Location: L Corp’s Nest - Residential Area
Index Messenger Yan
Hello, Miss Lala… Here’s your Prescript.
Nest Resident Resident 1
“To Lala. Put three needles in Lily’s birthday cake by noon tomorrow.”
Nest Resident Resident 1
By Lily, does it mean Mrs. Lily who’s living next door…? I did hear it’s her birthday tomorrow…
Index Messenger Yan
I’m not sure myself…
Nest Resident Resident 1
…What if she bites one of those needles and gets hurt?
Index Messenger Yan
……You never know, she might luckily notice the needles before she eats them.
Index Messenger Yan
Or you could tell her in advance that there are needles in her cake.
Nest Resident Resident 1
Oh… Is it okay for me to spoil the Prescript to her?
Index Messenger Yan
The Prescript didn’t say anything about it, so it should be alright…
Nest Resident Resident 1
It’s strange, though. I’ve been only getting weird Prescripts like this lately… Is there a meaning to this?
Index Messenger Yan
If you don’t carry out the Prescripts, the Index won’t provide protection… You have a family, right?
Index Messenger Yan
I hope you can fulfill this one smoothly.
Nest Resident Resident 1
…Okay.
Index Messenger Yan
Hello, Mister Lee Deok-gu. You’ve got a new Prescript.
Nest Resident Resident 2
What now… What more am I supposed to do now?!
Index Messenger Yan
Sorry, sir. I sadly can’t do anything for you even if you cling to me.
Index Messenger Yan
Now… Take in deep breath, and read it out.
Nest Resident Resident 2
…‘To Lee Deok-gu. Play rock paper scissors with the third person you meet and play rock. If you win, pull out 59 strands of their hair…’
Nest Resident Resident 2
‘Then, apply seafood-cream pasta sauce with mealworms fed on styrofoam to it three times, and eat it with a fork.’
Nest Resident Resident 2
Sick bastards… You’re telling me to eat that shit?
Nest Resident Resident 2
I had to make risotto out of sewer water and give it to Minji next door just a week ago… They ate it without asking, and ended up going to the ER!
Nest Resident Resident 2
Fuck this!
Index Messenger Yan
I’m sorry… All I do is deliver the Prescripts…
Nest Resident Resident 2
Please… I’ll give you as much money as you want! Or let me get a different Prescript just this once, I beg you…
Index Messenger Yan
I’d love to change this, but… I don’t have the authority to do that.
Index Messenger Yan
…Everyone faces a test of faith in the Prescripts. I hope you can overcome this.
Nest Resident Resident 2
…
Index Proxy Gloria
Messenger Yan! Long time no see~
Index Messenger Yan
Hello, Proxy Gloria. Do you have business with Mister LaMarcus here, too?
Index Proxy Gloria
Yep, I do! I got a Prescript, hehe.
Index Messenger Yan
Hello, Mister LaMarcus? Are you there? We’re here to talk~!
Index Proxy Gloria
Mmm~? This won’t do! Leave it to me, sweetie~
Index Proxy Gloria
Aha~ There you are!
Nest Resident Resident 3
…Please… It was… It was a tiny issue…
Index Messenger Yan
Did this person not carry out his Prescript?
Index Proxy Gloria
Nope! So a Prescript came down to me, telling me to smash Mister LaMarcus’s frontal lobe.
Index Messenger Yan
Usually, Proxies only receive Prescripts on the rare occasion… of someone else not carrying out their Prescript, Mister LaMarcus.
Nest Resident Resident 3
…You’re shitting me. ‘Kill the painting you've drawn.’ …Does this make sense to you!!?
Nest Resident Resident 3
Painting was everything in my life, and I smeared my own art with ink… stabbed them, tore them… Painted pictures of dead people in so many different ways… I did everything!!!
Index Proxy Gloria
Huh~? That’s a totes simple problem~
Index Proxy Gloria
Just pick anyone from the streets, use them as a model for your painting, and then kill them. Isn’t that a no brainer?
Nest Resident Resident 3
…
Nest Resident Resident 3
Th… This is… This isn’t my fault! It’s the Prescript being too vague…!
Index Proxy Gloria
It’s not the Prescript’s fault that you were too dumb to get it~
Nest Resident Resident 3
You sick fucks! I did all I could to live!
Nest Resident Resident 3
I relayed numbers to a guy called Riemann, I moved a unicorn plushie to a park, and I even found a way to see green from a white wall for Hye-in!
Nest Resident Resident 3
I’d been doing so good…
Index Proxy Gloria
Too bad you couldn’t keep it up this time~
Index Messenger Yan
I understand that you tried. But…
Index Proxy Gloria
Once we get a Prescript, we should carry it out, no exceptions~
Index Messenger Yan
…I’m sorry.
