# 25 - Inferno
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I... I promised I'd go with her.
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But I got scared...
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I let go of her hand...
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It wasn't your fault.
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Everyone makes mistakes.
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And sometimes, mistakes are unavoidable.
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I made a mistake that led to your
mother despising me her whole life.
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But mistakes can be made right.
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Living properly and correcting your mistakes
are worth striving your whole life for.
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I will bear the consequences
of Talulah's mistake.
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Become stronger, Hui-chieh.
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Will Tal come back if I do?
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You might be able to bring her back.
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Really?
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Yes. Hui-chieh,
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I'll teach you to wield a sword.
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To wield Chi Xiao.
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*What can I do?*
**[01:03] ---**
*The only thing I can do...*
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*"As move unsheathing blade,
cleave now as cleft."*
**[01:10] ---**
Chenchen, how's about ye join
the polis when ye grow up?
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The police?
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They're heroes all about punishin' evil!
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You'll fit in just fine, aye!
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I'm sure you'll be a great policewoman,
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and you'll find your missin'
mate afore you know it!
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Let's give it our best and
help some folks out, Chenchen!
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*Teach by example.
What has that turned me into?*
**[01:36] ---**
*"As move at teardrop's
point, once known be deft."*
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Sorry, Ch'en. I couldn't block everything.
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I need you to stay in the
force. As for the rest—
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Wait!
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The L.G.D. needs you!
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Stop dreaming, Ch'en.
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I love this city, but there's nowhere
that truly accepts the Infected.
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Lungmen will change!
We'll change it together!
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Then prove it to me.
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Prove that this is a city for all people...
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before Oripathy takes my life.
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*What have I lost from always pushing forward?*
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*"As sword ere shadow's
trace, cast off as cast."*
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Now *you're scared, Ch'en Hui-chieh?*
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What I must accomplish...
was decided long ago.
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You came here even knowing it was a trap?
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Yeah, and it proves that you
are truly beyond redemption.
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Now I can kill you without
the slightest hesitation.
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Let's end this, Talulah!
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"As sword of stratus rent, once stood stand fast..."
**[02:48] ---**
*As sword of stratus rent, once stood stand fast!*
**[02:55] ---**
Madame Ch'en...
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Thanks to all of your efforts,
we've made it this far.
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I'm going to stop Talulah,
and I'm going to come back.
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Let's go home to Rhodes Island together.
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Yes!
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Stratus rent... They face each other...
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*When will I use them, then?*
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*You will know.*
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When you feel from the bottom of your heart
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that you have no other choice,
use the rings' powers.
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Madame Ch'en, we need to know the truth.
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Please, let me have just one more glimpse...
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into the truth behind Talulah.
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You okay?
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Why do you ask?
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You've been pretty gloomy lately.
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And getting worse the past few m—
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I'm fine.
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Talulah!
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It's an emergency signal from the recon team!
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Hurry! Call for Sis—
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Why?
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What is an Ursus imperial guard doing here?!
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To think the Shieldguards have
joined forces with this rabble...
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Get in formation!
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Give him an opening, and you're dead!
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We once both fought in the name of Ursus,
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yet now you choose to
stand against us with the Infected?
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How foolish.
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Talulah!
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"The Emperors' Blades"...
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We've been looking for you,
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Daughter of Duke Kashchey.
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Talulah's... the daughter of a duke?
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The Snake is dead! Who sent you here?!
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All units, form up!
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He may be an Emperor's Blade,
but there's only one of him.
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Talulah, as per the vow
we made with your father,
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we shall assess you as his successor.
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Secure an evac route!
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Prioritize your own survival!
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To think you care for your pawns...
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Don't disappoint us, Leader
of the Northern Infected.
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I merely stand with my allies.
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I won't be the ruler you want me to be!
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Get lost!
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Wonderful Arts. However...
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You have nothing but "potential"
and the seed he planted.
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If everything goes as he planned,
then when the time comes,
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we shall lend an ear to what you have to say.
**[07:21] ---**
You seem rather confident in your strength.
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Captain!
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We have no intention of
making an enemy of you, sir.
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You have our respect.
**[07:36] ---**
Former Ursus Captain Buldrokkas'tee.
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It seems there is truth to the
rumors that you were Infected.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that
I am fighting for the Infected.
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If I may, I believe it is a mistake
for someone of your stature
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to waste your days away in the snowfields.
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You...!
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Please, I ask that you return.
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The Empire needs you.
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Let us return Ursus to its former glory!
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"Glory"?
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Surely you remember.
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The glorious days when everyone, regardless
of race, united under the banner of Ursus!
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Is there a place for the Infected
in that Ursus you wish to forge?
