# E5 - Beauty and Death: Final Act
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**[00:01] Phanora**
Only the undead can see this lantern's light.
**[00:05] Phanora**
And in the eyes of those who have lost
their reason through neglect,
**[00:08] Phanora**
it outshines all else.
**[00:12] Phanora**
I chose a deserted area
to minimize the risk,
**[00:16] Phanora**
but it appears we unintentionally
hit the nail on the head.
**[00:21] Johan**
Oh, the trail keeps going this way.
**[00:28] Necromancer**
With necromancy,
**[00:31] Necromancer**
no parting lasts forever.
**[00:39] Jeff**
What have you done?
**[00:41] Jeff**
What have you done?!
**[00:44] Necromancer**
This will suffice for him,
**[00:47] Necromancer**
but as for you, woman, despite my efforts,
I couldn't learn a thing about you.
**[00:52] Necromancer**
I'll avail myself of a bargaining chip now.
**[01:03] Phanora**
Johan!
**[01:06] Necromancer**
Do as I say, and you'll see him again soon.
**[01:10] Necromancer**
Now, follow me.
**[03:20] (Flashback) Coroner**
Um... Performing her autopsy
must be hard for you.
**[03:25] (Flashback) Coroner**
Why don't I take over?
**[03:28] (Flashback) Necromancer**
There's no need.
**[03:30] (Flashback) Necromancer**
I'm perfectly fine.
**[03:32] (Flashback) Coroner**
Is that so?
**[03:40] (Flashback) Necromancer**
How hideous.
**[03:44] (Flashback) Necromancer**
Mireille, I shall bring you back
with flawless beauty.
***SIGN*** Beauty and Death:
Final Act
**[04:13] Jeff**
*Despite how she treated Johan,*
**[04:16] Jeff**
*she must've really cared about him.*
**[04:50] Necromancer**
Ah, excuse me.
**[04:52] Necromancer**
This occasionally happens
when I disengage Manual.
**[04:56] Necromancer**
The undead person's mind
fails to return, I mean.
**[05:02] Necromancer**
Have a seat.
**[05:07] Jeff**
We saw plenty of other
servants on the way here.
**[05:11] Jeff**
Don't tell me they're *all* undead?
**[05:14] Necromancer**
Indeed they are.
**[05:19] Jeff**
This isn't a one-man crime.
**[05:21] Jeff**
You must have accomplices.
**[05:23] Jeff**
Even I know that resurrecting the
undead takes a ton of magical energy.
**[05:28] Jeff**
There's no way you could have
brought back this many on your own.
**[05:32] Phanora**
It is possible, even without help.
**[05:35] Jeff**
What?
**[05:36] Phanora**
Raising complete people and keeping them
that way with regular maintenance
**[05:41] Phanora**
is what consumes vast amounts of power.
**[05:47] Phanora**
Sloppy work, as seen in the undead in
that ruin, doesn't take all that much power.
**[05:53] Phanora**
He neglected their maintenance, too.
**[06:00] Phanora**
And while these girls seem
decent at first glance,
**[06:05] Phanora**
I'm sure they're barely there inside.
**[06:09] Phanora**
Unscrupulous necromancers often do
the bare minimum for functionality.
**[06:15] Phanora**
They don't bother restoring
most of the organs or senses.
**[06:19] Phanora**
It takes hardly any magic.
**[06:23] Necromancer**
Well spotted.
**[06:25] Necromancer**
You know your necromancy.
**[06:27] Phanora**
The question is whether they're strays.
**[06:34] Phanora**
Of course, they're probably
all strays on Semi-auto.
**[06:44] Phanora**
I'm shocked.
**[06:46] Phanora**
Even you must know how
sinful creating strays is,
**[06:48] Phanora**
and how heavy a price the
dead pay for resurrection.
**[06:55] Necromancer**
Naturally.
**[06:57] Jeff**
What price?
**[07:00] Phanora**
Normally, after death, the soul
begins preparing for reincarnation.
**[07:09] Phanora**
Souls flow into the spiral
of death and rebirth,
**[07:14] Phanora**
and after a long time,
they achieve resurrection.
**[07:17] Phanora**
But necromancy drags them
back out of that current.
**[07:26] Phanora**
Magical resurrection doesn't last forever.
**[07:31] Phanora**
When the spell eventually fails
and they die a second time,
**[07:35] Phanora**
they cannot return to the cycle.
