E13 - Only Resentments About the End of Life Remain

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[00:01] Narrator
    This world is filled with
    too many games to count,
[00:06] Narrator
    though the vast majority simply
    come and go in obscurity.
[00:12] Narrator
    The greatest of all games
[00:15] Narrator
    is the fully immersive VR game boasting
    over 30 million players worldwide—
[00:20] Narrator
    Shangri-La Frontier, which rightly 
    earns the title of "god-tier game"!
[00:27] Narrator
    One lover of trash games, Rakuro Hizutome,
[00:30] Narrator
    is trying out the god-tier 
    game,* Shangri-La Frontier*!
[00:34] Narrator
    What adventures await him there?
SIGN    Only Resentments About the End of Life Remain
SIGN    Prismatic Forest Grotto
[02:25] Pencilgon
    On full moon nights,
[02:26] Pencilgon
    if you look at the luminescent moss on
    the wall of the Prismatic Forest Grotto,
[02:30] Pencilgon
    there's a small portion that remains dark.
[02:38] Pencilgon
    If you examine it...
[02:47] Sunraku
    A secret passage!
[02:55] Sunraku
    To think I beat the Prismatic Forest
    Grotto and missed a whole hidden area...
[02:59] Sunraku
    That really stings, man!
[03:01] Oikatzo
    How'd you even find out about this?
[03:03] Emul
    It's truly incredible!
[03:05] Pencilgon
    Finding these time-specific hidden
    areas is luck of the draw.
[03:08] Pencilgon
    I came here to grab some items I needed
    and just happened to stumble onto it.
[03:14] Sunraku
    Which means people who find unique stuff
    must be blessed by IRL fortune, eh?
[03:19] Oikatzo
    Wipe that look off your face.
    It's pissing me off.
[03:23] Sunraku
    This is the face of an emperor on high,
[03:25] Sunraku
    gazing down upon a struggling
    peasant with beneficent pity...
[03:31] Sunraku
    And that's how you react, you filthy ingrate?
[03:34] Oikatzo
    I will punch you.
[03:36] Pencilgon
    Enough of the comedy act.
[03:38] Pencilgon
    We're here.
[04:10] Emul
    What beautiful flowers!
[04:12] Pencilgon
    All unique stuff aside,
    I really like this area.
[04:18] Oikatzo
    It's pretty, but... it's creepy, too, right?
[04:23] Sunraku
    Spider lilies, huh?
[04:26] Sunraku
    Not one of your more
    auspicious flowers, is it?
[04:29] Setsuna
    Into the gap between moments
[04:36] Oikatzu
    Sunraku, look!
[04:39] Setsuna
    spills a single wish
[04:48] Setsuna
    Distant days, so blurred by tears...
[04:52] Emul
    She's transparent!
[04:53] Sunraku
    Is it a bug?
[04:54] Oikatzu
    You always assume bugs
    over plot reasons, huh?
[04:58] Pencilgon
    Hey, Set-chan!
[05:00] Pencilgon
    It's been a whole month.
[05:01] Setsuna
    Oh, Arthur. It's been a while.
SIGN    Setsuna of Bygone Days
[05:08] Sunraku
    The clothes she's wearing...
[05:10] Sunraku
    Not very "fantasy," are they?
[05:12] Sunraku
    Looks more like something
    you'd wear in our world.
[05:16] Sunraku
    Is she from the setting's age
    of antiquity, the Divinity?
[05:20] Sunraku
    Could she hold a key to that
    unique scenario I unlocked?
SIGN    Bonus Unique Scenario
    Vorpal Epic
    When the souls of the Divinity are shaken,
    a rabbit shall tell an epic tale.
    Rec. Level: 80
[05:29] Setsuna
    This isn't the same group you brought before.
[05:32] Pencilgon
    Yeah, let me make some introductions.
[05:35] Sunraku
    Hey, we're Pencilgon's band of merry men!