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I can make no guarantees. However,
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if they were to take up arms for Ursus,
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that would be praiseworthy
in spite of their infection.
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I see...
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It would seem the path you walk
is different from Talulah's.
**[08:36] ---**
What I follow now is her aversion to power,
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her search for a justice without
sacrifice. Her ideology.
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Now leave. There is no room for negotiation!
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You don't seem to understand.
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Once she fully matures, her
cunning will exceed even yours.
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The footprints she's left on the snowfields
are proof enough that she
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won't walk the same path as the Snake.
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Farewell, "Patriot".
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Your decision has been truly unfortunate.
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Talulah,
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lead your followers.
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We look forward to your growth.
**[09:24] ---**
Is everything okay here?!
**[09:26] ---**
Yeah.
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We also fought them—
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Captain, what they said just now...
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We can trust her.
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I guarantee you this.
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Of course! We understand that, but...
**[09:39] ---**
Hey, what is this about?
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It's true.
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I was raised by an Ursus
nobleman to one day take over.
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We can save the details until we're back.
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Talulah.
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As long as you do not disappoint me,
I will support you until the very end.
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My leader...
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I told you not to call me that.
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Everyone, listen up!
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A person's upbringing can't determine—
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White rabbit!
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Hand me a piece of candy.
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Here.
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Thanks.
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Okay, let's pack it up.
**[10:19] ---**
*I wonder when...*
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*When did I stop being able to trust others?*
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*Alina...*
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This is more than enough, Talulah.
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The tractor went missing around here, right?
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Yeah... If you ask me, the patrol
unit probably took them out.
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But they chose to leave,
it's not our problem.
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We don't know that for sure.
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You hurry back to camp.
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Talulah! You don't have to go
this far! We all trust you!
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So, please trust us, too!
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I do. Thanks.
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Hold up! I'm coming too!
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*Please...*
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Don't worry!
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I'm just talking to the locals.
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*Leave me alone...*
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*Just what is it I'm afraid of?*
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Be careful, okay?
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Yeah!
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Looks like a pretty impoverished village.
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Is there no one here?
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No...
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Is this...?
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Originium dust?
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Hey!
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What are you doing here?!
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Are you from the military police?
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What is the matter? If this is about
taxes, another officer has already—
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I'm here to investigate the Infected.
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Pardon me?
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We don't have any Infected here—
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Then have any passed through?
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Not once...
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Answer me truthfully.
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My, nothing gets past you.
**[12:08] ---**
Yes, they did pass through. However...
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They were hiding weapons, and threatened us!
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They took what little
food and money we had...
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With the way things are,
we can't pay our taxes for a while.
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Officer, please crack down on that
dreadful Infected filth for us.
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You're lying!
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How could you... How could
you say something like that?!
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What a bunch of nonsense!
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They must've gone through so
much just to make it here.
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They were exhausted, and couldn't
have had the strength to fight!
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You had to have heard them banging
desperately on the door, crying out!
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You're an Infected too, aren't you?
**[12:49] ---**
You could've just killed
them without starving them!
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What?
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They suffered the whole time, until their
bodies turned and crumbled to dust!
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Like hell I care. Things
are tough for us too.
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Where do you Infected get off
talking like you're *people*?
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Well, well.
**[13:08] ---**
I see you knew them. I apologize for that.
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*You will see.*
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*No...*
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*How everything you did turns to nothing.*
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*No.*
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They make me sick.
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*No!*
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They don't deserve to live.
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*No!*
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*You will see.*
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*The true nature of those
who defile life itself.*
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*No...*
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There will be no peace in these lands
while people like you still walk them.
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*No, no, no...*
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*Stop...*
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I...
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*Stop!*
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...hate you.
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My boy! My boy is still...
Hey! Hurry up and run!
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You devil...
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You devil!
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Curse you! I'll curse you to death...
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Curse you for eternity...
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I curse you!
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Die!
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Die! Die!
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Amiya?!
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What...
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is a Cautus doing here?
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You'd protect someone like her?
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I'm disappointed, Hui-chieh.
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Get out of here, Amiya!
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Words won't get through to her!
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She's been tainted by
someone's twisted views—
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No.
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Your sister didn't simply
inherit Kashchey's teachings.
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You know about that?
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I will tear off that mask.
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Mask?
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Cautus of Rhodes Island.
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What kind of death did Buldrokkas'tee choose?
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I'd like to know how a
noble warrior met his end.
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I killed him.
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Hoh...
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I find that hard to believe, but very well.
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The last person who posed
a threat to me is now dead.
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Perhaps I should reward you,
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hypocrite and slaughterer of your own people?
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You're afraid, aren't you?
