, dirty rock that hates me!! That’s why mama’s jealous of my pretty collection!!
HISUITch! …How many damn Zerom did he let possess him?
INNESAhh, I’m not going to let you make Lapis into Zerom’s food!!
SHINGInnes!
BERYLOh jeez, don’t be so careless!
LITHIA…No! I will seal just the Zerom.
KOHAKUBut, Lithia… Is it true that your Spiria’s in pain?
LITHIA…Creed is not here, and this is a chance!
KOHAKUThe Zerom are gone!
SHINGInnes, are you okay?!
INNESThank you, I’m all right… Look, Lapis’ Spirune, too.
BERYLEhehe… I’ll just understand the feeling ♪
(Obtained Lapis’ Spirune x 1)
STIRAGAUGhhhhh… Aaaauuuughh!!
HISUICalcification… Was his Spiria eaten? No, not eaten, more like…
CREEDYes, absorbed!
SHINGCreed Graphite!
KOHAKU…And Incarose is alive, too?!
INCAROSEGardenia’s awakening has arrived to the stage of complete control of Zerom. It’s already impossible to seal Zerom now…
CREEDAnd Gardenia has started the direct absorption of Spiria, as well… Look!!
INN CUSTOMERUrgh… uuuugh…
INNKEEPERUughh, I’ve got no strength… What on earth is happening?
LANDLADYThis is nothing…! You should get better as soon as you eat a full meal…
BETHERAN SHIP EMPLOYEEW-What… I feel weak…
SANGO
Freshen up! You call yourselves men of the sea?! Ughh… I still have to carry the emergency rations… So embarrassing…
CHENI give up… Somehow, this is a situation where even money doesn’t matter…
BOYI kind of feel… heavy…
NELLMe… too…
SPINGet a hold of yourselves…! Weaklings’ll be disqualified by Peridot…
SISTERAhhh, I do not care which God! Please… somehow… save these children…
GROSSULARY-Your Majesty! That monster has started to move again!
ARKHAMPlease, get inside the castle!
PARAIBANo. I will watch everything from here. That is my duty. Chalcedony, Shing… Kohaku, Lady Lithia… Somehow, please… save the world.
LITHIANo… No! That tragedy is going to happen again!
CREEDI will also tell you a truth that may cause some despair. I’ve finished developing that transfer arte.
LITHIAI-It can’t be! Being able to totally complete the arte without using the bridge’s equipment…
CREEDHmph… Don’t make me the same as you, who only ran! In these two thousand years, I’ve been working towards the revival of Quartia and prepared countless new artes.
LITHIASuch a strong arte… Creed, you too are also losing your life little by little…
SHINGPerfect timing! We’ll defeat you all here and blow away Gardenia, too!
CROASERAPHYou think you can oppose us with those cut up bodies from the Mother Zerom and Strigau?
INCAROSEWe’ll know the limits of your bodies, soon. You’ll have a death just like those Crystal Knights.
SHING…Peridot and Byrocks?!
INCAROSEWho knows… I don’t remember the names of bugs. What I remember was their shameful way of begging for their lives. Shall I play it back…? The scream of despair as they fell into the sea of lava… A hideous death scream of bawling, I don’t want to die. To say it like a human, “It makes me laugh”…
KOHAKUShing… Don’t get worked up.
SHING…I know, Kohaku. I’m not going to make the same mistake twice. Peridot and Byrock’s Spiria are still tied to us now. What’s filled in Soma isn’t anger or hatred… it’s these feelings!!
INCAROSEAghh… M-My eyes!
CROASERAPH…He was fast!
SHINGCreed, it’s your turn next!!
CREEDOh, you surpassed Inca’s reaction time? …How interesting.
INCAROSEDo not do it, Lord Creed! He’s dangerous! …Too dangerous!!
CREEDInca… you?!
INCAROSEHow dare you, how dare you, how dare you… break my eyes!! I’m going to kill you!! I won’t allow you to stand in front of Lord Creed again!
KUNZITEWarning! This arte will…
INCAROSEYou, all of you! I’ll send you into the depths of time-space!!
EVERYONEAhhhhhh!!
SHINGUrghhh… Is everyone all right?
KOHAKUWhite forest… white ground… white sky… where is this?
BERYLLook at the sky! The white moon’s blue now!
INNESThere’s something flowing into Gardenia from that blue moon…? …No, that’s!!
KUNZITEGardenia is absorbing Spiria. That blue moon is your world, Celirand. And here is…
HISUIThe white moon calcified by Gardenia… Quartia?
SHINGWe were flung to the white moon…
INNESIt was done by Incarose’s tenacity! And we had just gotten Lapis’ Spirune back, too…
KOHAKUThis is… calcification?!
SHINGIs her Spiria disappearing, like Strigau said?
KUNZITE…In that crucial moment, Lady Lithia controlled Leanheit and saved us.
BERYLBut if she’s like this, then we can’t fly with Leanheit anymore… it really is the end…
KUNZITEConfirming current location… Northwest of here is a city of the Quartz. I suggest we move to there.
SHINGA Quartz village…?
KUNZITEThe Quartz city Wonderidel. The place where the forest of thorns Cendrillion was manufactured… and the town where the siblings Lady Lithia and Lady Flora, and Creed were born and raised.
HISUI…Do we have a plan there?
KUNZITEThere is no positive proof. However, if we do not move, then all possibility is zero.
INNES
Let’s go. Until I get Lapis’ Spirune back, I won’t give up!
SHINGYeah, I’m not gonna give up either! Let’s go do Wonderidel.
[Quartz City Wonderidel]
HISUIThis is Wonderidel… Amazing… I can imagine what kind of techniques it was made out of. …You’re not surprised, Shing?
SHINGI am. The people who had the power to make this kind of town were all calcified, every last one of them…
KUNZITELady Lithia lost consciousness and it was painful. I do not want to show her this disaster…
LITHIA…You don’t need to be concerned. I understand my sin completely.
BERYLW-Where are you going?
LITHIA…To the central dome. There is still a way to get to Gardenia. For that, I must start up the dome’s functions…
KOHAKUWait, Lithia! …Isn’t this kind of weird?
KUNZITEThis is the first time she’s seen her hometown that she calcified… She should not be calm.
HISUIDon’t just stand there! Let’s follow her.
SHINGThere she is! In front of that big tree!
KUNZITEThat tree is the dome’s power center, Quartz Seed! Please wait, Lady Lithia!!
INNESShe revived the dome’s functions?!
LITHIAYou can revive the machine’s functions if you pour in mind energy.
KUNZITELady Lithia!
HISUI
Don’t do reckless stuff! Your Spiria’s already…
LITHIAPlease don’t worry… I still have Spiria left to sacrifice…
HISUIIdiot… I’m not worried about that!!
INNES…What are they talking about?
LITHIANo, I said that with this we can get the key. The tower of hope that shot Gardenia into the sky—Jack Seed’s access pass.
SHINGThe tower that shot Gardenia into the sky?
LITHIAQuartia’s largest transfer system. With that, it should be able to send us to Gardenia. The access pass that starts the transfer system should be in my sister’s room within the dome… agh. *pant, pant*… Okay, let’s take the access pass, and head to Jack Seed.
HISUIYou’re shitting me! This is the last we’re gonna listen to orders from a girl who does whatever!
KUNZITE…I will follow you. To Jack Seed, to Gardenia, until the ends of the earth…
HISUIKunzite, dammit…
INNES…Let’s go, Hisui. If we get going, all possibilities won’t be zero.
LITHIAHere it is. This is the access pass to Jack Seed.
(Obtained access pass x 1)
KOHAKULithia, how are you going to supply the essential movement energy?
LITHIAThat’s…
BERYLAhhh! C-Croaseraph?!
KUNZITEThat is a miss, Beryl. This is Croaseraph’s brother machine, Crinoseraph.
LITHIA (Kunzite?)
Just like Coraseraph, he was an ace-type mechanical being who was Lady Flora’s guardian. He should have been in Cendrillion when Gardenia started, so why is he…? No… He tried to save Lady Lithia’s precious bird?
HISUIBe careful, Lithia. He’s the same as Croaseraph, right?
LITHIA…There’s no need to worry. Even he is calcified. And once Rino and Roa were kind guardians who loved Flora dearly.
CRINOSERAPH…Lady… Flora…
SHINGHe’s not calcified!
CRINOSERAPHVoice recognition—Confirmed Gardenia’s control core Lithia Spodune.
INNESLithia calcified! What did you do?!