Nest Resident Resident 3
Ahhhhhhh!
Index Messenger Yan
…Hello, Mister John. Here’s your Prescript.
Nest Resident Resident 4
‘To John. Stand on any three-way intersection at 3:38 tomorrow, look to the east, and wave seven times.’
Nest Resident Resident 4
Is this really all I have to do to be protected by you guys? No need to pay money like with the other Syndicates?
Index Messenger Yan
Yes… That’s the case. All you need to do is carry out each Prescript accordingly.
Nest Resident Resident 4
Sweet! The Index really is the best!
Nest Resident Resident 4
You don’t ask for backbreaking fees like the others do.
Index Messenger Yan
Will you please reconsider? Nothing is truly free in this City…
Nest Resident Resident 4
I just have to carry out the Prescripts that come to me from time to time, don’t I?
Nest Resident Resident 4
The Nest went under so suddenly… Dangerous gangs started prancing around the residential area…
Nest Resident Resident 4
And other Syndicates all wanted me to pay absurd amounts of money or sign these ridiculous contracts…
Nest Resident Resident 4
The Index is the only one me and my family can count on!
Index Messenger Yan
…If you believe so. You’ll be safe as long as you follow the Prescripts.
Index Messenger Yan
Maybe…
Index Messenger Yan
Hello… Proxies. You have a new Prescript to carry out.
Index Proxy Esther
New Prescripts, huh…
Index Proxy Gloria
We’ve been getting Prescripts a whole lot more often these days!
Index Messenger Yan
Prescripts will be Prescripts. It’s not like you ever cared about how many Prescripts you got.
Index Proxy Gloria
I have no doubts about Prescripts, no~ Though we might be seeing a lot of bloodshed with the Thumb and the Sweepers at this rate?
Index Proxy Gloria
I don’t have any blood left in my body to shed anyhow~
Index Proxy Hubert
If war is what the Prescript requires, we shall gladly wage war.
Index Proxy Esther
It’s our role to act on behalf of the Prescript’s will.
Index Proxy Esther
We will carry out the Prescripts we’ve received first.
Index Proxy Esther
As Proxies, each of us will convey the content that Prescript Messenger Yan gave us to the Proselytes in our familia.
Index Messenger Yan
…What are the Prescripts about this time, by the way?
Index Proxy Gloria
Let’s see~ Mine is to extract the spinal cords of 37-year-old people in this Nest.
Index Messenger Yan
Every 37-year-old in the Nest?
Index Proxy Gloria
Dunno~? It’s up to Proxy Esther to clarify ambiguities in Prescripts, y’know~?
Index Proxy Esther
It does target all denizens of the Nest. Search for every single person of the specified age and take their spine.
Index Proxy Hubert
Our familia’s task is to exchange the left leg of the fourteenth person we come across today with the right leg of the twenty-sixth person we run into.
Index Proxy Gloria
They’re so out there~ It actually feels strange to get a straightforward Prescript for once, you see, Yan~?
Index Proxy Esther
‘…Eliminate the Thumb. No time limits.’
Index Proxy Hubert
This one needs no explanation.
Index Proxy Esther
…I will send my Proselytes to the Library as my Prescript dictates.
Location: Inside the Library
Servant Roland
Oh boy… The Index really is coming for us, huh.
Library Director Angela
It seems the ‘Prescripts’ are often vague and need clarification.
Servant Roland
I haven’t seen ‘em myself, so I frankly have no idea how those instructions look. Dunno who makes the Prescripts, either.
Library Director Angela
It’s impossible that they could maintain such a massive Syndicate following orders that come out of nowhere.
Servant Roland
That’s the scary part. Those Prescripts seem random, but they work out in their favor somehow.
Library Director Angela
And no one knows who’s responsible for making them?
Servant Roland
I haven’t seen anyone that knows, at least.
Servant Roland
The Prescripts are long since appointed as a Star of the City.
Library Director Angela
I can hardly believe that so many are following such amphigory so blindly.
Servant Roland
That’s pretty much everyone in the City. Like they said, people all just live according to the purpose of life given by someone or something else without thinking twice.
Servant Roland
Heck, those who are still lost without a purpose would gladly take Prescripts.
Library Director Angela
Even if they require them to yield their own lives?
Servant Roland
They’re willing to declare war against the Thumb because a Prescript said so. Life surely isn’t the biggest concern for them.
Library Director Angela
But that’s only a conflict between Syndicates, not Wings. Can it really be called a war?
Servant Roland
Ehey, ma’am~ You have no idea how big they really are!
Servant Roland
When the hundreds of Finger-affiliated Syndicates all clash at the same time, the scale and the aftermath is most certainly comparable to that of a war between Wings.
Servant Roland
This town’s gonna be noisy with those fanatics around for a while.