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Of me... and the power of the King of Sarkaz.
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You've said quite a lot.
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The avatar of evil that's
lived since time immemorial...
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The guardian of Ursus, the
"Deathless Black Snake"...
**[15:52] ---**
No, perhaps I should call
you the Duke of Kashchey?
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Kashchey? The Black Snake?
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Peeking into others' memories?
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What a tasteless hobby,
**[16:04] ---**
Cautus.
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Amiya!
**[16:10] ---**
Talulah has been possessed.
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The Duke of Kashchey has taken
over her body this whole time!
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What?!
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But...!
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I can sense two people's feelings!
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The original Talulah is still alive!
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We can still get her back!
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Amiya! Jump to the side!
**[16:31] ---**
An outblood Lord of Fiends...
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Your predecessor must've lost her mind,
to create such an inferior piece.
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So you can feel only my dread?
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You do not know me, young Lord of Fiends.
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You cannot understand Talulah.
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Then tell me.
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Tell me about the life you led.
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And the mistakes you've made.
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Tell me everything in
your own words, Talulah!
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I will, of course!
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So come to my side, Ch'en!
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I don't want to fight anymore.
I don't want to hurt you!
**[17:12] ---**
It's a trap.
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It's his goal to have
Talulah kill you herself.
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So he can completely break her
spirit and take full control.
**[17:23] ---**
If he doesn't have full control
yet, you can still stop his plan!
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You don't have to keep
sacrificing your own people!
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Fight yourself, Talulah!
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Fight... myself...
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Is my voice not reaching her?
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Madame Ch'en.
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Could you buy me three minutes?
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Leave it to me.
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Mind if I say something, too?
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Do it, Talulah.
**[17:56] ---**
Help me confront my sister once again.
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Kill her.
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My real sister, without Kashchey's shadow.
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And no matter the outcome,
I'll accept all of it.
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I'll make it happen.
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Hui-chieh.
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You wish to sever your ties with me?
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The past will never return!
**[18:23] ---**
No matter what happens, we have
no choice but to move forward!
**[18:29] ---**
*They're flowing into me...*
**[18:31] ---**
*Madame Ch'en's emotions...*
**[18:33] ---**
*through the Chi Xiao.*
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*Her rage...*
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*No, it's not just that.*
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*There's so much more...*
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Cautus.
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You were unworthy to kill Buldrokkas'tee.
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He had turned toward the light.
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He put the Sarkaz's blood-soaked darkness behind him
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and sought a new light, one built atop order.
**[19:07] ---**
Yet foolishly, you continue
to look to the dark.
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You continue to fight merely because you
are tied down by those who have passed.
**[19:17] ---**
If the light you're talking about...
**[19:20] ---**
is deception, slaughter,
and spreading harm...
**[19:24] ---**
If the darkness you refer to is to
salvation, sympathy, and the fight for justice...
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Then...
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I'll gladly leap into the darkness
with the power of the Sarkaz!
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My flames will burn through deceit,
**[19:40] ---**
impure Lord of Fiends!
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Amiya!
**[19:48] ---**
Breathe in the scent of a Cautus
being burnt to a crisp...
**[20:07] ---**
*Are my people not allowed to wish for
a home where they can live in peace?*
**[20:13] ---**
*Do the Sarkaz not have the right to live?*
**[20:19] ---**
*Why must they torture us?!*
**[20:23] ---**
*Why must they keep committing these sins?*
**[20:27] ---**
*Are we the ones they should hate?*
**[20:31] ---**
*Do I despise them?*
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*Even without resentment in my heart, I...*
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*have the right to rage on forever!*
**[20:46] ---**
*If this land will not permit
me to lay down my weapon,*
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*then I can only continue to fight
until the end of time itself!*
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*Rage. Rage.*
**[21:03] ---**
As move unsheathing blade,
cleave now as cleft!
**[21:04] ---**
*At fate, at irrationality,*
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*at this never-ending hatred.*
**[21:10] ---**
As move at teardrop's point,
once known be deft!
**[21:15] ---**
*Let your roar flare far and wide.*
**[21:16] ---**
As sword ere shadow's trace, cast off as cast!
**[21:23] ---**
As sword of stratus rent,
once stood stand fast!
**[21:24] ---**
*Toward all the suffering
and sorrow across the lands.*
**[21:36] ---**
What?
**[21:46] ---**
Hatred has blinded you.
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So much so that you've lost
sight of even yourself.
**[21:53] ---**
Talulah,
**[21:54] ---**
you have yet to pluck yourself
out of that raging fire.
**[22:00] ---**
I can't let you...
**[22:02] ---**
hurt the people of these lands anymore!