CRINOSERAPHLady Flora…
KUNZITEAnalyzing behavior. Crinoseraph has activated an arte that removes Lady Lithia’s Spiria from her body. I assume that Lady Lithia’s Spiria has been captured into Crinoseraph’s Spirmaze. …Denied analysis result! It is not possible to Spirlink with a mechanoid’s Spirmaze!
HISUIAnd you say that! We’ve gotta try it, no matter what. Got that, Shing?!
SHINGYeah, let’s Spirlink!
CRINOSERAPHDeveloping multiple mind barriers. Beginning rejection from Spirmaze.
CROASERAPHJust as planned, you sealed them, Rino.
CRINOSERAPH…Yeah. I got the access pass, and we’ll start Jack Seed with their mind power.
SHINGWhat, where is this?! We should have Spirlinked with Crinoseraph!
With our large release of the new type of Zerom, we have completely cleared the Dordo peninsula of the Jabaorche city allied forces. With this victory, our Wonderiel axis union has secured our important locations for the attack on the western continent. After this…
MALE QUARTZWonderful! Just as expected for the new Zerom evolved off of the feed of the primitive Spiria of Celirade.
FEMALE QUARTZBut, the United States of Gripho are also oppressing one part of Celirand, and have started to introduce their own original Zerom-type mind weapons.
YOUNG MAN QUARTZNo problem. It seems our union is already developing weapons that even surpass Zerom.
FEMALE QUARTZNew weapons are very welcome, but if we’re not aware of new weapons ahead of time, then our bets will be off. This time I didn’t know about the introduction of new Zerom so it was a big loss. I don’t think thirty thousand people died, either.
MAN QUARTZHahaha, I was right! If you take into account information other than official announcements, there should have been over ten thousand deaths in battle.
YOUNG MAN QUARTZHow much power do these new weapons have? There isn’t too much power and the battle balance goes all off; it’s boring.
SHINGHey, do you know what you guys are saying?!
MAN QUARTZI’m sure the higher ups understand, too? After all, this fight is an industry for consumption and leisure.
KUNZITEComparing data. This broadcast now matches Quartia’s war situation just before Gardenia activated. This is probably the Spirmaze Crinoseraph made and is replaying memories.
KOHAKUSo basically… This was the Quartia that Lithia and them lived in?
BERYLA village of memories left behind in a calcified world… It’s kind of romantic…
SHINGThose people just now… Were enjoying the war.
INNESIt’s quite a miserable world. But I can’t really say any better about ours.
HISUIWhatever Spirmaze this is, Lithia’s definitely in here. Let’s hurry up and find her and bring her back!
[Cendrillion]
SHING…This is the Forest of Thorns?!
KUNZITEAffirmative. Once Cendrillion experienced a large evolution on the Wonderidel. This is the inside of Cendrillion at this time.
SHING…Creed! And Flora?!
KOHAKUIs this also a replay of memories?
CREEDWhy don’t you understand, Flora? We can modify Gardenia perfectly!
FLORAThere’s no reason why I should approve! With Gardenia’s distant mind-absorption power… Sucking out the malice that awakens fighting from all the Quartz’s Spiria is too reckless!!
CREEDLike you can fight the idiots who don’t face danger and continue war without limit? If we don’t use it for peace, Gardenia will be used only as a weapon! This is the plan of the special characteristic of the Quartz who can separate their body and Spiria put to good use… I’m sure of success!
FLORA…For argument’s sake, even if you did succeed, a world brought about by that method…
CREED…That’s enough. I’ll put Lithia in charge of the control core, not you.
SHINGLithia!
HISUI…So she’s a past Lithia that Crinoseraph remembered, too…
LITHIASister… The Quartz’ war has involved Celirand and furthermore, is expanding. To be able to stop a world and Spiria this warped, I think they won’t stop at using forced power…
CREEDTell her straight out! Flora’s Soma Link Plan is just an empty theory!
FLORA…I’m sure that the power of Soma Link now, the likelihood of putting all people’s Spiria into one is far. But… …Creed, Lithia! Please calm down and let’s talk this out. That’s right, I’ll even give you two your favorite Reiv Tea. And if we can talk like we’ve done before…
CREED…How long are you going to keep treating me like a child…? Just cut it out already! Talking it out is meaningless. There’s just Gardenia and my true power.
FLORACreed… Lithia… Why has it come to this…?
CROASERAPH…Please don’t cry, Lady Flora. I do not like sadness…
CRINOSERAPHWe exist for the sake of protecting you and your Spiria.
FLORARino, Roa… please. Lend me your hand in helping me stop them. …In the situation now, I’ll do whatever it takes to stop Gardenia!
CROASERAPH…But we are not able to stop Lady Lithia or Lord Creed…
CRINOSERAPH…I’ll be in charge of Lord Creed. Roa, you hold down Lady Lithia.
CROASERAPHRino… You’re not afraid of Lord Creed?
CRINOSERAPH…There’s no problem.
CROASERAPHHmph… We are the same type, but our pseudo-Spiria growth is quite different.
FLORAI leave this to you two. I will provide against contingencies and work on preparing Cendrillion’s emergency take-off.
SHINGWe’ll help too, Flora!
HISUICalm down! These are memories from a long time ago. …And now, we’ve got to be able to change the past…
CORUNDUMAhhhh, I’m so busy, so busy! Continuing the Forest of Thorns Cendrillion’s giant evolution! But but the link system’s all out! If it starts it’d be totally interesting but like this it’s totally boring! Ahhh, I’d get so much more interesting data on Gardenia… Ahaha! ♪ That’s right! Next time I’ll ask Lord Creed to show me around there! …Ahhh! I have to hurry and keep on preparing! Ahh, I’m so busy!!
HISUICorundum from the past, huh. I just don’t get this thing…
KUNZITECorundum’s pseudo-Spiria is specialized and adjusted to curiosity. She has no ill-intentions however she moves with curiosity as her top priority.
SHINGHey, Corundum! Think about what’s going on around you and do something!
HISUI…Look who’s talking.
KUNZITE…Look who is talking.
LITHIAEven if it’s dark outside I am all rightWithout crying I open my eyesWe are together I am not afraid
SHINGThere’s Lithia!
LITHIAGo through the forest at nightAnd let’s go see the ends of the earthTogether we light the crystal withinWe fight butWhen we awaken we reconcileYour cheeks become sunlight and now is good night.
KOHAKUShe’s not responding… So you’re the Lithia a part of this memory world…
MIDDLE-AGED QUARTZHaha, when I hear Lithia sing, I feel like my life is getting longer. There are really no nice things when my Quartia has been fighting all my long life…
LADY QUARTZDon’t say things like that. Lithia, Flora, and Creed… They’re trying their best to create a peaceful world even though they grew up in war.
MIDDLE-AGED QUARTZ…Creed. He’s that kid his parents abandoned because of his power, even though he is just a kid. Ever since then he doesn’t open his Spiria to anyone, and just thinks about mind artes. I wonder what on earth he is thinking…
LADY QUARTZThat child probably hates humans more than war…
LITHIABut he only talks of his ideals enthusiastically to me and my sister. His ideal of saving the world with his own power…
MIDDLE-AGED QUARTZ…Then does he really have a way to stop the Spiria contaminated with war?
OLDER BROTHER QUARTZHey, Lithia, sing more.
LITLE BROTHER QUARTZNo! Play hide and seek with me!
MIDDLE-AGED QUATZHey, hey! Don’t get Lithia all worked up now, this is the first time in a while she’s come and played with us.
LADY QUARTZYou’re always with Flora but today you’re alone… Did something happen?
LITHIA…Yes. I opposed my sister for the first time…
LITTLE BROTHER QUARTZNo, no! She’s gonna play hide and seek!
OLDER BROTHER QUARTZWhat, you’re so selfish! I hate you!
LITTLE BROTHER QUARTZAhhhhh! But I really really really hate you!!
LITHIADon’t say hate. You two are irreplaceable siblings… Yes, no two humans are the same… An existence that no one can replace. Don’t say hate.
OLDER BROTHER QUARTZLithia… are you crying?
LITTLE BROTHER QUARTZI’m sorry… don’t cry. I won’t say hate anymore.
LADY QUARTZAh, I’m relieved… Just like the song. “We fight but when we awaken we reconcile”… I’m sure the day will come when you and Flora… no, when everyone in the world will awaken and reconcile.
LITHIAThank you… Miss. …Oh, I know! How about I sing while playing hide and seek? Who’s the one under the tree~♪ That’s me~♪ …Yeah? Doesn’t it seem like fun!
OLDER BROTHER QUARTZAhh, that’s kind of weird, Lithia…
CROASERAPHI’ve found you, Lady Lithia. I won’t let you move on your own anymore.