[05:38] Sunraku
    The man of a hundred skills, Sunra—
[05:38] Pencilgon
    Stooge 1, Stooge 2, and their mascot.
[05:42] Sunraku
    Hey, don't treat us like that!
[05:44] Sunraku
    I even came up with a cool pose!
[05:47] Pencilgon
    They're my ace in the hole
[05:49] Pencilgon
    to finally put Wethermon to rest.
[05:55] Emul
    I'm Emul, daughter of Vysache!
[05:58] Sunraku
    Hey, don't get ahead of me!
[06:00] Oikatzo
    And I'm Oikatzo!
[06:01] Sunraku
    Same to you!
[06:03] Setsuna
    Arthur, this is quite a
    party you've assembled.
[06:06] Pencilgon
    Don't you worry.
[06:07] Pencilgon
    They might not be much to look at now,
[06:09] Pencilgon
    but I'll train them up before the battle.
[06:11] Setsuna
    That's not what I meant.
[06:13] Setsuna
    I've never met a person with Sooty's
    presence applied to them twice.
[06:17] Setsuna
    And accompanied by Cinderella's
    child, at that...
[06:23] Setsuna
    You reminded me of someone from long ago.
[06:26] Sunraku
    Um...?
[06:28] Setsuna
    It's nothing, really. Just nostalgia.
[06:31] Setsuna
    It was so long, long ago.
[06:38] Setsuna
    I'm sure she's long dead now, of course...
[06:47] Setsuna
    You've revived lovely old
    memories from my past.
[06:51] Setsuna
    Thank you.
[06:54] Sunraku
    You're... welcome?
[06:57] Pencilgon
    Set-chan, I'd like you to
    tell them about him, as well.
[07:02] Setsuna
    Very well.
SIGN    Unique Scenario EX
     From the Living World, With Love
    Begin now?
SIGN    Unique Scenario EX
     From the Living World, With Love
    Begin now?
SIGN    Yes
SIGN    No
[07:09] Sunraku
    That's it!
SIGN    Unique Scenario EX
     From the Living World, With Love
    Begin now?
SIGN    Unique Scenario EX
     From the Living World, With Love
    Begun.
[07:21] Setsuna
    He... Wethermon was my dearest love.
[07:29] Setsuna
    We had a minor misunderstanding,
    and I died, and...
[07:32] Setsuna
    He's spent all the time since...
[07:35] Setsuna
    All the time since... guarding my grave.
[07:39] Sunraku
    Your grave?
[07:40] Oikatzo
    Hence "Tombguard," eh?
[07:43] Setsuna
    I don't know how much time
    has passed since my death,
[07:48] Setsuna
    but the next thing I knew,
    I was in this state.
[07:57] Setsuna
    Although I feel no resentment
    about the way my life ended.
[08:02] Setsuna
    Death is an ending.
[08:04] Setsuna
    Things that end should lie in the past.
[08:06] Setsuna
    They shouldn't tie down someone's
    present... or their future.
[08:12] Setsuna
    I can't stand knowing that he
    remains tied down by my past.
[08:18] Setsuna
    He used a program—
[08:21] Setsuna
    a spell that I wrote,
    to create a barrier here.
[08:25] Sunraku
    She used a kind of anachronistic
    word just now...
[08:30] Setsuna
    By using the mana that
    dwells within moonlight
[08:32] Setsuna
    and inverting the coordinates to
    the underside of the dimension
[08:35] Setsuna
    he's made it impossible for
    anyone to reach that location.
[08:39] Setsuna
    But on the night of a new moon...
    when the moon loses all its light...
[08:43] Setsuna
    A crack forms
[08:44] Setsuna
    in the barrier preventing access to the
    underside coordinates where he waits.
[08:48] Oikatzo
    So we gotta jump through
    the crack and fight him?
[08:55] Setsuna
    Please put Wethermon...
