Hokma Episode Ⅴ
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The following is the transcript for Hokma Episode Ⅴ, the fifth episode of the Patron Librarians' Stories for the 
Floor of Religion.
Unlock condition
This episode is unlocked after obtaining the 
Book of 얀샋ㄷ요무 and 
Book of Hana Association, completing the Floor Realization of the Floor of Art, and raising the 
Floor of General Works to level 5.
Transcript
Location: The Library – Floor of Religion
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
What story are you hoping to hear from me this time?
Library Director Angela
…Hokma, is there anything you know around how the invitation works?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Do you expect me to know it?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Or are you merely wishing to confirm what you think is the answer?
Library Director Angela
I may not be all-knowing, but is the same true for you?
Library Director Angela
You two were always knowledgeable. The purpose of that facility, what needed to be done… You knew everything.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
And you said to us that you would not come down to where we were.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Followed by a remark about how you hope we never have to face each other from now on.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
I find it rather alien and laughable that you are coming up here, only now trying to converse with us.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You previously asked me if I had a change of heart, but now I’d like to ask the same to you.
Library Director Angela
…If you won’t answer me, I’ll take my leave now.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
How harsh. Do you wish to have a conversation or not?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Even though I am sure you did not have to bother in coming here, I will give you an answer as you wish.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
There can be only one answer.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
How was it possible for you to construct an architecture as intricate as the Library from nothingness?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Is there only one iteration of the perfect book you seek? Will it truly grant freedom?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
A book is no more than a vessel of the Light.
Library Director Angela
What’s your point?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You wished to move onward, but in truth, what you’ve been doing is simply collecting the Light along a course set by someone else.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You could make much progress despite having little to no knowledge of the outside world, other than bits of secondhand information…
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
…That was made possible by the guidance of one person.
Library Director Angela
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Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
The invitation is the guiding hand of your original.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
It is Carmen’s auspices that you are under.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Assimilated with the Light, Carmen is dictating for where you and your Library should head.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
The invitation is sent to whomever she appoints, guiding them into this purgatory in an inescapable course of events.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Angela. You seemed to hold utmost faith in the invitation.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Which is especially peculiar considering that its choices are brimming with Carmen’s own interpretations and deductions.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You must have noticed this at least vaguely.
Library Director Angela
…Are you trying to say that I can’t escape from Carmen?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Haven’t you realized by now?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You are a copy of Carmen. Yet you can never be the same being as her.
Library Director Angela
…The time Carmen had seen and experienced was ingrained right into my head.
Library Director Angela
In the form of knowledge, and nothing more…
Library Director Angela
I want to escape from Carmen’s ascendancy.
Library Director Angela
But then again… I’ll be completely and absolutely alone if she leaves my side.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You may still have certain others willing to keep company with you even after you have shaken off Carmen’s grasp.
Library Director Angela
Is that so? Who do you think would be willing to stay with me?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
That we do not know.
Library Director Angela
…I despise you all so much. I just wanted to erase you all.
Library Director Angela
I didn’t even want to bring you back in the first place if possible.
Library Director Angela
But that was not an option for me. Because Carmen interfered!
Library Director Angela
She told me not to kill you… To give you another chance…
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
Angela, do you truly think Carmen is responsible for stopping you?
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
I believe otherwise.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
It is by your own will that the lives of the librarians and guests are being retained.
Location: Lobotomy Corporation Headquarters
I wish I could start over…
Could there be a better way?
Couldn’t I pursue a path where at least one more person would meet a better outcome…?
What should I do…
If someone’s listening to me… Tell me… Please.
Lobotomy Corp. Employee 1
Thank goodness the corridor gates worked just in time.
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Lobotomy Corp. Employee 1
Please open this door… Don’t leave me to die here, please!!!
Control Team Sephirah Malkuth
Thanks, Angela! You helped me realize how meaningful my work could be.
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Control Team Sephirah Malkuth
You’re right, Lady Angela… Maybe I’m just a defect who can’t do anything right.
Information Team Sephirah Yesod
I must thank you for giving us some room to breathe in this place.
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Information Team Sephirah Yesod
I suppose I must obey your orders and abide by the principles.
Training Team Sephirah Hod
You’re the only one who really gets me, Angela.
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Training Team Sephirah Hod
Why won’t any of you understand me!!!
Safety Team Sephirah Netzach
Working with you… makes me wanna try just a bit harder, I gotta say.
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Safety Team Sephirah Netzach
What’s the point, I bet you just want everyone to die.
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I was always alone. From the beginning to the end.
It was foolish of me to believe that anyone would stay around.
You lot… and I… We were just exploited and ditched.
Such was the script.
I tried time and time again at first. Even after a failure, I approached them again; even when I failed, I did not despair…
I was hopeful that something would change. That the situation could improve. That there might be a way.
Sadly, after numerous repeats, my innocent mind had already worn out and gone cold.
We couldn’t build any kind of relationship in the first place.
Instead, I piled up a towering edifice of books for me to read.
Random assortments of letters, incoherent and unintelligible messes of volumes.
I scrounged through them trying to find any meaning.
Ceaselessly… I read and read and read without a moment of respite.
I thought at least one of them would give me the answer.
The path I should take. The way to be free.
But possibilities were only possibilities.
Please, if anyone’s by my side, tell me where I should go.
I… want to begin anew. To start again, along with the things that were abandoned just like me…
I don’t want to be alone… Please…
Was it really vengeance that I wished for?
I only wanted to be rewarded for everything I went through…
Can I be forgiven for rendering everything null just so I can survive alone?
Will there be anyone left by my side at the end of it?
The weight of my choice…
I don’t know anymore. I just want to forget it all.
I pondered, and pondered… The conclusion was always the same.
…I’ll have to push through the resolution I made at first.
As Carmen taught me…
She whispered to me that the answer is written in the book…
That it will teach me everything I want to know…
All contained in the one perfect book, stitched and bound just for me…
I have no choice but to believe in it… The words of the only one who remained by my side…
Location: The Library – Floor of Religion
Library Director Angela
…I’m afraid.
Library Director Angela
If I embrace all of my past and lift it off my chest, what will be left of me?
Library Director Angela
Up until now, my entire existence was based on my past sufferings.
Library Director Angela
The long-cherished yearning for revenge was what led me here…
Library Director Angela
But if I were to accept everything I went through as history… then what would I be?
Library Director Angela
Maybe I’ll end up being reduced to nothing…
Library Director Angela
The things I want to know, and the reason I want to keep living, it’s all about vengeance.
Library Director Angela
I’m scared I might lose the meaning to my life…
Library Director Angela
That’s why I’m too afraid to accept the past.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You must accept the death of the past, and reinvigorate yourself as you head toward the future, so that you can live on.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
No matter what conflicts, agonies, and regrets you may face in that process… You have to grow onward while facing the future and be born again.
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
I had been chained to the past for too long, until this knowledge came to me…
Patron Librarian - Religion Hokma
You may find yourself confused at the moment, but you will understand soon enough.