LITHIA…No. I don’t want to lose this warmth… so!
LITHIA“Please, let me stay here…”
LITHIA
“I will let Gardenia start!”
KUNZITECroaseraph, I will not let you touch my mistress.
CROASERAPHKunzite… Are you opposing me with your multi-purpose status? You’re like Rino, your pseudo-Spiria isn’t at the level to feel fear.
KUNZITENo… Fear towards you does exist. However, I am Lady Lithia’s guardian!
CROASERAPHHe jumped from this height?! More than recognizing fear, he has the strength not to care about my body? Hahah… amazing! You are amazing, Kunzite!!
HISUIKunzite… That was your past you, right? But that Lithia…
KUNZITEAffirmative. The Lady Lithia of the past and the present Lady Lithia are existing on top of one another.
KOHAKUThat was the real Lithia just now…?! Then why did she ignore us?
HISUIWhere did you guys go after this?
KUNZITE…To a spring in Latwick Forest southwest of Wonderidel.
SHINGA spring in a forest southwest of here… Whatever that is, let’s go meet her and make sure!
[Latwick Forest]
SHINGIt’s really pretty… It looks like the Fruelle spring.
LITHIAKunzite, were you injured in your fall just now?
KUNZITEThey are injuries I am able to repair myself. There is no problem.
LITHIAYes there is! You have a Spiria that can feel pain and fear.
KUNZITENo… I feel that if it is for your warmth, then any pain is no problem.
LITHIAOh, Kunzite. That was quite like a confession.
KUNZITEConfession…? Affirmative. I have confessed my recognition of you.
LITHIAHeheh… Your Spiria’s still not totally grown yet.
LITHIA…Yes, this was my world. Even though it was filled with fighting and corruption… Kind Flora… the townspeople who wouldn’t forget happiness… trustworthy Kunzite… And Creed, burning in ideals… A world where everyone’s feelings were alive, a world of so long ago…
CREEDSo you were here, Lithia!
LITHIACreed! Of course you knew I would be here.
CREEDOf course. This spring is yours, mine and Flora’s… our promise place. We talked so many times about an ideal world… an appropriate place for the departure to a new world.
LITHIAA spring where spirits that reflect Spiria called Fruelle used to live… But now, Fruelle and Flora are not here…
CREEDI’m going to give Flora a much more wonderful present than Fruelle or whatever… You and me.
LITHIAThose words between us were so happy… but…
CREEDLet’s go together. To the black moon that will birth a new world—Gardenia.
LITHIA (LITHIA)…Yes. (No!)
LITHIADon’t go! You can’t create an ideal world with Gardenia! Everyone will calcify! All that will remain is endless fear and regret! No… You can’t…! Please, please, please… Somebody, stop me!!
SHINGGardenia… started!!
YOUNG QUARTZW-What is this…? A new enemy weapon?!
WOMAN QUARTZNo, No! I… I didn’t bet on my own death!!
MAN QUARTZ
Ahhh, no…! I don’t want to die… I don’t want to die!!
LITHIAAhhh…
LITTLE BROTHER QUARTZAhhhh! I’m scared, I’m scared!!
OLDER BROTHER QUARTZH-Help me… Just help my brother! Lithia!
LADY QUARTZAhhh… is everyone going to die?! This is… This is…
QUARTZAhhhhhhh!!!
LITHIAAhhh… Gardenia is eating everyone’s Spiria… and laughing! Please forgive me… Please… I don’t want to know the taste of people’s Spiria!!
SHINGCut it out, Gardenia!!!
CRINOSERAPHLike I will stop! Know the sin of betraying Lady Flora, Lithia!!
KUNZITEThat voice was… Crinoseraph!
BERYLAhhh! We’re in trouble too!
LITHIANoooooooo!!!
[Back to reality]
CROASERAPHHere it is, the access pass. And with this, we have no more use for Lithia’s body. Tch, Rino! Close your Spirmaze properly!!
HISUIYou green knife bastard… You’re here on Quartia, too. The blue shield bastard who recovered from calcification is you, right.
CROASERAPHYeah. You guys found calcified Rino, and woke him up again with your mind power.
CRINOSERAPH…I was dreaming the entire time. The tragedy of calcification…for two thousand years, thousands, millions of times, over and over I dreamed that dream…
KUNZITE
…Dream? Negative. That is only signals kept in your memory.
CROASERAPHThat’s right, just a signal. But humans’ dreams and memories… Spiria is also just a collection of signals. Awakened Rino reconstructed his pseudo-spiria with memories of dreams. As a Spirmaze of nightmares filled with hate for Lithia, the source of the calcification!
SHINGYou trapped her in that place?
CRINOSERAPHI haven’t just trapped her. My Spirmaze is looping the moment of calcification. She’ll taste the scars of that fear and regret over and over again, many times until her Spiria finally breaks.
LITHIAAhhh… No, no!! Stop!!!
KUNZITECrinoseraph… What is the meaning of this?!
CRINOSERAPHIt’s proper punishment for the girl who ignored Lady Flora’s orders and destroyed Quartia.
CROASERAPHAhahahah, I was surprised too! I was going to use Rino in replacement of a shield but he’s so useful. All right, Rino! You break her Spiria! I’ll cut up her body!! Let’s release Kunzite’s Spiria together!
CRINOSERAPHI refuse. I’ll use Lithia’s Spiria to free Lady Flora. We can start a transfer if we squeeze out only Lithia’s Spiria.
CROASERAPHSave Flora…? Rino, you idiot!
SHING AND KUNZITEWait!
HISUIKunzite, what does it mean, saving Flora with Lithia’s Spiria?
KUNZITELady Flora is sealed within the center of Gardenia. Crinoseraph is probably going to activate Jack Seed with Lady Lithia’s power then fly to Gardenia.
INNESThey’ve done it…! They took the access pass!
BERYL…Had Lithia not run in her past world things wouldn’t have ended up like this…
HISUIWhat’s wrong with running? Lithia’s sacrificing herself and planning on stopping Gardenia! And she’s got no life force left! The only thing ahead of
her is death… Isn’t it normal to be scared? Isn’t it natural to not want to run to the world she supposedly lost? She’s… She’s…
KOHAKUHisui… Is she really going to sacrifice herself?
KUNZITE…It’s the truth. Lady Lithia completed the fusion arte with Gardenia. Her own Spiria will fuse with Gardenia, and lead herself to be inhaled and destroy herself in disintegration… Other than this, there is no other way to stop awakened Gardenia.
INNESNo way… We fought for Lithia for her to become a sacrifice…?
BERYLI’m sorry… I didn’t know…
SHINGKunzite… Where’s Jack Seed?
KUNZITE…Southwest of Wonderidel. After Latwick Forest.
SHINGI got it, let’s hurry. Then… when we get Lithia back, I want to slap her but don’t stop me!
KOHAKUMe too! I won’t allow her to embrace such painful feelings all on her own!!
INNESMe too.
BERYLMe too! …After I hit her, I’ll apologize.
KUNZITE…I cannot acknowledge this. As Lady Lithia’s guardian…
HISUIDon’t get careless, Kunzite! Don’t forget Lithia’s body!
(Hisui received the title Hot-blooded heart
The access pass has been taken.)
[Latwick Forest]
CROASERAPHYou’re going to save Flora?! Are you really saying that, Rino?
CRINOSERAPHOf course. Fighting for the sake of our mistress… That’s because we are her guardians.
HISUI (*changes depending on on-screen character)We found you, mechanical bastards! We’ll take back Lithia’s Spiria!!
CROASERAPHI won’t recognize you saving Flora! I have no intention of returning to a slave’s body!!
CRINOSERAPH…Then why are you helping Creed? Why are you trying to go to Gardenia?
CROASERAPH…Hmph, when I get the chance, I’m going to defeat him! That’s right, Quartia, Celirade, I’ll kill them all, and create a world eternally for machines.
CRINOSERAPH…Do what you want. I’m just going to kill Creed and Lithia and save Lady Flora. But, if you put her in danger too, Roa, I’m going to destroy you.
CROASERAPH…I was going to say that. If you’re trying to revive Flora, then I’ll break you into pieces right here.
KUNZITEWe’ve caught you, Seraphs! Give back Lady Lithia!
CROASERAPHHmph, is there meaning in taking her back? Rino, let’s make them listen.
LITHIAPlease… forgive me… I’ll make up for this sin with my life… So… somehow forgive me…
CRINOSERAPHEver since the 388th playback of the day of calcification, she has said nothing but this.
KUNZITELady… Lithia…
CROASERAPHLithia wants to stop Gardenia by sacrificing herself, correct? Ahaha, Kunzite! Isn’t your plan killing Lithia too?