**[07:39] Phanora**
There is no way to rejoin
the stream after leaving it.
**[07:44] Phanora**
Wandering souls go somewhere that
has no up or down. No left or right.
**[07:50] Phanora**
No motion or pain.
No light or sound or heat.
**[07:55] Phanora**
Their minds simply exist.
**[07:58] Phanora**
And nothing changes for eternity.
**[08:02] Phanora**
That hell is called...
**[08:05] Phanora**
the Void.
**[08:08] Jeff**
So all undead go there?
They all fall into the Void?
**[08:13] Phanora**
Sooner or later.
**[08:24] Phanora**
To accept death and await reincarnation,
**[08:28] Phanora**
or to regain a temporary life in exchange
for a fate crueler than death?
**[08:34] Phanora**
You deprived them of the right
to make that crucial decision.
**[08:40] Necromancer**
Let the undead worry about that.
**[08:43] Necromancer**
It doesn't affect necromancers.
**[08:47] Jeff**
You piece of shit!
**[08:49] Jeff**
What the hell did you do this for?!
What could justify your atrocities?!
**[08:54] Necromancer**
My goal?
**[08:57] Necromancer**
Let me think...
**[08:59] Necromancer**
Put simply,
**[09:01] Necromancer**
it's you.
**[09:02] Necromancer**
I want your beauty.
**[09:06] Necromancer**
You see, I lost someone I loved,
just like both of you did.
**[09:16] Necromancer**
What beauty.
**[09:18] Necromancer**
She was a beautiful young
woman with fiery red hair.
**[09:25] Necromancer**
Fortunately, I had my necromancy.
**[09:30] Necromancer**
Reuniting with her should
have been a simple matter.
**[09:34] Necromancer**
But unfortunately, the manner of her
death burned away most of her skin.
**[09:41] Necromancer**
I can produce any number
of hideous creatures.
**[09:45] Necromancer**
Beauty, however, is challenging to recreate.
**[09:48] Necromancer**
Still, I need only gather those
who still have what she lost.
**[09:55] Necromancer**
I can supplement any
remaining deficiencies myself.
**[10:01] Necromancer**
Beautiful things appeal to me.
**[10:03] Necromancer**
I might as well give her the loveliest
possible body when I resurrect her.
**[10:10] Necromancer**
I practiced on those corpses you
saw to improve my technique.
**[10:15] Necromancer**
Sometimes more successfully than others.
**[10:19] Jeff**
That's it?
**[10:21] Jeff**
That's your only reason?
**[10:24] Necromancer**
Everyone values things differently.
**[10:28] Necromancer**
What do you think?
**[10:30] Necromancer**
All the undead and taxidermy specimens
in this room represent my successes.
**[10:36] Necromancer**
I think they came out well. And yet...
**[10:40] Necromancer**
They pale beside your beauty.
**[10:43] Necromancer**
I do hope you'll let me
use your body as a base.
**[10:55] Phanora**
How dull.
**[10:58] Phanora**
That's really your only reason?
**[11:00] Phanora**
I played along because
I expected there to be more to it.
**[11:05] Jeff**
Ms. Kristoffel...
**[11:06] Necromancer**
Such composure.
**[11:08] Necromancer**
I see. Given your knowledge of resurrection,
**[11:13] Necromancer**
you must be a necromancer, too.
**[11:17] Necromancer**
I wondered why the undead I'd abandoned
underground ran off all of a sudden.
**[11:24] Necromancer**
I suppose that was your doing.
**[11:28] Necromancer**
But even if you are a necromancer,
what can you do in this situation?
**[11:33] Necromancer**
You abide by the rules, don't you?
**[11:39] Necromancer**
As long as rules bind you,
**[11:42] Necromancer**
you cannot oppose me.
**[11:45] Necromancer**
Please don't try to be clever.
**[11:58] Phanora**
Sorry...
**[12:00] Phanora**
but I'm not *just* a necromancer.
**[12:04] Necromancer**
Your eyes!
**[12:06] Necromancer**
Those runes!
**[12:14] Necromancer**
No... It can't be...
**[12:22] Necromancer**
A witch!
**[12:26] Phanora**
I wasted my tears.
**[12:34] Necromancer**
Impossible!
**[12:35] Necromancer**
How could I have unwittingly
invited a witch here?