[08:57] Setsuna
    Please put my love to rest.
[09:06] Pencilgon
    Leave it to us, Set-chan.
[09:08] Pencilgon
    We're not like the bunglers
    who've tried it in the past.
[09:11] Pencilgon
    If that jerk is making you suffer,
[09:13] Pencilgon
    we'll put him six feet under!
[09:17] Sunraku
    Did you hear that?
[09:19] Oikatzo
    Is that the Pencilgon we know?
[09:21] Sunraku
    The one who, in Unite Rounds, 
    dragged an NPC king along behind her carriage
[09:25] Sunraku
    to try to lure in enemies!
[09:27] (Flashback) Pencil Knight
    Yahoo!
[09:29] Oikatzo
    The Pencil Knight who tied an
    NPC princess to the chandelier
[09:33] Oikatzo
    to bait players into trying to rescue her!
[09:38] Sunraku
    She's having a pleasant chat with an NPC?!
[09:41] Sunraku
    Has she regained some
    sliver of her humanity?!
[09:44] Oikatzo
    What is... this feeling? Is this... a soul?
[09:59] Pencilgon
    I think there's a limit to
    how much rudeness I can take.
[10:04] Pencilgon
    You want to learn how much violence
    someone at max level can dish out?!
[10:09] Sunraku
    Hold on a minute!
    My HP's already at critical!
[10:12] Oikatzu
    Look out, Sunraku,
    she's not gonna let us off easy!
[10:14] Oikatzu
    She's in a PKing mood!
[10:22] Pencilgon
    Honestly.
[10:24] Pencilgon
    If we didn't have the
    Wethermon fight coming up,
[10:26] Pencilgon
    I wouldn't back off until I'd
    spawn-killed you five times over.
[10:29] Sunraku
    There's that heartless
    Pencilgon we know and love.
[10:33] Oikatzo
    She's such an easy mark.
SIGN    Submission Pose
[10:37] Pencilgon
    Maybe I should kill you after all.
[10:41] Pencilgon
    Look, sometimes even I like to
    play it straight with an NPC.
[10:46] Pencilgon
    With her name being Setsuna, and her
    backstory... it just got me invested.
[10:54] Pencilgon
    Okay, look, fine!
[10:56] Pencilgon
    I can get emotionally invested in
    a game now and then, too, okay?!
[11:01] Sunraku
    Hey, that's fine by me.
[11:04] Sunraku
    Getting serious about a
    game is a great thing.
[11:08] Sunraku
    Everything's more fun when
    you take it dead serious!
[11:12] Oikatzo
    That's right!
[11:13] Oikatzo
    Taking your playtime seriously
    is what makes it fun.
[11:16] Oikatzo
    Of course, that's also the
    job for a pro gamer like me.
[11:21] Sunraku
    Wait. You're a pro,
     you're taking the game seriously,
[11:23] Sunraku
    and you haven't even found a single
    unique thing for yourself?!
[11:27] Oikatzo
    Okay, now you've done it!
[11:29] Oikatzo
    I'm gonna tear those feathers off your head
[11:30] Oikatzo
    and give you a head covered in goosebumps!
[11:32] Sunraku
    Katzo, stop! One more hit and I'm dead!
[11:36] Emul
    Please, cease your fighting at once!
[11:39] Emul
    Stop it!
[11:42] Pencilgon
    Oh, right, I forgot!
[11:46] Pencilgon
    You guys are as stupid as I am!
[11:57] Pencilgon
    We're facing a unique monster which
    forces a 150 level handicap—
[12:00] Pencilgon
    something unprecedented
    in boss battle history—
[12:05] Pencilgon
    Wethermon the Tombguard.
[12:07] Pencilgon
    But I know we can do this!
[12:10] Pencilgon
    Let's take this seriously and win!
[12:12] Both
    Right!
[12:50] Rakuro
    Morning already?