CRINOSERAPHIf you allow Lithia’s death, then we should join forces. Help me in killing Creed, as well.
KUNZITEAgh… I…
CROASERAPHThere’s nothing to be troubled about. You’re wishing for the death of your precious mistress!
SHING
No! Kunzite came to tell Lithia off!!
KOHAKUYeah! To tell her that he will not allow her to die!!
BERYLHe gets really worked up at times like this!!
INNESFor someone who’s lived for two thousand years, he’s a bit like a boy ♪
HISUIThat’s enough, Kunzite! You think you’re gonna recognize Lithia’s death? Reason, the world, orders don’t matter! What does your Spiria wanna do about Lithia?!
KUNZITEI… I… to Lithia… I want her to live!! No matter what pain, or what kind of death she wishes for herself, I want her to live! I cannot allow her to sacrifice herself!!
HISUIHeh… I’m pissed too. I’m not gonna let Lithia be a sacrifice! ‘N’t that right, Shing?!
SHINGYeah! Everyone will… Lithia’s Spiria! Lithia’s life!
KUNZITEProtect them!
CROASERAPHWhy, Kunzite… Why are you getting over fear for people?! Why? Why? Why? Even though you have the same fake Spiria as me… I can’t believe this!!! Rino! My fight with you will be after I take care of them. Activating Link Drive Mode at once! Coordination control systems beginning!!
CRINOSERAPHUnderstood. Cancelling all battle safety functions. Joining in coordination control system.
BERYLT-They linked too!
KUNZITEWarning! This is the Seraphs’ original battle form, Link Drive Mode! The coordinated attack of two bodies one being that share feeling and battle thoughts is coming!
CROASERAPH AND CRINOSERAPHLink Drive Mode. Initiating extermination battle.
SHINGThis isn’t a real link!
KOHAKU
We’re not going to lose to people who don’t really understand what it means to protect someone!
(soma link upKunzite and everyone’s soma link became stronger.
Kunzite received the title Like Human.)
SHINGWe got the access pass back!
KUNZITEThis is it for you Seraphs. Release Lady Lithia’s Spiria.
CROASERAPHNo… our Link Drive was defeated… Link again with me, Rino!
CRINOSRAPH…No. We can’t win against these guys… But! At this instant, Lady Flora is in pain within Gardenia! I won’t give up! Whatever method it takes I will return… my mistress’ warm smile!!
LITHIAAhh… ahhhh!
HISUIDamn you, what power is this?!
INNES…This is bad! Everyone, hide!
KUNZITEUrgh, targets gone! There is no response of the Seraphs in this area.
BERYLW-What are we gonna do, Shing?! We don’t know where they went!
SHING…Let’s go to Jack Seed. Crinoseraph isn’t going to give up on reviving Flora.
KUNZITEI agree with Shing. We took the access pass, so we will definitely see them again.
(Obtained access pass x 1)
INCAROSEUugh, confirming recovery of the Soma users by flying Soma… how stubborn. They should be trying to head to Gardenia with Jack Seed’s transfer system… …I cannot let them stand in front of Creed… again. Urgh… But with this body, I can only break the transfer system by self-explosion…
CROASERAPHDammit, Kunzite… Open your eyes, and next time I’ll destroy you…
CRINOSERAPHIt’s no use. No matter how many times you fight them, you cannot win.
CROASERAPH…Are you saying that you, being the same type as me, have no point for victory?
CRINOSERAPHCalm down. First we have to revive Jack Seed with Lithia’s arte. If we can use the facilities within the tower, then we can remodel our bodies to be stronger.
CROASERAPHThat’s right! I have their data. If I remodel my body stronger than that, then I will not lose!!
CRINOSERAPH…Lend me your hand, Roa.
CROASERAPHYes, got it!
INCAROSEStrengthening the body… That’s right, with this way, I can…
CROASERAPHThis is Jack Seed’s power crystal. Put in Lithia’s Spiria.
LITHIAAhh… ahhhh!!
CROASERAPHAll right, we’ve revived Jack Seed’s functions. What?!
CRINOSERAPH…Because of Lithia’s out of control power, one part of the transmission circuit was fried. Power is not being put into the transfer system.
CROASERAPHFrying a circuit with a broken Spiria… just like a high ranking mind artist.
CRINOSERAPHNo problem. On the roof there is a support power crystal for the transfer system. We should put energy into that. However, before that… How long do you plan on sneaking around, Incarose?
INCAROSEYou should be the same type as Croaseraph, but you can perceive my disguise…?
CROASERAPH…Incarose! How dare you throw me into space as well! This is perfect… I’ll strip you of your arte function and equip it on me!
CRINOSERAPH
…It’s useless. No matter how strong you make your body, your Spiria cannot win against anyone.
CROASERAPHR-Rino…?!
CRINOSERAPH…However, Lady Flora should have called that weakness of yours, kindness.
CROASERAPHS-Shut up… I never wanted a Spiria…! These… scary feelings… No, I don’t want to die… I’m scared… I’m scared… Help me… Lady Flora…
CRINOSERAPHDo not worry. I’m sure Lady Flora would forgive you. Not like me, who killed you, and Lithia… then Creed…
INCAROSEYou’re going to… kill Creed? Like you can do that.
CRINOSERAPHIt is possible. If I supplement myself with Roa’s and your powers, that is. I’m not like Roa, I… have a Spiria with anger and hatred that surpasses fear!
INCAROSEHmph, you good-for-nothings. Since you’re being held by emotions, you can’t protect your precious mistress… But I will use your powers for Lord Creed…!
[The tower of hope Jack Seed]
SHINGThis is the tower of hope, Jack Seed… It’s been revived from calcification.
BERYLUuugh… that door seriously looks like a trap!
KUNZITEThe Seraphs probably revived it with Lady Lithia’s power.
KOHAKUNo… Lithia’s Spiria’s going to die!
HISUICalm down, Kohaku! If you just go flying into the darkness, you’ll end up the Seraphs’ target!!
SHINGYeah. Calm down and believe in Lithia’s strength. And then, fly calmly!
HISUII swear…
INNESShing is right ♪ Collected boldness—that’s the key to breaking this trap.
BERYL
Hehehe… This tower looks really tall, but can Kohaku be calm?
KOHAKUO-Of course! This is to save Lithia.
[The Tower of Hope Jack Seed]
KUNZITEThis Jack Seed is pink and green… Mind power of two systems operates with parallel activation. What is storing and controlling these two powers is this Bud Unit. If you arrange the Bud Unit in a way that lets the two pink and green types integrate power, you should be able to activate all systems within Jack Seed.
KUNZITELet me confirm. The pink and green powers are spewing. If you charge that power in their respective Bud Units and then integrate them into the center, the gate to the top will open.
SHINGCrinoseraph… and Incarose?! You came to Quartia too?!
CRINOSERAPHTaking hits at the same time from the beginning… Incarose… Could you have already…
SHINGBoth guardians killed each other…?
HISUILithia!! Tch… Crinoseraph!! Give back Lithia’s Spiria before you die!!
CRINOSERAPHLady… Flora… I am… so sorry… I could not even… save your bird… my helplessness is… embarrassment…
KOHAKULithia! Lithia!! …It’s no use, she’s not waking up.
HISUIShe’s back from calcification but her Spiria’s exhaustion is intense…
KUNZITEThere is an activated barrier in one portion of the transmission circuit. Thanks to this, in the case that their power was to be absorbed, they would have been able to run, it seems…
INNESIs the transfer system working?
KUNZITEUnknown. We can confirm the situation of the transfer system if we use the access pass in the inner control room.
INNESWe can’t use Lithia’s power anymore. We’ll start up the system with our own power!
BERYLW-What should we do with him? He might wake up again… Ahhh! It came off! Something came off!
KUNZITEThis is the core where Crinoseraph’s pseudo-Spiria was stored… The heart of us mechanoids. …There is no response in any of my sensors. The functions of these three bodies have been completely stopped.
SHING…At least let them sleep in the world they were born in. But right now, we’ve gotta go to the transfer system.
(Obtained Crinoseraph’s Core x 1)
MACHINE ANNOUNCEMENTConfirmation of prime field. Now activating special program guided by guardian machine Incarose.
HISUI (*changes depending on on-screen character)Those robots are gone! Dammit, they weren’t totally done for after all!
SHINGI-Is this… Gardenia?!
KUNZITEGardenia’s prototype bodies. This is the lab where Creed created it… These failed buds, “those factors” were included, and the perfected Gardenia larva was sent to the skies by the transfer system on the roof, and grew to its present size.