**[12:40] Jeff**
*A witch? No way.*
**[12:43] Jeff**
*But come to think of it, it makes sense.*
**[12:47] Jeff**
* Since I first set eyes on her, her beauty*
* has seemed chilling, almost otherworldly.*
**[12:54] Necromancer**
So I take it we're going
to do this the hard way?
**[12:59] Phanora**
Of course.
**[13:00] Necromancer**
Wait. You seem to have forgotten something.
**[13:03] Necromancer**
Why do you think I took a hostage?
**[13:09] Necromancer**
You can't resurrect someone
without a part of their corpse.
**[13:13] Necromancer**
If I have my undead reduce him
to ash, you'll never see him a—
**[13:18] Phanora**
Suit yourself.
**[13:21] Phanora**
He won't make a good hostage.
**[13:24] Phanora**
And regardless,
**[13:25] Phanora**
I won't stop until I've dealt with you.
**[13:31] Necromancer**
I see.
**[13:33] Necromancer**
Then it seems I must resort to force.
**[13:43] Necromancer**
"Prepare for the worst," and all that.
**[13:47] Necromancer**
Thank goodness I made combat models.
**[13:52] Phanora**
Combat models?
**[13:54] Phanora**
Don't you ever stop?
**[13:56] Phanora**
I don't know how much you tinkered
with them, but they're merely strays.
**[14:02] Phanora**
You can bind them with Semi-auto,
**[14:05] Phanora**
but they remain mindless automatons,
barely aware of themselves.
**[14:11] Phanora**
You can't beat me with those.
**[14:14] Necromancer**
You're bluffing.
**[14:17] Phanora**
Few people wish to become undead
knowing they'll fall into the Void.
**[14:22] Phanora**
Even fewer would put themselves
in a necromancer's service or control.
**[14:29] Phanora**
But even knowing everything,
**[14:33] Phanora**
some still offer themselves
to necromancers.
**[14:37] Phanora**
With the utmost respect, I call them...
**[14:43] Phanora**
Death Knights.
**[14:50] Phanora**
None of you lay a hand
on that bearded man.
**[14:55] Phanora**
As for everyone else, well...
**[14:58] Phanora**
Do as you please.
**[15:15] Jeff**
Stop!
**[15:16] Jeff**
Don't fight!
**[15:18] Jeff**
P-Please stop!
**[15:34] Phanora**
Sorry.
**[15:35] Phanora**
As long as the spell lasts, killing the
body is the only way to stop them.
**[15:44] Phanora**
I'll see to it that the
necromancer gets his just deserts.
**[15:56] Necromancer**
What a miscalculation!
**[15:58] Necromancer**
Why a witch, of all people?
**[16:00] Necromancer**
Damn, damn, damn, damn!
**[16:03] Necromancer**
How dare she ruin my plans?!
**[16:07] Necromancer**
But I'm not finished.
**[16:09] Necromancer**
I'll remodel your body into
the ultimate warrior right now.
**[16:16] Johan**
Man, seriously?
**[16:18] Johan**
What a scumbag.
**[16:23] Johan**
What happened to all that talk about beauty?
**[16:29] Necromancer**
Impossible! How are you alive?
**[16:32] Johan**
Oh, no. I'm good and dead.
**[16:36] Necromancer**
When did the witch resurrect you?
**[16:39] Necromancer**
She was with me until just a moment ago!
**[16:41] Necromancer**
She had no time to—
**[16:43] Johan**
Oh, come on. What's so weird about it?
**[16:48] Johan**
I've been undead this whole time.
**[16:55] Johan**
But undead can't get over physical death
without necromantic maintenance.
**[17:01] Johan**
So how am I standing here
good as new, you ask?
**[17:06] Johan**
The answer to that should be obvious.
**[17:09] Johan**
I'm not just any undead.
**[17:16] Johan**
I'm a *witch's* undead.
**[17:20] Necromancer**
S-Stay back!
**[17:22] Necromancer**
Stop!
**[17:29] Johan**
Basically...
**[17:33] Johan**
I'm built different.
**[17:36] Necromancer**
Wait!
**[17:37] Necromancer**
Calm down, now. Don't kill me.
**[17:40] Necromancer**
Don't kill me!
**[17:42] Necromancer**
If you kill me, all of those undead will...
**[17:45] Johan**
Kill you?
**[17:47] Johan**
Nah, I'm not gonna kill you.
**[17:50] Johan**
See, you crossed a line.
**[17:54] Johan**
You broke every taboo in the book.