[12:52] Rakuro
    I've been grinding so
    hard since I met Setsuna.
[12:55] Rakuro
    It's been late nights all the time...
[13:00] Rakuro
    I dove headfirst into killing
    Lifestide Lake Serpents,
[13:04] Rakuro
    and the next thing I knew, I was level 51.
[13:06] Rakuro
    Katzo's still just level 46, right?
[13:10] Rakuro
    Gotta work on my skills next.
[13:12] Rakuro
    Emul says Rabituza's got one
    of those Skill Garden places
[13:16] Rakuro
    where you can link skills, too, so...
[13:18] Rakuro
    Maybe I'll ask her to take me there.
SIGN    Sunraku
[13:20] (Flashback) Pencilgon
    If you're worried about your levels,
    that won't be a problem.
[13:22] sign
    Katzo Tataki
[13:26] (Flashback) Pencilgon
    What I'm after is pure player skill.
[13:33] Rakuro
    The rest comes down to
    my personal skill, then.
[13:40] Rakuro
    Morning.
[13:41] Eika
    Oh, good morning!
[13:44] Eika
    I know you're enjoying your summer vacation,
[13:46] Eika
    but I'm glad you're keeping
    to the agreement, Rakuro.
SIGN    Rakuro's Mother
SIGN    Eika Hizutome
SIGN    Entomology Geek
[13:52] Rakuro
    I don't need you physically
    logging me out again, yeah.
[13:57] Eika
    Well, you did have it coming.
[14:01] Rumi
    Hey, Mom!
[14:03] Rumi
    I told you, no bugs in the kitchen!
[14:06] Eika
    Aw, but he's a cute little one!
[14:08] Eika
    Aren't you, Augustus III?
[14:12] Rumi
    And don't give them names, darn it!
[14:14] Rumi
    How am I supposed to keep
    an appetite like that?
SIGN    Rakuro's Younger Sister
SIGN    Rumi Hizutome
SIGN    Fashionista
SIGN    Towa Amane
[14:23] Rakuro
    Oh, great. Towa Amane.
[14:26] Rumi
    Hey, what? Are you a fan
    of Towa-sama now, Big Bro?
[14:31] Rumi
    Towa Amane, the megastar model
    Japan gave to the world!
[14:34] Rumi
    Nickname, Towa-sama!
[14:35] Rumi
    You could fill a whole fashion
    magazine with one day from her life!
[14:38] Rumi
    It's like she was born to be a model!
[14:41] Rumi
    A fan of hers took pictures of her in
    secret and uploaded them to social media,
[14:45] Rumi
    and even though she didn't
    know it was happening,
[14:48] Rakuro
    Towa?
[14:48] Rumi
    Towa-sama looked perfect in every one!
[14:50] (Flashback) Pencilgon
    With her name being Setsuna, and her
    backstory... it just got me invested.
[14:55] Rakuro
    Towa—"Eternity"—who lives in the moment,
[14:57] Rakuro
    and Setsuna—"Moment"—
    who lives for eternity...
[15:01] Rakuro
    Even if it's just a clever coincidence,
[15:03] Rakuro
    and even if it's just in
    the fiction of a game...
[15:06] Rakuro
    I guess the NPCs act so realistically,
    she ended up comparing herself to her?
[15:11] Rumi
    Huh? What is it?
[15:13] Rakuro
    Pencilgo—
[15:14] Rakuro
    Er, "Towa-sama" deserves
    her privacy, you know?
[15:17] Rakuro
    You shouldn't screensho—
[15:18] Rakuro
    er, take pictures of her
    without her knowledge.
[15:21] Rumi
    Yeah, you're right.
[15:22] Rumi
    I'm part-timing as a model today myself!
[15:25] Rakuro
    Wow, like one of those audience surrogates?
[15:28] Rumi
    I'll have to watch out
    for candid photos myself!
[15:30] Rumi
    Yeah, and I'll have to ask
    Dad for publicity, too!