LITHIA…Those factors therefore… by no means… cannot control Gardenia… completely…
KOHAKUDon’t move, Lithia!
LITHIAWhat can stop it quickly… is my life…
KOHAKUI said no, Lithia! …Lit…hia?
LITHIAI’m sorry… Sister… everyone… I will… atone for my sin…
HISUIStop, Kohaku… She can’t hear us.
KOHAKU
No… Innes… Lithia… Lithia is!!
INNESHer strained Spiria from the torture Crinoseraph did is broken.
KUNZITE…Then I will go forth.
HISUILet’s go… Don’t put her two thousand years of willpower to waste!
MACHINE ANNOUNCEMENTBody strengthening program complete.
LITHIAThe transfer… I’ll stop Gardenia… That disaster… not again…
BERYLT-That’s enough… Stop it, Lithia…
KUNZITEHisui… I leave Lithia to you. I will start the transfer system.
HISUIKunzite… You planning on being a sacrifice yourself?!
KOHAKUYou can’t do that!! Get power little by little from all of us…
KUNZITEA large amount of power is needed for the transfer. With that, even if we were able to transfer, we would not have enough power to fight Creed. Worrying is futile. My Spiria is manmade, therefore I will without fail send you to Gardenia.
INNES…I guess we don’t have any choice but to use Kunzite’s plan.
SHINGKunzite’s Spiria is real! We’re not gonna lose it to a transfer!
KUNZITEBeing recognized by you, my Spiria is also not as such as you think.
KUNZITEThis resonance…?
KOHAKU*screams*
???Croaseraph’s attack and speed… Crinoseraph’s attack and power… Performances exceed my expectations. …Then, how about the artes of three machines combined?
HISUIShit… duck!!
INNESThis power…!
SHINGYou’re… Incarose!
INCAROSE-ILLYes… I wasn’t able to become such a shameful appearance… I’ll kill you all, so you won’t be able to see Lord Creed ever again…
LITHIA*screams*
MACHINE ANNOUNCEMENTOperating mind suction machine. Begging supplementing power to the transfer system.
HISUILITHIAAAAAAA!!
KUNZITEIncarose, you!!
INCAROSE-ILL…And with this, the transfer begins. All of you will be taken to Lord Creed’s side… as pieces of meat!!
SHINGNo matter how strong you are, we’re going to live and get to Gardenia!
KOHAKUSo that Celirand will not be calcified!
KUNZITETo save my mistress’ Spiria!!
INCAROSE-ILLWhy…?! Why do I fail against a bunch of Soma users when I’ve collected the strongest power?!
SHING…That’s because you’re all alone. Your feelings aren’t connected with anyone else’s.
INCAROSE-ILLFeelings? Connected? Don’t make me laugh! I’ll just do this and all of that will disappear!
SHINGLITHIAAAAAAA!!
INCAROSE-ILL
Hahah, what a fool! Throwing away those connections along with his body… You really are only bugs whose feelings and judgment go out of control! That’s right… I should have done this from the beginning! I’m an existence created for Lord Creed… I have nothing to wish for more than this!!
KUNZITEWarning! Incarose has activated her self-destruct function!! Admit it… The only thing that is real are your feelings to Creed!
INCAROSE-ILLUrgghh, you! Lithia and Meteoryte have died, and you still…
BERYLStupid! Shing wouldn’t die with something like this!
INNESHe will definitely return with Lithia… That’s Shing!
KOHAKUMy Soma’s telling me! Shing won’t give up!!
HISUIWhich means… Sorry, but we’re gonna have to use your feelings!
INCAROSE-ILLAhhhhh!!!
MACHINE ANNOUNCEMENTEnergy filled. Beginning transfer system.
SHINGIt’s a really pretty spring. This really is your precious place, right Lithia?
LITHIAW-What are you thinking, Spirlinking with me as I fall from this tower!!
SHINGHmmm, I guess I really wasn’t thinking? All I thought was that I couldn’t leave you alone.
LITHIAStupid! Stupid!! What a useless death! Everything is going to end!! Ahhh… I lived for two thousand years, and in the end, I couldn’t protect anything…
SHINGIt’s not the end. See? Everyone’s Link is connected!
LITHIAA Soma Link when we hit the ground… This won’t do anything for us!
SHINGYeah… A Link is only a small power that connects Spiria. But if we don’t give up… then it’ll be an endless linked power that surpasses the world! See? Everyone’s believing in you and me! They’re giving us courage to live!! As long as we have this light, we can stand up against any despair!
LITHIAA light of hope that won’t give up… I have no life left, it’s a harsh light to me…
SHINGI know… But I want you to accept it.
LITHIA…Would it even be a good feeling for a sinner like me to accept this? And to defeat Gardenia…
SHINGIt’s okay. This light is the radiance of the world that you protected!
LITHIAYes… I know this is selfish. I won’t forget my sins. But… But, I… want to live… in a world filled with this warm light!!
SHINGLet’s live with this light!
(soma link upEveryone’s Soma Link became stronger.)
SHINGLet’s go to Gardenia! Fly, everyone!
KOHAKULet’s go… to Gardenia!!
HISUIDon’t order me around!
KUNZITEUnderstood.
BERYLSeriously?!
INNESDon’t hesitate!
KOHAKULithia!
INCAROSEI… am deeply sorry. Lord… Creed… These eyes that you have always admired as beautiful… Are both broken… My vision… is blurring… I cannot… see anything… Lord… Creed…
(The calcified world is now available as field.)
CREEDFlora… It’s soon. Soon I will save you… …Transfer?! No! Did those Soma users arrive here in Gardenia? …Tch, Inca! Never lives up to her role!
[Observation Point Rapunzel]
SHINGThis is the black moon, Gardenia…
LITHIAThis is the observation point Rapunzel built on the outer shell to keep Gardenia’s data.
KOHAKUA monster carrying a town… It’s too big, I don’t know the feelings…
LITHIAIt may be carrying it, but Rapunzel is just one point on Gardenia.
KOHAKU…And that’s the enemy we’ll be fighting from here on…
MECHANOIDAcquired observation data of Gardenia section B4, number 35201346.
BERYLAhhh! Who is this person?!
KUNZITEThese are mechanoids permanently in Rapunzel for observation purposes. No danger.
MECHANICAL BEINGObservation unit number 88. The regular report is thirty seconds late. Let me report the information to Jack Seed immediately.
LITHIAUnlike the guardians, these ones do not come with a pseudo-Spiria.
INNESThere’s no one here to help them but for two thousand years, without thinking of anything they’ve been doing the same thing over and over…
BERYLUuughh… Take my feeling of ‘save me’!!
SHINGKunzite, how should we get to the core dome?
KUNZITEWithin Rapunzel, there is a teleportation port that will take us to inside Gardenia.
HISUIBe careful. That Creed guy’s gotta have traps set up.
KOHAKU…Gardenia… how on earth should we defeat this…
SHINGCorundum… So you’re Gardenia’s gatekeeper!
CORUNDUMAhahah! I’m not letting you through, those are orders! Lord Creed’s orders!!
BERYLHah! You’re not scary at all! Ahhhhhh! A group of guardians?!
LITHIA…They’re not guardians. They’re battle-use mechanical beings without a pseudo-Spiria.
CORUNDUMI control them… I-I will stop you!! Those are orders! Orders!!
INNES…She doesn’t understand.
HISUINo matter how many bastards you get together who don’t know the feeling of risking their life…
KUNZITEAs of present, you…
SHING…Can’t stop us!
CORUNDUMAww… I-I sealed the port! Those are… orders!!
KOHAKUYou…! Release the seal!!
LITHIA…Wait, Kohaku.
CORUNDUMD-Don’t come any closer!!
LITHIA…Your Spiria was ignored by Creed and forced you into orders. Wasn’t it painful? I will free you now…
CORUNDUM…Why did you save me?
LITHIA…People should live not according to anyone’s orders, but to their own feelings. If your freed Spiria still wishes to protect Creed… then we will, with our own feelings, freely call you an enemy.
CORUNDUMLord Creed is… scary… I never knew I could be so afraid of my Spiria being broken. Ahhhh, I’m sorry! I’m a bad girl who only thought of using fun artes!
BERYLShe’s too into this!
CORUNDUMThat’s fine! I’m still little.
LITHIAPlease, Corundum. Help us to save many broken Spiria.
CORUNDUMOkay, Lady Lithia… I’m going to open the seal on the port so give me a little time.
KOHAKUSoon… it’s the final battle…
BERYLHehehe… Kohaku! Aren’t you gonna have a little talk with Shing right now?