**[17:57] Necromancer**
I... I know.
**[17:59] Necromancer**
I'll take responsibility for those undead.
**[18:03] Johan**
You pissed off Phanora.
**[18:06] Johan**
Death's way too good for you.
**[18:10] Necromancer**
S-Stop...
**[18:13] Johan**
I'll start with your fingers.
**[18:15] Necromancer**
Please stop!
**[18:17] Necromancer**
I-I beg—
**[18:33] Jeff**
Johan, you...
**[18:37] Johan**
I haven't killed him yet.
**[18:44] Phanora**
Listen.
**[18:45] Jeff**
Y-Yes?
**[18:46] Phanora**
I'm about to break the law, so could you
keep this whole incident to yourself?
**[18:52] Jeff**
What?
**[18:53] Phanora**
A promise won't do.
**[18:55] Phanora**
You'll need to consent to a contract spell.
**[18:58] Jeff**
I don't know...
**[19:00] Phanora**
The Order of Magical Resonance remains
shrouded in mystery despite its fame
**[19:05] Phanora**
because we require our clients
to watch their words.
**[19:08] Jeff**
You want me to turn a blind eye
to a crime? I could never—
**[19:11] Phanora**
Don't you want to save her?
**[19:15] Phanora**
If you want to save all the victims,
**[19:19] Phanora**
shut up and do as I say.
**[19:35] Phanora**
I'll have you maintain all the undead
you resurrected as complete human beings.
**[19:44] Phanora**
I'll provide the magical power,
so don't slack off.
**[19:49] Necromancer**
What have you done?
**[19:52] Necromancer**
What have you done?!
**[19:54] Necromancer**
Me, undead?
**[19:56] Necromancer**
How dare you?! How *dare* you?!
**[19:59] Necromancer**
This means I'll... I'll fall into the Void, and—
**[20:05] Phanora**
Worrying about the afterlife already?
**[20:08] Phanora**
I hate to break it to you,
**[20:11] Phanora**
but I won't give you a moment's peace
while you're in *this* world, either.
**[20:19] Jeff**
Ms. Kristoffel, does this mean
I can see her again?
**[20:26] Jeff**
The way she used to be?
**[20:30] Phanora**
Well, yes.
**[20:32] Phanora**
Her illegal resurrection means she'll
have to keep a low profile for now,
**[20:36] Phanora**
but I know ways to legitimize her.
**[20:41] Jeff**
Is that so?
**[20:44] Phanora**
Feeling conflicted?
**[20:46] Jeff**
I guess so.
**[20:48] Jeff**
I feel torn,
**[20:50] Jeff**
but thoughtless as it is,
I can't help being happy.
**[21:00] Johan**
Hey.
**[21:01] Phanora**
What?
**[21:02] Johan**
You're done now, right, Phanora?
**[21:04] Johan**
Get away from him.
**[21:06] Johan**
You're too close.
**[21:09] Phanora**
Johan.
**[21:10] Johan**
Yeah?
**[21:11] Phanora**
What did you do with my luggage?
**[21:15] Johan**
Huh?
**[21:16] Johan**
Uh, wait.
**[21:18] Johan**
Where'd I put it?
**[21:19] Phanora**
Are you saying you lost it?
**[21:21] Johan**
I mean, I had more important things—
**[21:23] Phanora**
Find it.
**[21:25] Johan**
Fine.
**[21:27] Johan**
Not even a thank you.
**[21:29] Jeff**
Johan.
**[21:31] Johan**
Yeah? What do you want?
**[21:34] Jeff**
I'm sorry.
**[21:37] Jeff**
I spoke thoughtlessly without
realizing you were undead.
**[21:42] Jeff**
And I warned you to
"watch out for beautiful women,"
**[21:46] Jeff**
but you never had a choice, did you?
**[21:51] Johan**
Do I look that unfortunate to you?
**[21:54] Jeff**
You don't seem well-treated.
**[21:58] Johan**
That figures.
**[22:00] Johan**
But whatever.
**[22:02] Johan**
Don't worry.
**[22:04] Johan**
This is fine by me.
**[22:17] Necromancer**
Wh-What are you doing?!
**[22:19] Phanora**
What do you mean?
**[22:25] Phanora**
That was for hurting Johan.
**[24:01] Helga**
I haven't even had a boyfriend yet!
**[24:04] Ashaf**
Next time: "The Witch and
the Demon Sword: Opening Act."
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