[15:34] Rakuro
    Where is Dad, anyway?
[15:36] Eika
    He went out fishing yesterday—
[15:38] Senji
    I'm home!
[15:39] Eika
    —and I guess he just got back.
[15:41] Senji
    Behold! A striped beakfish!
SIGN    Rakuro's Father
SIGN    Senji Hizutome
SIGN    Likes Fishing More
    Than Three Meals a Day
[15:47] Rakuro
    That thing's huge!
[15:48] Eika
    Goodness me!
[15:49] Senji
    I managed to fish it up
    right before the meet-up!
[15:54] Rumi
    Guess it's fish for every
    meal for a while again...
[15:57] Rakuro
    We have an agreement in our
    household. Like a rule.
[16:01] Rakuro
    For breakfast and dinner on Sundays,
[16:03] Rakuro
    we have to eat and talk together as a family.
[16:08] Rakuro
    The idea is, if we didn't,
    we'd get so lost in our hobbies,
[16:13] Rakuro
    we'd basically never see each other.
[16:16] Senji
    I made friends with a marlin fisher,
    so I might go on a real excursion next time!
[16:21] Rumi
    What are you doing, Dad?!
[16:23] Rumi
    Are you gonna clean it here?
[16:25] Senji
    Of course I am! Freshness matters!
[16:27] Rumi
    Do it in the kitchen!
[16:29] Eika
    Goodness me...
[16:31] Rakuro
    The world at large seems to
    think we're a little cuckoo,
[16:37] Rakuro
    but we just all have our own little worlds.
[16:40] Rakuro
    We're perfectly healthy.
[16:41] Rumi
    The juice! You got the juice on my clothes!
[16:44] Rumi
    I'm on my way to a shoot!
[16:46] Rumi
    Say something to him, Mom!
[16:48] Eika
    I need to tend to my butterflies.
[16:50] Eika
    Dear, clean up the kitchen, would you?
[16:54] Senji
    Okay!
[16:54] Rumi
    Darn it!
[16:57] Rakuro
    Still, I'm probably the
    most normal of the bunch.
[17:04] Rakuro
    Now!
[17:06] Rakuro
    Time to return to the world of my interests.
[17:10] Rakuro
    Two weeks till the battle with Wethermon.
[17:12] Rakuro
    It's gonna be a tough match.
[17:14] Rakuro
    According to the info Pencilgon gave me,
[17:16] Rakuro
    Wethermon is a non-stop source
    of single-digit frame attacks,
[17:19] Rakuro
    instant death moves and area attacks.
[17:23] Rakuro
    So I know just where to train up!
[17:26] Rakuro
    The trash game where constant glitches
    make all attacks come at crazy speed...
[17:31] Rakuro
    Berserk Online Passion...*
[17:33] Rakuro*
    BERP for short!
SIGN    Sunraku
[17:43] Sunraku**
    Man, this game is so deserted.
[17:52] Sunraku
    I know it's early, but it's
    still Sunday. Get it together.
[17:55] Sunraku
    Well, whatever. I'll fight the
    final boss of the story mode.
SIGN    Dragonfly
[18:01] Sunraku
    Hey, a player!
[18:03] Sunraku
    And he's got his "VS" icon lit up.
[18:06] Sunraku
    Hey, there!
[18:07] Dragonfly
    Oh, hello there!
[18:08] Sunraku
    "Dragonfly"?
[18:10] Sunraku
    Never seen that name before.
[18:12] Sunraku
    Um, you've got your VS icon on...
[18:15] Sunraku
    Wanna go?
[18:16] Dragonfly
    Yes!
[18:17] Dragonfly
    I'm really new and I haven't
    even beaten the final boss yet,
[18:20] Dragonfly
    so I'd love if you could give me some tips!
[18:23] Sunraku
    He hasn't beaten the last boss?
[18:25] Sunraku
    Wow! A new player!