KOHAKUW-What are you saying, Beryl?! Right now’s the time to be thinking about defeating Gardenia! If I let him know things that aren’t needed right now, we won’t be able to win against enemies we normally would be able to…
SHINGBefore we open the port, I’m gonna get food from Leanheit. Help me out.
BERYLI’ll help! Kohaku’s concentrating on Gardenia right now. Hehehe… If you don’t say it, I might say it first!
(Kohaku left the party.Hisui left the party.Innes left the party.Kunzite left the party.)
BERYLI’m the only artist who’s ever seen this scenery… Shing, come look at this too!
(Beryl left the party.)
BERYLComing all the way to the black moon… this isn’t a dream, right?
SHINGHahah, it’s the perfect example for your adventure picture, right?
BERYL
Too adventurous! Honestly, the fact that I’m alive right now is a total accident. My precious hands are covered in cuts…
SHINGYou’re right… I’m sorry. But these cuts are proof that you helped me. I promise. I’ll protect the future where you’ll become an imperial artist!
BERYLI don’t really care about that… What my dream is to be with y— …See, the truth is, I hated myself all this time. I was a coward, petty, rebellious kid with too much pride… But! Because you and Kohaku believed in me, I kind of started to like myself! Whoever I am, it’s who I drew on my Spiria’s canvas! And whatever Kohaku, too! Then Shing, who believes in whoever we are! …Right?
KOHAKUBeryl…
BERYLJeeez! If you don’t do this properly I’ll get all upset! My dream is… to draw a world where everyone I love lives on happily!
SHINGYeah, I wanna see that picture too!
BERYLHehehe… of course you have to pay commission fees ♪
KOHAKU…Beryl… Thank you.
SHINGKohaku, why were you hiding there?
KOHAKUShing… I…
SHINGWow… Look, Kohaku! That’s our world!!
KOHAKUIt’s kind of pretty… That’s our star…
SHINGYeah. Gardenia’s absorbing the Spiria, but that power’s still shining brightly! That’s right! The astronomer Eucles is probably looking up here, right? Hey, Eucles! We’ve come all the way up here!!
KOHAKUShing, you’re… strong… I’m not… Coming here, all of a sudden, I’m scared… Everyone’s an enemy where we’re standing now!! We have to defeat this earth! …It’s impossible… We can’t fight a planet…
SHING…Kohaku. Take my hand.
KOHAKU…You’re shaking so much.
SHINGI don’t want to show it in front of you, but… I’m so scared I could scream. It’s way too rash to beat Creed and this huge planet at the same time.
KOHAKUYou think it’s useless after all, too…
SHINGYeah. …It’s big, but Gardenia’s a world without anything. There’s robots, but they don’t have any feelings. Gardenia’s a lonely planet… That’s probably why it’s sucking up all that warm light. Hey, Kohaku… Celirand kind of looks like something, y’know? A jewel that has so many feelings gathered and shining brightly, like…
KOHAKU…Spirune?
SHINGYeah, people’s feelings are all connected and that shining planet is, I’m sure, the world’s Spirune. I learned that on this journey… that this is a world filled with so many feelings, and the power of Spiria inside people. Sad things and ugly wars happen, but… even that’s a part of this sparkling world that I love. That’s why I have to stop Gardenia. I think it’s absurd, but I don’t think it’s useless. If Gardenia’s a planet, then it has to have a Spirune of one in it, just like all of us!
KOHAKUThe Spiruen of a planet… What a strong Spiria… You’ve finally finished your promise with Zex!
SHINGNo, I just believe in the power of everyone’s Spiria. The one who let me believe in that was… you, Kohaku.
KOHAKUShing… I believe you too. In the shining Spirune inside of Shing… the light of a star…
HISUI…Hey, they can’t do any more than that!
BERYLDon’t push me, Hisui… Aghhh!
KOHAKUY-You guys?!
INNES…W-We were just making sure you were okay, not like we were looking or anything ♥
LITHIAShing… You said that Gardenia and Spirune are the same star? Could you…
SHING…Yes. We’ll Spirlink with Gardenia, and defeat its Spiria!
LITHIAYou can’t! Gardenia’s instinct isn’t something humans can cross swords with. Kunzite, please stop this, too! Probability-wise…
KUNZITE…Probabilities do not matter. If there is a way to save the world and you, then I will bet all my power on that!
INNESTrue… In this fight, even if I bet everything I’ve got, I have no regrets.
LITHIAI know Gardenia’s Spiria and yours… The probability of winning is most likely one in a million…
SHINGThen we’ll fight it a million times!
BERYLAhh… I know the feeling, but when it comes to this, it’s no use, Lithia!
HISUIYeah, the probability of persuading these guys doesn’t exist.
LITHIAHehehe, understood! A million times, or a trillion times, I’ll follow.
KOHAKU…Shing! Thank you… you stopped shaking. I love this too… the world where you and everyone live!
SHINGYeah… I stopped shaking!!
(Kohaku joined the party.Hisui joined the party.Innes joined the party.Beryl joined the party.Kunzite joined the party.
Soma link upEveryone’s soma link became stronger.
Shing received the title Star Spiria.Kohaku received the title Star Spiria.Beryl received the title Dream Spiria.)
CORUNDUMHahahah, teleportation port preparations are finished! You can enter Gardenia at any time!
SHINGWe’re finally entering Gardenia… Is everyone ready?
LITHIAYes. I’m ready… to live.
HISUIWho are you asking? I’m good.
BERYLReally, I’m not, but… I’ll say I am!
INNESI’m very ready. To be thoroughly involved in all your recklessness, that is ♪
KUNZITENo problem. You have taught me real preparedness.
KOHAKUYes. I’m not afraid with everyone!
CORUNDUMOkay then, have a safe trip~ ♪
BERYLHey! You’re not going?!
CORUNDUMBut I’m still small…
BERYLYeah, we won’t be fooled, even though you’re over 2000…
LITHIACorundum is useless in battle. Please pray for everyone’s safety here.
CORUNDUMOkay, Lady Lithia… I’ll pray until my circuits fry, so you definitely, absolutely cannot die, okay? Hey, you guys! You have to protect Lady Lithia!!
KOHAKUOf course. We’ll protect Lithia and the world! Right, Shing?
SHINGYeah! That’s what we’re ready for!!
(Hisui received the title Trust Spiria.Innes received the title Hope Spiria.Kunzite received the title Mind Spiria.)
[The salvation system Gardenia]
KOHAKUUurghh, so much stress on the mind… This is Gardenia’s real power.
HISUIFeels like if you let down your Soma’s defenses, your Spiria’ll get sucked out of you in a second.
KUNZITEIt is predicted that the strongest type of Zerom that evolved from Gardenia’s power will appear. Be very alert!
BERYLOhhh… I wanna go home… …But I’m so surprised we came this far!
SHINGLet’s head to the Core Dome! We’ll defeat Creed and stop Gardenia!!
CREEDI’ve kept you waiting, my brothers. Now, I will return everything as it was!
SHINGStop, Creed! Even if you do that, Quartia won’t be revived!
LITHIAThat’s right! The Quartz’ Spiria are already… being eaten by Gardenia!!
CREEDHmph, you mice even came to this place, the highest peak of Quartz artes… I’ll admire your efforts, but lecturing me in my own Gardenia… Don’t make me laugh!
SHING…You won’t be able to laugh anymore after this!
CREEDI see… Inca and them were useless.
FLORACreed…
CREEDAhh, Flora! I came to save you! I’m sorry for keeping you waiting for two thousand years!!
FLORA…Creed, it is as Lithia says. Gardenia is not preserving Spiria… It’s devouring the absorbed Spiria greedily… It’s a monster.
CREEDEven you’re saying that…? I can’t believe this! Gardenia’s pseudo-Spiria is copied from mine! Of course, I removed its appetite! The only thing that’s required in its control system is the need to survive.
FLORA…There’s an instinct in Gardenia that remains that you haven’t noticed. The strong instinct to collect people’s warmth—love…
CREEDThe instinct to collect love…?
KUNZITEGardenia’s uncontrollable power to absorb originates from that feeling of yours.
FLORAGardenia is only collecting someone’s love… warmth. But like you, it does not know what love is, and therefore… it bites away at the feelings it has absorbed… Without ever being fulfilled… into eternity, it can only continue to collect endlessly… What a pitiful child…
CREEDAhhhhh, Flora! Stop, Gardenia!!!
LITHIACreed, you too have a fusion arte with Gardenia…?!
CREEDYes, this is the fusion arte that took two thousand years to complete… my trump card for controlling Gardenia. Love and instinct don’t matter! My genius will rebirth everything!! All right, follow my orders, Gardenia! Return Flora’s Spiria to her body! Did you see that? I resurrected Flora! This is Gardenia’s genuine power!!
FLORA…Creed…
LITHIAFlora!!
CREEDAhahahah, farewell, Lithia! The first sacrifice for Quartia’s revival will be your Spiria!
KOHAKU…I won’t let you!
SHINGYeah! We’re not gonna let you have Lithia’s and the world’s feelings!!
CREEDHmph, Soma Link? Show me the strongest of your link power… And I’ll absorb all of that power and use it as a seed to regenerate Quartia!
CREED…I’ll recognize the Soma’s power. It’s to be expected from the mind weapons that Flora created… But this kind of physical attack… no matter how many millions of times you do it, it’s useless!! Hahaha, what are you going to do? Are you going to continue until you destroy all of Gardenia’s cells?!
LITHIAStop the regeneration, Creed! It’ll eat Spiria again!
CREEDAre you making that joke agai--… urgh?! W-What did you do to Flora?! …Stop, stop this! Gardenia!!
LITHIA
…You need to know what you’ve done! That’s the flavor… of my sister’s Spiria!!!
CREED*choke gag* T-This is a joke! Gardenia has… I have…
SHING…You understand this, right? Let’s just end this already.
CREED…Understand? …End this? What is there to understand? Like you can end anything!!
SHINGIf you don’t close your Spiria, you can do it! If you share your feelings with someone, then there’s a way to get out of any kind of darkness!
CREED…I’ve killed people terribly, and you’re going to accept me, the one who caused you so much pain?
SHINGHonestly, I can’t forgive you… You are the revenge for many people… But I can only believe in… your feelings you have for Flora.
KOHAKUIf you have something you can believe in, then there surely is something we can do together.
LITHIAPlease, Creed… I won’t say it… Please believe in these children.
SHING…Creed, let’s stop Gardenia together.
CREEDShing Meteoryte…
SHINGCreed… you!!!
CREEDAhahahah, why are you angry? Will you even understand the sadness of losing someone precious? …You’re bullshitting me! I’m not going to take pity from you!! Defeat Gardenia? Impossible!! This is the invincible, all-might Zerom that I’ve created!! If I can control it… Yes, if I can absorb all the Spiria of Celirand… I will revive Quartia and Flora without a doubt! No, I will revive them!!
SHINGIdiot! Your warped Spiria… I’ll fix it with this Soma!
CREEDHmph, you going to Spirlink? It’s no use! Just six Soma users can’t break Gardenia’s mind barrier!! You broke the barrier with one hit…! Lithia… The same arte as mine?!
LITHIAThe power of the fusion arte I developed to sacrifice myself… They let me use it to create a breach for them!
SHINGLet’s go, Creed! Gardenia!! From here on out is our real battle!!
CREEDAghhhh! My Celirade entertainment… Don’t underestimate me!!
SHING…What? There’s stars in his Spirmaze…?!
KOHAKUIs everyone okay?
BERYLAhhh! I can’t see anything!
KUNZITEUrgh… All detection functions unavailable…
HISUIDammit! Where’d you go, Creed?!
LITHIAEveryone, calm down! Feel everyone’s location with your Soma Link!
INNESPhew… If we didn’t have our Soma Link, we would have been drowned in darkness.
SHINGWhat on earth is this starry sky…?
BERYLAhh! …One of the stars just now?
QUARTZ’ SPIRUNEI will… live…
QUARTZ’ SPIRUNEYou can do it…
KOHAKU…They’re Spirune! The Spirune of the Quartz that Gardenia absorbed! They’re small, but they’re alive! The Quartz’ Spirias are still alive!!
QUARTZ’ SPIRUNEMother… I’m scared…
QUARTZ’ SPIRUNEIt’s all right… come here everyone… tie together… your courage…
HISUIThis is the Link light… Those Spirune fragments have really strong Links!
QUARTZ’ SPIRUNEDon’t give… up… Concentrate…
QUARTZ’ SPRIUNES…Believe in… hope… Everyone will… live…
SHINGNo one’s giving up… Even though they’re so small, they’re helping each other and living… Humans… People’s Spiria… won’t lose to Gardenia!!
LITHIAAh, everyone… I’m sorry for making everyone think terrible things… However… But… Thank you for living!!
???Don’t touch them! You have no authority!!
LITHIACreed, your appearance… You’ve completely merged with Gardenia’s Spiria.
CREEDOh look, Lithia! Your Spiria is safely remaining. I know now that I’ve fused. The Quartz’ Spiria have been preserved within this Spirmaze of stopped time, after all! If I return them, then Quartia… …Auughh?! Aghhh, Stop! Listen to me, Gardenia!!
SHINGCreed… How was the Spiria you absorbed?
CREED…Shut up.
LITHIAThat taste is the warmth that both you and Gardenia want… The taste of the ties between people. Acknowledge it, Creed! Gardenia’s true form is your true feelings!!
CREEDI said shut up! Now, I won’t make your Spiria into seeds… with this power, I’ll erase you completely!!
HISUIYou bottomless idiot!
KUNZITEWhy can you not recognize the warmth that even a machine like myself can feel?
BERYLI thought you were way too scary, but I was wrong… You’re way too pitiful!
INNESJust this once we’ll blow you away properly, and wake you up!
KOHAKUYou don’t even have the courage to accept your own weakness…
SHINGAnd our bonds won’t lose to that!!
SHINGHow’s that, Creed…? That’s the power of our Spiria!
CREEDUrghhh… What’s wrong with my Spiria? I’m still… alive…
LITHIAFlora…
SHING…I know, Flora. Soma isn’t a weapon that takes lives.
CREED…Idiot, you’re too soft… Do you think you can stop Gardenia with this?
INNES…The Gardenia Core?! Everyone watch out—
KOHAKUAhh…?!
SHINGKOHAKU!!!
INNESUughh… This power! It’s completely out of control!!
BERYLAhhhhhh, Shing!!
LITHIAShing! Kohaku!!
KUNZITELady Lithia, be careful!
HISUIDammit… We gotta do something!
CREEDAhahah… It’s no use… Gardenia is the darkness that my Spiria… no, that people’s Spiria have… You can’t stop it…
KOHAKUAhhh, my Soma…!! I’m sorry… Shing… It’s no use…
SHINGDon’t give up!!! Aghhhhh!!!
KOHAKUWha-What are you doing?! Let go of my hand! If you don’t, your foot…
SHINGThis wound is nothing! Whatever pain… Whatever agony… I won’t give up our precious feelings! The hope for the future that Innes is taking care of for Mister Silver!
INNESShing!
SHINGThe courage that Beryl gathered with all her might for her dreams!
BERYLS-Shing!!
SHINGHe was pissed at first, but the trust that Hisui gave with his fist!
HISUIYou don’t needa say pissed!!
SHINGThe strong, strong will that Lithia and Kunzite protected for two thousand years!
LITHIA AND KUNZITEShing!!
SHINGCal and Marin, Peridot and Byrocks, Ove’s family, Captain Sango, the kids at the orphanage! Anger, laughter, pain… The power to live of all the people’s connected Spiria!! And then… your kindness that always supported me… Gardenia… if your lonely self can absorb our bonded Spiria… the feelings of an entire world… then try it!
KOHAKUShing, you idiot! You’re always so reckless…
SHINGI’m sorry… But I have something really important I have to tell you. …That’s why I won’t give up. We’ll just be a little more reckless and defeat this thing!
KOHAKUOkay… Okay! I’m the same! I have something to tell you, too!! Until I can tell you that, I definitely…
SHING AND KOHAKUWon’t give up!!
SHINGYou’re wrong, Gardenia. The thing that can cure the endless darkness born from a lonely Spiria…
KOHAKUIs what’s born from the ties of people’s Spiria…
SHING AND KHOAKUEndless light!
HISUI, BERYL, INNES, KUNZITE, LITHIAShing! Kohaku!
HISUIThis is Kohaku’s Soma… Dammit! What happened to them?
INNESCalm down! Their Soma Link hasn’t been cut yet.
BERYLShing! Kohaku!!
SHINGIt’s all right… Kohaku and I are fine.
HISUIH-Hey… This is kind of bad!
LITHIA…Self-destruction!! Gardenia with its broken core has started to absorb itself!!
KUNZITEWe must escape! In a few minutes, Gardenia will completely devour itself and disappear with time space!!
CREED…Hmph, are you going to deliver the final blow?
HISUIYou’re going to save him? You know what kind of guy he is!!
SHINGI know! Creed is… my lonely self! He was always inside me, another me, who didn’t open up their Spiria to anyone’s feelings. Had I not realized gramps’ and mom’s belief in me, and had Kohaku and the others not supported me… I would have become Creed, too. That’s why… I can’t let him die!