[18:28] Sunraku
    Talk about an endangered species!
[18:30] Sunraku
    It might not be the best training
    in the world, but who cares?
[18:32] Sunraku
    I want to face down against
    this rare specimen!
[18:36] Sunraku
    Glitches are fair game, right?
[18:37] Dragonfly
    Yes! Thank you for having me!
[18:40] Sunraku
    Looks like an all-rounder build.
[18:42] Sunraku
    He's the type that generates
    a lot of glitches,
[18:44] Sunraku
    but he probably won't know how to use them.
[18:47] Sunraku
    Well, let's see what you've got.
[18:49] VO
    Battle start! Round one, fight!
[18:57] Sunraku
    He's charging?
    He's not even a speedster build!
[19:00] Sunraku
    But you can't expect a beginner
    to conform to orthodox strats.
[19:03] Dragonfly
    Twist your hand, pull back, and...
[19:05] Sunraku
    That move!
[19:07] Sunraku
    By drawing your fist back just
    as you unleash the punch motion,
[19:10] Sunraku
    you generate a bug that
    extends your arm like rubber!
[19:14] Sunraku
    If the hit lands,
[19:16] Sunraku
    it'll deal a two-hit combo
    with double the damage!
[19:20] Sunraku
    Its name is...
[19:21] Dragonfly
    Pile Bunker!
[19:31] Dragonfly
    He disappeared?
[19:38] Dragonfly
    Your leg...
[19:40] Sunraku
    This is a bug move: the Yo-Yo.
[19:42] Sunraku
    It throws off your avatar's
    texture and hit box at once.
[19:46] Sunraku
    Looks like you can use
    some basic bug moves...
[19:49] Sunraku
    But there's way more to this game than that.
[19:52] Sunraku
    I came in to practice for
    the Wethermon battle...
[19:57] Sunraku
    But BERP is full of bugs that the
[19:59] Sunraku
    players have discovered
    through trial and research...
[20:02] Sunraku
    And I'll give you a full demonstration.
[21:53] Rei
    My most esteemed Sunraku.
[21:55] Rei
    I pray that this initial
    letter might find you well.
[21:58] Rei
    I hope you have not taken ill
    in this summer's frightful heat.
SIGN    Ever
    Improving
[22:02] Rei
    I was both pleased and honored by
    your acceptance of my friend request.
[22:12] Rei
    It's formal. Too formal!
[22:14] Rei
    I'm just trying to invite him
    to play the game with me!
[22:17] Rei
    If I start off too formal,
    it'll just freak him out!
[22:21] Rei
    I've got to make it more friendly.
[22:23] Rei
    Yes, make it approachable!
[22:26] Rei
    So he'll accept my invitation
    without a second thought!
[22:31] Rei
    Heya, Sunraku-san! What's up, my guy?
[22:34] Rei
    It's your online bud, Psyger-0!
[22:36] Rei
    You down to rock a play sesh, co-op style?
[22:52] Rei
    Writing letters is so hard!
SIGN    SLF Mini
[22:57] Kids
    SLF Theater!
SIGN    Various Christmases
[23:01] Emul
    Mini!
SIGN    SLF Theater
[23:07] Sunraku
    Merry Christmas!
[23:08] Sunraku
    It's a great day to spend
    with your loved ones!
[23:11] Oikatzo
    Merry Christmas!
[23:12] Oikatzo
    I hope you all have a wonderful day!
[23:16] Pencilgon
    Merry Christmas!
[23:18] Pencilgon
    Isn't it disgusting how the
    town is swarmed by couples?!
[23:22] Emul
    Merry Christmas to all!
[23:25] Emul
    Santa Claus will surely come to
    deliver carrots to all of you!
[23:33] Rei
    H-Hizutome-kun...
    M-Merry Christmas... to you!
[23:39] Rei
    I'm gonna eat you, Hizutome-kun!