CREEDShing Meteoryte… You are too soft!
BERYLHe doesn’t understand how Shing feels?!
CREEDIdiot… There’s no point. My life is going to be eaten soon, anyway… Before that I wanted to return everything to normal… But that won’t happen… Urgh, Soma users… I understand what I’ve done… I’ve put Flora in this situation, but… take her, and run… Be with this girl, who’s been all alone… for two thousand years…
SHINGCreed, you…
CREEDEnough… Hurry and go… …I swear… Even after two thousand years, you’re treating me like a child…
KOHAKU…Let’s go, Shing.
INNESLet’s go… this is what Creed and Flora have chosen.
SHINGBut! But!! Creed is… Let me go, Kohaku! Innes! Idiot! Don’t give up, Creed!!
CREED…Lithia. How dare you bring along those sultry people…
LITHIAYes. Their Spiria never give up, never close, and are strong, and warm… That’s the origin of what can let an ideal world… No, a world where people can live as people, shine. …Right, Flora?
CREED…Hmph, then I couldn’t save her…
LITHIANo. Being with you is her salvation… …That should be your reason. Farewell, my sister, Flora… my brother, Creed…
CREEDFruelle…? I… forgot… This is a present to you… Ahh, it’s so beautiful… so warm… Ahahah… that’s right… I’m glad it was as simple as this… Right…? Flora…
CORUNDUMSeparation of the Forest of Thorns Cendrillion from Gardenia’s airspace completed. Space and mind search—no responses. Gardenia’s complete disappearance confirmed.
SHING*sob*… Creed… that idiot…!
KOHAKUShing… Creed and Flora hoped for something like that.
LITHIANo matter what feelings you tie together, people are only people, and they can’t save everything… However, your kindness warmed Creed and my sister’s Spiria. In their place, I’ll thank you. …I’m truly thankful.
SHINGNo… I’ve got to thank you, Lithia… You saved the world… Thank you…
INNES
Oh, I’m sure no one will believe us that a child like this saved the world.
CORUNDUMLady Lithia, the fragments of Spirune released from Gardenia are falling towards Quartia.
SHINGLithia, does that mean the Quartz are going to recover from calcification?
KUNZITEWith that size, whether it can become a person’s Spiria…
LITHIAI believe it will. By my Link with Celirand, those fragments will regain their radiance little by little… in hundreds, or thousands of years, the rebirth of a new life…
CORUNDUMLady Lithia, I’m always watching so that the Link won’t be cut off.
LITHIAIs that all right, Corundum?
CORUNDUMYeah. Lady Flora created me as Cendrillion’s server Soma Link. It’ll be really, really interesting to see why my incomplete Link function was never started ♪ And with that, Celirade! Don’t skip out, and tell me your Spiria! Ahahaha ♪
SHINGThat’s right, if we can always have our feelings connected…
KOHAKUThen someday, the white moon will be reborn as a new world!
LITHIAAnd with this I don’t have any more regrets…
HISUILithia!
LITHIAIt seems like my time has come… In the end, just one thing… Please take care of Kunzite. Thank you for all this long time, Kunzite. From here on, please live on freely as a person.
KUNZITELady… Lithia…
KOHAKUAnd the day that Lithia could finally live in peace came, too… Isn’t there a way?!
LITHIAIt’s fine… You have granted me all of my wishes.
HISUI
…There is a way. If we use Kunzite’s Spirmaze, then maybe… Crinoseraph repeated the day of calcification tons of times when she was in his Spirmaze. The Spirmaze of a pseudo-Spiria can manipulate time, right? If we put her in Kunzite’s Spirmaze and stop the time, then couldn’t she live on?
KUNZITE…It is theoretically possible.
BERYLThat’s it! Kunzite doesn’t really die, so do that!!
LITHIAI can’t do that! Kunzite will sleep into eternity, as well…
HISUI…Kunzite, what do you want to do?
KUNZITE…T-There is no reason for a guardian to create opinions on his master…
HISUI…Really. Then let’s go, Lithia! Even if it’s just a little bit of time… I… I want to be with you!! Don’t worry… If it’s a gravestone, I’ll make it for you.
KUNZITEW-Wait!! Lady Lithia, please! Somehow… Somehow, live on within me!
LITHIAKunzite… But, with that, you…
KUNZITEUntil this body rusts away, I will protect your warmth… That is the wish of my Spiria.
HISUIHeh… He finally made up his mind. You feel that, Lithia? That’s our wish for you to live on.
LITHIAWould it even… be alright for me to still live?
INNESPlease, Lithia. Please watch over the future of the world that you’ve protected.
SHINGWe’ll do our best! So that the dreams you dream… the feelings we send to the Forest of Thorns are warm!
KOHAKUYeah! That’s our repayment to you.
LITHIA…Thank you, Kunzite. Thank you, everyone.
BERYL
Ohohoho… But maybe somebody’s feelings they see in their dreams will be a little too passionate?
LITHIAYes, a two thousand year old lady is good at incentive. …This is goodbye.
BERYLWhen we get back to Celirand, can I draw a picture book of you? It’ll be a super exciting adventure story so that all the world’s kids will remember you!
LITHIAAh, that’s wonderful!
KUNZITEI also hope I will be depicted as valiant.
BERYHmph! It’s absurd to make orders to an artist!
LITHIAInnes… I have learned of people’s strength from you. Up until now, thank you.
INNESAnd I too will learn from your strength. Women have to be strong, after all ♪
KUNZITEWhat are you saying? Lady Lithia does not have the strength to the extent of that of Innes…
KOHAKUI… have so much I want to say… I don’t know what I should talk about…
LITHIA…I understand everything. I’ve been with you since before you were born. Hisui…
HISUI…S-Sorry. Made you go through tons of bad stuff…
LITHIAYour kindness, and the warmth in my heart… I will never forget it.
HISUIH-Hmph… I won’t forget it either. Your stubbornness… and your warmth… Take care of Lithia, Kunzite! I’ve really got nothing else to say…
KUNZITENo… Hisui. Promise me you will protect Lady Lithia into eternity. Shing… It’s our time of parting. If it is possible for me, I am in a situation where, like you, I want to thoughtlessly abandon all control and reasonable judgment, and release tears.
SHINGWh-What?! All you say are big words, Kunzite!
LITHIAEhehe, Shing really is Shing, after all.
SHINGI won’t say goodbye. Our feelings will always… be together!
LITHIAYes. Well, then it’s good night. Good night. Take care of yourself, crybaby… and kind hero. Good night, my friends who bonded their feelings with me, my precious family.
SHINGG’night, Kunzite. G’night… Lithia.
KOHAKU, BERYL, INNES, HISUIG’night, Kunzite. G’night… Lithia.
SHINGThe princess who sleeps in the Forest of ThornsThe princess who has dreamt for a thousand years
KOHAKUHer friends of reality and feelings pileThe princess who entrusts the sword of dreams.
HISUIThe black moon sliced by heroesThe white moon will be born one day
BERYLThe flying whale became a starAnd the sad nightmares disappear with the mist
INNESThe princess who sleeps in the Forest of ThornsThe princess who ties the thread of emotions
KUNZITEIs protected by a steel knightAnd embraces the shining stars within her heart
LITHIAAlways, forever dreaming
ALLDreaming a dream in which the world awakens.
SHINGThe Forest of Thorns… Looks a lot like an emerald star.
KOHAKUYeah… The same color as Lithia’s hair.
BERYLHisui… You don’t have to hold it anymore, you can cry you know.
HISUILike I will! That radiance is proof that she’s dreaming good dreams. …That’s why I’m not gonna do anything like that.
INNESSo… is everything over with this?
SHINGNo, it’s not the end.
KOHAKUThat’s right! There’s no end to bonded feelings.
BERYLHehehe… but there’s a beginning, right?
INNESThat’s right! First you have to put your best into connecting that first Spiria… right? ♪
SHINGY-Yeah… But you already know without me saying it, right…?!
KOHAKUEven if you do… I want you to say it.
HISUIGet a grip, Shing!
SHING…Uh, um… I-I-I… …Kohaku!
KOHAKU…Eheh… Ahaha! Shing, your voice is funny~
SHINGD-Don’t laugh… It’s just one word but it’s really hard to say!
KOHAKUYeah, really hard… Really simple, yet really hard. But…
SHING…Yeah. But if you have just a little bit of courage… …Kohaku.
KOHAKU…Yes.
SHINGI… I really…
(Shing received the title The One who Connected the World.Everyone received the title Star Saviours.)
FIN
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